With ESEA losing popularity day by day due to controversies and horrid management, everyone had preached to EG‘s CB to be a savior and launch a proper MyGamingEdge 6v6 league that is more community oriented. Well ask and ya shall receive as 
CB has swung his magic wand and announced that MyGamingEdge will shortly be launching a 6v6 league.
The community asked, we listened! We are very pleased to announce that we are in the developing stages of our very own 6v6 competitive league. Here at MGE we truly believe in doing everything we can in order to help support our competitive scene here in North America.
Full scoop after the jump.
The MGE 6v6 league will be run much differently than what you are used to and will focus directly on the players as well as the game. We feel like the current leagues lack in that aspect and overlook decisions that should be made by the players rather than league officials who do not have much knowledge of the game or rules themselves. We cannot give an exact date as to when we will be launching our league but we can say that this league will require a league fee in order to participate. The league fee amount will not be announced until finalized but will be something similar to what the other leagues charge. We will be having cash prizes and we are also working with sponsors in order to bring you additional prizes.
Our goal is to incorporate an automated stats system, servers, source tv relays, as well as a team scheduling system with server location options and much more. Another goal we would like to achieve is eventually having a LAN as well, however this most likely will not be possible during our first season as we want to get our feet grounded, work out the kinks and get the community behind us before that happens. We want to stress the fact that we want to make this league about the players, plain and simple. My Gaming Edge has secured a reputable spot in the NA and EU competitive scene and will strive to continue doing the same. We will also use our connections and contacts in order to bring you the best league possible.
We will continue to keep you updated on the status as we make progress and new developments. For now, we would like to get your input about a variety of issues in our forum topic that will be posted below. There is a ton to talk about and we look forward to further serving our competitive community and bringing you the very best that we can
Make sure you check out the official thread and leave your two cents
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- # - nice! +0keekerdc <3
- # - nice! +0“but we can say that this league will require a league fee in order to participate”
Another league that is totally worthless for the lower skilled teams. Just what the yanks need.
But who needs players when you can have automated STV and stats!
Good initiative but seems flawed granted it’s just transporting half of ESEA’s problems to another league rather than resolving them. You don’t need clients, plugins, flashy as fuck addons and all that jazz. Those things are nice but what’s the point withou ta stable player base.
- # - nice! +3Pretty much echoing what RaCio and kaidus said.
How does paying fees to play actually encourage any of the lower teams? These are the teams that will form a large part of your community. If you’re not reaching out to them, your league is going to be small and stale, never actually achieving growth.
Similarly, without growing that playerbase, you can have lots of shiny shit but it’s worthless when you’ve got about 20 teams. You will do far better to really encourage people to get involved without charging them money. Cash prizes are nice and so are sponsors, but if you focus on that rather than your audience, you’re gonna fuck this up.
- # - nice! +2when “yank” tf2 received a league devoted to the lower skilled teams, it responded with a decent number of “good” teams joining the top division of it and a lot of teams filling out its lower divisions.
here is the current state of that league
www.teamwarfare.com/viewleague...
without the support of the top teams, TWL died off pretty quickly and its worthwhile admin left and now it’s a completely shit league. european tf2 and american tf2 are entirely different, racio. european tf2 needs something like a community-run league with community support. american tf2 needs something to cater to the top level, because it already has UGC (when i last played in it, was a mini-version of the good TWL) and CEVO (which in spite of a better divisional system manages to draw in obscene amounts of teams each year) and whatever other lower level leagues there are.
the only people discontent with tf2 in america are the top level players, the invite teams, because esea provides them with nothing but garbage (lpkane doesnt care about tf2 on any level and it shows). so yes, this pretty much is what we “The Yanks” need, a league for top level play because otherwise there’s not a single reason for any team to stick around
- # - nice! +0Why the hell do invite players stick around and spend countless hours playing TF2 for 100 bucks and a small no-name LAN?
Face it, TF2 isn’t going to be an e-sport here, ever. Big waste of time, invite players, if you are only playing this game because you think one day you’ll be making big money off of it.
TF2 isn’t a respected e-sport and it never will be. Move on, forget ESEA.
- # - nice! +7In EU we are happy faces. the white house and gotfrag should look at something else than fragvids by cookye and see what can be done differently :P
- # - nice! +4There was a lot of negative forecasts for the premium payment section of that site before its launch too. But, fact is, you don’t really know anything for sure before it’s tried out in practice.
This isn’t ETF2L, it’s a business. And while that might be an unpopular term to swallow for both users and arrangers, when you involve money in the shape of entrance fees: It just simply is. As such, you can’t really compare the 2. The goal is different and the measurements for success are different.
It’s a shame the NA scene lacks the dedicated services we get over here for free. But in terms of filling a “need”, it seems like the player base aren’t happy with their current options. Whether another pay2play will solve this, will (of course) remain to be seen. If nothing else, Good luck MGE.
- # - nice! +1mge league, good for mike so he can go prem div in no time as he claims to be
- # - nice! +1Reading that esea thread now. It’s hilarious. :D
- # - nice! +0Should at least have the first season free or something like that. Unless you’re one of 4 teams that might profit, who wants to pay money to smooth out the kinks on a trial run.
- # - nice! +0You euros are crazy! The stats, automatic stvs, decent prizes, and lan are what make esea a good league. The only real problem is the management. I think a small league entry fee is justified if it has the features that esea had with good administration that cares about the game.
- # - nice! +11- tf2 isnt about stats, they are 99% irrelevant. stats are only there so some players can call other players bad, however this caters to the american community perfectly.
- # - nice! +42- automatic stv is unnecessary.
3- prizes – fair enough, nice to have but etf2l is much stronger and its still flogging headphones and mice. im sure prem teams arent gagging for the next mug off from steelseries. not needed.
4- LAN. probably the only good thing about ESEA – but only because it practically has a monopoly in this area.
5- paying to have a league that isnt run by severe dribbling downers like lpkane, where do i sign up?
League fees suck
Till I reach prem, I’m content with the gold trophy jpg sitting (or hopefully, would be) in our team page.
- # - nice! +0money money money amifags kill tf2!guys thats not cs/css/wow/sc we just LOVE this game and we wont make money with it!!!fuck mge and all the na shit!!and as answer for future postings: shut up djc!
- # - nice! +0Being involved, I admit I am somewhat biased but heres my 2 cents.
The feeling I get is that the lower NA teams don’t tend to be too interested in the competitive game. There’s no .:NE:., FakkelBrigade, 9men, CiC, etc. There’s no real community to the game. I don’t know the scene well enough to speculate on why that is, but the general gist is that the top players want to take it towards a proper, professional, competitive e-Sports title on that side of the pond and are lucky enough to have CB and a whole host of other brilliant people willing to get together and make it happen.
I should note, there is also at the moment another group working towards making litterally an “NATF2L”, however afaik, despite a lot of talk and discussions, theres nothing solid or any real momentum to it yet.
- # - nice! +1NA TF2 is all about trolling, circlejerking, e-penis flailing.
- # - nice! +4and gunboating soldiers
- # - nice! +4Played in a low division team for some time a while ago. And they only showed up for officials. If teams are like that and dont really care about improving, having them to pay for the prices of the pro teams and some stupid stats is killing. It makes more sense to do it the other way. First a free league and make up a large playerbase. Then listen to them what can be improved. Starting with a fee you will always lose the lower division teams.
- # - nice! +2I think the paying fees for leagues is a good idea. If you got the support for it, then give it a go.
But I wouldn’t call it TF2 community driven. Because 95% of the competetive NA TF2 teams won’t be paying that fee. So you’re not really organising something for them.
I don’t think ETF2L can be matched by something in NA, cause it is really unique.
- # - nice! +0if you do not have 25 dollars (19 euros) to spend on a hobby over a 4 month period, check yourself.
- # - nice! +1So teams have to pay 150-200 dollars to play a season? Fuckin hell.
- # - nice! +1