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E-Sports in China

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Goshawk.
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United Kingdom5338 Posts
July 05 2009 17:56 GMT
#1
Found this interesting video on Chinese e-sports from Arirang:



Mainly focuses on WE, who have a lot of the top WC3 players out there. Interesting to see what their training house is like, and it's surprisingly similar setup to those in Korea.

naonao
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States847 Posts
July 05 2009 18:25 GMT
#2
lol fail translation. World of Warcraft 3 XD
520
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States2822 Posts
July 05 2009 18:41 GMT
#3
It's interesting to see the difference between the e-Sports industry in China and Korea when displayed like this, side-to-side. I think, to some point, fans have a lot to do with it. A lot of Starcraft fans, for example, shun games like Warcraft 3 or CnC, which do have their competive scenes, only because they aren't Starcraft. Thankfully, this phenomenon is less pronounced when you move into games of different genres. But most players have their favorite RTS game, their favorite FPS game, etc., and the games of individual genres with the most fans enjoy growth, while the remainder are dropped to the wayside.
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D00dles
Profile Joined June 2008
Cambodia217 Posts
July 05 2009 18:49 GMT
#4
Awesome to see a look into what Sky does and WE house, it's kind of surprising to see how many people are still playing games like MIR 2/3.

Such a shame CS isn't more popular in Korea.
"This. How people cant see it is beyond me... how making a copy of something is stealing is also beyond me. Is it stealing to make a photo copy of a book?" - HuskyTheHusky
haduken
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Australia8267 Posts
July 05 2009 19:07 GMT
#5
Chinese scene is very fragmented.
War3 is only popular because China showed some results. Other scenes are crap.

People play games but government policies and cultural resistances = no meaningful development of professional scenes.

Kids will get into gaming at college then quit when they found a job.
Rillanon.au
Tom Phoenix
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
1114 Posts
July 05 2009 20:29 GMT
#6
This was a very good and educational video. Gave a lot of insight into the development of the Chinese e-Sports scene. I also liked the insight of non-StarCraft progamers in Korea.

However, I find it suprising that European countries were mentioned as some of the leading countries in the e-Sports industry. Do not get me wrong, Europe has a very vivid competitive scene in a great variety of games. But the industry itself still remains a joke, particularly in comparison to the Korean e-Sports industry.
You and your "5 years of competitive RTS experience" can take a hike. - FrozenArbiter
roflMe
Profile Joined May 2009
United States40 Posts
July 05 2009 21:52 GMT
#7
is that guy sky?
haha
520
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States2822 Posts
July 05 2009 22:02 GMT
#8
On July 06 2009 06:52 roflMe wrote:
is that guy sky?

Yes, Li Xiaofeng is Sky.
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GoSu
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Korea (South)1773 Posts
July 05 2009 22:21 GMT
#9
World of Warcraft 3
#1 olleh KT 팬 http://sports.kt.com/ | #1 김택용 선수 팬 | 좋은 선수: 송병구, 이제동, 도제욱, 정명훈, 이성은 | KeSPA 한국 e-Sports 협회
Goshawk.
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United Kingdom5338 Posts
July 05 2009 23:21 GMT
#10
Yer, the mistranslation is pretty retarded.
FragKrag
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States11552 Posts
July 05 2009 23:22 GMT
#11
Sky is an amazing player, but doesn't he play human? T_T
*TL CJ Entusman #40* "like scissors does anything to paper except MAKE IT MORE NUMEROUS" -paper
Goshawk.
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United Kingdom5338 Posts
July 05 2009 23:49 GMT
#12
Yes, he does. He's not doing that well at the moment but TH and InFi to a lesser extent are doing very well with Hu.

Oh, I just noticed I have a full stop after my name.
Durak
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Canada3684 Posts
July 06 2009 01:40 GMT
#13
Lack of variety? There are nine different matchups in StarCraft
Emlary
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
China3334 Posts
July 06 2009 06:43 GMT
#14
On July 06 2009 03:49 D00dles wrote:
Awesome to see a look into what Sky does and WE house, it's kind of surprising to see how many people are still playing games like MIR 2/3.

Such a shame CS isn't more popular in Korea.


Mir 2 has been popular for 7 or 8 years here. 2D MMOs still count 50% market shares in China, I'm not kidding.
No more SKT1, it's SKP2.
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