Wow, still remember when I first heard the news that 4kings disbanded due to money problems. WC3 never felt the same when that team broke up. Still a huge fan of th000 however!

darkyaourt

France28 Posts

August 01 2011 06:42 GMT

#142

That was a very interesting read. Thank you !

Spacekyod

United States818 Posts

August 01 2011 06:58 GMT

#143

Wow, quite the write up.

NaVi for best CS team EVER!! (even Element agrees) Those guys are ridiculous to watch. If it weren't for my steam account getting hacked i'd still be playing cs today.

KingFool

Canada428 Posts

August 01 2011 07:07 GMT

#144

Nice overview, I learned a lot

frequency

Australia1901 Posts

August 01 2011 07:11 GMT

#145

The best part is that this is seriously a fraction of everything.

It could be like 20 times longer to go into detail of everything, I'd love to see it.

JerKy

Korea (South)3013 Posts

August 01 2011 07:11 GMT

#146

Freaking amazing write up/timeline
Thanks so much
Really helps out for someone like me who was a kid when this all happened

Goibon

New Zealand8185 Posts

August 01 2011 07:22 GMT

#147

Awesome stuff, i did skip a fair bit of the non-RTS stuff. I'm sure its relevant, but i don't really care about FPS and fighters (i do love my fighters though, just not as an esport).

The financial aspect is quite staggering. I'm pretty confident that people today are smarter than they were then with respect to the potential of a current #ESPORTS bubble.

What scared me the most was the Orc / NE map stat adjustments. I hope to God that's not possible in SC2.

Novalisk

Israel1818 Posts

August 01 2011 07:35 GMT

#148

Missing the part where GOM first started doing professional english casting for Korean BW(starring Tasteless), which paved its way to the GSL a couple years later.

Clearout

Norway1060 Posts

August 01 2011 08:01 GMT

#149

Thanks for the writeup, really interesting to read for me who haven't really been 'aware' of esports until the last few years~

BlueFlames

Germany1756 Posts

August 01 2011 08:16 GMT

#150

Really nice writeup. I never followed the shooter genre too closely, so it was really informative. Well i knew NiP, SK and NaVi but thats about it, oh and Fatality ^^

RaiKageRyu

Canada4773 Posts

August 01 2011 08:18 GMT

#151

Very educational.

Dezire

Netherlands640 Posts

August 01 2011 08:19 GMT

#152

On August 01 2011 09:41 FishStix wrote:
Oh also, nothing about W:ET or RtCW? Team-based FPSs had a hayday... (more than just CS and Quake)

wow someone who knows about those games :D

Madera

Sweden2672 Posts

August 01 2011 08:22 GMT

#153

Some really interesting stuff, good job!

Tobberoth

Sweden6375 Posts

August 01 2011 08:26 GMT

#154

Amazing post. While I have had some interest in Esports for a very long time (Everyone who played games at all in Sweden knew about SK.swe at the time. HeatoN and Potti ftw.), it was great to find out about when WCG started etc.

Lambertus

South Africa977 Posts

August 01 2011 08:28 GMT

#155

Nice Post, thx a lot!

eXoGhost

Australia98 Posts

August 01 2011 08:28 GMT

#156

eSports is such a ghey term. theyre not sports they are games, players are not athletes they are gamers. hate the term esports, way too much credit going to undeserving nerdz!!

edit: not srs

Aphasie

Norway474 Posts

August 01 2011 08:29 GMT

#157

Good read. I had totally forgotten about WEG, among other things.

imJealous

United States1382 Posts

August 01 2011 09:01 GMT

#158

awesome read! thank you!

Valckrie

United Kingdom533 Posts

August 01 2011 09:10 GMT

#159

Great read, thanks for the write up!

djWHEAT

United States925 Posts

August 01 2011 09:27 GMT

#160

This is great. I would love to work with the OP to add some awesome detail to this.

It's a great start but even as I read it I realise so much is missing (not necessarily absolute have to have facts, but interesting things fans would lobe to know!!)