Check-Six [x6] Merge with Loaded [LOAD]

[HunteR_]

http://goloaded.com/news/204/loaded-check6-merge
http://goloaded.com/images/news/Merging.jpg

LOADED, LLC (http://goloaded.com/news/204/loaded-check6-merge) Check-Six (http://check6gaming.com/), the long-standing professional multi-gaming organization, announces that they will be merging with the Loaded organization under the Loaded name. All available Check-Six properties including, executive members, teams, and web staff will be leaving behind the famed Check-Six brand in order to work for the up-and-coming Loaded organization. Among Check-Six's contributions will be their professional HoN team, who were rated the number one team in the world, according to Honcast's Community Top 10 list.

Both parties are very excited about this new venture, and together plan to make Loaded a internationally recognizable brand through the combined resources of each organization.

Brandon Freytag, Loaded owner and founder, expressed his excitement,

"I have been in talks with Check-Six for the past few months now, and we are finally ready [READ THE REST HERE] (http://goloaded.com/news/204/loaded-check6-merge)


My personal blog on why we did the merge: http://goloaded.com/blogs/16/

[Mno1]

Loads have been blown.

[knowitall]

god every time i see that clan tag, it gets worse.

whp now the laughing stock of the community.

[_Poliwhirl_h]

i understand that whp is sponsored by s2 but I don't see why they get a special four letter tag.

[HunteR_]

? The're sponsored by Loaded, S2 is the game developer, I think you're confused.

[Reonhato]

so wait hunter is riding further on the success of others? i wonder what will happen when they find out hes a douche that no 1 in HoN actually likes.

[Fenald]

hes a douche that no 1 actually likes.
fixed

[Berra_la]

I'm a nobody. :(
Naah, don't know him or really care.. but I had to say it. Love corny jokes.

My condolences go out to everyone in whp/x6 who will soon be berated for having a 4 letter, and ugly at that, clan tag.

[PuffyGod1]

ports gay

[MAAATE]

big fat load

[Pyrate]

When will Hunter learn that no one cares about his gaming organisations. It doesnt matter how much he tells people that Check 6 are a famed gaming organisation, we all know that their only team was WHP.

Hunter, take a hint, no one cares that you sponsor the number 1 team in a closed beta. People couldnt give a **** who sponsors a team they follow players

[Kolapz]

ports gay

This.

[Aesij]

You guys can hate but he is just helping to promote eSports, its not such a bad thing.

[PinkySoul]

I don't know hunter or the reason that everyone hates him.
I don't know loaded / check six and whp either. Allthough I care about whp, they sure giving us some good matches. Apart from that, me as a hon fan why should I care about your sponsors ? Or why should I care about you ? (THANKS RFOR HONCAST SITE !!)

TD;DL : What's the meaning of this post.


Im not flaming, I realy want to know the reason - if any - for this post .

[Mno1]

Lots of disrespect in this thread and a general lack of knowledge of how these things actually work.

Pretty meh.

[KorokFanNr1]

chu took a load :(

[THEKRAKEN]

Posting without any intention of adding anything constructive

[YawningAngel]

http://www.randomimage.us/files/431b7e0c8b9fa.jpg

[imabigpoo]

People dislike Hunter because he's an ass?

[YawningAngel]

People dislike Hunter because he's an ass?
News at 11.

[Aray]

nice i guess o_O

[Rawrior]

I'm going to be pissed if they get a special 4 lettered tag, no one cares that they are #1 in a closed beta.

That's just dumb.

[VitaTimH]

People are complaining about other people paying so much attention to competitive gaming in a closed beta... in the competitive forum?

If this was general discussion, sure.

But gawd, so many douches in this thread. And Hunter's not one of them.

[Arnald1]

They could use something like LDD Idk

[Liliar]

HunteR has done innumerable things for S2 in marketting and general promotion of HoN. This isn't WHP getting treated differently, this is S2 rewarding those who have put probably close to as much effort into their game as they have. Chill out, and roll with it.

[tordana]

Loaded sponsors the #1 team in TF2 currently, for those who haven't heard of them. Not sure what other games they're involved in.

[Asway1]

Loaded sponsors the #1 team in TF2 currently, for those who haven't heard of them. Not sure what other games they're involved in.

they also have a cs.16 and wow team. But their wow is is complete trash.


Edit: http://goloaded.com/teams/ by the looks of it, they do not have a tf2 team.

[HunteR_]

hey, they're not trash, they only lost to our x6 team that was stolen by complexity.

Not bad

[arieLOL]

what a load

[Vodka]

One extra letter is srs bsnz.
It's still WHP to me.

[Asway1]

hey, they're not trash, they only lost to our x6 team that was stolen by complexity.

Not bad

I really don't wanna get into a huge argument about loaded's wow team, But I'm pretty sure they don't play anymore and I THINK they got like 5th place @ ESL Edmonton, out of 6.

[BreakyCPK]

they also have a cs.16 and wow team. But their wow is is complete trash.


Edit: http://goloaded.com/teams/ by the looks of it, they do not have a tf2 team.

wtf, wow team complete trash?!?!?!

I actually know all of those players from playing with/against them a lot and lipstick is actually one of the best mages in the world. I am suprised that they do not do well, I guess maybe its because they have not played with eachother for long, iono.

[BoSu1]

wtf, wow team complete trash?!?!?!

I actually know all of those players from playing with/against them a lot and lipstick is actually one of the best mages in the world. I am suprised that they do not do well, I guess maybe its because they have not played with eachother for long, iono.


If they don't do well they are trash. Duno why you are so ?!?!??!?!

[Asway1]

wtf, wow team complete trash?!?!?!

I actually know all of those players from playing with/against them a lot and lipstick is actually one of the best mages in the world. I am suprised that they do not do well, I guess maybe its because they have not played with eachother for long, iono.

Let me rephrase what I said. As a team they are not on the same level as other competitive teams. But each individual player on the team is very talented. I know some better teams who don't have sponsors who should have one.

[HunteR_]

Hey, you have like a super korean team, they're amazing, stop hating ! :)

[Asway1]

Hey, you have like a super korean team, they're amazing, stop hating ! :)


:p:p:p:p:p

[china]

Whose LOAD was swallowed to get this to happen? :D

The name is pretty silly, haha. Gratz though.

[Evil_Andrex]

Hunter_ helps this game a lot, he is trying to grow the competitive scene in HoN, overall it will be the only thing that will keep HoN going in a long term look. I love the idea that people are seeing that HoN is competitive and is worth the time and money they put in it.

[Freshpro]

ASWAY FIGHTING !!!

Anyway grats to the ppl, and on topic WOW is for noobs :D

[Stickyrolls]

When I played TF2 competitively Loaded was farm from the best team. They were like the 3rd best US team and 3rd was a long ways from the top 2 US teams. The INVITE scene for tf2 US is pretty small and the only reason loaded was part of it was b/c of this fact. 20iD was the best by far.

[canikizu]

When will Hunter learn that no one cares about his gaming organisations. It doesnt matter how much he tells people that Check 6 are a famed gaming organisation, we all know that their only team was WHP.

Hunter, take a hint, no one cares that you sponsor the number 1 team in a closed beta. People couldnt give a **** who sponsors a team they follow players

I'm pretty sure that 1 or 2 months from now, new people won't know what whp or x6 is.


Who is YoDa anyway?

[Mno1]

Whoa WoW is still played 'competitively'? I thought that game died with Wrath.


Last time I remember playing was with Sodah and against C A P S L O C K C R E W when Active was Inactive the UD Rogue.

Good times.

[Asway1]

I thought that game died with Wrath.




Kinda. The game is much more friendly to bad's, which makes playing the game a joke. But ESL and MLG will hold WoW tournaments.

[Mno1]

Kinda. The game is much more friendly to bad's, which makes playing the game a joke. But ESL and MLG will hold WoW tournaments.

Yeah that's what I figured.

I left my account in the hands of Litreacola and came back when Buddhist made a good pitch.


I think I did 70-80 in less than 2 days and was crushing kids with S4 gear before I decided to quit after like 30 arena matches.


Was watching vids of the current competitive scene and saw nothing but faceroll cleave RNG comps. Suddenly all the 1700 kids in our BG became all the 2400+ kids and ****. So sad. :(


Oh well, sorry for the WoW talk. Random nostalgia. ^^

[Deductive]

I think we should all be allowed so I can finally have the tag [GILF] or [SILF]
Sandwhich I'd Like to #@$%

my 2 cents ;P


But congrats on the merge x6 and hunter :)

[tordana]

When I played TF2 competitively Loaded was farm from the best team. They were like the 3rd best US team and 3rd was a long ways from the top 2 US teams. The INVITE scene for tf2 US is pretty small and the only reason loaded was part of it was b/c of this fact. 20iD was the best by far.

Are we talking about the same loaded here? o_O

carnage and crew far from the top 2 teams?

[Vodka]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDIUP-bnSYA

Loaded doesn't seem to have too bad of a TF2 team.

[mr_herbert]

Back on topic with Hunter...

Hunter... where did you learn to balance? You sure know how to ride more than one dick at a time! He saw something successful, then wiggles his way in there... typical scumbag American.

"Thanks to the HoN community, there are a million strong of you..." Why were you even there at the IGN. As for whose name is what and which team is who... it's a game. So unless you can program it (make the game) or ride it (ride the game makers dick), none of this should really matter. Hunter, you look like you could use a little sun. Just sayin.

[Cloud]

i want pigs back. i dont want a clan named Loaded...

[Freshpro]

So unrealtournament had sex with counterstrike and had TF2 ? E_E

[R3NN11]

LOL why all the hate on Hunter???

One might think he is a rapist or something...

[Mellow]

Am I the only one who thinks competitive TF2 is retarded? It's like trying to play competitive Brawl

[uniplex]

LOL why all the hate on Hunter???

One might think he is a rapist or something...

Sabotaging DXD, getting banned from IHL because he played a crappy game, then force his GF to apologize on the forum claiming she used his account, and various other things is enough to make people question Hunter's integrity.

Put it this way, if you know all the things he did back in DotA you would wonder how he became league admin. All you can hope for is that he won't do the same to Honleague, because he will put promoting himself as a E-sport figure above the well being of the competitive community.

[Asway1]

Are we talking about the same loaded here? o_O

carnage and crew far from the top 2 teams?

carnage plays with compLexity

[BillDjango]

Hunter_'s only fault is that he has quite the ego ( or just very confident ). What good marketing person doesn't? He's very good at what he does.

I think he would admit to that :P

And yes I have met Hunter_ in real life. Talk to him daily on vent/irc/phone. He's a good guy. I've known him for a few years now through Check6.

[Whitebushido]

[LOAD] is the worst tag ever :\

[Asway]

Hunter_'s only fault is that he has quite the ego. What good marketing person doesn't? He's very good at what he does.

I think he would admit to that :P

And yes I have met Hunter_ in real life. Talk to him daily on vent/irc/phone. He's a good guy. I've known him for a few years now through Check6.

Having dealt with Hunter on a professional basis, I wouldn't say he's egotistical as much as full of confidence, and in my opinion, that's a good thing. :)

[HunteR_]

There's a fine line between confident and egotistical.

One thing I have learned over time:
http://www.nigmanoname.com/hatersgonnahate.jpg

You just have to keep moving forward and can't let the negativity get to you.

I've done what I could to make DotA a successful eSport in USA, but the game was always plagued with being a custom map for a 7 year old game. Shoutout to Icefrog for always being supportive of the competitive growth of the genre.

HoN is everything the DotA community ever needed. Most of the hatred is understood, I called the change from DotA to HoN long before anyone, I announced it on my old DXD League, and I told them I would make sure DXD had a home in HoN. There has always been a lot of resentment from the DotA community, and there still is today, a lot of "DOTA IS BETTER, HON IS JUST PRETTY GRAPHICS VERSION OF DOTA"... They fail to ignore all of the great things HoN has like leaver %, stats, replays available to download WITHOUT being in the game, the list goes on and on. There was always this "sabotage" DXD League thing, for those of you who don't know, I ran the largest In-House DotA League for over 4 years and it was great, but I saw everything I tried to make DXD (Anti-Hack, in depth stats tracking etc) already built into HoN without the limitations of DotA's WC3 Engine. They were reluctant to change, and to be honest, they still are, but the times are changing, and just like moving from DVD to blu-ray it will just be phased in whether they like it or not, but they will in the depths of their minds know that I "Abandoned" dota for HoN, and to be honest... I don't regret it one bit. Sometimes the decisions are hard to make, this one was a no brainer, I've dealth with S2 in the past for Savage 2, and this is one of the best companies in the world.

As far as being there with S2, eSport Media Inc. are partners with S2 Games for competitive development and marketing... It's only going to get bigger guys, HoN is going to revolutionize eSports, HoN is already outdoing what any other title has done in history, it's being picked up competitively by multiple leagues while still in beta. It's amazing.

Thanks for the kind words, and for those who didn't have kind words, I appreciate the input as well, especially from the old DotA community.

[china]

Hunter's [LOAD] is good.

[rlw]

Serious question for you Hunter... what happened with x6 that it went under so fast? I remember when x6 picked up eMg's beastcleave not so long ago everybody was saying how x6 is was being supported by microsoft and there would be unlimited resources that would be used to put x6 in the e-sports map, challenge eg, sk, etc.

Then out of the blue x6 dropped beastcleave's sponsorship, when they were arguably the most successful team in the world... and now they had to merge with some other company?

I'm not expecting you to answer with details but what went wrong?

[HunteR_]

Check-Six didn't go "under". The merge was a decision for both the owners of Check-Six and Loaded to create a more successful entity. With our resources, and Loaded's resources we are in a better position to offer our teams more. Loaded and Check-Six have one thing in common that outweighs all others, we've both had to deal with getting teams stolen. The "beast cleave" team was one of them, as well as Loaded's TF2 Team. They both fly the complexity flag now. It hurts eSports when there is no competition, and our merge with Loaded was to do just that, incite competition.

My blog wraps it up vaguely: http://goloaded.com/blogs/16/

[Asway1]

http://knowyourmeme.com/i/000/043/917/original/hatersgonnapanda.jpg?1269196691

[uniplex]

I've done what I could to make DotA a successful eSport in USA, but the game was always plagued with being a custom map for a 7 year old game. Shoutout to Icefrog for always being supportive of the competitive growth of the genre.

HoN is everything the DotA community ever needed. Most of the hatred is understood, I called the change from DotA to HoN long before anyone, I announced it on my old DXD League, and I told them I would make sure DXD had a home in HoN. There has always been a lot of resentment from the DotA community, and there still is today, a lot of "DOTA IS BETTER, HON IS JUST PRETTY GRAPHICS VERSION OF DOTA"... They fail to ignore all of the great things HoN has like leaver %, stats, replays available to download WITHOUT being in the game, the list goes on and on. There was always this "sabotage" DXD League thing, for those of you who don't know, I ran the largest In-House DotA League for over 4 years and it was great, but I saw everything I tried to make DXD (Anti-Hack, in depth stats tracking etc) already built into HoN without the limitations of DotA's WC3 Engine. They were reluctant to change, and to be honest, they still are, but the times are changing, and just like moving from DVD to blu-ray it will just be phased in whether they like it or not, but they will in the depths of their minds know that I "Abandoned" dota for HoN, and to be honest... I don't regret it one bit. Sometimes the decisions are hard to make, this one was a no brainer, I've dealth with S2 in the past for Savage 2, and this is one of the best companies in the world.

As far as being there with S2, eSport Media Inc. are partners with S2 Games for competitive development and marketing... It's only going to get bigger guys, HoN is going to revolutionize eSports, HoN is already outdoing what any other title has done in history, it's being picked up competitively by multiple leagues while still in beta. It's amazing.

Thanks for the kind words, and for those who didn't have kind words, I appreciate the input as well, especially from the old DotA community.

Nice spin there. First off, you never worked at any league for 4 years. You were trying to get back to the top after you got kicked by Pandemic, and when you found out you could not make a name for yourself as a player you decided to do it via league administration, and you couldn't have been on DXD staff for longer than a year before the league went inactive. Second, you left DXD to create your own league because you believe DXD would go down without you, but lo and behold it was still standing and better than before without you. You then decide to crawl back and ask for your old job back, you also told the DXD staff that DotA client(the Anti hack program Hunter is referring to) would only be available to you even though the developer never said such a thing, and when asked he stated it would be available to both Hunter's league as well as DXD. DotA client was the only good reason that they would have rehired you, and that backfired. I am pretty sure they were pissed about that much more than whatever announcements you have made about HoN months later.

As for your 'effort' to make DotA a better e-sport, you have made as much contribution as I had, which is zilch. You got sponsors for DXD, but prizes were never delivered, and there were numerous complaints against you for breaking your own rules in DXD games. It was pretty much an unanimous opinion that the league was better off without you running the show. The DotA community has never respected you, and that had neither to do with HoN nor any misunderstanding between you and the community.

I was thinking about not responding, but there's so much BS I had to call him out for it.

[Nakke`]

Im going to introduce you to law called janteloven! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jante_Law

[Asway1]

**** just got real.

[khao_]

Are we arguing about online jobs? I'm glad I don't take hon seriously i'm happy just to pick scout in my Em games and not worry about this ****

[HatTrick]

Are we arguing about online jobs? I'm glad I don't take hon seriously i'm happy just to pick scout in my Em games and not worry about this ****

You're also the guy anwsering his cellphone during my movie,



SHH!

http://i39.tinypic.com/23m7tjd.jpg

[Emiya]

Uh oh. ****'s about to hit the fan.

[ShadowsCrush]

No, I'm pretty sure it already hit lol
Pretty sure he just got served

Yeah, I said it, bringin' it back yo

[Desirable]

I'm standing by with fire extinguishers. Incoming firestorm detected.

[GoPr0]

Oh no u didnt

[Kingkongb]

Check-Six didn't go "under". The merge was a decision for both the owners of Check-Six and Loaded to create a more successful entity. With our resources, and Loaded's resources we are in a better position to offer our teams more. Loaded and Check-Six have one thing in common that outweighs all others, we've both had to deal with getting teams stolen. The "beast cleave" team was one of them, as well as Loaded's TF2 Team. They both fly the complexity flag now. It hurts eSports when there is no competition, and our merge with Loaded was to do just that, incite competition.

My blog wraps it up vaguely: http://goloaded.com/blogs/16/

You don't merge to incite competiition.

I am also wondering why this whole thing was announced on the forums. Why should we care? You haven't answered that. There might be a reason for it, if so please do tell.

I am cleaning my appartment and moving out next weekend so I wont be playing on saturday. Maybe I should make a thread about that?

[Vodka]

ITT: People from DotA who can't let bygones be bygones.

[ko]

**** just got srs

[coolmans]

wake me up before you gogo!

[Mellow]

I am also wondering why this whole thing was announced on the forums. Why should we care? You haven't answered that. There might be a reason for it, if so please do tell.
To show off the fabulous 4 characters and because Hunter desperately seeks attention

[ouTPut`]

I love how the only 'competitive moderator' that wanna write about this stuff is the man behind the stuff being written.


Seems like no one else gives a crap.

[Kcolraw]

Whoa WoW is still played 'competitively'? I thought that game died with Wrath.


Last time I remember playing was with Sodah and against C A P S L O C K C R E W when Active was Inactive the UD Rogue.

Good times.
i miss bg9 golden age drama

[ShadowsCrush]

I love how the only 'competitive moderator' that wanna write about this stuff is the man behind the stuff being written.


Seems like no one else gives a crap.

Well that's because the point of a moderator is to...moderate!
Him posting competitive business news is the same as any what any poster could do.

[ouTPut`]

Well that's because the point of a moderator is to...moderate!
Him posting competitive business news is the same as any what any poster could do.


If I would have my organization news posted on a games forum, or a newspaper or whatever It could be - I probably would chose to have another of my 'crew' post it for me, as right now HunteR_ looks like a total douchebag wanting some e-attention.

mehk

[VeNuM]

Competitive Crew are volunteers just like 99% of the Mods on these boards. I don't understand why you are trying to create drama over someone posting some news that some people would find interesting from the competitive scene.

Competitive Crew are here to help the Mods out and only help do stuff (which has to be said is mostly on the Archieve section of this forum rather than here)

And to add, if you don't like the topic - you don't HAVE to read it nor reply to it.

Don't want yet another thread de-railed because of haters, keep ontopic or I'll start getting mean :)

[DentistDrill]

To be honest, I think Hunter realises that this is just a game at the end of the day and it doesn't matter who doesn't like who. I got no problem with him if he wants to burn a few people to get himself ahead or something why not everyone else in the world does it; that's business.
I don't understand the DotA players hating on this game, it's a good game and a step forward from DotA, presumably they're just jealous or afraid or both. Maybe they're the same kind of people who think God hates fags or something
And this is the internet, if you don't blow your own trumpet, noone will do it for you

[Shinta]

Am I the only one who thinks competitive TF2 is retarded? It's like trying to play competitive Brawl

What 'Brawl'?

In case you meant Super Smash Bros. Brawl. You're wrong big time.

[Mno1]

i miss bg9 golden age drama

Son this was before BG9.


Before all us pre-BC Nightfall took overrrrr.


EDIT - And to the above poster.


Brawl is trash. It isn't a fighting game. It's a kids party game disguised as a fighting game.

[Asway1]

Son this was before BG9.


Before all us pre-BC Nightfall took overrrrr.




<3night fall irc back in season 3 was such good times.

[documents]

Competitive Crew are volunteers just like 99% of the Mods on these boards. I don't understand why you are trying to create drama over someone posting some news that some people would find interesting from the competitive scene.

Really? People find blog spam on a forums interesting?

If they care about the team they'll look at their website. I don't want these forums to be full of blog style posts about what a clan had for breakfast.

I don't care and I'm sure 95% of people who read these forums don't either.

There's a place for these types of posts, and that is ON THEIR OWN SITE. If I see another one of these threads I'm going to start posting e-news on my clan in here, every day.

People would find it interesting, right?

[VeNuM]

Certainly from the top teams, people find it interesting yes. There are a lot of fanboys that follow chu` around for instance and will search out any games he plays in and the like.

I don't goto check6 website to find out about the merger, I found out about in via these forums - which for me I'm thankfull for. I'd much rather this forum became more active and we get all the competitive scene news (If a team gets sponsored, if a team changes sponsor, if a team breaks up, if a team recruits some e-famous players ect ect). If you don't like this topic then you don't have to read it, you can CLEARLY see what this post is about from the title so stop being such a penis about the situation and deal with it.

Thanks.

[Mno1]

God, the news of any TOP competitive clan is news to be heard and posted.


The argument of 'i dont care so nobody else cares' and 'nobody would care if i posted clan x y.'

This isn't just Clan X or Clan Y. It's x6/Loaded.


To the competitive scene this is both interesting and intriguing to see not just the growth of the 'e-sport,' but also the teams in general as they develop and head towards down the road.

[Skellington]

In case you meant Super Smash Bros. Brawl. You're wrong big time.

If you were a true ssb fan (64 and melee) you would know that brawl was the biggest JOKE and an ultimate let-down. MLG sums up my statement.

As far as the thread goes, I come here first for my information so I think topics like this a relevant.

[Colin_tank]

If you were a true ssb fan (64 and melee) you would know that brawl was the biggest JOKE and an ultimate let-down. MLG sums up my statement.

As far as the thread goes, I come here first for my information so I think topics like this a relevant.

This is definitely off topic but, Brawl was terrible. It took out all the techniques that melee had. And the online play was terrible, it has shitty and constant lag, there is no way to organize online tournaments with the interface they provided you, and it was all around crap. I have brawl, and I love the game when I am drunk and wanna just do stupid crap when playing with my friends. But the game is terribly unbalanced and stupid.

[Mellow]

If you were a true ssb fan (64 and melee) you would know that brawl was the biggest JOKE and an ultimate let-down. MLG sums up my statement.

As far as the thread goes, I come here first for my information so I think topics like this a relevant.
It's only terrible if you want to play it seriously, if you want to just have some games for fun it's good enough because of the huge roster.

[HunteR_]

Neat one

uniplex, you facts are completely wrong and slander.

Please do not try to pretend like you know me, I ran DXD for 4 years, and had many successful tournaments and everyone got their prizes.

I don't know what your grudge is with me, but it's very childish to go on a rant about someone you don't know.

Especially the Pandemic thing, I have no clue what that is even about, lol, I've never done anything with Pandemic in my entirety of life.

oOoOooO... Now I get it, you made an account JUST to troll the HoN forums, I bet you're a league of legends fanboy.

http://www.heroesofnewerth.com/player_stats.php?aid=1248812

You've got 31 posts, and 0 games. Now I get it.

[HunteR_]

You don't merge to incite competiition.

I am also wondering why this whole thing was announced on the forums. Why should we care? You haven't answered that. There might be a reason for it, if so please do tell.

I am cleaning my appartment and moving out next weekend so I wont be playing on saturday. Maybe I should make a thread about that?

Because everyone knows them as team Check-Six and they're now Loaded?

Why wouldn't you want an announcement

[Whitebushido]

Because everyone knows them as team Check-Six and they're now Loaded?

Why wouldn't you want an announcement
bcuz teh name is gey

[HunteR_]

hehe, :) maybe. I personally think it's just because Check-Six has been an established eSport name since 2003, as Loaded! was founded in 2008, so it's reasonably new relatively.

[Rawrior]

ANYWAYS.. VOTE FOR BLIZZARD IN MARCH MAYHEM

March mayhem is a tournament hosted every year by the escapist where game developers are pitted against each other.

Blizzard beat The Behemoth in round 1!(Makers of castle crashers for the 360)

Support blizzard in their second round against insomniac games. :) ftw!!

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/532.182541-Poll-Round-2-West-7-Insomniac-Games-vs-2-Blizzard



Here are the brackets if you want to vote for other developers, just click on the developers name and it will bring you to the post!:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/global/tournaments/standings/2-2010-March-Mayhem-Developers-Showdown

[zndr]

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I don't see any point to posting this thread in the first place. If LOAD actually had a HoN team, sure, but they don't, so I really couldn't give less of a damn.

[HunteR_]

I don't see any point to posting this thread in the first place. If LOAD actually had a HoN team, sure, but they don't, so I really couldn't give less of a damn.

Wow... i mean do people even read posts anymore? I almost feel like typing everything in black and telling people to highlight below (try it).

You sir, Failed the internet, The point of the post was that Check-Six is now Loaded, the arguably "best team" in HoN.

http://logohobo.com/pics/bf7c4fcc8c162487a4e5540c62758469.png

[Rawrior]

Chu` looks pretty happy in that picture, where's bkid?

[siknoz]

As someone pointed out before, we don't care about the sponsors, we care about the team. However the only question I have about the sponsor is what do they actually sponsor FOR the team? I've had tons of sponsors with [$iK] back in competitive cs for a lot of years, and we had some sponsors who did crap for us, and we had some who did quite a bit for us (new machines, flight tickets to tournaments, etc). So does Loaded actually DO anything for WHP or are they there in name only?

[knowitall]

I love how you can see which demographic each game attracts the most.

[Harmonium]

whp will always be known by the hon community on its own right, regardless of whichever leagues or blahblah come along to 'sponsor' them and start flashy forum topics

tl;dr-whp is respected by hon players because of their contributions to the competetive metagame, not because of their clan tag

[WSLaFleur]

Growth of eSports is a good thing for all of us, deconstructive attitudes aren't going to get us anywhere near where we want to be.

[tabako]

As someone pointed out before, we don't care about the sponsors, we care about the team. However the only question I have about the sponsor is what do they actually sponsor FOR the team? I've had tons of sponsors with [$iK] back in competitive cs for a lot of years, and we had some sponsors who did crap for us, and we had some who did quite a bit for us (new machines, flight tickets to tournaments, etc). So does Loaded actually DO anything for WHP or are they there in name only?

I can't speak for the pigs, but my team has been approached by numerous sponsorship companies, and not a single one came to us with anything worthwhile. Most seemed to think that we would be happy to advertise for them in exchange for a ventrilo server and our pictures on a website. Can't really blame them, though, as, unfortunately, there just isn't enough money out there to make it viable for a company to fly us somewhere to play.

[Whitebushido]

I can't speak for the pigs, but my team has been approached by numerous sponsorship companies, and not a single one came to us with anything worthwhile. Most seemed to think that we would be happy to advertise for them in exchange for a ventrilo server and our pictures on a website. Can't really blame them, though, as, unfortunately, there just isn't enough money out there to make it viable for a company to fly us somewhere to play.

Try calling up that prince of Dubai who owns ensidia or whatever they're called now. You get sponsored by him and you're set for life.

[WaRDeN]

We've been approached by a bunch of sponsors as well, but as you said tabako, they're mostly just asking us to tag up for a vent server. We joined check-6 and now loaded because they're respected organizations with accomplishments in other games and have shown a serious interest in HoN and have offered more than just a name. That said, dota teams which are far and above the best teams in the world right now are receiving paltry salaries at best. This isn't starcraft in korea, there's still a long way to go. Also, Jeff Hunter is pretty much the man behind HoN's rapidly accelerating emergence onto the e-sport scene, and as this gets even bigger there's no better person to have as a team manager imo.

[Neeson]

People that have never even met Hunter are suddenly experts on his past? It's sad posters in this thread result to trolling Hunter while the top tier players are praising him for what he's done for the hon scene... Grow up.

[BustTheyEye]

How is the growth of eSports good? So more idiot kids can grow up thinking they can make a living playing video games all day instead of actually contributing to society? At least actual sports make an effort to encourage staying in shape and living a healthy lifestyle.

[Rawrior]

How is the growth of eSports good? So more idiot kids can grow up thinking they can make a living playing video games all day instead of actually contributing to society? At least actual sports make an effort to encourage staying in shape and living a healthy lifestyle.

The kid who you just referred to would sit at home all day playing video games anyways.

[BillDjango]

How is the growth of eSports good? So more idiot kids can grow up thinking they can make a living playing video games all day instead of actually contributing to society? At least actual sports make an effort to encourage staying in shape and living a healthy lifestyle.

Any job contributes to society. If a gamer sitting in his moms basement, getting paid by a big company to represent them in the e-sports community helps sell products - that company might get to keep or hire more employees. Who work, pay taxes, and spend money in their communities.

If they win money at lans, what do they do with that money? They spend it. They buy products, which in turn do what I just described.

This is the way of the world.

[Blastin]

They are 6/7 asian.. No wonder they are so good.

[arieLOL]

They are 6/7 asian.. No wonder they are so good.


now we all know who the weak link is too

[al`QaSiM]

above post is just so wrong in many ways xD