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Article about esports and TI4 in the New York Times
By dreamknoxville, 03 Sep 2014 at 02: 16
One of the most popular newspapers in the United States of America wrote a huge article on the first page about dota.
We are talking about the New York Times, which recognized interesting moments in the topic of esports for a general audience and tried to describe the recent events, especially affecting The International 2014.
We will provide you with the main essence of this article.
In the first part, we talked mainly about The International 2014 itself and the description of esports as a future sports discipline along with traditional sports.
Popular sponsors and the chosen ways of developing esports in the United States of America were mentioned.
The Dota 2 video game, like many others like it, takes players from their bedrooms to a virtual world where they can fight each other through keyboard and mouse clicks.
Except for one of the sunny days in July, when each attack by one of the teams caused a burst of applause and broke the ovation of the audience.
More than 11,000 spectators gathered at the Seattle Basketball Arena.
The participants fought for a huge part of the prize pool of $ 11 million, which is the largest in the history of computer games.
The developer, Valve Corporation, has made another huge step towards turning a computer game into a sports discipline that would be watched by the masses of viewers.
By the way, if we touch on the topic of computer games, the industry with a revenue of $ 20 billion has long bypassed the music industry and is coming on the heels of the film industry.
And the beauty is that it is only gaining momentum, and its subsidiary industry, esports, is already beginning to show teeth.
Success in esports is already beginning to be significant.
Gaming tournaments are located in huge arenas, and their audience exceeds the top sports events.
As for sponsors, Coca Cola, RedBull and American Express choose esports.
The prize amounts already reach millions of dollars, and top players receive a lot of money, which automatically pushes the younger generation to try themselves as a gamer.
Last year, the US Department began issuing visas to professional players using the system of traditional sports athletes.
This year, Robert Morris University in Chicago has allocated about $500,000 in scholarships to esports athletes, which is the first experience in the United States.
In addition, the Ivy League is a league for universities across the country.
Last week, the web giant Amazon acquired Twitch.tv, the most popular stream service for gamers, for $ 970 million.
"Everything is developing so fast that it is getting out of control," said James Lampkin, product manager of ESL (Electronic Sports League), one of the largest leagues in the world, which attracted more than 73,000 spectators at the tournament in Katowice.
"We donot know where and when it will all end."
The next part of the article concerns the life of a progamer.
An example was the bronze medalist of The International 2014 Peter Daguerre, whom you know by the nickname ppd.
Peter is the captain and drafter of the Evil Geniuses team.
When he doesnot have to be under the gun of hundreds of cameras and the gaze of thousands of people, Mr. Dugher works from his bedroom in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
On a small table in the corner of the room are the sources of his earnings: a computer with 2 monitors, a webcam, a mouse and a keyboard.
Mr. Daguerre himself wears glasses, is a tall and thin young man.
As a child, he played on the school football team.
A poster of Peter in a football team uniform hangs on the wall.
The young man looks confident and calm in his 22 years.
His age is about the same as the rest of the team members.
There are not many professional gamers after 30 years.
Last Wednesday, as on all other days, Mr. Daguerre's working day began at about one o'clock in the afternoon.
Teammates from northern California, Vancouver and Sweden joined him via the network and began to hone their skills in Dota 2 over the next 4-5 hours.
"At night I have dreams about Dota," says Peter, " sometimes I dream that I am a hero from dota."
The whole essence of the game, the abbreviation of which stands for Defense of the Ancients, is a battle on a square map with passages for players between two warring bases.
Players can choose for themselves one of more than a hundred heroes, each of which has its own characteristics and disadvantages.
To win, players must act as a team to destroy an enemy structure, which is called Ancient.
This goal is achieved by destroying other buildings, killing hundreds of monsters and other players.
Using a microphone connected to his computer, Mr. Daguerre talks to his teammates in a calm and even voice, using jargon that is incomprehensible to the ordinary man in the street.
Evil Geniuses win the first two training matches.
During the third game, one of the players lost concentration and started making mistakes, allowing the opposing team to get ahead and increase their advantage even more.
Mr. Daguerre lost his composure at that moment.
"I canot play dota like this," he told the player, " everything you do doesnot make any sense.
Just follow us."
After the end of training, Peter usually starts streaming, like other players.
The streams are located on Twitch, and the audience is more than 9 thousand people.
Peter has been spending less time broadcasting his games recently to rest before going to China for a big tournament, which is just one of a dozen that he has yet to get to this year.
Mr. Daguerre notes that physical features are not as important for an esports athlete as they are in traditional sports.
He lists only the brain and fingers as the main tools for starting a player's career.
The main thing, according to him, is to focus on what you are doing.
Go to your goal, not paying attention to failures.
His desire for video games went against the dreams and hopes of the Dagher family, especially in his youth.
As you know, most of the top players had a similar situation with their parents.
"I, like many players, sacrificed everything," said Mr. Daguerre, who almost graduated from college, but now does not attend it.
"We sacrificed everything: friends, sports and school, just to play more."
Mr. Daguerre earned a small amount of $20,000 last year, but this year he has already earned more than $200,000.
Peter had recently intended to purchase a condominium in Fort Wayne.
His father, Joe Dugher, is very proud of his son, but he is very worried about the length of Peter's career.
"It took us a very long time to realize that everything is fine with Peter and everything is going according to plan.
However, Peter has to finish school, so he needs to find time for this.
We say this, but I do not know if Bill Gates ' parents reproach him for not finishing his education."
- Joe Daguerre.
The next part of the article was reflections on the growth of esports in the coming years.
The editors are also interested in the possibility of establishing esports as an official sports discipline.
Companies that come to esports have high hopes that a large audience will help bring good earnings from advertising.
Thus, the sponsorship of tournaments is a permanent and profitable thing for investors themselves.
This is already happening everywhere.
T Mobile USA, a large and well known corporation, sponsored the Evil Geniuses team at the tournament in Seattle.
Coca Cola helped with the organization of League of Legends pabstomps in cinemas and theaters in Europe.
In addition, the company has released a series of products with images of champions in South Korea.
"Gaming is not the same as it was in our childhood," says Matt Wolf, a 45 year veteran of the gaming business, who is now the director of the esports investment department at Coca Cola Corporation.
- This is a huge media platform that has various forms of financing and financial benefits."
For marketing departments, the main attraction is the audience: the sphere mainly involves men from 18 to 35 years old, the same group that is now almost impossible to get with the help of traditional TV commercials.
Major competitions and online broadcast services offer companies a new way to reach this audience.
The very idea at the top of the companies that create games is to create and offer sponsors a way to earn money from their own investments.
The more money is invested in development, stimulating it, the more money is obtained at the output, which, in theory, should attract an increasing audience to games.
And the more people who are interested in games, the more money will be spent on games and in game items.
Peter Vorman, executive director of Newzoo, a company that studies such a phenomenon as esports, says: "Now gaming companies are interested in producing products for players, as they are confident in its payback.
People continue to discover new games and esports, so there is more and more money in the industry."
But to continue this cycle, the industry, apparently, will need to somehow change people's opinions about games and gamers - roughly speaking, to prove to everyone that the skills acquired through games are useful and can be applied in society.
When ESPN2, a cable sports channel, launched a program about the Dota 2 tournament in July, Twitter was flooded with angry comments about this show.
People did not understand why they should show esports on a sports channel.
Mr. Lampkin from ESL said that he does not worry at all about such opinions and this attitude of the majority.
His argument about whether esports is a sport or not sounds exactly like this:
"If you donot want to call esports an ordinary sport or something similar, then it doesnot mean anything to me.
Your opinion will not change the fact that esports is developing at an incredible speed and the scale of this development is noticeable all over the world."
Using the example of this article, we can trace how esports turns from a hobby in narrow circles into a mass phenomenon.
Esports is gaining momentum not only every year, but also every day.
Very soon you will be able to say that you tried to break into the professional scene when it was not yet "mainstream".
And now we can only wait and watch this most interesting process.
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Corpsegrinder 03 Sep 2014 at 02: 24
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The dota is only getting more depressing, though popular....
exFAT 03 Sep 2014 at 14: 26
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It's just that you're getting more grown up
Corpsegrinder 04 Sep 2014 at 15: 26
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Everything is possible. :D
AfaQ 03 Sep 2014 at 17: 18
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Take a couple of months off) It helps me to regain interest.
If it doesnot help, then exFAT is right.
Elishcancan 03 Sep 2014 at 11: 45
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And matchmaking does not reach hands to fix, so that dudes with 50 games and 5k MMR do not get to other 5k MMR and with 2k games, fucking Volvo.
The only place where I get pleasure is Ability Draft, and in other modes, to get pleasure you have to win, and to win - sweat.
Dota brings fun with friends in fulpati, but not with 4 strangers, with whom you have to win to get satisfaction,and to win, you have to take all your fucking nerves.
Acana Warrior 03 Sep 2014 at 14: 52
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If you donot like it, then donot play.
Jawbone 03 Sep 2014 at 11: 17
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Dota2.ru filed the article, as the New York Times filed the article.
This is in the spirit of <url>.
bod.
Boss niger 03 Sep 2014 at 08: 25
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Cola, you were like a brother to me.
I loved you.
Seageee 03 Sep 2014 at 02: 22
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Worthy :)
Camtsov 03 Sep 2014 at 02: 27
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I read it a week ago on the sltv website
VasyaTriNaVosem 03 Sep 2014 at 02: 30
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The Alps are somewhere nearby.
#middle|~PwN DsFX 03 Sep 2014 at 03: 11
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Just basically about what is already in everyone's heads - only more chewed up and formulated, plus a little patriotically written) And in general, it's a good thing)
ferzrrn 03 Sep 2014 at 06: 46
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"As a child, he was playing in the school football team" what?))
Torantes 03 Sep 2014 at 15: 38
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Coca Cola, RedBull AND American Express CHOOSE KAPPA ESPORTS
cliknik 04 Sep 2014 at 10: 26
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It's a good article, I liked it, it's just right to read before working with tea.
Just the guys, from the PPD photo, the 3rd paragraph is up.
The phrase "Evil Geniuses win the first two training matches." fix pls;)
Harukaze 04 Sep 2014 at 12: 31
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The Jew York Times, as always, started everything with an analysis of the players 'income,the organizers' profit, etc.
MaRFRey 04 Sep 2014 at 20: 28
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"Using the example of this article, we can trace how esports turns from a hobby in narrow circles into a mass phenomenon that is gaining momentum not only every year, but also every day.
Very soon you will be able to say that you tried to break into the professional scene when it was not yet "mainstream".
And now we can only wait and watch this most interesting process, " I thought after reading the end, I will understand the meaning of the whole article.
But what does it mean "Very soon you will be able to say that you tried to break into the professional scene when it was not yet "mainstream" " if dota is already mainstream ?
Everyone who played or didnot play knows it.
Here to break through 5-8 years ago, you can confidently say that you wanted to go to the pro scene outside the mainstream.
And now dotka is a gathering of the school, which automatically means that the mainstream has come.
Legal God 03 Sep 2014 at 16: 42
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Hmm, 6 years ago I would never have thought that they would write about dota in the newspapers.
grnthmb 03 Sep 2014 at 22: 43
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6 years ago, doters were not considered people
FAlendark 03 Sep 2014 at 20: 41
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6 years ago, I would not have thought at all that there would be a dotka tu and it would be so catchy...
Napoli 03 Sep 2014 at 09: 26
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I told my Father that I would play, and he kicked me in the stomach and said that f*lan and I will go to work when I finish University(
SuperPuper01 03 Sep 2014 at 10: 11
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I did everything right
Eldenhor 03 Sep 2014 at 03: 28
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The whole article is a solid hype, who needs this PDD?
What kind of cameras is he under?
No one cares about nerds, that's who remembers the faces of the winners who won 11kk dallars?
They took the money and dumped it in their Tajikistan, that's all.
Ankh 03 Sep 2014 at 09: 38
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And who won the 11kk?
vladisser 03 Sep 2014 at 15: 18
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Well, you know that it's not 11, but somewhere 3...
DimakSerpg 03 Sep 2014 at 18: 34
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It's not good to be envious...
solohin300 03 Sep 2014 at 08: 21
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If the miner is not added this week, it will be very mean.
It's just that they have already promised it for the 3rd time!
Hurry up already!
I'm unlikely to play for a miner, because the first dota was enough for me,I'm just waiting for ARDM and arcana for other Persians!
divide by zero 03 Sep 2014 at 10: 36
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That's it, sorry, we'll add it now.
We are in a hurry with all our might, I have already put a paper on the table for the authorities, saying " solohin300 is unlikely to play for a miner, but I am already very dissatisfied."
They said that they will be introduced any minute, wait.
LaniS 03 Sep 2014 at 02: 20
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with connection
Deidara 03 Sep 2014 at 04: 26
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FAker where is the movie
Tony Darko 03 Sep 2014 at 10: 22
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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give DIRETIDE ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
Limney 03 Sep 2014 at 22: 23
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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ FAKER CHTO S FILMOM ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
EdwardZed 04 Sep 2014 at 17: 18
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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ PEREVODCHIK HUESOS CHTO S FILMOM ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
EdwardZed 04 Sep 2014 at 17: 18
0
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ PEREVODCHIK HUESOS CHTO S FILMOM ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
Torantes 03 Sep 2014 at 15: 44
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What movie (I'm newfajeGG)
FunnyMaKS 03 Sep 2014 at 18: 18
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the film will be on starladder, you are for " bali to twist this topic
Jimmy the Tulip 03 Sep 2014 at 02: 40
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A lot of letters and 0 sense, it would be better to drink more about the miner vidosik
xstrannikx13 03 Sep 2014 at 03: 21
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for sarcasm ++If it was him))
Limney 03 Sep 2014 at 22: 23
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It was autism.
RoMka 654 04 Sep 2014 at 19: 28
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This is Pasha from 5b was
dimon4ikus 03 Sep 2014 at 16: 34
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fuck your miner fuck you need it damn what are you so happy about the miner stupid hero
RoMka 654 04 Sep 2014 at 19: 30
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The hero is normal, but his vir rate will be inversely proportional to the number of livs on him
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