Ninjas in Pyjamas, fnatic, MeetYourMakers, mouz, mTw.ATI, AoD, 4Kings, Play.it, SK-Gaming. What do they have in common? These teams have been invited to a new clanleague called NGL One. 16,000$ is at stake.
Netzstatt Gaming League is a new clanleague created by the European electronic sports company Freaks 4U, along with the leading movie theater company Cinestar in Germany. NGL One, as the league will be called, is a caretion with hope of making eSports more professional, but also more appealing to the fans. How do they do this? You have probably already figured it out - showing the games in cinemas.
- We try to give the spectators feeling of going into a stadium, like you know from Soccer, says Jens Enders, Freaks 4U's Managing Director to SK-Gaming. This is truly a step in the right way for a more professional eSport, with matches being showed at the movies. Hopefully all will go well, and not only Counter-Strike matches will be shown.
NGL One WC3 teams Ninjas in Pyjamas fnatic meetYourmakers Mouz mTw.ATI AoD 4Kings Play.it SK-Gaming SK Germany |
Offline finals in August
The league will kick off at 15th of May, and will have just as the WC3L had matchdays where the teams agree who to play with. After the nine playdays, the top teams (how many is not announced yet) will go to the Games Convention 2006, held in Leipzig, Germany the 23rd of August and battle it out offline there. The prize pool is approximately 16,00$ where the winning team gets 10,000, scond place goes for 4,000 and the third place will get 2,000.
GosuGamers will give you as good coverage we can. Matches will be streamed via WaaaghTV!, and for the lucky ones that live in Germany they will be able to view some of the matches at the movie theaters.
Links
NGL-Germany.de - Home of Netzstatt Gaming League
SK-Gaming.com - Source
