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Oh the pageantry of two nerds sitting at a computer surrounded by adoring crowds, bright lights and the pressure of being the best ... simply the best. Color me weird, but I always found the way professional gaming was handled and appreciated overseas to be fascinating and this video is a perfect example of why. Any chance we could ever see a spectacle like this in the U.S.? I doubt it.
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Awesome
Hahahah...that was epic, even though I didn;t know hell was happening.
kekekekekekeke
rofl i love how they flip out when the factory lands
This is how I feel about The Iron Chef!
"rofl i love how they flip out when the factory lands"
I think they were concerned that the overlord was gonna see it land before the guy could perform that vulture rush. I think they were going crazy because it was so close to spotting it. :o
Damnit, why cant we have video game olympics here?
I approve.
I actually wrote my sociology paper on this topic. In the east, Video game competitions are viewed as a skill, one that plays on strategy. It's like the young man's chess.
The west will never see competitions like this because we identify sport and athletics as skill and strategy. For us video games do not fall inside those categories. It's only viewed as pure entertainment.
StarCraft those were the days
i could pwn those n00bs.
@electroplankton -- exactly why chess isn't a big deal either.
I recently did an article on pro-gaming and researched the differences between our pro-gaming culture and Koreas. Needless to say, they are quite different...
In Korea, Starcraft tournaments are broadcast on no less than 5 channels at any given time. Kids and adults alike emulate and look up to pro champions. Whereas Fatal1ty is known by just a few hardcore gamers, the bigtime pros in Korea make Matt Damon look like Ben Affleck. They often require bodyguards, have their faces plastered all over billboards and cereal boxes, and get to date actresses, supermodels, and singers. Seriously.
Gaming is much more of a mainstream lifestyle in Korea, and Starcraft might as well be their national sport. I don't think it will ever reach that level of insanity elsewhere (ie. the real world), but gaming continues to grow more and more popular by the minute. So its actually entirely probable that someday soon my gamerscore will allow me to meet Adriana Lima and make little nerd babies with her. I'm going to name the first one "Yanier Gonzalez II", even if its a girl.
If the U.S. of A. can muster up excitement for the WWE and American Gladiators I'm sure there is a market for this kind of stuff. I mean, it seemed like there was potential for it in the Wizard (starring Fred Savage). Granted you guys don't get hockey so clearly you lack taste in spectator sports. Football is fine, but baseball? Seriously. Watching guys play videogames is more fun than baseball.
better than watching people play hockey too
In order for hockey to be a good spectator sport, they pretty much need to fight every three or four minutes.
noob pwning is for noobs
There was a video game competition show at one time, wasn't there? The Arena or something? It was boring as hell.
If curling can be in the Olympics, than why can't gaming?
....EPIC starcraft ftw
i like the nascar-ish jackets
Fila sponsor haha.
Dear Blizzard,
Look at this! An entire country completely dedicated to your game! And yet, you refuse to release a sequel! Hell, even Starcraft: Ghost got canceled! Don't you realize that, even if it bombed everywhere else in the world (highly unlikely), Korea would eat this up?
So get off your asses and release Starcraft 2 so that this country can start holding tournaments that don't focus on a 10-year old game!
Wow that was.... I couldn't imagine going to that lol
Lee Hyun-Seok for the victory music!!! Korea rocks!!!
I loves me some Starcraft, but that was some of the most boring-ass shit I have ever seen committed to video. Sure, you can put two nerds in a booth (or cage) and flood the room with lasers, fog, and a thumping beat, but in the end it's just two skinny mouthbreathers working a keyboard.
Boring.
I'd much rather see two grannies in a cage, done up all Mad Max style, lots of leather, screaming mutants banging on the bars and Ethel and Lois going head-to-head at Scrabble.
This makes G4's Arena look like a total bitch.
I always find it amazing that Starcraft of all games is the one they sit in an arena to watch. The only way competitive gaming could get that big in the U.S. is if it was a deathmatch type game or a fighter. I could see Halo, Street Fighter, or Lost Planet (if balanced a little better) being exciting to watch if the players were really good.
Another condition would be that video gaming in general would have to become even more mainstream. Way more than today even.
I swear I could hear him say "Zerg rush" at one point.
Gotta love Starcraft.. Wish I knew how to speak Korean..
If they had something like that here would Americans then be Asianized?
Oh my god boba you make me yearn for LAN parties.
man, I wanna go dig up my copy now. that game used to be so much fun (even though I sucked).
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!
Wow that was funny lol. But I must admit, quick fight, didnt know that cheap trick with the robobikes was so usefull... IF the Zerg user would have mounted up on a super zerg launch that prob would have killed the terran one.
i wont see the end of the video , as im (right now) taking my stuff to a friend house for a LAN u have just organized...
feeling the Saosin in the background.
Competition isn't worth watching unless there's a chance someone is going to bleed or get hurt very severely.
But that's just me.
Kekekekeke indeed.
I second the SC2 call.
I actually like watching RTS games, as much as I suck at them, and really don't enjoy playing them that much anymore. I'm a very odd person. Its like watching a war, its awesome. Especially JulyZerg(Zerg Starcraft player) 400 Actions Per Minute ftw!
apm doesnt really determine too much in sc, i been playin since the north american release and these guys must be using some kind of hacked korean version or somethin lol cuz i have never seen "ramps" that were like 20 frames long, they get everything over there, and btw i'd pwn these newbs.