E-ATHLETES

>>133994192
theres no doubt lots of them hate niggers and spics

>>133994192

Get a life?

>>133994192

I just wish we could breed these specimens with some beautiful white women to create a new master race.

>>133994192
pathetic and just as kiked as regular sports

>>133994192
It's like chess.

Not really a long term career.

The average competitor makes far less than minimum wage, and the biggest ones still can only do it for so long. Compare that to the average life span and cost of living that perpetually rises everywhere, you need a backup plan.

That being said, I'm not jealous of them and actually think there are dumber things in this world to get riled up over.

>>133994192
Sit and play a game
sport
pick one.

I don't like games, I don't think it's ending western world or anything, it's just not a sport it's a hobby one you compete at like, say pool or ping pong.
Basketball, soccer, baseball cricket, are sports.
Playing vidya, is a hobby. The fact it's a big thing now, is just market demand.

>>133994192
It was fun participating. I played in the LoL college tournament and it got me some scholarship money through the school. It's not a "sport" to me. It's like chess or being a scrabble expert or some crap. Just far better as far as being a watchable event goes. No harm no foul, let people play and watch. If there's money in it, all the better.

I dislike the idea of watching sports in general so there's that. I hate cult followers who follow every detail of their lives.
>>133994495
Chess requires you to be smart though

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>>133994192
WE WUZ ATHLETEZ N SHIET

>>133994192
It's alright, depends on the game really.
Pretty funny sometimes, interviews and commentary is gold because it's all weebs who never socialise.
Unregulated too, everyone's on ADHD meds in the top tiers.

>>133995106
You can't refute the fact that there's a lot that goes into a good e-sport as far as intelligence goes. CS, DOTA, and LoL all are juggernauts in the scene and require a decent depth of understanding to ply well. Just like how in chess there's gambits openings and styles to learn

>>133994192
Asian and white devil's sad attempt to find a sport we won't dominate.
Pro Tip: all the best Street Fighter players are black.

>>133995333
>blacks being good at fighting

stop the presses

>>133995327
Yes but chess is purely logic-based.
Anyone can learn to play CSGO/LoL good if they try long enough, read some manuals etc. tactics-wise.

>>133994515
its still in early stages and as soon as the teams realize how important marketing a proper image is they pay rates will go up

sports have never been a long term career but eventually theyll learn how to make a few mil before they get out

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>>133994192
I can appreciate the mechanical and planning skills involved, like with an RTS game, but it's weird for me thinking of it as an athletic sport in the same way as baseball or hockey. I'd consider it as more as electronic chess with more visual effects.

>>133994192
get a job hippies

>>133995634
Logic isn't the be all end all of intelligence, dude. There's a lot of types of intelligence. For actual good CS play there is so much going on a layman doesn't see in terms of mind games (fake attacks, baits, etc.).And if you think you can't get a decent chess ranking just by learning the playout of common game "tropes" I don't think you played a lot of chess...

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This guy, the top earning esports athlete, has made almost $3,000,000.00 playing a game called "Dota 2™"

thoughts?

>>133996002
Yes, I know that, but you're making vidya sound far more complicated than it is in 99% cases.
Tbqh depends how you play chess. Irl it'd be pretty stupid to have predetermined set of moves.

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At least one of them married a beauty queen, which is a very sports hero type of thing to do. Wonder if she'll leave him when he stops winning.

>>133996503
Who ? Dyrus gf is a golddigger but who married that cutie?

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>>133994192
Every retard in here saying its not a sport.

Oh shit is that why its called an esport?

The amount of autism in this thread is high.

>>133996476
You don't seem to actually have any knowledge about the games you're talking about

>>133994192
>""""""""""""""""athletes"""""""""""""""""
I guarantee none of them can complete a 200m race without pausing for breath.

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>>133996631
Sport?

>>133996149
>probably a 3K noob

>>133996656
Me and my friend play chess for three years. It would be pretty stupid if we had the same openings for years.
As for vidya, I don't play multiplayer much so I truly don't know.

>>133996476
Openings and gambits in chess are very rigid sets of ~10-20 moves. The deviations from those core moves are themselves gambits and "openings". Like no duh some people can be brain-dead and play League well. But that's just because they have good muscle memory. Csing, last hitting, other mechanics are just a fundamental level of skill. That's why they get shotcallers and there are some people who are much better at landing than others. They worked past just muscle memory to actual logic in the game. I know the fizz is gonna troll-poll my Ahri combo, but if the guy's trigger is my charm, I can bait an all in by sacrificing my charm to start the actual trade. Ya know?

>>133994192
there's a lot of money in it I guess
heck, iirc the TI prize pool is up to like 20 million dollary doos

>>133996561
she may be hot but sounds more retarded than him so its a 50/50

>>133996916
You probably don't realize it but you're most likely playing a loose version of named and classic openings. Simply moving queen side pawn to counter king side pawn opening from white is a famous move that people don't know they're doing.

>>133996964
Shes a 12/10 by her looks but she sounds like she started smoking a pack of ziggs the day she was born I agree.

>>133996810
nobody but you retards call it a sport.
Its an esport.

>>133996916
I was referring to vidya specifically, my bad. You're right in saying that video games are 99% of the time not very complex. But we aren't talking about 99% of the time, we're talking about pro e-sports. I play CSGO a fair amount and can attest to the fact that it's quite a complex game as far as strategy and logic are concerned. When you're playing against people who are as good, if not better, at aiming and strategy, you have to go even further. And that's what happens in pro matches.

>>133994192
Problem I have is that most games (probably some exceptions) are a finite field with finite options. Play the game enough and you know most nearly every option.

You can play a game 8 hours a day for a year and become a god at it. You can play hockey, football, etc. 8 hours a day and not even be close to reaching the NHL.

I don't have a problem with it being promoted/having large payouts, it's like those people who play poker professionally.

>>133994192

Gaming is never and will never be a sport.

>>133994192
I hate that the term e-sports took off, and I hate that people refer to competitive video game players as any form of athlete. I hate that people have made videos and long drawn out detailed arguments for why the level of muscle memory and control needed to be top level at XXX game is elite and athletic. I have competed in first person shooters actively since 2002. I have played my share of CSGO on LAN and online tournaments/leagues. It's a hobby. There is nothing sporty or athletic about the whole thing.

Watching professionals play it is interesting to me as someone who played at a high level but I would never expect or hope that anyone who doesn't play these games would somehow become a fan of this as a spectator sport, because that doesn't make any sense in my mind.

i guess they make big bank, looks like some shitty games to me though.

>>133997431
I beg to differ. I've tried to sit down and "coach" kids to get better at league. They could play forever and never break platinum. Simply because they lack the ability to play and understand the game at that level. Same with football. I could brute force teach a kid to be good, but there are limits to how high he can climb. If the limit is too easy the market would saturate which isn't the case for video games or football. The gap in skill between US and KR is so huge still even with the discipline US players are puttting in.

>>133997507
the only people that call it a sport are spergs like yourself

>>133997285
yea 12/10 cam whore on twitch. Shame they are so shallow and draw in desperate faggots who fund their stupid antics but atleast we know a fat dude is (hopefully) sticking his dick in it, being a shut in has paid off for him

>>133995634
>Yes but chess is purely logic-based.
yeah but if you try to play chess by being logical, the person who plays with patterns, archetypes, and intuition will kick your ass.

Fighting games > RTS

>>133994192

beta royalty

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>>133994192
degenerate.

basically league of legends looks fucking gay.

>>133994192
Millions of people want to be like them but the sport can only support at most 100 esport ""athletes""

Its still competition and its still fierce so yeah no problems with it.

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Kind of only watch it because it's one of the last places SJWs haven't touched

>>133994192
I like fighting games, so I can't really complain.

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>>133995333
Tokido just ran a fucking train over Punk last night. Get out of here with your horseshit anon.

broadcast is ruined by american styled commentary. they could have done away with the whole more talking than the actual game and analyst desk shit, but instead they just copied every shitty aspect they could.
they had everything to work with, and they chose this.
also it's not sport. at all.

>>133997292
>just a game

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>>133994192
>E-ATHLETES

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>>133994192
Why the fuck are they wearing two sets of headphones?!?!?!?!?!?

>>133994192
No issue. What they do to make a living is they choice. As long as there is a market for it.

>>133998589
They tried with team siren. it failed horribly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVNNWzd9MPQ

actjewvison really likes to mess everything up.

>>133999163
One set actually works and isn't absolute dogcrap. The other, they were paid to wear.

>>133994192
Btw usa sucks balls at every esport except call of dooty lmao.

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>>133999761
> call of duty
> esport

>>133999761
>says this when USA won Sm4sh

????

>>133994192
They shouldn't be called esports since they're not sports and the current set of games which call themselves esports are absolute lowest denominator trash.
However, the concept of esports is generally sound. After all, lan parties have been a thing for a hell of a long time, and arcade machines were a shitty approximation of that before, in some way.

>>133996149
Supply and demand.
If no one cared he'd make 0 dollars.

>>133996561
I dont think shes a gold digger. She clearly is hyper obssesed with him just like a fan girl and it makes sense with her being only 18. If anything it's kinda weird how much she's into him. She cooks for him, cleans and generally taking care of him extremely compulsively despite him showing no emotion and being extremely lazy. She also talks to him like he was a baby and coddles him enough for it to be weird. She has a blatant mother fetish stacked on top of being an obssesed fan while being his girlfriend. That's either going to end really well or really bad.

>JUST POINT AND FUCKING CLICK WITH YOUR MOUSE

How is any of this consider a "sport"???

>>133999923
Usa gets lucky when they win esports thats one example.

>>133999950
its called esports because its not a sport. its an esport.

>>133996149
Are you sure he made 3m? Are you sure it's not his team that made 3m?

>>133999761
Except for that time we swept europoors in rift rivals

>>134000196
>it's called winter sport because it's a winter sport, not a sport
Ice to meet you.

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>>133994192
y THE FUCK are they wearing two sets of headphones.

>>134000077
same with things like chess and golf.

>>134000203
prize pool was 18.4 million dollars.

assuming they got 15million dollars, divided by 5, its not unlikely he got 3million dollars.

>>134000306
They're koreans

>>134000262
plz tell me more on how lck raw dogs lcs.

>>134000306
one has better mic
other has better audio
fucking retards these days

>>134000284
electronic sport is an electronic sport. It's a different category of sport.

>>134000034
Thats like every NEET's wet dream what you describe there. So she is basically an obsessed house wife for him?

>>134000438
Not at this years worlds baby

>>134000306
looks like they are wearing earbuds under earmuffs cause the stadium is too loud to hear the game properly

>>133996503
>>134000034
>with her being only 18
That's 18 in America? Jesus, I thought she was 30-40!

>>133997850
Computers can beat humans in chess, even world champions lose to them since the late 80's and all throughout the 90's. Chess is just memorization, not really "intelligence".

>>134000077
>JUST RUN UP AND DOWN A FIELD

How is any of this consider a "sport"???

>>134000411
That wouldn't be accurate. The bigger part of the money goes to the team manager. Still probably $500k-1m I would assume.

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>>133994438

>>134000563
>>134000034
too good to be true imo. Look at all the other streamer girlfriends except lisha/imaqtpie (they met before he even started his carreer)

>>134000306
They generally wear ear buds with big noise canceling ear muffs over top. Green headphones are probably just branding and aren't plugged in

i used to "speedrun" when i was depressed. i look back and feel nothing but embarrassment for partaking in something so stupid. i even had a world record in a shitty meme game.

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>>134000563
Yea, Dyrus is basically living the dream right now. Gets payed crazy amount of money living the neet life, playing vidya and watching anime all day while this takes care of him which he gets to fuck as well

>>134000998
Gotta name the game now anon.

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>>134000431
>>134000499
>>134000596
>>134000731

idk why but that pisses me off so fucking much. Just ditch the razers around their necks. Wearing headphones on your neck is so goddamn annoying I'd be distracted as hell trying to game like that

>>133994192
retards playing or watching card games like heartstone should be shot

>>134001120
If you would get several thousand dollars for wearing a shitty headphone around your neck, would you still complain ? $$$

>>134000698
The only problem is since she is more of a fan and is super young it will go 2 ways. She will eventually lose intrest or become really attached. I'm going with her losing intrest since dyrus is a pretty boring guy

>>134000533
>>134000284

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>>134001264
Honestly yes

>>134001402
Dunno I agree that he can be sleepy at times, but he really has an "relaxed/sympathic" aura around him. I really hope she isn't using him, that would probably break his heart.

>>134000661
That wasn't the one thing he has won. I am well informed on the subject and at the time the team manager would have not gotten that much money, which who I believe was Charlie. The players get about 80% of the pot after taxes

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Fucking Pathetic. Casual gaming is great every now and then. NOTICE I SAID EVERY NOW AND THEN. These fuckers are beta, no girl wants a man-child playing games all day. Not the decent ones anyway.

>>133996503
>beauty queen

oregon standards are fucking awful holy shit

>>134000999
Just like americas history, europeans come to NA to escape their shithole

>>133994483
Wow I wonder what the average iq of these guys is. It has to be incredibly high

>>134001264
for a 10 millions dollar game at TI sponsor can fuck off

>>133999295
Or the tranny who played in LCS

>>133994192
They are good at video games. Being a pro League player in Korea seems awesome, you make tons of money and pussy playing video games. Only in Korea would I want to play e-sports, because it will just get you laughed at anywhere else.

>>134001610
Yeah, so probably around 1m each for that pool.

>>133995634
What the fuck am I reading?
Have you ever watched e-sports?
What you have just written can also be applied to chess games.

Chess also has their popular tactics, btw.
Start watching some RTS games, the most exciting part of a competitive game is how the players react to eachother and depend on nothing but their knowledge of the game and their predicting skills.

DoW Soulstorm and Age of Empires II are good beginnings.

>>134000306
one on top is noise cancelling so they can't hear the crowd / casters as much

>>134001056
it was just some shitty indie 2d platformer on the pc. it was literally a 2 and a half minute long run.

>>133994192
As retarded as regular sports.

>>133995634
>if you practice at something you will improve at it
stunning observation anon

there's a reason chess was solved by machines in the 90s and Deepmind still can't win at Starcraft

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>>133994489
Sounds pretty american.

>>133994192
Wonderful. I play 2hrs each day. No need to drive anywhere, no crowds to deal with, no parking issues, no cover charges, can smoke weed / drink during playing. Very inexpensive entertainment.

>>133995634
Chess isn't logic based in any way, shape or form. It's memory based for 80% of the game. The remaining 20% is called not being a fucking retard. No logic involved. Moreover, luck has the greatest impact on the outcome: white can never lose and black can never win against an identically skilled opponent. At high level play, you can drop the "identically skilled" restriction completely as well.

Much like sport, it should be done by Amateurs for pleasure. Professional sports tend to boil down to a "meta" that makes them increadibly boring to watch.

>>133994515
Essentially this, though some of the most popular names can use their e-sports career and live off of twitch donations from streaming. The biggest names doing this make 7 figures. Even if it's only a few years, that's enough to make several million and spend the rest of your life doing whatever you want.

And while there is limited career options after, since the industry and industry knowledge can transfer between games, you can become a coach for the new hit game once the old one falls off, so it's not a complete wash.

>>134001569
Now that I think about it she also has that kind of comfy monotone personality. Hopefully it works out. Dyrus deserves to be happy

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>>134001630
Are they really all that Bata if they win and can make a comfortable living off it? I'm sure any of them can get a 3.14qtpie nerdy gf if they can provide a house, stability, and make them truly happy. Even winning 1 tournament and making 700k could have you living comfortably.

So really, are they all that beta?

>>133995786
>its still in early stages

i keep hearing this since 10 years

>>133995327
League is all about motor skills, memorization, experience, and judgement. You can't be a complete moron and be good, but anything beyond above-average intelligence won't really matter much.

I'd compare it to being an NFL quarterback.

>>134002476
Because normies won't watch "BING BING WAHOOO" when they can watch "TOUCHDOWN YEEEEEEAAAAAAH"

>>133997666
>LeL
>A good Example
That only happens due how badly disgned the game is.

>>134002464
yes do something useful with your life

>>133994192
Not a real sport. Real sports require physical exertion beyond mental stimulation. These are games, like chess. Chess is a game, not a sport. The bastardization of the word sport is just another trick to feminize men.

>>134002464
there's no stability in "e-sports". it's almost on par with being a meme for 15 minutes. not to mention twitch will start jewing their neetbux just like youtube and they'll all be 30 year old losers living with mom with no real world experience.

also none of them pay taxes and if they do they don't report their donations. hopefully the feds will raid these losers hard. you guys think alt-lite e-celebs are bad, gaming e-celebs are the bottom of the barrel scum.

>>134002464
>they can get someone that wants them because they have money and no other redeeming qualities
>really, are they all that beta?

Answer yourself, anon

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>>134002093
And you will always be some weird pygmy nigger who sticks his dick in animal horns.

>>134002983
all the smart ones moved to texas where you dont get taxed on donations

>>134002811
Oh boo hoo, get off your elitist gay-mur pedestal. The game is designed perfectly for e-sport longevity. A simple premise with a forced rotating meta resulting in a "fresh" game every few months that keeps it alive.

>>134002153
>larping esports on a politics board

>>134003226
people talking like this about video games is why i will never take esports seriously. get a job you loser.

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>>134002464
>Daddy what did grandpa do when he was your age?
>well he fought in a war so me and you could live.
>wow and what do you do for a living daddy?
>I play video games

>>134003327
I have a job. It pays well. E-sport scene isn't for my age to compete in, it's for when you're a college aged kid. The games are perfect background noise while I work though.

>>134002873
When you spend time perfecting a skill, make money off it, then live life however you want after you have accomplished the minimal task of acquiring (money), who the fuck cares what you do.

Why don't you do something with your life, how about handing out flyers from your local mosque about Sharia law?

>>134002898
I agree and disagree with you. A sport, to me, is something that pushes a person to be more, or better than others. An athlete is someone you and your nation should be able to be proud of, be it a chess master or a soccer player. Currently sports is all about jews making money off of niggers, with no sense to national pride. E-sports is a joke for an entire different set of reasons, the easiest to point out is an ever shifting playing field with rules/objectives/goals that might not even exist next time you watch it. "e-sports" was fine back when it wasn't "e-sports" and was hobbyists competing in their hobby, but as an actual sponsored televised sport it is destined to fail.

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>>134002811
>flag
LIKE CLOCKWORK

>>134003226
>Game where only gook seems to be permanent two dogs
>Good.
Gooks are gods of LeL because of how everything there boils down to execution and mechanics only in a game as was intended as a team game.
Dota is actually a better example as right every old guard region (NA,EU/CIS,SEA,CHINA) are all practically tied.

>>133994192
>not athletes

>>134003359
>implying any of them can keep a woman long enough to have kids
i swear every e-celeb fag gets cucked by one of their friends at some point because none of them have any morals and the girls are such terrible attention whores. eceleb culture is pure degeneracy. what killed it for me was some nigger who played some shitty basketball game for a living, got drunk and beat (possibly raped) his girlfriend all on stream captured through audio. twitch did nothing, all the chat did was spam those shitty emoticons and last i heard he's still streaming. i never looked back after that.

>>133995786
>its still in early stages
>pay rates will go up

>>134003726
Dude. Go outside more. There's a lot that goes into why KR dominates LoL and it's not your weird ass beliefs about ethnic predisposition. Jesus, every time there's a decent thread on /pol/ some tard starts flinging shit.

>>133994192
It saps the best years out of bright minds.

>>134003597
>el costa ricANO.

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>>134003069
>mfw part of my family live in Dallas
>mfw my american grandad came here after being btfo'd at Pearl Harbor by pre-hiroshima nippon
>mfw muritards never learn about this in school since its better to learn about genders

At this point, I might be more american than you mongrel or your niggered country.

>>133996631
Bait

>>133994192
>CS:GO
Just normal people, a lot of them are chads with hot girlfriends

>DotA 2
Mix of normal people and nerds, but more inclined on the nerds side

>LoL
Full autism, outcasts who were bullied hardcore at school and now pretend to be someone important just because they are good at a clicking game

All these faggot don't understand that they call thwm sports because the structure of the competition. Also it's fine for entertainment in moderation.

>>133994192
As worthless as any other athletes.

>>133994192
Good for them. Though I really don't understand why anyone would pay to watch others play video games. I do get the sponsors though.

>>134004223
you'd be surprised at how easy it is to manipulate children into stealing their parents credit cards to donate to their favorite personality

>>133994192
Don't be rude. Americunt so fat they can't play sports that require movement.

>>133998150
Yeah it's much better to watch nigger ball isn't it?

>>133999761
Wow, and I care so much

>>134004128
CS:GO is literally a joke. DOTA 2 is good shit but has the same flaws as all ASSFAGGOTS. King of the shitpile. At least it's not CS:GO. LoL is still not CS:GO, but damn is it trying to be as much of a joke.

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Fighting games are fucking great

>>134004223
Same reason I donate $5 to NPR every now and then. I get a decent enough worth of entertainment from them, seems like decent karma to chuck some goodwill their way sometimes. You just see it occurring at what seems like a fast rate because of that scroll bar at the top of streams. I've never donated to a streamer but it's easy to see how they get it.

>>133994192

I don't mind the act of gaming for money or tournaments bad itself, but the "e-sport" branding is 100% cringe. Like video game award shows. It's a bunch of people too insecure to just say "I like to play video games", so it has to be "sports" or "art".

>>133994192
western esports is trash, mostly korean but other eastern esports is interesting because it's a complete other level.

game server differences are honestly a big race red pill, asian ones the best, european ones far worse but second best, then american and 3rd world countries far lower. I've also noticed that the higher skilled players also correlate with being red pilled in general on the european servers at least, I've seen people with moonman avatars or saying they intentionally lose because they have Turks on their team or how they know someone is a girl or a muslim because of how bad they play.

there's a poison gas character on league, and someone plays him every game and his name is something like 'Portable Auschwitz', i also have been in a game with someone called something like 'Hitlersexual' and the chat was filled with 'oy vey the goyim know' and '1488' and '((()))'

finally though, how is this relevant to politics?

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>>134003726
you mad?

>>133994192
not a sport if you don't need a mouthguard

>>133994192
They aren't athletes in the same way chess players aren't atheletes. There's no reason to shit on them, though. None of these guys think they're tiger woods or Michael Jordan, Or I hope they don't.

They're guys who are making a living doing something they enjoy.

>>133998589
If you listen to NALCS commentary you can hear SJW language creeping in. Use of adjectives like oppressive are becoming commonplace.

>>133994744
This.

Also teach me how to not be an ape.

>>134004053
>Bastard negro pretending hes more american than anyone
Pretty pathetic desu

Dumb.

>>133996847
kek

>>134003957
It is not even full /pol/ Korean won those adjective during BW era.
LeL right now fit them because of those reason.Tbe game doesn't allow room to playing for behind,putting a CC based mid instead of the Press R to delete ADC or having a line up without a designated physical tower pusher.
>>134004676
If Korea korea is so good at MOBA, where is your Team at TI?

>>133995327
>implying a turn-based game requires more skill than a real time game.

Ex dee

>>133996149
Yet he got hard fucking carried by Arteezy. Fuck off Amerifag

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>>133994515

I've been a competitive gamer for a long time and esports is a comically bad career choice. The rules of the sport change every few months, the competitive pool is massively higher than conventional sports, and there are none of the side benefits of being an athlete associated with it because you're not promoting physically attractive human Adonises. As a result, most professional gamers practice one repetitive activity 10+ hours a day in cramped living spaces with a bunch of other dudes to make about 2k a month. Your entire livelihood can be taken away by some inept developer making some idiotic patch on his coffee break that removes your whole playstyle from viability. The end goal used to be to try and spin it into some hardware or peripheral gig, these days it's to try and build an audience for a full time streaming gig. And like any other career, a momentary lapse in judgment (Dafran) can get you fired. The difference is, if you get fired as an engineer, you're still an engineer. If you get fired from your Starcraft gig, you're flipping burgers at McDonalds at 25-35 years old.

>>134001924
Are you a /srgeon/

>>134004917
Stop calling them MOBA. That terms means nothing. It can be applied to virtually any non-mmo online game. Call them what they are: ASSFAGGOTS.

>>133998589
Hope OG pulls through this year...

>>134005030
oh god is that still a thing

>>134005076
Well, he is America so I supposed it would be the term to use with him.

>>134005171
Get the fuck out of our server region

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>>134004917
Lel

>>134002464
I met the guys from mouz (top tier CSGO players) 2 (they play eleague) years ago. They tend to lift more than I do and didn't look like neets. If I think about guys that play as a Job almost none are wierdo neckbeards.

As far as I know, Astralis pay themself a 100k salary (that was like 18months ago). Add prize money, personal sponsorships and livestream income most professionals (people that play in a 1st tier team in a 1st tier game in their region) can make 200k to 250k without to much effort/success. I think Boxers, Nadas or Flash (Starcraft Players) Net Worth is over 10million USD for each.

>>134005304
holy fuck this hobby is going to crash so hard it's going to be sad. people dump way too much money into this shit.

>>133994192
It's a joke. I cringe whenever I see a pencil neck pizza faced faggot on stream.

>>134004831
Get personal mechanics down first (csing and map shit)
Then understand how those interact with allies mechanics (I have easier to land cc than our jungler, it's on me to start the gank)
Then understand the macro play (their team comp can contest dragons better so we need to take them or keep better positioning)

Also wards.

>>133995333
Because you can't fight for shit in the real world

>>134004917
>If Korea is so good at MOBA, where is your team at TI

Literally not a single Peruvian team at TI until this year only because they let South America have their own qualifiers.

>>133999163
Thee green ones are headsets with microphones, so they can communicate and those on their ears are just noise cancellers so they dont hear the crowd. They also have phonebuds beneath noise cancellers so they can hear sounds from the game.

>>134005171
It's the term you should be using with anyone, especially yourself.
Mostly because it's an accurate description of the genre and correctly identifies the genre's origin too.

>>134004988
They won TI5 without my boy Artour. You leafs are fucking dreadful

>>134005576
>Moving the goal post
Did I hit a nerve Mr.Park?

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>>133994192
>tfw played in LCS season 2 and 3
>steady 10-20k viewers when I streamed

Any of you fuckers who paid attention to the league pro scene back then would never have guessed I'd be a /pol/ack

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>>134004886
>implying

Keep larping with your blackblock buds

>>134005829
If you did actually play and were in the stoner friend circle, those dudes would all be on /pol/. They don't take it seriously and they're much cooler guys

>>134006025
You talking Dyrone, qt and the group? Those guys would sperg out if anyone made racist jokes around them.

i'm sure it's a great game kids, go back to your tower building our dragon slaying our whatever the fuck you were doing.

waste of time
get a real job
contribute to civilisation
entertainment is not a real job

Aircraft maintenance engineer here
£65,000 salary
not great but I could do any job with my hands or my mind to solve problems
make the world a safer place when I go to work

>>134006212
Also, I know for a fact stvicious was a regular on /fit/. Would not surprise me in the least if he migrated here and is one of the people constantly praising Hitler.

>>134004784
the word oppressive wasn't invented by SJWs anon...

>>134006212
Not them. They're all ethnic, no duh they wouldn't be about it. I'm trying to remember who I smoked with lol.

>>134006471
Ocelote made 1000000$ a year in 2013. Lets be clear... If you had the chance to make that kind of money you'd stop being an aircraft maintenance engineer.

>>133994192
They will be generals in the upcoming Drone Wars. I was there. (time traveller here)

>>134006822
Please say Meteos. Xpecial walked in on him sucking cock once. Serious.

>>134006883
Curious, what did the other people in the competition make? How many people participated? How much did it cost them? How much time went into practicing, time etc. Did they make money getting up to that competition? Most of the for arguments are said person WINNING the 7 figures and not the losers.

>>134007100
Also I hear that they practice 12 hours a day in pitiful conditions, so there's that to add to the equation.

>>134007100
People didn't, and still don't make the big bucks from winning tournaments.

Sponsorships, streaming revenues and salaries from their team to play tournaments. Just like any other regular sport, except it'd be like Ronaldo streaming himself playing soccer in his backyard with friends, and keeping all the ad revenue for himself.

>>134007051
Uhhh let's see, I played in 2009(?) I think. Was saint the jungles for tsm still then? It's whatever teams came to "congratulate us" about the quarter finals games

>>134007470
Oh shit lol no not 2009, 2013* mixed up high school and uni

>>134007470
Season 1 started in 2010. I can hardly remember shit that happened in the competitive scene before season 2.

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>>133994438
you should get a life in-game

>>134004053
>I'm more American than you because my autistic grandad couldn't get an American girlfriend so he dodge the draft to avoided the greatest war in human history and he moved to some remote island to fuck midget island niggers.

Kill yourself. Your Dallas family hates you.

>>134007100
70% of his income were merchendise sales. The rest was prize money, sponsorships, livestream donations and contract salary. Ocelote (Carlos Rodriguez) played for a avarage team but was a fan favorite. I said in another post that 1st tier players in 1st tier games (League, CSGO and Dota) earn a 6 figure salary + prize money + personal income.

I think there are around 500 to 1000 players that earn that 6 figure salary playing video games.

Costs of living are very low since their team provides them with a flat/room and most other stuff.

Right now if you are around 20 and you have the chance to get picked up by a very good team you should try it out for a year or two at the very least. Worst case is that you traded 100k for a wasted year in your early 20s. If you manage to play on the highest level for more than 5 years you have to be really dumb not to be a millionaire. E-Sports is a rapidly growing market. Tournament prize pools are grwoing 25% anually and overall prize money grows 40% anually... and I don't think that trend will stop in the near future.

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>>133995106
It's the Slav in me

>>133994575
The market demand has a primal cause.
If you put the asians that are playing tekken and some regular sports guys under a brain scanner while they do their thing you would see WAY more brain activity in the brains of the gamers.

>>134006471
>maintaining aircrafts vs. paying taxes that pay for your salary and aircraft while entertaining a million people and doing what you love

its ok, everybody has to play their part :^)

>>134000655

Speaking of logic according to your statement: computers always beat humans, therefore chess is solely logical.

Now try again, with the fact that humans compete against humans in chess 100% of the time and take a hard logical think of why what you said has absolutely no relevance.

The e-sports economy is disproportionately funded by whales/corporations. It's very similar to the free-to-play/freemium game market where they get like 99% of the profits from like 0.1% of the playerbase. It's a bubble waiting to pop.

Question is, when will these bubbles pop?

>>133994192
vidya is not a sport and these are not athletes

>>133994192
Its not worth it now but it will be in the future.

ESport is in its early stage no ones gonna get paid decent till it really takes off kinda like the NFL 50 years ago.

>>134014278
You have mostly publishers, energy drink companies and hardware companies found it. Advertisers have a very well targeted audience of around 200million. I don't really think it's a bubble (yet). Look at the billions in any popular real sport. And their audience isn't necessarily bigger. The comercial trait of merchendise, sponsorship attractiveness and ticket sales is just significantly better developed.

>>133999923
>Tr4sh
>Not being the Smash equivalent of a containment board

>>133997431
Try playing BW for that long and see how far you get

>>133994192
Incentivizes young intelligent people to learn game theory which has guided US nuclear defense policy since the 60s.

Playing varsity college sports is looked at as a big plus in sales and playing pro e-sports should be looked at as a big plus in analytical and strategic development roles.

>>134004784
>>133999295
Jesus
Guess it's because I just watch DotA and some fighting game tourneys
Didn't hear about the all female team

>>134017700
t. literal retard