EPTStarcraft Briefly Mentioned on ESPN Radio - Page 2
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NoScary
United States151 Posts
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BoZiffer
United States1841 Posts
On May 08 2012 10:41 chipmonklord17 wrote: The issue, in my experience at least, is that its much harder for "sports nerds" if you will to accept that there isn't much of a difference between what they do and what "starcraft nerds" do. Most of the "sports nerds" I know laugh at the idea of professional starcraft being existent let alone at any level that is similar to sports in any way. It sort of goes back to jock/geek stereotypes, no jock wants to be a geek no matter how similar they happen to be. I would say that it is the most significant of stereotypes to be broken for widespread mainstream acceptance. I like to consider myself "trans-border" if you will. Played college basketball, married a collegiate athlete (volleyball player), and love Starcraft as much as I love my Buffalo Bills, Sabres, the NBA, PGA Tour, MMA and any other competition I can get my hands on. I am a competition junky. I would watch competitive Tiddly Winks if there were such a thing. But, the two communities have much more in common than they would ever like to admit in public. | ||
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holy_war
United States3590 Posts
(Instead of Tebow, instert any foreigner's name) | ||
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BoZiffer
United States1841 Posts
On May 08 2012 11:10 holy_war wrote: I can't wait for the day that Skip Bayless starts to yell and argue about pro SC2 matches with Stephen A. Smith on First Take! (Instead of Tebow, instert any foreigner's name) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMK9FKMG3Nc I long the for the day when InControl pimp slaps Skip Bayless for just being Skip Bayless! j/k... not really. | ||
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chipmonklord17
United States11944 Posts
On May 08 2012 11:04 BoZiffer wrote: I would say that it is the most significant of stereotypes to be broken for widespread mainstream acceptance. I like to consider myself "trans-border" if you will. Played college basketball, married a collegiate athlete (volleyball player), and love Starcraft as much as I love my Buffalo Bills, Sabres, the NBA, PGA Tour, MMA and any other competition I can get my hands on. I am a competition junky. I would watch competitive Tiddly Winks if there were such a thing. But, the two communities have much more in common than they would ever like to admit in public. I completely agree with you. Its just in my experience I've seen plenty more "starcraft nerds" accepting that they're basically doing the same thing as [insert sport] nerds, yet very little of the other way around. But besides one of my good friends who happens to be a basketball fan and a starcraft fan, all of my sports only friends don't enjoy the idea of being similar to a starcraft nerd in any way. Its still a long way to go before both become mainstream, and I don't think the issue is nearly as much on the esports side as it is on the sports side. | ||
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UndoneJin
United States438 Posts
Stephen A. would think its stupid but I bet Skip would think its neat  | ||
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
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windsupernova
Mexico5280 Posts
Would be useful for us that can't listen to it atm. | ||
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Befree
695 Posts
 . I wonder if anyone will call in on the subject in the future.Also, I think you should be commended on your responsible topic title. Normally you'd see something like "ESPN discusses competitive SC2!" in this scenario. :p | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States43747 Posts
On May 08 2012 10:47 Fencer710 wrote: E-Sports is slowly infiltrating the mainstream! :D Definitely cool to see e-sports get mentioned by mainstream sports critics or hosts We really do exist to people outside of TeamLiquid! | ||
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GeedrAhsc
United States97 Posts
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CajunMan
United States823 Posts
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Alejandrisha
United States6565 Posts
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Blennd
United States266 Posts
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soon.Cloak
United States983 Posts
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Chytilova
United States790 Posts
On May 08 2012 09:55 AKomrade wrote: Hahaha, #TMI. He knows its dangerous waters mentioning a video game outside of the mainstream on ESPN radio. Awesome that he watches the game though. Might be one of the heavy pushers at ESPN Studios talking to Sundance. I'd be shocked if he had even minor input to any ESPN operation of which he isn't a part. | ||
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Charger
United States2405 Posts
On May 08 2012 11:24 Befree wrote: That's pretty cool to hear . I wonder if anyone will call in on the subject in the future.Also, I think you should be commended on your responsible topic title. Normally you'd see something like "ESPN discusses competitive SC2!" in this scenario. :p LOL, I actually typed that out but realized how misleading that could be :p | ||
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Grohg
United States243 Posts
On May 08 2012 12:48 Chytilova wrote: I'd be shocked if he had even minor input to any ESPN operation of which he isn't a part. Sundance actually talking about communicating with ESPN in the past...it was the eSports panel a couple of months ago when he mentioned it. That link to Sundance's recent twitter happened to come only a couple of hours after the ESPN SC shoutout. It might have nothing to do with it or it might have a real connection. Either way it's cool to see in something mainstream. | ||
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holy_war
United States3590 Posts
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EnderCraft
United States1746 Posts
Basically, WE'RE ALL NERDS! | ||
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