EPT
French olympic gold medalist to play Starcraft 2 ! - Page 3
| Forum Index > SC2 General |
|
Al Bundy
7257 Posts
| ||
|
Master of DalK
Canada1801 Posts
Can't wait for the showmatch between him and Stephano =D GLHF Monseiur Agnel! | ||
|
Philozovic
France1677 Posts
Well starcraft 2 as an esport is a loooot more popular than W3 ever was in France. I'm in medical school (so not really the more hardcore gamer/nerdy community ...) and I would say that more or less every single male here knows about pomf et thud and stephano at least by name (as in it's that dude that play starcraft, right ?). | ||
|
Meadowlark
United States349 Posts
| ||
|
v_lm
France202 Posts
The main charity TV show in France called "les enfoires" (literally, the bastards), with mostly actors and singers and they sometimesinvite sportsmen. They already invited Zinedine Zidane and Karim Benzema and this year it was him. He has more than 100 k mainstream followers on FB... and posted it on FB... As if he was not awesome enough, he is also a Daft Punk fan. | ||
|
Lazermonkey
Sweden2176 Posts
For those who don't know this guy: He has been an upcomming swimmer for the last two-three years or so, he is quite young. He had a truly AMAZING olympics. He managed to crush everyone in the 200 free(won by like 1 sec IIRC, which is huuuge at that level) and also anchored the 4x100 free relay, in which he did an amazing split time which caused France to beat the US for the gold medal. | ||
|
aXa
France748 Posts
| ||
|
ALPINA
3791 Posts
| ||
|
carloselcoco
United States2302 Posts
"Yannick Agnel is a gamer. The double olympic swimming winner tweeted last night about his debut in Starcraft 2, the most famous esport game. Sorry to burst your bubble, but last year LoL surpasses StarCraft as the world's most popular video game. :/ | ||
|
aXa
France748 Posts
On March 22 2013 05:34 carloselcoco wrote: Sorry to burst your bubble, but last year LoL surpasses StarCraft as the world's most popular video game. :/ It's a quote from a journalist, not me. And, I it's "famous", not popular. (Also esport game, not video game..) LoL is a great game but didn't invented esport. | ||
|
blackone
Germany1314 Posts
On March 22 2013 05:34 carloselcoco wrote: Sorry to burst your bubble, but last year LoL surpasses StarCraft as the world's most popular video game. :/ Starcraft was never the world's most popular video game. Not even close. And neither was LoL. It's probably farmville or wii sports or something of that nature. | ||
|
mavignon
France369 Posts
On March 22 2013 05:44 blackone wrote: Starcraft was never the world's most popular video game. Not even close. And neither was LoL. It's probably farmville or wii sports or something of that nature. Depends on how you measure popularity. Popularity != Total install base. You can make a good case for LoL | ||
|
iLevitate
United States225 Posts
 | ||
|
Karis Vas Ryaar
United States4396 Posts
On March 22 2013 05:30 ALPINA wrote: Not to be negative here.. but seriously is SC2 such a bad game that we need a separate thread when some famous guy decides to install it? I am pretty sure thousands of celebrities/famous people are playing all kinds of games all the time. SC2 is completely different from games that celebrities usually play (cod/madden as examples) because when people play SC2 they tend to be more hardcore about it. Plus this is a Starcraft 2 website so yeah. the games celebrities usually play are games they can just play to relax and from what ive read it seems like this guy is actually going to take SC2 seriously as opposed to playing a couple games a week | ||
|
Ramiz1989
12124 Posts
On March 22 2013 05:44 blackone wrote: Starcraft was never the world's most popular video game. Not even close. And neither was LoL. It's probably farmville or wii sports or something of that nature. That guy said the most popular eSport game... I don't count farmville as an eSport game at all, but my standards are pretty high, since I don't count LoL as eSport game too. ;D | ||
|
ElMeanYo
United States1032 Posts
On March 22 2013 05:49 iLevitate wrote: What this guy dominates with pool I'm guessing he will always go pool first. :p | ||
|
Boucot
France15997 Posts
On March 22 2013 06:09 ElMeanYo wrote: I'm guessing he will always go pool first. :p He has also good APM. | ||
|
Marou
Germany1371 Posts
On March 20 2013 00:08 aXa wrote: Edit: I uploaded a media quote. I tried my best to provide an accurate translation. Well, Stephano is easily the most famous gamer of all time in France. In the gaming community, i'd say a very large majority of people know who he is. But nationwide, impossible to say really :/ Im sorry but most famous french gamer will always be Elky. If you are not into esports, nobody knows about Stephano in France. Hell most of the French people i meet in Seoul have no idea who Stephano is. | ||
|
aXa
France748 Posts
| ||
|
blackone
Germany1314 Posts
On March 22 2013 06:05 Ramiz1989 wrote: That guy said the most popular eSport game... I don't count farmville as an eSport game at all, but my standards are pretty high, since I don't count LoL as eSport game too. ;D Sure, but the guy I was quoting just said "most popular video game" | ||
| ||
