"Fighting games / RTS can be televised the problem comes in finding the best way to present the match. There is no John Madden for color commentary to any FPS at least not on TV."
You might want to check out what MLG is doing. It hasn't quite made it to T.V. yet(MLG had a show on USA a couple years but it was more of a documentary on the players and has some stuff with ESPN but not much as far tournament gameplay right now) but all their tournaments have live, commentated streams available free on their website.
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"Fighting games / RTS can be televised the problem comes in finding the best way to present the match. There is no John Madden for color commentary to any FPS at least not on TV." You might want to check out what MLG is doing. It hasn't quite made it to T.V. yet(MLG had a show on USA a couple years but it was more of a documentary on the players and has some stuff with ESPN but not much as far tournament gameplay right now) but all their tournaments have live, commentated streams available free on their website.