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GotFrag
URL http://www.gotfrag.com/
Commercial? Yes
Type of site eSports news site
Owner
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GotFrag was founded in 2002 as a professional eSports coverage website that would provide news and updates for the growing gaming community. It provided gamers with a place to look up information and current happening about their favorite teams and/or players. Since then, the site and grown exponentially, and in 2004, GotFrag released the second version of their website, one which allowed for great expansion and content to provide its growing fanbase. Along with the launch of version 2, GotFrag announced their GotFrag Prime service. Prime provided paying viewers additional content, features, and benefits. In December 2004, GotFrag revolutionalized record keeping and statistics in eSports by debuting GameSense. GameSense is the first ever statistical database of professional players, and it has allowed for many players and fans of gaming to have a sense of who the best player or team is in the world.

When first launched, GotFrag primarily provided coverage for the game of Counter-Strike, however, with the continuous expansion to greater coverage, they added several other section to their website. In 2005, GotFrag would once again find itself in a position where it would require a new version of the website in order to provide continual improvement of content delivery. Therefore, in August 2005, GotFrag released its third version of the website, which was designed by Surreal Media. Along with many other added features, GotFrag announced that it would be the Official Media Partner of four of the biggest gaming competitions; Cyberathlete Professional League, Cyberathlete Amateur League, CyberEvolution and Global Gaming League.

In September 2006, Gotfrag introduced it's "GotComms" service which caters to ventrilo and teamspeak server rental.

Contents

[edit] Departments

[edit] Gotfrag Forums

Gotfrag's most heavily trafficked pages are the forums in which gamers engage in a constant battle of words or leetspeak to see who has the biggest e-penis. Some of the more popular authors to frequent the forums consist of Forrest, LeetBean, TheFamilyJoels, Cyrax, killer_dog_menor, and Crunge. While many forum posts are coveted for their humor and insight towards the budding industry of e-sports, Gotfrag's censorship of the forums has occasionally drawn widespread criticism from its members; some of whom claim that as the primary outlet of information for an industry, Gotfrag has the responsibility of acting as a media watchdog for the gaming community, a community that is often seen as relatively unstable and immature. GotFrag's founder, Trevor "Midway" Schmidt, claims that as a private company GotFrag should be allowed to protect their own interests. This debate has continued for some time with varying degrees of intensity, however, no legal implications have yet surfaced.

[edit] Gotfrag EXE

In addition to hardware Gotfrag has launched a site dedicated to reviewing software and games. When reviewing games EXE attempts to give the multi player aspect of games a fair scoring, as most game review web sites focus solely on single player.

[edit] Gotfrag DPAD

For the first time, Gotfrag has added an addition to the site that is not PC Gaming related. DPAD is Gotfrag's first dedicated console site including game reviews, previews, features and competitive gaming coverage.

[edit] Gotfrag Promo

Gotfrag's third additional site is Gotfrag Promo, a website dedicated to offering promotional contests and random giveaways to the users of Gotfrag.

[edit] Games Covered

Currently, GotFrag provides eSports coverage for the following games:

[edit] Official Media Partners

[edit] External links

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