• Professional gaming, where the fuck do I go?
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If this is the wrong place, just move it to where it belongs. Thank you. So professional gaming and tournaments for awards have been interesting me for a quite while now, mostly because I end up at decent points (Top 4+ on scoreboard) in most games. I simply wonder where to turn, if I want to join a team for any Source games? No idea what to do, just want to get something to do except trading useless items on Tf2..
It depends on the game really, 1v1 games like SC2 or fighting games you can just sign up in a tournament. Team games, you have to, as much as it pains me to say it, find a good clan who scrim often. Also, it takes A LOT of dedication just to be considered decent in the competitive scene.
Go play in an open tournament in any game at a local competition or a near by competition. If you don't come home weeping, you might have a slight chance. :v:
Hey bro i want to be Mlg 2. hit up my gam3r tag on xbxlve some time, XxXxSmokXx0nXth3Xxw4trXx. in all seriousness it's not worth getting into, it's not something you can make a consistent living off of. but if you're still interested, check your local computer shops or game stores and see if they have tournaments going on, or LAN parties.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;32731975]Hey bro i want to be Mlg 2. hit up my gam3r tag on xbxlve some time, XxXxSmokXx0nXth3Xxw4trXx. in all seriousness it's not worth getting into, it's not something you can make a consistent living off of. but if you're still interested, check your local computer shops or game stores and see if they have tournaments going on, or LAN parties.[/QUOTE] If your really good then you can make a living out of it. In fact top sc2 players are payed a whole fuckton of money.
Just look up stuff for MLG and what not. There are actually plenty of circuits for all sorts of games. You can do competitions for specific games, or get in to multiple ones and be well rounded at a bunch. Personally, I think professional gaming is a ridiculous career and produces too many egotistical players. I remember seeing a special back when I still watched G4 about pro gamers and the pressures they had to deal with. They dedicated stupid amounts of time to games, and were often offered drugs like coke, adderal, meth, etc. to give them an edge. How fucking stupid is that?! Take up pro gaming as a hobby or something if you want, but don't pursue it like a regular sport or anything.
Professional gaming seems like a horrible thing too do. I'd just get so tired of playing games. It takes the aspect of the game being fun and turns it into a sort of job.
professional gaming? you seem to be confuzzed, otto.
[QUOTE=iPope;32732675]If your really good then you can make a living out of it. In fact top sc2 players are payed a whole fuckton of money.[/QUOTE] But OP is not Korean
Judging from your Steam account, you seem to mainly be interested in TF2. I'd suggest trying the MGE training mod in TF2 (search for maps that start with mge), as those servers often have professional players that practice in them, and you can see how you match up against them. Then for team practice you can go to Gotfrag or some site to join a team or just try out TF2Lobby a bit. Personally I don't take professional gaming seriously and I don't think you should either unless you're a god at Starcraft or something, but I like to practice against such professional players just for challenge and getting better at what you like doing (i.e. playing the game).
You could go outside? Well that's what I would do at least.
[QUOTE=iPope;32732675]If your really good then you can make a living out of it. In fact top sc2 players are payed a whole fuckton of money.[/QUOTE] Yes but Starcraft is a fucking holy grail over there, they attracted hundreds of thousands of people who watch them play, and are given a more fair share for their money instead of MLG players here in North America.
OP your Steam profile is fucking retarded
[QUOTE=Ond kaja;32733378]OP your Steam profile is fucking retarded[/QUOTE] Allt blev självklart när jag såg Skåne.
Read a good book and masturbate every once in a while to relieve stress.
You actually want to do professional gaming? Go to college and get a [b]real[/b] job, OP.
woah woah woah there what the fuck? Professional gaming isnt dead, and it probably wont die in a while. Its just more active in Europe. Want proof? where im from, (albania) a rig for CS 1.6 or CS:S is about 600 dollars, a nvidia 8800 GT is like 150 dollars, want a 460 GTX? save up because its expensive TL;DR professional gaming is more active in europe
If professional gaming was as easy as you think it is to make a living out of it, every man and his dog would be doing it for a full-time job.
[QUOTE=TomGoodWoman;32733813]woah woah woah there what the fuck? Professional gaming isnt dead, and it probably wont die in a while. Its just more active in Europe. Want proof? where im from, (albania) a rig for CS 1.6 or CS:S is about 600 dollars, a nvidia 8800 GT is like 150 dollars, want a 460 GTX? save up because its expensive TL;DR professional gaming is more active in europe[/QUOTE] what
[QUOTE=GeneralFredrik;32733729]Allt blev självklart när jag såg Skåne.[/QUOTE]Jag tänkte studera i Lund, men sedan kom jag ihåg att det tillhörde Skåne.
[QUOTE=BlkDucky;32733847]what[/QUOTE] If i'm not mistaken he's quite right, most big game tournaments take place in the more eastern countries, specifically in Europe. [editline]11th October 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Ond kaja;32733868]Jag tänkte studera i Lund, men sedan kom jag ihåg att det tillhörde Skåne.[/QUOTE] It's a bitch when that happens isn't it?
[QUOTE=LuckyLuke;32733870]If i'm not mistaken he's quite right, most big game tournaments take place in the more eastern countries, specifically in Europe.[/QUOTE] I was wondering more how the price of hardware was related.
You would make more money through TF2 hats than professional gaming.
and how it counts as proof.
[QUOTE=BlkDucky;32733888]I was wondering more how the price of hardware was related.[/QUOTE] Especially when you consider that software is like a fifth of the price in eastern europe. Maybe he just did the math wrong.
[QUOTE=BlkDucky;32733888]I was wondering more how the price of hardware was related.[/QUOTE] It isn't relevant to the topic at all, we're talking about how professional gaming isn't a very good thing to fall back on as a full time job, and he comes in talking about rigs for CS 1.6. Mind you I think he has a point, since you'd probably end up spending more money on a good rig than earning money playing on the really expensive rig you bought.
[QUOTE=Ond kaja;32733868]Jag tänkte studera i Lund, men sedan kom jag ihåg att det tillhörde Skåne.[/QUOTE] Livet är hårt här i Sverige :'(
top 4 in the scoreboard isn't really impressive
OP if you really are 14 you will drop the idea as soon as you realize that apart from you being somewhat decent on public servers, there are people who dedicate training almost all of their free time, mainly in order to be better than you, or anyone else, and you can rest assured your skill is nowhere near someone who spent most of his day replaying the same thing in the past few years
Start topic about professional gaming. Turns into talk about Life in Sweden. [editline]11th October 2011[/editline] Probably the only way you're going to get money off of games is creating and recording some decent gameplays, uploading them to YouTube and going for partnership. Even then it's very unlikely you'll get much, just stop looking for excuses to waste away in front of a monitor, and do something productive, like study for exams or something to get a decent job.
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