Welcome gamers 👏

Thought we should have an introductions thread with all the new folks joining the channel

What's your name, what games (or game mechanics/genres) do you like, and a little bit extra about yourself (are you building something? love to hear about it!)

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👋 name is Bill. I ran professional esports events for a decade mainly in Dota 2 and Overwatch. 

Diablo 2, Path of exile and Dota 2 are some of my fave games along with some others. 

Feel free to AMA on the esports industry and my thoughts on blockchain gaming

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Right now it’s still pretty early as a lot of games are still building. For esports, you need a grassroots scene, a sticky player base and be able to stand the test of time. Forcing an esport won’t really work. Regions I’d look out for are SEA and South America in terms of adoption and growing scenes.  Titles TBD

Very cool. Do you see any current blockchain games that has potential to host a large esports event? I've seen Axie Infinity do some stuff overseas.

What’s interesting is that gaming on YouTube is more async and does fairly well. 

However, in esports the live nature gives poor replay value for sponsors and TOs generally after the initial broadcast. General content creators get much more eyes on them and were seen as better value for a long time.

hi bill 👋

not super familiar with esports myself, but sync nature of esports doesn't lend itself to async nature of the internet imo