do you follow any esports/competitive games

[Samus Aran]

Obviously with COVID right now things are a bit wack, but generally speaking do you follow the competitive scenes for any games?

I try to follow DBFZ stuff as much as I can, the regional finals lately have been really hype, even if they are online. Japan's finals next week are gonna be offline though...might not be a great idea lol

[YPrrrr]

I used to follow competitive Melee a little bit a long long time ago

Ill watch highlights from LoL and Rocket League but I never live watch matches and have no idea which players are on which teams anymore

[Hiro]

I watch evo and that's about it

[Mando Pandango]

I watched Overwatch for a hot second but stopped caring. Feels like rooting for corporations rather than teams.

Rocket League should be on ESPN main.

[strongbad]

I watched Overwatch for a hot second but stopped caring. Feels like rooting for corporations rather than teams.

same exact experience here lol

i used to follow ssbm super closely and i just started following it again now that that i'm a melee degen again

[YPrrrr]

That is actually how I feel about pro sports too hm. Only real difference being that you can pretend the team represents your city/ area rather than the corporate ownership I guess since the teams are named for places rather than ROCCAT or Cloud9.

Maybe with exception for the Green Bay Packers since they're publicly owned

[Mando Pandango]

Overwatch actually does have city associations. First season was fun for that reason, but then players started getting traded and I was like "oh yeah professional sports"

[YPrrrr]

Overwatch actually does have city associations. First season was fun for that reason, but then players started getting traded and I was like "oh yeah professional sports"

Yeah it's lame. You get attached to players and then suddenly they play for a rival and you're supposed to turn on them? It's weird. That's why college sports always made more sense to me from a fan perspective because players generally don't go to another team short of turning pro

[Samus Aran]

See this is why the ambiguity of "pro" fighting games is so good, a lot of people wish it was more like big esports games but I rather enjoy how grassroots fighting game tournaments still kinda are, even when they get as big as EVO. It's still all about individual players. I love that.

[strongbad]

Overwatch actually does have city associations. First season was fun for that reason, but then players started getting traded and I was like "oh yeah professional sports"

yeah and until you have like a 100% korean team for somewhere that isn't korea lol

[YPrrrr]

See this is why the ambiguity of "pro" fighting games is so good, a lot of people wish it was more like big esports games but I rather enjoy how grassroots fighting game tournaments still kinda are, even when they get as big as EVO. It's still all about individual players. I love that.

It also helps that fighters are typically 1v1 so you don't have that conflict of rooting for team vs player. You can just always root for the player. That's what I enjoyed about Smash in the beginning anyway. You can just root for a personality you like

[Samus Aran]

i somewhat followed smash ultimate for a bit, and i know plenty about melee's top dogs from watching old sets and stuff

i do prefer watching more "traditional" fighters but good smash sets are still hype as fuck too

[ikanaide]

i started following ssbm kinda close-ish at around the time when the first melee documentary thing came out because i thought it was really interesting. stopped following it so much when armada quit but recently started getting a little more into it again after randomly stumbling on a recent zain vs hbox set that had me really glued. my favourite player in the scene is probably m2k.

i've been following rocket league on and off for a long time (like since OG season 3). recently started watching more again after a long time of not really following it and was pretty mindblown at how much the meta has progressed in the esport. it's actually crazy how the players have consistently continued to improve. nutty plays that i used to only joke about being possible are now looking more possible than ever. i feel like there a bunch of stupidly skilled kids that are barely too young to participate in the esport right now and over the next few years they will be unleashed on us, not to mention players from regions that don't have a place in the esport yet. i've been a turbopolsa fan ever since his debut on northern gaming and will probably continue to support whatever team he's on.

lastly i'm really into the competitive scene for modern tetris and have been since around may last year, a scene which is still very much grass roots. the classic tetris scene has gained a decent bit of traction in the last few years with the ctwc event but for modern tetris there still isn't really anything apart from jstris cup and more recently tetrio cup which aren't even official tetris releases but fangames. despite all of that and the lack of support from the official tetris company, the competitive scene still has a wealth of extremely skilled players and a very strong community in which i've made a lot of good connections. i play tetris myself as well but i'm only about average.

[Samus Aran]

armada's been speedrunning sm64 instead lately

and improving extremely fast, god gamer that he is

[strongbad]

lastly i'm really into the competitive scene for modern tetris and have been since around may last year, a scene which is still very much grass roots. the classic tetris scene has gained a decent bit of traction in the last few years with the ctwc event but for modern tetris there still isn't really anything apart from jstris cup and more recently tetrio cup which aren't even official tetris releases but fangames. despite all of that and the lack of support from the official tetris company, the competitive scene still has a wealth of extremely skilled players and a very strong community in which i've made a lot of good connections. i play tetris myself as well but i'm only about average.

i'd like to get more into competitive tetris- i got super sucked into tetris 99 but never really followed up on traditional 1v1 tetris