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It was 3 p.m. and the California sunlight was beating at the windows, but the Lair’s front shutters were drawn tight, leaving the gamers to focus in the darkness on their training, which meant playing video games from dawn to dusk each day, or from dusk to dawn each night. Their physical needs had been seen to: the kitchen refrigerator was stocked with bagels, the living room cooler with caffeinated sports drinks. At their flashing terminals, the four young men were immersed enough in work that they hardly noticed the two maids feather-dusting everything around them — and occasionally poking a vacuum cleaner between their legs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/sports/grooming-the-champions-of-the-keyboard.html?hp
Always neat to see gaming get some recognition that isn't negative from a major media outlet.
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I like how he says he won't talk about income and then goes on to give an approx income and I see he's still trying to compare his original brand to the Yankees. hue. Regardless at least this isn't another blog article.
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EG.Machine: "We're the Michael Jordans of the game we play." Hmm...
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This is nice exposure in a general sense, but captions like "quickly lucrative" is worrying me. Fast ascent is always linked with "hype bubble" and that's never good.
Also, Yankees of video games lols
EG winning all the tournaments :V
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I think its really cool to see E-Sports in the media in a positive sense. Also Alex calling out people who don't think video games should be sports was pretty boss IMO
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“Take a guy like Ben,” said Garfield, referring to DeMusliM, whose real name is Benjamin Baker. “He’s been doing this since he was 15. Now he’s 23. He earns, let’s say, 60 to 80 grand a year, plus tournaments and endorsements." that actually is a pretty impressive salary if EG is really paying that.
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kind of interesting to see them do anotehr piece like this so soon after the MLG piece
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On September 29 2013 11:13 ymir233 wrote:
Also, Yankees of video games lols
EG winning all the tournaments :V
If he is talking about the Yankees in the last few years, its spot on. Aging heroes, former or otherwise, + costly rosterl + minimal results describes them to a t.
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Is there a Dota player who also happens to have the last name Baker? The article and especially the slideshow keep implying that "Baker" is a Dota 2 player.
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On September 29 2013 11:15 Waxangel wrote:
kind of interesting to see them do anotehr piece like this so soon after the MLG piece
what piece are you talking about?
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Demuslim switched to dota?
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Well, the Yankee thing is kindof okay - I mean they dump a lot of money on players and aren't doing so well right now.
+ Show Spoiler +I admit, I'm a Red Sox fan, and couldn't stop myself.
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On September 29 2013 11:30 UnKooL wrote:
Demuslim switched to dota?
You're the second person to say this, and I see nothing in the article that remotely implied he was doing such a thing.
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I definitely did not see the article portraying hte gamers themselves in a positive light, but rather as super introverted individuals who lack social skills. Then again, it was Anna who admitted it...
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What I didn't like about this is the one shot of a live tournament they showed was the Red Bull Seattle thing in a lecture hall. Made it look really mickey mouse.
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On September 29 2013 11:36 WolfintheSheep wrote:You're the second person to say this, and I see nothing in the article that remotely implied he was doing such a thing.
Baker practicing Dota 2.
Bryce Bates, left, who is known as Machine, and Baker. Bates is a StarCraft gamer.
Baker’s desk is equipped for a day of practice playing Dota 2 at the Evil Geniuses’ team house.
Some of the captions imply he plays DotA. Which he does do sometimes, but that's obviously not what he's known for.
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On September 29 2013 11:40 FabledIntegral wrote:
I definitely did not see the article portraying hte gamers themselves in a positive light, but rather as super introverted individuals who lack social skills. Then again, it was Anna who admitted it...
To be fair, it sounds like an article written by someone who actually took the time to research his story. If that's how the players are, then so be it...I'd rather a story be too truthful than vague and wishy-washy.
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Within the Lair, a tautly focused silence tends to reign. It is broken only by the patter-clack of keyboards or by occasional exclamations: “Nice shot, dude!” or “Dang, I just got killed!”
Hahahaha yeah I'm sure that's what they say.
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