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Ah, memories.
Though going further than that, back in 1992 I used to take part in Street Fighter 2 competitions at my local arcade. I thought I was pretty decent at the game but going there demonstrated to me that I knew jack shit about that game. Was good fun though, and I met some awesome players, very much enjoyed the EVO SF4 last weekend before MLG kicked off.
Here's hoping e-sports keep going and keep growing.
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On August 02 2011 06:39 SonuvBob wrote:hahaha Show nested quote +On August 02 2011 06:26 KimJongChill wrote: edit: whoa, real lindsey sporrer? ^ Seems to be. It is lol
Excellent.
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Very nice write up, was a great read.
No idea how long it took to read through it all, probs like 40 mins to an hour, totally worth it! Was very nice to learn a lot more of the E-sports scene.
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I think more could be said about smash. After all, people have been playing melee almost as long as they played brood war. Even though the community is kind of an iceberg in the sea of esports they deserve some coverage.
It would be neat if some day, somebody put together a book or documentary about the history of esports, going all the way back to TG and stuff.
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Nice post, but a bit sad that some games just disappearing ... most physical sports like Soccer or basketball will be there as long humanity lives!
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I really appreciate your writing this.
1.It made for a great ride on the train where internet cuts out a lot. 2.It was incredibly informative and gave me a much deeper understanding of the full esports scene (rather than the one I've come to know in my few short months with SCII) 3.Evo and other big tournaments now make a loooot more sense to me. So it was a well-timed article as well.
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Wow, didn't realize so many games were so big. However, I gotta ask, were these people actually proper pro gamers, to the extent of sc bw pros. I know about fatal1ty and all, but I've also heard statements such as "true progaming doesn't exist outside of Korea." from the sound of this history lesson, this wasn't true at all. But I want to ask anyway.
Also, I've been brainwashed by the casting of artosis and tasteless about how starcraft is the most difficult and has the best players in general in gaming and how the mastery reached by players like flash and jaedong is beyond anything of another player of another esport. I want to know whether these other games were just as hard as starcraft and how much dedication each person actually had. Were people in training houses practicing 14 hours a day?
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Don't think Daigo Umehara was mentioned even once? Actually fightning games in general were pretty much completely ignored. I'm not a fanatic fightning game fanboy but it just seems quite ignorant.
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On August 02 2011 09:20 Vaelone wrote: Don't think Daigo Umehara was mentioned even once? Actually fightning games in general were pretty much completely ignored. I'm not a fanatic fightning game fanboy but it just seems quite ignorant.
No doubt. If you want to understand complete domination of a scene you need to look at Daigo.
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Really great read. Some of the amounts of money were really surprising to see.
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Turn this into a 300 page book and I'll pay $30 for it.
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Read the whole thing! Thanks for the write up!
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cs was a big part of growing up, i remember it all, thanks for this <3
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On August 02 2011 09:13 Micket wrote: Wow, didn't realize so many games were so big. However, I gotta ask, were these people actually proper pro gamers, to the extent of sc bw pros. I know about fatal1ty and all, but I've also heard statements such as "true progaming doesn't exist outside of Korea." from the sound of this history lesson, this wasn't true at all. But I want to ask anyway.
Also, I've been brainwashed by the casting of artosis and tasteless about how starcraft is the most difficult and has the best players in general in gaming and how the mastery reached by players like flash and jaedong is beyond anything of another player of another esport. I want to know whether these other games were just as hard as starcraft and how much dedication each person actually had. Were people in training houses practicing 14 hours a day?
Not quite like korea, but some of the cs pro's earned some good cash. CGS was a good time (money wise) for the lucky players to be selected. And both yes and no to the skill level inside the games, starcraft takes alot of thinking and I think its the game that takes the most skill to reach the top. But than agian, cs and quake is also hard. Its more than just aiming that goes into those games, and you have to play for a long time to understand it.
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Kinda sad that you didn't mention how rival placed 3rd like 3 straight Winter CPL's. Or compLexity's win at ESWC 2005.
However this was amazing. Even learned a little bit myself.
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Logging on 1.6 right now.
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CS was the father of e-Sports
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And that's why im proud to be Quebecois GO GRRR... !
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Wow. brisked through. coming back to read in full later. SUPER!!! effort.
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Great job man, that was a really interesting read. Plus the music you linked fit well while reading.
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