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A Look at eSports by Vice

submitted by RFlagg

9 years 1 month 3 weeks ago

Video Games

Vice takes a look at the growth of eSports.

via Vice: Today, there are more people in the world who play the online multiplayer battle game League of Legends than there are people who live in France. We wanted to see how humanity got to this point, so VICE host Matt Shea flew to South Korea, a country where competitive gaming—also known as eSports—can either make you rich and famous or land you in rehab.

In Part One, we touch down in Seoul, where the city's gaming cafés, stadiums, and arenas are buzzing with anticipation for the biggest eSports match ever held in Korea. At the League of Legends world semifinals, Matt falls in love with famous cosplay team the Spiral Cats, but he's crestfallen when they ditch him for an American eSports superstar.

Full article starts: http://www.vice.com/video/esports-part-one

Part 2: http://www.vice.com/video/esports-part-two
In Part Two of the five-part series, we get a crash course in how to be a professional commentator—or "shoutcaster"—at the studios of one of the most popular eSports YouTube channels. After that, Matt gets his brain zapped by a neuropsychiatrist at one of South Korea's gaming addiction rehab centers, and we try on character costumes at the HQ of the country's best cosplay team.

Part 3: http://www.vice.com/video/esports-part-three
In Part Three, we head to London to meet KSI, a millionaire gamer who became rich and famous by vlogging his FIFA matches. At a VIP gaming party we have our first encounter with the One Direction of Europe's eSports scene: Team FNATIC. We follow them to Gamescom, the biggest gaming event in the world, to see them take on Team Alliance for Europe's top title.

Part 4: http://www.vice.com/video/esports-part-four
In Part Four, a group of college gamers take us on a night out in Seoul, where we stop by at the city's famous PC cafés before heading to its biggest superclub—an experience that blows the mind of one of the gamers, who is a nightclub first-timer.

Through the haze of a soju hangover, we get invited behind the scenes of a Korean gaming house. Later that evening, we meet an e-athlete who got caught up in a match-fixing scandal that drove him to a suicide attempt.

Part 5: http://www.vice.com/video/esports-part-five
In the final part of eSports, we join 40,000 screaming fans at the League of Legends world final—the highest-attended eSports match in history. As we watch the future stars of the competitive gaming world ascend to glory, we're left wondering how physical sports will ever catch up.