ESL Wants You!

January 1st, 2009

In 2009, we are planning to have new leagues and to have some great cups. That is why Electronic Sports League is proud to say that we need you! Currently, we are looking for Counter-Strike 1.6 and Call of Duty 4 Admins.

Here, at the Electronic Sports League we are always on the look out for enthusiastic and highly motivated individuals to join our admin team. Whether you’re a new player or long time veteran you can help out and make a difference in your game’s community.

The Electronic Sports League thanks you for your interest in becoming an admin. At the moment we are searching admins for the following positions:

  • Counter-Strike League Admin
  • Call of Duty 4 League Admin

What do I get?

The main reward of being an admin is being able to have an influence on your community, however large or small, one person really can make a difference.

If there is something you would like to see improved on the ESL or you have ideas for new ladders, leagues or cups, it is much easier to make it happen as part of the team.

Being an admin is purely voluntary, the vast majority of the ESL’s hundreds of admins are rewarded with simply Premium and the knowledge they are doing something good for their community .

What do I do? (Admin)

The work you can do as an ESL admin varies depending on your game, how much time you have and where your interests and skills lie. The basic core tasks that a League Admin in the ESL does include:

  • Making things happen for your game – Whether running ladders, leagues or cups, you are directly involved in making things happen for your game.
  • Supporting users – We do our best to make the site as easy to use as possible but it is by no means perfect and even our oldest users sometimes need a helping hand. Above all your duty is to help users as much as you can.
  • Solving protests – In a competitive environment there will always be problems between users that need solving by a fair and unbiased individual. This is one of the most difficult tasks an admin does on a daily basis but can also be one of the most satisfying when all sides agree on the outcome.
  • Processing league joins – It’s not the most interesting task, but it is one of the most important as a means of maintaining the quality of our ladders, leagues and cups and all it takes is a few minutes a day.

    There are many other tasks that you can also do do, including running cups and special competitions like the Major Series, Masters and WC3L, writing news, creating graphics, catching cheaters, finding fake matches, teaching new admins and more.

    What are the requirements?

    Our general requirements:
    At least 18 years of age
    A good knowledge of the English language
    A good knowledge of the game and the scene
    A sense of responsibility, reliability and flexibility
    Neutrality and objectivity in decision making
    Understanding the nature of conflicts and being able to resolve them
    Capability of working in a dynamic team

    Also, obviously, the application must be made in English and will be judged on its quality!

    So are you ready to rock the ESL and join this great family of fellow gamers! Send your application today, for that follow this link: Admin Application.

    Please remember your application has to be written in an understandable and correct English!

  • SK Gaming Goes XBox

    December 31st, 2008

    “Do not fear, console eSports does not consist of Wii fit exercises and playing Mario Games,” said Michael “SK.Spillout” Mazler, leader of the the new team.

    Over thirty players will be joining the SK ranks and will compete in Call of Duty, Guitar Hero, Pro Evolution Soccer and Gears of War as well as racing and other sports titles.

    SK Gaming is adding a small army of XBox 360 players to represent the organization.  You can read the article here.

    Gotfrag TF2 Event

    December 31st, 2008

    (GotFrag) – The intense action of scout rushes, demo spam, high-flying soldiers and uber-pushes that is the bread and butter of competitive TF2 is heading your way via GotFrag’s first ever Team Fortress 2 Tournament – with all the frags, destruction and explosive chaos that goes with it.

    In partnership with GameBattles.com and Razer, GotFrag is happy to announce the coming of an invitation, 6v6, double-elimination tournament with prizes to be given out to the top two finishers. 8 teams have been invited by GotFrag to participate in this first invitation-only tournament.

     

    Check out the event here.

    Frag Dominant Quake3 2v2 Cup

    December 31st, 2008

    Team Frag Dominant and Razer Team Up To Bring You the Frag Dominant Quake 3 2v2 Cup


    Razer is proud to be working with Orlando “Hanzo” Garcia, manager of team Frag Dominant. Frag Dominant is more notably known in the Quake community for their recent expansion and acquisition of Sebastian “Spart1e” Siira and Kévin “Strenx” Baéza and is now hosting their first Quake 3 North American 2vs2 Cup.

    Frag Dominant in cooperation with MSI, Power Color and Cooler Master will be featuring their latest hardware to be given away as prizes to the Top 3 teams. The tournament registrations will remain open until January 4th, and will be set to launch January 7th, to be concluded in later February 2009.

    Coverage of the event as well as updates and further details can be found at Frag Dominant’s tournament page. We would like to thank Next Generation Servers for providing high performance servers spread across North America for all tournament matches to be played on. Match commentary will be provided by Pwnage.tv, and a special thanks to MSI, Power Color, and Cooler Master for their support of the tournament and contributions to the hardware prizing.
    Quote from Host Orlando Garcia

    “We love the community and so does Razer. I am very proud to have Razer sponsoring our tournament as well as our partners MSI, Power Color and Cooler Master. We’re looking forward to some awesome matches with the best talent of Quake 3 in North America”

    Team Frag Dominant and Razer would also like to thank and acknowledge our Tournament Director Joe “Syn” Radkowski for his contributions to the organization of the cup and for his assistance as Manager of the officiating staff.

    Registration is free and is open to anyone who has a teammate and enjoys playing Quake 3 2vs2. Happy Holidays and we look forward to some awesome matchups!

    For more information and Click HERE. To register and to visit the tournament page, click HERE.

    About Razer™:
    Headquartered in Carlsbad, California, Razer™ collaborates with gamers to develop, manufacture and market cutting-edge gaming peripherals utilizing proprietary technologies that give gamers the competitive edge. Razer products have earned critical praise and won multiple awards from around the world for their precision, sensitivity, usability and distinctions in product design. Engineered to near perfection, Razer’s reputation of being the leader in gaming peripheral technology is embodied in every single Razer product. For more information, please visit www.razerzone.com.

    About Frag Dominant, LLC.:
    Frag Dominant is a professional eSports organization founded in November of 2006 by Orlando “hanzo” Garcia. Starting out as a simple Counter-Strike team, the organization quickly expanded to encompass some of North America’s finest divisions and dedicated staff. In early 2008, Frag Dominant officially became a Limited Liability Company (LLC.) and has since made great strides in the North American eSports arena. Taking into consideration the loyal sponsors, trustworthy members, and supportive community, Frag Dominant has all of the proper necessities to be simply paramount. For more information, please visit www.fragdominant.com.

    About MSI Computer:
    Micro-Star International Corporation, Ltd. (TSEC: MSI, 2377) is one of the IT industry’s leading manufacturers of computer hardware products and solutions, including world’s top five and Taiwan’s top three motherboard manufacturer, Taiwan biggest and world’s top five server manufacturer, and has been the leading graphic card manufacturer for the past four years. Today MSI is pressing forward with the development of new products, such as notebooks and consumer electronic products. The sale of MSI’s MP3 product has been growing rapidly, making MSI one of the top MP3 product suppliers in Taiwan since 2004. Through world class engineering, manufacturing & design innovation, MSI is dedicated to providing leading-edge hardware products and robust solutions that are easy to implement and integrate while also enhancing overall performance, value and ultimately the individual end user’s personal digital life experience. For more information, please visit www.msicomputer.com.

    About Cooler Master:
    Cooler Master was founded with the mission of providing the industry’s best thermal solutions. Since its establishment a decade ago, the company has remained faithful to this mission, emerging as a world leader in products and services for companies dealing with devices where heat issues must be resolved. For more information, please visit www.coolermaster-usa.com.

    About TUL Corporation:
    TUL is a leading supplier of AMD graphics cards under the PowerColor brand. We offer award-winning products based on our technology leading components, quality design and superb engineering. TUL employs more than 150 talents worldwide, with offices in China, Europe, Russia and USA to support over 300 channel partners and distributors in 50 plus countries. For more information, visit www.powercolor.com.

    About Next-Generation Game Servers:
    Next-Generation Game Servers has been serving the community for over 4 1/2 years. We have been providing a high performance and low ping network. We have chosen over 6 different networks with the best hardware. Our support has never been better with response times usually within minutes. For more information, please visit www.nextgenservers.com.

    About Pwnage.TV:
    Pwnage.TV is a new media broadcasting company supporting global shoutcasting in games ranging from Counter-Strike to Quake 3. The game plan for 2009 is to be the premier eSports coverage network. For more information, please visit www.pwnage.tv.

    Fragbite’s 2008 in Pictures

    December 31st, 2008

    Fragbite, a top gaming destination in Sweden, has released a photo collection summarizing 2008 in eSports.

     

     

    You can view it here.

    Gotfrag’s MIRAA Interviewed

    December 31st, 2008

    Recently another popular Gotfrag.com employee parted ways with the organization.  Many fans have been wondering what is causing the mass exodus.  Luis “MIRAA” Mira recently did an interview that may shed some light on the situation.

    Arenazero: Hi, Luís. We’ve seen that you and your mates are no longer part of GotFrag.
    MIRAA:
    Hi. My departure is not related with the other guys’ departures. I left because MLG has decided to focus on its games instead of Counter-Strike, which means that we would have no budget during 2009 for this game.

     

    You can read the entire interview here.

    Cadred Awards 2008

    December 31st, 2008

    The 2008 Call of Duty 4 awards were well received but for the source fans out there of you they’d be a tease, a lick of icing instead of the cake you want to eat. Today you can have your cake, eat it as you vote for the Cadred’s 2008 awards for Counter-Strike: Source.

    Be sure to check out the Cadred Awards 2008 here.

    X3O extends Winter Registration

    December 31st, 2008

    December, 18th 2008 – What was originally announced as a 16 team max local LAN tournament has quickly grown to become the largest North America Counter-Strike 1.6 LAN of 2008. X3O will be opening an additional 8 team slots ONLY. There has been a considerable amount of interest for these slots and more than 8 teams have personally contacted me about wanting to join. These will go very fast, so please make sure you get your team pre-registered and paid as soon as possible.

    Below is a list of the 16 originally confirmed teams. They are in no particular order:

    * X3O
    * AGENT
    * enhanced
    * cpd
    * hypnosis
    * Gordon Bomba
    * Gravitas Gaming
    * TFM
    * backdraft
    * Aggressive Aim
    * Fear Factor (f2)
    * BOPC
    * Southern Aggression
    * goonies
    * drift
    * iDemise

    A note for the above mentioned teams:

    * Get your starting five registered for the event.
    * Get all players pre-paid because registration rates increase on 12/22/2008.

    The format of the tournament will still consist of group play on Saturday, however the number of groups, number of teams in a group, and other tournament format rules may be changed to accomodate the final number of teams attending.

    For more information, you can contact Nick Fitz on IRC or go to www.x3o-gaming.com

    x3o Winter Classic

    December 31st, 2008

    December, 18th 2008 – What was originally announced as a 16 team max local LAN tournament has quickly grown to become the largest North America Counter-Strike 1.6 LAN of 2008. X3O will be opening an additional 8 team slots ONLY. There has been a considerable amount of interest for these slots and more than 8 teams have personally contacted me about wanting to join. These will go very fast, so please make sure you get your team pre-registered and paid as soon as possible.

    Below is a list of the 16 originally confirmed teams. They are in no particular order:

    * X3O
    * AGENT
    * enhanced
    * cpd
    * hypnosis
    * Gordon Bomba
    * Gravitas Gaming
    * TFM
    * backdraft
    * Aggressive Aim
    * Fear Factor (f2)
    * BOPC
    * Southern Aggression
    * goonies
    * drift
    * iDemise

    A note for the above mentioned teams:

    • Get your starting five registered for the event.
    • Get all players pre-paid because registration rates increase on 12/22/2008.

    The format of the tournament will still consist of group play on Saturday, however the number of groups, number of teams in a group, and other tournament format rules may be changed to accomodate the final number of teams attending.

    For more information, you can contact Nick Fitz on IRC or go to www.x3o-gaming.com

    PNY CS:S & COD5 Tourneys

    December 31st, 2008

    PNY CS:S & CoD5 Graphics Plus Tournaments

    What: Online PC Gaming Tournaments for CS:S & CoD5
    When: Jan 12-22 (CS:S) & Jan 26 – Feb 4 (CoD5)
    Where: http://portal.xlr8gaming.net/blog/

    That’s right… Just in time for the holidays PNY is launching online activities everyone can participate in! Online PC Tournaments, a Folding@Home contest, and a 3DMark contest will all be part of the activities kicking off in December.

    Each online tournament is FREE to enter for US Residents and will feature thousands of dollars in prizing! Winners will receive PNY XLR8 products and everyone has a chance to win just for contributing to a good cause by Folding! More PC Tournament details and contest rules will be released in the coming days!

    The great PNY product prizes below will be provided to first, second, and third place teams from both PC Tournaments!

    FIRST PLACE

    * PNY XLR8 9800 GTX + 512MB Graphics Card (QTY 5)

    SECOND PLACE

    * PNY 9800 GT 1GB Graphics Card (QTY 5)

    THIRD PLACE

    * PNY 4GB 800/4 Memory Kit (QTY 5)

    To get started now, head over to http://www.xlr8gaming.net/portal/ and register today! Once each event kicks off, you’ll receive info in you email inbox with all the details!

    If you’ve already registered, hit up the Tournaments page (http://portal.xlr8gaming.net/?page_id=5&stem=event&eventid=1266) to sign up!