{"id":35276,"date":"2013-02-13T23:22:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T03:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=35276"},"modified":"2020-07-04T23:23:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T03:23:06","slug":"imagine-esports-playing-sports-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=35276","title":{"rendered":"Imagine eSports playing sports games"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yeah, I know I take a lot of time and use a lot of words to criticize professional gaming, but really it is very silly to me, and I have a hard time grasping that it\u2019s become so big.\u00a0 It\u2019s watching people, playing video games; sure it takes talent, but I could watch people playing video games in lots of places.\u00a0 And based on the frequency in which I see ads for \u201cwhatever regional world championship tournament\u201d when I\u2019m playing LoL, it\u2019s hard to imagine that any one particular title has any meaning.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the funniest thing for me is when I see pictures of the tournaments, and they\u2019ve got these pretty grandiose graphic treatments, and they try to present the matches as if they were like an actual sport.\u00a0 Out of all of the live graphics that they use, none of them stands out more to me than when a LoL tournament goes to the effort to present a startling lineup card, much like it would be in an NBA or an NCAA game, since it\u2019s five starters.<\/span><\/p>\n

And then it got me thinking about how LoL positions would compare to basketball positions.\u00a0 I would use the analogies as such:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Point guard = Support.<\/strong>\u00a0Just like a point guard, a good support\u2019s goal is to John Stockton it up and rack up assists, even if they aren\u2019t always recorded as such.\u00a0 Make the job a little bit easier for the carry, and help put teammates into positions for kills, or points.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Shooting guard = ADC.<\/strong>\u00a0The ADC\u2019s game is to be Michael Jordan.\u00a0 You are the one that is supposed to get all swole and end up being the guy that scores a significant amount of kills, and dole out the most damage to the opposition.\u00a0 As the ADC, you are also the one that any smart team will focus their attack on, hoping to knock you out of becoming a serious threat.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Small forward = Mid.<\/strong>\u00a0This is probably the weakest of all the comps, and honestly the last one by default, really.\u00a0 If you\u2019re truly a good small forward, you\u2019re like Scottie Pippen, and can manage to contribute in all facets of the game.\u00a0 Assisting the top and bottom lanes, as well as being somewhat responsible for some offensive output.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Power forward = Jungler.<\/strong>\u00a0You\u2019re too big and clumsy to be a graceful and finesse mid laner, but you\u2019re not quite a brute like someone who should be solo top.\u00a0 Instead, your job is much like a power forward, where you\u2019re often left in somewhat obscurity, until it\u2019s time to attempt to surprise the opposition by contributing at unpredictable times.\u00a0 You come out of nowhere like Horace Grant and help block out the opposing center, or you\u2019re there in the lane to throw a hard foul down onto the other team\u2019s ADC or APmid just to remind them that you exist.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Center = Solo Top.<\/strong>\u00a0Centers are the big giants of the floor, who were once traditionally known to dominate and do everything themselves.\u00a0 Sometimes they\u2019re Shaqs who simply run over their opponents, and sometimes they\u2019re Hakeem Olajuwons who are graceful yet powerful and finesse you to death.\u00a0 And occasionally, you get some Dikembe Mutombos who simply hold their own and play unmerciful defense.\u00a0 Either way, they accomplish this mostly on their own, and don\u2019t need any help until the other team deems them the weak link to capitalize on.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    But then all this comparisons between 5 v 5 gaming had me wondering, what if professional 5 v 5 gamers played like NBA Live or NCAA March Madness on XBOX or something, instead of playing LoL?\u00a0 I think I might watch that.\u00a0 At least, over the real life NBA, which is pretty stupid, and kind of lamer than eSports.\u00a0 Finally, I take my foot off the throat of eSports, and stamp it down onto something worse.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Hear me out though, because this post isn\u2019t going in the direction I thought it was going, but such is the nature of sporadic brogging without any real direction sometimes.<\/span><\/p>\n

    I think professional eSports gaming might be more intriguing if they were actually playing sports games.\u00a0 And could actually rival their real-life counterparts.\u00a0 Think about it; playing with virtual characters eliminates the chance of anyone having any real, life-harming injuries in their respective sports.\u00a0 But aside from that train of thought, imagine the possibilities if LoL-like mentalities were placed into playing basketball video games?<\/span><\/p>\n

    Imagine five nerds sitting behind computer screens, picking basketball players to go into a virtual game.\u00a0 Like everyone would be calling for Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant, and there would be e-Fights over who got to use him.\u00a0 How nobody wanted to get stuck with Kevin Willis, because playing power forward sucked.\u00a0 And then someone unhappy with having to play solo top decides to troll the game by choosing Gheorghe Muresan.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Or, there would be games where nerds try to exploit the game mechanics, and start doing some troll-y drafts, by going with a team of nothing but Scottie Pippen-like characters, or having four centers and Scott Skiles.<\/span><\/p>\n

    But the thing is all of this kind of stuff included, these virtual basketball games would be broadcast, and streamed on the internet.\u00a0 I could reasonably believe that these games could feasibly be more entertaining than real-life basketball; especially if teams get creative or try to be trolls.\u00a0 Imagine seeing a rematch of the 1984 NBA Finals between the Lakers and Celtics, but just because someone felt like being a dick, they played Danny Ainge instead of Larry Bird, while the Lakers actually put in Magic Johnson to play center while Kareem Abdul-Jabbar played the point.<\/span><\/p>\n

    It would be chaos, but often times, chaos is fun to watch.\u00a0 LOL eSports.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Yeah, I know I take a lot of time and use a lot of words to criticize professional gaming, but really it is very silly to me, and I have a hard time grasping that it\u2019s become so big.\u00a0 It\u2019s watching people, playing video games; sure it takes talent, but I could watch people playing … Continue reading Imagine eSports playing sports games<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,160,15,58,19],"class_list":["post-35276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-basketball","tag-esports","tag-og","tag-sports","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35278,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35276\/revisions\/35278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}