EPTOn August 01 2011 05:26 D.Devil wrote:
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Oh god fml. brb with an admin.
eSports: A Short History of Nearly Everything - Page 11
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On August 01 2011 23:35 rtsAlaran wrote: thanks! another wave of eSport-chills around @9minute mark <3 This is my favorite from the coL CS days. They kind of give you a little bit of a more in depth experience as to what he's talking about. A funny anecdote, Quite a few months ago, maybe a year ago actually, I ran into Storm (holy shit  ) and a few of coL's WoW PvP players on HoN. I talked to them a little, and asked if the team had any interest in SC2. They basically said they enjoyed BW and WC3, but didn't see a move to SC2 happening.I am sure glad they were wrong | ||
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On August 02 2011 00:31 Beyonder wrote: Kinda missing the ClanBase story here though. Their EuroCups were really the bomb for Q3/CS esports for a while Clanbase is missing, but the question is in which month did it start. Clanbase was founded in 1998 and the first EuroCup was in 2000. | ||
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It might be worth noting that while modern competition has existed since Doom had netcode, the word ESPORTS didn't appear anywhere until around 99 (or 98 depending on which version of KeSPA history you believe). CPL had its own trademarked nomenclature for gamers (cyberathletes) they were pushing to brand things, in contrast to how we view it now as a collective industry. Also I don't entirely agree with Red Annihilation being "the first real competition", modern LANs had existed for years before that and Microsoft had been putting a lot of energy towards pushing them to showcase Windows 95 networking. Deathmatch '95 had a full set of regional online qualifiers that flew the winners to MSHQ to compete offline -- and even had a video of Bill Gates holding a shotgun against a backdrop of a Doom tileset (apparently shown exactly once). The quote Thresh gave about it is pretty funny too. By virtue of having already played most of the top players around the country and beaten them, I was considered one of the favorites to win the tournament. Another player who went by the handle "Merlock" was considered the other favorite. Due to a random draw, we ended up facing each other in the semi-finals. I ended up beating him something like 10-5. Merlock got so upset he slammed the keyboard and threw his chair off-stage. It was quite the scene, particularly since LAN tournaments weren't all that common back then. Semantics, though. RA got a lot of press from non-gaming outlets because of the Ferrari which makes it the most remembered of that era. I remember reading about it in something like Reader's Digest at 11. | ||
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