Videos:
Watch all of thorins interviews. ALL OF THEM. Seriously. THEY'RE AMAZING:
Watch compLexity redemption, the story of compLexity's second major and first top8 placing at winter CPL 2004. In the next year they'd become the best team in competitive counter-strike after winning ESWC 2005.
Watch Team3D at WSVG louisville, like coL redemption documents 3D's win at the first WSVG event.
Watch E-Athletes
, the story of the rivalry between coL and 3D. It's basically the TL;DR version of Gameboys but it's good never the less.Watch FRAG Pro Gaming Documentary
the downer of the group is probably the most negative one of the bunch. It deals with how shittily regulated the current scene is and how the CPL are/were total dicks to both their players and their winners. Also documents how a great player couldn't get a sponsor despite being awesome(and is stated that he couldn't get it because he's black).Books:
As a massive counter-strike fan i can't help but say that Game Boys: Triumph, Heartbreak, and the Quest for Cash in the Battleground of Competitive Videogaming
is a great book that documents the rivalry that took place from 2004-2009 between compLexity gaming and Team3D.I've even done a poorly written review.Next is Korea's Online Gaming Empire
. It's more of a statistical analysis of how fucking big the korean gaming business is but the last 2/3 of the book are dedicated to the korean pro gaming scene. It's actually an incredible read and where i learned the most about how shittly the starcraft players are treated in korea.(i'll write a review of this book....eventually) This is the only book, The StarCraft Bible 2nd Edition: Who knew that explosions of pixels could inspire?
i've not read but from what i have read(from the free stuff chobopeon has posted on teamliquid and the short audio version) it's fucking incredible. Someday i'm going to do this for counter-strike, although i really hope that somebody else does who can do the game justice. This is probably going to blow my mind while reading it, but idk yeat.
