Why Should You Care About eSports?

General Discussion
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(bobbie dooley voice) Mmhmm.

This is like the core problem, the FGC cult of personality bullshit.

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Except of course if those people were playing more high-profile games and winning more of them at the same time as those guys. That’s the essential difference.

Results matter.

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I’m pretty sure Daigo has had more mainstream media exposure than anyone else except maybe JWong. His name is synonymous with psychic uppercuts for fucks sake

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Are you serious?

I sincerely hope not.

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That’s retarded. That’s like saying musicians are all about cults of personality because there are noteworthy, endlessly enduring and studied composers in the history of music.

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Daigo has a best selling book.

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No, it’s like saying the Beach Boys are more important than the Beatles because you grew up listening to surf music.

The Beach Boys are still exceptionally important, but there’s no question who’s the more culturally significant group.

(it’s the Beatles, by a few orders of magnitude)

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There is no fighting game player whose influence on what they do is analogous to The Beatles’ influence on popular music.

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I love ya man, and respect your posts and all, but c’mon.

Daigo has one move, the Ume named after him.

Calipower has the entire RTSD fighting style to his name.

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Granting that, do you know how hard it is to come up with a valid music comparison? :stuck_out_tongue:

The difference is that these people are working in the same time period, and one of them has had both more success and more exposure. I was gonna go with Salieri and Mozart, but they’re both from the same country and again Mozarts influence is too huge.

Edit: To go further, I just checked some results. One of the people we’re talking about has won 6 evo events, the other has won zero.

Edit again: can’t find B3 results easily, but lets be honest Evo is more significant, leaving the timescale aside.

I totally respect the things Valle’s done to build and support the scene… he deserves respect and thanks for that. On the other hand, that’s why sports stars are more notable than team GMs or owners. It may not be fair or just, but neither is life.

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But this is exactly why competitive games are more relevant.

Take it away Seth.

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fair point. if not for him we’d probably be saying “abare” lol

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his secret is the ability to channel the powers of his avatar. you will not escape this power.

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Man this thread is so off target now. :rofl:

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LOL that S-Kill tirade is hella bitch made.