Designing something suitable for eLeague.gg has been a real challenge. In no small part thanks to the fact that whilst we are starting as a LAN party, we aren’t exactly a LAN party, too.

We’ve got plans to involve all sorts of data collation, API methods and intelligence services which suits our online tournaments in conjunction with our LAN party events. With this, it means we’ll need a very different, much more robust system. And so, our site very quickly begins to start taking shape (from a high level overview) as a dashboard/web application.

And so, on that basis, we’ll be taking the Dashboard/App path. It’ll be a very interesting layout, and won’t be as exciting as the original version of the eLeague.gg site, if only because we’re aiming to get functionality and information delivered to the users first; I’m hoping we can expand our team with a brilliant designer in the near...

One of the big gripes I have about my current to-do list with eLeague.gg is that I’m almost buried in the work required for developing the website. It actually genuinely gets in the way of something that I think might be even more important to eLeague’s operations – communicating with the community.

We haven’t quite explained it clearly although people can probably guess from our event naming that eLeague.gg operates on a seasonal calendar - with our BYOC acting as the ‘launch’ event of the season. Contrary to popular belief, these events are not our grand finals although they do host them, for example:

• Autumn BYOC - hosts Summer Finals, launches Autumn
• Winter BYOC - hosts Autumn Finals, launches Winter
• Spring BYOC - hosts Winter Finals, launches Spring
• Summer BYOC - hosts Spring Finals, launches Summer

With such frequent, eSport level events; there’s a lot to learn that some...

eLeague.gg is rapidly growing behind the scenes, and this is especially true in regards to the tech development team behind the scenes.

Our current development team consists entirely of one person (yours truly) and my duties involve:

• Coding behind all the site’s actions (more on this later)
• Designing everything visitors see on the site
• Writing all the content on the site
• Designing the structure of the site, processes and user flow

Not to mention all the maintenance involved…! So the obvious solution, is to bring on board more people! The exceptionally talented¹ :

• PSmith a long time LAN party regular at my events and volunteer admin both at my events, and at PAX Australia
• SirSquidness the well known server/network/LAN guy from Respawn LAN, Melbourne (also same for PAX Aus PC Area)

So…. What’s the problem?

Well, since I started out running LAN parties, and doing gaming events...

Hello.

For the past half decade I’ve burned through my financial resources, time, energy and even health working towards running and building a gaming community. Learning scraps of everything I needed to get by on and then having to relearn things to master them. It’s been one heck of a journey.

This blog is my personal thoughts and feelings only as I build my gaming community; and it’s my way of recording this great adventure.

On March 19th this year, I managed to execute the first BYOC event of our gaming community brand, eLeague.gg - we had spent the past 5 years as Multiplayer United (and still continue to use this name to help other communities) but it came to a head with this new brand, and this new concept.

eSports Gamers

Community Gamers

Quirky Competitions

Incredible Modders

Loads of swag and prizes

It all came together; and as we near the approach of our next...