Yo guys, wrote something about what's going on in Australian eSports, if you dig it, chuck it on Twitter and share it around.
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Scenes are disjointed. We've got League of Legends, the largest. StarCraft II is still kicking along, many predicted it's bubble effect but it's definitely staying strong. Call of Duty has a big scene. DotA 2 is building, slowly.
Australia's Counter-Strike scene is probably the oldest but following a short wave of PC-FPS titles, like the two latest Battlefields and Call of Duties, it's a little splintered and tired. Team Fortress 2 has one of the greatest and closest communities going and nobody knows about it. The FGC is growing but this article's relevancy might be outside of their scope but let's assume herein that they're in this with the rest of us.
ACL does a good job of getting everyone together. Bigger, more mainstream gatherings like PAX and EB Expo throw us in with the rest of the gamers to show them what the other side of the controller looks like.
There's lots of us that have knowledge of multiple scenes, but there's plenty who don't. There's even more who have no idea about any of them, which isn't right when you consider how much of the Australian gaming population are involved in some form of competitive scene.
What about outsiders? What about one StarCraft II player who relocated to Australia to start his tertiary education. His arrival was big news and any team he was to play for would be able to ride his wake and market themselves as the team with the real life Korean.
This is very true. I have so much love for petraeus for working so hard and committing to becoming the best. He hasn't seen success locally but when you have to compete with kingkong, iaguz and pig who are all putting so much into improving it makes it really tough. However, he continues to show that he can compete with the best America has to offer on various qualifiers. I think if petraeus really makes a good run at it we could see a lot more players starting to commit. There's a path, something to aim for and proof that it's doable. All of these things can be very encouraging for aspiring players.
Glade, iaguz and pig, are also all doing excellent things and if they can start to make waves internationally it would be awesome too. But for me, petraeus is the one to be watching, for people looking to make it to the biggest stage. Really hope he can do great things.
I reckon all of them will improve pretty radically once more offline tourneys happen for them to participate in, they'll all be legit imo.
We all need to get talking about shit that matters, rather loudly. Talking about this on Twitter is a huge thing, so anyone reading this please chuck us a tweet about this or at the very least follow the people we're talking about, their links are in the article.
I reckon all of them will improve pretty radically once more offline tourneys happen for them to participate in, they'll all be legit imo.
We all need to get talking about shit that matters, rather loudly. Talking about this on Twitter is a huge thing, so anyone reading this please chuck us a tweet about this or at the very least follow the people we're talking about, their links are in the article.
Highly doubt they will radically improve with more tournaments in Australia, I would even go so far as to say the 'improvement' and 'efficiency' of this time is negative practice for improving solely skill level.
Few things why Australian Esports will never take off:
- Poor Internet
- High Minimum Wage
- Surrounded by Ocean
I have so much love for petraeus for working so hard and committing to becoming the best. He hasn't seen success locally but when you have to compete with iaguz it makes it really tough. .
Fixed it for you. Petraeus mostly would only lose to iaguz at big events in Aus. idk how you can say he hasn't seen success locally? Just cause he didn't win an ACL? Currently he's probably the best SEA player by far (in my opinion). And he's making his success overseas now. Beasting all those NA scrubs.
Azz - He wasn't talking about Aus tournaments, you silly buns.
We have a lot of barriers in our way but with the dedication behind our community; The players, the organizers, the managers, the casters we can slowly build to something stronger, get recognized and show the world our stuff!
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Fixed it for you. Petraeus mostly would only lose to iaguz at big events in Aus. idk how you can say he hasn't seen success locally? Just cause he didn't win an ACL? Currently he's probably the best SEA player by far (in my opinion). And he's making his success overseas now. Beasting all those NA scrubs.
I was entirely talking about wcs (where he hasn't been the best sea player) and at acl he's never beaten pig or kingkong so to say he'd only lose to iaguz is obvious because he's the only guy he played.
If we get a fraction of the hype generated by 'The Smash Bros' then we will be doing alright. Smashers were a pretty tight group of retired gamers.. Now Mang0 is on Cloud9, EG has brough Ken and KDJ back, Chillin and HungryBox on Curse..etc.. Smash is back!.. i'd say most of that due to the results from that documentary. So... No pressure Philbert.
I love me some mack but according to new Papa ChadMann Petraeus probably shits solid gold!
This article rings so true. Might have to mention Jared, that guy has pretty much dedicated his entire young adult life to representing Australia - something many of us couldn't do.
Wrong on the CSGO count.
CS was splintered between Sause and 1.6, now the communities have united.
A lot of teams and players have sprung up, a lot of new blood as well as BF3/COD players switching over to CS.
And with actual opportunities to go overseas, motivation in Aus CS is high.
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