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General Managers Named with CGS Draft Less Than a Month Away Los Angeles, CA – May 23, 2007 – The Championship Gaming SeriesTM (CGS), the first worldwide professional gaming league, announced today that its first six franchise teams will be based in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, and Charlotte. In addition, CGS named the six General Managers for these city-based teams. Drawn from a mix of pro gaming stalwarts and luminaries, they represent a new generation of leadership in the world of gaming and will be responsible for shaping the most competitive gaming teams in history. The list of GMs includes the following individuals: Jason Lake, with a reputation as a fierce competitor and relentless recruiter, will remain at the helm of compLexity, and the team will become the CGS franchise in the Los Angeles market. Dave Geffon, one of the most celebrated pro gamers in the world, will take over as GM of Team 3D after six years of great success as a player. 3D will become the New York City franchise for the league. Alex Conroy, the animated founder of Jax Money Crew, a front-running pro-gaming squad that has enjoyed great success, both domestically and internationally, will take the reigns of the Dallas franchise. Mark Dolven will lead the Charlotte team. Dolven boasts a background in marketing and has a track record of building a successful pro gaming brand as president of Team Pandemic. Kat Hunter, a long time pro gaming evangelist and respected gaming journalist, is now in charge of the new CGS San Francisco franchise. Brian Flander, a pioneer of gamer product endorsements, heads up the new CGS Chicago franchise after years as a pro gamer competing in Quake and Counter-Strike. Flander will also draw from his experience as the manager of Team Onslaught. “We’re excited to announce our first six cities and looking forward to unveiling these teams at our inaugural Draft,” said CGS Commissioner Andy Reif. “We’re also very proud of our first group of GMs. Each of them will play a vital role in the success of the league. The GMs will recruit, draft, and manage their teams and then be responsible for day-to-day management of each franchise. It will be up to the GMs to lead their teams to victory during the upcoming regular season and playoffs. Each of them is scouting talent and will be making their decisions on players to draft after a thorough evaluation at the Region 1 Combine.” The General Managers will see the league’s top prospects battle it out at the Region 1 Combine June 9-11, 2007 at the legendary FOX Studios in Los Angeles. Players at the Regional Combine will be eligible for the CGS Draft on June 12 at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles. Drafted players will take their places on a team in one of the six Region 1 cities announced today. They will be flown to Los Angeles for the regular season, and beginning June 23, will receive salaries drawn from the $5 million league payroll. Drafted players will earn at least $30,000 and could earn more than $100,000 in annual salary and bonuses. CGS events will be broadcast in the U.S. exclusively on DIRECTV’s 101. For more information, please go to www.thecgs.com. About Championship Gaming Series Headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, the Championship Gaming SeriesTM (CGS) is the first international professional video gaming league. Launching in 2007, CGS features teams of the world’s best gamers from North America, Latin America, the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. The league will distribute entertainment content to more than 100,000,000 households worldwide via DIRECTV in North America and Latin America, BSkyB in the UK, and STAR in Asia and Australia. CGS Founding Partners include Mountain Dew, Xbox 360, and IGN Entertainment. Source: www.thecgs.com |
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cant wait to watch
www.kathunter.com ? i dont see much of anything about gaming on that website
im confident he can be much more successful, productive, and consistent outside of a gm role.
hes like 2nd in command or somethin
and 6/8 take note the last sentence in my post?
Hope they expand the number of cities eventually.
There is a lot of talented managers and players to draw from yet.
Good luck to all at the combine....and PB Mansion ;)
once again, who the hell is kat hunter. i guess it doesnt even matter anyway because i seriously doubt anyone could justify her hiring over the many more qualified people that were skipped over.
st_fu
who r some of these ppl? have they finished uni yet? how old r they?
CGS apparently has affirmative action. This woman obviously knows nothing about competitive gaming aside from playing some halo baddies online, she is a console gamer who rights some reviews for bad games and plays something new every 2 months, opposed to most of us on this site who have been playing the same game for years. Shes not even that good looking, if you were going to pick someone unqualified then you might as well pick someone who is legitamately good looking like that morgan woman from extended play, or you know what, Jenna Jameson did some voice over work for grand theft auto, she MUST know something about games.
Porn stars for cgs.
Edit: #15, women dont play counter strike, or quake, or warcraft 3 for the most part. they by and large play games to have fun because their boyfriend got them into it, how many attractive women have you ever seen that just picked up games by themselves? Their minds do work differently, ie non competitively, the male brain is shaped by testosterone during puberty and results in a "I have to be number one to get women", whereas a woman's brain goes more into "I have to raise children" because in the end humans are still driven by the desire to preserve the species as a whole. Look at the WNBA, its a joke, there are a bunch of really tall women who are quite frankly not even as good as college male players. Women are NEVER as talented as their male counterparts, in tennis, golf, everything except gymnastics where flexibility is more important than any real skill. So a few more girls will start to play, I doubt very much you will see them on any counter strike teams.
In the end women have to face a biological disadvantage when trying to play games professionaly. Its not that they cant develope the skill its that it takes drive to be the bestto actually get there. "girl gamers" fall into a very limited number of categories, (usually) unatractive ones that play mmos and the occasional fps (almost always an easily accessible one like halo or battlefield, thats generally not competitive), and normal women who play some nintendo with their boyfriends and like little sim games like animal crossing or fun gimmicky games (see nintendo wii)
Im not saying its impossible for women to become sucessful, but I am saying it wont happen.
she is definately not the "evangelist" of gaming in san francisco dont even dare and try that bullshnizzle
and i definately see no other managerial skills from any of her other activities.
apparently they need a tv face. maybe it was cheaper than hiring an ex-porn star
Give her a chance :)
Please, show me where she either competed in or managed a team or player in a "professional" gaming environment, and a few local area small time lans dont count. On the left hand here there is a column listing gotfrag's coverage of several important professional events, in which of those has she competed?
#21 you are clearly qualified, Im sure everyone here knows of pandemic and what they have accomplished, but in the nfl they dont let high school coaches be head coaches! Could you imagine if joesephina smith had to compete with bill belichek?
if your trying to say she is a visionary, sorry there are lots of visionaries
if your trying to say she is there just to attract more females then say it
if she actually has any experience other than blogging about reaching level 70 in wow then say it
we want information not "blindly trust in the man"
so please allow my open mind to share in your one time meeting that impressed you enough to allow the person to take on such a role in the current "great hope" of the community
there has to be something more than "a long time pro gaming evangelist and respected gaming journalist" because i seriously do not see how either one are true
She is qualified, and will do an incredible job. She beat out other great candidates on merit alone. Congrats to her.
all it takes is "she has a bachelors degree in managerial accounting"
or "she one time helped run a 300 person lan"
or "she one time managed a cal-o team"
you are the one being small minded thinking "a long time pro gaming evangelist and respected gaming journalist" is going to pass over in this community when clearly most of us have never heard of her or seen her journalism
is she a figure head in san francisco?
i dont see why it is hard to present ONE (1) example that would qualify her for this position
Just because she hasn't received the stardom of Dave, Jason, or some of the other GMs does not mean she isn't a qualified individual. Some people are BEHIND the curtain, you realize this?
And for those of you assuming this is some kind of gender card that the CGS is playing, you're also incorrect. As I have already stated she is probably OVER qualified for this position and I can assure you that many of you will one day regret the flames you have already started.
Personally, I'm looking forward to working with Kat and I hope to learn alot from her experiences.
now where is all this gaming journalism?
Managers will manage the teams in their respected cities. For example, I am the Chicago GM. Yes we will scout and draft at the player combine/draft.
Her position seems akin to those guys who write articles every once in a while for IGN or fileplanet. They have broad knowledge about gaming and the industry. But they aren't true competitive gamers, and aren't involved in the thick of the competitive scene. Maybe i'm wrong, but I dont think thats going to carry her very far.
Either way, I wish her the best of luck and hope she proves me wrong =)
Oh well, we can only hope, I guess. It's in the GMs' hands now...
And I am a bit offended that you would imply, mr lake, that I am being sexist. Games have been around since long before I was born, and if women were going to do anything, they could have, and they would have. Michelle Wie tries to play with men and gets destroyed. I dont think shes made the cut at a mens event yet. So I assume Im being sexist when I say that female golfers arent as good as their male counterparts? If she was a man she would get ZERO news coverage, period. No one is interested in people who finish last unless its unusual.
It seems the league didnt want to seem sexist itself, if they didnt have any women involved it certainly would hve reinforced existing stereotypes about the community. mr. lake you were a lawyer, which means you went to law school, so can you honestly say, that when you looked around at ALL of the people there, that every one of them was THE most qualified person?
You know what happened to me when I applied for scholarships for university? I was told that because I was a rich white male I wouldnt get anything. Id like to see the people she beat out. If she came in and gave an incredible interview and really has the credentials then fine, but if she did have those credentials then maybe her name would be somewhere on this site, which is dedicated to professional and competitive gaming.
She signed up for gotfrag 2 days ago, I just did a search of her name. Pretty much everyone involved with esports has wandered onto gotfrag. Her name was the only thing of relevance I even saw when I searched. This site covers counterstrike 1.6 and source, quake, warcraft, call of duty, starcraft, consoles etc. Had she actually done something in competitive gaming it should be somewhere here.
Journalists are not qualified to be managers of what they write about. I could not take a sports columnist and install him as head coach of the patriots and see 3 rings. You know which coaches become sports journalists? Ones that cant find a job, like marty shottenheimer or bill parcels, men past their prime and unwanted by the organizations.
CGS is a business, and they are clearly acting as such.
I assure you all GMs wil be heading into the combine with an open mind ready to scout anyone and everyone.
give us a reason she is going to be able to find the next ksharp
stop all this nonsense "she is overqualified"
if she is overqualified then leave her behind the curtains and out of the spotlight and let her do her thing, a gm has a certain job and i dont see how she is qualified for that job
bring her into the public and have her at the helm of the san francisco team and suffer public scrutiny
If th guy who sells nike shoes to the people watching the league was a coach, it would be a disaster.
If a sports journalist was a head coach it would be a disaster.
The only way it wouldnt be a disaster is if the coach had experience in the game of football doing several different things in football organizations working their way up from special teams coach to assistant coach of college ball then maybe, MAYBE to the NFL. Im not saying she will do poorly, maybe she will do lots of research and draft well, maybe shell luck out and get the next ksharp, or maybe what will happen is what everyone is afraid of and be a bottom feeder like other women who have historically tried to break into male dominated competition.
Its not sexism, its history, and just because you want to ignore the past doesnt make it go away.
She is not only a wonderful representative for e-sports and CGS, she is a wonderful representative for female gamers as well. Fact is, GCS really did need a women, the post here alone prove that point with it stereotypical "it's 'cuz she is a girl" comments. I admire CGS for making some sort of effort to recognize there are amazing women in e-sports.
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