On August 02 2011 01:12 branflakes14 wrote:
Interesting read, thanks for posting! Who'd have thought the first ever real eSports prize was a god damn Ferrari.

Even more Tresh co-founded xfire and sold it for 102 million to Viacom

brum

Hungary187 Posts

August 01 2011 16:47 GMT

#224

QuakeWorld should have never died out.
In my experience the "Bling" games always take over the games with more depth.
CS may be a rare exception.

Probe1

United States17920 Posts

August 01 2011 16:50 GMT

#225

Did you actually read all of this? If you did: Thank you

Thank YOU. Damn good article.

JethroTV

United States206 Posts

August 01 2011 16:52 GMT

#226

Awesome write up, really enjoyed it and I feel more educated with regard to the realm of e-sports.

but

[...] and it's very likely that he will forever remain the only foreigner to win a major Korean competition.

is a bold statement.

D.Devil

Germany227 Posts

August 01 2011 16:56 GMT

#227

On August 02 2011 01:52 SCJethro wrote:
Awesome write up, really enjoyed it and I feel more educated with regard to the realm of e-sports.

but

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is a bold statement.

added in SC:BW to make it clearer. In the first version, it said to win a Starleague, but then I changed it.

JethroTV

United States206 Posts

August 01 2011 16:59 GMT

#228

On August 02 2011 01:56 D.Devil wrote:

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added in SC:BW to make it clearer. In the first version, it said to win a Starleague, but then I changed it.

Thats definitely a safer statement. =)

Synapze

Canada563 Posts

August 01 2011 17:11 GMT

#229

How inflated was the wc3 salaries? I played a lot of wc3 but I never really looked into stuff like that.. was WC3 really that big?

Haegr9599

United States210 Posts

August 01 2011 17:12 GMT

#230

This pretty amazing man! Definately helped me learn about the ESPORTS scene before i came about SC;BW back in 2009.

ThaZenith

Canada3116 Posts

August 01 2011 17:37 GMT

#231

Thanks for the write-up. A lot of interesting info in there.

FlamingTurd

United States1059 Posts

August 01 2011 17:43 GMT

#232

Omg, this is too awesome, gonna take me a while to finish it, but enjoying every word.

TheRealNanMan

United States1471 Posts

August 01 2011 17:48 GMT

#233

This is so awesome! I've been following/studying up on the WC III, SC BW, and SC II History but i'm glad someone was able to write about all the counter strike and quake stuff that I knew very little about! Thanks for adding a little bit more perspective on things!

bech

Denmark162 Posts

August 01 2011 17:50 GMT

#234

Damn fine article - having been around Counter-Strike and its communities for a good 8ish years it all rang a familiar tune - Can't take away from us Danes that we might be a small nation, but we damn sure know how to play us some Counter-Strike.

bech

Denmark162 Posts

August 01 2011 17:50 GMT

#235

edit: Doublepost.. wops.

Shichibukai

Sweden355 Posts

August 01 2011 17:57 GMT

#236

Took a while to read it all but I'm glad I did! Very informative, thanks for enlightening us. I am (was) pretty much clueless about anything not related to Starcraft. All those [other game]-events just went under my radar.

Oldgrain

Finland165 Posts

August 01 2011 17:59 GMT

#237

Thank you so much for writing this! I knew most of the background stuff but it was nice to read some specifics of ESPORTS in the west.

iamcaustic

Canada1509 Posts

August 01 2011 18:14 GMT

#238

On August 01 2011 05:24 D.Devil wrote:
Did you actually read all of this? If you did: Thank you.

I skimmed some of it, but I did my best to carefully read as much as I could handle in one sitting.

Thanks for this wonderful summary of ESPORTS.

Caphe

Vietnam10817 Posts

August 01 2011 18:17 GMT

#239

Nice writeup, I actually learnt something today. But there is too little mention of SC:BW scene in Korea which by far imo is the only country that really promote the concept of a game to become a SPORT.