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On March 22 2011 03:42 briandawkins wrote:Do you really think you love the game? I mean, I like watching baseball, I get bored playing it. I would never say that I love it. And I know we're just throwing around words on the internet, but the point of the thread is to understand and distinguish levels of appreciation.
I think that that love for a game can be derived from purely a spectator's standpoint. After all, there are millions of diehard fans of baseball, for example, yet the vast majority of those fans sure as hell know that if they tried to play baseball with their amateur skill level, it'd be pisspoor and boring match. Many people just love the game because it's that skill that pros put into a game that provides the excitement that you wouldn't get from playing yourself.
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a league system is supposed to have people in lower leagues since there is not enough space in the higher leagues for all the people. So its completly false that everyone can be atleast in diamond, if everyone would be that good, there would be no difference between bronze and diamond but people would still be in bronze.
Anyway people that play something spectate less, people that spectate play less 
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i think alot of it has to do with Casters also.
if you dont have good casters, then whos going to brake it down for the noobs?
Artosis and tastleless is the reason i watch gsl (in addition to seeing good players play).
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On March 20 2011 07:59 Kelethius wrote:Show nested quote +On March 20 2011 07:38 tattoos and creep wrote:
it's a matter of entertainment. I have a friend that looks many games (GSL, TSL, etc...) and he's not EVEN playing the game. We sometimes discuss the game and all, and we actually have fun doing it. Oh and yeah im having fun in my golden league. I guess I kind of see people who dont play sc2 enjoying watching it as something like going to the jungles of Brazil and showing the tribes people phil ivey doing a crazy bluff or something. They would be like, ok who cares about this shit. Which is how I would think people who dont play sc2 would look at a sc2 game. But then I am faced with these people being the majority of the viewing audience and people who post the most about the game??? something doesnt click for me
Ok, this was a very wrong and mean thing to say =(
The thing is, once a player get enough knowledge to know what's happening on the sceen, even if he doesn't know how to do those things, it will be fun to watch.
Actually, all intelectual sports is just like this, poker, chess, starcraft etc.
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On March 22 2011 02:16 briandawkins wrote:
And lol at all the posters who just focused on OP's claim that anyone who loved the game could be diamond.
That comment is a good illustration that the OP just isn't thinking clearly (since it's not possible for 100% of players to be in the top 20%.)
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you ever watch hockey? can you stop goals like hasek?
you ever watch soccer? can you juke people like ronaldinho?
you ever watch movies? can you direct one like spielberg?
you ever watch golf? can you cheat on your wife like tiger?
i dunno maybe people watch it cause its entertaining? possibly?
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Cool, the game is entertaining to watch and people who don't even play it want to watch it!
So when is SC2 going to be on TV?
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I pay attention to SC2 because I enjoy watching it. Between work, school, social life, etc. I don't have as much time as I'd like to put into play SC2, but that doesn't mean I shouldn't be able to enjoy it in other ways.
The only other sport I enjoy watching is MMA, so I'd love it if eSports took off and I could kick back on my couch at home and watch SC2 instead of football or whatever.
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On March 22 2011 04:07 irishash wrote:
you ever watch hockey? can you stop goals like hasek?
you ever watch soccer? can you juke people like ronaldinho?
you ever watch movies? can you direct one like spielberg?
you ever watch golf? can you cheat on your wife like tiger?
i dunno maybe people watch it cause its entertaining? possibly?
this. end of thread.
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