Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Swedes Dominate Counter-Strike Championship

Posted by timothy on from the nerdjocks-or-jocknerds dept.

fluor2 writes "'Guys, somebody stepped on a switch. I'm not kidding; someone actually stepped on a switch and unplugged our network!' These are not the words one would like to hear from one of the staff in the middle of Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) Extreme World Championships $100,000 Counter-Strike finals. But it happened. Finally, after the game was restarted, Team Eyeballers (Sweden) is the new CPL CS Champion over Schroet Kommando (also Sweden), winning (7-5;6-0)." Update: 08/02 01:06 GMT by S : There's a more detailed report over at Gotfrag.

3 of 246 comments (clear)

  1. Clearly, the Gov't recruits GR players... by kaladorn · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, obviously the government would recruit the Ghost Recon players since that's a game that forces you to not run around, to not hop around, and to use careful tactics. Note: The prior paragraph was written with tongue firmly in cheek. I know members of the SF community (and I don't mean sci-fi) and the whole idea of recruiting out of shape (or even in shape) computer gamers for the type of work various Special Operations units do is rather hilarious. They lack the discipline, training, probably basic physical and dispositional requirements, and they may not have the required social skills. And there is a heck of a difference between blowing up someeone else in a video game and having to hold your buddy's hand while he bleeds out from a mine strike or bullet wound. :( The idea is silly enough to have been a Monty Python skit....

    --
    -- Mal: "Well they tell you: never hit a man with a closed fist. But it is, on occasion, hilarious."
  2. Maybe not a job, but a hobby.. by cbreaker · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hobby seems to fit more then an actual job; since only very few in the many thousands of players across the world actually sees any money from this stuff.

    --
    - It's not the Macs I hate. It's Digg users. -
  3. Only in theory by CrystalFalcon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Since nobody answering has bothered to respond factually to the question, I'll do:

    Every male is drafted around age 18, after high school but before college. However, not all are selected to actually do military service - I think the numbers are down to about 30-35% at this point.

    And I have to disagree strongly as to whether it teaches a "sense a weaponry". It doesn't. It does, however, teach how to think creatively in a group to solve an immediate problem.

    (The American military, by comparison, considers its chain of command as holy. The Scandinavian militaries rely a lot more on the intelligence of the individual soldier.)

    / CrystalFalcon
    (15 months of geeking around with military-grade radio hardware ain't that bad)