Man, I wish TL topics could have more than 50 characters. Anyway, the topic title should have been something more like, "Anyone know if there are any video gaming events tomorrow that can act as an alternative to the Super Bowl?". I mean, I can't be the only on in the world who gives zero fucks about the American Football. The title "American Football" by itself should be a giveaway that Football has a very small audience in the world outside the United States. And even as an American, I'm sure that there's plenty of my fellow Americans on Team Liquid who feel the same.
Same there are events on Cable such as the Puppy Bowl who try to cater to those who don't care about football. But with the advent of Twitch and online streaming, I would think that it'd be only natural for some kind of Video Game Event alternative to the Super Bowl would eventually pop up. Anyone know if one exists? Would you be interested in one? I sure would.
It obviously wouldn't be some kind of huge gaming event with huge prizemoney. There ARE a lot of people who would favor the Super Bowl over a gaming event. But there are also guys like me who would love a Dota/SC2/Fighting Game event, and with everyone else watching the Superbowl, they could generate a few thousand viewers.
I loved whenever he was poking fun the Super Bowl, and his Superb Owl coverage. I didn't care about his Fallback Position segments, and I skip a lot of his interview segments anyway.
On February 02 2014 08:10 Mothra wrote: You can always watch streams on Twitch or just play games. Gaming super bowls would be stuff like MLG I guess.
I'm not talking about a Super Bowl EQUIVALENT/ANALOGUE. That would be something like The International or the LoL Global Finals, which would be the gaming equivalent/analogue of a Super Bowl.
I'm talking about an event that happens on the date of the Super Bowl that would be an ALTERNATIVE to watching it. Just a small side event for gamers who don't care about the Super Bowl. Maybe a couple hundred dollars on the line, nothing HUGE, but something that could be a fun community event for like-minded individuals.
On February 02 2014 08:21 Mothra wrote: Probably most people who don't give a fuck about the super bowl are just going to do whatever they always do on Sunday as if it weren't happening.
This blog isn't asking about what people are doing. The blog is about if there are any gaming events that take place on Superbowl Sunday and wondering if there would be interest in one. I for one would be if there was.
Man I could care less about football but I watch the Superbowl with friends and family because it's fun and just once out of the year. It's a small sacrifice that I do to enjoy time with people who actually do care about the game but for me it's a great time to just eat a lot of food, watch the commercials and make pointless bets. Why do you need an alternative, if you don't want to watch it just don't watch it and if you do then watch it.
On February 02 2014 08:32 TzaTzers wrote: Man I could care less about football but I watch the Superbowl with friends and family because it's fun and just once out of the year. It's a small sacrifice that I do to enjoy time with people who actually do care about the game but for me it's a great time to just eat a lot of food, watch the commercials and make pointless bets. Why do you need an alternative, if you don't want to watch it just don't watch it and if you do then watch it.
Yeah, I don't like the Super Bowl and I don't watch it. But I think it'd be great to have fun event on that day that I would like to watch and watch it.
50% of america doesn't watch the game. It's cool if you don't care, but it doesn't make you special.
as to your question, TL calendar doesn't have too much, but I'm sure there will be random streamers and such; maybe you could catch up on a tournament you missed? or spend some quality time doing something other than gaming?
I'm from Seattle and I still don't care about the Super Bowl. As for the entertaining commercials, I live in Japan. Every day is Super Bowl commercial day here.
On February 02 2014 10:35 yokohama wrote: I'm from Seattle and I still don't care about the Super Bowl. As for the entertaining commercials, I live in Japan. Every day is Super Bowl commercial day here.
Just so everyone knows. I REALLY don't care about the GSL. Like not in the slightest. I'm going to not watch it so hard right now.
In all seriousness, why do people feel the need to declare how much they don't care about a particular event? I can't say I watch a lot of football, but do I really need to announce that to the world? People want to make themselves feel special, but only 49 Percent of people watching TV on sunday are going to be watching the game. You're not even a minority among US TV viewers by not watching. Get over it.
On February 02 2014 10:35 yokohama wrote: I'm from Seattle and I still don't care about the Super Bowl. As for the entertaining commercials, I live in Japan. Every day is Super Bowl commercial day here.
On February 02 2014 10:52 packrat386 wrote: Just so everyone knows. I REALLY don't care about the GSL. Like not in the slightest. I'm going to not watch it so hard right now.
In all seriousness, why do people feel the need to declare how much they don't care about a particular event? I can't say I watch a lot of football, but do I really need to announce that to the world? People want to make themselves feel special, but only 49 Percent of people watching TV on sunday are going to be watching the game. You're not even a minority among US TV viewers by not watching. Get over it.
why are you so affronted by people expressing things on an internet forum
On February 02 2014 10:35 yokohama wrote: I'm from Seattle and I still don't care about the Super Bowl. As for the entertaining commercials, I live in Japan. Every day is Super Bowl commercial day here.
On February 02 2014 10:52 packrat386 wrote: Just so everyone knows. I REALLY don't care about the GSL. Like not in the slightest. I'm going to not watch it so hard right now.
In all seriousness, why do people feel the need to declare how much they don't care about a particular event? I can't say I watch a lot of football, but do I really need to announce that to the world? People want to make themselves feel special, but only 49 Percent of people watching TV on sunday are going to be watching the game. You're not even a minority among US TV viewers by not watching. Get over it.
why are you so affronted by people expressing things on an internet forum
Yeah it's in the blog forum. You know... to just share things that are on your mind? It's level of importance doesn't really have any restrictions.
On February 02 2014 10:52 packrat386 wrote: Just so everyone knows. I REALLY don't care about the GSL. Like not in the slightest. I'm going to not watch it so hard right now.
In all seriousness, why do people feel the need to declare how much they don't care about a particular event? I can't say I watch a lot of football, but do I really need to announce that to the world? People want to make themselves feel special, but only 49 Percent of people watching TV on sunday are going to be watching the game. You're not even a minority among US TV viewers by not watching. Get over it.
On February 02 2014 10:52 packrat386 wrote: Just so everyone knows. I REALLY don't care about the GSL. Like not in the slightest. I'm going to not watch it so hard right now.
In all seriousness, why do people feel the need to declare how much they don't care about a particular event? I can't say I watch a lot of football, but do I really need to announce that to the world? People want to make themselves feel special, but only 49 Percent of people watching TV on sunday are going to be watching the game. You're not even a minority among US TV viewers by not watching. Get over it.
why are you so affronted by people expressing things on an internet forum
On February 02 2014 10:35 yokohama wrote: I'm from Seattle and I still don't care about the Super Bowl. As for the entertaining commercials, I live in Japan. Every day is Super Bowl commercial day here.
Last year I saw different iterations of that commercial at least once a day <3
there are more versions?
Yeah, they had some with the tiger in a restaurant advertising the thing that is like a pad and a laptop in one, not sure if that is the same product. I can't find it on the internet at the moment, but it was hilarious.
On February 02 2014 10:35 yokohama wrote: I'm from Seattle and I still don't care about the Super Bowl. As for the entertaining commercials, I live in Japan. Every day is Super Bowl commercial day here.
On February 02 2014 10:35 yokohama wrote: I'm from Seattle and I still don't care about the Super Bowl. As for the entertaining commercials, I live in Japan. Every day is Super Bowl commercial day here.
I liked watching Super Bowls in the past with a good buddy of mine. Now that we're hundreds of miles away from each other, however, it's not worth buying a TV for or searching up a stream on the Web. :-\
Occupy your time with something else. Anything else. Ignore all individuals that question your decision.
On February 02 2014 09:28 TzaTzers wrote: Oh there's NA LCS if you watch LoL but yea I don't know if that is interesting to you.
Is that actually on the same night? Oh well, I just assumed the Muricans would not broadcast during the superbowl, but at least now I don't have the problem that OP has anymore. Yay!
50% of america doesn't watch the game. It's cool if you don't care, but it doesn't make you special.
as to your question, TL calendar doesn't have too much, but I'm sure there will be random streamers and such; maybe you could catch up on a tournament you missed? or spend some quality time doing something other than gaming?
Holy crap, so that meanst half of the entire US population watches the superbowl? Damn.
On February 02 2014 09:28 TzaTzers wrote: Oh there's NA LCS if you watch LoL but yea I don't know if that is interesting to you.
Is that actually on the same night? Oh well, I just assumed the Muricans would not broadcast during the superbowl, but at least now I don't have the problem that OP has anymore. Yay!
50% of america doesn't watch the game. It's cool if you don't care, but it doesn't make you special.
as to your question, TL calendar doesn't have too much, but I'm sure there will be random streamers and such; maybe you could catch up on a tournament you missed? or spend some quality time doing something other than gaming?
Holy crap, so that meanst half of the entire US population watches the superbowl? Damn.
Half of the population having their TV on. 100 mln is about a third of US population if I am not mistaken
Why the fuck Americans did invent their own "football" game anyway? There is a football game, it's called "football" by the rest of the world... And it's hell of a fun to watch.
If you can't find any event then you could just marathon previous tournaments like SL9(bw) or The International 3(dota 2) that tournament was amazing from start to end or Blizzcon(sc2) or wcs s3 (there so many sick games to watch that time) or you could try some heartstone tournament rarely do i find TCG boring .. or you could some anime or movie series like star wars/LOTR/star trek/Matrix/Bourne Ultimatum/Legacy/whatever all of those take a huge amount of time in a day.
that's what i do when everybody is watching some event and i don't give a fuck about it.
Way to go! I have no idea about this thing the americans call football. It seems to be some kind of watered down rubgy? I once again have no idea, but this time about how it could survive for such a long time! Edit: I probably come off as way ignorant, but seriously
i don't care that you don't care about american football, and for the record I don't care about it either, and you most likely don't care that i don't care about american football.
On February 02 2014 21:08 Muffloe wrote: Way to go! I have no idea about this thing the americans call football. It seems to be some kind of watered down rubgy? I once again have no idea, but this time about how it could survive for such a long time! Edit: I probably come off as way ignorant, but seriously
On February 02 2014 20:13 mantequilla wrote: Why the fuck Americans did invent their own "football" game anyway? There is a football game, it's called "football" by the rest of the world... And it's hell of a fun to watch.
Why did Australians invent their own football? Also its arguable that watching people run back and forth for 90 minutes is "hell of a fun to watch". See? I can make fun of a sport I barely know anything about also.
On February 02 2014 20:13 mantequilla wrote: Why the fuck Americans did invent their own "football" game anyway? There is a football game, it's called "football" by the rest of the world... And it's hell of a fun to watch.
The fact that the rest of the world thinks soccer is fun to watch makes me question whether or not they're just all on drugs, all the time.
That said, screw the super bowl. I'm over here bouncing between restreams of the six nations games (which I haven't seen yet) and the Syracuse vs Duke basketball game from last night (which I have seen at least four times since it aired last night). And browsing TL, 'n stuff. Dat ADD yo.
On February 02 2014 10:35 yokohama wrote: I'm from Seattle and I still don't care about the Super Bowl. As for the entertaining commercials, I live in Japan. Every day is Super Bowl commercial day here.
haha omg that's hilarious. Please tell me they've never somehow ran that whole commercial on TV? I can't imagine an hour of that lol.
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it's....
it's like a 20 second commercial on repeat..... :<
Bahahaha. At first I thought he didn't watch it, but just wanted to let people think he did by saying it was funny and not believing they'd air something like that for an hour. Thinking someone would make up such a silly lie just to fit in like that made me laugh. I think his question was whether they actually aired the entire commercial looped for an hour like that though, which is still a silly question. I couldn't imagine a tv station allowing an hour long commercial to air during a commercial break.
Uh idk you could do other things instead of watching it. I don't see the big deal. But no way anyone would air something esports, or other sports related against a big championship game like this.
On February 02 2014 10:35 yokohama wrote: I'm from Seattle and I still don't care about the Super Bowl. As for the entertaining commercials, I live in Japan. Every day is Super Bowl commercial day here.
haha omg that's hilarious. Please tell me they've never somehow ran that whole commercial on TV? I can't imagine an hour of that lol.
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it's....
it's like a 20 second commercial on repeat..... :<
I watched like 10 seconds of it then put it off so I didn't realize that it's only 20 seconds looped for an hour. I figured it was just several long songs with some random dancing.
On February 02 2014 10:35 yokohama wrote: I'm from Seattle and I still don't care about the Super Bowl. As for the entertaining commercials, I live in Japan. Every day is Super Bowl commercial day here.
haha omg that's hilarious. Please tell me they've never somehow ran that whole commercial on TV? I can't imagine an hour of that lol.
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it's....
it's like a 20 second commercial on repeat..... :<
Bahahaha. At first I thought he didn't watch it, but just wanted to let people think he did by saying it was funny and not believing they'd air something like that for an hour. Thinking someone would make up such a silly lie just to fit in like that made me laugh. I think his question was whether they actually aired the entire commercial looped for an hour like that though, which is still a silly question. I couldn't imagine a tv station allowing an hour long commercial to air during a commercial break.
On February 02 2014 10:35 yokohama wrote: I'm from Seattle and I still don't care about the Super Bowl. As for the entertaining commercials, I live in Japan. Every day is Super Bowl commercial day here.
I think most people that even do watch the super bowl don't actually care about it either. Even the football fans, because it's a pretty good chance they don't like either team playing in it. Then the rest of the people who aren't normal fans are just watching for the commercials (which is mindblow to me), or to be cool/hip, or just going for an excuse to party and hangout with friends (which is fine).
The event has degenerated into corporate whoring and a bunch of pop culture bullshit. I ran across this pie chart from a diehard football fan from /r/nfl or something and it's amplified times 10 for the superb owl.
It's mind numbing to me. Imagine if SC matches were like this.
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