Posted by Slasher @ 08:56 CDT, 12 July 2009 - iMsg
On July 4th, freedom arrived in the form of the Worldwide Federation of Gaming, a new organization who's goal is to be the governing body of tournament-style competitive gaming across numerous gaming platforms and genres. Displaying the motto ‘Built for Gamers, Backed by Gamers’, the website launched at www.WWFOG.com and includes the first details of the federation, which has a $10 membership fee that gives access to the forum and federation's professional gamers. The federation has sealed a partnership with Empire Arcadia, a team of gamers based out of New York City which includes CEO Arcadia Isaiah "TriForce" Johnson, Street Fighter legend Justin Wong, and WCG Ultimate Gamer's Robert "Prod1gy X" Paz.
Triforce will be joining this week's show as our special guest to talk about all aspects of the federation. How it works, why it will work, when will it start, how it will make money and be sustainable, how it will compare to other league's, if it will work with other league's, how current gaming teams fit into the mix, and so on. He will also be giving a report on players' Justin Wong and Marn's bootcamp in Japan, where they are practicing nonstop for next week's Evolution event and SBO next month. Former GotFrag editor-in-chief Mark "jESUIT" Cheben will also be calling in to give his thoughts.
- Related to the WWFOG, an anonymous article was written on SK-Gaming regarding the federation. Anonymous posting is lame. We'll talk about the aspects of posting articles, columns and news anonymously, and whether editorial sites should allow such behavior.
- Evolution is a week away and everyone is practicing hardcore for the battle that will commence. Famous Japanese player Daigo has been confirmed for the event, with several other Japanese players pending. Old school, new school, East vs West, USA vs Japan, many story lines to cover.
- ESL and Razer announce a 16-player European Quake Live tournament with several top names including Stermy, Fox, Cypher and av3k. This will be the first major European QL tournament of the year, and will give us a good look at what we can expect at QuakeCon.
- Counter-Strike 1.6 heats up again as GameGune finalizes it's participants list which includes Wicked, Virtus.Pro, Mousesports, emuLate, and ALTERNATE. WCG Sweden will see a battle between fnatic, SK Gaming, Lemondogs and Begrip. We'll give our predictions on the forthcoming events.
- MLG Anaheim reportedly confirmed by the Anaheim Convention Center for November. We'll talk about how this fits into MLG's circuit plans, and speculate on what exactly Sundance is doing in Dallas.
- Grubby wins the GomTV Invitational, his first major victory of the year. Can he continue this going into the next events?
Tune in at 4 PM EST / 22:00 CET at www.DjWheat.Tv for all the action!
- Related to the WWFOG, an anonymous article was written on SK-Gaming regarding the federation. Anonymous posting is lame. We'll talk about the aspects of posting articles, columns and news anonymously, and whether editorial sites should allow such behavior.
Yeah, lets ban those who disagree with this organisation. At least now we know where they stand and what kind of behavior we can expect from them before they even started.
Also, why call it "World wide Federation" when the team consists of 10 Americans? Suppose Americans often have disillusions of grandeur, thinking the world only consists of the US. The World Series anyone?
Obviously you haven't been listening, because myself, wheat, scoots and jesuit have all been calling out the WWFOG for weeks now. Scoots and I had a face to face conversation with WWFOG's CEO at E3 for two hours listening to his ridiculous ideas, and we've been calling him out ever since.
Has nothing to do with SK posting an article without an author. This is more of a discussion regarding the editorial aspects of such decision. Furthermore, the article went off-topic and turned into US vs Europe
Er, I meant, the issue of WWFOG being reputable or not has nothing to do with one of our topic's of discussion being centered around anonymous posting. The anonymous article in question was related to WWFOG, but I've made this a larger issue.
WWFOG will never work, the people behind it doesn't have any experience in esport as far as I know and the whole concept is redicoules. But I will tune in to hear what triforce have to say.
From what I've read about it WWFOG is a fucking joke.
If you wanna start a federation, look at some of the guys who's actually done it. Don't go out on a rampage when you don't have a clue what you're up against.
What's really annoying is this: "Built for Gamers, Backed by Gamers", a phrase that's apparently trademarked.
If you have the need and the money to trademark a slogan you probably have a lot of financial backing. This leaves me to think that someone has an interest to get the invested money back, which is why this "federation" will not act in favor of the players but the investors.
So you will FAIL as a federation. You may succeed as a tournament organizer, and I'll be happy if you do, but leave the federation stuff to the big boys.
The competition in the Japanese arcades is very high. Of course they don't go to a random arcades and find opponents, there are some well known arcade in Tokyo where they can find the best players in Japan.
boot camp 
–noun U.S. Navy, Marines.
a camp for training recruits.
How is that an eSports term? And why WOULDN'T you use it for what Justin and Marn did? They went to Japan, to play better players, in preparation for an event.
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Isaiah "TriForce" Johnson, Street Fighter legend 
Also, why call it "World wide Federation" when the team consists of 10 Americans? Suppose Americans often have disillusions of grandeur, thinking the world only consists of the US. The World Series anyone?