http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=287965
Do your part. Retweet this. Didn’t like how it was written? Rewrite it. Read it out-loud on your youtube, stream it, repost it.. share it. Rethink it.. post your own blog with your own version. Everything I wrote about is real and possible. I have worked within this community and industry enough to tell you that everything and anything is possible with SC2. Help me make 2011 a great year and 2012 a year of excess. Put SC2 in places it was never thought possible. Tell people who have never heard about it… do any and everything you can to grow this community and the game we love.
-Geoff “EG.iNcontroL” Robinson
So here’s my question: If Geoff can feel so passionately about Starcraft 2, if he believes that his community can turn 16k people and hundreds of thousands watching on stream, and making it 32-40k in stadiums, with millions of people watching…
Why can’t the fighting game community?
Why can we in the FGC think that big? Can’t “anything and everything” be possible with fighting games? We know that we can bring the hype. We’ve brought it for years, and even now there are still incredible moments.
The FGC has got more than enough strength on its playerbase and the games available to be able to make 2012 the kind of year that Geoff wants for Starcraft. Maybe we need to work more with sponsors and business entities that we would have held at arm’s length in the past. Maybe we need to admit that there are small, but very ugly blemishes in the FGC that need to be removed. But if the drive and inspiration and willingness to work, and work HARD, is there…
There is no reason why Starcraft and fighting games should not be the eminent E-Sports in North America, if not the world.
