Tuesday, April 21, 2015

A new documentary asks: Will e-sports ever go mainstream?

"Why do you like watching someone else play a video game?"

My fiancée, among other people, has asked me this multiple times throughout our relationship. She doesn't get it. Most people don't get it. But it's simple, really: skill.

I pride myself in my own video game skills — my first-person shooter skills, specifically. I'm better than my friends and my co-workers. I do well online, but I'm not the best, and that aggravates me. There was a time though when I wanted to be the best.

Then I found e-sports.

Professional gamers are superhuman, just like LeBron James and Sidney Crosby are superhuman — consistently capable of performing feats that seem impossible. There's one main difference with e-sports, though: most viewers understand...

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