Sky Sports WTF

MajorRage

@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.

antipodean

@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.

Paekakboyz

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.

jegga

Timbersports is still on ESPN by the looks of things http://www.multivu.com/players/English/7760851-stihl-timbersports-2016-announcement/

MajorRage

IT's interesting as I think it's a completely different demographic.

I will watch pretty much so any sport on ESPN . I've watched log rolling before.

But I'll never watch gaming.

Paekakboyz

Maybe you've just never run into the right game MR?

Canerbry

MajorRage

@Paekakboyz Nah mate, just not a gamer. Not my thing at all.

MN5

@Paekakboyz said in Sky Sports WTF:

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.

Didn't some dude in Japan die after playing Starcraft for about 50 hours straight?

I never had any patience with that game unless I used the cheat codes.

Paekakboyz

Might have been WoW - now that shit is crack bro!!

The Silver Fern

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