Posted July 23, 201311 yr Last year I spent quite a while looking into eSports and the organisation and I was not too impressed with the level of professionalism. Last night I stumbled upon the Lolesports.com website and spend the next three hours looking at various movies and explanatory articles. This is just crazy. Check out the Season2 re-cap video above! First time I was genuinly impressed with eSports, I guess. Damn!
July 23, 201311 yr A bit bigger than the OCing scene Don't like that game genre at all, so I have no idea what they were doing
July 23, 201311 yr LCS is not the only very impressive gaming series but they innovated by paying the best teams to attend their series.
July 23, 201311 yr Author Yeah, that's what I was told as well. From what I gather, they have a multi-divisional league structure where the Professional teams are being paid to go from venue to venue and live in a house near that venue. All paid by LCS. Very impressive indeed.
July 23, 201311 yr Looking at pure cash prizes "The International" event is quite impressive too (2.6M$ so far for the next edition beginning of August). The game is different (Dota2) but the company developing the game (Valve) is backing the whole thing quite heavily too. The way they raise the cash prize money is quite clever as well.
July 23, 201311 yr Yes, DotA 2 is another big player in the MOBA category (with LoL and HoN, but the last one isn't popular in esports I think). Simply looking at how you can easily access to all these tournaments (except the skill cap), it's quite impressive.
July 24, 201311 yr Crew we did an event last weekend at PAXAus the biggest event of its type ever in AU LoL were there, the whole setup, organization, massive booth was very impressive, These guys gave TeamAU a little bit of a kick in the ass as to what professionalism is, e-sports is so similar to overclocking, but different in the fact that so many more people are involved, however lots of lessons for us to learn from organizations like LoL on how we should be approaching what we do
July 25, 201311 yr Crew Use of social media, booth physical setup, crowd engagement, booth organization and timeline structure
July 25, 201311 yr Author USD $1M. But money is always an after-effect, don't focus on that. Anyway, just what I learned. It's not necessarily what anyone else learns.
July 25, 201311 yr idk money is everything with how companies and industries view things like sports.
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