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Promotional: GotFrag announces eSports Magazine!

By: Jason Bass - Published December 10, 2006 at 12:22 PM EST - Writer Archive
GotFrag, in partnership with Beckett Media, is pleased to announce its first magazine, Beckett eSports!


New York, NY – December 9, 2006 – GotFrag.com, Inc., in partnership with Beckett Media, is pleased to announce the release of eSports, the first eSports magazine in the United States. eSports hits the news stands later this month and will cater to anyone and everyone that follows the eSports scene. Among the titles covered in the magazine will be Counter-Strike, Warcraft 3, Quake, Halo 2, Dead or Alive and many others.

Some of the best writers in the industry will be filling the magazine each issue. GotFrag’s very own Trevor “Midway” Schmidt will be heading the magazine as Editor-in-Chief and will have a featured article in each and every issue.


eSports will also feature:

• Computer Hardware Reviews (Brought to you by GotFrag Hardware)
• PC Game Reviews (Brought to you by GotFrag EXE)
• Console Game Reviews (Brought to you by GotFrag DPAD)
• Player Interviews (Brought to you by Gotfrag eSports)
• World Rankings (Brought to you by GotFrag eSports)
• Tournament Calendar (upcoming months, Brought to you by GotFrag eSports)

Each issue will also feature guest column from top eSports athletes around the world, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the world from the viewpoint of the world’s top professional gamers. Among the guest columnists will be David “Moto” Geffon (Team3D), Griffin “Shaguar” Benger (Team3D), and Danny “Frod” Montaner (Complexity). They will discuss things such as their experiences being a gamer, to strategies to help newer players better their games.

All content featured in the magazine will be exclusive to the magazine. Some pieces may be chosen to be published on GotFrag.com, but not until long after the magazine has been out.

The first issue will be a collector’s edition, Issue ZERO. This issue will be given out for free to all of those who attend the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) 2006 Winter Championships event this December 16th – 20th. Issue ZERO will feature exclusive behind-the-scenes content on the CPL Winter 2006 event, including previews on key players from around the world in Quake and Counter-Strike 1.6, a humor column from Bobby "Weenus" Hicks, and an in-depth look at rivalry and friendship behind two of eSports top players.

For those of you not able to attend, you are not out of luck. Issue ZERO ships free to you at no additional cost if you subscribe before January 15th, 2007. Or it is available as a stand-alone purchase for $2.99.


The eSports subscription includes:

• 6 issues
• Free copy of Issue ZERO
• Introductory rate of $12.99 if you order before January 15th, 2007. After January 15th, regular subscription prices is $14.99
• Shipping is FREE to U.S. Customers, and is a flat $10 (for all issues) to Canada and world-wide.

You can order your copy of eSports right here at GotFrag.com!

UPDATE: We have had several inquiries to support paypal subscriptions. Unfortunately, due to the way that Paypal handles address verification, we cannot support Paypal subscriptions at this time. We may add it in later, but the issues with address verification (essentially a manual process) would lead to too many risks ranging from Fraud to the wrong shipping addresses which we don't feel it would be responsible to undertake. However, after CPL, we will have a printable form which you can send in for your subscriptions.

About GotFrag.com
GotFrag.com is the leading online community and resource for competitive computer gaming news, features and content. The GotFrag.com website was launched in November 2002, and reaches over 1 million readers every month. Reporting live and on-site at every major competitive gaming event in the world, GotFrag.com has become the world’s largest and most influential independent online publisher of competitive gaming news and content. For more information, visit www.gotfrag.com.

The Cyberathlete Professional League, the CPL and the CPL Logo are registered trademarks of the Cyberathlete Professional League.

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"Some of the best writers in the industry will be filling the magazine each issue."

Who do you plan to hire? Thorin?
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soooooo cooooooool! :)
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AWESOME!
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This is an awesome idea, I'll be ordering mine soon.
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Finally! But I think a magazine should be a collaboration between news organizations, but it doesn't matter. I am going to order now!

edit:
Your card was declined. This occurs most frequently due to input error or unavailable credit limit. Please check the card number, expiration date and security code. If problems persist, call your card issuing financial institution. Error code 2.2

GotFrag not take debit? :(. If someone can help me?

This comment was edited at 12/10/2006 12:50 PM
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I hope david light has some of his work in there. He is sooo leet. GO DAVY!!! YOU're my HERO
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Its big, cause people that arent involved with esports can actually learn what its like. Like reading a bmx section on espn when bmx got big.
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you need to make it payable via paypal I think!
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cool
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nice
should add paypal

This comment was edited at 12/10/2006 1:02 PM
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Thanks for subscribing!

Congratulations on your subscription to eSports Gamer Magazine, we're sure you'll love it!

Your payment was successful! You should receive an e-mail shortly with confirmation of your payment.
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Will this be available at news stands?
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#13 - Beckett is handling distribution of the magazine. GotFrag does all the content. They will be distributing it through their channels to various news stands around the country.

We're very excited to be working with them on this project.

#6 - If it's a VISA/MC debit card, it should work fine. Too many cases of bud-light on that card? ;/
Lee Chen | President | www.gotfrag.com | #gotfrag
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Can't always trust the AP to get those quotes about "gamer strike" and "competitive e-cyber sporting" right.
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Thanks for subscribing!

Congratulations on your subscription to eSports Gamer Magazine, we're sure you'll love it!

Your payment was successful! You should receive an e-mail shortly with confirmation of your payment.
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Awesome! can't wait for it to come out!
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Wewps, my fault on Paypal. We're going to add that later, and I forgot to include that when I approved the announcement from Jason and Trevor.

It should be up soon, the issue with paypal is that Beckett needs to actually send this magazine to you, and Paypal doesn't allow us to collect address information, except via email (which would be a nightmare to manage).
Lee Chen | President | www.gotfrag.com | #gotfrag
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where can I see the shipping rate?
Inactive.
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thanks Lee.... the magazine is a superb idea and good luck to Gotfrag with it. Just thought I would mention paypal as I know a lot here use it rather than CC :)
ooooh, what a lovely bunch of coconuts!
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#14 - I have a Master Card and I have about 60$ on it (I'm no drinker ;)).

Is there an email I can contact so I can subscribe to this magazine? Maybe a phone number to order that way? Not sure. Wondering why it works for everyone and not me, hrm.... I'm cursed.
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Shipping rates show up on the final page, and I added it to the announcement above. Pricing again is:

$12.99 For Subscription FREE Shipping to the US. $10 flat ship charge to Canada or worldwide.
$2.99 for Premier issue $2.00 Shipping to the US. $5 Flast ship charge to Canada or worldwide.
Lee Chen | President | www.gotfrag.com | #gotfrag
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Cool I guess
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#20 - NP. We've been wanting to do it for a long time, and Jason Bass and Trevor Schmidt as well as a host of other people have been very hard at work putting it together. Beckett is a great partner, and we're very happy to work with them.

In case you don't know who they are, they're one of the largest publishers of sports and fantasy sports magazines in the US.

This comment was edited at 12/10/2006 1:19 PM
Lee Chen | President | www.gotfrag.com | #gotfrag
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oh god...............
Xena Warrior Princess! YeYeYeYeYeYe!!
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!!!! I made a subscription, but for some reason my credit card only gets accepted when I use my old address. I recently moved, so the address on the credit card isn't where I live.

The magazine is obviously gonna be sent there, how can I change it so it comes to my new house? :x
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can't WAIT for that SWIMSUIT issue!
Yep.
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wow great idea...i might actually pick this up!
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Nice. I might get it after I see how it does.
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sweeeet :)
definetley getting a subscription.
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SUBSCRIBED.

can't believe it's out already I PMed Lee about this in August!
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haha...I saw this coming. Two months ago I told my friend that there will be an esports magazine coming very soon. With such a following, how could they not afford to publish a magazine like this.

thanks guys, I will subscribe soon.
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debit works for me :-)
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/sarcasm:

This year, GotFrag has launched:
GotFragTV
GotFrag eSports Gamer magazine

Next year... we're colonizing Mars. There's water. Scoots has pictures.
Lee Chen | President | www.gotfrag.com | #gotfrag
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This whole eSports is for earth only mentality will only stunt it's growth if you ask me!
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The shipping flat of 10 $ for worldwide countries as mine is for each issue or for the six issues ? About how many pages are there in each issue please ? It is a very good idea !!! I hope I will be able to suscribe to it !
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Just ordered it =-]
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I will order tomorrow, I found out that my money was being put into savings rather then checking and lunch ate up my money. I think that 20 dollar pizza yesterday really killed it. Thanks for the help everyone, and I can't wait to get 0-6!
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Would be fun to write for :)
hello
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Great idea btw good move by Gotfrag everyone order this!
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ah yes, it's about time! this'll put eSports on the map
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It's 10$ flat for ALL the issues shipping world wide.

So if you're in the US, a subscription is $12.99 for 6 issues + Issue ZERO including s/h.
If you're in Canada or anyplace else in teh world, it's total $22.99 for 6 issues + Issue ZERO including s/h.

That offer is only good until 1/15/2007.
Lee Chen | President | www.gotfrag.com | #gotfrag
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Sweet! I knew I loved you guys, and not just because you were always hillarious on vent during staff meetings <3

And rofl @ #29... Grubby's GF will definitely be the cover model :]
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22.99 sounds good to me. think i´ll get a subscription
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my life would be ruined if i were caught reading that in public
NOR*CAL
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This is a great idea. I will subscribe ASAP!
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kinda cool, increaes chances of eSports becoming mainstream

but doesnt every competitive gamer have internet access, ergo gotfrag access? seems a gamble if its purely to pull in more fans, I cant see a profit in this
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Good luck with the magazine GotFrag :-)

#28 FU :D
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