<p>10 - Find a gaming partner<br />If your going to get serious, especially for the first time, make sure your doing it with a friend or two. Im still playing with the same friends I started playing with almost 10 years ago and it does make the whole eSport<br />experience a ton more enjoyable.</p>
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<p><br />Woodz & Cameron "Camstar" Rambert, playing together for 5 years (unfortunatly Cam still thinks hes a better fragger then me)<br /></p>
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<p> <br />9 - Resolution and game tweaking<br />Different games have different optimal operating specs. Most of the time you have to judge this for yourself, sometimes the most blistering graphics will make your life a lot harder when it comes to gameplay.<br />Lag or spikes are the worst thing you want so pick a resolution that is going to run at 100% for hours on end.<br />Always downscale your graphic options to the lowest textures, lighting and anti alisaing chew through your card and dont make a difference end game.<br />Always turn your brightness up high so you can see those naught little campers<br />For RPGS and strategy games always turn your resolution to the max optimum running resolution so you can see more on the map.<br />For FPS games always turn your resolution down nice and low, this will let you 'pixel hunt' and give you the ability to see recoil at long distances and chase headshots over some game walls and in hard to see places.<br /> <br /><br />Quake 3 CPMA can be reduced to its bare basic form to give players a very clear advantage over its over textured opponent<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br />8 - Play harder competitors<br />Slaughtering randoms in public online games is really only going to get you so far in your gaming, if you really want to get to the top get involved in a ladder or free online tournament. Heres a few links to fun tournaments to play in with a team or solo.<br /> Cyber Gamer ladders – http://www.cybergamer.com.au<br />Cyber Evolved – http://www.gotgames.com.au<br />Gamearena - http://www.gamearena.com.au/pc/ladders/<br /><br /><br /> <br />Live broadcast competetive action on B1G League<br /><br />7 -Ventrilo<br />http://www.ventrilo.com/ Ventrilo makes a huge difference to your gameplay, espeically in team based games and RPG's. Great for competetive gameplay as you can still communicate while in dead time and great for raids in MMORPG's.<br /> <br />No matter how good you are at button bashing, binding or marcoing buttons to ingame commands will really improve your game by reducing the ammount of things you have to think about. Save these as a configuration so you can take it with you if your going to lan.<br /><br />5 - Good quality mousepad, mouse & mouseskates<br />Ricky Ponting doesn't use a kanga cricket bat when smashing sixes against the west indies, and either should you use some poor quality mouse when your out fragging. A large good quality hard or cloth pad or hardpad as well as some hyperglide skates on your mouse and a good quality mouse will make the world of difference to your gameplay. I recommend Razer Deathadder and Func Pad.<br /></p>
<p>Some top quality gaming mice mice from Razer<br /><br />4 - Cpl mouse fix<br />Traditionally a computer comes with mouse acceleration, meaning as you speed up moving the mouse, it will accelerate how fast it tracks along your screen. CPL mouse fix takes a short while to get use to, though will dramatically improve your accuracy when you get your hands on it.<br />http://www.gotfrag.com/portal/files/82/<br /> <br />3 -Good quality headphones<br />In first person shooters, the most important skill is to pay attention to what your hearing, This will give you the advantage over your opponent any day of the week.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br />2 - CRT monitor & turn vsync off<br />Unless your spending $500+ on a 2ms LCD monitor, a 19” flatscreen crt is unbeatable for consoles and pc. Just remember on pc to turn vertical sync off to give you max, this can be found in your graphic card options.<br /> <br />1 - Watch demos of professionals<br />Www.gotfrag.com has a archive of most games and professional matches, after watching a few of these is like studying Rafael Nadals serve and will improve yours 10 fold, demos or replays will show you the tricks of the trade used by the worlds best and seriously eaccelerate your ability to get there fast.<br /><br /><br /> Profesional Gamers - Stensgaming at Gamerthon 2008<br /><br />Hope that helps!<br />Michael Woods<br />www.woodztown.com</p>
