The "I Miss Sassy" Sports Thread

[ice grillin you]

i wish federer was a few years younger so he could have been part of their generation....hes just a few years outside of it

[Sgt PSN]

The Sixers bought a couple of esports teams.  I stumbled across a TV broadcast of one of these loserfests one day like a month or so ago....teams playing each other in some shoot-em-up game like halo or something.  None of it made sense, especially them playing in front of an audience. These people aren't actually fans, are they?  They're just people plucked off the streets who were paid 50 bucks to look interested, right? 

[PhillyPhreak54]

It's real, sadly.

Welcome to the millennial/gamer world. I didn't think it was real either but it is

[ice grillin you]

espn started televising it this year

[General_Failure]

Warriors' Guber, Wizards' Leonsis, and Magic Johnson buy Team Liquid

Team Liquid has announced that it has sold the controlling interest of its esports organization to an ownership group led by Peter Guber and Ted Leonsis. Guber is the co-owner of the Golden State Warriors of the NBA, the Los Angeles Dodgers of MLB, and Los Angeles Football Club soccer team. Leonsis runs Monumental Sports & Entertainment, which owns the Washington Capitals NHL team, the Washington Wizards basketball team, the Washington Mystics women's basketball team, and the Washington Valor arena football team. Now, they're investing in an esports industry worth $493 million and growing. Intelligence firm Newzoo projects that esports will drive $1.1 billion in revenues by 2019, which makes the market ripe for investing.

[Sgt PSN]

Watching people play video games is currently a half billion dollar industry?  Wtf?

[smeags]

most of who are of legal age to vote in this country.

[General_Failure]

Watching people play video games is currently a half billion dollar industry?  Wtf?

No, watching people play video games competetively is a half billion dollar industry. Watching people play video games is a multi billion dollar industry.

http://vidstatsx.com/youtube-top-100-most-subscribed-channels

[Geowhizzer]

My kids love to watch YouTube channels of gamers.  Supposed "adults" whose balls apparently never dropped proclaiming their superiority in the game du jour.  I don't know where I went wrong as a father...

[PhillyPhreak54]

lol

I don't have a game system anymore and never had one where you could talk to people while playing but I don't think I could take some little shtein whose balls haven't dropped talking shtein to me

[Munson]

Yeah I don't know how pewdiepie became a thing, but it did, and little kids farging love him.

I still game so it's funny to hear the little 9 year olds on Call of Duty trying to be pewdiepie while they play.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Wtf is a pewdiepie

[Munson]

He is the most subscribed to person on youtube, something like 50 million+, and his youtube channel is the most viewed of all time, even more than all the biggest music stars you can think of.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4Knx07qunQ

He's started making just regular 'comedy' videos at this point based on video games, but for the most part he 'rose to fame' by playing video games and adding his own live commentary.

South park made an entire episode (two episodes?) dedicated to little kids not even wanting to play video games because they'd rather watch other people like pewdiepie play them.

[General_Failure]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFbVKL-Meo0

By the way, he pulls in about a million dollars a month.

[PhillyPhreak54]

My god.

That's insane.