Revenge of the Nerds: StarCraft is playing on local sport bars

#1 Posted by eshchan (41 posts) - 1 year, 8 months ago

Sports bar, is usually a local watering hole where people eat, drink and watch sports. Most of the time people will gather together at a bar to watch playoff games, MMA fights or other TSN related events (which includes poker). Now, people are gathering at a bar to watch Zerg rushing Protoss in a eSports events in geek concentrated area (Seattle and San Fransisco), in particularly, they are showing StarCraft 2 tournament.

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Hurrah for video games.

#2 Posted by csl316 (4715 posts) - 1 year, 8 months ago

Cool, Barcraft is kind of a growing trend.

Once there's some stuff happening in Chicago, I'll most definitely try to show.

#3 Posted by MaverickShin (12 posts) - 1 year, 8 months ago

StarCraft 2 is making such a great push for validating e-sports. Makes me proud.

#4 Posted by Donos (1188 posts) - 1 year, 8 months ago

Woooo!

Also, reading that article I love the skeptical "quotes" around "every" other "word".

#5 Posted by ImmortalSaiyan (4186 posts) - 1 year, 8 months ago

I don't understand RTS's but this is positive news. What if this leads to next years Evo being shown at bars? I think I would still rather watch at home.

#6 Posted by Zolfe (257 posts) - 1 year, 8 months ago

it's cool, but i don't think it's something that'll be this big for long.
starcraft at bars is just a novelty for the time being, the spectacle of it won't be as great for very long,

of course i've never been to one of these barcrafts, so maybe they are super awsome

#7 Posted by Thule (688 posts) - 1 year, 8 months ago

There's an article over on RPS about this too.

#8 Edited by Yamoto (111 posts) - 1 year, 8 months ago

And why is this big news? My local bar where showing the LOL gamescom finals

#9 Posted by coakroach (2383 posts) - 1 year, 8 months ago

I'd watch Starcraft drunk.

#10 Posted by DystopiaX (4849 posts) - 1 year, 8 months ago

@ImmortalSaiyan said:

I don't understand RTS's but this is positive news. What if this leads to next years Evo being shown at bars? I think I would still rather watch at home.

Im skeptical though. While that would be great right now only mobas and SC have the popularity to really warrant something like that IMO. As much as I'd like for EVO to be shown at bars AFAIK the fighting game community is much smaller than the RTS/moba community.

#11 Posted by innacces14 (726 posts) - 1 year, 8 months ago

Heh. Bob Colayco quoted in the article. Significant lack of "uh"s though.

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