EPTTIME: Can eSports Finally Make it Big in America? - Page 2
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MicroTastiC
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Legion710
Canada423 Posts
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Sermokala
United States13857 Posts
the summer time is pretty baron for programming for the networks. wouldn't be surprised to see some sort of esport thing tested there before dreaming of the big tv season. | ||
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Pandain
United States12989 Posts
Esports hwaiting! | ||
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TheSir
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Not gonna happen, to much other stuff is happening this weekend. Interesting article though | ||
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Pulselol
Canada1628 Posts
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Smancer
United States379 Posts
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Bedrock
United States395 Posts
On Jun 8 2012 13:01<span style='color:#d20000'> (8 min)</span> TheSir wrote: "This weekend in Anaheim, Calif., Major League Gaming expects to break every viewing record they’ve ever set" Not gonna happen, to much other stuff is happening this weekend. Interesting article though Uninformative post. Can you please elaborate further? | ||
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ChEDo
Canada310 Posts
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Demonhunter04
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Catatonic
United States699 Posts
 Though I don't quite think that SC2 is the only game designed to be an E-Sport. Look at League of Legends, that game is an amazing E-Sport and has been from it's inception. Even Tribes it's new so it's audience is small for now though once it grows it'll be a monster in the scene. So no I don't agree with the notion that SC2 is the only game that was designed to be an E-Sport and to think so is arrogance of the highest level. | ||
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Redox
Germany24794 Posts
On June 09 2012 02:14 Demonhunter04 wrote: Nice article, very positive about eSports. In all honesty, probably paid for by Blizzard. Which would not be a bad thing, shows that they care. | ||
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jobber123rd
United States501 Posts
On June 09 2012 01:53 ssg wrote: That's pretty big news. Does CBS own G4 or Spike? CBS Corporation (parent of CBS Interactive) owns the Showtime Networks, CBS Sports Network (formerly CBS College Sports Network), and (with Warner Bros) The CW. Prior to 2005, when it was known as Viacom, it owned the MTV Networks (MTV, VH1, Spike, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, and several others). Now, Viacom is a separate company from CBS Corp. that has most of the cable TV networks from the "old" Viacom. So to answer your question, they used to own Spike. At present, they don't have a network that's similar to it or G4. | ||
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Tachion
Canada8573 Posts
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GreyKnight
United States4720 Posts
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emc
United States3088 Posts
Sure I think now is a better time for esports on TV to work than it was back in 2007, but I still feel like it will be difficult considering how much down time there is and how long the event runs for. It wouldn't be so bad if there were fillers and interviews but how many fillers/interviews can you possibly do to keep people interested? | ||
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Sikly
United States413 Posts
On June 09 2012 02:01 TheSir wrote: "This weekend in Anaheim, Calif., Major League Gaming expects to break every viewing record they’ve ever set" Not gonna happen, to much other stuff is happening this weekend. Interesting article though You mean like WCS(that MLG is streaming) and the BW mini tourney(that MLG is streaming)? They'll probably shatter live attendance records due to it basically being a mini blizzcon and a lot of people from E3 will probably go. On line they should do pretty damn well for themselves as well. Also to the post above mine, being on all day isn't a problem. At least here in the United States Sunday is basically football(the oval shaped ball variety ) all day. Watching different teams play is the same as watching different players play. And you don't exactly have to watch all the games, only the last few hours on the last day do you not want to miss games. The real issue is commercials and timeframes. Sundance has already said how expensive it can be if you run late in a venue, running late on TV would cause a ton of issues. | ||
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PlosionCornu
Italy814 Posts
On June 09 2012 02:18 Redox wrote: In all honesty, probably paid for by Blizzard. Which would not be a bad thing, shows that they care. Dunno much about foreign news outlets, but isn't TIME a bit too big to allow itself to get bought articles by "gaming" companies? | ||
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Ksquared
United States1748 Posts
On June 09 2012 02:28 emc wrote: the thing with MLG is that's ALL DAY, you can't realistically have a broadcast that's all day, especially with the huge amount of down time. I can see the Arenas being on TV because there isn't an open bracket to be waited on and all the players get started really quickly, but an MLG championship seems a little too hard to pull off unless the program only airs for like 2 hours and basically just does the best matches possible. Sure I think now is a better time for esports on TV to work than it was back in 2007, but I still feel like it will be difficult considering how much down time there is and how long the event runs for. It wouldn't be so bad if there were fillers and interviews but how many fillers/interviews can you possibly do to keep people interested? MLG was on tv twice before but that was with Halo and they only showed a few Team Slayer matches that usually only last 10~minutes I have no idea how they can get SC2 to work on tv. | ||
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polyphonyEX
United States2539 Posts
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