Good job! I just took a military leadership course that made us give three speeches over the length of the course.

One bit of advice, try not to move your hands around so much. I was distracted by your rapid hand movement. I thought you were signaling an airplane to land or something.

Other than that, I thought the E-sports speech was bad ass!

Proseat

Germany5113 Posts

March 31 2012 14:15 GMT

#143

Nice speech.

You were a bit shaky at the start and in between when you let the beamer tech irritate you. But all in all I think you did well. What was the reception in the audience? Were they predominately new to e-sports?

Herry

England681 Posts

March 31 2012 18:54 GMT

#144

eSports is the future!

i'm glad my teenage obsession that started 13 years ago is finally coming into the mainstream!

bnanaPEEL

Canada138 Posts

March 31 2012 22:15 GMT

#145

Nice talk shindigs, fellow Bio nerd!

LokPest

Norway21 Posts

April 01 2012 09:50 GMT

#146

Good job! eSports FIGHTING! *)

Everize

Poland176 Posts

April 01 2012 20:37 GMT

#147

Kudos to your sir

Happystreet

550 Posts

April 01 2012 20:48 GMT

#148

Awesome! Good job

slashmeow

Canada2 Posts

April 02 2012 00:47 GMT

#149

This is Awesome! Great job man :D

Physician

United States4146 Posts

April 02 2012 02:45 GMT

#150

"..because what really matters is how this game, how this community and how people around us have impacted us, shared our passions and just kept us letting us know that it's worthwhile to go 100% in anything you believe in; no matter what other people say!" - shindigs

I will echo those words shindigs because they are TRUE - and this is coming from someone who instead of sleeping immersed himself in the StarCraft community for ten years. I will miss those years fondly the rest of my life. gj, gg you did absolutely great!

MacNaughty

Canada41 Posts

April 02 2012 07:27 GMT

#151

Well done good sir : )

SumTang

Canada21 Posts

April 02 2012 11:22 GMT

#152

Wicked job man. You are very brave and I deeply respect your appreciation for e-sports.

ElvisWayCool

United States437 Posts

April 02 2012 19:44 GMT

#153

Very awesome opportunity for you! TED talks are always awesome, and this one was great too. Thanks for sharing, I bet you felt great after getting off the stage haha

shindigs

United States4795 Posts

April 02 2012 19:47 GMT

#154

It's been just about a week since this video has been released, and its garnered 18k views! It's the most viewed video on the TEDxUCI channel and I have everyone in the community to thank for inspiring the talk and showing support. Give the opportunity to speak again, I'll definitely take time to improve my speaking abilities.

Forte11

Germany26 Posts

April 03 2012 07:48 GMT

#155

You sir did a great job in the name of eSports!
Things like this inspire me to try to grow eSports aswell.

zmansman17

United States2567 Posts

April 03 2012 08:28 GMT

#156

I Would love to see Day9 do one of threse

Stitch

Hong Kong134 Posts

April 03 2012 11:56 GMT

#157

This is an amazing TED Talk!!! I'm completely inspired from this!

Pulselol

Canada1628 Posts

April 03 2012 17:40 GMT

#158

Although it takes quite a bit of balls to even speak on such a stage, it seemed that Tim here had a battle with his own nerves from beginning to the end. It was a decent job, but more practice on the speech could've been made.

Aken

Canada31 Posts

April 03 2012 20:44 GMT

#159

OK

Am I alone to find this speech crap as hell ?
It remind me some teenager speaking about the new shoes he damn wanted. It only talk about how SC2 is great and how the dude enjoyed it and esport.
Try something, replace each sc2 or esport occurence by anything you want, like...cinema or youth camps, it works !

I tought one could at least have some explanations on exactly why sc2 is so great...

leviathan400

United Kingdom393 Posts

April 03 2012 21:33 GMT

#160

good job