Always good to see starcraft 2 and e-sports getting some mainstream coverage. Highlights of the article include the following.
The comparison and simlilarity of e-sports and sports and e-sports and poker.
Having tournaments every 3 months instead of 6 in 2013.
The addition of mobile games, Street Fighter 4, and Street Fighter X Tekken in 2013.
Stephano's run in IPL 3 is mentioned.
Having the event in Vegas allows people to easily gamble on competitors. (I personally don't like this especially after what the match fixing scandal did to Brood War.)
I think having 4 IPL's a year would be a sweet spot as far as number of events. That's enough events to make every event huge and mean something, but still gives us a ton of content a year.
On December 02 2012 13:15 Lorizean wrote: I should stop clicking on these articles and reading the comments, it always makes me angry
LOL, I had to read the comments after your post. They weren't as bad as I was expecting. I was anticipating something like a twitch.tv chat or youtube comments.
On December 02 2012 13:20 jax1492 wrote: its not really an article more a blog post ... i thought it was on the front page or something.
TL allows all those articles to be posted like "Forbes: Day[9] MLG something something" even when it's a John Gaudiosi blog. This is just the same.
It's on the main page of ESPN.com bud. Thanks for the negativity though, it's really what our community needs more of . Not that I should try to reason with these kind of people lol.
Great to see more coverage, and nice info about next year's IPLs
Edit: Stephano didn't win IPL3 at 16, but I guess some things get lost in translation to the mainstream.
The comment section is far more thoughtful than I had expected, some are even having a discussion on the degree of athleticism that makes a sport a sport, in a fairly rational manner. Ofc some retarded comments are made, but it's the internet, that's going to happen.
The article isn't terrible, the comment section looks like what would happen if you said you were a pro gamer in highschool and when the general populace asked if you played Halo/CoD and you responded with SC2/LoL. That is seriously the reaction I'm seeing, with the when CS:1.6 die,d E-Sports died with it crap on that comments section -_-;;;
Those comments were good man, you are the #1 jock site and I didn't read a lot of anti-nerd crap or any and lots were even supporting eSports as > Golf & Poker so I would say it was great exposure.
"StarCraft II" is super popular in Korea, The top Korean player gets millions through salary and sponsorship"
what a load of tosh. Starcraft 2 has some success in korea, and probably will have more in the next years, but its not there yet ("super popular" like sc1 was). And i dont think any korea player gets "millions" of salary and/or sponsorship. I just wish we were more honest and try not and make the same mistakes blizzard make, like overhype the game, even more if we are not based on true facts.
EPT
. Not that I should try to reason with these kind of people lol.
