A new ladder has arisen in the past 5 months or so. Already in its 4th seasons Vile Gaming Tour is popular in the community of both money mapers and regular gamers.



VGTour has grown in popularity in the past 5 months as in the first season only 80 people were active in the money ladder. In the second season the ladder grew much larger and got more popular. The third season had about 200 active gamers and 300 registered gamers.

Winner Season 1: N-Cobra-V
Winner Season 2: uNiT[nK]
Winner Season 3: To be Determined
Lead by Spartan, VGTour has been his pride and joy. He himself created the ladder intending to bring two different communities together as one. Working on the project by himself he has had some website problems until the 3rd season and into the 4th. Before now the website was bugged and unsurfable.

Just recently VGTour introduced two new ladders to their system, the 2 versus 2 High Ladder and the 2 versus 2 Low Ladder. Now if you where to visit the website you would see different sections of ladders, high and low. High being the high money maps or Big Game Hunter type maps, and low being the regular maps or Lost Temple type maps. The ladders are as of now not split into separate channels but the games are mostly held in USWest in Op Vile. Some games are also played in USEast and Europe. But, soon the ladders may be split into High and Low.

Like WGTour and PGTour you can find yourself ranked in different categories. 1vs1 High, 1vs1 Low, 2vs2 High, 2vs2 Low, Team High, Team Low, and soon a War ranking for clan battles.

Interview of Spartan

First off since you are new to us, could you please give us your name, age, and current location?
- My full legal name is Kristopher Edward Ocampo Sauquillo (Eww). I just turned 18 recently, and live in San Diego, CA(USA) temporarily for next month. People know me as just Kris or Spartan.

Now you, yourself I understand started Vile Gaming Tour on your own. Why?
- Yes. Now I know, High money maps are highly frowned upon in the professions Starcraft world, but there is a vast population of people that play it competitively on Battle.net, there are even East v West "Best gateway" competitions every once in a while. I simply wanted to provide a good stable league for them too. I mean.. They are after all supporters of Blizzard, Starcraft, and Battle.net.
Why should they be shunned away just because of what map they play? Aren't we all still StarCrafters(is that a word?). High money maps have been known to the professional world as simply.. mass and attack, but no. There is its share of micro and builds and such. Plus, I simply just love Starcraft and have enjoyed it since I bought it in 1999. I felt it was time for me to make a difference.

You are now into your 4th season of VGT. So far how has the ladder system been? Easy or harder than expected?
- It has been fairly easy. Me and my staff of ladder admins review games on the fly, but once the VGTour Launcher comes out. Things will be 10x easier and pretty much uncheatable. As far as the rating/point system goes, it is doing fine. The league/ladders altogether have been doing great and I am quite proud of it (although World of WarCraft has been sucking up some time lately). It is continuing to grow and a good steady pace.

Now since you guys do not use a launcher yet is it hard to catch cheaters, hackers, and count of stats and points?
- No not at all, we do catch people plenty times and they are penalized. We use BWChart and another program to review the game. And if the need be, we will watch them manually on Starcraft. There is an easy/efficient system on the site for contacting an admin about a game. Then it goes through a screening process. Consequences are handed out shortly after. We do encourage the players to use Penguin Plug and BWScanner(when it works again).

Now in the future you plan on separating the channels for the low and high ladders. What about making it so that games are played on a single server?
- Well, before I had established VGTour, I ran a PvPGN server for a month, called VileNet. It worked fine, people played it all the time. And the ladder was great, but just like PGTour.. it needs a lot of time and money to support.. a lot. So I thought up VGTour which would be much easier. Also, I think more servers splits up the community a bit.
Yes, there will be separate channels, because there is always the one person that tries to ruin it for everyone and start BMing about how the other type of map player is newb/worthless/stupid.

That happens a lot, but some things may change soon thanks to people like yourself. Well that's all the questions I can think of at the moment, you have been great. Thanks.
- Okay, thanks for taking the time to interview me. Was fun.



The VGTour website is very interesting. A lot of cool things going on within the website. If you are bored or something sign up on the website and browse around. Post on the forums, play some games. Just make sure you figure out how things work though.

Links
nk.ssxh.net - Vile Gaming Tour