Editing Multigaming Clans in Competitive Play
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Since it's release, a number of multigaming clans had squads and teams in | Since it's release, a number of multigaming clans had squads and teams in competitive [[Jedi Academy]]. | ||
==Definition of a multigaming clan== | ==Definition of a multigaming clan== | ||
A multigaming clan is a clan that, unlike the majority of clans in Jedi Academy, isn't focused on one game alone, but one that has different teams in a multitude of games, where Jedi Academy is only one games of many. Some clans that played [[Jedi Outcast]] prior to the existence of Jedi Academy, became technically a multigaming clan when starting to play Jedi Academy in addition to Jedi Outcast after it's release, but those are not multigaming clans in the narrower sense, as Jedi Academy and Jedi Outcast share a lot of it's playerbase. | A multigaming clan is a clan that, unlike the majority of casual clans in Jedi Academy, isn't focused on one game alone, but one that has different teams in a multitude of games, where Jedi Academy is only one games of many. Some clans that played [[Jedi Outcast]] prior to the existence of Jedi Academy, became technically a multigaming clan when starting to play Jedi Academy in addition to Jedi Outcast after it's release, but those are not multigaming clans in the narrower sense, as Jedi Academy and Jedi Outcast share a lot of it's playerbase. | ||
Since Jedi Academy was never a professional e-sport game, the decision for clans to create teams for Jedi Academy were never primarily of monetary nature. | Since Jedi Academy was never a professional e-sport game, the decision for clans to create teams for Jedi Academy were never primarily of monetary nature. | ||
Instead, it was merely a matter of making their clan more prominent in the gaming world and expanding it's playerbase and community. | Instead, it was merely a matter of making their clan more prominent in the gaming world and expanding it's playerbase and community. | ||
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Some teams changed their mother-clan and therefore their name without any changes in the teams infrastructure or lineup, an example for this is the Jedi Academy squad of a-gaming which became LeiSuRe-eSports in 2005. Some teams changed their names in very short intervals, xeTox being the most prominent example which became a sub-team of Qmatic, then a sub-team of my-novasports, to finally become the last iteration of aXiom. | Some teams changed their mother-clan and therefore their name without any changes in the teams infrastructure or lineup, an example for this is the Jedi Academy squad of a-gaming which became LeiSuRe-eSports in 2005. Some teams changed their names in very short intervals, xeTox being the most prominent example which became a sub-team of Qmatic, then a sub-team of my-novasports, to finally become the last iteration of aXiom. | ||
This was most likely due to the fact that it became increasingly hard for Jedi Academy teams to find clans that would sponsor their servers, which was the most important factor for Jedi Academy teams and players on their search for a clan. | This was most likely due to the fact that it became increasingly hard for Jedi Academy teams to find clans that would sponsor their servers, which was the most important factor for Jedi Academy teams and players on their search for a clan. | ||
While the majority of multigaming clans which had teams in Jedi Academy had their origin in other games, Vintage is one example | While the majority of multigaming clans which had teams in Jedi Academy had their origin in other games, Vintage is one example of a competitive team that created a successful multigaming clan, which outlived the original Jedi Academy team. | ||
==Well-known Jedi Academy teams of multigaming clans== | ==Well-known Jedi Academy teams of multigaming clans== |