IDK what you have in mind for managing and organizing streams but CLgaming's system works really well.
Yes, I've already taken into account a lot of the competition. However, full implementation is a long ways off. Even though I have the wireframes all laid out, I ended up creating 16 wireframes in omnigraffle.
Mobafire.com has a shitty design IMO, but their guide system is very good.
The functionality of leaguecraft and mobafire is pretty intensive. As much as I would love to destroy them (as I know I could), I have limited resources and with that I'm not going to be tackling this big boy just yet. I'll save this for future expansion if all goes well. As of right now, guides will be done in simple format on my blog/article and only content writers will have access to creating this content.
I do hope that if we are successful with our initial launch I can tackle building a full working user created build system for multiple mobas.
I see that you have dota, lol and hon listed. You should support Bloodline Champions as well, it is very big in Europe and creeping over here slowly, especially among competitive gamers.
We will surly support Bloodline Champions, Rise of Immortals, and Realm of Titans. However, I want to focus more on the primary (popular) mobas first to bring in a good stream of users.
You will see that in the drop down navigation it says "other streams." This is probably poor verbiage on my part, but this is where other streams of games can be found.
How do you plan on monetizing the site? Are you going to run leagues/tournaments or just do gaming news and streams?
Our big pull are going to be: news, streams, tournaments/ladder, and bi-weekly comics.
I have an illustrator who I've known in the businesses for quite sometime. He is going to be creating a lot of the branding for the site. The art style will be more like...oh TF2 with more 2D cartoonish style with "generic" moba characters in mind (these characters will not pertain to any one game)
That home page is going to be a sliding banner? Gonna use vbulletin forums?
The homepage will be a sliding banner, our CMS is EE 2.0 and our forum will be EE Forum.
As much as I enjoy VBulletin, SMF, and phpBB...i find that they offer too much for someone who wants to start 'clean.' All of these forum systems start with a number of additions that aren't necessary for our forum and doing further customization requires far too much rework.
With EE Forum we are able to have a solid foundation, but almost nothing is done within the infrastructure which is good for my dev team. They prefer a blank canvas rather than sifting through code.
I run a pretty popular competitive gaming league on the side so if you have any questions let me know!
I will most definitely let you know. I would love to recruit more streamers and get a community/league organizer.
