In lieu of the recent hardcore communities post I made I thought I put together this sweet list. Lets compile a list of the best ones Post your favs and I'll add them to the list Please don't post communities with less than 500 members. Competitive Sites Virgin Gaming | Video Game Tournaments and Online Gaming Competitions My Choice of Site is Virgin Gaming: After using Virgin Gaming for only 1 week I can already tell that this is on it’s way to revolutionizing the competitive gaming world. They have a pretty good list of games already, but word on the street is that there are MANY more coming late this year and early 2011. There’s a fair play guarantee which means NO HONOR SYSTEM – you just get the cash put in your account right after you win! Even more, the skill rating system allows you to challenge players that you know have a good gaming rep and are within your skill level or lower. This is going to be huge and I can see why it’s gaining popularity already. Gaming Charities http://www.childsplaycharity.org/ http://desertbus.org/ http://www.callofdutyendowment.org/ http://fragforcancer.ca/ http://www.ablegamersfoundation.org/ http://www.blueredefined.org/ http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-PS3.html http://foldingforum.org/ http://www.get-well-gamers.org/ http://www.giftsfromgamers.org/ http://www.gamersoutreach.org/ Hardcore Communities Civilization CivFanatics DDR & Rhythm bemanistyle.com - #1 In music game coverage - Dance Dance Revolution, Beatmania, IIDX, Guitar Hero, Rock Band DDR Freak - Dance Dance Revolution Final Fantasy http://www.eyesonff.com/ Fighting Site Shoryuken - Home Gran Turismo Gran Turismo 5 News at GTPlanet Need for Speed NFSCars (Need For Speed Cars) Rare,Obscure,Unreleased The ASSEMblergames.com - Home of the obscure - Powered by vBulletin Lost Levels - A website about unreleased video games. Rare Ware Games (Banjo-Kazooie, Conker,etc) The RWP PC-Engine PC Enginefx.com Racing VVV Gamer | Automotive Gaming and Lifestyle Soul Calibur http://www.caliburforum.com/ Socom SOCOM - SOCOM Street Fighter Street Fighter Strategy Guides, News, Videos, Combos and Tips : EventHubs.com All is Fighter.com - the new home of the Street Fighter community Smash Bros. Smash World Forums Sonic Sonic Retro - Second Only to Sega Tetris tetrisconcept Hard Drop - Tetris Community & Forum Tekken Tekken Zaibatsu Uncharted Uncharted Forums Uncharted 2 Among Thieves Fansite Forums Screens Clans Videos Drake Elena Chloe Wipeout WipeoutZone – fan site of the anti-gravity racing game series 2D Shooters SHMUPS! Team Sites Evil Geniuses - myEG.net FNATIC.com: A Professional Gaming Team n!faculty [ Type-Z ] Leagues LeagueDaddy - Home http://www.myleague.com/browse/ Total Gaming League | Homepage Pro Gaming Sites http://www.twingalaxies.com http://www.mlgpro.com/
www.pcenginefx.com/forums The only deticated forum (English language), about the best of all consoles ever.
A few of the more popular Counter-Strike 1.6 sites: http://www.hltv.org http://www.gotfrag.com http://esportsea.com http://www.sk-gaming.com
Good post, although: A competitive gaming site with no PC games on the list? let's be honest: a PC FPS gamer can own the ass of a console FPS gamer in seconds, and thats only considering the control advantage. Besides I really want to see them against: A-Console companies, which will either block them or deploy a better version and kill them. B-The IRS, which just like with SL won't like this unregulated bet system.
These aren't Counter Sites sites. They range from Esports coverage to general ladder sites. Plus, isn't SK Gaming a team site? Dude.... Virgin Gaming, is a Richard Branson company...They work with the console companies and were at E3. They are legally very okay. Virgin is the same group who brought us Virgin Mobile, Virgin galactic, Virgin Megastore, and Virgin Interactive.
Game companies compete with eachother, and really hate when someone else is making money off them, why not expect that if this becomes so big sony and MS will roll out versions of their own? And SL was legal too, until gambling grew so much the IRS decided it should be regulated.
Yes, SK is a gaming team site. What's the difference between that and the EG and Fnatic site you have listed? HLTV is the biggest CS site around, they deal with nothing but CS news/coverage, along with community forums.Anyone who plays competitive CS 1.6 knows about HLTV.org. GotFrag also has a pretty huge 1.6 North American community forum. They do cover things like WoW but nobody really goes to GotFrag for that. ESEA is company that hosts CS tournmanets and pay to play leagues, along with covering CS news and having a large community forum. I'm not really sure why you think they're any different than most of those other sites already listed?
Oh, I'm sorry. I guess I did neglect to even mention that. HLTV and GotFrag would probably best fit under "Hardcore Communities". ESEA should be placed under "Leagues". SK being a team should be placed into the "Teams" category. Another league to mention would be ESL. http://www.esl.eu/ They host major international tournaments for games like Counter-Strike, WoW, Quake, and I believe a few console games as well.
