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TEDx talk about StarCraft 2 and ESPORTS - Page 10
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nalgene
Canada2153 Posts
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Crazyeyes
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Weebem-Na
United States221 Posts
I think you did a great job! It has been a goal of mine to improve my play enough to help my university team since I first heard of the Collegiate Starleague. Great closing statements as well I am impress! | ||
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KING CHARLIE :D
United States447 Posts
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Jampackedeon
United States2053 Posts
Keep fighting, for great esports! | ||
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contraSol
United States185 Posts
Will it ever be mainstream? To echo you, I don't think it matters. You're helping to make it easier to come out of the esports closet, regardless of whether or not the majority of our peers share the same passion. Thank you. | ||
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bluQ
Germany1724 Posts
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Adventurekid
Sweden505 Posts
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shindigs
United States4795 Posts
Featured on the official Blizzard StarCraft webpage. I feel amazingly lucky and honored! | ||
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bokoandbobo
United States2 Posts
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Waterflow
Sweden1550 Posts
And btw this must be you: If not then that must be your twin brother. | ||
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shindigs
United States4795 Posts
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Waterflow
Sweden1550 Posts
On April 11 2012 05:34 shindigs wrote: Yeah that's me, lol. So embarrassing. I work for Tt eSPORTS now so I'm using a the black switch Meka G1 keyboard Oh cool. Not a bad job dude. But look at it this way instead. You actually helped me to stay away from the Das because i was looking for a video of it and your "review"  of it made me realize it's way to similar to my current Black Widow Ultimate because of the glossyness and the fact that i don't like that kind of "wing" in the upper right corner. | ||
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HajkeN
Sweden24 Posts
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0x64
Finland4602 Posts
 .I could feel the nervousness and I emphatized during the speech... I would be soooo nervous in such a situation. | ||
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Clutch8
United States258 Posts
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iplayBANJO
United States129 Posts
It seemed to just be you talking about e-sports for an audience who was already aware of it, and with no real point to make about it. I don't like sports -> I'm a nerd -> I play video games -> video games are competitive -> here's a video game that is competitive -> here's a competition you have some connection to. Why were you talking about it? Don't take this the wrong way. I enjoyed it, but it was just a display of emotion and passion. There was no focus to it in my opinion. I would suggest that if you are expecting, or wanting, another opportunity to discuss gaming you try to discuss more of the social and cultural impact of video games, and how e-sports is a surprising and optimistic turn of events for the media. Read some Marshall McLuhan, or Neil Postman for a kind of example of this kind of argument. (Although they argued that Television was bad for, well, a lot of things.) Something more about the traditionally solitary habits of gamers and how e-sports is (in the US at least) a social movement towards mature interaction in a communal setting as opposed to solitary embarrassment. I don't know, this is just an initial impression. I feel like you wanted to discuss this sort of thing, but didn't really express it that well. It goes back to my earlier question; why are you talking about e-sports? Also in terms of public speaking, try to never say "umm", "like" or "you know." I know its an obvious point, but I suggest you consciously remove these words or phrases from your daily vocabulary. It's not easy but it makes a huge difference. With all that said however, it's more than I have ever done for e-sports. I have great respect for what you have done in talking about this on a large platform, and for what you have done in organizing a collegiate starleague competition. I hope you understand my admiration of you even though I am suggesting a fairly disrespectful question for you to ask of yourself. | ||
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Swwww
Switzerland812 Posts
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sourlikealemon
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Competitive gaming has much more in common with poker, chess and go than it does with any sport and we don't refer to those games as tablesports or any other type of sport. I'd much rather people just call it competitive gaming; it's immediately understandable because a shit load of people play games and they'll be able to relate to it. Everyone's sons, daughters, husbands and wives play games and instead of trying to distance yourself from what you fear they might think are silly little video games you should be trying to latch onto those games that they already do play and use them to connect the dots. The point is that calling it an eSport appears strange and already creates a point of contention (the idea that competitive gaming is a type of sport) that is completely uneccessary. Why have an extra barrier to entry on an idea that someone may already reject? Anyways, just a thought. On another note, it would have been cool if you had got in contact with Husky or someone and got them to do a super basic cast of a game for the audience to see, though I doubt you would've had time for that in your talk. | ||
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alonth
Israel36 Posts
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