A couple weeks ago, I wrote that “esports are through the looking glass
Luke Winkie
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Published: Jun 11, 2015 01:41 pm
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A couple weeks ago, I wrote that “esports are through the looking glass.” This was just after ESPN’s broadcast Blizzard’sHeroes of the Dormcompetition, a college tournament for its new competitive game Heroes of the Storm. My point was that, as video games start to get taken seriously by traditional, televised outlets, middle America will lose its mind. We already got a taste of this when ESPN shock jock Colin Cowherd threatened to blow out his brains if he ever had to talk esports.
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So what do you think happened when ESPN tweeted out a magazine story about League of Legends?
That happened yesterday. ESPN: The Magazine’s sportswriter Mina Kimes followed League superstar Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok for a couple months. It’s a good piece that digs into some deep questions about youth, craft, and patriotism, and it’s also the sort of feature report that’s only possible with the bankrolling of a gigantic media conglomerate like Disney. But we’re not here to talk about that.
Nope. Let’s take a moment to enjoy Twitter’s meltdown.
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@Toasst @espn don’t forget to add virgin to that list
(Sorry, this embed was not found.)But for all the flabbergasted negativity, there were some people understandably euphoric that the biggest publication in sports journalism was writing about their scene.
Someday the terrified masses won’t kneejerk to their pained “but that’s not a sport” default. Someday, the world will happily oblige that competition, like chess, poker, bowling, and roughly 70 percent of baseball, can be considered legitimate without physical exertion.
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Published: Jun 11, 2015 01:41 pm