OT:College E-Sports- What Are Your Thoughts?
I don't have any problem with video games being considered a sport
That shit can be pretty intense. I've competed in a few different madden tournaments over the years and its a ton of fun.
Basically if ESPN considers poker or bowling a sport than they can include video games.
Not only can they get intense, they're racking up money now. I believe CS GO just recently had a 1,000,000 dollar prize pool tournament and broke a million viewers.
LoL and DOTA2 are constantly breaking a million viewers in their annual tourneys as well.
Then there's fighting games with the EVO Championship that should net close to a million viewers as well this year.
Esports is growing that's for sure.
Here are some highlights from the IEM CS:GO tournament in Katowice earlier this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM7Jm9cg4D4
when you understand the implications of the fact that the players don't see those yellow and blue outlines through the walls, only the spectators see that to give a better sense of the match flow and narrative, you understand that the competition in this is very intense - the skill ceiling of the game is much higher than what at human being is capable of.
i'd say there's enough potential for highlight worthy plays to be made to call this a sport, sure.
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Suck it, Stanford.
Director's Cup (Trough?), Here We Come!
As for enjoying e-sports, depends on the game. I love watching Street Fighter and a Marvel vs. Capcom, and appreciate League of Legends and Heroes of the Storm without totally getting them as games. Most other games are w/e to me.
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April 10th, 2016 at 12:00 AM ^
Yep. E-sports are E-sports. If it was a sport then it would be called a sport.
They aren't sports, but they can get very intense. I prefer E-Sports on ESPN more than the spelling bee though. The spelling bee was on ESPN
I never said that them being intense makes them sports, I was just stating that E-Sports can get very internse.
all the pizza, beer and herb during softball wasn't meaningful
so he gave up softball, and had a meaningful pizza and herb career....
April 10th, 2016 at 12:14 AM ^
(with this disclaimer: Never did, never would, never will wear that color combination, regardless of the sport or occasion)
i did the best i could with what was available...
Now, to be fair, there is an argument that this should be a sport because there are a couple people that I've known for a very long time that, even though we all march on in years, still dominate the competition in this particular "sport". It's all good though.
Did you know that at least two schools offer E-Sport scholarships for college to people who are really good at video games.
I read that in a Sports Illustrated magazine.
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People who are just DJs are not musicians. Producers who also DJ are musicians.
April 10th, 2016 at 10:09 AM ^
LOL
Professional DJs are absolutely musicians.
April 10th, 2016 at 10:38 PM ^
Or how about when people pretend rappers (*gasp*) are musicians? Amirite old white guys of MGo? ;-)
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I honestly don't give a shit about this argument and can see both sides, but what if your kid started raking in million dollar purses every month? I personally wouldn't give a damn what they did at that point.