Allow the news team to cover E-Sports

[Maisteri]

eSports is currently huge. Recent Dota 2 tournament called The International gained over 1 million concurrent online viewers[1] and had a prize pool of $2,874,380 USD.[2] Starcraft 2 World Champion Ship series had an average of 68752 viewers over 3 days and peaked at 116,796 viewers on the final day.[3] League of Legends Season 2 Grandfinals pulled in 8000 people to the venue itself and over 8 million people tuned in through twitch or television (Korea & China).[4]

It's clear that people are interested in eSports. So why not allow your news team to write news about upcoming events and results after the event has ended?

Sources:

[1] The International hits 1 million concurrent viewers - GameSpot.com

[2] The International - Dota 2 Championships

[3] World Championship Series • Fuzic StarCraft 2 Stream Stats

[4] League of Legends World Championship Draws Over 8 Million Viewers

[Fisher]

I completely agree with that. Maybe even more games, other platforms, when there's something interesting.

[Dante]

There are already lots of websites where you can read news about esports
The news released in the news section is also most of the time related to the exploiting scene which is what this site is all about while esports is not related to this site at all

[Fisher]

There are already lots of websites where you can read news about esports
The news released in the news section is also most of the time related to the exploiting scene which is what this site is all about while esports is not related to this site at all

That's true, however, no matter what subject our news team may pick, the view on it will be unique, because of the people our community gathers. So I'm going to go on a wild guess here and say news team wouldn't cover TI3 completely "dry" just by throwing facts, but adding a unique angle to it.

[Maisteri]

There are already lots of websites where you can read news about esports

There are also plenty of websites where you can read news about MMO's.

The news released in the news section is also most of the time related to the exploiting scene which is what this site is all about while esports is not related to this site at all

World of Warcraft: The Dark Below - Valid leak, or not?

WildStar business model revealed

Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls!

Pledge To Shroud of the Avatar To Gain Rewards and a Unique OC Recruit Emote

That's the front page currently. None of those are about exploiting and the only recent news post that I found related to exploiting was the interview of the Honorbuddy CEO.

[CreativeXtent]

Please do this, i love this!

[Dante]

There are also plenty of websites where you can read news about MMO's.



World of Warcraft: The Dark Below - Valid leak, or not?

WildStar business model revealed

Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls!

Pledge To Shroud of the Avatar To Gain Rewards and a Unique OC Recruit Emote

That's the front page currently. None of those are about exploiting and the only recent news post that I found related to exploiting was the interview of the Honorbuddy CEO.

World of Warcraft: The Dark Below. - "blizzard leak" and is huge news to WoW which this site is mainly about

WildStar business model revealed - Alright, not "exploiting related" but people who bot and sell gold and so on are probably interested in knowing how the business model will look.

Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls! - new xpac = Botters might start botting again since many people will probably return to d3 making it worth the effort

Pledge To Shroud of the Avatar To Gain Rewards and a Unique OC Recruit Emote - Alright this is not really related to the site but Ket seems to love this game and he owns the site :3

Let's see, "GuardiaN in TTT for ESWC qualifier" 0 interest, doens't even have a slight relation to ownedcore

[KuRIoS]

they can cover it perfectly fine, it just wont be posted on frontpage.