History of eSports

[CSN NewsBot]

Some guy, aka xredebility, posted a history of everything that ever happened that had to do with eSports. Sound interesting?

Take a look at sports. Soccer, ice-hockey, whatever sport, they all have a history. Therefore I think it's important that we record the 'major' events happening on the CS scene in case it will once become a sport.

Now if he claimed he did it in one sitting I'd be amazed, but ya know, I have high standards. Anyway, if this hits your g-spot, take a click!

[cHic0!]

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Wow.



He includes a few facts which I think are pretty mundane such as "Steam is down".... but otherwise, pretty good job.



And I also think the name "History of eSports" should be changed to "History of CS eSports" or something similar. CS isn't the only competitive online game.

[HOT_lead]

This guys is either incredible dedicated or a huge geek.

[PCF|Herman D]

Sad Bastard

[Lucius]

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1. Who cares?

2. CS is not an esport. Nor are professional CS players "cyber-athletes." It is a damn video game. Therefore they are professional video game players. Not any type of athlete. The only esports are Sports games.



I've been banned, stop reporting me.

[xredebility]

actually, i only spent about 5-10min every day, just recording events happening on that day ever since 28. November.



Lucius: read again what you said. "CS is not an esport."

eSport = electronic sport = video games and such

i did not say CS was a sport.



And furthermore "who cares?": well, specially the CS community on both sides of the atlantic has expressed great interest on it. At least it's posted on over 10 major sites that I know of so far, and the comments have mostly been "nice" etc :)



and I agree it's a bit biased towards European scene, and specially CS (90%) because it's a bit harder to get info about the other scenes on the news sites that I visit :)

[PCF|Herman D]

Sorry if my comment sounded harsh, it was in my "joshing with mates" tone (K)



I'm a /very/ sad cunt, if thats any concelation.

[MikeJ]

Lucius wrote..

1. Who cares?

2. CS is not an esport.

1. Shut up

2. Better tell that to the CPL so they can cancel the $400,000 esport tournament.

[Exo]

Low-five, MikeJ.

[Lucius]

eSport implies sport, even if it's electronic. Therefore, not a sport. <low-fives self>. Someone also tell Rizzuh's dumbass to put up the thing I sent him. He is probably gonna wait like two weeks and then claim he found it himself or something.

[Evil_Penguin]

sport (spôrt, sprt)

n.

An activity involving skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.

[cHic0!]

CS on a professional level is a sport. Even if it wasn't, I don't see how its not an eSport when in fact the word itself was created for online games in particular. So basically, CS is a sport and eSport is one of those useless words that someone came up with to make it sound cooler (might as well just used the word 'sport', eh?).



And yes, I do realize the above paragraph is redundant.

In any case, gj xredebility.

[superm0nk]

don't forget that esports aren't soley based online. the biggest (and fairest) competitions take place offline, at a LAN center.

[penguin[ZeR]]

K you admittedly say it's 90% about CS yet it's still titled "History of eSports." Good call.

[D3f]

MikeJ wrote..

1. Shut up

2. Better tell that to the CPL so they can cancel the $400,000 esport tournament.

Listen to this guy, he knows what hes talking about.

Im not saying that it is or isn't a sport, but what really defines a sport? I mean us geeks(dont flame, im joking) need some competition too, and chess(Check csnation archives on chess haha) gets a bit boring some times doesnt it? haha



Nice read though, Too bad it doesn't go back any further in time.