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Friday, November 16, 2007

Game or Sport (Read the whole thing, I NO ITS LONG)

I sat in my room watching Sportscenter and making trades in Fantasy Football, as usual, after a rousing night of Halo 3ing. As I sat there I thought, is video gaming a sport and has sports turned into a video game for fans? One afternoon I was playing with a guy named Glamorous. We were playing territories on Last Resort and he was shouting go two go two. Well no one was capturing two for there was a Brigadier guarding it. Glam was pissed and yelling and we all said it was just a game calm down. He mentioned the best players enter tournaments and win money. There are international tournaments where players make $1,000 per game and split a $10,000 pot if they win. You can also purchase lessons from these pros starting at $100/hr in any game. Now with the Xbox 360 there are achievements. There is a point system with the achievement system. As you know I am fond of my points. Now u can rank players on stats by games played number of achievements, and difficulty. Clans are teams and their respective battles and tournaments are schedules.

In terms of sports there is fantasy everything now. I personally run a Fantasy Hockey and Football league and may start a Baseball league in the spring. You draft players and pick who to start on your roster and based on how they do in real life you get points. You compete against other teams, can trade, drop and pick up players, there is waivers, there is a trade deadline, in some leagues there is a salary cap, and in hockey you can even put players on Injured reserve and pick up a player to take his empty roster spot. Sports have not only put out there own video games but now u can play for free or pay and win money and even get a ring. In NHL 08 on the boards, are actual companies that make sticks and equipment.

The NBA and NHL all-star votes are online now and both are being sponsored by NBA 2k8 and NHL 2k8 respectively. NFL stars sponsor players who wear their jerseys and play as their teams in the Madden Tournament every Year. Even when we play we Deng gets picked last as if we were playing kickball at recess, but instead we're picking based on the strategy we use on the map and the mode we are playing. So I pose this question, knowing full well which came first, are video games, sports or are sports, games?

GO WATCH (or play) some hockey (on your fine crafted xbox 360) (Star Wars would be ok too)

Deadmarsh20a