Following the recent announcement that Call of Duty 4 would be featured in the fourth season of the Benelux ESL Pro Series, today Antwerp Aces revealed their allstar roster for the prestigious online competition.Reunited under the Antwerp Aces tag, albeit temporarily, are former TEK9 players Davy
"Davy" Sysmans, Alexander
"KNALLER" Schulepov and Stevy
"Stevy" Verheyen. Stevy will play for Antwerp Aces in the EPS on loan from fnatic, which will remain his main focus.
The trio will be joined by two of the most promising players from the Belgian scene: Jasko
"cozje" Berbic of corgz and Dimitri
"Delroo" Decan, until recently a part of the promising mainly UK based team NCE.i3D, who split last Sunday.
As you would imagine, with Stevy and cozje still a part of respectively fnatic and corgz, Antwerp Aces will only playing together in the ESL Amateur Series ESL Pro Series. However, in order to qualify for the actual competition, the team will be entering the ESL Amateur Series ladders, which has recently started and includes teams such as TheLastResort, MCA, DOK Gaming and MouseFX.
Davy "Davy" Sysmans
Alexander "KNALLER" Schulepov
Stevy "Stevy" Verheyen
Jasko "cozje" Berbic
Dimitri "Delroo" Decan
Statement Stevy "Stevy" Verheyen: "Thanks to the ESL, and obviously the growth of the Call Of Duty community, COD4 is now part of the Benelux ESL Pro Series. This is obviously a huge step forward for COD4 and the Benelux community. Because I can’t join the action with Fnatic, I rounded up some old friends who want to dedicate themselves to achieve a good result. Our first goal is to qualify for the EPS and then for a place in the finals that will take place at the HME fair in Utrecht, Netherlands. To clarify, I will only play in the ESL for Antwerp Aces on loan and my commitments to FnaticMSI will remain my main focus during this period."
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gl
np !
As already talked about in recent blogs and posts, the cod4 community can only survive if there's enough new blood. New players will only stay active in the cod4 scene if there's something that motivates them to keep going. If they do have the opportunity to actually win something.
One of the things that could help is localisation of competitions like ESL is doing with EPS. Now if all "pro players" are teaming up to compete in these local competitions, what's left for the smaller fish ? There's not much left as the bigger players are everywhere... Ok, maybe EPS BLX is a bad example as it isn't some small league with nothing at stake but I hope you see my point here...
Anyway, still nice to see the activity ins EAS is still increasing and I do wish these guys all the best :)
Make sense next time.
Getting more local leagues will motivate the little guy to keep on playing...even if there aren't any prizes at stake... Don't we all want to keep the community as large as possible? Where would the new blood come from if only the top tier players keep their motivation...
what's the use of that...
No money is fucked..
do you think all the teams would waste their time going to lan's without cash prizes.
See if a lan with friends like 5/10 people it's ok. but this crap...
can't really call that the community imo.
Will prob only attract people low+ who don't even know of the community at all.
We've got those "events" in here allready
But I guess I'm just some low+ player that doesnt have anything to do with this community :)
cbakthx
delro and stevy got it
And what's up with Power Gaming. They have a BLX line up now as well?
GL Mr. Verheyen
pwn em all: D<3
edited 2010-03-18 16:10:24
Just like competition ;)
edited 2010-03-18 15:46:34
is there an & missing or did you combine these 2 different leagues to one as you cannot participate in the amateur series while playing eps afaik
edit: looks like a strong line up on the paper :)
edited 2010-03-18 14:49:48
edited 2010-03-18 15:45:16