SK Gaming have wielded the axe down upon their Call of Duty 4 squad and the harsh realities of being involved with a pro-gaming team have come to light. MYM are rumoured to be next under the guillotine unless they can prove themselves worthy at The Experience this weekend and it all leaves a very sour taste in the mouth for onlookers.
Having heard of SK's fate I was going to write this column yesterday ranting and raving about how short sighted it was, but the longer I waited the louder another voice in my head became that perhaps agrees with SK. With this writer clearly suffering from schizophrenia tell me which voice is right?
Generically an average pro gamer will earn around 1100 Euro a month from their salary with a squad (typically a G7 squad). Thats 5 players at 5500 Euro, minus all associated costs of bootcamps and trips. In 6 months that amounts to 30,000 Euro in salary alone. 6 months being the timeframe that SK.CoD4 were there. Now in the same period that SK's CoD4 team were there, they achieved as little as SK's CS team without the massive cost. So why apply the "they've not lived up to our expectations" rule on CoD only? Because whilst I limit my comparison to 6 months, the reality is SK haven't been a force in CS for quite a while. Extend that across to their recent Quake 3 additions, and well the logic for signing the Americans Zero4 and Rapha escapes me. I can only imagine it was Carmac's rose tinted glasses that persuaded them to make the signature (though I'll concede the costs associated to them will be much lower). Lets also not forget that SK had just TWO opportunities to prove themselves, CDC4 and AEF were their only major LAN events whilst their competition have all been much better rehearsed for such a big stage. Even from the back end of CoD2, the 'champion' status was changing hands on an event by event basis and it has continued in CoD4, so to expect SK to deliver in just 2 attempts was crazy.
However there's a lot more to a squad's worth than just results, something SK's CS team have in abundance. The star power that generates traffic is there too, something a German team should have generated for SK. Fnatic and Dignitas are proof as to what CoD teams can do for your site. Fnatic's CoD4 fragmovie starring leader mint was their videostreaming partner, wipido's, biggest traffic generator to date. From a 'how to keep a partner happy' perspective, Their CoD4 team delivered for them. However did SK make such an attempt? Well sort of, but they did it wrong. SK hired evan to lead their Call of Duty section, and whilst his enthusiasm has won me over, his credentials are weak. His opinion isn't respected within the scene and he has been guilty of inaccuracies, and whilst Gotfrag's CoD downfall has clearly left SK a golden opportunity to pickup a lot of traffic, it hasn't and probably wont ever recover to rival TeK-9 in a way sk's rival, Gotfrag, did.
The other voice however says, if I'm TheSlash (SK's leader) and I'm investing any of my own money and not seeing a return then I'm going to want to know why, I have a reputation to uphold. The 6 Devils were given a golden opportunity and responsibility to lead the Call of Duty 4 scene into its golden age. What did they do with that? Well they blundered it away, their preparation for AEF should have been much better. If you're only focusing on one event then you've got to deliver, you are SK, you are the biggest organisation out there and you must make the most of your opportunity.
To use the mint example against the SK CoD4 team, mint loves fnatic and works hard to promote it and its endeavors. Whilst it may only be a minor thing, the fnatic side could be seen all named as their sides 5 sponsors at AEF. The team and general manager, Joe Miller, get on like a newly wed couple. They are proud and that pride see's them out playing for their brand, I can remember chatting to mint a while back and he stated, 'if we dont do well here then I have to consider what I'm doing because a team like fnatic deserve the best'. Can you say the same of SK? No.
So which voice is right? With great power comes great responsibility, it was true in Spiderman and its true today. Now that Call of Duty 4 is being picked up by the likes of SK and MYM (as the same reasoning could be applied to MYM) are involved they're going to want their monies worth otherwise they will be more than to dump the players & teams back into the second tier of Multigaming Clan's that they poached them from.
Having heard of SK's fate I was going to write this column yesterday ranting and raving about how short sighted it was, but the longer I waited the louder another voice in my head became that perhaps agrees with SK. With this writer clearly suffering from schizophrenia tell me which voice is right?
Generically an average pro gamer will earn around 1100 Euro a month from their salary with a squad (typically a G7 squad). Thats 5 players at 5500 Euro, minus all associated costs of bootcamps and trips. In 6 months that amounts to 30,000 Euro in salary alone. 6 months being the timeframe that SK.CoD4 were there. Now in the same period that SK's CoD4 team were there, they achieved as little as SK's CS team without the massive cost. So why apply the "they've not lived up to our expectations" rule on CoD only? Because whilst I limit my comparison to 6 months, the reality is SK haven't been a force in CS for quite a while. Extend that across to their recent Quake 3 additions, and well the logic for signing the Americans Zero4 and Rapha escapes me. I can only imagine it was Carmac's rose tinted glasses that persuaded them to make the signature (though I'll concede the costs associated to them will be much lower). Lets also not forget that SK had just TWO opportunities to prove themselves, CDC4 and AEF were their only major LAN events whilst their competition have all been much better rehearsed for such a big stage. Even from the back end of CoD2, the 'champion' status was changing hands on an event by event basis and it has continued in CoD4, so to expect SK to deliver in just 2 attempts was crazy.
However there's a lot more to a squad's worth than just results, something SK's CS team have in abundance. The star power that generates traffic is there too, something a German team should have generated for SK. Fnatic and Dignitas are proof as to what CoD teams can do for your site. Fnatic's CoD4 fragmovie starring leader mint was their videostreaming partner, wipido's, biggest traffic generator to date. From a 'how to keep a partner happy' perspective, Their CoD4 team delivered for them. However did SK make such an attempt? Well sort of, but they did it wrong. SK hired evan to lead their Call of Duty section, and whilst his enthusiasm has won me over, his credentials are weak. His opinion isn't respected within the scene and he has been guilty of inaccuracies, and whilst Gotfrag's CoD downfall has clearly left SK a golden opportunity to pickup a lot of traffic, it hasn't and probably wont ever recover to rival TeK-9 in a way sk's rival, Gotfrag, did.
The other voice however says, if I'm TheSlash (SK's leader) and I'm investing any of my own money and not seeing a return then I'm going to want to know why, I have a reputation to uphold. The 6 Devils were given a golden opportunity and responsibility to lead the Call of Duty 4 scene into its golden age. What did they do with that? Well they blundered it away, their preparation for AEF should have been much better. If you're only focusing on one event then you've got to deliver, you are SK, you are the biggest organisation out there and you must make the most of your opportunity.
To use the mint example against the SK CoD4 team, mint loves fnatic and works hard to promote it and its endeavors. Whilst it may only be a minor thing, the fnatic side could be seen all named as their sides 5 sponsors at AEF. The team and general manager, Joe Miller, get on like a newly wed couple. They are proud and that pride see's them out playing for their brand, I can remember chatting to mint a while back and he stated, 'if we dont do well here then I have to consider what I'm doing because a team like fnatic deserve the best'. Can you say the same of SK? No.
So which voice is right? With great power comes great responsibility, it was true in Spiderman and its true today. Now that Call of Duty 4 is being picked up by the likes of SK and MYM (as the same reasoning could be applied to MYM) are involved they're going to want their monies worth otherwise they will be more than to dump the players & teams back into the second tier of Multigaming Clan's that they poached them from.
it is about the fact that players understand they need to put a brand out there. With all respect the MYM and SK guys did not do so much to be in the spotlights, deliver the interviews, be active within the community, be role figures.
My opinion is, they should have given them a further chance to perform better at The eXperience for example.
btw nice read TosspoT
I totally agree with Stuart on things here, and I understand where he is coming from with the voice thing and I know where he is coming from when he states this...
"However did SK make such an attempt? Well sort of, but they did it wrong. SK hired evan to lead their Call of Duty section, and whilst his enthusiasm has won me over, his credentials are weak. His opinion isn't respected within the scene and he has been guilty of inaccuracies, and whilst Gotfrag's CoD downfall has clearly left SK a golden opportunity to pickup a lot of traffic, it hasn't and probably wont ever recover to rival TeK-9 in a way sk's rival, Gotfrag, did."
It is clear that your thoughts and comments are usually ignored or argued against by people in the CoD4 community, as you boast your skills too much, in a way that others don't understand.
With GotFrag's downfall and TEK9's slump of writers (i.e. myself and others) in the recent months, you missed your oppurtunity to lure members of the CoD4 community into checking the SK Gaming web site first everyday and fold the peoples interest over the TEK9 web site with the SK web site.
Anyway I'm ranting on now, just wanted to make the point clear between Stuarts comment and evan... good luck to the former SK squad in future and of course to the SK Gaming organisation!
P.S. good read Stuart!
Shows you haven't read the SK website at all. I stopped writing about roster changes a long time ago and the only CoD4 news you would've found was usually exclusive to us. The only exception was kammYz leaving and Stevy joining a few months ago. The reason for that was because I knew the players were willing to be very helpful and I could speak to them for hours before writing a news post.
"I still see that SK Gaming (mainly you) haven't done anything new or interesting to pick-up the activity and interest of CoD4 gamers on the SK web site"
- How about introducing an interview series.
- How about introducing weekly/fortnightly column about CoD4.
- How about introducing a weekly review of all the important events which have happened in the CoD scene.
- How about appearing in a podcast.
- How about getting exclusive content about promod and the ESL EPS.
Your and TosspoT's comments are bullshit. You've no clue what SK wanted to do with its CoD4 content and I was with the organisation a long time before CoD4 came along and I will be there a long time after as well.
Should I compare TEK9's 1.6' or WC3 coverage to SK's and say what are you doing to try to bring new users to the website? Why the fuck should you do the same thing.
The ironic thing is, you said it yourself: SK wasn't using the "same type of procedure TEK9 does" to produce content. Feel free to bash though I couldn't care less, you can't change facts. SK and I didn't put as much effort as we should've into CoD4, I can admit that without any issues. You're however lucky if TEK9 publishes two articles a month, SK publishes one every week day.
We're not a CoD website and I'm not a native CoD player but I feel proud that we managed to publish content like this.
Something like this - http://www.tek-9.org/articles/Interview_with_Trigger-199/The_Interview-1.html he offered it to fnatic and SK before eventually going to TEK9, funny eh?
Seems to me like you gave in too fast in building up the SK Gaming reputation on a news scale in CoD4 because TEK9 gets a vast more amount of interest towards the game. If so, it does take time to boost reputation in gaming communities... TEK9 didn't suddenly get 50+ comments and hundreds-thousands of views on each news post when the web site first opened.
"The reason for that was because I knew the players were willing to be very helpful and I could speak to them for hours before writing a news post."
You don't need to speak to the players for hours before every news post, it soon gets tiring to read and interest will drop rapidly. At TEK9, we intend to get all the roster changes posted from higher-end teams that are known... not to beat other web sites to it or to get it up first, just simply to get the news out and update the community as soon as possible with the latest changes etc. The community will then know, who is in what team, reasons for joining/leaving blah blah...
The SK web site lacked this content, and instead posted only the very higher-end team changes (in which I'm not criticising them posts, I didn't read them, but they may or may not have been good, thats not for me to judge without reading). You just didn't seem to updated the community at all, therefore, people lose interest in the CoD4 content on the SK web site and will think in the end "why does SK even bother with the game?".
"Should I compare TEK9's 1.6' or WC3 coverage to SK's and say what are you doing to try to bring new users to the website? Why the fuck should you do the same thing."
For one, WC3 coverage is slow, and we do not intend to cover every aspect of the game as we do with CoD4, simply because we do not support the game anymore and do not have a WC3 roster to promote. We do however, post team changes and limited coverage... what do we get back? A limited amount of comments because we aren't a WC3-based web site. But we still carry on and do our job as best as possible.
It's a slightly different story for CS1.6 though, because we do support a team in the game. We do the same as WC3, and post the latest team changes, coverage etc. as best we can, but with most of the interest going towards CoD4 on TEK9, we cannot help the limited resources we have for 1.6 at this time, and we are currently working on promoting the game further on our web site.
Regarding the articles thing, TEK9 currently have about 2-3 active newsposters at this moment in time, as many are away, doing other things or in my case, have internet problems. Out of the 2-3 posters, as you know, JETSET is probably the most active and is willing to put up most of the news on the web site. Do you really think he can manage the whole news system, as well as posting an article every week also? I don't think so, people do have a life. SK however have many more writers, and you cannot sit there and tell me you post one article per week regarding CoD4, because that my friend is bullshit. I've seen a limited amount of articles come from you regarding CoD4, so if your willing to critisize TEK9 for their limited editorial members at this moment in time, I would like to see you produce an article every week on CoD4, as well as balancing out all the latest news from the CoD4 community.
The comments myself and Stuart have made are not bullshit at all, its the truth. Basically, you didn't try hard enough and you gave up on promoting CoD4 on the SK Gaming web site simply because you didn't recieve the applause that other writers get straight away. As I said before, things take time, and you gave up, within the last few months I've seen very little coverage on the CoD4 scene at all on the SK Gaming web site, so do you really think people will keep checking the web site for CoD4 news if there wasn't much there in the first place?
Yes, you have been in SK Gaming way before the release of CoD4... big wow, I was working for TEK9 a while before CoD4 too, does that make me superior in the organisation? No, but even when the old web site was on a slump and page statistics were hitting rock-bottom, myself, along with JETSET and Bocerbo etc. still stood by the TEK9 name and tried our best to get the latest news out. Look where that has got us today, the number one community page for CoD4, and we are still continuing to grow.
It seems you didn't read what I wrote at all and a lot of what you wrote contradicted, horrendously. The amount of traffic SK gets is insane mainly because of our status and the fact we only post news about the best teams, if we posted news about every little team or news story it would soon dilute the exposure and make our status irrelevant. We're not a news website like Gotfrag, we're a team site who happens also to be the most popular eSports site in the world and you lecturing me about how SK apparently fails is quite ironic seeing as TEK9 is the exact same sort of website, just on a much smaller scale. It's the same rules for every game, the Counter Strike and Warcraft III crew don't write about mediocre teams either.
“You don't need to speak to the players for hours before every news post, it soon gets tiring to read and interest will drop rapidly. [...] reasons for joining/leaving blah blah...
The “reasons for leaving” basically equate to using statements in TEK-9's case, I've already said my bit on this subject and I won't be repeating myself. I speak to the players to fact-check, get original statements and quotations and build context. It's good practice and means I do all the work, making it much easier for the reader.
See if you can spot the difference:
http://www.tek-9.org/news/kammYz_departs_from_TEK9_Call_of_Duty-809.html
http://www.sk-gaming.com/content/17288-kammYz_leaves_TEK9
“For one, WC3 coverage is slow, and we do not intend to cover every aspect of the game as we do with CoD4, simply because we do not support the game anymore and do not have a WC3 roster to promote. We do however, post team changes and limited coverage... what do we get back? A limited amount of comments because we aren't a WC3-based web site. But we still carry on and do our job as best as possible.”
The contradiction is horrifying. It's okay to criticise and compare me against your website which has been the number one website since CoD1 or at least CoD2, but when I mention anything other than CoD you can feign responsibility. If you're not going to cover it properly why is it on the website? You could use the same kind of logic and justify SK's choices with CoD4, we get limited comments and traffic and the fact we've a team is irrelevant.
“SK however have many more writers, and you cannot sit there and tell me you post one article per week regarding CoD4, because that my friend is bullshit. [...] I've seen a limited amount of articles come from you regarding CoD4”
I've written about eight or nine pieces of content which are CoD4 orientated in the last two months, there were gaps in that as well when I wrote about WoW for a fortnight as well which makes my work rate even higher. Guess that works out around one a week, right?
- Antwerp eSports Festival (CoD4)
- The unwinnable war against CS (CoD4)
- The contract question (CoD4)
- Q & A – Ryan 'raf1' Palmer (CoD4 interview)
- Les misérables call time on Clanbase (CoD4)
- Where is the narrative? (CoD4 and the eSports media)
- Q & A – Alexander 'strelok' Shulepov (CoD4 interview)
- Everything fades to black (CGS) (Perhaps dubious, but I was there covering CoD4)
- Down and out in Birmingham (CGS)
“I would like to see you produce an article every week on CoD4, as well as balancing out all the latest news from the CoD4 community.”
I got a little lax the last couple of weeks regarding news, something like KomaCrew's gallazonith lineup change probably should've been posted, but there were some news stories which I could quite of easily changed into a feature (with the amount of effort they took) but didn't.
Writing about CoD is piss easy and exceptionally boring. The difference is that the people who've been involved with CoD so far are not writers by nature, they're players who moved towards writing for some dubious reason and failed the community, usually with their inactivity.
“Basically, you didn't try hard enough and you gave up on promoting CoD4 on the SK Gaming web site simply because you didn't recieve the applause that other writers get straight away. As I said before, things take time, and you gave up, within the last few months I've seen very little coverage on the CoD4 scene at all on the SK Gaming web site, so do you really think people will keep checking the web site for CoD4 news if there wasn't much there in the first place?”
I never seriously promoted CoD4 in the first place and if you want my honest opinion, I merely used the game to benefit myself, which I did quite nicely - thanks CoD. I've barely played over 100 hours of the game and know just as much as the person who plays the game competitively and watches literally every VOD, how sad.
We did cover the Acer Challenge, AEF, ESL MS, CGS, CB EC, 2x CODQCUP, Crossfire QCUP, dSLASH cup, Multiplay i33, Level7 Open and the German iPOWER qualifier. Some were covered better than others and some were awful. But according to you we covered nothing, guess I'm wrong.
Your entire criticism is flawed and a poorly veiled attempt to insult me, grow a backbone and just do it.
“Look where that has got us today, the number one community page for CoD4, and we are still continuing to grow.”
Congratulations, we however are the most popular eSports website in the world.
O rly? http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=1542403
And of course, this is the most popular esports website in the world that you are on strike from currently.
You can't really include ESL and Clanbase (perhaps even the GGL) in the same bracket as SK as an eSport website. Replays.net is non-English which leaves Gotfrag and SK fighting for the top spot. Our traffic has been roughly comparable for some time (we've been ahead for a while but generally whichever website has good content running has the edge).
Those stats are wrong though, by some margin.
Its your words on your leading esports site that suggested a strike, nothing more.
Fair enough, I understand your aim and creating an original news post, but sometimes it can go a little far. With a first look at the TEK9 and SK news posts, I would straight away chose the TEK9 post to read first. It doesn't look as bland and boring as the SK post, and is pretty simple to understand the structure. Basically, a brief run-down of the news, the current roster change and statements from the players. SK's post however, contains a messy bow of information, overloading the post with a single picture of kammYz... to put it bluntly, it looks shit. You seem to let kammYz expose OZWALD as the bad guy also, maybe OZWALD doesn't want this? If he did, I'm sure they would have put it in the post for TEK9, but they didn't... so next time, I would go with the news on the official post.
"The contradiction is horrifying. It's okay to criticise and compare me against your website which has been the number one website since CoD1 or at least CoD2, but when I mention anything other than CoD you can feign responsibility. If you're not going to cover it properly why is it on the website? You could use the same kind of logic and justify SK's choices with CoD4, we get limited comments and traffic and the fact we've a team is irrelevant."
The arguement here is how SK could have used CoD4 to their advantage to promote the game on their own web site, not about TEK9 promoting Warcraft III or other games on our web site. I would stick to what the debate is about, and stop pointing your finger in a different direction. The aim of our web site is simple, provide all the latest CoD4 news, with additional pieces surrounding the WC3 and CS1.6 being posted from time-to-time also. However, with all the articles you listed in your comment, its clear that you wanted to promote CoD4 on a bigger scale on the SK Gaming web site, in which you failed, and you are now denying this. If we wanted to promote WC3 more on our web site, we would, but that isn't our main objective.
"I never seriously promoted CoD4 in the first place and if you want my honest opinion, I merely used the game to benefit myself, which I did quite nicely - thanks CoD. I've barely played over 100 hours of the game and know just as much as the person who plays the game competitively and watches literally every VOD, how sad."
That basically sums you up in one... your just into it to reap the benefits, and you really don't care for the CoD scene at all. Thing is, we all knew this months ago, that is why people don't chose to read or be interested in your material.
"We did cover the Acer Challenge, AEF, ESL MS, CGS, CB EC, 2x CODQCUP, Crossfire QCUP, dSLASH cup, Multiplay i33, Level7 Open and the German iPOWER qualifier. Some were covered better than others and some were awful. But according to you we covered nothing, guess I'm wrong."
Well done, have a cookie. We also covered the majority of these events, thing is, we actually made it interesting. Whenever I look at the coverage of CoD4 events on the SK web site, all I see is scores... what about an introduction to the event itself or something? Congratulations on this piece though...
http://www.sk-gaming.com/content/17911-Antwerp_eSports_Festival
That is actually a decent write-up, shame you don't do this for more events.
This piece however...
http://www.sk-gaming.com/content/17912-Groupstage_predictions
Is poor. You merely post up the groups and rearrange the teams around to what you think it will turn out like in the end. What about an analysis of the groups? Your reasons for why you think teams like Dignitas and Reason Gaming will top their group? It would have been more interesting to read up on your views, but you didn't bother, so that was a flop eh?
"Your entire criticism is flawed and a poorly veiled attempt to insult me, grow a backbone and just do it."
Fair enough...
Your arrogant, rather cocky, you seem to think the world of yourself and you need a haircut (your actually starting to look like a little girl). I could go on forever, but lets leave it there. :)
Now, if I were you, I would stop treading where you don't belong (CoD4 community). You must spend 80% of your time fighting off critics such as myself, so instead, why don't you go create a lovely piece on World of Warcraft about how the Horde is so much better than the Alliance or whatever...
"Congratulations, we however are the most popular eSports website in the world."
Well done, and your one of the most hated writers in eSports. GG buddy...
Oh and regarding the "I'm one of the most active writers in the entire eSport scene" comment, why have you only ever attended two LAN events in the past? Surely SK Gaming would send the most active news writer about to all the events for coverage right? No! So I'd lose the ego, your nothing.
do you remember Nike's motto? "Just do it!"
I agree on most if not all the points.
-kammyz
Even if the fnatic.CoD4 team does not win as much as they should (looking at their name), they represent their clan the best. Being active in public, showing a professional image at LANs and help the clan itself with other activities.
I doubt SK or any other high profile MGC will take another CoD4 team, unless this team can be used for further PR.
*No cod4-tv
*No culture for using custom maps in competition
*No culture for modding core elements to suit competition (if you compare to other games with a long lived competitive life they all evolve their gameplay through mods or updates to better fit competitive play, the cod community has never done this and this makes cod quite random and unsuited for competition compared to games like cs 1.6, et and quake 3/4)
- garetjax is working on it
*No culture for using custom maps in competition
- A lot of maps were tested, but there's no point in adding a shitty map into rotation.
- Q3 has used custom maps "the game has a history in it". Remind me how long the same maps have been in rotation? I still see people bitching about dm6/hub.
*No culture for modding core elements to suit competition
Partly agree, but what do you want to alter/remove apart from what has been done so far in promod, there aren't items or vehicles to be modified, there is no "let's add aircontrol cause a previous game had it and it was good fun". Things that can be changed for the better have been, and are still being changed for the better in promod atm.
- visibility
- weapon damage/limits
- menus that have been made far more accessible
- nosway - awpfix
- altered fov (not a big deal for RTWC/Quake players, but it's not as evident a change as it seems with the aim down sight system)
- flashbang got fixed
- headbob removed
- droppable bomb (single bomb in itself is a step away from the cod/cod2 core gameplay as the option for multibomb is still available in cod4)
The only thing that is left to modify would be to further change the weapons (changing the nade damage wouldn't hurt imo).
If you have any suggestions, be my guest, but don't use vague terms to describe what you'd wish to change, be concrete and show that you know the ins and outs of the game and how it is played today.
Can you see any current CoD4 team dominating like Tek9 did in the last few months of CoD2 or digitalMind did at the time around SHG Open 2007?
I've played it myself for a couple of weeks and I think I got a pretty good image from how CoD4 is played and how the so called community works there.
Well you have had 4 major LAN events so far
CDC4 - Fnatic, MYM
i33 - Dignitas, MYM
CGS - Fnatic, Dignitas
AEF - Panedemic, KC
There is already a trend being set. 3 teams taking first and second at the first 3 events.
I suppose you could say eSports weekly is a feature and I write the script for it, so yes! Up yours, my e-penis is bigger than yours!
I like your columns and always read them but you generally only write columns (CoD) when a LAN has just finished, i.e. infrequently.
I was actually going to write a 'reply' to sock's column awhile ago but never got round to it. Might do something today since I'm quite bored.
SK were wrong to remove the team but they were wrong to take them so maybe they were right to correct the mistake :P
i don't have anything against those guys, but SK were paying them (?) they didn't meet SK's expectation and then they were 'removed' - pretty obvious. CoD is far behind CS (i don't know wether CoD competitions have bright or dark future), and the best, or maybe rather the most popular CS players, have a HUGE marketing value. how many people will open your site to check SpawN's profile? many. and how many will be curious about certain CoD player (who isn't on top and isn't really popular)? not many i guess
like i said, it isn't anythin offensive, i just wanted to leave my little input :)
btw. i agree with tosspot about SK Q3 players. this decision was quite... strange?
Pretty much every major event has been set up from inside the community, AEF is the 3rd LAN tek9 arranges, TEX is back, CDC had cod, i-Series keep cod.
It doesn't look to gloomy atm.
Agree with most points stated.