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Originally Posted by polak
Well if you think about the amount of people who golf versus the amount of people who play video games, there's probably a massively larger number of gamers in the world (in the entire world) than there are golfers. That means there's probably a lot more people who are willing to pay to see the best of the best play video games versus the best of the best play golf.
It makes sense that now as people who grow up with these games start to earn a decent wage and can spend more money on entertainment, that the prize pool for these tournaments outpaces most other sports.
The interesting thing will be if the e-games (or whatever they're called) can ever outpace sports like Racing, Football or Hockey, which get a lot of viewers who don't even participate in their perspective sports.
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I went to the US Open in Seattle and it was a bad experience. Hot, dusty, uncomfortable, couldn't see jack. Going to a nice air conditioned convention center watching two groups of nerds going head to head on Dota on ginormous screens would be awesome comparatively speaking. Add in a bar and food service, and by golly it would be down right dandy to go watch. Throw in a few cosplay girls for effect like at car shows.