Wolf's Bane wrote:
The prospects for becoming a millionaire gaming are better than the prospects for making 100,000 running.
Do you mean in a single event? If so, then yes. No single running event pays $1 million to the winner. But a sub-elite runner can easily make $100,000 over 5 or so years just from their contract/sponsorship alone. $20,000 baseline for their contract/sponsorship plus a few races with first prize winnings in the $10K range.
its the free market. people enjoy it. who the hell cares
I don't completely get it but there is really big money in this stuff. Here in Philly, Comcast is spending $50M on a new eSports arena in the Sports Complex area. The eSports arena will include a 10,000-square-foot training facility.
Yet no one in the area can build a good new indoor track facility. Heck, University of Delaware had a decent one and actually took the track away some years ago.
https://www.phillymag.com/news/2019/03/25/esports-arena-philadelphia-fusion/
Harambe wrote:
Icantellyoudontplaygames wrote:
Yeah, that is not true at all. I can tell you don't play a lot of competitive video games. The best players are the best for a reason. There is a certain level of variability, like there would be in any sports event, but the top guys are always at the top. Its nowhere near as bad as the lottery.
The tough part about video games is the same as you see in things like short sprint events. It's a young man's game. Reflexes and reaction times don't age well. So the top players are generally only at the top for a few years.
Yeah AFAIK there's like a months long qualification process to get down to a final 100 players. They play offline in a stadium over several games. Not really random at all.
Still FPS is never a good spectator esport...
Starcraft II is still unmatched.
Amen. Starcraft FTW!!!
Judge Judy makes $53M per year.
Every time you worry about some athlete or even a kid playing a stupid video game making money, remind yourself that fact.
World cup wrote:
Seriously how sad is it that the Fortnite word cup winner made 3 million dollars today and our best runners make a small fraction of that in a several year period.
What is sad is that running is so boring, no one wants to watch it or pay anyone any real money to do it. Just look at all the empty seats at our National championship meet last weekend.
Here's the real story.
Women players are sometimes belittled and objectified, their abilities constantly questioned, while they are pelted with misogynistic insults through the in-game chat. There's still many root issues causing girls not to pick up games when they’re younger, not to mention the toxicity of the environment.
As 46% of gamers are girls, what other explanation is there?
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
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Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?