Find your favorite players

15-8-2008 09:03

As some of you may have noticed we have introduced image tagging here at HLTV.org, the main reason for this was to make it easier to find people in the galleries, at first it was meant as a tool for our news writers to include images of the gamers in question, but as the feature progressed we decided to make it public. That means that if you really want to check if ins really wears that red cap at all events, or you are just looking for that one picture of zonic from ESWC 2007, well then they are all here, only a few clicks away.

In the Gallery search you simply enter the nick of the player you are searching for and it will automatically filter away images not fitting your search, leaving you with nothing but the relevant ones. Not all our 6000 images are tagged yet, but more and more are being tagged as we speak, so bookmark the url and make sure to check back even if you favorite player is not yet included.

Later on we hope to tag teams, events and other interesting things in the photos too, but currently it is only players to ensure the searching is easy and intuitive.

We must have about a million pictures of NoA / mTw, I think I know who Nix's favorite team is.. ;)

2008-08-15 09:14

nixon gob b your favorite player ? :=)

2008-08-15 09:58

you should punish nix he makes 30 pics whit mtw.dk and 10 whit all other teams:)) he should try to makes pictures whit all teams and maybe theyr best frags(as eaach team have a bbest men) :)) gg whit the search engine :D:D

2008-08-15 10:02

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Well, isn't exactly our fault that mTw always makes it far in the tournaments, I think we have a very fine distribution of pictures, if you look at the EM2 pictures there are a lot of Mousesports, why? Because they won. GameGune has a lot of mibr, again because they won.. The more matches a team plays, the more pictures there will be.. It isn't like we sit down and agree that we will not take pictures of certain teams.

2008-08-15 10:08

GJ with search engine:DDD

2008-08-15 10:14

i must say its really help a lot of people to see who is who :) gj Nixon and rest of your friends ;)

2008-08-15 10:33

nice bring me more :>

2008-08-15 10:35

7 replies

More features coming up before ESWC, so stay tuned.. :)

2008-08-15 10:40

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before eswc? don't you have to do something else :D? i really apreciate your work for this page, but doesn't it get a bit exhausting? just curious ;)

2008-08-15 13:39

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Sure, and I prolly spend 9 months a year not coding anything, but when i get going things go pretty fast, e.g. the tagging took me around 4 hours to do, all of it.. The biggest issue with new features is actually the design as i suck at graphics, and the admin work required to keep it running, the coding is super easy (and some times quite trivial too :( ) compared to what i do at uni and at work.. However writing code for HLTV.org is awesome, no where else is my code used by thousands of users.. :) If only you knew how many half finished projects we have besides what is live.. ;) Besides then the features i talk of are already finished, they are just waiting for release really.. :P

2008-08-15 13:50

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Are you btw really a nomad?

2008-08-15 15:26

lol no, I am quite happy living the same place, just an old nickname, but now everyone here knows me as Nomad, so why change.. :)

2008-08-16 01:40

nice :D how long are you already in coding? seems that you're very experienced :D (well you study it..^^) I'm visiting a computer course next term at school, hopefully I'll learn some basic stuff :D

2008-08-15 17:33

I've been coding for the last 7 years, the first big thing i coded was the old hltv.org page, i started studying computer science 4 years ago and will have my masters degree in 1 year.. :)

2008-08-16 01:41

nice search engine, really great

2008-08-15 10:41

great idea...and other great idea = HLTV.org should take more pictures of unknown teams ;)always see mtw and fnatic is a bit boring..its true that mtw,fnatic and pgs are often in top3 but...everybody knows the face of zonic or f0rest.

2008-08-15 10:42

We try to take pictures of all teams at events, but during the first rounds where many of the smaller teams get knocked out is also when the workload adding ips, demos and updating results is the greatest, so often not many pictures are taken there, just the harsh reality of the limited crew we have.. :)

2008-08-15 10:44

yea i know....it was kinde a joke and a sugestion ;) to try take pictures whit more teams and maybe some ppl around here likes to see what theyr favorite player use (mause position etc ) again this is just a sugestion i can imagine the huge work you have to put in the first days of a big LAN evenet

2008-08-15 11:21

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We know you'd love to see your local teams, and we will be going two guys to ESWC, so hopefully we can capture some of the smaller teams there.. :)

i dont really want to see them i can see them here i wana see like EG or other teams that you cant see them in regural contest around here or teams etc its is a loot of talk about but so far you guys did a grate jobs whit funny and serios pictures from events :))

2008-08-15 11:26

my favorite player VP ioaNN S. <Edward>

2008-08-15 11:53

this is a bit offtopic(sorry)but you know when is hltv running on gamegune there is something like "scoreboard" and it says:"fnatic is leading 12:5" i dont remember it correctly(hope you know what i think). Its possible that this feature will be on every match? its a detail but it will be like a fifth star on HLTV.org ;)

2008-08-15 12:36

Wasn't the HLTVs, was a serverside mod.. Thing is, writing text on the screen is easy, but getting the actual score of a match is hard, so it isn't really easy to do.. :(

2008-08-15 12:52