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eSports and professional gaming

Esports and Professional Gaming, a view how I see it.

Hello, maybe the most of you guys around here don't know me, but hey, my name is Jordie Tournois and I worked for some gaming organisations in the eSports scene, doing management and writing articles, and mostly I updated myself with reading allot of news concerning allot of games. Actually I'm a huge fan. I'm writing this post to bring something to the public from my point of view.

The eSport is growing every day so maybe the opportunity for those that cant compete on a higher level. But I'am concerned about popularity and being a 'someone' will be the ultimate choice in whether someone gets on this team or gets on that team, or even gets a sponsor.

So my question is, how far can gaming go until a draft or even 'amateur' leagues are taken seriously. Yes, cal-o teams that make it from cal-o to cal-I are a fantastic thing, but what about those cal-o teams that have players on that team that can compete on a high level but the team fails and since they aren’t 'known' in the scene and getting screwed for 'onliners' because they are in an amateur team they loose out on the chance to play on a higher level in gaming.

Every time players are told to try and get on a cal-m team and move up to cal-p or cal-i, but most of us know that a lot of these teams either never get the chance to be moved up or fall apart before making it, in which leaves those talented players without a team and without any chance of moving to another one. Because i'm very interested in what's going on in the eSport community, I'm glad now that i'm writing this article.

I really believe in eSports because its growing every day, maybe it can become a real sport but it will not be bigger then the FIFA society. But until people stop relying on popularity and past achievements I really don't think it will be as big as it could be, time will tell. But it would move so much faster if a draft or maybe a branch of teams for a 'gaming business' emerged. example, Complexity the North American team is considered a true 'gaming society/corporation' could form multiple teams from different games and send there 'marketing' to multiple tournaments in a year compared to what they can do with there one team they have now. Jason Lake the owner manager of the Complexity syndicate as you can saw in Complexity Redemption, he sees Complexity as a business and not just a team. If that’s so we all know that corporations have multiple teams that do there different tasks, Complexity could do the same, form two teams with the Complexity brand and send one team to this competition and one to the other. Creating a much broader opportunity for expansion and overall winnings, the business aspect of gaming has evolved a lot of money since sponsors have entered the whole gaming community.

The most guys of you would probably say it would be hard to fund multiple teams for one gaming corporation, but its not as far fetched as you may think, provided there would have to be changes in the way that sponsors handled themselves but it would be more of a real 'partnership' In such a way that, that one company sponsored and funded the one gaming corporation instead of two or three different teams. But the fact remains that even AMD, Intel, ATI and such more company's could and would pay to support gaming as a profession instead of just a hobby. Allowing gaming to succeed beyond what most people expect it to be as of now or ever eventually be.

This would also allow for those talented people to actually make a living doing what there good at, people that really have a passion for the game could have a chance to play for top tier teams because the gaming corporations would have multiple teams to do multiple things with, sending one team to the CPL and the other to WCG or another wide tournament, plus making it less stressful for the company to do more with what they have.

Over the past few years gaming has expanded beyond what I think any of us could have seen. And to push it forward it requires it to be less of a popularity contest and more of a professional field. It’s the same with soccer if you think about it, what does the NFL look for during drafting? They look for those top stars that did well during their college season. It should be the same with professional sports, the managers and owners of teams should pay more attention to the upcoming stars, cause eventually there will be those that retire and all the 'famous' players will be gone and who will be left to take there spots? Those people in the cal-m and lower teams, those players that put just as much or more effort into the game then the pros of the time did.

One person who I think grasps e-sports more as a business then anyone else is none other then Jonathan ''Fatal1ty' Wendel. He has an own shop and even an own company, I’d like to bring in a quote from a movie that really displays how the community sees the 'fatal1ty fact'. Everybody knows the movie with speedy and pimped cares 'The Fast and the Furious' Brian his boss in that movie had the following words to say in that movie. 'kids come in here and want whatever Toretto has and they pay cash!' It’s the same for the eSports and Fatal1ty has figured that out, and he created a board with his name on it in which all of us inspiring professional stars will see him using and want what he has to be the best of the best.

Peace out,

Jordie Tournois

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