Are you a Heroes of the Storm fan who wants to write about his favorite game and/or maintain a fast-growing tournament, team and player database? 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 and Counter-Strike. The website has its roots 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 Heroes of the Storm Section
Heroes of the Storm is the youngest member to the GosuGamers family, one we welcomed in the last months of 2014. Although the game itself is in its infancy, it cannot excite us more! Being a 5v5 game with a big competitive potential, it fits well in our portfolio, traditionally known for its high-quality Dota 2 coverage. It's fast paced, it's thrilling, it's colorful and magical and it bears Blizzard's logo and that makes it a very, very GG.net title.
Heroes' dedicated section on the site is now ready to make its first big steps. We already lay the foundations by setting up the first ranking and hero stats pages for the community and by filling up our matchticker and database with a lot of the upcoming, ongoing and completed events. What we lack is a dedicated taskforce of editorials, ready to bring it to its full fruition.
This were you, hopefully, come in!
What being part of the GosuCrew will give you?
- 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: Heroes of the Storm is starting to bloom, all over the world. 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 Heroes and Blizzard games in general (and hate that random Hero League Murky player who's doing his daily quests and ruining everything)
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 being part of GosuCrew means/requires?
- Put down a few hours per week to help out with content/coverage: As all GG.net crewmembers work on 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 to be babysat and 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.
- Use Skype and crew forums to communicate with the crew: our guys are online most of the time, busy not having lives and all…
What kind of people we’re looking for?
Simply put, the Heroes of the Storm 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 Heroes section application”, including in the body:
NAME:
SECTION YOU’RE APPLYING FOR:
LOCATION/TIMEZONE:
ACTIVE WORK HOURS:
HOW MANY HOURS DO YOU EXPECT TO DEDICATE TO GG.NET WEEKLY:
YOUR SKYPE ACCOUNT WHERE WE CAN REACH YOU
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 Heroes 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
- Update player and team pages
- Add VODs
- Add demo files
