competitive gaming
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Today I Learned There’s A Competitive CATAN Championship Travelling Around Australia
If you’ve ever thought a public CATAN tournament would yield world-class thrills, you would not be wrong. Or alone, as it turns out. The CATAN National Championship is a, well, national search for Australia’s greatest CATAN player. SA state heats were held at Adelaide’s The Lost Dice last weekend, and that competition now moves to the finals…
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Misunderstood Bro Culture And Obnoxious First-Person Shooter YouTube Videos
You press play. A homemade logo or two pop up — maybe a clan or a made-up studio. You notice the name of the player — lots of X’s, maybe a 420 reference, and the rest seems incomprehensible. That’s when the top 40 song begins. Then it happens: a man dies. Cause of death? Headshot,…
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Gamers Watch Over 3 Billion Minutes Of Competitive Gaming Per Month
Thinking of “CBS” and “sports” conjures up images of quiet rounds of golf, or the contained frenzy of a college basketball game. Now, however, CBS Interactive is throwing its hat into the world of virtual competitions, focusing its energies on the rapidly growing world of eSports.
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The OzHadou Nationals: Hype, Street Fighter, And A Boy Named Arnold
I’m sitting in an empty function room surrounded by hundreds of empty chairs. Next to me, a small team is bustling energetically, drawing measurements and fine-tuning their floor plan. One of them is in the sound box checking switches; another is marking out the available power points around the large space. They take to their…