EPTCan we start a list of things that make ESPORTS more mainstream? I feel like oversized team Tees and championship belts are somewhere on that list.
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Jibba
United States22883 Posts
Can we start a list of things that make ESPORTS more mainstream? I feel like oversized team Tees and championship belts are somewhere on that list. | ||
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Zidane
United States1689 Posts
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DEN1ED
United States1087 Posts
On July 10 2011 10:57 Backpack wrote: Yes. If you take a job you aren't qualified for than you better prepare to be yelled at. Not if the people hiring you know you know nothing about the subject. If she lied and said "O ya I know a lot about starcraft" then sure, yell at her. | ||
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LML
Germany1781 Posts
On July 10 2011 10:39 happyness wrote: Can I still call Tasteless super hot? Or is that degrading? That's totally fine! | ||
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Kleinmuuhg
Vanuatu4091 Posts
On July 12 2011 05:37 Jibba wrote: So now she's an up and coming hot actress? Can we start a list of things that make ESPORTS more mainstream? I feel like oversized team Tees and championship belts are somewhere on that list. You're not even discussing in here. The only thing you do is picking single unimportant lines and bashing on them, what's your problem ? | ||
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Gnial
Canada907 Posts
On July 12 2011 05:33 avilo wrote: lol i don't really get internet sc2 kids... a) nerds want SC2 to be more mainstream-> b) upcoming hot actress that can add to SC2 being more mainstream comes along-> c) nerds QQ claiming said person is hurting e-sports lulz someone should dig up a post nony made...it's good that such people enter e-sports because it can widen the appeal... Yeah, I don't really get it either. I only caught her on the last day, and I actually thought it was pretty awesome to a) get to watch a gorgeous girl talk to awkward nerds, and b) see her excitement as a non-SC2 type coming in and witnessing such a cool event. On the last day her interviews were all really good, so I guess I missed something the first couple days? I was actually surprised to find any criticism at all given what I saw. You don't need a huge amount of SC knowledge to interview people about how they are enjoying an event...its not like she was offering suggestions for MC to micro better or something. And I somehow doubt that they were paying enough money to justify her doing some serious preparation for like, an hour total of interviews. All the people hating just need to relax and think about how awesome she will be once she learns her stuff. She is a natural in front of the camera. | ||
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shawster
Canada2485 Posts
____ is hurting esports! anyways it's not a big deal imo. you're really blowing things out of proportions. every thing everywhere where men is a majority you'll hear derogatory comments towards women. hell any professional sport is almost women free and they're fine. if you had a hot basketball reporter you'd have 50% of the male population making a snide remark. you don't break into the mainstream by being hella professional or w/e, lots of sports to that because of how the players are seen as ghetto. they're professionalising those people. we just need to worry about getting changing the way people look at video games. we need women/good looking guys, i'll def agree with you on that. sc2 won't break into the mainstream until you change the perception of gamers and video gamers. being professional isn't that big of a deal imo. you gotta get good looking guys saying "i'm gamers" you gotta get celebrities vouching for us and you gotta make it real. hell if you got a hot reporter for the NBA people will make the same remarks as they do here. anyways i guess i'm defending the community but i reallly do like having her doing interviews and stuff. i want sc2 to become mainstream and she def helps  | ||
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Kleinmuuhg
Vanuatu4091 Posts
It's just that often you hear people who want gaming to be respected amongst our society and don't want nerds to be imagined as weirdos or losers. So if you want to achieve these things you have to show some respect and be nice to people. That means you can critizise them, but in a mature way. Im not saying everything Lindsey's doing is great and I don't think she deserves a fanclub here on TL. Men will always make snide remarks: That might be true, but I think it's a different wether you make a short joke on the couch sitting besides your friends or write it on a public forum, where the person in question may even be able to read it. And I personally dislike most of these remarks anyway, but I understand that I am the minority in that perspective. | ||
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jacen
Austria3644 Posts
On July 12 2011 05:33 avilo wrote: b) upcoming hot actress that can add to SC2 being more mainstream comes along Can anyone explain me how this works? As i stated earlier, hiring her, makes the NASL less credible for me because they seem to need to rely on hiring models to get attention rather than developing actual production value. It's actually the same thing with the GSl, but there the model girls are just used for player intros, not to transport any actual content. How exactly does hiring a model for conducting interviews help the event going mainstream? Do you think that people knowing little or nothing about sc2 will watch the event because a model does the interviews? I know i wouldn't ... | ||
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avilo
United States4100 Posts
On July 12 2011 13:41 jacen wrote: Can anyone explain me how this works? As i stated earlier, hiring her, makes the NASL less credible for me because they seem to need to rely on hiring models to get attention rather than developing actual production value. It's actually the same thing with the GSl, but there the model girls are just used for player intros, not to transport any actual content. How exactly does hiring a model for conducting interviews help the event going mainstream? Do you think that people knowing little or nothing about sc2 will watch the event because a model does the interviews? I know i wouldn't ... It's really not hard to understand. People that don't watch SC2 see that it's not all just stereotypical nerds..."hey, hot girls play this game holy shit let's check this out." voila...every little bit helps ^_^ | ||
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SlimeBagly
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Pawsom
United States928 Posts
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alexhard
Sweden317 Posts
Reducing girls to "Wow she is smoking hot" is as bad as calling them ugly bitches. Why do you think she was hired? Whether you like it or not, sex sells. There's a reason it wasn't a fat guy who knows everything about sc2 doing the interviews. It's the same reason why utterly clueless but hot women are used in similar roles in many other sports as well. She is hot, and that is literally all there is to her in her role as a interviewer at NASL. | ||
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