[QUOTE=Confuzzed Otto;32731860]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..[/QUOTE]
I played Quake 3 for 1.5 years professionally, but the community was a bunch of condescending dickbags so I quit.
[editline]12th October 2011[/editline]
I also had a horrible sponsor that made me give 60% of my prize money to them.
I've faced the power of co-ordinated players..
It's bloody hell.
3 scouts, 2 in one group, and one alone went for the flag. Then they got it and ran together. Ahh *Pats jarate* it's not that difficult
[QUOTE=Confuzzed Otto;32740652]I've faced the power of co-ordinated players..
It's bloody hell.
3 scouts, 2 in one group, and one alone went for the flag. Then they got it and ran together. Ahh *Pats jarate* it's not that difficult[/QUOTE]
Somehow my tf2 team got matched up against some of the best players in the game.... was completely ridiculous. I got maybe 5 kills in 5 rounds of badlands and they were using silly stuff like 2 snipers and a quick fix medic
[QUOTE=Confuzzed Otto;32731860](Top 4+ on scoreboard)[/QUOTE]
ohh shit step back!
[QUOTE=Confuzzed Otto;32740652]I've faced the power of co-ordinated players..
It's bloody hell.
3 scouts, 2 in one group, and one alone went for the flag. Then they got it and ran together. Ahh *Pats jarate* it's not that difficult[/QUOTE]Don't worry competitive TF2 has a class limit of 2 so you'll only see two scouts attacking you at once.
DSP on youtube lost his job and decided to make making game playthroughs (with hilarious commentary) his job. He's doing pretty damn good so far, but tournaments could work too.
Get ESEA Premium and join pugs for 1.6, css, or tf2. they'll be picking up CS:GO as well.
fyi, you'll get absolutely destroyed if you join 1.6 or css, but don't stop playing. the whole point of pugs is to learn competitive strats (usually someone will act as a strat caller on each side). it's completely different than playing pubs where everyone is just an individual who makes their own rules.
SC2, CS 1.6
I'm into competitive CS:S (although I've only been in open level - amateur level tournaments) and when you say 'top-4 on the scoreboard' it doesn't mean all that much, yes good aim and such is a good skill to have and will help you, but teamwork and strategies are 95% of all competitive games, get into an open level team and enter an open tournament you'll learn a lot about teamwork which will help you more than aim.
I played competitive TF2 as a soldier for over 2 years. Its great fun, I gotta say, but don't go hoping you can make living out of it, maybe if you make commentaries of famous games or something you could get money off ads.
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[URL="http://steamcommunity.com/groups/6v6newmix"]Perfect gateway into 6v6 TF2[/URL], the people there are pretty welcoming and although there's very little money in competitive TF2 it's ridiculously fun. I went from shitbad pub player to low div5 in a couple months.
so you play TF2 right
and get on top 4 on pubs where no one plays the actual game but instead trades barely noticeable cosmetic stuff to feed their egos?
try playing pick-ups
i hope you get stomped by enemies and yelled at by your team
[QUOTE=-nesto-;32734753]just cause you place top in pub games doesn't mean you're ready for pro circuits. thats like being good at highschool football and expecting to get drafted in the NFL[/QUOTE]
Doesn't that actually happen though with talent scouts and stuff?
how do you even play tf2 competetively it's just absolute madness left-right-and-center
Becomes a hell of a lot less chaotic with half the players and constant communication.
Mlg is one of the biggest wastes of personal time you can choose
Top 4 in a pub game? God damn, you're ready to compete.
Well. Was in my first match and it was 100% vanilla, so I wasn't really used to it.
But I got 2 points :v:
I won't stop training though :dance:
The sooner you realise "competitve gaming" is dumb the better.
Nothing buy pr0's 4 lyf and idiots in general. Maybe the odd 1 or 2 guys who arent complete douchebags.
Only if you're willing to practise 4-5 hours a day can you hope to go pro. It pays depending on the game though, i believe IM.NesTea (Starcraft 2 pro) has made just over 250 000 since SCII came out 1 year ago
It really depends on the game. Competitive tf2 is fun.
I remember a couple of years ago at Quake Con, we arrived just as the competition was starting, and I had never even played Quake Live or Quake III Arena (I had played Quake and Quake 2, but many years ago). They threw me onto a coordinator's computer, and I lost 34 to -2.
I didn't know you could take fall damage.
google around for websites dedicated to the competitive side of the game you want to play professionally, most of them have recruitment sections and if you really think you're that good you can post in there and ask for a tryout
takes a while to get into the high ranking stuff depending on your preexisting skill and ability to work with others, unless you plan on playing QL or SC2 as teamwork isn't required in these unless you want to do something other than 1v1s
practice a lot, at least three hours a day; get friends in the scene and ask them if you can spectate their games or even form a pug with them and their friends, watch casts, read professional players' guides or whatever
this is coming from an ex-professional gamer who has won thousands in tournaments, mainly L4D and L4D2
I'll tell you this: if you aren't topping the scoreboard in every FPS you play regardless of time spent in it, you probably aren't going anywhere
Competitive gaming is good.
Professional gaming is retarded. Gaming is not a sport. Gaming is not something you should be making an income off of, unless you have a bunch of child slave laborers farming currency in popular MMOs such as EVE and World of Warcraft.
Competetive was actually quite fun. Maybe I should not go professional, this was pretty much was what I was looking for :smile:
[QUOTE=Alex_DeLarge;32756413]Competitive gaming is good.
Professional gaming is retarded. Gaming is not a sport. Gaming is not something you should be making an income off of, unless you have a bunch of child slave laborers farming currency in popular MMOs such as EVE and World of Warcraft.[/QUOTE]
you're an idiot
a "sport" can be anything requiring skill and is of a competitive nature
people get paid to play games because you have to be really fucking good and I'm almost certain becoming a professional gamer (at least in respected games like Quake and Star Craft) requires much more dedication, intelligence and skill than any physical sport
[QUOTE=Confuzzed Otto;32756438]Competetive was actually quite fun. Maybe I should not go professional, this was pretty much was what I was looking for :smile:[/QUOTE]
:) You get the idea! Enter competitions, have fun with it, maybe earn a bit of money if you win, keep it that way. There are MUCH easier, not necessarily more fun, but easier jobs to earn a living from than gaming. Enjoy it before you have to go out and get a proper job!
[QUOTE=Arkay;32757125]:) You get the idea! Enter competitions, have fun with it, maybe earn a bit of money if you win, keep it that way. There are MUCH easier, not necessarily more fun, but easier jobs to earn a living from than gaming. Enjoy it before you have to go out and get a proper job![/QUOTE]
trust me, you can't just go out and become a competitive gamer and start making money like it's nothing on PC, very, VERY few actually end up making substantial profit from it and the ones that do are born with the talent
[QUOTE=Odellus;32757216]trust me, you can't just go out and become a competitive gamer and start making money like it's nothing on PC, very, VERY few actually end up making substantial profit from it and the ones that do are born with the talent[/QUOTE]
I used to play CoD4 competitively (with eSuba and TEK9) and I know how hard it is to get into. Even harder still to earn a living off it, I gathered. I was merely suggesting he enter some LAN's, local competitions, not pursue the pr0 gam3rs lifestyle, because that's just silly.
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