I feel zero investment in the players or to cheer for cause they all look the same. Tshirt, look serious (utterly gormless like Karl Pilkington) with arms folded, cap is optional cookie cutter. - Be good if the coverage highlighted them better. In real sports and WWE all the athletes stand out as people - there’s something to get invested and route for.
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If we’re comparing Esports to Physical sports, I think the key missing ingredient is being able to see the emotions on the players’ faces. That’s half the fun of watching something like Basketball. It’s exacerbated further by the pandemic because it is completely online this time.
Example:
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Absolutely. I don’t waste my time with these esports. I use mute the tab and play Gears 5 and do my day job / chores and click claim.
Also I agree with you. The Gears of War esports team are totally clueless. If they did it properly they wouldn’t need to bait people with free skins.
Also the teams come out with trash generic music. Brand the teams and give them fireworks and video packages and decent entrance music, WWE style. Generic esports team vs Generic esports team lacks zero video promo showing the grudge - history before the big match ups. - Even sports not just WWE does this to get you invested.
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If you hate it that much then I suggest you take a look at this:
I believe you can receive notifications when skins are up for grabs. For my part I’m enjoying the streams and the commentators.
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There are plenty of grudges and personal drama if you follow Gears eSports. You can’t do the “game sux just here for the skins LuL” routine and then complain that you don’t know anything about the players when you don’t even watch.
This has actually been by far the best tournament in Gears 5 so far. I can definitely understand people being bored by escalation, but the event has been spot on this time. Casters, players, and production are all doing much better than I expected given the circumstances.
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I disaprove of you uttering the name of Our Lord Karl Pilkington in relation to eSports players.
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Good god
The folded arms and edgy visuals for the player-intros remind me of 2009.
But I guess it’s working because thousands of people watch it.
I hate you so much.
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There’s a gif for that (from the UK! Bonus!)
Yeah for free Gears 5 exclusive skins.
Sure that’s part of it but many stay and become interested in the game itself
Most of the chat is talking about waiting for the skins to claim.
They are censoring the chat AND FAILING, people keep typing it is boring and to release the skins. When there are no skins the viewership drops dramatically.
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I’ve got the Gears Utility app and it’s actually sending me notifications Everytime something’s up
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I’ve been watching the chat for a few weeks. It only happens occasionally.
I guess we keep updating the thread out of some sense of loyalty to our tournament team from the Gridiron tournament (wyvern lancer)
Oh it’s that thread. I’ve never looked at it after the initial event ended but I noticed it gets a lot of activity.
This is the best Looopeeeeeee thread.
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Yes, now that you’re here