Tuesday, September 21, 2010

LIVE FOR THE SWARM!

American ideology believes that the strong and athletic people get to get into sports. Recently there is a new sports becoming popular, e-sports or what more people know as professional video gaming. Contradicting to the previous sports you do not have to be strong or fit. Instead you have to be quick on your reaction and your reasoning skills. Before all of the athletes have to go through training to get bigger muscle. Now, instead of training their physical strength they now have to train their mental strength.

In a ladder tournament, it could be a best of 3, best of 5, and rarely best of 7. The current most popular e-sport is Starcraft: Brood War. It is a real time strategy game where you can build up and economy and train soldiers to counter your opponent. It does not need physical strength but you have to memorize the unit counters and the build orders. The only similar thing to the others sports is how fast can you react to your opponent's strategy.

American ideology is that the people have to be strong to be an athlete. I think it is a good thing that the e-sports started so now people can focus on building their mind instead of their body. This way the world can move forward and boosting the intelligence of human kind.






Day[9] a successful American e-sport athlete. Not a strong person 


























































































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1 comment:

Michael M. said...

Awesome post. Ive been playing these games you mentioned in your post and it does require alot of memorization to master it. Compared to athletic sports you really dont need that much physical skill just able to remember things well. Posing a problem to all those who are all about bigger muscles and smaller brain power :D