What is Esports? The official definition is
“Electronic sports is a term for organized video game
competitions, especially between professionals.”
Personally I think it’s a combination of things, passion,
entertainment, competitiveness, online-gaming, sport, awards, winning, losing,
fame, shame and so on.
Think of it like this, imagine this scene, the Olympics,
thousands of people watching one event:
And this, the Dota international event:
My passion in Esports lies in the franchise of ‘DOTA’ thus
my posts will be in relation to how current competitions are going, things I
like and interests.
For those who are unaware of Dota here’s a basic outline of the objectives in a game.
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Two teams of 5 players
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Each player can choose 1 ‘hero’ out of the
possible 100+
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The victor is declared when the other teams main
base or ‘ancient’ is destroyed.
- In 'professional' games the winner is determined by best of '5' games in one session.
Seems simple enough right?
Wrong…. So very, very wrong…
Dota is reputedly (in the gaming-world) one of if not the
hardest game to understand and get a hold of for a new player, this is because that these initial basic outlines are JUST the beginning. Think of it like someone's just told you that a game of Football has 11 players on each team and whoever has more goals wins, there's just so much more too it tactically.
I’m not going to be posting how to play dota and the
mechanics etc, as there’s just so many and that’s not what my first post is going to focus on.
To get an idea, I’ve spent approximately 1000+ hours on Dota,
somewhere around the 1200 mark, and I’d still say that I’m an ‘average’ player.
To finish off my first post, here’s a video clip from one of
the most historic moments in Dota history in Esports.
It’s quite hard to understand whats happening to someone
that isn’t familiar with the game, but to get a grasp on how competitive it is this is the highlights
from the final game in the 2013 Internationals. The winner takes home $1.4million
dollars.
This event had approximately 600,000 people attend, about 100,000 – 500,000 online via the Dota 2 broadcast and 1million
+ viewers on Twitch (An online-streaming website, essentially how gamers 'televise' their events at the moment... Unless you live in Korea and then it is ACTUALLY televised!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA6PDHnye9k
– Skip to 15:10 for the final moments of the final game
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