![]() It’s a miracle,” said Jun Kyu Park in a speech delivered to a crowd of tens of thousands at the StarCraft 2 Code S finals at BlizzCon 2011. “Many of my friends would say, ‘it’s just a game, John, quit it.’ Being here today, people from all over the world being together and sharing this moment is something that politics or money can’t do. More than a game, more than a sport and even more than an industry, esports is building a global community of enormous scale and intensity. ![]() In esports, as in most areas of the enormous video game industry, the social connections we have created are strengthening and expanding. We are actively conditioning our minds and bodies to be happier.” When we're in a concentrated state of optimistic engagement, it suddenly becomes more biologically possible for us to think positive thoughts, to make social connections, and to build personal strength. This extreme emotional activation is the primary reason why today's most successful computer and video games are so addictive and mood-boosting. All of the neurological systems that underlie happiness - our attention systems, our reward center, our motivation systems, our emotion and memory centers - are fully activated by gameplay. “We are intensely engaged, and this puts us in precisely the right frame of mind and physical condition to generate all kinds of positive emotions and experiences. “When we're playing a good game, we're actively moving ourselves toward the positive end of the emotional spectrum,” wrote Jane McGonigal in her book Reality is Broken. “The opposite of play isn't work, it's depression,” wrote psychologist Brian Sutton-Smith. “Games make us happy because they are hard work that we choose for ourselves and it turns out that almost nothing makes us happier than good, hard work,” wrote games researcher Jane McGonigal. “Playing a game is a voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles.” Philosopher Bernard Suits gave us the definition of play. Why would a person focus their energy on pushing themselves and their games beyond prescribed limits? Why would hundreds of thousands of fans sit with eyes wide, following the every move of the champion, the one who has dedicated 10,000 hours to be the best? Who knows what leads people to dedicate themselves to mastery of a form like this? This is a form dismissed by millions as a waste of time, enjoyed by millions more still and deeply delved into by only a select few. Reasons vary greatly from person to person and you’d have to decode the fibers that make up the individual to know his or her every motivation. Why do people play video games? Why do they play games competitively, pushing themselves deeper and deeper into a virtual world? National Video Game Team in 1983, touring the nation. “Everybody saw us, kids pointed, cars honked, girls waved. You can listen, you can read or you can do both. Thanks for checking it out.Įvery episode will have the text released prior to the stream. The text may not fully match the spoken portion because the text is being continuously updated.Īll feedback is welcome. If you'd like to translate or repost the thing, please ask first. I'd love for more relevant images and videos to be added. If you see a mistake or anything you'd like changed, please let me know. However, if we have enough live viewers, we may take Skype calls and tweets duh) for those of you who like talking about esports history.Īll in all, this is over 60,000 words dedicated to esports. If you can’t make it live, it’s the kind of show you can watch any time. For those of you used to Live of 3 and State of the Game, this will be something new for esports. I’ll release the entire text of the show with the new episode.įor those of you who know radio shows like This American Life and Radiolab, you’ll recognize the big influence those shows are on this new project. “The Chobopeon Show” will premiere this Monday at 7pm Eastern (Midnight CET) with “A History of Esports Part 1”. Now, I’m getting ready to put out my own content. I’ve been working on The Executives with Jason Lake from Complexity and Odee from Dignitas. Well, in recent weeks I’ve found my way back to the pale blue dot and back to esports. ![]() However, after leaving MLG, I fell off the face of the earth. I used to be cool, right? People used to retweet me, no big deal. Dan acknowledged me by way of saying “Chobopeon! This guy is like the third or forth best journalist in esports!” Last month, I was peeing in the urinal next to Artosis when we locked eyes and began to speak to one another.
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