Over the Christmas and New Year break, I sat myself down in front of the TV, and watched a lot of cricket. T20 in fact. Big Bash T20 to be precise, and some  NZ HRV Cup when the weather wasn’t being horrid. While watching the cricket I started thinking – they have a semi-pro structure, cricket in general does too, most sports do, or are starting to….. why can this structure not be implemented in to gaming to steadily assist the progression of competitive gaming.

The concept in T20 cricket is not dis-similar to that of what CGS had a number of years ago, and what other sports implement in general. However, rather than going full frontal in to a complete professional set up like CGS was, the best way forward is to harness the growing gaming industry support, and the growing interest in what competitive gaming is becoming and can provide to sponsors, and to look at  Semi-Professional Gaming League set up.

Thus, a progression that allows a league or tournament to grow with a League Administration, rule refinement and concept refinement is the best way to work through what is in effect a very business non-savvy community in general – full professionalism requires some business experience and structures to ensure all parties have protections in place. So with the above thoughts and information in place, the following has been grafted based on an initial white paper, and further discussion with various admins. More…