"I've known Idra for a long time personally," says Gamespot's Rod "Slasher" Breslau, an eSports reporter. On 9 May Team EG announced it had fired one of its biggest faces. Sean ' Day ' Plott: ‘I think all the deep analysis for what it means for eSports comes down to 'well you can't be a jerk, no matter where you're working.'' Photograph: Zhang Jingna
But it was still so crazy to me that the next day it did happen." No chance he doesn't get kicked for this. "Right when Idra left the Polt game and then shortly thereafter made that post, I was having a conversation with a friend, and I said there's a 99% chance he gets kicked for this. Sean "Day " Plott is a major Starcraft II personality and caster – as well as a former North American Brood War champion. It was a moment that posed eSports, and particularly Team EG, an uncomfortable question. This happened on 7 May, and the remarks rapidly spread online. "It just so happens I get paid to treat you as such. "You're all a bunch of fucks," he wrote in a thread concerning team EG. Shortly afterwards, following a frustrating showing in the early rounds of Blizzard's new Starcraft II World Championship Series, Fields visited the forums at Team Liquid, the biggest community hub for the game, and went for certain fans. Alexander Garfield, the CEO of Fields' team Evil Geniuses, assured fans there would be no repeat. In March, he wished cancer on an opponent while livestreaming – which was, of course, seen and spread by everyone watching. He once opined that a nice chap called David Kim, for being one of Starcraft II's balance designers, should be raped with a tire-iron. This is not wholly unrelated to the fact that he's also responsible for some of the most outrageous outbursts in eSports, and not the cool kind of outrageous.
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And then there's BM – bad manners, and one of the many things Greg "Idra" Fields is famous for.įields specialised in Terran during his Brood War days, but was one of the most dominant Zergs in Starcraft II.įields is polite, extremely articulate, and until a fortnight ago was one of the highest-profile and highest-paid professional gamers in the world. Personalities are referred to by their in-game IDs rather than name. A foreigner is anyone who's not South Korean.Ĭheese is a cheap strategy. The Starcraft scene naturally has its own jargon. Professional teams competing in a year-round calendar of worldwide tournaments, with livestreaming increasing audiences and advertising revenue like never before. But Starcraft II was developed from the start to capitalise on it, intended as nothing less than the first global eSport arguably something it has achieved, with ever-growing audiences given a recent fillip by the expansion Heart of the Swarm. The game's developers Blizzard did not – could not – have predicted this.
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There had been gaming tournaments and the like beforehand, but by the early millennium, Starcraft and its expansion Brood War had professional teams playing in televised leagues and tournaments viewed by millions – at what was perhaps the game's peak, the 2005 Pro League Final filled a 120,000-seater stadium in Busan.
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The original Starcraft was released in 1998 on PC and became one of the biggest-ever crazes in South Korea, the impetus and focus for a competitive industry.
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