Gaming Tourneys Coming to U.S. Television

greig writes "DirecTV is aiming to bring to the states what the South Koreans have been enjoying for years: regular broadcasts of videogaming tournaments. Games at the first tournament were Battlefield 2, Counterstrike 1.6, Halo 2, Project Gothem Racing and Dead or Alive 4. The initial broadcasts of the exhibition invitational are on the free DirecTV channel 101 this weekend. Is this the first step to escalating videogames to the status of the X-Games and poker?" Taken from the about section: "The Championship Gaming Series will launch as a league starting 2007; however, in 2006, we will broadcast 3 television events: Championship Gaming Invitational, the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) Winter Finals and an event that will be announced shortly."

Comments

Re:Not long now guys, warm up your Shock rifles.

[DJHewi1025]

Best first post ever. Although.... what's funny about calling the gamers cyberathletes is you are gonna see one kid that's about 500 lbs. Now, that's just effing funny.

Re:Not long now guys, warm up your Shock rifles.

[ElleyKitten]

On the serious side have you ever talked to a woman? And Mom doesn't count. Gawd this BBS is still full of zit faced fucking geeks... sad sad sad. Last time I log in here. Where is the tech talk. Nothing but losers jacking to Play stations and game boxes... slashdot has jumped the shark.

Some women actually like games, and would prefer to talk to gamers in real life than assholes like you. And please learn what "jumped the shark" means before trying to use it again.