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match espn and fox also share broadcast rights for mls and espn streams the second tier us league the usl over its espn service even the national women s soccer league gets airplay on espn and anyone who says that the women s league doesn t have quality soccer hasn t watched a match quite a few players on the us canadian brazilian and other national teams play in the nwsl while i doubt that soccer will ever displace american football in the national consciousness soccer is rapidly closing the gap in popularity between it and the other big four american sports leagues baseball s mlb basketball s nba football s nfl and hockey s nhl posted by redbeard at 9 39 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels esports league of legends news wednesday february 17 2016 the curse of success i spent part of last night watching a documentary by the pbs show frontline if you ve never watched a frontline documentary they re very much worth the time this particular time however the frontline documentary was on daily fantasy sports called the fantasy sports gamble it talks about the explosion of daily fantasy sports into the popular consciousness whether daily fantasy sports such as draft kings and fanduel are gambling or games of skill and how normal online gambling subverts us law to cater to us players while i m not exactly planning on playing any of those games i did note one almost throwaway comment toward the end of the episode one of the people promoting a lesser known daily fantasy sports site was emphasizing the growth aspect of some of the lesser sports in the us such as cricket and esports that got me to wondering just how we truly know that esports are legit my quick conclusion is we don t unlike say other sports or sporting activities such as football both varieties basketball auto racing and even extreme sports there s a physical gamespace that people have to compete in while the space could be tampered with that tampering affects all competitors equally but with esports the gamespace is virtual and controlled by a central system that central system becomes more of a black box where you have to assume everything is equal for both sides but what if it isn t and more importantly how can you tell if it isn t you have to assume that the code compilation for esport games didn t include any tweaks to the code designed to adversely favor a specific build at a specific time but with growing amounts of money involved you can bet that organized crime is trying to find a way to game the system in their favor i m not talking about players being paid to throw matches as can be found in this article from den of geek but the employees at the company from being paid by organized crime to make very small code tweaks that will favor one style of play over another between two evenly matched teams just a small tweak of a cooldown or a very slight manipulation of a crit size would be enough to influence the game or to put it another way if there was a code tweak in a mario kart tourney that someone playing rosalina would have a larger than normal chance of getting a lightning bolt or a bullet bill it may not ensure victory but it would certainly tilt the game in favor of someone who plays rosalina and what organized crime would want is not exactly a sure thing as that would cause speculation but a decent chance at a sure thing if you follow auto racing some leagues enforce more standards than others formula one racing is at the let em play end of the spectrum while nascar is at the rules lawyer end but that rules lawyer end of the spectrum means that nascar spends a lot of time measuring and testing the cars and other equipment of their participants to ensure there s no funny business going on the reason why i bring this up is obvious without extensive testing that black box is more mysterious than ever it s not as if gamblers will not stop sniffing around what they feel is a sure thing the sheer chutzpah of some gambling sites to sponsor soccer teams such as stoke city having bet365 as their primary sponsor the past few years shows that other places around the world have a different view towards gambling than the us but still as esports will become more popular and more money flows in their direction there will be more attempts to manipulate the system for profit it goes with the territory i suppose just as long as esports doesn t have their own version of the 1919 black sox scandal yeah i m gonna play some 2x2s tonight wanna come from the movie eight men out from moviefone com you can watch frontline shows online for free and they re definitely worth it one of the best ones from last year league of denial talks about the concussion epidemic in the nfl and inspired the will smith film concussion full disclosure i have played fantasy football in leagues when i was in college and upwards of 10 years ago but i ve not played in years i no longer even fill out a bracket for the men s and women s ncaa basketball tournament because i tend to be lousy at picking who will win not counting individual build and toon differences there s a reason why blizz and other pvp centric companies are constantly tweaking class and racial abilities to prevent the new hotness from cleaning up on the arena or battleground for too long posted by redbeard at 9 50 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels esports wednesday april 29 2015 explain to me again how watching sports gets you fitter the broadcast of heroes of the dorm on espn2 has been generating a bit of controversy you d think that esports wouldn t generate that much heat given that the finals were at 9 30 on a sunday night on espn2 most nba games were over for the day sunday games tend to be shown earlier in the day than on saturday and mlb was on regular espn without college basketball and the nba regular season there s a whole lot of not much on sunday nights on espn2 but of course some people had to bitch you don t have to watch to get the gist of it espn radio s colin cowherd doesn t like esports and he wants you to know that espn made a mistake saying it mildly by putting heroes of the dorm on espn2 sportsgrid and the mary sue both have their own take on cowherd s rant but both boil down to the same thing espn also broadcasts the national spelling bee poker games and eating contests so saying esports have no place on espn is pretty silly now the question about whether esports are real sports is quite another thing there are games that qualify as sports that make me raise my eyebrows bowling for starters golf for another while both are competitive you don t see people get fit playing either sport you could make an argument about golf but the way most people play the game now using carts any fitness gained from walking 18 holes has pretty much evaporated and auto racing let s not go there george carlin s 1986 clip on sports i don t think i need to tell you that he s a bit profane and that he says a few things that are more offensive now than back then all of the so called sports i listed above are tests of skill but they won t get you fit my personal definition of something that is a sport is that it is an athletic physical activity game that will provide good exercise handball tennis running and basketball are all sports golf auto racing bowling are not esports are not sports by my definition that said esports are definitely tests of physical skill just not enough to give you a good workout if that were the case my work of sitting around and typing at the keyboard all day would qualify as exercise esports fall under those other so called sports golf etc in that they are all tests of physical skill but esports also veer into mental skill territory found with other games spelling bee chess poker bridge scrabble etc that have big championships esports are at that intersection between physical and mental skill that for some reason make some people uneasy probably because they remember goofing around playing video games and saying wouldn t it be cool if you could make money playing these things but the reality is this sort of level of competition turns the game itself into work lol teams like fnatic pretty much work at the game all day almost every day and the level of skill involved almost guarantees both burnout and a drop in skill level once pro esports players hit their mid late 20s if you thought the burnout level at the progression raiding guilds was high you ain t seen nothing yet but playing a game or a sport isn t the same as watching it when you hear people gripe about esports not belonging on espn because they re not real sports my initial response is what does it matter to you after all does watching basketball make me fit hell no it s just people s biases kicking in and they don t like the fact that video games require a skill that they likely don t have if colin cowherd was good enough at lol do you think that he d turn down a boatload of cash to play the game in a pro league again hell no would espn be silly to turn down a chance to get in on the ground floor of something that could become a huge entertainment franchise hell yes i m not a big fan of espn but they ve got the right of it this time nhl hockey is on nbc and nbcsn the nfl in the fall has sunday night games on nbc and the european soccer football league games are long over by the time us prime time rolls around for the record my grandparents were avid bowlers and loved loved loved watching pba king of bowling on television back in the 70s 80s 90s my father is a true golf nut to the point where he used to hit the links with snow on the ground if the weather was warm enough i grew up watching him putt on the family room in the evenings on second thought i d rather not give somebody the idea that maybe i could get exercise by coding that s kind of a depressing concept eta clarified that my dad used to play golf while snow was on the ground posted by redbeard at 5 04 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels esports musings sunday april 12 2015 not your typical espn fare i ll come right out and admit it i m a college basketball junkie if there s a game on men s or women s i ll likely be watching the game or at least be familiar with it i ve also developed a minor addiction to barclay s premier league football thanks to nbc sports network and ncaa women s softball which means that i frequently scour the ncaa games on espn3 for something to have on in the background while i m doing housework on the weekend well there is a new thing available on espn3 that has gotten some writeups the past month or so but i ve managed to avoid heroes of the dorm a college oriented tourney for heroes of the storm espn likely looked at the number of people who a pay money to watch streaming of blizzcon online or via directv and b the exploding interest in esports see their broadcasts of the league of legends world championships and decided to throw some money blizzard s way to get a hots tourney going for broadcast unlike a lot of the other espn sports this one has the feel of a brand new broadcast searching for it s groove if you want an apt sports broadcast comparison i d say it s similar to the fox sports one s big east broadcasts where the quality on the court is much better than the quality in the booth and in the tv trucks still even though you have to have a cable satellite subscription or your isp has an agreement to carry it to watch heroes of the dorm i m sure that this is a win win for both parties espn locks up more of the esports market and blizzard gets a partner that will eventually push a high level of professionalism and promotion into the esports environment for people like me who have little interest in esports espn provides legitimacy that you wouldn t have found elsewhere that legitimacy will inevitably cause a backlash from the real sports crowd even though these games are on espn3 or watchespn i m sure there will be gripes and jokes about how the nerdy non sports masquerading as real sports are taking away from the real sports on television in a bizarro world sense it s the jocks vs the geeks all over again but this time for television viewing ratings does the ncaa basketball tourney have to worry about ratings competition from esports not likely but what is likely is a resistance to an expansion of what exactly sports is never mind that texas hold em poker tournaments have been broadcast on espn for over a decade that s a man s game not these sissy esports that nerdy guys in their basement play as for me i m not likely to watch the games i d rather play an mmo or moba myself rather than watch someone else play but i think this entire debate is silly if you want to watch someone play esports more power to you if espn wants to get in on the ground level with blizzard for this hots tourney great there s plenty of bandwidth for everyone so why bitch want to hear someone complain about how ucla should never have been given an invite to the ncaa tourney i m your guy as soon as baylor lost in the second round i called my dad an avid xavier fan and told him that x is about to advance right through to the sweet sixteen the one team in the rounds of 64 and 32 that could beat x just got upset by georgia state and x would have an easy time of it until they d run into the arizona buzzsaw it s kind of hard to play an mmo while doing housework not to say that i haven t tried just not had much success doing both that and getting cleaning done for the record i m not a big east fan i ll watch the games mainly to root against xavier i m a dayton fan but outside of when bill raftery and gus johnson are in the booth the other broadcast teams just aren t at the level of quality that you d expect in an espn or even a cbs broadcast some of it is also due to fox constantly insisting on being ultra hip and edgy when neither is necessary for broadcasting or reporting on games i m sure that espn will really amp up their league of legends coverage this fall based on their experience with both the heroes of the dorm tourney and last year s lol world championships if nothing else espn is a master at promotion posted by redbeard at 4 19 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels esports media mobas older posts home subscribe to comments atom pages home about parallel context about redbeard contact us azeroth after dark a parallel context companion site mmo podcasts blizzard watch diablo 4 lord of hatred waiting room 1 day ago podcasts massively overpowered massively op podcast episode 563 in the name of the windrose 4 days ago twisted nether blogcast moving to youtube episodes 346 348 3 months ago battle bards the final refrain 1 year ago ootinicast a star wars the old republic swtor podcast ootinicast episode 503 1 year ago mmo blogroll massively 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