About Us and Site Features

 

About Us

At MyGamerConnections(MGC) we are trying to solve the decade old problem of looking for teammates and competitive gamers on your level to play with and against. I love the competitive gaming community and Halo 2 is what got me into the FPS genre. I tried to become the best player I could but lurking on forums and trying to find a team to run games with or scrim against was always a pain. Here we strive to connect the dots and help you easily find teammates and other teams to scrim in your respective games. Find the newest tournaments and LANs in your area while meeting players before you attend the event. MGC focuses on competitive gamers at the moment and wants to expand that community instructing others on how they can become better gamers themselves. We want to provide tools for gamers already in the competitive scene and those trying to learn the ropes and break into a tight-knit community. MGC wants to provide you with a lot more features in the near future while expanding the site according to your demands. We will listen carefully to your feedback, act on it, and hope you give us lots of it.

Site Features

What do I really want to accomplish with this site you ask? Really our site will be a social networking site like Facebook or Myspace for competitive gamers. Once you register you can input your PSN name(soon) or Xbox Live gamertag and later on we will be trying to add API connectivity to pull stats and what not from games and add friends/send messages right from the site. You can then choose if you are a FA, team of 2, team of 3, team of 4, a coach, or casual gamer from an easy drop down box right on your profile because we know this changes a lot. You can also pick the specific game you are a FA or team for ex: Black Ops or Halo: Reach. Then you can use our search engine to find gamers by a variety of ways, zip code, city, state, certain mile radius from you, games they play, if they are a FA, team of 2, 3, or 4, a coach, a casual gamer, or by just entering keywords you are looking for in a profile like event experience. With your profile you can put a little about yourself and the events/tournaments you have played in plus your placings. Also you can embed your best game play for whatever game it is you play to showcase your skill right on your profile instead of just talking the talk. There will be an events section in the site where you can post tournaments or LANs and invite players/friends to those events and find other players locally to invite. You can post the event time, place, what to bring, what will be played and whatever else you feel is needed. We will also be posting some of the latest competitive news, tips, and other things to do with competitive gaming right on our homepage.
What we have now;

• Customizable Profile Page
  
• Search engine to find competitive gamers many different ways(see above)
  
• Event page to post/find events and invite others to LANs and tournaments
  
• Messaging and friend list system
  
• Top Users page(working on)
  
• Gaming Blog with top news and tips.
  
• A way to embed your best game play or clips right onto your profile page.

What to expect in the near future after we launch and ideas for down the road...

• A rating system for game plays with a leader board for each game.
• A news feed or “Wall” to post what is going on right now?
• API to send friend requests and messages via Xbox Live on the site.
• Link your team to Game Battles and your team site easier more in depth with stats and records right on your profile page.
• A chat system for friends to talk to each other a lot faster and more conveniently?
• MLG customs list right on the side of the site to post your gamertag that resets every hour to find customs right away for people that are playing customs.
• Instead of a "top friends list" we will have a "My Team" section on your profile that will show who your teammates and coach are and can click on them to go directly to their profiles.
• PC games to be added to the site.
• A way to rank players based on points from events they have attended and their placings.
• An easier way to get Gametime and lessons from Professional players, we don't want any of their money or yours so the prices won't be hiked up sense we won't charge the Pros to post their services on our site.
• A system to help newer competitive players break into the scene and become better players.
• Any ideas the competitive community shoots our way, we are here for you guys spread the word!