Thread: Anyone interested in making a team?

FPS Competitor,

Plantronics GameCom is hosting the North American path to the Electronics Sports World Cup 2012 World Finals for Starcraft 2, DOTA 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. The qualification process for each game will begin online, with the top two finishers from the online qualifier earning paid trips to compete live at PAX Prime in the Plantronics GameCom booth August 31 – September 2. Each winner from PAX will receive a paid trip to represent the United States and Canada and compete against the world’s best gamers in the ESWC World Finals in Paris, France October 31 – November 4.

Each game will feature a free-to-play online qualifier Open Bracket, and the DOTA 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Open brackets will be combined with eight invited competitors to determine the ESWC North American Championship competitors. The top two finishers from the Starcraft 2 online qualifier will join six invited players to compete at PAX Prime. The semi-finals and final matches from the online qualifier and the ESWC North American Championship will be streamed live online in HD through Twitch in partnership with leading shout-casters from each game community.

Note that upon successful registration of your entire team, each member will receive a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive beta-key via email automatically!

The following information pertains directly to the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive online qualifier. Note that registration is open now, so be sure to get signed up in order to participate in the event!

Registration Period: July 17 - July 28 @ 9:00 PM EDT
Competition Dates: July 30 - August 12
Format: Single Elimination down to Final 16 Single Elimination (Bo3 maps)
Prizing: Paid trip (up to $1,200 per person) to compete at PAX Prime in the live event Finals
Finals Info: To take place at PAX Prime, with the winner receiving a paid trip to France to represent the U.S. in the ESWC Grand Finals

Gamers are invited to sign up and learn more about the ESWC North American qualifier at Plantronics GameCom ESWC Qualifiers.

It doesnt say directly here but signing up for a team, you get a beta key if you dont have one already. Theres already 300 some teams registered. Just for fun of course.

damn that would be fun but i don't have time to play competitive cs... i use to really be into practice and working on strats lol. i can't do that anymore

I played competitive cs for years in cal and it was fun but intense..

Originally Posted by Sheriff Cornbread

I played competitive cs for years in cal and it was fun but intense..

The last time i played competitive seriously was in 06 with exploit 3 in cevop. I think we ended up winning like 2 matches, both by forfeit. I only played in like 3-4, all of them we got destroyed in. It was pretty terrible.

after that i sold my acc and quit the game for several years because at that point the game felt stressful and almost more like a job then something i did for fun, not to mention school was more important. As a 13 year old at the time it felt pretty cool to say i played 'professorially' and i just wouldn't mention that we were last in the league in a very uncompetitive season only won 2 by forefit and that i personally had only played in 3 matches where i almost certifiably bottom fragged in all of them. Frankly the only reason i was on the team at all was because i was friends with the captain so i got to team ride.

I would be interested, though I also have a job and I don't know how that would work with it if they wait till the last minute to say what times and dates the matches are on. I had that happen with an online tourny I played for SC2, but thankfully I managed to get it off lol. I ended up playing the current #1 player in NA at the time. Got somewhat smashed. :p

Originally Posted by CoMpulsive

I would be interested, though I also have a job and I don't know how that would work with it if they wait till the last minute to say what times and dates the matches are on. I had that happen with an online tourny I played for SC2, but thankfully I managed to get it off lol. I ended up playing the current #1 player in NA at the time. Got somewhat smashed. :p

that's crazy... he must have been a beast.

i'm in the same boat as you... with work hours being heavy commitment would be a problem

ill do it but im prob not good enough

Originally Posted by Pyron

that's crazy... he must have been a beast.

i'm in the same boat as you... with work hours being heavy commitment would be a problem

I dont think we'd be running practices or anything maybe just 10 minutes before the match we'd go over the map discuss general strats then go play. If you can dedicate a solid hour at 9pm most weekdays (ALL i know about the schedule is that matches are at 9pm EST probably no more than 2 matches a week) we should be fine. If we could get roster of 7 people then there'd be a safety net too. This is purely for fun.

I'd be down... if I wasn't going to be away

Originally Posted by Pyron

that's crazy... he must have been a beast.

i'm in the same boat as you... with work hours being heavy commitment would be a problem

oh yea. I don't know if you've ever played SC2, but the guy I played against was dSeleCT. Plays for team Dignitas. Top pro team and very well known. I almost took a game from him, but he beat me 2-0. lol. I can't complain loosing to one of the top players in the world though.




@t3fla In that case I'll join you. and 9pm est I can probably do almost anytime, would help if I knew the dates and could guarantee it though.