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Brood War is the only true eSport. It reached levels of success that most eSports could only dream of, including having two+ television channels dedicated to it
by garrettgrimsley 9y ago
Brood War is the only true eSport. It reached levels of success that most eSports could only dream of, including having two+ television channels dedicated to it. With Brood War, even non-players could watch and follow along, but League, DotA, Overwatch, etc draw their viewers from the massive playerbases that they enjoy. It's impossible to understand at anything but the lowest level what is happening in a MOBA unless you are a devout follower of the game. I say all of this as a long time player of DotA (1,000+ hours) and CS:GO (250+ hours)
- dmoy 9y agoOn the one hand, having seen a number of people who haven't played bw at all watch professional games and being absolutely confused with the jumping screen and random terminology, I'm skeptical. On the other hand, having watched European friends watch baseball for the first time...
- cjbprime 9y agoAnd the lack of production tab and even sometimes supply counts. I'm a serious StarCraft 2 player and trying to watch Brood War games is still immensely confusing.
- newen 9y agoYep Broodwar is the only non athletic sport I've ever followed. I used to barely play broodwar but I watched it all the time with my friends. All the excitement and commentary and so on was fun. Then blizzard came out with starcraft 2 and it was all over. The minute they announced it had no LAN play, I knew I wouldn't buy it. And don't get me started on all the other things wrong with sc2 including pre-annouced 3 game money grab, the barely visible on the map creatures, etc.