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Mexorilla
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Missing an option of "huh? what is this?... I don't even..."
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Tried to watch, but didn't hold my interest at all. Not a big sports watcher IRL either tho, since I only watch hockey, rugby and cycling, so that might be a reason also.
it bores the hell out of me... I like playing games not watching them..
Not a big sports fan really.. well other than Rugby but watching RL sport can at least be exciting LOL
Quite frequently yes. Good e-sport games and great casters make following it very easy even if you haven't played the game yourself. I watch League of Legends, Starcraft 2, FPS tournaments every now and again and most recently Street Fighter. We gather in mumble to watch streams together with friends.
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been -Wayne Gretzky
I'd rather watch golf than 'e-sports'. To me the whole concept is a joke.
"it bores the hell out of me... I like playing games not watching them.."
Agreed. My enjoyment in games is all about play. There just seems to be a lot better things to do in life that watch others playing a game.
I never really cared for E-Sports. I wouldn't mind watching them though if it was something I was genuinely interested in. I like to watch my friends play videogames sometimes. I'm just not really that competitive myself.
Vault-Tec analysts have concluded that the odds of worldwide nuclear armaggeddon this decade are 17,143,762... to 1.
Tell that to the millions of sports fans in the world.
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been -Wayne Gretzky
Golf is boring to watch, fun to play (in a video game or RL)
Baseball is boring to watch, boring to play (video game or otherwise)
American Footbal is fun to watch, and too dangerous to play outside of a videogame.
~Won't get into boxing or UFC, but I will say that shit's fun as hell to watch.
This only speaks for myself, though... but I like to think that the more painful it is to put to practice, the more fun it is to sit back and watch others hurt themselves with.
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I love watching any competitive sport .. i dont see much difference between on field sports and electronic sports ... both require elite skill levels, practise and hard work ... being a big sport fan and a long time gamer i took to e sports like fish to water ... Cant wait to see where E sports leads to in the future ... My favs are Dota/Lol/ and everyones fav as well SC
I rate games in much the same way.
Soccer is boring to watch, fun to play.
Hockey is fun to watch, and fun to play.
But to each their own: Soccer is a lot more popular than hockey is.
I don't play Starcraft 2 because it would take me a year to hone my execution to an acceptable level, but I like to watch it nevertheless.
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been -Wayne Gretzky
The only E-sports I watch is LoL tournaments, I watch it, keep it running in the BG when im working ect ect.
Love it
As someone said, I'd rather play games than watch them. I love to play chess but I'm completely incapable of watching others play it for longer than two seconds.
I like watching fighting game tournaments. Some of those are pretty amazing. I also like to watch pinball tournaments. And I enjoy watching speed run videos of people beating games at crazy fast speeds and perfect timing.
But mobas and mmos? Id rather watch paint dry.
This is where e-sport thrives. MMOS? no
I am not a sports fan. I think they are pretty much overpaid neanderthals. As far as E-sports go I would rather watch paint dry.
All the time, only Starcraft 2.
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I imagined watching whole tournament or even just 10 highest ranked fights.
I would die of boredom. Don't really get all this excitement. Not interesting for me.
To each their own though.
StarCraft 2 can have some epic games -
I like watching the top players, they get big money for winning.
I watch some of the tourny's on twitch. I've been to WCG before when it was in Seattle, but other than that I haven't really had many of them pop up on my screen so I have no idea they are going on. Apparently a lot of people get into them though, seeing as the SC2 tournament was going on on twitch and had 22 thousand people watching it. I mean thats quite a few for a video game match.
e-sport...
I don't get it actually. But I still cringe when they claim the "World Series of Poker" to be a sport.
Wikipedia has this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport, I tend to agree that "sport" should be some sort of physical activity. Not to say you could not have Pro-gaming circuts, that spectators could ans should watch.
Am I forseeing scolarships to major universities for LoL players? doubtfull. Maybe some gamers with the tourch at the Olymipcs? I hope not.
I am all about being a "pro-gamer", by that I mean one that makes a living at gaming, but it is not a sport. Maybe it is all semantics, but I think it should be.
My wide angle lens on life sees all these "nerds" trying to get relabled as "jocks" by calling what they do a sport.
Do What Cha Like, and be proud of it. Don't try conform by calling it what it is not.
I love playing sports and watching sports. I love playing games and watching games. Watching a shout-casted game of League of Legends has all the same important qualities of watching a basketball/football game on TV.
I think you had it right when you said your complaints are essentially bickering over semantics. The term "e-sports" simply arose from professional gaming's obvious similarities to professional sports: the competition, teamwork, score keeping, criteria for victory, shoutcasting, fans, etc. No pretentiousness involved. In fact, I would argue the very term "electronic sports" would sound downright laughable to non "nerds" as you generalize the group. It sounds just that way: nerdy.
FYI Revenge of the Nerds was a hyperbolic parody, not meant to represent actual reality
There isn't one uniform body of nerds who actualy seek to become another stereotyped body known as the jocks.
I watched a couple of starcraft 2 videos commented by TB when they where still on his main channel i think, it was pretty entertaining but it's not something I seek out to watch
I watched some of the DOTA2 International tournament. It was interesting but I probably wouldn't do it again.