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Rmlk2ei

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  1. CSGO compe coming up. Against asia. Stressed? You tell me.

  2. Any game that sufficiently provides a high enough skill ceiling with a large enough player base plus monetary interest can be basically an esport. Major titles now are LoL, Dota 2, Starcraft 2, CSGO. With a touch of other games like Fifa, smite, bf4, ns2 etc Getting in depends on where you want to be. Generally if you want to be involved in the aspect of a player, you have to be, like mentioned above, really really good. Talent is one thing, but without hardwork it dosent matter. If you're not talented, you just have to work much much harder. Depending on your game, it can either be individual based or team based, both of which require equally immense amount of effort. The technical aspects of how to play well are embedded within your prefered game so you'll have to do your own research for that. It takes a certain combination of raw skill, hardwork, people relations, results and a little bit of luck to breakout into the esports scene. If you're thinking of going pro, you better be prepared for all kinds of hardship, plus when you "make it" its only when you breakout. Maintaining top level play to remain relevant in the scene is another huge challenge. Overall this aspect of esports, while the most prestigious and glorious, is i believe to be the hardest of them all. There are other parts like being a manager, coach, journalist, commentator etc. I'll touch on these a little bit. Being a manager is very much like running any sports team, you get involved in sponsorships for you team (which is essentially the most important thing), may even include "coaching" your players to some extent, settling administration for tournaments, finances (facilities, equipment etc) and generally supporting your team/player(s) so that they can focus on playing. A coach gets more involved in the game, generally a coach will be a retired player or someone who has extensive experience in the game. Your job is to get down the to technical details of the game from your strategies to playstyle to small things like what is your daily routine and keeping you on track to play at your next tournament. A journalist speaks for itself. Reporting the aspects of the game from interviews to articles like what you would expect. Commentators are people to commentate on the game (like duh), they hype up the matches and inform the casual players by simplifying or pointing out the complexity and skill that occurs within a match. There are many other roles and such, you can find those as you start diving into a specific game's esports scene. If you're asking about how you (referring to people like us) get in, i can share some of my short history. I live in Singapore, not a fantastic place for esports albeit. First game that i actually dove into competitively was Starcraft 2, forming a team and such was the first step, but eventually i realised that starcraft 2 wasnt really my flair. I had some skill but that game just required so much time from me and i found that after awhile (with intensive training and such, playing for a good 10-12 hours a day on non-school days) i just lost my passion for the game, it was more of the me not liking the game rather than playing it till im bored. My team currently became inactive as like me many others also lost their passion for the game with life catching up and all that. At the moment i've switch to my original favourite genre, fps. Playing csgo (counter-strike global offensive) competitively. So far since playing for 5 months (about a 1500 hours total + more offline researching etc), me and my team have placed top 8 in the country in an online competition getting knocked out by the best team here, hoping to do equally if not better than what we achieved at a LAN competition. Hope this puts some insight into esports! Feel free to ask about anything and even about specific game scenes (Mostly regarding Starcraft 2 and LoL, oh and of course, CSGO, i hardly keep up with dota 2 and any other game).
  3. Time frame wise, i think its best if fusion starts coming into play towards the end of fossil fuels (or before we kill each other via god knows what). At the moment energy is a very sketchy place for breakthroughs, sound like a conspiracy theorist, but people are probably going to get killed if fusion reaches the critical point where so much can be made from so little. Other than all that above, would love to stop paying for my bills and enter a new era of humanity *Inner childhood intensifies*.
  4. I think Bungie's reputation precedes their work. Halo was amazing, the marathon series before that was pretty good as well. (Thou i didnt like halo reach, seemed to me like their "touch" to making great games was fading, lucky they moved on after reach) Regarding the issues with PC, they did mention a possibility but unlikely, i would agree that a game designed for pc then ported would be better for the graphics as then it can be scaled down for the weaker hardware systems. 500 million is quite an astronomical amount and with regards to marketing which i didnt see a bunch, i guess its either for majority of the game, or for the entire (10 year) development run, no specific details on that so not much to comment on. I believe that Bungie will do a good job, i dont think it deserves to be put under the typical stereotype of COD triple AAA game money milking machine. But then, i guess i'll see when it does come out, whether Bungie will continue making fantastic games or will they fall into the pit of COD etc.
  5. DK. Cos... well everyone on the team pretty much...
  6. Since watching star ladder, i think Titan are on track. Kenny had some issues last time as he was a very solidarity player, contradicting the team focused style of Titan. Seems like both of them are awping and rifling, each taking turns really, not much of either one really main awping. This titan lineup has not beaten NiP before and with a lack of practice before starladder i guess it understable. Excited to see how things go for Titan. On the other hand NiP are still extremely consistent. Navi was playing out of their minds during Starladder, lets hope they dont become another Mystik or Fnatic and actually be another top level team to contend the top 3 teams. Cant wait for the next major.
  7. So.... Shoxie just left Titan. KennyS is back. Any new favorites now since copenhagen games just ended?
  8. LoL by far is the most popular esport atm even though i may not like it. I think it should be pointed out that this is a poll about what you think its the most popular esport, not the esport that you like.? Personally i enjoy CSGO. Used to be from sc2. But generally i just watch everything to keep up to date with different types of competition.
  9. Just to quip in my input, smite/ LoL/ dota 2 and mobas in general i believe all have their own merits and drawbacks. Smite is quite a new concept that merges different concepts together to make it tons more interesting, dota and LoL while different in their own way are not as uniquely outstanding as to what smite is to those 2 other games. In general i think all form of competitive esports games have their own flair to it, whether be it CSGO to MOBAs to RTS to even games like Fifa. The best thing would be to acknowledge all these games contribute to the greater progress of esports and we should all appreciate the players, casters, etc who are all at the highest level of each of these games.
  10. Hue hue. Some details: From Singapore, unlimited data (no cap), optic fiber connection. Costs me like $70 SGD = $55 USD per month. Also, its a personal connection, not corporate internet. Side note: An ISP in this country started providing 1GB/s for personal fiber connection... so yeah...
  11. Of course you need to spend quite a bit of time! Main websites i use: -csgo reddit -hltv.org -Twitter (follow the prominent people and players, i suggest starting with people like Anders, Semmler, players from your favorite teams, official tournament casters, esports journalists like Thorin) Side note, hltv is probably the most comprehensive website for stats, timings for games etc etc.
  12. Probably a new GPU for my PC. Once i find out why it crashes so randomly.
  13. That sounds interesting, i'll plug it to another wall socket and try it out! Thanks
  14. Hello everyone! Thanks for checking this out, been really frustrated on this issue for months. Alright here is the background, i bought my pc (custom made) last year feb (2013), below stated are the specifications: PROCESSOR: Intel i5-3470 Desktop Processor (3.2GHz, LGA1155, 77W) MOTHERBOARD: ASUS P8Z77-V LX Motherboard RAM: G.Skill RipJaws X 8GB (2X4GB) DDR3-1600 (CL9-9-9-24) 1.5V (Red Colour) CASING: CM Storm Enforcer casing GRAPHICS CARD: MSI R7850 Twin Frozr III 2GD5 OC edition POWER SUPPLY: Seasonic X-SERIES 650W GOLD (80 PLUS GOLD) HARD DISK: WD Caviar Blue 1TB SATA / 64MB Cache (WD10EZEX) OPTICAL DRIVE: Samsung DVD Writer Super WriteMaster 24X SATA (SH-224) SSD: Crucial M4 2.5" 128GB SSD OS: Windows 7 home premium BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 0610, 5/8/2012 So for about 2 months it worked flawlessly. Afterwards, i just kept getting consistent crashes in the form of the screen blanking out. Attached is a picture of what it looks like when it does crash. I sent it back to the person who put together my PC and after stress testing it for about 3 days, nothing came up. It didnt crash on his end. In the end he just cleaned it and gave it back to me, to which my avail, still crashed randomly. Some pointers to note: -It can crash anytime no matter what im doing, but it tends to crash more often when im playing a game or doing something of similar intensity to it. -Most notably, it will crash whenever im running deadspace 3. Thats guarantee, but the length of time varies. (Also to note that I have monitored temperatures on my GPU as i played deadspace 3, dosent go above 60 degrees C but still crashes) -Sometimes upon crashing, i can still talk to friends on Skype even when the screen is completely whited or blacked out -I have received BSODs but only about 3 times in total as from when I first got it till this post -I have 3 screens attached to the card. A 23 inch acer monitor running at 60 hz, a standard Samsung screen 21 inches, and a old dell LCD screen about 19 inches in a 4:3 aspect ratio. I have removed my total number of screens to one and tried running it for a few days, it still crashes randomly -My PC makes quite a loud noise when it crashes, sounded like the fan is going nuts, wasnt able to pin point the source -I used to have a audio mixer attached to my pc, the audio mixer is connected to a XLR mic also and that requires something called phantom power, i found out that the phantom power also "powers" my pc in a way as when i off my PC while the "phantom power" and the mixer is still on some of my low power attached devices (especially my roccat apuri mouse bungie) still lights up dimly, taking it off still caused my PC to crash randomly I currently suspect its my GPU problem whether be it drivers or the physical card itself. I have checked my drivers, updated them as well, not only for my GPU, but generally everything. If anyone could help me out i would be extremely grateful! Seeming that there are tons of really IT savvy people here! Thanks!
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