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ESPN8 "the Ocho" Happening today (1 Viewer)
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Don Quixote
Footballguy
Appreciate the red solo cups for drinks.
rockaction
Footballguy
What ESPN station is this on?
glvsav37
Footballguy
rockaction
Footballguy
Silver & Black
Footballguy
You usually gotta pay extra for that cotton
dino259
Footballguy
is @Willie Neslon on?
Love this type of programming. Need more of this and less of all the Facts vs. Volume type shows.
Love this type of programming. Need more of this and less of all the Facts vs. Volume type shows.
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
This is like old school ESPN.
rockaction
Footballguy
This was a fun concept, but awful in content.
Moe.
Footballguy
This is pretty smart and probably a good representation of what they will have to do going forward to fill the hours. I imagine the rights for all of this came pretty cheap. Much better than some boring studio show previewing the SEC East. I would love to see more disc sports on television.
EYLive
Footballguy
I played in college. Love this sport. My school hosts the L.A. pro team games.
I'd like to see more ultimate televised. There's a ton more action than soccer and baseball.
glvsav37
Footballguy
Steve Tasker
Footballguy
It's not going to happen overnight, but e-sports is going to be a major player going forward. TBS already has rights to Counter-Strike events and ESPN has broadcast e-sports events in the past. ESPN.com even has a full e-sports section of their website - http://www.espn.com/esports/. Kinda fascinating stuff."World Championship of Street Fighter" (yes the video game) on now ...complete with professional commentary.
Edit: Now they are talking to the winner about how "intense his training was" Haaaaaa.
Moe.
Footballguy
You're not familiar with eSports? (edit: apologies if this came off as confrontational. Looked wrong once I read it) Absolutely huge business nowadays."World Championship of Street Fighter" (yes the video game) on now ...complete with professional commentary.
Edit: Now they are talking to the winner about how "intense his training was" Haaaaaa.
I know ESPN is presenting this block of programming as though it's tongue in cheek, but there is more to it than that. There was some good discussion on ESPN and the issues they face in this thread earlier this summer: https://forums.footballguys.com/forum/topic/756251-the-rise-and-fall-of-espn/?page=6
Nice to see they are testing the waters with some more diverse content.
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glvsav37
Footballguy
I'll admit...I don't play video games...have not since Sega and NHL 94. But I don't discount the eSport revolution. Just sounds funny to me when they talk about the intensity of the training.
Looks fun to be the thrower in that one.Dodgeball juggling?
Headis was good. Juggling was okay. Looking forward to the handless volleyball
Steve Tasker
Footballguy
Honestly, I've hit my tipping point and I've watched more e-sports than any other sport this year to date. The production quality is quite good for the big events, and there's serious money flowing into the sport from more traditional sports. The Sixers, Patriots, Cowboys, Mets all have made significant e-sports investments in the past year or so. Rick Fox is the owner of a very successful North American team. Shaq, A-Rod, and Jimmy Rollins are minority owners in NRG - the majority owners are the owners of the Sacramento Kings. It's a wild west arms race in the e-sports world right now.
Charlie Steiner
Footballguy
Are they running commercials selling subscriptions to OSQ?
grateful zed
Footballguy
yes it is.EYLive said:
i actually played competitive for 15 years with montana. traveled to world championships with the calgary cynics and played nationally with the phily rage.
this sort of coverage is about 10+ years too late.
I assumed this was a competition for the jugglers, not these Dbaggios hucking the balls at these kids. Still looks fun though.Looks fun to be the thrower in that one.Dodgeball juggling?
Cowboysfan8
Footballguy
Any sign of Willie Neslon?glvsav37 said:
captain_amazing
Footballguy
The Patriots are recruiting for their Overwatxh team right now, I think. They've even bought a house for the team to live in. Pretty cool.
otb_lifer
Footballguy
Long Ball Larry
Footballguy
Yup, was figuring it was some kind of trial balloon for a couple years from now trying to offset all those bloated league rights packages they paid for.
EYLive
Footballguy
Oh please no. I love video/PC games, but this doesn't belong anywhere near sports.
Nathan R. Jessep
Footballguy
Agreed. I could see X-Games maybe, but I thought this was a joke when I first heard it.
ChiefD
Footballguy
SWC
Bromigo
i liked it a lot and wish that they would do this more i do not watch a ton of tv probably an hour to an hour and a half a day but this was fun just honestly fun good to see stuff like this on tv instead of some reality crap watching the worst of society fight with eachother blah blah blah i say keep it full time viva la ocho bromigos take that to the bank
Insein
Footballguy
Not physically, but immense mental training. South Korea has training camps for all sorts of games a lot like the soccer camps in Europe. They mentally challenge gamers to go beyond their limits of what they can handle and break through to another level. Most end up breaking down but the kids that become pros usually come from these types of training programs.
skol asylum
Footballguy
mquinnjr
Footballguy
Pfffffft,
Oh, my bad for spitting a little bit of Cheetos in your direction you while making that scoff noise, this competition is intense!
grateful zed
Footballguy
they had just broken up with their baltimore brethern after winning worlds in 1989. i played with them in 1994.
http://www.wfdf.org/events/archive/ultimate/330-1989-world-ultimate-club-championships
this was on their uni's.
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grateful zed
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