An interesting phenomenon has been happening over at the CPL while organizing their upcoming summer event. They are giving away $100,000 cash for a Counter-Strike tournament which has a huge registration list that they actually even expanded, but they are having troubles filling up the secondary tournament as detailed at ShackES. The plan is for a Day of Defeat v2.0 tourney with $25,000 cash in prizes, but only 5 teams have signed up. Then there is the TFC tournament with only a single team signed up. Fruity. So I did some quick poking around gathering up stats the other day in terms of popularity

TIER 1 - Counter-Strike is huge, duh.
TIER 2 - UT, TFC , RTCW, Quake3, MoH, DoD
TIER 3 - TRIBES2, Quake2

If there was ever a doubt that different games attract different types of players within the same genre, here you go. TFC is neck and neck with RTCW and MoH in the tier2 group, yet only one clan is even signed up in a competitive lan tourney. Yet when other games at about the same size as TFC is now have fielded numerous large scale lan tourneys dedicated to those games. Then there is Day of Defeat, with a hefty $25,000 prize being dangled in front of everyone and only 5 teams sign up?

What does this mean? Different games attract different types of players, and it looks like the # of people playing a game isnt the only indication of how popular a tournament for that game would be.

I suppose an article like this is just bait for the nitwits to come out and insult people for having different tastes in games, so I'll break it to the folks who are tempted to extol the virtues of their game of choice while lambasting anyone who disagrees. You're a moron.