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hoby2000
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States918 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-07-03 16:37:12
July 03 2015 13:56 GMT
#1
I still hate the term "eSports" but I'm not here to be a downer (surprise, right?).

I've grown up in a family of 7 children with two parents who have been married for 30+ years. (37 this year to be exact). My parents love sports. Wait, let me correct that... My parents LOVE competition. Everything I've ever done has always been fueled by the intent to be better than my siblings and/or friends. This led me to love watching any competition - Ice skating, ping pong, foosball, video games, football, tennis, volleyball, basketball, hockey, soccer, company events etc. Fuck, if it has teams and points, I'm already really fucking interested and motivated to watch.

5+ years ago, I first discovered professional gaming. I actually wanted to compete in Smash Bros. Brawl on GameBattles but ended up selling my Wii because I was irresponsible at the time. I still had a computer, and ended up either finding Teamliquid or videos of professional Broodwar. Because of my desire to be competitive and growing up playing video games as one of my main hobbies, I was enthralled with the scene. Not only that, but watching people play a video game at that high level for the first time was honestly a mind fuck.

I get frustrated though reading people's complaints in eSports communities about this or that, or at least I use too. There have been more times than I can count where I've written blog posts criticizing X community for Y reason because I felt they were being... overly critical. What is life without irony?

A few weeks ago I read this article by a favorite author / speaker of mine Steve Horowitz. He talked about the idea of celebrating micro-wonders. We live in a world we're constantly trying to improve so we're naturally going to be looking for flaws more often than the advances we've already made. While it's good that we're looking for those flaws, we should be taking a few moments every once in awhile to celebrate the fact that we've even gotten this far. Hell, we should be celebrating the fact that we're looking for and discussing flaws such as the Econ in LotV, unit composition, tournament formats, etc. because that means we've made progress enough to start discussing these new problems.

We've reached a point in eSports in general where we're trying to perfect the smaller pieces so it works they way we want, and that's fucking awesome. There are some flaws we still need to fix and I think we should continue discussing them in any capacity possible. But we all need to take a second and realize what this has become so far. Every weekend I'm reading tweets and watching events for Melee, DotA, Starcraft, Counter-strike, League, Street Figher among others.

I go to work and talk to my co workers about the weekend events I watched only to hear my manager pipe in and say " you guys are such dorks..." I take it as a compliment - If being a dork means passionately watching Jaedong break my heart over and over as he fucking gets to a semi-final then LOSES AGAIN or watching Team Secret make RIDICULOUS plays with Techies, or cheering against Leffen no matter who he's playing simply because I like to have a pro-player that I hate in any given event (not only that but he plays Fox.... PSH!) - then yes, I am the King of Dorks god damn it because eSports is so fucking cool to watch, and honestly, is more entertaining than normal sports.

TL;DR - We've come a long way and we have a long way to go. Let us celebrate this miracle while at the same time we continue to make it better.

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EsportsJohn
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
United States4883 Posts
July 03 2015 18:02 GMT
#2
You spelled ESPORTS wrong. All caps means more passion.
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TelecoM
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States10668 Posts
July 03 2015 20:03 GMT
#3
On July 04 2015 03:02 SC2John wrote:
You spelled ESPORTS wrong. All caps means more passion.

This man speaks the truth.
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ninazerg
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States7291 Posts
July 03 2015 20:15 GMT
#4
I think you meant to say "ESPORTS are awesome"
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hoby2000
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States918 Posts
July 03 2015 21:36 GMT
#5
On July 04 2015 05:15 ninazerg wrote:
I think you meant to say "ESPORTS are awesome"


No, I meant is. I meant to refer to it as an idea, not a collection.

I also hate you all, but admittedly, this is a better response than most of my blogs get so I can't be displeased.
A lesson without pain is meaningless for nothing can be gained without giving something in return.
BisuDagger
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Bisutopia19229 Posts
July 03 2015 21:46 GMT
#6
TL;DR - We've come a long way and we have a long way to go. Let us celebrate this miracle while at the same time we continue to make it better.

All I read was the TL;DR. Were you trying to say we've come along way with perfecting spinach pizza and let's celebrate yet not get to cocky because we could most certainly elevate spinach pizza even further.
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hoby2000
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States918 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-07-03 21:58:09
July 03 2015 21:57 GMT
#7
On July 04 2015 06:46 BisuDagger wrote:
Show nested quote +
TL;DR - We've come a long way and we have a long way to go. Let us celebrate this miracle while at the same time we continue to make it better.

All I read was the TL;DR. Were you trying to say we've come along way with perfecting spinach pizza and let's celebrate yet not get to cocky because we could most certainly elevate spinach pizza even further.


Hey, that's why it's there. I blabber a lot but if you're interested in the ramblings of some random internet dude, I left that for you too. I'm glad you took advantage of one of them. You got the point.
A lesson without pain is meaningless for nothing can be gained without giving something in return.
GeckoXp
Profile Blog Joined June 2013
Germany2016 Posts
July 03 2015 22:04 GMT
#8
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gimme tree fiddy gold coins, or the piddy esports gets it
BLinD-RawR
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
ALLEYCAT BLUES50114 Posts
July 04 2015 05:33 GMT
#9
On July 04 2015 06:46 BisuDagger wrote:
Show nested quote +
TL;DR - We've come a long way and we have a long way to go. Let us celebrate this miracle while at the same time we continue to make it better.

All I read was the TL;DR. Were you trying to say we've come along way with perfecting spinach pizza and let's celebrate yet not get to cocky because we could most certainly elevate spinach pizza even further.


speaking of ESPORTS and pizza.....
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hoby2000
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States918 Posts
July 04 2015 15:12 GMT
#10
On July 04 2015 14:33 BLinD-RawR wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 04 2015 06:46 BisuDagger wrote:
TL;DR - We've come a long way and we have a long way to go. Let us celebrate this miracle while at the same time we continue to make it better.

All I read was the TL;DR. Were you trying to say we've come along way with perfecting spinach pizza and let's celebrate yet not get to cocky because we could most certainly elevate spinach pizza even further.


speaking of ESPORTS and pizza.....


*crickets* We're still waiting EG.....
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