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World Series of Video Games Cancelled
Goobergunch writes "The official site for the World Series of Videogames is now indicating that the WSVG, including planned events in Los Angeles, London and Sweden, has been cancelled. The WSVG included competitions for Guitar Hero II, Quake 4, World of Warcraft Arena, as well as Counter-Strike and Warcraft III. From the announcement: 'The continuing challenges of securing adequate revenues to sustain the production of the WSVG's large scale events and television programming, in a very crowded field of competitive gaming leagues, has prompted us to re-evaluate our direction as an organization. Unfortunately, the decision is to cancel the remainder of the WSVG season, as we shift our focus solely to growing our online advertising network of websites, which currently reach seven million users each month. '"
As if thousand of gamers who sucked at sports cried out and where then silenced
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what your country did to you
from the "money coming in good, money going out bad" department.
Big! Strong! Wow! Tada-O!
And as always must be pointed out when people bring up this argument, one need look no further than South Korea to prove that it is possible if you can find the right audience. There are entire channels devoted to single games - people even show up to watch those tournaments live! Once I was passing by one of the matches being filmed in a mall plaza - there were dozens of people straining to watch the computer screens over the gamers shoulders. I doubt it could achieve that level of mass-appeal in the U.S., but I think there is a sizable subset of the population that could become interested.
Besides, you can still hang out, swill beer and even make bets on the outcome of a Starcraft match. I've seen it done.
But I was all ready to kick butt at Super Mario with my Power Glove!
Eek!