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Slavery: The Return

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Admirable

It's been six months and a day since I last encouraged you all to voluntarily enslave yourselves to the over.gg cause. Since then we've survived the death of Overwatch on at least one occasion, and probably tried to kill it on several others.

More people than ever have been contributing to the rise of over.gg, but at present our grand ambitions are tempered by our capacity to get things done in a timely manner. I need your help.

The crew recently went through a brutal purge, the survivors can attest. You might still see a long list of blue names on Discord, but don’t be fooled, as with any undertaking it's usually 20% of the people doing 80% of the work. So I'd especially like to appeal to those hardworking, conscientious types that know how to get things done (please teach me how) and less to those greasy nerds trying to slide in to #protalk (smh).

We've got some great new features almost ready to launch and even more in the pipeline. Player profiles and more detailed event pages are two of big ticket items. As our feature set has expanded over time some gaps have appeared regarding the level of detail we have captured for events, teams and players in our database. At present we are systematically working through our records to make sure they up to scratch so we can roll out the new features ASAP.

I'm looking for a few dedicated souls who enjoy working with facts and figures. Part data input monkey, part perfectionist Rain Man-esque savant; you hate it when things aren't accurate, orderly and complete. If you can relate and/or think you can help, stand up and be counted.

And that's just one very pressing need we have right now. I'm always on the lookout for more bodies for the esports meatgrinder. We need news writers, match tickerers and loose-lipped billionaires to help us tell the story of Overwatch.

Every time someone refreshes over.gg and there is no new content a cute puppy dies. Only you can save them by helping us put out more news and cover more tournaments. As an aspiring news writer, you feel an uncontrollable urge to document the history of Overwatch esports as it unfolds hour by hour, providing context to every happening in the scene great and small, whilst weaving a narrative that entertains and inspires. Get in touch if you’ve got the thirst.

As always, bonus points for being embedded in any of the mysterious, non-English speaking scenes; China, Japan, Korea, Australia, etc. Even within our North American and European heartland we know there are tournaments and teams that go unreported on over.gg, so if you are passionate about your scene, wherever that may be, perhaps you want to help us bring it to a global audience.

We’ve often been compared to the HLTV.org of Overwatch and roughly speaking that is our goal, but to get there we need to do more, more, more!

  • More news, reported in a timely fashion
  • More written tournament coverage - previews, live coverage, recaps, final standings
  • More data captured - events, teams, players, matches

If you want to get involved respond here or contact me on the over.gg Discord.

#2
Admirable
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Parked.

#3
tamagao
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i am being replaced FeelsBadMan

#4
Pixelfish
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This is because of my comment ISN'T IT ADMIRABLE

#6
FrozenJackal
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tbh, this was a few months in the making, but it could be cause if it

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Pixelfish
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But for real talk, I'd like to get involved in writing. It's a passion that I've always wanted to explore more, and I think with my passion and opinions about overwatch eSports in general, over.gg could be an awesome place to write a few articles and editorials here and there. Let me know! :D

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ideekae
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I actually remember Pixel's first few long posts on this website, I highly recommend him as a writer.

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victococoblazin
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Im on mobile but i would like to write player profiles

#8
remiska
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saddly my writing skills are not good enaugh for articles (unless you think otherwise, samples in my threads) and soon i wont have a lot of time nor my pc (tho im looking for a laptop so it might work out)
ill think what i can help with

edit: i like this part :P

As always, bonus points for being embedded in any of the mysterious, non-English speaking scenes; China, Japan, Korea, Australia,

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Tomu
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You watch a lot of matches correct? You could just record the scores for that. That is what Admirable means by Match ticker.

And that goes for everyone not sure what they can do. If you watch Overwatch, help us record the results, we need people from all timezones. We've been a little sloppy on that as of late now that Summer is over so anybody with free time can help a lot. This can free up current tickers who are more experienced with the behind the scenes of over.gg to work on the other stuff!

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remiska
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actually i dont watch much i usually watch matches of teams i like and the rest i just check from time to time while doing something else on the pc, a lot of times i even come to over.gg for score instead of stream

#11
KuroiRyuu9625
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Oh, this looks interesting.

#12
Pixelfish
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Don't get any ideas you 3 star hecking nerd

#13
remiska
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*nolife not nerd ;)

#14
OFVjdi
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My english is average, but i want to help. I watch a lot of pro matchs and streams and i have a lot of time to waste

#15
remiska
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match ticker

#16
Swennnnn
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I would do something, but 90% of every day is full of school, etc.

#17
Admirable
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papa bless

#18
Pixelfish
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Replying to Swennnnn but not to anyone else :thinking:

Swennnnn to NRG?

#21
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etc.

No comment

#20
Pixelfish
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:D

#22
darkcvc
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I would be more than willing to help out. I love this site and have free time right now since I am living with my in-laws for a month and have no PC to game.

Oh and I watch TONS of matches, including the super early EST Korean and chinese ones.

#23
riojestin
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puppies BibleThump

#24
Mewpers
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Subtext: Admirable is the cute puppy

#25
Admirable
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The response has been good here and on Discord! New slaves are already greasing the wheels of progress. It's never too late to sacrifice yourself on the alter of esports :)

#26
Swennnnn
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I consider myself a fairly good writer. I would like to improve my writing skills, and I enjoy watching competitive overwatch. I would be willing to write player profiles, match recaps or anything that doesn't require me to be roaming the internet, searching for news stories, and writing something asap.

#27
poi98
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I really want to help but my english grammar is bad as f...... I promise i will improve my english and i will help this site...

#28
Admirable
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u only need gud englando if u wnt t b writer my friend

we have many roles :D

#31
remiska
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righter*

#32
poi98
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i would be really happy to help in any way if i can :)

#29
remiska
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I dont see any way this site makes any money at the moment soooooo, any plans to make over.gg pay for itself in the near future?
edit: i dont ask what plans just if there are any

#30
Admirable
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When EnVision gets signed to OWL we get 10%. I hope you entered the raffle :o

#33
Pixelfish
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Poi98 for president

#34
poi98
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Only if you became my first assistant!

#35
SKYTRiXSHA
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take me back sir

#36
Admirable
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:thinking:

#37
gyhwa
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deleting

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