Swedish eSports League Reforms

Posted by Myers at 08:15 10/9/2004.

Official leagues are a funny thing aren't they? If you call a cup The Official Hexer Cup the top teams will avoid it like the plague, but if you call it The Hexer PCW Cup many of the top teams will compete. Such is fears for reputation and giving away tactics today. The Swedish eSports League has been confronted with similar problems with many top teams chosing not to compete, despite the cash prizes, as not to give away their tactics. As a result SEL have reformed the structure of their league leaning more towards events than a consistant league.

For now one and a half years SEL has been played in a full league format, with gaming centres as match arenas in the elite division and online for the Division one.
E-Sports have during the same period more and more developed towards bigger international events. The teams train intensively for all bigger tournaments and keep their strategies under tight wraps. In their event preparations the Swedish teams continuously keeps swapping players in a too rapid pace to keep the stability that is necessary for the development of a league with as high set standards as SEL.
SEL has therefore decided to reform the league from the next season onwards. From then on SEL will take on the same event format as other bigger events like the WCG and CPL. Through this SEL will give the Swedish top teams the possibility to compete in the internationally most dominant event format together with making it possible for lesser known teams to qualify into the SEL Events and making a name for themselves, which today is not possible through the league format.
The structure for the “new SEL” will look like following:
Big online qualifiers will be played prior to each event.
The finals will be played at LAN for 16 to 32 teams
Each finals will have the total price sum of 100 000 SEK (aprox $13 200)
The top placed teams in each event will be directly qualified to the next LAN event without having to go through the qualifiers.
The first events qualifiers will start in the beginning of October. The Qualifiers will be arranged at the Fragbite gaming arena, which makes it possible for a vast number of teams to be able to compete. The final event is planned to be held mid November.

Lets hope that this switch is the right move, for a league, which during its prime, pioneered competitive online gaming. Read the full statement.

Comments

	fezemoN 09:12 10/9/2004	shame UK doesnt have more stuff like this :S [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DoZ Anti-saviour of UKT 09:23 10/9/2004	We need a lan centre setup designed for gaming and we'd be a good way there. 60+ machine setup in rows of 5 to enable plenty of games to go on at once and room for people to hang around at when not playing. Without a GREAT environment there'll never be GREAT tournaments [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Sincy 09:33 10/9/2004	babba booey babba booey [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Myers Saviour of UKT UKTerrorist 09:39 10/9/2004	that's deep Doz, without sacrifice there can be no gain. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	kiliki 09:53 10/9/2004	If I ever win the lottery I will setup the best LAN centre in the country :P [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DoZ Anti-saviour of UKT 10:52 10/9/2004	Yeah I figured I'd do that too kiliki, depending on how much I won of course. And it'd be in Nottingham! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	M4ce intensiveSports 11:38 10/9/2004	yea this country blatantly needs not just 1 but a few big LAN centres, so we can increase the overall competitiveness of CS & at the same time get rid of the 'online wannabe 14 yr old bs' we all know is rife with configers, cheats, general bad attitude, which taints the reputation of UK CS /$0.02 [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	m0rphy 13:11 10/9/2004	Money, money, money. Lan center = risky, often non-profitable and expensive. Most cs players = students. Students have enough trouble as it is paying their uni/college expenses without having to goto some run down hole and pay to play games with fat sweaty geeks. Most gamers have good connections nowadays from home anyway paying an affordable fixed monthly rate. Why travel 10+ miles to sleep with Phil Neville when you have a spread eagle'd Carmen Electra sitting at home? Until a company or person comes up with a revolutionary idea to revatlise the lan cafe market, there is no hope for any kind of center being built any time soon [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DoZ Anti-saviour of UKT 13:26 10/9/2004	Aye, they work fine in Sweden it seems, but not here. If someone had a hundred grand to set it up and then just had to cover the running costs, set in a decent city, it could work. They need to offer something that people can't get at home, be that early release games, constantly high quality connection, decent atmosphere, decent setup; all at an affordable price. Who's been to Sweden and wants to let us know how they manage it? ;-) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	tanjo 13:48 10/9/2004	Paul Weller does. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	rd theb0g 14:37 10/9/2004	i went to sweden to bootcamp for a week by myself 2 try and get good! didnt work :( [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Mupp 14:58 10/9/2004	lmao [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Xse 15:26 10/9/2004	hmmmm well maybe lans shud be more spread out for example most lans in the uk take place somwhere around england maybe if they were spread out more accross the uk more people would attend and lans would make more money meaning more interested in opening more lan centers as it would be more profitable. i don't think that makes sense :( [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	MaCcA^ 16:01 10/9/2004	Market a lan centre right and show that anyone can use it, not just teenage boys and you can make good amounts of money... What people in the UK usually do is throw up a lan centre with budget computers in it and bad setups and throw an XBox in the corner and make its atmosphere low, dingy lights and warcraft 3 posters up on the wall. One example method to earn more cash would be to sell computer games and offer a trial on the game they desire to buy so they can test it out on a computer/console for a small price (something along the lines of £2 for an hour testing). Then you could market your "tournaments" seperately, i belive unicon have been pretty sucessful with this one :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	pie Black Death Warriors 16:04 10/9/2004	Even if someone in the UK was going to build a 'great' LAN centre, it couldn't be Mr. Regular. Need someone with experience in managing LAN centers, like those mentioned in Sweden. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Jazzy Jebus Rage 16:22 10/9/2004	i doubt u could make a huge LAN centre for just one thing and expect to make profit, inbetween tournaments itd have to make its money elsewhere, as i doubt it could make enough through the odd person who comes in the meantime, without over charging. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DoZ Anti-saviour of UKT 16:23 10/9/2004	Yeah, so just wait till Saturday when I've won the lottery, 5.2 million or whatever would be enough to set it up and run it ;-) And yeah, the quality of machines and the general environment are big let downs for UK lan centres. Should be done properly or not at all imo ;-) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	dL Atari.Crew 16:50 10/9/2004	fezemoN 09:12 10/9/2004 shame UK doesnt have more stuff like this :S [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	dL Atari.Crew 16:51 10/9/2004	I forgot to actually say anything, n1. shame the UK doesn't have anything* [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	alkor 18:23 10/9/2004	Most cs players = students. Students have enough trouble as it is paying their uni/college expenses without having to goto some run down hole and pay to play games with fat sweaty geeks. ^^ ROFL As if you can talk you have been to more lans than most ppl on these boards. Also you were in the geekiest team in the uk 4kings.... Its a good point but your really not the person to say it :] split between 5 that money isnt going to last much more than a month in the real world.. If your into expensive tastes that money would not last more than a week ;p A good idea maybe but who cares about the swedish... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DoZ Anti-saviour of UKT 18:30 10/9/2004	He's never been to lan!EVER! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	alkor 18:34 10/9/2004	how can u get into no1 team in uk without lanning =/ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DoZ Anti-saviour of UKT 18:39 10/9/2004	Paying your way in [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	alkor 18:48 10/9/2004	oh yea million pound contracts i keep forgetting cs is football. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	tanjo 20:04 10/9/2004	He just approached mangiacapra and made him a financial offer he couldn't refuse. The words "Frey bentos" and "lifetime supply" were highlighted on the contract. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	dL Atari.Crew 20:06 10/9/2004	hardly the most intrigueing 'financial offer' [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	commentmaster 21:01 10/9/2004	immense [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Bard- 21:20 10/9/2004	Theres loads of CS players/teams localised around Stockholm. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	alkor 23:33 10/9/2004	lol tanjo :D [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Wood 23:42 10/9/2004	moo [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Undone^ ForsakeN 00:30 11/9/2004	thats the main thing Bard, in the uk people are everywhere! So many cs peeps living in stockholm - only way something like inferno online cafe will work. A saturation of competitive gamers is the key. As morph said, no ones gonna travel 10+ miles for anything they can get so cheaply at home - its just not logical ;]] [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Moriarty\| 01:10 11/9/2004	DoZ, Nottingham eh, dont they have combat strike :P [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Grunt 01:40 11/9/2004	yes but its w**k and vastly over priced [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DoZ Anti-saviour of UKT 08:37 11/9/2004	Exactly, and before that it had lan arena which while nice, had a pretty poor pc layout and was set in megabowl so it wasn't suited to tournaments [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	alkor 15:02 11/9/2004	Lan arena could be used for a 5v5 as they had that short row of 5/6 pc's in the middle and 5/6 more facing oposite and they held one lan there afaik in 2001 that i know of which was my one and only lan... combat strike is just crap to small 15 inch ghosty tft's and could not fit more than 20 ppl in. Nottingham is a good location for a decent lan though as its in the middle of everywhere and not hard to find :P [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DoZ Anti-saviour of UKT 15:27 11/9/2004	lan arena held a few lans that I went to with duck! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	dL Atari.Crew 16:38 11/9/2004	all the gaming community move to ireland? :> [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	m0rphy 17:59 11/9/2004	alkor = fat and sweaty? I was the geekiest in 4kings uk? lol excellent Fact is, if people like you would commit suicide more often, the world would probably a much better place. We'd have masses of lan centers, pollution would drop and you'd be dead. Doesn't get any better than that... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Roar^ 18:14 11/9/2004	If you read his post correctly it said you were in the geekiest clan in the uk, not you were the geekiest in it. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	alkor 20:07 11/9/2004	yes Roar^ is right. learn how to read you inbred retard :] [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	siLki 20:46 11/9/2004	i hate you alkor [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	alkor 21:19 11/9/2004	you dont know me =/ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	tiz 22:15 11/9/2004	Bitterness is sweet. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]

	fezemoN 09:12 10/9/2004	shame UK doesnt have more stuff like this :S [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DoZ Anti-saviour of UKT 09:23 10/9/2004	We need a lan centre setup designed for gaming and we'd be a good way there. 60+ machine setup in rows of 5 to enable plenty of games to go on at once and room for people to hang around at when not playing. Without a GREAT environment there'll never be GREAT tournaments [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Sincy 09:33 10/9/2004	babba booey babba booey [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Myers Saviour of UKT UKTerrorist 09:39 10/9/2004	that's deep Doz, without sacrifice there can be no gain. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	kiliki 09:53 10/9/2004	If I ever win the lottery I will setup the best LAN centre in the country :P [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DoZ Anti-saviour of UKT 10:52 10/9/2004	Yeah I figured I'd do that too kiliki, depending on how much I won of course. And it'd be in Nottingham! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	M4ce intensiveSports 11:38 10/9/2004	yea this country blatantly needs not just 1 but a few big LAN centres, so we can increase the overall competitiveness of CS & at the same time get rid of the 'online wannabe 14 yr old bs' we all know is rife with configers, cheats, general bad attitude, which taints the reputation of UK CS /$0.02 [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	m0rphy 13:11 10/9/2004	Money, money, money. Lan center = risky, often non-profitable and expensive. Most cs players = students. Students have enough trouble as it is paying their uni/college expenses without having to goto some run down hole and pay to play games with fat sweaty geeks. Most gamers have good connections nowadays from home anyway paying an affordable fixed monthly rate. Why travel 10+ miles to sleep with Phil Neville when you have a spread eagle'd Carmen Electra sitting at home? Until a company or person comes up with a revolutionary idea to revatlise the lan cafe market, there is no hope for any kind of center being built any time soon [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DoZ Anti-saviour of UKT 13:26 10/9/2004	Aye, they work fine in Sweden it seems, but not here. If someone had a hundred grand to set it up and then just had to cover the running costs, set in a decent city, it could work. They need to offer something that people can't get at home, be that early release games, constantly high quality connection, decent atmosphere, decent setup; all at an affordable price. Who's been to Sweden and wants to let us know how they manage it? ;-) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	tanjo 13:48 10/9/2004	Paul Weller does. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	rd theb0g 14:37 10/9/2004	i went to sweden to bootcamp for a week by myself 2 try and get good! didnt work :( [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Mupp 14:58 10/9/2004	lmao [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Xse 15:26 10/9/2004	hmmmm well maybe lans shud be more spread out for example most lans in the uk take place somwhere around england maybe if they were spread out more accross the uk more people would attend and lans would make more money meaning more interested in opening more lan centers as it would be more profitable. i don't think that makes sense :( [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	MaCcA^ 16:01 10/9/2004	Market a lan centre right and show that anyone can use it, not just teenage boys and you can make good amounts of money... What people in the UK usually do is throw up a lan centre with budget computers in it and bad setups and throw an XBox in the corner and make its atmosphere low, dingy lights and warcraft 3 posters up on the wall. One example method to earn more cash would be to sell computer games and offer a trial on the game they desire to buy so they can test it out on a computer/console for a small price (something along the lines of £2 for an hour testing). Then you could market your "tournaments" seperately, i belive unicon have been pretty sucessful with this one :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	pie Black Death Warriors 16:04 10/9/2004	Even if someone in the UK was going to build a 'great' LAN centre, it couldn't be Mr. Regular. Need someone with experience in managing LAN centers, like those mentioned in Sweden. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Jazzy Jebus Rage 16:22 10/9/2004	i doubt u could make a huge LAN centre for just one thing and expect to make profit, inbetween tournaments itd have to make its money elsewhere, as i doubt it could make enough through the odd person who comes in the meantime, without over charging. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DoZ Anti-saviour of UKT 16:23 10/9/2004	Yeah, so just wait till Saturday when I've won the lottery, 5.2 million or whatever would be enough to set it up and run it ;-) And yeah, the quality of machines and the general environment are big let downs for UK lan centres. Should be done properly or not at all imo ;-) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	dL Atari.Crew 16:50 10/9/2004	fezemoN 09:12 10/9/2004 shame UK doesnt have more stuff like this :S [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	dL Atari.Crew 16:51 10/9/2004	I forgot to actually say anything, n1. shame the UK doesn't have anything* [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	alkor 18:23 10/9/2004	Most cs players = students. Students have enough trouble as it is paying their uni/college expenses without having to goto some run down hole and pay to play games with fat sweaty geeks. ^^ ROFL As if you can talk you have been to more lans than most ppl on these boards. Also you were in the geekiest team in the uk 4kings.... Its a good point but your really not the person to say it :] split between 5 that money isnt going to last much more than a month in the real world.. If your into expensive tastes that money would not last more than a week ;p A good idea maybe but who cares about the swedish... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DoZ Anti-saviour of UKT 18:30 10/9/2004	He's never been to lan!EVER! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	alkor 18:34 10/9/2004	how can u get into no1 team in uk without lanning =/ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DoZ Anti-saviour of UKT 18:39 10/9/2004	Paying your way in [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	alkor 18:48 10/9/2004	oh yea million pound contracts i keep forgetting cs is football. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	tanjo 20:04 10/9/2004	He just approached mangiacapra and made him a financial offer he couldn't refuse. The words "Frey bentos" and "lifetime supply" were highlighted on the contract. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	dL Atari.Crew 20:06 10/9/2004	hardly the most intrigueing 'financial offer' [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	commentmaster 21:01 10/9/2004	immense [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Bard- 21:20 10/9/2004	Theres loads of CS players/teams localised around Stockholm. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	alkor 23:33 10/9/2004	lol tanjo :D [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Wood 23:42 10/9/2004	moo [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Undone^ ForsakeN 00:30 11/9/2004	thats the main thing Bard, in the uk people are everywhere! So many cs peeps living in stockholm - only way something like inferno online cafe will work. A saturation of competitive gamers is the key. As morph said, no ones gonna travel 10+ miles for anything they can get so cheaply at home - its just not logical ;]] [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Moriarty\| 01:10 11/9/2004	DoZ, Nottingham eh, dont they have combat strike :P [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Grunt 01:40 11/9/2004	yes but its w**k and vastly over priced [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DoZ Anti-saviour of UKT 08:37 11/9/2004	Exactly, and before that it had lan arena which while nice, had a pretty poor pc layout and was set in megabowl so it wasn't suited to tournaments [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	alkor 15:02 11/9/2004	Lan arena could be used for a 5v5 as they had that short row of 5/6 pc's in the middle and 5/6 more facing oposite and they held one lan there afaik in 2001 that i know of which was my one and only lan... combat strike is just crap to small 15 inch ghosty tft's and could not fit more than 20 ppl in. Nottingham is a good location for a decent lan though as its in the middle of everywhere and not hard to find :P [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DoZ Anti-saviour of UKT 15:27 11/9/2004	lan arena held a few lans that I went to with duck! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	dL Atari.Crew 16:38 11/9/2004	all the gaming community move to ireland? :> [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	m0rphy 17:59 11/9/2004	alkor = fat and sweaty? I was the geekiest in 4kings uk? lol excellent Fact is, if people like you would commit suicide more often, the world would probably a much better place. We'd have masses of lan centers, pollution would drop and you'd be dead. Doesn't get any better than that... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Roar^ 18:14 11/9/2004	If you read his post correctly it said you were in the geekiest clan in the uk, not you were the geekiest in it. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	alkor 20:07 11/9/2004	yes Roar^ is right. learn how to read you inbred retard :] [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	siLki 20:46 11/9/2004	i hate you alkor [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	alkor 21:19 11/9/2004	you dont know me =/ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	tiz 22:15 11/9/2004	Bitterness is sweet. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]

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