- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Navillus13
Posted by: II ORGASMIC II
Posted by: Navillus13
Dont tell me playing video games requires mental toughness either... the hardest it gets is: "Oh I lost this round.. ill just have to try better and practice!"
You might as well call watching TV a sport... Lets condone laziness and pamper society some more.
I'm sorry to say you are not a very intelligent person. Trust me, when your at MLG its a whole different game. Its very cold in the venue. Try playing for 7 hours straight of intense,stressful games in a extremely cold environment. Where sweat is running down your arms and its really cold to the point were you almost start shivering. Theres like 20 people behind you and you cant here your teammates for -blam!- because its so loud there. Your heart is pumping constantly wondering if your gonna lose or advance. Flashes of whats gonna happen if you win or lose going through your head. All while your trying to play an FFA against 7 other people who are as good or better than you and all want to advance just as much as you.
Look at IceVayne, watch his VoD, you'll notice he plays like -blam!- in his last FFA in Charlotte that takes place at almost 1am. You know why? Because he had to get up at 8 in morning that day and play intense 4v4s all day, then had to play FFA for awhile. There is no way in hell that a person can play 10-15 of halo and not be mentally exhausted.
Bottom line is that since you clearly have no experience in the field of MLG and yet you talk like you do, your opinion(s) are highly flawed.
Are you guys friggen serious? OH NO... SWEAT!!? THEY SWEAT AT COMPETITIONS?! Try negotiating multi-million dollar shipping contracts... try doing brain surgery....try fighting fires in high rises... Mentally exhausting.. are you kidding? I'm assuming none of you have had REAL jobs outside of pizza hut and wal*mart. If they fail at the video game, nothing happens. You fail at contract negotiations, or even in a professional sports setting, you get FIRED. Dont tell me Nascar is not physically demanding either.. do you get breaks in NASCAR? nope... do you in halo tournaments? YES.
Do me a favor, get a real job, play a physically demanding sport at a high level of competition, then maybe your opinion of this crap would change. If you put halo players anywhere close to some boat of the mentally and physically demanding jobs out there, then you need to re-arrange your life priorities.
I have a real job.
but have you ever been to an MLG event? benn in the running to make money? Been on the main stage, where first place means what is it now, 12,000, and a chance at a contract that could change your life, only if you prevent yourself from choking for THAT ONE game/series? Against the best players in the world?