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eSports, or competitive gaming has been growing every single day, into an entertainment powerhouse. Sites such as Twitch.Tv and MLG's Gamebattles have become high traffic, highly used sites.

So my questions for you TTG, is do you think eSports have the potential to become a true sport? Things such as TV broadcasts, Team/Player Jerseys, and other forms of merchandise are something that are potential sources for eSports.

My viewpoint is that eSports can become just as large. Taking statistics from past tournaments and sites such as Gears of War 3 Hypefestation and general Twitch.Tv stats, there is definitely a demand for eSports by the viewers. The one thing I think that is holding eSports back is a real lack of team support. Just think about it, for NFL Football, you can root for a team and it's convenient to do so. For eSports, especially the more popular ones such as Starcraft II, it is usually individuals competing. It's a little harder to give strong support to individuals in my opinion.

So TTG, do you think this will grow in the next couple years? And also explain why. I look forward to discussing with you guys.
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-Kyou- wrote eSports, or competitive gaming has been growing every single day, into an entertainment powerhouse. Sites such as Twitch.Tv and MLG's Gamebattles have become high traffic, highly used sites.

So my questions for you TTG, is do you think eSports have the potential to become a true sport? Things such as TV broadcasts, Team/Player Jerseys, and other forms of merchandise are something that are potential sources for eSports.

My viewpoint is that eSports can become just as large. Taking statistics from past tournaments and sites such as Gears of War 3 Hypefestation and general Twitch.Tv stats, there is definitely a demand for eSports by the viewers. The one thing I think that is holding eSports back is a real lack of team support. Just think about it, for NFL Football, you can root for a team and it's convenient to do so. For eSports, especially the more popular ones such as Starcraft II, it is usually individuals competing. It's a little harder to give strong support to individuals in my opinion.

So TTG, do you think this will grow in the next couple years? And also explain why. I look forward to discussing with you guys.

I don't think so to be honest. eSports is entirely different then actual sports. It can grow big, but not enormous. Maybe even a small channel on a special ordered package.

But, I know in Asia, especially Korea, Starcraft II champions are considered idols, like our players.

I'm not sure if you have ever played Starcraft II. But generally Asian players are amazing, I played against some Koreans in I think Gold League and got demolished in 5 minutes by a collussus rush.
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-Kyou- wrote eSports, or competitive gaming has been growing every single day, into an entertainment powerhouse. Sites such as Twitch.Tv and MLG's Gamebattles have become high traffic, highly used sites.

So my questions for you TTG, is do you think eSports have the potential to become a true sport? Things such as TV broadcasts, Team/Player Jerseys, and other forms of merchandise are something that are potential sources for eSports.

My viewpoint is that eSports can become just as large. Taking statistics from past tournaments and sites such as Gears of War 3 Hypefestation and general Twitch.Tv stats, there is definitely a demand for eSports by the viewers. The one thing I think that is holding eSports back is a real lack of team support. Just think about it, for NFL Football, you can root for a team and it's convenient to do so. For eSports, especially the more popular ones such as Starcraft II, it is usually individuals competing. It's a little harder to give strong support to individuals in my opinion.

So TTG, do you think this will grow in the next couple years? And also explain why. I look forward to discussing with you guys.


I don't think so to be honest. eSports is entirely different then actual sports. It can grow big, but not enormous. Maybe even a small channel on a special ordered package.

But, I know in Asia, especially Korea, Starcraft II champions are considered idols, like our players.

I'm not sure if you have ever played Starcraft II. But generally Asian players are amazing, I played against some Koreans in I think Gold League and got demolished in 5 minutes by a collussus rush.


The thing with Starcraft II to me is that it's pretty much a faster paced, more entertaining version of chess. ESPN has broadcasted chess before and hardly got any views. One of the most recent Starcraft II streams almost reached 1 million viewers at one point.

Game they play I think also is a big factor. As much as I personally don't like it, CoD is extremely popular and I'm sure even the casual players would enjoy watching a match or two of it on TV. Right this minute Hypefestation 3 for GoW3 has around 420k viewers on Twitch, so the GoW community would be on board. Let's also not forget how massive the Halo 3 tournaments use to be.

As far as countries go for it, we'd probably stick to in the US or also with the UK, and save the Eastern countries for World Championships lol
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Maybe one day, Red Bull has been sponsoring eSport atheltes like Walshy, Enable, Nadeshot. And Papa Johns is seeming to take interest in OpTic Gaming
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