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eSports is killing eSports!!!

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shizaep
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Canada2920 Posts
November 05 2012 03:47 GMT
#1
eSports is killing eSports!!!

So, a lot of people seem to have this vision. A vision of what could be. A vision of paradise, that they desperately want to achieve...A world of eSports...

I think they imagine it a little bit like this:
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Yes, it sure seems like paradise, doesn't it? But there was once a time where eSports wasn't even a legitimate thing. People just played games and shit and on occasion chose to compete in them... Let's remeniss on those times, shall we?

Before eSports in the west started being a legitimate thing:
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That time is gone, however. It is because the world is faced with its's greatest issue, the need for eSports to grow in the West. It is a huge responsibility and nothing makes me happier than seeing brave community members take it into their own hands to see it grow.

Here Charles shows how a typical person can raise awareness.
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It's a hard responsibility, but it's up to us, I know that we can handle it. The world of eSports needs great role models also, and we must make sure that our children look up to only the most worthy...
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The justice is sometimes...vigilante...but trust me, it's for the best...
And we remember to always be politically correct if we want mainstream media to take us seriously. Please, do not make this mistake. We are adult gamers, for goodness' sake, society looks up to us.

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Most important of all, though, we must never let these kinds of people go unpunished...

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But let's not forget the most important ingredient, the game itself. Yes, it's not perfect, but we must really push it to be the best it can be through the most constuctive means. There is only one way to do this, post balance suggestions on TeamLiquid. Seriously, we need more of them. And making them is just so damn fun, ain't it? Maybe one day, our prayers will be answered:

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But watch out, there's a lot of things that are killing eSports. And here's the paradox:
eSports is killing eSports

You can try to save it though, by being like this guy:

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Because in the end:

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tl;dr
YOLO

Sorry for the bandwidth cockslap. And sorry for the shit blog. Just had an idea and threw it together, I swear at least half of this shit made sense to me in my head at one point.

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You mean I just write stuff here and other people can see it?
Fueled
Profile Joined October 2011
United States1610 Posts
November 05 2012 03:56 GMT
#2
Whats really killing eSports is the old people playing SC for the N64 with a GameCube controller.
The Wood League - Where a double gas opening can still mean a Marine/SCV all-in
imJealous
Profile Joined July 2010
United States1382 Posts
November 05 2012 03:57 GMT
#3
I thought this was going to be about Clutch yelling "THIS IS ESPOOOOOOOOORTS!" on stage tonight.
... In life very little goes right. "Right" meaning the way one expected and the way one wanted it. One has no right to want or expect anything.
radscorpion9
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Canada2252 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-05 04:12:53
November 05 2012 04:10 GMT
#4
I enjoyed that, and feel like this blog is exactly what SC2 needs. Some of the things SC2 fans have done in the name of e-sports have been pretty extreme. People should definitely continue supporting it and discussing balance if they want, but less pitchforks whenever a player uses a slur or makes a politically incorrect joke (because that threatens the global perception of e-sports!!!), less of an obsession about getting this recognized on CNN and mainstream news, or having it watched by millions on TV.

We really don't need the world to recognize a game that we like...we don't need it to be recognized as an olympic sport (lol). If League of Legends gets more viewers its not the end of the world, and it shouldn't mean that we endlessly attack and insult those who play that game out of some kind of extreme insecurity that not enough people like ours as much.

Just be happy to play a game *you love*, in which the scene is big enough to support pro-gamers, and pay them well, and as long as this niche community holds, it should continue and we can all just be happy.
Chairman Ray
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States11903 Posts
November 05 2012 04:20 GMT
#5
I loled at the comics =P

YOLO
Adersick
Profile Joined July 2011
United States216 Posts
November 05 2012 04:30 GMT
#6
I found it moderately enjoyable, a good reminder to uphold principles and still not take it too seriously. And yes, I too found the comics rather chuckle-worthy, albeit crudely put together.

Fortunately this blog reminded me that this IS a game that I love, and thus all is well at least in my little corner, huzzah! Thanks for sharing.
TheEmulator
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
28089 Posts
November 05 2012 05:30 GMT
#7
This is hilarious.
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Carson
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada820 Posts
November 05 2012 05:38 GMT
#8
This cheered me up.
"You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn." Arnold Schwarzenegger
Suichoy
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Canada397 Posts
November 05 2012 05:48 GMT
#9
First four pictures are epic.
ParkwayDrive
Profile Joined July 2011
United States328 Posts
November 05 2012 06:42 GMT
#10
5/5 just for the pristine photoshop work on the families' TV
eviltomahawk
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States11135 Posts
November 05 2012 07:00 GMT
#11
You have to admit, Jaedong's muta micro was pretty arousing back then.
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IntoTheEmo
Profile Joined February 2009
Singapore1169 Posts
November 05 2012 08:51 GMT
#12
On November 05 2012 16:00 eviltomahawk wrote:
You have to admit, Jaedong's muta micro was pretty arousing back then.


haha YES. That split on vs Calm on youtube >.<. That and that death stare even if he had just won. Dreamy!
MMOs kill APM. However Proleague plus BW Proscene music increase APM -> 100. 이제동 Fighting! Highest ranked Jaedong owner in FPL10 = clearly #1 Jaedong fan~! <- Keeping my sig from 2010
imPermanenCe
Profile Joined July 2011
Netherlands595 Posts
November 05 2012 09:32 GMT
#13
5/5, finally someone who gets it. Title was a bit over dramatic though
Micro at its best is like an elegant dance between two people trying to achieve a similar end.
vOdToasT
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Sweden2870 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-05 09:39:26
November 05 2012 09:36 GMT
#14
If the game was actually good, then we'd be living in paradise right fucking now. We don't need more viewers or more money, we have enough. As long as the current situation could be sustained (and the game was good, which I don't think it is) I'd be glad if things just continued the way they are forever.

Because honestly, who cares if StarCraft 2 is as popular as football (soccer for you americans) if the game doesn't get better? Can you really see yourself enjoying SC2 10 years from now unless Blizzard improves the game DRASTICALLY with Legacy Of The Void?


And who cares if the game is only as popular as it is right now, but it's the best fucking game ever made? If you're playing it and watching it, and there are enough other people playing it to let you enjoy tournaments, and play vs other people easily, then it doesn't matter if there are only 500 other fans, but they all live in your town, or if there are millions of fans, who live all over the world.
If it's stupid but it works, then it's not stupid* (*Or: You are stupid for losing to it, and gotta git gud)
Scholera
Profile Blog Joined October 2012
United States166 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-05 10:34:31
November 05 2012 10:32 GMT
#15
On November 05 2012 12:56 Fueled wrote:
Whats really killing eSports is the old people playing SC for the N64 with a GameCube controller.


This.

The other day I was visiting my great aunt in her care home and saw the whole bunch of them playing SC64 on gamecube controllers stolen from me and I was forced to go around unplugging every console individually in an attempt to save E-sports.

Did it work? We'll only find out soon.
LastWish
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
2013 Posts
November 05 2012 13:13 GMT
#16
Very well done.
I especially dislike the extreme political correctness everywhere nowadays.
Also masses whining on balance issues, it has now been here like forever...
What happened to the good old-fashioned common sense???
- It's all just treason - They bring me down with their lies - Don't know the reason - My life is fire and ice -
Yorbon
Profile Joined December 2011
Netherlands4272 Posts
November 05 2012 13:47 GMT
#17
haha, liked this.
meteorskunk
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada546 Posts
November 05 2012 13:59 GMT
#18
Laughed soo hard. That collection of pictures is totally how i feel about this whole community trying to make starcraft the next super bowl. Appreciating the highest calibre of gamers is awesome and entertaining. Intentionally trying to make it a thing that others ought to like??? meeh.. no that is kind of weird..

Also the business side of things kinda destroys it in a way.. I liked starcraft back when some guy would just slay me with dragoons and id know he was a baller. These days everyone thinks its cool to be good, making being good way less cool paradoxically (IMO)
Girl Blog Credentials: Comfortable talking to some women. Tried the sex once
Desertfaux
Profile Joined June 2012
Netherlands276 Posts
November 05 2012 14:04 GMT
#19
Wink at the end convinced me,

5/5
Rogue Deck
Zerg.Zilla
Profile Joined February 2012
Hungary5029 Posts
November 05 2012 14:15 GMT
#20
Charles,m'boy.I'm going to be blunt with you.I love all races but i just have an ever so slight personal fancy for Terran...
Charles: Get the fuck out!
Laughed my ass off! =)) 5/5
(•_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■) ~Keep calm and inject Larva~
docvoc
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States5491 Posts
November 05 2012 15:19 GMT
#21
5/5 for the YOLO at the end, that was the icing on the cake for me. Great blog haha.
User was warned for too many mimes.
Golbat
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
United States499 Posts
November 05 2012 16:05 GMT
#22
5/5 for e-justice
Like why do u use an oven instead of a fire? Coz its fucking better at cooking, that doesnt mean you want the shit to burn.
Alpino
Profile Joined June 2011
Brazil4390 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-05 17:15:50
November 05 2012 17:15 GMT
#23
On November 05 2012 22:13 LastWish wrote:
Very well done.
I especially dislike the extreme political correctness everywhere nowadays.
Also masses whining on balance issues, it has now been here like forever...
What happened to the good old-fashioned common sense???


I thought it was common sense to expect people to be emotional after their favorite player loses and to blame the loss on balance. Wasn't it? I thought it was common sense that balance whine will exist, period, this is an individual game and people have to have something to blame after they lose, so we give them different races to toy with and everyone is happy. Balance whine is important to the sucess of Starcraft.

And I thought it was common sense that political correctness was a term invented to make people think some problems do not exist, like if you dont use racial slur - instead of a person who respects others - you are called politically correct. Poof! The race problem does not exist anymore! Instead of racists and not racists we have fucking heroes of free speech and politically correct boring people.
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fire_brand
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Canada1123 Posts
November 05 2012 17:16 GMT
#24
This felt like none of this made any sense. I don't really know. Satire is funny because it doesn't punch you in the face with it's humour. This just felt like a mess of half baked jokes and trending catch phrases. : S
Random player, pixel enthusiast, crappy illustrator, offlane/support
Vandrad
Profile Joined November 2011
Germany951 Posts
November 05 2012 19:18 GMT
#25
Another of these ?
WCS EU had 100k viewers
MLG Fall 90k viewers
The only game which constantly has more viewers is LoL - we just have to accept not being number one anymore

just look at DotA - DotA is so new and has way less viewers
And who are you, the proud lord said, that I must bow so low?
ninazerg
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States7291 Posts
November 05 2012 19:20 GMT
#26
On November 06 2012 02:16 fire_brand wrote:
This felt like none of this made any sense. I don't really know. Satire is funny because it doesn't punch you in the face with it's humour. This just felt like a mess of half baked jokes and trending catch phrases. : S


Really can't win with you people. Up there. Up north. With your maple syrup.

- Makes a very subtle humor post: "Are you serious or trolling? I can't tell."

- Makes a VERY subtle humor post: "You're stupid, what you're saying here is completely wrong, and I am taking this way too seriously."

- Makes a post that nobody can mistake for being actually serious: "SATIRE IS SUPPOSED TO BE SUBTLE. THIS IS TOO OVER-THE-TOP."
"If two pregnant women get into a fist fight, it's like a mecha-battle between two unborn babies." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
SadSatyr
Profile Joined April 2010
United States77 Posts
November 05 2012 21:09 GMT
#27
haha great read! Love the classic movie reference.
LastWish
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
2013 Posts
November 15 2012 17:09 GMT
#28
On November 06 2012 02:15 Alpino wrote:
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On November 05 2012 22:13 LastWish wrote:
Very well done.
I especially dislike the extreme political correctness everywhere nowadays.
Also masses whining on balance issues, it has now been here like forever...
What happened to the good old-fashioned common sense???


I thought it was common sense to expect people to be emotional after their favorite player loses and to blame the loss on balance. Wasn't it? I thought it was common sense that balance whine will exist, period, this is an individual game and people have to have something to blame after they lose, so we give them different races to toy with and everyone is happy. Balance whine is important to the sucess of Starcraft.

And I thought it was common sense that political correctness was a term invented to make people think some problems do not exist, like if you dont use racial slur - instead of a person who respects others - you are called politically correct. Poof! The race problem does not exist anymore! Instead of racists and not racists we have fucking heroes of free speech and politically correct boring people.


Balance blaming is equivalent to blaming a cyclist for losing because his bike was just bad. It's ok, but skill should be taken into account in the first place.

Political correctness does not solve anything but makes you look good to anyone else who also promotes political correctness.
Racism is not defined by words but by actions. Saying I wish you well to an enemy but meaning the opposite does not relieve tension but enlarges it in the long run.
Political correctness may distort the reality to either promote a group or to demote one by not presenting the whole truth which seems incorrect to me.
- It's all just treason - They bring me down with their lies - Don't know the reason - My life is fire and ice -
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