I remember you said during your 100th episode of the Day[9] daily that you want eSports to be all around the world, and that you want to personally help it to be promoted around and even be the spokesperson for it. Congratulations Sean, you've achieved your dream. So few people in the world can REALLY say that but you did it. You should be incredibly proud of all the work and effort you put it. Personally had it not been for you I wouldn't be engaged in the scene as it is, and I'm just one person so from the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU
The introduction point is so important though. One of the main hurdles that esports has to cross, like any other sport or discipline, is accessability. Like any other sport, esport has developed a technical jargon. More so than any other sport, esports can't be grouped together like "makes use of a ball or not" - the jargon is sometimes game-specific, like "air strikes" being a legit strat in CoD games nowadays, while other FPS titles don't even have that. This makes the entry-level viewing of an esport difficult. Hell, I tried to follow a League of Legends stream recently, and then dropped in on a Dota2 stream as well. As suspected, I had no idea what was going on any more. I freely admit that I haven't been keepin up with those games, but come on I used to do it for years. Now I can't recognize characters any more because there's a ton of skins out there. I can't predict strats, or even rank characters and gauge their effectivity or their abilities because these games are subject to flux and improvement. It's not like footballs where I can drop in on a game every now and then - the rules constantly change. All it does for a casual observer is give you a CGI-firework on your screen, underscored by techno-babble at hyperspeed. The moment the other aspects of your life take over and keep you from staying up-to-date you're going to lose your informational foothold. Something like 6 months can see you falling behind on, and consequently losing interest in, your favourite esport. These are the hurdles we have to clear. You need beginner-friendly introduction points, which are easy to find in the clutter of the web. This means organisation - because that's how any other sport has desseminated knowledge and acquired new members. Esport has "jumped the line" a bit, in that we didn't had to have local, physical presences as easy info points - we climbed to the top, with million-dollars price pools, on the backs of websites and streams. But when you think about it, most people learn about sports from their local club or school programme during high school or earlier. If you're a parent, there's no esports club you can park your kid for two hours once a week. Your local tennis club, with its run-down kiosk and the grounds in need of repair does a better job than most esports, in that it has learned how to rope-in, educate, and make proficient everyone that comes to them. Complete newbie, rank amateur, afficianado or pro: They know how to communicate on every level of the skill-tree. I'm glad about guys like Day9, who are a step closer to the outsider, someone who I would possibly recommend as that vaunted "friendly introduction" to an esports game. But that's because Shawn is a pretty great communicater, and his enthusiasm, persona, and ability to explain complex things quickly and simply do not translate to the rest of the esports community. Less gatekeeping, noob-bashing and snooty flipping off "casuals" please, and more of the "sit down, dad, this is a rad game I wanna show you. Looks weird, but the strategy involved is actually awesome.".
Sean... Sean is such a great personality in terms of the fact that he has both analytical ability and enough of a "I love video games" personality tha tit makes it very easy to connect with what he does and what he represents to the the world around him. So thank you Day9. For saying that every pro, is a newb waiting to train.
My older brother was ahead of his time as far as online gaming goes. In the early/mid 90’s we used our dad’s Compaq pc that was upgraded to 16MB (NOT A TYPO) for like $1k at Comp USA. My brother used this PC and managed to play multiplayer Duke Nukem 3D with his friends over a dialup modem. They arranged tournaments with players from all over.
For 5 minutes, from a streamer/youtuber who mains Brood War, this is as good as it gets Could probably touch on everyone's favorite games in 500 minutes
So this was the video with the minute-long bites that you couldn't get right before that stream last night. It turned out great! Well done! GeeGeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
As always, Day9 covering something deeply, with purpose in a concise and driven fashion. What a guy, he still forgets about overload playing shaman and backflips accidentally in rocket league.
Not to be petty, but US football hasn't been this much of a part of the Olympics in over 80 years, yet in my experience the people who said that video games can't be a sport were ones that loved football. Let alone the broadcasters who lambasted it over the years who publicly fit this description (ruclips.net/video/j5QahFFHv0I/видео.html). Just feels nice to finally be acknowledged.
What percent of the time since SC2 was first ratified has Zerg been the best race? (ofc random is the true masters' choice -- rush every 6th match on a predictable (stealth) schedule with 1 in 2 toggling
Wow, hadn't heard about that, bit of emotional whiplash to be honest, nice people but a second multi-million dollar house is a little ostentatious, for my taste.
Skipped over B4, and B5 tournaments for Street Fighter that was in the early 2000's which gave way to the biggest tournament in the world, EVO. But ok sean I see you youre a starcraft fan boy. The FGC lead the way in esports, the late 90's fighting game boom pitted people in the arcade scene against each other that made people dream of these huge tournaments from city to city.
When you put the word "brief" into the title of your video, but every fanboy is butthurt their game didnt get mentioned. Did you want him to list out every single esport ever in a five minute video?
Representative players were definitely not shown. Most particularly for me, for League of Legends - a game that is not only the biggest esport in the world but also pioneering the new ways for esport as an industry. Faker should have been in the video for "representative players" to be there. This is really a video promoting Starcraft esports, not esports as a whole equally, so it's completely fine, but don't say that nobody can complain their title didn't get represented properly.
It's not eSports but it is the same idea: competitive gaming. There is no reason a video like this wouldn't feature the arcade days other than the fact that it has "brief" in the title.
TBH there were streaming sites before twitch (like own3d.tv), we had like good gaming platform in Poland called "headshot-tv" around 2005, and platforms like hltv and clan-wars were way older than you seem to show. Good vid anyways ;) .
Rainbow Six is a relatively new game with a relatively small following, though. He should have mentioned Super Smash Bros Melee way before Rainbow Six imo.
theWebWizrd, small? Siege has over 2.3 million people playing daily, and its playerbase is expanding rapidly. Tier 1 Orgs are also recently taking an interest. Faze has just picked up a team. There's Penta, FlipSide Tactics, Ninjas in Pajamas is about to get a team. Elevate roster was just picked up by Counter Logic Gaming. I'd also like to point out that this video focused on PC games, but he did mention fighting games in the video ( Ex: Smash, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, etc.) Siege has also been out since 2015, but it's really been hitting its stride in the last 6 months. I just would have like if he at least mentioned Halo, but I guess Quake was mentioned, oh well. Also, we don't know how long ago this video was made.
Love how you brushed over Halo, despite Halo actually being the very first modern day esport LOL. None of those were even remotely possible if it wasn't for MLG.
TOTAL Sales of StarCraft: 9.5M... The population of South Korea in 1998: 46.29M... Even if Every Single copy of StarCraft was sold in SKorea it's still only 20% of the population... So 'over 50% of the SKorean Population' playing the game is total bullshit.
I remember you said during your 100th episode of the Day[9] daily that you want eSports to be all around the world, and that you want to personally help it to be promoted around and even be the spokesperson for it.
Congratulations Sean, you've achieved your dream. So few people in the world can REALLY say that but you did it. You should be incredibly proud of all the work and effort you put it.
Personally had it not been for you I wouldn't be engaged in the scene as it is, and I'm just one person so from the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU
That video you mentioned is Legendary. It is one of the greatest videos about gaming on the Internet imo.
"My life of Starcraft" is my all time fave youtube video, might watch it again tonight!
You see Sean do professional stuff like this, but then you remember him screaming nonsense like "how am I this, how is this meeeee!"
It's almost like he's... a human.
He jokes about being vain but I love how often he yells "OH MY GOD DAY NIIIIIIIIIIINE!"
BUUUTTT FUUUUCCKKKKKK
"oh what in the what what, shit ass dicks, balls man"
BEAR SEMEN
Omg baby Sean at the end
such a cute young nerd he was back then
Sean is a bloody legend
true
OMG so emotional watching all the history Q_Q well done once again Sean, turning an ad into art
I like how sponsored Sean has a totally different way of talking xD I assume it's just because he's reading a script but it makes me smile.
Its more like professional Sean in that he preps his own scripts.
You need to see his Amazon coins Ad... thats sponsored but one of the best Sean pieces everrrr
I love how Day9 makes the event something to be curious about rather than *just* spouting buzz words to hype it.
The introduction point is so important though. One of the main hurdles that esports has to cross, like any other sport or discipline, is accessability.
Like any other sport, esport has developed a technical jargon. More so than any other sport, esports can't be grouped together like "makes use of a ball or not" - the jargon is sometimes game-specific, like "air strikes" being a legit strat in CoD games nowadays, while other FPS titles don't even have that.
This makes the entry-level viewing of an esport difficult.
Hell, I tried to follow a League of Legends stream recently, and then dropped in on a Dota2 stream as well. As suspected, I had no idea what was going on any more.
I freely admit that I haven't been keepin up with those games, but come on I used to do it for years. Now I can't recognize characters any more because there's a ton of skins out there. I can't predict strats, or even rank characters and gauge their effectivity or their abilities because these games are subject to flux and improvement.
It's not like footballs where I can drop in on a game every now and then - the rules constantly change. All it does for a casual observer is give you a CGI-firework on your screen, underscored by techno-babble at hyperspeed. The moment the other aspects of your life take over and keep you from staying up-to-date you're going to lose your informational foothold. Something like 6 months can see you falling behind on, and consequently losing interest in, your favourite esport.
These are the hurdles we have to clear. You need beginner-friendly introduction points, which are easy to find in the clutter of the web. This means organisation - because that's how any other sport has desseminated knowledge and acquired new members.
Esport has "jumped the line" a bit, in that we didn't had to have local, physical presences as easy info points - we climbed to the top, with million-dollars price pools, on the backs of websites and streams.
But when you think about it, most people learn about sports from their local club or school programme during high school or earlier. If you're a parent, there's no esports club you can park your kid for two hours once a week. Your local tennis club, with its run-down kiosk and the grounds in need of repair does a better job than most esports, in that it has learned how to rope-in, educate, and make proficient everyone that comes to them. Complete newbie, rank amateur, afficianado or pro: They know how to communicate on every level of the skill-tree.
I'm glad about guys like Day9, who are a step closer to the outsider, someone who I would possibly recommend as that vaunted "friendly introduction" to an esports game. But that's because Shawn is a pretty great communicater, and his enthusiasm, persona, and ability to explain complex things quickly and simply do not translate to the rest of the esports community.
Less gatekeeping, noob-bashing and snooty flipping off "casuals" please, and more of the "sit down, dad, this is a rad game I wanna show you. Looks weird, but the strategy involved is actually awesome.".
Sean... Sean is such a great personality in terms of the fact that he has both analytical ability and enough of a "I love video games" personality tha tit makes it very easy to connect with what he does and what he represents to the the world around him. So thank you Day9. For saying that every pro, is a newb waiting to train.
That was the sweetest paid promotion ive ever seen. Well done!
How did I miss this video until now. Good stuff Sean.
This is the perfect video to show anyone who wants to know about esports. GJ!
*w* !! I really like your username, dang.
I just watched an Intel/IEM ad. Day[9] made me do it.
Day9 and SC love story. We shall never forget... of course we all love StarCraft together.
This is a great video, thanks day9!
Wooooo take their money Sean, you glorious esporting legend!
My older brother was ahead of his time as far as online gaming goes. In the early/mid 90’s we used our dad’s Compaq pc that was upgraded to 16MB (NOT A TYPO) for like $1k at Comp USA. My brother used this PC and managed to play multiplayer Duke Nukem 3D with his friends over a dialup modem. They arranged tournaments with players from all over.
You were there! And so was Day9.
This is a good video to show to someone who doesn't know about Esports.
"Keep cheering for your players!!""
Go Day[9]!!
For 5 minutes, from a streamer/youtuber who mains Brood War, this is as good as it gets
Could probably touch on everyone's favorite games in 500 minutes
Day9 the E-Morgan Freeman Confirmed! Great Work!!
I hope Sean is hosting this. I am pumped up and excited the Olympics are starting to recognise esports
I'm happy i was there in the beginning of Esports, it just felt a lot more genuine and exciting back then.
So this was the video with the minute-long bites that you couldn't get right before that stream last night. It turned out great! Well done! GeeGeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Nice video d9 :D
Sean is such an excellent mediator. Love that guy
Keep cheering for your players!!
Man its fucking crazy how far we have come in the past 10-20 years. I cant believe Ive lived through all of it
Sponsored or not you can tell that Sean is genuinely excited about this. Great video!
As always, Day9 covering something deeply, with purpose in a concise and driven fashion. What a guy, he still forgets about overload playing shaman and backflips accidentally in rocket league.
Even pros backflips accidentally in rl
Wow that was a very, very, very abridged history of eSports
Got me excited about it. I learned few things as well
Great summary, thank you!
you're the man shawn!!
Not to be petty, but US football hasn't been this much of a part of the Olympics in over 80 years, yet in my experience the people who said that video games can't be a sport were ones that loved football. Let alone the broadcasters who lambasted it over the years who publicly fit this description (ruclips.net/video/j5QahFFHv0I/видео.html). Just feels nice to finally be acknowledged.
Great video, man!
Can Day9 teach an online course? I’d pay a lot of money to listen and learn from him.
That's literally what his channel has been for the past several years...
only if he goes by bucketman and uses trampolines to teach math
vitroarcade, but only if Bucketman has a wife named Natalie.
Bucketman = Kibler
BravoSixSTS, haha. Natalie was a girfriend whose name Sean accidentally said while telling a story, but nice Kibler reference.
Good content, all it takes is consistency ❤️🙏
Keep doing good work Sean!
you get those sponsorships and make that monay sean =p
Yay Sean!
Woah, A Day9 video shorter than an hour?!?
What percent of the time since SC2 was first ratified has Zerg been the best race? (ofc random is the true masters' choice -- rush every 6th match on a predictable (stealth) schedule with 1 in 2 toggling
Every time I discuss esports with non-gamers they say that it’s not a sport. Looks like it might go mainstream
Since chess is considered a sport its really debatable what is what.
i think you now realize that starcraft had the biggest impact on the esport industry
No,i really dont.It seems the starcraft started it but league of legends and dota 2 skyrocketed it.
Great video!
Floating head sean is best sean
This is the best. The BEST.
this video was great, i love pro sean
always remember my first Day9 Daily "wow this guy's is hyper, what a weirdo, did he slurrp coffee?".
Many years later it's all
Family reunion!
Smash Bros prize pool : $40
Icy box ... reminds me of a previous girlfriend.
Curling iron
@TheVimFuego You virgin dude. 🤣
I miss the old RUclips commentator days.
Klazart, diggitysc, moletrap, and of course, day9 funday Mondays babyyyyyy
This is how you do an ad.
No comment on Halo or MLG? That was definitely a huge thing in the mid 2000s. No one remembers Halo2 being on USA network?
Intel sure don't!
Nobody outside of the USA, no.
“Brief”
Is Day9 one of the casters during this event?
Great video :)
Can we just remember Justin.tv which came BEFORE twitch?
so korea is to esports like what england is to football...
so how does someone start up in Esports?
kyle Ken play competitive games and get top 25 you will be noticed.
thanks! will give that a go.
Twitch tv used to be Justin tv
Have you been to Huskystrcraft mansion?
Wow, hadn't heard about that, bit of emotional whiplash to be honest, nice people but a second multi-million dollar house is a little ostentatious, for my taste.
And now we have asmr fart and hot tub streams. Sometimes dead is better
the importance of broodwar was understated
Hey just for future reference, it's pronounced PYUNG chah-ng, soft 'ah' on the chang.
forgot Doom and Quake 1-2
He mentioned Quake tho
Doom was the first competitive game ever made.
anyone play Astronest on the web? best turn based game. Battle Cars Super Ninetendo?
Starcraft
PyeongChang..... *Oh boy!* Sorry, I can't write in Hangul alphabet! 👲🏻🤣🤣🤦🏻🇰🇷🇰🇵
ＮＢ： ｔｈｉｓ ｖｉｄｅｏ ｇｅｔｓ ２００８ ｌｉｋｅｓ！ Funny af. 😉👍🏻
Skipped over B4, and B5 tournaments for Street Fighter that was in the early 2000's which gave way to the biggest tournament in the world, EVO. But ok sean I see you youre a starcraft fan boy. The FGC lead the way in esports, the late 90's fighting game boom pitted people in the arcade scene against each other that made people dream of these huge tournaments from city to city.
#EsportsForThe2024Games
MEOW
When you put the word "brief" into the title of your video, but every fanboy is butthurt their game didnt get mentioned. Did you want him to list out every single esport ever in a five minute video?
every major esport title was mentioned and representative players were shown. Nobody can complain tbh.
Representative players were definitely not shown. Most particularly for me, for League of Legends - a game that is not only the biggest esport in the world but also pioneering the new ways for esport as an industry. Faker should have been in the video for "representative players" to be there. This is really a video promoting Starcraft esports, not esports as a whole equally, so it's completely fine, but don't say that nobody can complain their title didn't get represented properly.
@theWebWizrd LOL
What about the golden age of arcade game highscore hunting in the late 70s & early 80s?
not esports. Same reason why speed running is not esports. Just different genres.
It's not eSports but it is the same idea: competitive gaming. There is no reason a video like this wouldn't feature the arcade days other than the fact that it has "brief" in the title.
TBH there were streaming sites before twitch (like own3d.tv), we had like good gaming platform in Poland called "headshot-tv" around 2005, and platforms like hltv and clan-wars were way older than you seem to show. Good vid anyways ;) .
easy 2mil views, yo sean! maybe u should do a disstrack xdd
Sean your hair is going away!!
Antonio Lewis Dont worry dude! Your turn will come eventually ;)
disappointed you didn't mention melee :/
it makes me sad that Halo and MLG didnt get a mention. They have to be one of the biggest contributors
to the esports scene in NA.
GRUBBY HYPE
When your favorite game to watch doesn't get a mention in the video. Feelsbadman.
Awesome video by the way.
Lord Strongpike which game
Hearthstone ofc Best e-sport game
AlcohoLiTTO, hah not the game I was thinking of. I was refering to Rainbow Six.
Rainbow Six is a relatively new game with a relatively small following, though. He should have mentioned Super Smash Bros Melee way before Rainbow Six imo.
theWebWizrd, small? Siege has over 2.3 million people playing daily, and its playerbase is expanding rapidly. Tier 1 Orgs are also recently taking an interest. Faze has just picked up a team. There's Penta, FlipSide Tactics, Ninjas in Pajamas is about to get a team. Elevate roster was just picked up by Counter Logic Gaming.
I'd also like to point out that this video focused on PC games, but he did mention fighting games in the video ( Ex: Smash, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, etc.) Siege has also been out since 2015, but it's really been hitting its stride in the last 6 months.
I just would have like if he at least mentioned Halo, but I guess Quake was mentioned, oh well. Also, we don't know how long ago this video was made.
Love how you brushed over Halo, despite Halo actually being the very first modern day esport LOL. None of those were even remotely possible if it wasn't for MLG.
F
TOTAL Sales of StarCraft: 9.5M...
The population of South Korea in 1998: 46.29M...
Even if Every Single copy of StarCraft was sold in SKorea it's still only 20% of the population... So 'over 50% of the SKorean Population' playing the game is total bullshit.
I think the PC bangs might make it possible.
rude
Completely glossed over MLG. How disappointing.
shill
and than day9 started ignoring sc2 cause money is more important than passion...gl with Hearthstone
Only starcraft? Boring why would I watch a game that I don't even play.
You were there! And so was Day9.