CGS is Dead
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19 Nov 2008, 15:22
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News
The Championship Gaming Series has closed it's doors and the multimillion dollar organisation has left eSports. The organisation ran a televised gaming league featuring CS:S, FIFA, DOA4 & Forza using a unique team format to award winners rather than individual competitors for each game. The show aired in DirecTV, SKY & Eurosport 2 to name but a few of its broadcast partners. The CGS world finals had a $500,000 prizepurse and all of its players (over 100) were salaried to play.
The reasoning states:
You can read about it and more, plus extensive community reaction on Cadred
The reasoning states:
You can read about it and more, plus extensive community reaction on Cadred
I was thinking it might be an interesting (and more sustainable) idea to run a system like tennis. Give existing tournaments ranking points, then run an end-of-year tournament for the top X teams in whatever games you're ranking. Would be win-win for event organisers - they get the added publicity of being on the tour, leading to more teams playing their LANs. And for the ranking organisation, the relative cost would be low, due to the fact that many of the events are organised and run externally.
Why would an established event, such as ESWC, want to become second fiddle and devalue their event?
Althought this could be nice for CS 1.6 because alot of teams will return to it.
I dont care about u "close", i care about where do u get that money, to "contract players". That players can now, go study and make something important to your society.
Just give that multimillion dollar to organisation in Africa(ex:) and start saving your own world, and again idiots.
ps. soz english
(:D nothing to do with me studying medicine..!)
To compare the salary a CGS player earnt which at the time equated to £15,000 your talking basic entry level job for a A-Level school leaver. Hardly earth changing.
Look at it this way, Im in my early 30's. My generation truly was the first to grow up on gaming. I had an Atari when they were brand new. It took almost 20 years to go from that to the inception of multiplayer gaming. Now look at how rapidly we've progressed in the last 5-10 years. That progression is only gonna multiply over the course of the next couple of years with some of you guys 10 or more years younger than I, who have grown up on multiplayer PC & console gaming now coming to an age were you will have the means to push it & advance it further.
It just takes time for things to develop, look at pro wrestling for example. Those morons were wrestling at small venues & state fairs 25 years ago making a few $100. Now it's a muti-billion dollar business. If those idiots can do it well...
CGS defiantly laid out a road map & an idea for the rest of us to follow. Somebody else will come along & make it better. Thats the way things work. eSports will be big business soon. I just hope that when it does those that pour so much into this now,will have put themselves in a posistion to benefit from it.
Or let me rewrite my conclusion: You can't establish a gaming project which is not even wanted by half the gamers.
You look at actual sports for instance, the perception that most people have when they're young is that what they're watching on TV is something they could do & they understand what avenues will give them the best possible chance to get there. Everybody understands how you get into the NFL. You play football in High School, you get good you get a scholarship to play at a major college. You play in college, you get better & hopefully come draft day, you're drafted. When I watched CGS on TV I had no idea who these people were or how they got there so there was no way for me to relate to them whatsoever & thus removing a big portion of the drama.
The media goes out of it's way to give backgrounds & profile every pro athlete out there.Take a person like Tiger Woods for instance. Who doesn't know Tiger Woods story? Even people that don't play golf know Tiger Woods' story. Why? because the media & all the the people profiting from his talent make sure you know because it adds to the dramatic effect. It makes you wanna watch more.It makes you look at that person & say hey "I can do that" or "hey his life closely resembles mine, I can root for a guy like that".Look at how many parents put golf clubs in their kids' hands after Tiger or how many put tennis racquet's in there hands after the Williams Sisters hit the scene.
I guess what I'm rambling on about is yes, you need to cater to the average everyday gamer.After all thats your audience & if you're putting something out there that they don't feel they could ever be a part of or relate to, they're not gonna tune in.
I watched a couple of the matches on G4 & was for the most part quite bored but I watched with the feeling that I was supporting the idea behind it more or less. It had almost an American Gladiators feel to it. Like the teams & players were hand picked & assembled by the league itself. The teams didnt come across like a group that worked its way up from nothing to achieve this fame & glory. There seemed to be very little drama & no build up. It felt very prefabricated.
But, like everything theres always the innovator & the innovators doesn't always have the right idea. Like I said there will be somebody that comes along & replaces them & as long as they learn from the mistakes, they will have better success.
HAHA
:-D
-they presented it as an over americanised tv show rather than a sport
+they gave a 100 or so gamers salaries for 2 years
-the league owned the players, forbid them from playing in other competitions at the cgs's wish, massively disrupted the NA 1.6 scene and European CSS scene
the cgs was an artificial bump in the road of esports that tried to massively accelerate something which is fine growing naturally
Good riddance I say.
we re in a new century and nearly everyone has internet these days
anyways sad to see the money for esports go
their concept was ahead of its time
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