Ah the glorious illusion Shalvus holds... Why waste your time, money and talents on a dead game (especially one that you don't compete in yourself lol)? I implore you to enter the real world and give up the silly notion of camaraderie that has kept you yearning for any contact with these children gamers.

I didn't find any information about the Awsomniac structure through a google search. No website? It seems facebook is getting more importance than the whole internet. ^^

I was wondering if Awsomniac was planning to play the other Nadeo titles (future TM environments, SM...) in a multigaming way or such kind. At the moment it seems a pretty atypical team to me and i wondered as well if Awsomniac was a sponsor or something like that, it seems not.

And the first paragraph seems written by someone from ManiaActu after the communiqué was recieved, but it's not obvious since Shalvus appears as the author or the whole news...

yeah you'r right, it is not that obvious...

The game is not dead and they want to bring again life in it, which is awesome!

I'm the Author of the second part. The first paragraph is from Mania-Actu.

To answer to rom42, we have actually no website, but it will come in time. We will soon create a new facebook for the multigaming, there is actually one for the TM² Team 1.

We will probably recruit a Shootmania team and also a League of Legends team. Stadium does not really give me pleasure as well, and I don't want to recruit a team an a game that is not interesting in my point of view.

If you have any questions, you can send it to me here or by mail : shalvus@gmail.com

Laurens, Canyon is of course not dead yet but its success over the long run will depend on whether or not we can link them with the future titles. It will be hard for canyon to survive a competition against Stadium² and Valley, except if the latter is a fail (which i don't hope). So we have to make things such as environments are not opponents, but supports one another (a multi-environments league could help that, for instance). But if we leave each community alone, older environments communities might vanish. So i think the success will come from the ability of the various communities to work together and to support one another. This challenge is not archieved yet, but it's probably exciting to develop that way.

Shalvus, i don't have that much questions. Usually top-level eSport teams start with a sponsor and here i found no information, which excited my curiosity. (Be aware i don't think it's bad, i actually prefer to see teams playing for passion than for money, although one can play for both).

#5 (talking about Stadium) "I don't want to recruit a team an a game that is not interesting in my point of view."

So you truely think that Canyon is more interesting than Stadium in eSport ? I don't agree
I'm a Canyon player

I'll move on to valley too when it comes out and when it's interesting, but I'll stay at canyon as well. But it's perfect we don't go at stadium. Let's just see what the future brings us ;) at the moment all is fine.

#7 So you don't know the rules of an eSport Game. The biggest key to success is that a game is easy and funny to play, but hard to master. A game that gives the desire to its players to create a community, to talk to each others. And it's more the case of Canyon than Stadium. Stadium is too hard for most players, and that's why you see so much people downloading the game and uninstall it after 1 or 2 hours of play. You can't develop a huge eSport scene on this.

But I also agree that Canyon lacks in a lot of things. 1st point ? The community is too short actually. 2nd point ? Nadeo does not involve itself to make the community grow like Riot Games or Blizzard did. Why do you think a game like League of Legends has became so huge compared to DotA ? Better design, ok. But it's mainly because Riot involved themselves into developing the eSport on it. eSport brings players, and so... money. They pay less that they win.
There are many other points, but I can't tell them here. I'll probably write an article here to tell my point of view about it.

"easy and funny to play"
Starcraft 2 is atm one of the biggest eSport game, and it's way harder to handle than Canyon or even Stadium or even TMU I think
"Stadium is too hard for most players", but is still existing and more active than Canyon after 7 years of life.

I try to explain players should support one another, and they start a battle... Obviously i'm not a prophet and there is still a lot of work in front of us. :)

By the way, i don't think "eSport" should only be intended to an elite. Everybody can take part to the matches and the tournaments should be drove by passion and give fun to all the racers. The more people we'll bring to the tournaments because we are motivated, the more famous the game will become and the more people will be interested in the results of the grand finals. Cashprizes for the bests might be a recognition if the whole community succeeds, but they are to be seen as the cherry on the cake rather than the goal itself.

#10 You can do a lot of things in Starcraft 2 when you don't know the game, you have a campain, a Lore, you have a big content even before you begin Matchmaking. And when you begin it, you don't face immediatly huge players. Trackmania is way different from a RTS game. No Lore, No Matchmaking, so you can't compare those games.

#11 And I totally agree with you, but the fact is that Stadium always want to be apart from Canyon, when Canyon players ask to be closer to Stadium, to make the community grows. The other big problem is that most newcomers don't really know about the game and don't do the difference between environments, and they'll pick the cheapest one -> Stadium, and if they dislike it, they will stop and won't ever try Canyon. Moreover, the community never made a move to help the Trackmania community grows like Riot did with League of Legends. Maniagala was a good idea, but why no Cashprize ? Why players had lags ? Why Drakonia and Mania-Actu and not Nadeo themselves ? ... ? So many stranges moves that makes the game has difficulties to grow. That's also the reason I want to involve a lot into the game, because I truly believe it can have a good future, and I think that with our projects, we can help to pursue this belief.
Talking about projects, new Zotac-like by Awsomniac incoming ? We're in a good way to make it happen. (:

It's clear your emotions for this game are clouding your judgement. It seems you have some grand notion, but the facts simply do not support your arguments. How many players do you see on canyon nightly? How many new teams (not different teams with the same players) do you see? How many new players do you see competing at the highest level?

Please, for your sake, do not waste any money on a Zotac-like tournament unless your goal is to funnel that money to your own team's players.

#13 Did I say that there's a bigger community on Canyon than on Stadium ? I just see there a bigger title than Stadium can be.

Ok Lateralous, I don't know you, can you say what you have done for your game's community?

Your first comment just pissed me of, if you are here to destroy what others try to do, go away.

Defensive reactions are common when the truth is not what we would like to hear ;)

#15 Offensive reactions are common when you are just too blind to really argue and explain your point of view.

I meant #16. Sorry Durty :p