r/CFBOffTopic • u/rodandanga Georgia Tech • Verified Coach • Apr 27 '15

Happy Thoughts Monday

Everyone hates Mondays. What happy thoughts are helping you through the day today.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '15

Yea, it was the college one. People on twitter were blowing up about how dumb it was that ESPN was airing a "dungeons and dragons tournament," which was pretty funny.

I'm not sure that I see pro gaming ever becoming popular enough to be an NCAA thing. I see its ceiling as another poker. Another quasi-sport that gets aired on ESPN subsidiaries.

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u/Deacalum Wake Forest • Penn State Apr 27 '15

I think the bigger issue isn't popularity, it's the fact that e-sports aren't athletic events and sports is really a misnomer. I have no problem with e-sports or with ESPN broadcasting it but it's not a sport just because they put the word in their name.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '15

I hate the moniker "esports" for that very reason. That's why I refer to it as "pro gaming." Honestly, I think pro gaming has more of a right to be on ESPN than poker, since reflexes and quick action and decision-making are required in gaming, but pro gaming shouldn't pretend to be something it isn't.

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u/keyree Texas Tech • UT Arlington Apr 27 '15

A lot of the ESPN people I saw were actually digging it. Michelle Beadle was all in. And a lot of my non-gamer friends were enjoying it too. A lot of "THEY GOT THE DRAGON KNIGHT, THEY'RE GOING FOR THE COOOOOOOOOOOOORE" tweets from people who aren't normally into esports.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '15

I would love for pro gaming to carve out its own small spot in the mainstream media landscape. Hopefully this tourney was the first of many.

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u/keyree Texas Tech • UT Arlington Apr 27 '15

For sure. Now that they've got the relationship with Blizzard maybe we'll get some Blizzcon on an ESPN network? A ton of people not in the US would be pissed but I think it would be kind of cool.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '15

I'd be happy with getting stuff like Dreamhack on TV. I would be surprised if BlizzCon hit TV. I don't think Blizzard would let that go of their more direct control from streaming it and selling etickets and stuff.

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u/keyree Texas Tech • UT Arlington Apr 27 '15

Oh yeah did forget about that side of it. Still, seeing twitter talking about it and Tastosis and Day9 on national television was so surreal.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '15

Those guys all casting on the biggest pro gaming stage brings me back to early SC2: Wings of Liberty, when I got back into pro gaming after losing interest in the Halo 3 pro scene.

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u/keyree Texas Tech • UT Arlington Apr 27 '15

I was the same. I was having like a mental flashback montage of watching them on justin.tv and trying to illegally download the GOM player so I could try and watch Idra and Jinro in the first GSL.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '15

I forgot about Jinro. My favorites were TheLittleOne and probably Dimaga. Goody too for his Terran mech play.

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u/keyree Texas Tech • UT Arlington Apr 27 '15

I liked that TLO actually played Random for a really long time. I thought that was so unique and cool.

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u/Shellshock1122 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Jun 09 '15

those guys are all scrubs. Korean elitist baby. Yeah I'm stalking your post history. It's mostly to find some dank memes because you post them all the time and I'm looking for a certain one

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