Flashpoint signs WWE writer to make CSGO pros \u201ctheatrical\u201d superstars ESL \/ FACEIT \/ Wikimedia Commons: Alexander VaughnFlashpoint\u2019s goal from day one was to make CS:GO entertaining for all, and they are committing to that promise by hiring a former WWE writer to turn the league\u2019s players into characters of themselves \u201ccranked up to eleven.\u201d Everyone loves a good bit of trash talk in esports, however personalities can be pretty hard to come by. Some players prefer to hold their tongue, letting their gameplay do the talking instead. However, Flashpoint is going to turn some of CSGO\u2019s best players into \u201ctheatrical\u201d stars \u2014 at least, that\u2019s what they\u2019ve promised. How? They\u2019ve hired a WWE writer to help train players to tap into their own personalities, and scale them up to 11. \u201cWe\u2019re going to do some media training with the players, and we have a former WWE writer who\u2019s going to be talking to the players and his job is to work with the players to develop their personalities in the same way that he literally worked with WWE wrestling,\u201d said Christopher \u2018MonteCristo\u2019 Mykles The comments from Monte got a laugh out of Team Envy owner Mike \u2018hastr0\u2019 Rufail and fellow Flashpoint caster Duncan \u2018Thorin\u2019 Shields, cracking jokes about how exaggerated the writing could get. \u201cSo, is he gonna be like \u2014 s0m, this is the part where you grab a chair and crack over Nifty\u2019s head,\u201d laughed hastr0. There was good reason for skepticism in the Flashpoint camp off making the bold hiring, but Thorin stated that this move could be a game-changer for the league, which might not have the same level of player firepower as ESL Pro League. \u201cI was actually concerned when I heard we were bringing in a real WWE writer because obviously WWE does go a bit too silly sometimes and they have those weird things for kids,\u201d he admitted. \u201cHowever one area that actually reassured me was that this guy said \u2018the best wrestling characters are the ones that are the person just turned up to 11.\u2019 They are cranked up to be theatrical, but they still have some elements of who that person is. \u201cIt\u2019s not like when you make a fake wrestling character that\u2019s really silly. He\u2019s, for example, not going to make a super-quiet person like Daps the swag baller, he\u2019s not going to do that. It\u2019s going to be appropriate to the character of the person as well.\u201d It\u2019s all about entertaining the audience in a new way that esports hasn\u2019t tapped into before, and making players more marketable than ever. Given Flashpoint, on paper, doesn\u2019t really boast the star power of Astralis or Natus Vincere, having players and personalities spectators want to watch is a must. Plus, one might hope the week-to-week trash talk between players might become a bit better too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Flashpoint signs WWE writer to make CSGO pros \u201ctheatrical\u201d superstars ESL \/ FACEIT \/ Wikimedia Commons: Alexander VaughnFlashpoint\u2019s goal from day one was to make CS:GO entertaining for all, and they are committing to that promise by hiring a former WWE writer to turn the league\u2019s players into characters of themselves \u201ccranked up to eleven.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}