Posted on 05/13/2019 1:54:35 PM PDT by for-q-clinton
4' Broadcasters and Analysts during the Collegiate Esports Championship. PHOTO BY PHIL ELLSWORTH / ESPN IMAGES Wrapping Up the ESPN Collegiate Esports Championships at Comicpalooza CARLOS BRANDON | MAY 13, 2019 | 5:30AM Comicpalooza and ESPN brought the inaugural Collegiate Esports Championships to Houston with a spectacular live studio arena and a Twitch stream viewed by thousands.
The event was the first of its kind and the first major esports tournament hosted by ESPN's recently developed esports division. Over three days of match play, collegiate champions were crowned in five titles: Overwatch, Hearthstone, Star Craft II, Heroes of the Storm, and Street Fighter V.
The tournament was not without its complications, however, as network and/or power disruptions caused more than one game stoppage — including an hour long delay in the middle of the Heroes of the Storm championship match between Rutgers and Cal Poly Pomona. Issues like these are usually due to venues failing to provide sufficient power or bandwidth to meet the requirements of a large scale competition.
4' Broadcasters and Analysts during the Collegiate Esports Championship. PHOTO BY PHIL ELLSWORTH / ESPN IMAGES Wrapping Up the ESPN Collegiate Esports Championships at Comicpalooza CARLOS BRANDON | MAY 13, 2019 | 5:30AM Comicpalooza and ESPN brought the inaugural Collegiate Esports Championships to Houston with a spectacular live studio arena and a Twitch stream viewed by thousands.
The event was the first of its kind and the first major esports tournament hosted by ESPN's recently developed esports division. Over three days of match play, collegiate champions were crowned in five titles: Overwatch, Hearthstone, Star Craft II, Heroes of the Storm, and Street Fighter V.
The tournament was not without its complications, however, as network and/or power disruptions caused more than one game stoppage — including an hour long delay in the middle of the Heroes of the Storm championship match between Rutgers and Cal Poly Pomona. Issues like these are usually due to venues failing to provide sufficient power or bandwidth to meet the requirements of a large scale competition.
Related Stories Joshua Chan of University of California - Berkeley competing in StarCraft II. Joshua Chan of University of California - Berkeley competing in StarCraft II. Photo by Gabriel Christus / ESPN Images While live attendance was meager, even during marquee matches like the much anticipated Overwatch final, the real action was happening online. The ESPN Esports Twitch feed, where matches and commentary were streamed live throughout the event, racked up just under 2 million total streams, with more than 20,000 active viewers tuning into some of the final matches.
The CEC competing schools were as follow:
Overwatch Quarterfinals:
- Maryville University
- Carelton University
- Harrisburg University (champions)
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Really amazing what he was able to do with his team.
Watch these two clips to see how great he was doing
https://clips.twitch.tv/TacitAlluringLettuceKappaPride
https://clips.twitch.tv/BetterScaryCardEagleEye
Tech related as many techies like playing games.
I play three of the five listed games regularly. I have for years. Hearthstone, Overwatch and Heroes of the storm. All are pretty good games from Blizzard.
Of the three, I highly recommend Hearthstone for casual gamers and it’s free to play.
Chrome is screwing up the look on the photo. It’s large than small. But my son is on the left in front holding up the trophy (long hair).
The car wash TV was showing some kind of video game “contest” like this yesterday morning. San Francisco vs. Vancouver, I think it was.
All I recall is listening to the tone of the announcers and how carefully they were dissecting the plays. Understood nothing of what they were talking about, but it reminded me of John Michael Higgins in either “Best in Show” or “Pitch Perfect”!
Hots won’t be back. Blizzard always do be dropping it. In fact I’m worried that Activision is finally going to screw up blizzard.
That was probably overwatch league.
The announcers for this tournament were great. Listen to the two clips I posted. They were all over it. They were amazing because it’s hard to follow yet alone talk in real time about what is going on.
The link ending in eagleEye is the best. It gives me chills each time I watch it. Probably because it’s my son but it is amazing.
Is Blizzard dropping HoTs altogether or do you mean they won’t be back to the competition next season?
I think they are dropping support for it. Activision is making them focus on mobile gaming (cell phone games).
Thanks for the info.
What's next Watching Sports? Couch Potatoes Unite!
Actually it is. Also chess is a sport too.
BTW look up the definition. Esports is more sport than many other sports.
Like shot put, javelin, curling, shooting, etc.
Chess and scrabble have been televised - I don’t think Monopoly or Kerplunk have. I’m not sure about checkers either.
Yes. I dont’ think monopoly or kerplunk are sports.
What about Battleship?
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