Comment on Gamers have you ever been in a game competition or something similar?
morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Way back in the day, the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) had an amateur league fittingly called the Cyberathelete Amateur League (CAL), we had a small team for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars that we competed in, didn’t do stellar but it was a blast, met people from other teams we’d often practice with or just do pub games. It was total beer league type stuff, if you can find a group like that imo it’s worth it.
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 1 week ago
CAL got somewhat serious at the very top and was basically the precursor to MLG. CAL open was very hit or miss, but at least in CS it got quite serious pretty quickly. Those top players were some of the first ever to get paid semi consistent and were the best in the world at the time.
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
I played some tourneys through CAL in counterstrike a long time ago and there was some tough competition on the amateur side. The pros were on another level from most amateur teams but a few of the amateur teams could still give them some competition.