ESWC Trailer Depicts Professional Gaming

"Could'nt"

How did that make it in the video.

dude we should some smack talking to make this really take off

so bad :(

they need hot chicks

Electronic "Sports" -- give it a rest already.

I've posted this before, but if professional gaming is ever going to take off, they've got to show edited game footage instead of live footage. Freeze framing and camera positioning are key to showing spectators the excitement and strategy behind the games. The commentators have to educate while commentating and make sure people understand what's going on. It's totally doable, even for a hectic game like TF2 (if I had any video editing skills, I'd edit a .dem for an example) could be made to be accesible to lay people and even to pros, it'd be exciting.

For games to become more televised sport, I believe they need:

1) Really compelling announcers who people enjoy listening to. Think Madden (or whoever you provides compelling comentary when action is a bit slower).
2) Individual personalities. People who are into sports are into individual players - their contributions, their styles, etc. Either the game would need to provide plenty of opportunities for players to showcase personality or it would have to come from the gamers themselves.
3) A relatively stable 'game' year to year. If the rules and appearance of football changed every year, people would lose interest.
4) As Edgewise suggested, multicamera/editing/etc. While the most hardcode gamers may enjoy a raw feed, most people need a bigger picture/more context.
5) 'Home teams'. People need some sort of association so that that a substantial number of people around them will be into it as well - it needs to be a social event for the observers as well as the players.

...or at least thats my theory. :) In the end, I think the game itself is something that would need to be custom made for broadcast and maintained as 'the official game' - perhaps with minor tweaks and graphic updates - for a long time.

needs more fat guy with Cheeto's at home tapping his keys real fast and screaming obscenities.

Cool graphics.

Err, did anyone else notice that like 75% of the gamers they showed were chicks (or maybe guys with long hair in the really brief ones)? Is this like a women's league or something?

rainbow six 3 sound track?

Is it just me or did they not mention what games are actually being played in the competition in this video? And I know I can look it up other places, but it seems like a *slightly* important fact to leave out of a promotional video like that...

Oh no. Im afraid to even watch the video...