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This weekend featured two of the biggest eSports events of the year -- EVO and MLG Anaheim. Your topic for this week is simple -- tell me your thoughts about gaming as a sport. Is it a good idea? A bad one? Is gaming not even a sport? What are your favorite games to watch competitively? You can write about anything you wish, as long as it relates to the concept of gaming as a sport.
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1:00 PM on 08.01.2011
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I love Halo just like your ordinary Jim Sterling, but i don't care about seeing "FPS pro gamerz" playing shooter games on streaming; especially CoD.
Fighting games on the other hand... the matches move fast and it's a fun thing to watch, more than any other "classic" sport; EVO was so hype! POOOOOONGKOOOOOO!
Fighting games are really fun to watch and get you really excited with all the crazy things that can happen.
HYPE!
I have been in touch with competitive gaming since 2006 playing Unreal 2004. Years later I went to a TF2 addiction playing on Latin American events, not earning even a cent. The closest from a prize was a sponsor from some random cyber-cafe
When this addiction gone (and valve filled the game with hats) I realized that the entire game I played so bad was extremely casual. To make things worst, the players were mostly selfish elitist that believe if someone plays on a public server sucks really bad and probably have mental sicknesses.
At least here in South America I realized if you play a game competitively earning absolutely nothing and spending lot of time in a game that will NEVER be in events like EVO, you turn yourself in a really looser expecting that someone you respect you because you play competitively a casual game.
This comment became larger than I expected and I bet with lots of grammar errors. Basically that's all I wanted share, someone else had some other experience like this?
Finally a Bloggers Wanted that I'm passionate about. I would love to do a quick write-up on this topic but I think someone like me is a little biased. I don't see MLG games as eSports worthy. I know Korea has treated Starcraft players like rock stars for a log time now but I just can't see regular videogames as 'competition-worthy' I don't want to "watch" some dude play Halo or anything else competitively. Fighting games on the other hand... GET HYPE!
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