PART 1: WHAT CAN I DO?

by Rinie 22 June 2009


If you have the passion for games and really wanted to help the gaming community, look no further as I will guide you on what you can help contribute to the gaming community even if your not good in gaming.



We usually have this mentality that the only way to help our gaming community to grow is to achieve the highest rank in any local or international tournament. Yes its true but its only one of the many other ways that can help grow the gaming community. Plus i believe this is one of the hardest way to influence the growth of the gaming community because it requires the gamers to achieve high skills. To make it more worst, there can only be one champion. Plus if nobody knows about your achievement, it will definitely not inspire others to follow your foot step as well. So obviously, there is more factor involve than just winning competition.


Now dont get me wrong. We have to be good in what we are doing. But my main point is this; that you dont have to necessarily be a gamer to help the growth of our beloved gaming community. Here i will list down 1 by 1 on what you can help contribute besides being a gamer:



1. Organizer

Last weekend, i met with some of my friends who is one of the best tournament organizer in town. The interesting facts that he told me is; doesnt mean you're a gamer you can be a good organizer . Painful fact as it seems but he has his own reason to support his facts. When organizing a tournament you got to get out of your "For Gamers" thinking. You got to think on how to expose this tournament to the PUBLIC, not just to the gamers. Notice that i stress on the word PUBLIC. Yes if you do a tournament and your target is just within the same group of gamers, your not a good organizer. Being a organizer is to think how to promote this tournament to the mass public and influence new faces to join as well. Not for the sake of your specialize group of gamers. When i look back on our current community, it just hit me in the head how many tournament organizer made this same mistake over and over again. I too have to admit did the same mistake as well.

But why be an organizer? The reason is simple. Without tournaments, there wont be any competitive gaming scene. Without tournaments, the community is dead. So it is very important to have a number of people who specialize in being an organizer. Believe me, a good organizer can tremendously increase the growth of the gaming community compare to being a good gamer.

The correct mentality to being a good organizer is:

1. For The Public
2. For The Gamers
3. For The Profit


We need to expose the tournament to the public so that the public know of our existent as well as to influence new faces to join our gaming community. At the same time the organizer must never neglect the already existing current gamers. Dont make this same stupid excuses where in order to promote the tournament we have to reduce the prizes. Most often this type of organizer fail to cater the needs and wants of both the public and gamers. And definitely, you need some profit to keep the tournament going. But never ever put profit as the highest priority. The money is like food,water,oxygen and blood for the tournament.

Public 1st, gamers 2nd and profit 3rd.

I think many business owner will disagree with my statements. But i would like to quote on what Henry Ford, the founder of Ford says about this issue:

" A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. "

" A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. "

" I am willing to sell my cars even with small profit. Then all Americans can afford and enjoy driving their very own car. That is the true spirit of Ford Organization; To provide cars to the general masses."

Part 2 will be publish soon. So stay tune ^^