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Help select Miss WSVG. Each WSVG event hosted in the US will include a competition for local women to challenge each other to become a finalist for the “Miss WSVG” contest. Winners from each event will win $500 and free travel to the WSVG Finals Event in Los Angeles, California where they will compete again for the title of 2006 Miss World Series of Video Games. The selected Miss WSVG will receive a prize package including $1000, a contract to be featured in a videogame, a one-year contract to appear at all WSVG events for the 2007 Season and more. WSVG event attendees will be able to vote on their favorite contestant at the event, while those unable to attend will have the opportunity, beginning next week, to cast votes online for their favorite contestant. Women interested in becoming a contestant for the Miss World Series of Video Games title can sign up at www.thewsvg.com/misswsvg/ . Also on this page are photos and information on contestants already registered to participate. Source: WSVG |
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User Comments
"a contract to be featured in a videogame." let me guess, a bosomy heroine killing orcs with a plate mail brassiere for protection.
Maybe video games would appeal more to girls if they didnt objectify women on every level.
The sad thing it does not even matter. To the outside world they will have photos and video clips of people getting paid to play video games and it will be fine. The average joe will be like wow how cool. No one is sitting at home thinking hey that guy is not a pro player why is he on TV?
WSVG is not building something they are cashing in.
For years you have all attended gaming tournaments that focused only on gaming and therefore only brought in gamers to watch. And all the while you have wanted the attention of the mainstream market. The WSVG has gone out of its way to offer activities that are NOT related to gaming specifically to attract that mainstream audience to the events. Putting gamers and the average citizen in the same (rather large) room and making sure they ALL have fun is the absolute best approach to getting those citizens to stop by and see how gaming has developed into a rather entertaining sport.
Do not think that offering other forms of entertainment to the non-gaming attendee in any way detracts from the seriousness with which WSVG will handle the gaming tournaments. There is an experienced staff that will make sure your tournaments are well-handled and an entirely different staff that does tons of marketing and promotions to the mainstream audience. How, in any way, can this be bad? Perhaps you'd like to continue attending events that only attract the same 2000 or so gamers every few months? Certainly sponsors would like to break out of this boxed set of LAN tournament participants. How much do they gain from spending millions to market to the same 2000 gamers over and over?
Just a few thoughts for you to chew over :)
Opps sorry thought this was the circus forums.
Same 2,000 gamers? Are you crazy you would think someone in your spot would see Esports growing. Every year media numbers and HLTV numbers go up. You sell it to the masses by showing them in its pure form not making it a sideshow.
We want eSports to grow, not latch on things from elsewhere, and claim more people will show up and magically fix our problem. If that was the case, I could just grab a sponsor, and get some popular band to show up to do a concert and slide in a CS tournament. That will definitely help eSports!....
If that is what this marketing company thought of, I'm going to say good luck with all your events, because they will be your demise. People in the community have constantly been on top of the WSVG and they have made several poor decisions over their inception and I await the time when it all comes crashing down.
You're making the community worse, not better.
If we continue to see the likes of "Hip Hop Gaming League", partnerships that include AOL running online qualifiers, and then this gamer beauty contest, you can say goodbye to eSports being taken seriously.
Get attention because it deserves it, because of the skill of the athletes, the intensity of the matches, the excitement of the fans, the passion of the community to develop. Getting models to prance around is degrading to women and degrading to eSports.
By the way, I vote for V3nus.
See I was making a joke. Kinda like the one WSVG is playing on us.
Pros - itll attract another audience. Anyone watch WPT? Shauna Hiatt? Yeah you watch cause of her.
Cons - she at least had a bit of a poker background.
As for CXG, they had the hype and failed miserably. The community as an average already thinks WSVG is horrid with their pathetic ideas and making eSports into a joke. If somehow we are to give them the benefit of the doubt, which is already surrounded by facts, they will go from a terrible organization looking to cash in on eSports, with an extreme lack of vision, to a company that ran an event with no issues? That definitely makes them worthy....
We are a news site, they send us news...we post...we do these things daily.
Do you see a "WSVG will save world" banner on our site? No.
Do you see a Midway editorial saying that WSVG is the second coming? No.
Do you even see them listed as an official coverage partner? No.
Do you want us to stop posting Event Organization PR's because some of our readers think those orgs are bad?
My point was simple...let us wait and see how this really turns out before we get too carried away.
Least they are not complete lapdogs like Amped.
Or worse TSN
http://www.tsncentral.com/profiles/
Oh look Scott Valencia is an exec. I am sure we are going to get great unbiased news from TSN. I love fake communities WSVG are trying to buy instead of build. Hey it’s a marketing strategy no doubt.
So Scott Valencia runs WSVG and TSN. I am sure people like iTg, Gotfrag and egln are going to be really welcome to do casting and video at his events.
Do you think gaming became mainstream in Korea because they had concerts and beauty pagents on at the same time at gaming events? To me this just brings more money to WSVG and cheapens the image of gaming (kinda similar to your tv advert). Why not put the effort into making the actual gaming more entertaining for the general public? Like spending money on proper adverts, improving the quality of coverage for the event and so on.
And as for this comment:
"How much do they gain from spending millions to market to the same 2000 gamers over and over?"
Do you think people who come to see a beauty pagent care about the latest Nvidia card or Intel cpu?
As #14 said, "WSVG is not building something they are cashing in."
This is just a more dressed up version of the KODE5 Fox Hunt, which is revolting.
#43 Gaming in Korea is an anomaly. Kind of like the fact that people are still playing CS after 6-7 years. It's not bound to be duplicated except by dumb luck.
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