City announce first ESport signing

E-Sports? Is that like an E-Cigarette? Not real sports for people who want to give up?
 
might sound ridiculous to some of you, but this is multi million industry, some of these gamers earn at least 1 Million Dollars per year.

eSports is expected to be worth 1 Billon dollars next year, smart move by the club.
 
Akai said:
might sound ridiculous to some of you, but this is multi million industry, some of these gamers earn at least 1 Million Dollars per year.

eSports is expected to be worth 1 Billon dollars next year, smart move by the club.
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And everything that is wrong with grass roots in the uk..... I've just done a little research, it isn't at all surprising, you're right, especially with the owners links to Vegas. Seems the gambling sector is the main protagonist.... I think the consensus of people see it as a ridiculous notion as we grew up kicking whatever would pass for a ball, the social interactions, the bonds... This is indeed a money maker, how fucking sad is that??
 
As someone stated earlier,with City dropping the FC now and moving into other fields i wonder if we will go into other sports like Basketball etc,Barca,madrid and plenty of others do it.
 
Basically when we were kids you would go out play football and hopefully end being good enough to be picked up by a club.
Nowadays kids stay indoors and become good at computer games and get payed for it.
They play tournaments around the world,to be fair you cant blame them,it beats 8-5 in a sweat box mill.


Stuff like this:

 
If we're going to branch into other sporting environs, my sport of choice would be into pro cycling. We have the National Cycling Centre on our doorstep, literally. We could be the new rival to team Sky in the UK. Puts the club's colours on the world stage and opens it all up to new sponsors etc.
 
JOGAMIGMOG said:
If we're going to branch into other sporting environs, my sport of choice would be into pro cycling. We have the National Cycling Centre on our doorstep, literally. We could be the new rival to team Sky in the UK. Puts the club's colours on the world stage and opens it all up to new sponsors etc.
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I'd prefer we stick with more manly sports.
 
JOGAMIGMOG said:
If we're going to branch into other sporting environs, my sport of choice would be into pro cycling. We have the National Cycling Centre on our doorstep, literally. We could be the new rival to team Sky in the UK. Puts the club's colours on the world stage and opens it all up to new sponsors etc.
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Seconded!
 
I understand what Esport is and I know there is a lot of money involved nowadays. What I don't understand is what City "signing" this kid means? Is he only playing with City on Fifa tournaments from now on?, Is there some Premier league sponsored stuff where he plays against other teams "E-players"? What is in it for City?
I hope he at least is a genuine City fan.
 
Suede Jacket said:
I understand what Esport is and I know there is a lot of money involved nowadays. What I don't understand is what City "signing" this kid means? Is he only playing with City on Fifa tournaments from now on?, Is there some Premier league sponsored stuff where he plays against other teams "E-players"? What is in it for City?
I hope he at least is a genuine City fan.
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This is an interesting sub theme to this thread. Why? Is Pep a City fan? What about Aguero? Zabaletta? It would be very easy to pay local kids to play the game. They signed this kid because he is fucking good at FIFA.
 
While I get the disengenuity and general apathy towards Esports, going forward the market capability could verge on being huge, erego for a small outlay now could reward in a very worthwhile investment later down the line. From being on both sides of the spectrum and negotiating both on a personal and social level while being at a moderate (see national level at the lower echelons of gaming) level on both sides of the equations, the benefits far outweigh the consequences and in particular the areas where new ground is broken there is a great deal of money to be made if only in the fabrical sense as it appears right now.
 
Suede Jacket said:
I understand what Esport is and I know there is a lot of money involved nowadays. What I don't understand is what City "signing" this kid means? Is he only playing with City on Fifa tournaments from now on?, Is there some Premier league sponsored stuff where he plays against other teams "E-players"? What is in it for City?
I hope he at least is a genuine City fan.
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eSports is a booming gaming scene with young people, almost completely out of nowhere in the last decade or so, and football clubs in their eternal drive to find new ways of recruiting young fans are starting to pick up on this. Football teams have in the last few months or so increasingly started looking to recruit a gamer to "represent" them for branding purposes. How this is going to work out is entirely up in the air right now - in the same way that, in the very early days of football, people weren't sure how football would be organised, with many thinking that competitive games should play second fiddle to exhibition matches for some time, and then with the rise of the FA Cup many wanting the nascent leagues to be subservient to a host of cup competitions for each team.

However, at the bare minimum you can expect there to be a rise in tournaments with team-affiliated players promoting their teams, while some have speculated that football and eSports could be integrated, with ideas like having fans turn up early to league matches to FIFA players representing the two teams playing a digital version of the actual league match which would be broadcast on the giant screens, and with an entirely separate league table with its own trophy and prize money which is based on the results of those matches. That's only one idea, of course.

Older fans will of course scoff but you can kind of see the attraction if your 12-year old kid who hasn't smiled at a game you've dragged him to since your team last won that game six weeks might be slightly more interested in coming to the match if he can watch his hero, GenericName123, whose shirt he wears to every game, and who is playing as your club and unlike your relegation-threatened side is dominating all comers and looks like he might win the league this year. It is, of course, one step further down the rabbit hole of corporatism and monetising, but to the first generation of kids who have grown up with eSports always having been a "thing", it will most likely work exactly as intended.

Englisc said:
As someone stated earlier,with City dropping the FC now and moving into other fields i wonder if we will go into other sports like Basketball etc,Barca,madrid and plenty of others do it.
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The thing about eSports is that it is very easy to tie it into football - just use FIFA instead of Call of Duty and the whole experience gets subsumed into the whole footballing culture, which is increasingly a universal, 24/7 thing now that social media and all-day news reporting is reality. Buy a rugby team and you'll find it very hard to persuade football fans that it's part of the experience.

I'd be interested to see where CFG could go with this, but ultimately I get the feeling they don't have any intention of going in any direction which is not directly football-related.

Barcon said:
I'd prefer we stick with more manly sports.
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Pretty ironic comment given that the Tour de France is the most gruelling competition in all of professional sport. Try cycling 2,200 miles in three weeks at an average of almost 30mph across all terrain, including some of the toughest mountain climbs in western Europe, for four or five hours a day and with only two rest days allowed in the entire event (during which your team will make you spend the entire day on a training bike so that your muscles do not cease up).

Oh, and if you finish more than 7% slower than the fastest rider on any given stage, you are eliminated from the entire rest of the event and your team must simply go on without you. Also, if you are a sprinter, you will be expected to sprint to the finish at speeds approaching 50mph on a flat, each and every day.
 
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