#nerdchills

If you have intellect, you will survive the darkest days. If you have courage, you will claim the bounties of man and nature. If you have patience, you will amass the wealth of empires. And if you can lead, there is no limit to what you can become.

What you dare to become rests on your will to be bold.

"To be honest, it's pretty magical and unique. Perhaps you might want my "One Year Down" video I made a while back.

What makes it appealing to watch rather than play? For all the same reasons as normal sports, my friend. You're witness to these new-age stars, these "mini-celebrities" battling it out, demonstrating intellectual prowess and skill that some couldneveremulate even after years of practice. You're watching them play countless back-and-forth games and you're on the edge of your seat, astounded by their speed and in awe of their strategies.

Imagine a world of sports, where the paradigm has yet to be set. Imagine a world where a "season" can't be clearly defined, where every month new teams rise and fall. Where, in competition, the body takes a backseat to the mind. Where the competitors are so much more accessible and real.

Imagine a world of sports that is growing, growing at an unbelievable rate. You, the fan, are on the frontier of something totallynew. An industry where nothing is set in stone, where traditional prejudices have been erased. A sprawling canvas on which only a few strokes have been brushed. And here you are, cheering along for your favorite player with your buddies, watching as this surreal world expands and matures before your eyes.

After a night of some intense games you close the stream and curl up in bed. You had a lot of fun. Your favorite player demonstrated some incredible skill tonight! So many great games! As you drift off to sleep you can't help but ask yourself "will this last"? Is the idea of competitive gaming too outlandish? Too strange to ever be accepted by the masses? Maybe it is; maybe you should stop thinking so deeply and merely enjoy it for what it is. It's just a bit of silly fun, right?

But just as you're start to doze off, you see yourself in 60 years time. You're in a lounge room, sitting quietly in a corner while your grandchildren watch television. Curious, you turn to face the screen. You rub your dried-out eyes to try to make out what they're watching. You see two faceless gamers about to go head-to-head in a televised match. There's a stage surrounded with dazzling light and a crowd that seems to reach into the horizon. Your children are cheering for their favorite player. They're yelling his name! "Go go, you can do it!" And as you lean back in your chair, weary with age, you smile. You remember what it was like to bethere. To be right there cheering while others scoffed. Right where it all began.

The television fades, as do your grandchildren. You're back in your room, tucked under your sheets. With that vivid hope for the future, you smile and fall to sleep. Maybe, just maybe, it could be.

That's eSports."