Haha. <-

was pretty obvious if you followed the last weeks after ign was purchased. if they had trust in their ipl brand they wouldn't have been so desperate to sell it separately from ign.

esports and missmanagement? say it ain't so

shootmania is saving competitive fps gaming

there's no way we're not getting a strenx/evil final now

(well, you know, unless cooller plays)

or sev3n

https://mega.co.nz/#!ucATEApI!MLQKayLIu7x-YmF...t8ECVtYF7M

ur new account m8?

yeah, was just about to buy pro, when they banned me

thats sad, they should have banned you after showing your moneyz.

i know right? so dumb

esports

Oh no, what a shocking development. Oh ah. Ah. Aaah. UUUUUUUUUUUUUGHNNNNNNNNNHGGSUo;ji
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this not good. was looking forward to watchinf marvel and sfxt on ipl

Oh no! Shootmania and Lol tournaments cancelled! What a sad day for esports.

ignorant fuck

What? Should I mourn them because they had QL before they turned to shit games?

bigger market -> more space for niche titles like quake


every offline tourney thats get cancelled hurts gaming overall, even if its Tetris Worldchampionship LAN in some canadian city

Economically speaking this is 100% accurate.

I happen to like Shootmania!

1a. Announce a fake huge tournament
1b. Shootmania creators will run and beg you to accept million dollars for entering their game into it
1c. Take their money and cancel the stuff
2. ???
3. PROFIT !!!!

ipl fake?? ipl 6 being cancelled has nothing to do with SM

ORLY?

so many sm haters in this thread, blinded by their hatred


dumb fucks dont know it affects quake aswell

Boo-hoo.

lol, raging esr fanboy detected

World doesn't know about Quake. It only would affect Quake if it was not canceled and people thought of all competitive FPS games as of boring Shootmania clones.

bigger market -> more space for niche titles like quake

But there's no game like Quake, so?

it doesnt matter what games are are played...

esports need offline events to get into mainstream... as soon as this happens it wil be easier to get sponsors to host smaller events, with smaller, niche games, eg quake...

why do you care so much? ;]

i have low tolerance to stupidity :<

lol

you have by far the stupidest posts around here, the irony is overwhelming

just because you're not able to understand them, doesnt mean they are stupid.

Do you see any new competitive strategies appearing by Starcarft's side?

i dunno, didnt play any rts games online...

afaik wc3 was quite popular game

Don't know -> don't speak

why did u post in this thread then?

Because I wanted to point out an obvious contradiction to the bullshit you were saying.

1a. Announce a fake huge tournament
1b. Shootmania creators will run and beg you to accept million dollars for entering their game into it
1c. Take their money and cancel the stuff
2. ???
3. PROFIT !!!!

Why did you copy my other post in this conversation?

Don't know -> don't speak

Are you just trolling, or you are truly as hopeless as you seem to be?

i point out bullshit you're saying

How did you determine that it is, in fact, bullshit?

1a. Announce a fake huge tournament

topic name: IPL6 Cancelled

Sometimes you have to fake it almost all the way for people to believe you.

but you are aware that ipl event took place before shootmania?

so shootmania killing esport - prooved

yes, together with SC2

LOL WUT? SC2 is as healthy as ever.

Yes, that's was the main idea to make people believe it's not fake.

ur hilarious :-)

try some standup

Try some basic logic and common sense.

Try some basic logic and common sense.

1a. Announce a fake huge tournament
1b. Shootmania creators will run and beg you to accept million dollars for entering their game into it
1c. Take their money and cancel the stuff
2. ???
3. PROFIT !!!!

ok

Try to get some of YOUR OWN basic logic and common sense, not steal from me.

lol

hitsu 10
p4r4 -2

Great news, less cancer in gaming environment.

What will NVC playing now

nexuiz

Alot of hate indeed. But look on the bright side. Now we only have like 1 half dead FPS game and that is CS:GO. But soon enough we wont have any so you guys dont have to care!
Cant there come a big FPS game soon enough that is arena type..

its like fps needs to be reborn

*looks up to sky dreamily*

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YEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHH

Smaller events and semi-pro is the way esports should be doing biz right now. As a hobby or second income for players. Building from bottom to top etc.

Not all games are doing as bad as quake. Your solution works for quake only, but for the most popular ones the correct approach is to go full retard with millions of dollars in prizes, full-blown offline events every week, tours, etc.

yes, exactly! like the fighting game community kept building itself over the years (and of course helped by the Street Fighter 4 boom)

90% of major events are community driven with no reliance on esports businesses. ironically IPL had recently convinced Capcom to allow them to use their games, while MLG begged them for years to milk their games on the circuit :D gtfo esports bitches! you're failing over and over and running communities into the ground

Hey, It's only been 15 years and something like 5 reboots from scratch, you can't expect people to understand that throwing money at something that has * no goddamn mainstream audience * instead of building up the community doesn't work !

inb4 south korea even though the people bound to say " but but but what about south korea " are the ones who have no idea what the country was like 12 or 13 years ago. A fluke.

and boom
http://www.ign.com/ipl/all/news/shootmania-10...tournament

GL ins!

Some people never learn. Go forth, Quakers, and harvest this wonderful bounty. It may be their last.

Shootmania reborn esports!

ShootMania has seen rampant growth since its open beta began

Yeah like from 50 viewers to 500 tops, 10x growth

HUGE

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