I call Dibs on Taeyeon.
Ya, Starcraft 2 is hard. Not joking either.
Oh, for crying out loud. . .
In South Korea they have tournaments and hundreds of people watch the guys play.
Its kinda nuts.
This is kinda like playing FarmVille on Facebook and then applying for farm subsidies.
Barry might want to check with Donovan McNabb on this. He’s the athlete “expert”.
I call Dibs on Taeyeon.
weird
Apparently South Korea has a cable channel or something devoted to professional gaming
“I just wish the damn thing came with an instruction manual. For all we know we could be upsettin’ the entire space-time continuum!”
I find this very amusing.
One of my sons got pretty good at Starcraft. He said that he was almost as good as a 12 year old Korean. He said it’s a national sport, complete with special media coverage.
That’s your immigration services at work.
“Kim “Violet” Dong Hwan, a 23-year-old South Korean professional StarCraft player,...”
The Donger is back!!!
If you really have not seen a pro Starcraft 2 tournament, or a pro Defense of the Ancients 2 tournament you should look it up and figure out how to watch a streaming broadcast of just a couple of games each.
You NEED to know what is headed our way or you are going to wake up one of these days and find out you missed an event as major as the rise of the NFL. Yes, it’s that big.
The production value of some of these broadcasts and the money being played for is as major as any pro sport. The DOTA2 International pays out ONE MILLION to the winners.
The skill levels required to play these games professionally is akin to playing chess with a mouse and making over 100 moves per minute.
It’s cool to watch, even if you don’t fully understand the rules. You can get one hell of an appreciation for the skill. And if you DO learn the rules, it’s amazing to watch. Because you KNOW you will never, on your best day with all the practice you can stand be even half a good. Not even half.