GosuGamers' CS:GO section is looking for Editorial and Coverage crew members

Are you a Counter-Strike fan who wants to write about his favorite game and/or maintain one of the richest tournament databases in competitive CS? Apply to become a GosuGamers crew member and start building your connections with the industry.

About GosuGamers

GosuGamers is an Esports portal mostly specializing in Dota 2, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch, League of Legends and Counter-Strike. The website has its roots from back in 2002 and in its twelve year history it’s evolved into one of the premier places for eSports coverage, providing news, featured content, VODs, replays, player and team rankings, matchticker and in-depth event coverage.

About the GG.net CS:GO Section

The CS:GO section was officially launched in July 2014 and currently is one of the fastest growing sections on GosuGamers. Supported by a dedicated taskforce of writers and coverage crew, it covers the full scope of competitive Counter-Strike through news, matchticker, VODs, demos, rankings and more.

Less than six months since its launch, the work of our CS:GO crew was acknowledged by Reddit and Valve, as our matchticker can now be accessed from the /r/globaloffensive sidebar as well as from the CSGO client itself.

Benefits of being part of the GosuCrew



Experience and exposure within coverage/journalism in eSports: GosuGamers is a great place to start your writing career and publish your work on a well-read platform

Contacts to player/team managers and eSports organizations: Build your connections with the people in the industry

Be one step ahead of everyone else when it comes to knowing the happenings on the scene

A chance of helping your local scene grow: Counter-Strike has been around a long time and there have been tonnes of competitions all over the place, many of which elude our sight. If you’re passionate about your local scene, come and write about it!

Work with friendly, open-minded people who also happen to share your love of CS:GO (and beer, we love beer)



Additionally, we’re always happy to help our outstanding volunteers in their future career steps. We’ll happily write you a letter of recommendation if your work has really been great and many crew members have used this opportunity to move on and work for other eSports companies or non-eSports media.

What it takes to be part of the GosuCrew



Put down a few hours per week to help out with content/coverage: As all GosuGamers crew members work on a voluntary basis, it’s entirely up to them when, how much and with what they want to help. You will be working with your crew leader closely to coordinate some tasks, but most of the time you will set your own tempo.

Take initiative and assign tasks to yourself: In continuation of the previous bullet point, we love people who don’t need babysitting or being ordered around (this is not the point anyway). If you want to write an article about an event – go for it. If you want to help with the ticker by taking care of some matches – it’s all yours.

Communicate with your collaborators on Skype and crew forums: our guys are online most of the time, busy not having lives and all…

What kind of people are we looking for?

Simply put, the CS:GO section of GosuGamers is divided into two sub-sections: editorial and coverage work. For the basic outline of each position, take a look below. When you’ve decided which position you want to apply for, kindly send an e-mail to [email protected] with subject “GosuGamers CS:GO section application”, including in the body:

Name:

Section you're applying for:

Location/timezone:

Active work hours: (Time frame which suits you the best to help out on the site)

Amount of hours you expect to dedicate to GosuGamers weekly:

Your Skype account and ways we can reach you:

Why you are applying and what interests you most about being a part of either section:

Anything else you would like to add:

Editorial

Editors are responsible for all text-based content on the site, ranging from newsposts about tournaments, transfers, players, events and so forth to unique content, including interviews, guides, tournament previews, columns, player and team profiles, event recaps and so forth. The pen is yours and our blank pages are limitless.

Editors are expected to be able to write prominently in English, though a degree in it or having it as first language is not required. You also don’t need to have extensive background in writing and while experienced scribblers will have no problem fitting in, we also have managerial crew with years of writing behind them who can guide the novice ones.

When applying for editorial, please also kindly provide a piece you’ve written on any topic. We just want to see your command of English, no CVs or portfolios are required.

Coverage

The coverage crew are the backbone of, well, everything else on the site as they’re responsible for the entire database on GosuGamers CS:GO section. As a coverage crew you’ll be handling a portion (or all of, if you so desire) of:

- Creating and resulting tournaments to keep the matchticker up to date

- Updating player and team pages

- Add VODs

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