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GGnet Dota 2 is looking for crew

About GosuGamers

GosuGamers is an eSports portal mostly specializing in Dota 2, League of Legends, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Hearthstone. The website has its roots back in 2002 and in its twelve year history, it has 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 GG.net Dota 2

GosuGamers had always been a brand name in the DotA scene and has transitioned into Dota 2 smoothly. We provided news coverage when the DotA scene was very small and have accompanied the game throughout its biggest moments, and most recently at The International 4.

Aside from detailed news coverage from around the world, we offer bets for all major tournaments and many minor ones, having adapted our own item betting system. Our GosuRankings are unmatched and often used when teams refer to their achievements and accomplishments. 

Many of our crew members have experienced the growth of eSports first hand, thus boasting years of experience in many fields. We help each other out and make sure that we grow both as a unit and individually. We may also belittle you for your poor MMR, but then again our crew lead is a 3k scrub himself.

 

What does being part of GosuCrew 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
  • Get to know all the pro players and names you admire: We keep good relations with a large part of the pro player community, giving our crew a great opportunity to meet and interview the players they look up to
  • 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: as we work closely with many Dota teams, tournament organizers and managers in the scene, we are able to learn what's going to happen next beforehand. 
  • A chance of helping your local scene grow: Dota is a global eSports title with many local communities and scenes, most of which is impossible to cover without having someone with the regional attachment. If you’re passionate about your local scene, come and write about it!
  • Meet like minded people that share the passion that you have for your favorite game - we all love gaming and most of us don't bite!
  • We also may or may not have cookies for you. (We don't.)

 

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 does being part of GosuCrew mean/require?

  • First of all, don't worry, you don't need to have any sort of degree or any experience to work with us
  • Put down a few hours per week to help out with content/coverage: As all GG.net crew
  • Members work on a voluntary basis, it’s entirely up to you when, how much and with what you 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 the player rankings by taking care of DreamHack matchticker – it’s all yours. If you want to interview a caster or a player - sure, why not?
  • 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 are we looking for?

There are two sections of the Dota 2 crew you can apply to. Currently, we're looking for volunteers to join both our editorial and coverage crew. When you’ve decided which position you want to apply for, kindly send an e-mail to [email protected] with subject “GosuGamers Dota 2 section application”, including in the body:

NAME:
SECTION YOU’RE APPLYING FOR:
LOCATION/TIMEZONE:
ACTIVE WORK HOURS:
HOW MANY HOURS DO YOU EXPECT TO DEDICATED TO GG.NET WEEKLY:
YOUR SKYPE ACCOUNT WHERE WE CAN REACH YOU:

Then also state possible previous experience and why you think you would be a good addition to the crew.

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, including the popular matchticker. As a coverage crew you’ll be handling a portion (or all of, if you so desire) of:

- Adding drafts for matches being live
- Resulting matches as they end
- Add VODs to our database and match pages
- Update the schedule of upcoming matches
- Update player and team pages
- Add and maintain streams

When applying to coverage crew, it is presumed you enjoy these sort of tasks regarding updating databases with new information. This would also require you to watch and follow matches of your favourite game to provide the said drafts and results.

So, what are you waiting for? We'll be waiting for you!

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