ESL EMS VIII Announced
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14 Jan 2011, 20:58
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ESL have announced their Major Series event for Season VIII, some decisions have been made that have left both Call of Duty 4 and Enemy Territory out in the cold.
Heroes of Newerth (5on5): €5,000
Counter-Strike: Source (5on5): €3,000
Call of Duty: Black Ops (5on5): €2,500
Trackmania (Team mode): €2000
Quake Live (2on2 TDM): €1,000
Pro Evo Soccer (1on1): €750
FIFA (1on1): €750Decisions made to remove two of the most active games from EMS are extreme, especially in the same season. CoD4 being replaced by the nowhere near competition ready release of Black Ops. Team Fortress 2 has also not been added to the list of games, leaving many wondering what the decision process is behind moving some titles, other than Black Ops being fully money related.
I would urge users who would like EMS to be played in either or both competitions to voice their opinions over at the original ESL News Post or face a rather boring season ahead at ESL.
props to GunRu5 for spotting it
good spot gunny:)
ET was one of the most active games at ESL? This is completly new for me. Games like DoD:S or others were even more active and bigger..But I will stop writing now and watch Dortmund again...
Day of Defeat: Source - 15 leagues
Enemy Territory - 20 leagues
and about the rumour i wouldnt know anyway. Think about it, I got the info about EMS like 45 minutes ago when I came home. Later than some users.
when did i say i like and understand this decision? i love et as much as you and the rest of us and i am the last one at esl who would ever think about removing et from ems...
Anyhow I must agree with R0SS and previous speakers, I don't think that this move made by the ESL was especially thought through. The ET ladders in ESL won't get more attention from the ET community, because it's easier to use the Clanbase ladders. The ESL homepage is flawed which has now finally resulted in a renewal of the code! Woo! I don't know if there are other games which are far more active than ET on ESL, but I would most likely believe that they are that active because they get far more support and coverage. The ET community is in comparison to many other communities small, but we're on an uprising and we can shout loudly. Do you really blame the ET community for not being active enough? I'm pretty sure that all this drama will prove a point. Hopefully.
Sorry, but "my time" has been over already. I am admin for 5 years now and I have to do too many things for university. That is why I am not active enough to help how it would be the best for both sides, ESL and ET. But I help whenever it is needed. I had several qry on irc with questions about rules, rescheduling or maps today. I also remember one asking me why the ESL page did not accept his team logo. I told him why and I resized it for him. This is nothing special and nothing what could bring ET back to EMS, but sometimes even the small things can make the difference - especially if we have friday evening and most of the users and admins are not online. And sometimes I have to write comments on crossfire. I do this for more than five years already and I think I will do it also the next five years. But it should be enough for now. I watch Bundesliga again and if I have enough time, I will reply to your other points :)
so you thought you'd get some hits on ESL before telling us the league wont support ET anymore? squeezing that little bit of extra $$$ out of it, kudos to you sir.
well a part of it, first we should care about site renewals and then they remove ET, which most people here care about...seems kind of weird to me, since the ET players wont use the site anymore if there's no ET? dunno. Just seemed off :-D alcohol makes you post weird things :-)
p.s:Blackops is just too easy for me :$
Quote, Game of the year
Viewer Peak - over 700
Listener Peak - over 300
One of the most competitive EMS seasons to date. The lack of coverage from ESL admins was frankly their own fault, hell if i knew ESL wasnt going to run another EMS i would have done newsposts myself. You cant blame the ET community, ladders are dead in every game now, the only activity on ESL from ET is EMS. Hell, teams used to play with a 200 euro prize pot. If ESL are going to venture away from ET then its a massive loss for them.
The amount of hits they receive from crossfire and gtv must be beneficial by itself. The fact they are moving onto black ops shows that someone is making the wrong decisions.
makes big money.
http://www.readmore.de/index.php?cont=news&id=7654
All in all the german text goes about sponsoring, money and getting older (now adult) hobby gamers with a job - so they can pay more MONEYYY, MONEYYY, MONEYYY $-$
Furthermore i wonder that for "Heroes of Newerth" (never heared about it) the bigest part of prize money will be paid out. So u can guess wich game creator paid them the most to push the own game with MONEY $-$.
and probably i played more time than you do, then dont say bullshit if you dont know anything
I will not continue now that i started playing with a Comodore 64 and a Intel 386 - would be unfair coz i play longer than u even live and offtopic. :D
and i played comodore 64 too :P but not as much as these times :P :D
It was the unic game making exception next to exception over and over regarding the ruleset. If you are more interested about the reasons reply to me or ask me, i'm glad to answer this.
PS: The coverage - Activity had nothing to do with this decision.
tards
Bad for ET but who gives a shit.
2011 Quake Live even from 4on4 to 2on2
So we can guess what they kick out the next
only somehow for the "problematic Counter Strike" (wich has the same prob with too less teams) they fight yet - seems the ESL chief is addicted to it.
Motherfuckers
all about dem moneyz :'(
cf should have its own leagues and ladders
haters gonna hate
don't have that problem in the future, thanks esl!
Sims 3 has more competition potential than this piece of code.
Wise decision ESL, can't wait to follow more e-football(lol) and this cool game.
If it's what they call "2011 changes" then they better come back to their 2010 way of managing ESL.
They're on the way to loose two communities which means less premium accounts and a bad e-reputation. Smart move indeed...
football pes+fifa = epic
no ql 1n1 = epic
no cod4 = epic
no et = epic
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FOREVER ESLONE