EPTBefore ESPORTS: US National Video Game Team - Page 2
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jazzbassmatt
United States566 Posts
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Blaine
Italy188 Posts
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xtfftc
United Kingdom2343 Posts
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Kyhol
Canada2575 Posts
I do want to point out that during the video I was an old women in the crowd of people, she looked lost. I don't think she knew what the hell was going on. Lol. | ||
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Zeroes
United States1102 Posts
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Latedi
Sweden1027 Posts
Other than that it was a really fun article ^^ | ||
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StarStruck
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Zorkmid
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djWHEAT
United States925 Posts
Even more important is the fact that Walter Day is still at it. That man has so much passion that sometimes people look at him and think he's crazy. I can relate, and I look up to him as an "icon" because he continues to fight the good fight. And even when people say, "Walter, you can't accomplish that" - he just continues to fight forward. Unfortunately Walter hasn't seen as much success as I think he should. The recent Video Games Hall of Fame event in 2010 was quite bad, and as a result, funding was/is non-existent for a 2011 event, and the chances that we actually see the VGHoF is probably slim to none. Let's hope he can drum up the support he needs to continue his vision, because he too wants to recognize all the players, individuals, companies, etc who have made competitive video gaming a reality. | ||
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sVnteen
Germany2238 Posts
heyoka hwaiting great post eventhoug i didnt experience any of this its great to see how e-sports grew up with people like you pushing it further and further | ||
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quaffle
United States249 Posts
Wow, amazing research and writing. A great enjoy to read, thank you! :D | ||
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Wesso
Netherlands1245 Posts
Exactly how and why the team descended into nothingness isn't anything I have been able to clearly piece together. Most of the members were reluctant to accept console gaming, not believing they challenged a player's skills enough to matter. Pretty sure that makes the skill argument literally the oldest on in the book. This is awesome, I like how people never change. | ||
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P00RKID
United States424 Posts
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FreshNoThyme
United States356 Posts
I've met Walter on a few occasions and can vouch for him being one of the most passionate and friendly guys I've ever met. | ||
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ProxyKnoxy
United Kingdom2576 Posts
Wait holy crap there is a lot of history here: Todd Rogers the first ever paid programer? Played a game for over 85 hours... thanks for the blog | ||
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Dayrlan
United States248 Posts
On July 26 2011 15:04 heyoka wrote: All of these men dreamed of making video games their career and none of them were able to do it, all becoming the boring kinds of middle aged men their teenage selves hated and feared. Omg, how terrifying.  I felt so happy reading that article, until the very last line! | ||
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Synwave
United States2803 Posts
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t0bs3n
Austria20 Posts
However I am puzzled about the following "now that we are facing ESPORTS growth in the west". eSports as we call it is growing since 1996 in the west. I did an unpublished german article about the mainly german history of eSport, here just some highlights: I stated there the 30.10.1996 as a possible birthdate of eSports in Germany (founding of the clan ocrana). If you think about it, that in 1997 the price money of a Doom 2 tournament was John Carmacks Ferrari, Schroet Kommando was founded, the CPL and DeCL (predecessor of the ESL) started, that was already amazing. In 1998 Clanbase, 1999 Netzstatt (NGL). In 2000 we had the first german Counter-Strike champion with mTw. The World Cyber Games kicked off as well and in 2001 there was a german stop of the CPL. 2002 Intel started sponsoring the ESL, especially the intel Friday Night Games and mousesports won a bronze medal in the WCG Counter-Strike. 2003 GameSports was established as a german coverage site. 2004 there where some tries to establish eSports magazines and that led to the eGames in 2006. Furthermore in 2004 there was a shoot out on the chinese wall and 2005 the big CPL World Tour and the SEC, the WEG, EsBL, the ACON tournaments. 2006 the WSVG with the amazing finals in New York, 2007 CGS. And suddenly in 2008 eSports was in a crisis and it survived, Germany got a new news-site with fragster and new tournaments came with the Dreamhack, Kode5, Blizzcon and so on. Now with Starcraft 2 and the possibility to stream on your own, it is growing furthermore and the last time at the CeBIT was quite nice with that much people. But after being part of the scene for over ten years soon to be fifteen ... eSports is not that fragile and had already many many flops (remember that AMD tournament in 2005, something X-Games, the downfall of CPL, the sudden stop of WSVG or the amazing downfall of CGS). You are right we have to remember the past, but I think we just need to look couple of years back | ||
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Meantime
Germany140 Posts
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QuanticHawk
United States32130 Posts
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