Sri Lanka’s Online Game Ladders

Sri Lanka's gaming scene in has risen up another notch. Recently two of the gaming websites have thought of conducting game ladders. LCGZ (Lanka Cyber Game Zone) has already opened up their game ladder site called gameladders.lk and opened up registrations for COD4 (Call of duty 4). The other site that is preparing to open up a gaming ladder is lankagamer.com. According to sources they will also open up registrations very soon and says that it’ll be better than the rival game ladder.

            Wikipedia states that “A game ladder is a series of ranking levels used to measure playing skill in competitive games.”  It goes on to say that, “Game ladders are an integral part of the playing experience for many games.”     

            So what these guys are doing will undoubtedly increase the gaming experience of our novice Sri Lankan gamers.

              LCGZ.lk is planning to hold gaming ladders for

• Counter Strike - 5v5
• DotA (Defense of the Ancients) - 5v5
• COD 4 - 5v5 – Can go register your clan/team @ www.gameladders.lk

 My 2 cents:

            Sri Lankan Gaming community is really small as at now and it is limited to the Colombo region and some are from the Kandy region. Having 2 gaming ladders for the same games might be too much for the gamers. Many might opt to go to just one gaming ladder because of the time constrains and for other reasons. Thereby the whole point of having a gaming ladder (To rank the all of the current teams/clans) will be going out of the window, since no ONE ladder will consists all the clans/teams in Sri Lanka as at now.  

Therefore might I suggest if any of the organizers looking at this blog post to come together and host one gaming ladder for one game. Thereby the whole purpose holding a gaming ladder will be persevered. 

Thanks for Reading. Await a post on the outcome of the GCDL Season 1.