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The CGS is a new format in gaming which features a newly organized gaming franchises that consist of drafted players and a General Manager. At the moment only the Northern America league is already playing the first season, other continents will see the CGS Play Offs first. The franchises have players in 4 different games; Counter Strike Source, FIFA 2007, Project Gotham Racing, Dead or Alive 4 Male and Dead or Alive 4 Female. Don't ask me why there's a difference between Male or Female players in Dead or Alive 4...

Now as you can see neither ET, CoD2 or ET:QW are one of the above mentioned games so it would be reasonable to ask why I'm posting this on Crossfire.nu since it's only a community site for those 3 games. Well I believe that the CGS is the future of eSports and that therefore we must already know what it exactly is and what it means. In the future every game might be a part of some sort of CGS system.

The CGS tries to make the franchises look like the teams you see in for example the NBA or the NHL. Every franchise has a home city and are therefore pretty comparable to teams like the "LA Lakers" or the "NY Yankees".

To prepare myself for this Article I watched a few news reports of a match between the Carolina Core and the Chicago Chimera. This show was actually live on television in the United States and luckily there were at least 3 faces I knew! The 3 commentators... Dj Wheat, Redeye and Fatal1ty. I didn't know any of the players but it sure was a spectacle, though very American. A lot of spotlights, the whole team is sitting on the side while the players from 1 game battle their way to victory. I started with a DoA4 Male match. It's on Xbox and besides the view of the battle there's also a camera targeted on the players their faces, which sometimes switches to their controllers. As I said the rest of the players are sitting on some sort of bench on the side of the studio and the General Manager is standing behind the player. In my opinion he's just acting like he's important to the player by yelling at him and giving him taps on the back, but I might be wrong. Also the players, at least the one I saw, are very targeted towards their teammates and the audience. Constantly cheering when they've won one round. A bit too extravagant in my opinion.

Well I think everyone should take a look at some CGS matches. You can find the videos on the CGS site... http://www.thecgs.com

Now I want to give you a little update on the CGS because at the moment they're facing the fourth week of the season and each team has already played 9 matches.
We'll jump in the third week which was actually played this week from Monday till Friday.

For those who don't know them; the teams in the American CGS are:
Chicago Chimera
Carolina Core
San Fransisco Optx
New York 3D
Los Angeles Complexity
Dallas Venom