Sky Sports WTF
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@Gunner said in Sky Sports WTF:
I would understand if the was the US of A, they put anything on tv, but here, in NZ?
Unfuckingbelievable!Always worth waiting for the USA spelling bee on the world sports leader ESPN. It's brilliant - although some of the reffing is dodgy and it lacks a little physicality. Personally I think they should allow shoulder charges.
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There was a thing on tv the other night and yep, gaming is HUGE.
The gaming market is bigger than the movie market and the 'esport' market is growing rapidly.
Some young girl making money from it, a decent portion from people just giving her money to continue playing, think she was from Christchurch ..not sponsors, but fans (helped she was tidy)
The term 'esport' is daft given they aren't always sports related games....
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@reprobate said in Sky Sports WTF:
the term 'esport' just makes me fucking despair.
Similar to 'motorsport'. Neither are sports in the purest form but both require an incredible amount of skill to compete at the top level.
Get used to seeing this more and more, gaming is a multi billion dollar industry and with the advances in technology there will be more and more international competitions, that generate more and more interest.
20 odd years ago I used to play Quake 1 online in NZ competitions and it was heaps of fun, and the finals I played in generated a lot of interest from the Quake 1 community. It's just back then there was no way for others to watch live. Hardly surprising that competitions for games that are played by millions of people around the world generate a lot of interest, and in turn $$$.
I don't have a problem with it at all. If a kid is talented (and you do need natural ability to compete) then why wouldn't he pursue a career as a professional gamer? Just because that option didn't exist 20 years ago doesn't invalidate it as a career choice. The world is changing at an ever increasing rate, best to keep up rather then lag behind complaining about missing "the good old days".
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I watch Twitch from time to time, and it's actually pretty interesting watching gaming. It's certainly perfect for TV with the way graphics are these days.
It dwarfs Hollywood in terms of a revenue these days. It's actually pretty smart of them to put it on, thanks for the heads up!
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Gaming is only going to grow - it can appeal to an international market easily which is attractive for global companies - big ones like Redbull are already in the scene and you've got a host of gaming gear companies putting a lot of money in. Plus the game makers themselves like Blizzard and RIOT.
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@Snowy said in Sky Sports WTF:
@Gunner said in Sky Sports WTF:
I would understand if the was the US of A, they put anything on tv, but here, in NZ?
Unfuckingbelievable!Always worth waiting for the USA spelling bee on the world sports leader ESPN. It's brilliant - although some of the reffing is dodgy and it lacks a little physicality. Personally I think they should allow shoulder charges.
I remember after a hard night drinking and spending a day on the couch I switched on tv and that was on sky sports, woulda been over 10 years ago. Even in my drunken stage I still believe I could have beaten half the snot nosed Asian kids with glasses who were competing.
(Frantically checks for any spelling or grammatical errors before posting )
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Yeah I read an interesting piece earlier in the year about the huge growth in gaming across the developed world. Something like half the population of industrialised countries identify as 'gamers'. Countries like China and Brazil their teens spend more than 10% of their leisure time gaming.
The budgets that go into game development and marketing are huge and rival movies, so TV was naturally going to be the next phase in this phenomenon.
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I've been a competitive gamer and the thought of it being on TV with commentators makes me laugh. "sport".
That being said, you can become a millionaire playing Dota2.
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Well, I have certainly learnt something today.
I must live a very sheltered life, coz I genuinely had no idea that competition gaming was so popular and it being televised/live streamed or what ever is nothing new.Watching gaming is pretty low down on my things to do in life, so don't think I'll be tuning in any time soon.
And it's highly debatable whether it can be called a sport.
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@MajorRage said in Sky Sports WTF:
Is there any money in gaming - as in the sport, not in the technology where the money is obviously limitless?
If this is accurate, then not bad for playing games.
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@MajorRage said in Sky Sports WTF:
Is there any money in gaming - as in the sport, not in the technology where the money is obviously limitless?
@antipodean said in Sky Sports WTF:
That being said, you can become a millionaire playing Dota2.
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@antipodean I saw that, but thats not quite what I mean.
I.e - are the best players, sponsored, do teams pay players for their services etc.
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@MajorRage said in Sky Sports WTF:
@antipodean I saw that, but thats not quite what I mean.
I.e - are the best players, sponsored, do teams pay players for their services etc.
The teams are sponsored. The best teams have a remuneration mix, most of which is sharing the prize money.
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MR - yep, most are on a mix of salary and bonuses - I follow the Starcraft 2 scene which isn't as big as the FPS games or stuff like DOTA or Hearthstone (card game, kind of similar to Magic). A couple of years ago when SC2 was going super strong there were guys on 6 figure salaries.
I watch a bunch of streams off sites like Twitch or TeamLiquid - always something or someone entertaining to watch imo. I tend to have a stream running on one screen and be gaming or working on the other screen.
Twitch is cool as there are heaps of random folks streaming, often running a YouTube channel alongside live streaming - and making a decent living too.
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Timbersports is still on ESPN by the looks of things http://www.multivu.com/players/English/7760851-stihl-timbersports-2016-announcement/
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Maybe you've just never run into the right game MR?
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