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4 months ago

Mazor

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The Wired Bunch in Time (124 reads, 3 replies)
Time Magazine article on eSports.

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1815747_1815707_1815675,00.html

They have 3,4 million subscribers (weekly). Probably even more read them if you count people buying individual numbers.

The article mentions SC, WC3, Seoul, eStars and eSTRO, SaSe and Grubby, etc, etc.

If you want to upset a group of South Koreans, start referring to "computer gaming." Noses will crinkle, drinks will be lowered and conversation will stop. Just as you start to wonder what faux pas you could have possibly committed, someone will break the embarrassed silence to explain: "We don't call it 'computer gaming' here. We call it 'e-Sports.'" Resist the temptation to laugh them off, because doing so would not only compound the original gaffe: it would demonstrate your total failure to grasp one of the profoundest developments in contemporary sports culture.
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4 months ago
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080485

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I already like that magazine :P...just by reading 1 page..well written.
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4 months ago
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Raistlin

 (Head Administrator)   37
Nice article.

"Next to this, the sight of 22 men kicking a nondigital ball around an actual field seems laughably sluggish and old-fashioned."
- About showing WC3 and SC on TV.

"It's a bit like showing up at your local tennis court and announcing that you are Rafael Nadal. Only that you really are."
- Comparing to when professional players enter PC bangs and joins local games.
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4 months ago
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Phantom[xz]

 (StarCraft Editor)   8
it's got a nice gallery of pics to!
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