There's a whole side of ESports you're forgetting which is fighting games. You did a great job of covering the PC side of E-Sports but Arcades and Consoles also started E-Sports in their own side.

ClysmiC

United States2192 Posts

August 07 2011 23:50 GMT

#362

Wow I read like half of this, and its really cool to see how all of the events slowly grew and it all came together. I plan on reading the rest of it later today.

DanielZKlein

United States1171 Posts

August 08 2011 01:38 GMT

#363

Great stuff, thank you! Even though I knew a lot of these things already, this was a brilliant overview.

Onegu

United States9695 Posts

August 08 2011 08:39 GMT

#364

I think one big thing you are missing here is madden nation giving away $100,000 for four years 2005-2008 and broadcasting on ESPN giving major exposure to what would be a otherwise oblivious viewers of ESPORTS

D.Devil

Germany227 Posts

August 08 2011 09:58 GMT

#365

On August 08 2011 17:39 Onegu wrote:
I think one big thing you are missing here is madden nation giving away $100,000 for four years 2005-2008 and broadcasting on ESPN giving major exposure to what would be a otherwise oblivious viewers of ESPORTS

Oh, cool. First time I hear about this – thanks. Can you provide me a link with some further information?

ArhK

France287 Posts

August 08 2011 14:53 GMT

#366

Very nice write up, I took the time to actually read everything, your article brings back so many memories, a huge thank you for this.

JohnWayne

United States150 Posts

August 08 2011 15:06 GMT

#367

I read a slightly shorter write-up which was captioned "esports history" and thought is was somehow missing all the important and good stuff.

Thank you so much for this write-up which contains everything i wanted to have read in the last one i wasted my time on for reading^^ And halfway through i thought this guy writing it must be german and i was right

Thank You again sooo much!!!

ps. the cyx accident and video makes me cry everytime RIP :'(

Sairon

47 Posts

August 08 2011 15:43 GMT

#368

I think you've missed 2 legendary esport events. The first is clan 9 vs death row in quake which was an all expenses paid showdown between the best of their respective continent, huge at the time. Clan 9 in particular was a very well respected internet café which sponsored their players ( although I don't recall any details ). They also had a very strong CS team for a while. The second such encounter was NiP vs X3 in CS a few years later. NiP totally dominated the CS scene at their top. Truly feel like an old geezer when one is reading TL and hearing all the talk about "esport", because I remember very well back in the day when pretty much exactly the same were being discussed over at geekboys.org, which was a huge CS community ( which originated from the clan with the same name, which also was very strong before the NiP era ).

Crosswind

United States279 Posts

August 08 2011 16:25 GMT

#369

Sweet, detailed, post. Thanks, man!

-Cross

bakor

United Kingdom290 Posts

August 08 2011 16:44 GMT

#370

Hard to cover everything but you did a great job of covering most of it. Recommend.

Shagg

Finland825 Posts

August 08 2011 17:15 GMT

#371

Thank you for taking your time writing this up! Now I know better what happened in the past of e-sports history

Matkap

Spain627 Posts

August 08 2011 17:26 GMT

#372

read it all, thank to you sir!

Ciraxis

Australia400 Posts

August 10 2011 07:19 GMT

#373

Just had the time to read this today. Thanks for writing it all up!

duk3

United States807 Posts

August 10 2011 09:29 GMT

#374

Awesome, I read everything, it was interesting to see which ones of the events I remembered

Onegu

United States9695 Posts

August 25 2011 19:24 GMT

#375

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madden_Nation Also the finals were in time square live

Barett

Canada454 Posts

September 08 2011 05:00 GMT

#376

Thank you so much for doing this article. I have not read it all... YET, but I will. Posted it to a bunch of my friends as well.

I really appreciate you writing this, and I know alot of other people do. Thanks for such the hard work that obviously went into this.

Lucumo

6850 Posts

March 25 2012 14:35 GMT

#377

On August 01 2011 06:15 xkare wrote:
Really nice write up. So many good memorys.

Same here. Was really awesome to watch SC:BW, Warcraft 3 and CS regularly on free TV...with some occasional DotA and other games.

IniX

Netherlands36 Posts

March 25 2012 14:38 GMT

#378

Fantastic write-up! Thanks for linking to that BoxeR candybar commercial, haven't seen that one! :D
Bookmarked it, everyone in the esports scene should read a few paragraphs every day (or if you feel intrigued, read it all at once) to learn about how their passion has developed and established itself to what it is now!

Arghnews

United Kingdom169 Posts

March 25 2012 14:40 GMT

#379

I don't think you can say a history of almost all e-sports. I'm a sad sad faced bunny that there is no mention of beloved DotA :D

However, I absoulutely ♥ posts like this. Thanks for putting all the effort in!

Musicofmelkor

United States24 Posts

August 09 2012 21:50 GMT

#380

great article
you skipped out on the pgl(professional gamers league) which was an important league in the 90s for quake and starcraft
the pgl had online tournaments before the cpl had tourneys and was bigger than the cpl in the 90s
it wasn't until the 00s that the cpl took over

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Gamers_League

i also think sf2 should have been mentioned because it was the first major competitive game (man vs man) out there and influenced the entire esports scene
it could be labeled proto-esports for lack of a better term

- jt