Awesome. I already thought this was awesome but these quotes made me respect him even more. He has realistic expectations and he is trying to support esports. We love you GH!
"I'd be like a high schooler playing against NBA players. These are professionals and I probably have no shot at even winning a game, so winning the whole thing would be a miracle. These guys are professionals, they do what I do in basketball but they do it in StarCraft, they do it for a living." "I think my biggest goal is to go in there and get some respect and kind of raise awareness that pro athletes recognize what these guys do and the skill and talent for what they do, and for progamers to realize professional athletes are not just dumb college dropouts or whatever,"
Nice interview, and Gordon definitely doesn't seem like the dumb jock to me
I also like his idea of implementing a foul system hehe. Obviously it would need some thought process to make it work/viable but something that hadn't crossed my mind.
On September 08 2011 10:36 SgtPepper wrote: Awesome. I already thought this was awesome but these quotes made me respect him even more. He has realistic expectations and he is trying to support esports. We love you GH!
"I'd be like a high schooler playing against NBA players. These are professionals and I probably have no shot at even winning a game, so winning the whole thing would be a miracle. These guys are professionals, they do what I do in basketball but they do it in StarCraft, they do it for a living." "I think my biggest goal is to go in there and get some respect and kind of raise awareness that pro athletes recognize what these guys do and the skill and talent for what they do, and for progamers to realize professional athletes are not just dumb college dropouts or whatever,"
Last time I saw Gordon streaming I poked my head in and ended up watching for 3 or 4 hours.
This guy takes home millions each year playing basketball on the highest level, yet on his stream he's as humble and deferential as they come. It's refreshing to see someone who could have an ego the size of Texas get so excited over winning a ladder match and be so hard on himself after a loss.
EPT
Gordon is a baller!
