On March 06 2012 03:33 cma1681 wrote:
As the session ended, Daryl Morey, the GM of the Houston Rockets NBA team, walked up on stage, thanked the panel, and said that he believed one day, esports would overtake traditional sports as the most popular international competition. He then continued to take off his suit, reveal a "release the gracken" t-shirt, and ask everyone on the panel to sign it.

I was very pleasantly surprised to read that line. Looks like ESPORTS has more reach than we think.

Gusenbauer

Austria19 Posts

March 07 2012 17:17 GMT

#46

Great read, I envy you for the opportunity to go there

Proko

United States1022 Posts

March 07 2012 17:18 GMT

#47

Thanks man! this was awesome.!

imZcK

United States61 Posts

March 07 2012 17:30 GMT

#48

Thanks for the article, esports panel sounds like a success to me, love the Daryl Morey part! Any chance Mark Cuban had anything to say about esports?

cma1681

United States59 Posts

March 07 2012 18:30 GMT

#49

On March 08 2012 02:30 imZcK wrote:
Thanks for the article, esports panel sounds like a success to me, love the Daryl Morey part! Any chance Mark Cuban had anything to say about esports?

Glad you enjoyed it.

Cuban didn't say anything about esports. Esports was not the main focus of the conference, it just had a 1 hour panel during a total of maybe 40 hrs of total content (packed into a 16 hour time frame).

vol_

Australia1608 Posts

March 07 2012 19:57 GMT

#50

Thanks for the read! That Day9 photo is great too haha

Danglars

United States12133 Posts

March 07 2012 21:03 GMT

#51

Pretty awesome event. Streaming practice sessions of your team is an innovative idea. Imagine following how your players look even when there's no games on. Hope the right people can make that pitch to NBA coaches/managers.

ThanksALot

United States35 Posts

March 07 2012 21:21 GMT

#52

Stats and technology take a long time to be integrated into sports because sports are one of the most tradition oriented businesses. This is partly because they are generally run and controlled by former players / coaches.

GenesisX

Canada4267 Posts

March 07 2012 22:47 GMT

#53

O.o
totally didn't hear about this event prior to this date
thanks for coverage! very jealous

Aldehyde

Sweden939 Posts

March 08 2012 00:32 GMT

#54

On March 06 2012 19:33 HotS wrote:
Is there a video of this?

I want to echo this. Is there a video of this at all? Haven't found anything with quick google searches.

Rasun

United States787 Posts

March 08 2012 01:02 GMT

#55

On March 08 2012 09:32 Aldehyde wrote:

Show nested quote +

I want to echo this. Is there a video of this at all? Haven't found anything with quick google searches.

As far as I can tell the videos for this year's conference are not posted yet, this is their website. http://www.sloansportsconference.com
and all the videos are from 2011 and back, so I'm guessing they will be posted in the future.