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Tasteless: "Korean eSports is the future of eSports"
Nick "Tasteless" Plott, the first English-speaking shoutcaster to work full time in South Korea, claims the Korean model of esports should be followed worldwide.
By Michal 'Carmac' Blicharz
Apr 16, 2008 23:28
Nick "Tasteless" Plott, the first English-speaking shoutcaster to work full time in South Korea, claims the Korean model of esports should be followed worldwide."I think the rest of the world will have to start mimicking the Korean scene for eSports to keep proliferating," said Tasteless in an interview with Readmore.de's Daniel "Beeemit" Jensen. "[Europeans and Americans] should not spend so much time picking up random games for their tournaments that don't have communities. They also need to make sure the games they DO pick up are spectator friendly and that people can follow them."
The work that Tasteless has done in Korea so far seems to be proving his point, since the English broadcasts of Korean StarCraft have been a huge success for GOMtv so far.
The other interesting point in the interview is that Tasteless thinks that right now StarCraft 2 "looks far from an esport" and said that the game will disappoint the Korean pros.
The entire interview can be found on readmore.de
The work that Tasteless has done in Korea so far seems to be proving his point, since the English broadcasts of Korean StarCraft have been a huge success for GOMtv so far.
The other interesting point in the interview is that Tasteless thinks that right now StarCraft 2 "looks far from an esport" and said that the game will disappoint the Korean pros.
The entire interview can be found on readmore.de
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There are huge cultural differences between Korea and the West and mimicking those results would take a lot of research and effort, neither of which anyone around here is interested in applying.
It's all copies of copies of copies of copies, we're monkey's and we do.
Having said that, I don't think it should be a carbon copy, but the basic principles should be exactly the same.
Simply because focus around esports isn't the same.
It's also not the same culture so we can't 'copy/paste' korean model over here even if we want.
The more progressively oriented the populous the more likely organisations are to locate ample support either from local business or the local Government in some cases, which helps push e-sports into the mainstream.
South Korea is very technology oriented and very tolerant, in most cases, which contributes largely to the success of e-sports in that region. As is the Netherlands, which is why e-sports has a much better chance of succeeding in the Netherlands long before it will in the United Kingdom.
Larger efforts should be focused where they'll have the biggest chance of success and spread from there. The League of Champions is a good example of that, we'll see if it's successful or not.
I'll stop before this turns into an article, but I'll say this, attitudes in here need to start changing before they'll change out there.
Edit and delete buttons would be much appreciated Bds.