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Out with a whimper: Championship Gaming Series folds
NihonTiger90 \| 10:25 PM on 11.18.2008	5 comments

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Championship Gaming Series is dead. Bet you didn't know about that, did you? Bet you or anyone else didn't even care. In fact, people didn't care about it so much so that Joystiq is the only one who even reported it today. DirecTV, or more precisely News Corporation, has pulled the plug on the whole thing and left a letter on their site, stating it was "an idea whose time came too early."

Ha. It was an idea whose time came too early? I doubt that. I happened upon this over the summer, and really, I am shocked it lasted this long. The kids playing Forza 2, for example, were awful because they kept trying to take each other out instead of, you know, racing. I'm sure there was some talent to be found, but it clearly wasn't on display in that game.

On top of that, the entire team format, featuring teams that were more like pro sports clubs, was dumb. General managers, team jerseys and everything else never hid the fact that half the teams didn't even have kids from the places they were representing. I think the entire Chicago team didn't have a single kid from the entire state of Illinois, or something ridiculous like that.

So goodbye, Championship Gaming Series. We will not miss you and your lame gimmicks.

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5 comments | showing # 1 to 5

MrSadistic

Dang. I feel sorry for the one or two people who care about the CGS.

DeusPayne

"came too early"??? Don't tell that to Korea, they love their pro gaming.

t3h d0n

There was a championship gaming series? /end sarcasm

ThunderHeartXI

I tuned in a couple of times. They were always Halo 2 matches. At first it was sort of impressive, but after a while it was the same shit over and over again (sort of like real sports, eh?). Either way, it wasn't very interesting, and it was actually quite pretentious, and I ended up just turning off the TV and playing games for myself.

Good riddance, I say.

Dexter345

ThatVideoGameBlog reported it too. I still don't care.

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