Anyone play competitively?

M1kkelZR

M1kkelZR

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so a few friends of mine play COD 4 competitively, so they get money and sponsors. im jeaolus of one as he has a €80 mouse from his sponsor, he got the Roccat Kone[+] Max Customization Gaming Mouse 6000DPI...

anyway im just eager to know if anyone here plays or used to play any game in a competitive manner.
 
I Used to with COD4 a /long/ time ago. I won gift cards and t shirts and the like. Nothing worth any real value though. Would not recommend it as a career :P.
 
nah i wouldnt either, i dont see why exactly they always play for cash and what not. they have too much free time xd
 
I did a long time ago, with Halo 2. Kept on in halo 3, then i just kinda stopped. It was fun while it lasted, but at some point I just felt like it wasn't fun to play the game anymore, it was a job/chore.
 
I play competitively on CoD4 now, however we don't play for money, it is purely a fun and pride thing. I have been in leagues where we do play for money and I like it more, but also less. Having a prize at the end adds to the excitement, but people tend to be bigger dicks about everything when there is money involved.

Raz3rD said:
nah i wouldnt either, i dont see why exactly they always play for cash and what not. they have too much free time xd
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Sponsors pay to have their name on there, competitors pay an entry fee which goes to a pool. Those together pay for the prizes, the same as any other sporting competition, and you don't say a footballer for instance has too much free time ;)

Some of these gamers make very lucrative careers from playing games.
 
Aastii said:
I play competitively on CoD4 now, however we don't play for money, it is purely a fun and pride thing. I have been in leagues where we do play for money and I like it more, but also less. Having a prize at the end adds to the excitement, but people tend to be bigger dicks about everything when there is money involved.



Sponsors pay to have their name on there, competitors pay an entry fee which goes to a pool. Those together pay for the prizes, the same as any other sporting competition, and you don't say a footballer for instance has too much free time ;)

Some of these gamers make very lucrative careers from playing games.
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very true, i am starting to compete with friends on COD4 and applying for teams. but when i think about the sheer time i need to put in, and manage work and college. its hard enough as it is and then an extra thing on top? i would be burnt out by the end of the school year. but of course it wont be easy, as i used to play strategy games as a competing thing. so my approach on COD4 is not the best. i plan too far ahead. i like stealth not guns blazing all the time.
 
Raz3rD said:
very true, i am starting to compete with friends on COD4 and applying for teams. but when i think about the sheer time i need to put in, and manage work and college. its hard enough as it is and then an extra thing on top? i would be burnt out by the end of the school year. but of course it wont be easy, as i used to play strategy games as a competing thing. so my approach on COD4 is not the best. i plan too far ahead. i like stealth not guns blazing all the time.
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I manage to hold up an 8 hour +4 hour travel a day, 5 days a week + weekends job and still run the clan. Running the website, all of our servers, speaking to the league admins, other clans, it is a lot of work but spread out. Honestly once it is set up, there is relatively little to do besides speak to people and play the game.

We play custom maps, submitted by the teams. The next season starts in just over a week and it is all just waiting now, a couple of weeks back was the hardest part finding the maps, but after this it is just a matter of 2 days a week practice (~2-4 hours for planned training + ~2-3 hours from myself and a couple others covering and learning the maps to quick teach the others before practice) + 1 day a week match. We do have friendlies in between, but just over an hour a day average isn't a whole lot.

As I say, getting it set up is the hardest part. When we changed server hosts and created the new website it was a couple of weeks of minimum a few hours a day working on it, but then now, it isn't that much to keep it going.

I'm looking at setting up streaming in the near future which, with a lack of decent full-screen capture programs, will mean a lot of hunting around and fiddling. Again, it is a new thing and therefore a large timesink, but once set up, just a matter of open the program and start playing
 
oh thats actually quite cool. wish i was in your position :p
i barely get positive scores on hardcore mode so promod is difficult enough.
but as a general "sharkbait" as we could call it, im the best lol.
 
Promod is an awful mod.

We play PAM Mod with custom ruleset, which is good except for the snipers because the hit markers are slightly off, however there are relatively few maps where a sniper is advantageous compared to a G3.

And playing S&D, kill/death really doesn't matter. Depending on the map, we have people that will sit back and watch because you can tell in the first few seconds the tactics they are using because you can see where they go, or someone who will sit on a back alley to prevent flanking which, though you won't come top on kills, you are protecting a bomb or the person that is covering a key position, or at least giving them warning.

It will of course differ from league to league as some will be all guns blazing, but ours is very much a "tactics" league, meaning unless the map allows for rushing, it won't happen. We have had maps (14 rounds total) go on for ~15 minutes before because of the nature of the map, whereas usually it is minimum 30-45 mins.


You will also find that some maps are heavily biased to attack or defense, so after the first half you may be 6-1 or 5-2 down, but that is a very good score if you know how to use the other half to your advantage.

The way the league works has changed from last season, but how it was would be you would have 2 maps, 1 map for each half of the season, play every team in your division twice. One of our maps, we would always get all 7 rounds on defending, so once we had that one round on attack, we knew we were safe. We would often go into the second half of the map 6-1 down, but come out winning 8-6.

So in short, score doesn't count, it is like a goalkeeper being pissed that they don't have a load of goals, what they do for the team is still very valuable.



Have a poor quality video from the European cup. This was a couple of weeks back, rather than being with my clan, it was people from all different clans playing for their country. I had, the game before that one, played against someone else from my clan. That video was one of 3 rounds that I did well in. We didn't pick the maps, they were set for everyone. I personally wouldn't touch MW2 maps with a barge pole, however I don't Skidrow, the map played there, I don't mind al that much.

I do have demos from actual league games, but don't have fraps installed nor the hard drive space to record, convert and upload them. There is no TeamSpeak chatter there either
 
I should have back when CoD4 was big. I was seriously at the point on PC where I could kill anyone anywhere from any point on the map as long as you could possibly hit them. Like 100+:1 kill:death ratios constantly.

Then again the only reason I could is because my back was messed up and I was stuck in bed playing 30-40 hour marathons because I couldn't sleep from pain lol
 
Aastii said:
Promod is an awful mod.

We play PAM Mod with custom ruleset, which is good except for the snipers because the hit markers are slightly off, however there are relatively few maps where a sniper is advantageous compared to a G3.

And playing S&D, kill/death really doesn't matter. Depending on the map, we have people that will sit back and watch because you can tell in the first few seconds the tactics they are using because you can see where they go, or someone who will sit on a back alley to prevent flanking which, though you won't come top on kills, you are protecting a bomb or the person that is covering a key position, or at least giving them warning.

It will of course differ from league to league as some will be all guns blazing, but ours is very much a "tactics" league, meaning unless the map allows for rushing, it won't happen. We have had maps (14 rounds total) go on for ~15 minutes before because of the nature of the map, whereas usually it is minimum 30-45 mins.


You will also find that some maps are heavily biased to attack or defense, so after the first half you may be 6-1 or 5-2 down, but that is a very good score if you know how to use the other half to your advantage.

The way the league works has changed from last season, but how it was would be you would have 2 maps, 1 map for each half of the season, play every team in your division twice. One of our maps, we would always get all 7 rounds on defending, so once we had that one round on attack, we knew we were safe. We would often go into the second half of the map 6-1 down, but come out winning 8-6.

So in short, score doesn't count, it is like a goalkeeper being pissed that they don't have a load of goals, what they do for the team is still very valuable.



Have a poor quality video from the European cup. This was a couple of weeks back, rather than being with my clan, it was people from all different clans playing for their country. I had, the game before that one, played against someone else from my clan. That video was one of 3 rounds that I did well in. We didn't pick the maps, they were set for everyone. I personally wouldn't touch MW2 maps with a barge pole, however I don't Skidrow, the map played there, I don't mind al that much.

I do have demos from actual league games, but don't have fraps installed nor the hard drive space to record, convert and upload them. There is no TeamSpeak chatter there either
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hmmm tactical team you have you say? i like that lol. i really wish i could be in your team/clan lol. if you want to check some of my scores on TD hardcore mode just check my xfire not the best but i just sort of started out for COD4, usually play casually but getting more competitive by the day
 
Raz3rD said:
hmmm tactical team you have you say? i like that lol. i really wish i could be in your team/clan lol. if you want to check some of my scores on TD hardcore mode just check my xfire not the best but i just sort of started out for COD4, usually play casually but getting more competitive by the day
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I'll add you on Xfire, you can come jump in with us in a friendly scrim some time if you want. They tend to be more of a laugh than the league games because there isn't anything riding on it so we tend to have a mess about more. Normally in TS there is silence unless you have spotted someone, are warning someone you are there or between rounds talking tactics, what went wrong, what went right etc

@motorcharge It is different when you are with people of equal skill. Having the challenge there is a hell of a lot of fun compared to public games where I, like you, will top the tables 9 times out of 10. It is still fun and worthwhile to stay at that level, but not as much fun as being in game with other clans or in matches
 
Aastii said:
I'll add you on Xfire, you can come jump in with us in a friendly scrim some time if you want. They tend to be more of a laugh than the league games because there isn't anything riding on it so we tend to have a mess about more. Normally in TS there is silence unless you have spotted someone, are warning someone you are there or between rounds talking tactics, what went wrong, what went right etc
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ok cool hope to see you online sometime, see if i got enough skill to actually play normally :P
 
Aastii said:
@motorcharge It is different when you are with people of equal skill. Having the challenge there is a hell of a lot of fun compared to public games where I, like you, will top the tables 9 times out of 10. It is still fun and worthwhile to stay at that level, but not as much fun as being in game with other clans or in matches
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I was in 2 clans playing organized games in one of them for a while. It wasn't as huge a gap, but I was still doing far better than anyone else. Everyone eventually quit for WaW or MW2 though sadly, it was funner.

But I mean I literally couldn't sleep, I'd sleep like 12 hours or so total in a week. The entire other time I'd be playing CoD because I had nothing else to do.
 
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