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This is how I feel about The Iron Chef!

Damnit, why cant we have video game olympics here?

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.

i could pwn those n00bs.

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.

better than watching people play hockey too

noob pwning is for noobs

If curling can be in the Olympics, than why can't gaming?

dem koreans sure r crazy!

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Wow that was.... I couldn't imagine going to that lol

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.

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.

Gotta love Starcraft.. Wish I knew how to speak Korean..

If they had something like that here would Americans then be Asianized?

man, I wanna go dig up my copy now. that game used to be so much fun (even though I sucked).

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...

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.

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!