what a whore

didnt expect this from reputable publication

thanks for the update ill keep this in mind

:o megyn kelly being completely ignorant about something, what a suprise!!

who cares

respect woman

they make it seem as if the idea of 'esports' is only as old as OWL

wait is that her name lol
megyn

yea its in the video title lol

like did anyone not see this coming when rawkus and jake announced their interview was happening

like talking to parents about esports is enough of a crongefest, let alone a morning talk-show host

ha ha guys look at these children playing computer games so immature unlike real sports where millionaires slam into each other and try to put a ball in a hole

honestly the intro sections seemed a little cringy yes but the questions she asked weren't really loaded, she didn't scoff at them and it wasn't about grilling them and trying to cater to the middle-aged mum "video games are a waste of time" thing. the comparisons to real life athletes/sports orgs like the NFL were really only there to explain it to the audience

its not like she didn't know this existed, as the face of the show she as to try to be as close as her audience, so she acts in my opinion as if she didn't know that people receive money to play a video game, because her audience is probably mostly formed by people that don't know this exists. And the choice of overwatch over other games that made it a real thing "esports" way before is, if you catched it at the end she says that one of the teams is owned by the CEO of Comcast company. I think.

"2 Kids"

breaking: popular media outlet is dumb for the nth time
does this surprise you? outlets like these have been trying to discredit video games for a long time.

Is just old people being old people, even the men supporting these teams financially are just looking at the money, they don't give two shits about the game.

i dont expect anything from a talk show as they have to make it to the point and explain everything to absolutely anyone whos not into videogames, at least they didnt go with 'WHOA thats so LIT that you play dem games fam high five haha we so love millennials' option

also who do you think would represent tf2 well in a similar setting? both meme options and srs options

apparently b4nny got that one interview from i61 broadcast to somewhere in southeast asia so afaik they think we're gods lmao

To be fair most major eSports titles except CS look pretty cartoony

media talking about football: hello everyone here is our football expert to present this news in a way that is knowledgeable
media talking about esports: I saw my son play a video game once so im pretty much an expert in esports, lets talk to these nerds right here about their dumb hobby

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24173194

I can kinda see both sides of this coin, technically speaking brain development and hormonal activity don't really reach "adult" stage until 25-26. Source

At the same time, personally it's really odd to still get called Kid while maintaining a full time job, getting associate level certifications, having a child of my own, being married, and owning my own home and car. While also being 24...

It's not that strange given how most people who are supposed to be college aged still act like they're in middle school and essentially use going to college as an excuse to extend their own adolescence.

iirc extine was on tv once and talked about tf2 and dota 2

http://www.teamfortress.tv/36296/extine-on-tv

prob chose overwatch because it's the most publicly appealing game atm, and blizzard probably paid them off.

wasnt as terrible as most of the other television esports features ive seen though, like these

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMZ2QFLrLvk

they picked overwatch because for some reason overwatch is the only game that any publisher actually advertises and advertises heavily as an esport

valve doesnt advertise dota 2 or csgo or tf2 at all because they're lazy fucks

who gives a shit about hots, wow, hs, or starcraft esports lmao

smash actually gets some reasonable coverage on local stations (e.g. hbox on his local fox news, and his local fox again) but it's still only a grassroots esport

riot markets league only so much

and every other esport is irrelevant

yes lets watch the dying old media known as television react to new media based on the internet that is quickly stealing all of their customers/viewer-base; I wonder how they will react?

https://youtu.be/wyqyP80F_6k?t=7m3s
wtf didn't this dude's dad die?

It's actually not that bad it's more just a mainstream perception / reaction to a new form of media, as the lady said the parent company of the owners of the TV network, Comcast even own a franchise in OWL, it's a good publicity stunt for OWL and eSports in particular, the lad Jake does pretty well and if the interviewer didn't seem to have a biased agenda, just acted as the medium for the generation of normies who don't understand. This will be commonplace over the next 5 years, media like this to try and legitimize eSports in the mainstream and there will be actually commentators with an agenda who will scrutinize it in a negative way.

Not relevant to TF2 though since we're not an eSport :tf: