Imagine my surprise, the World Series of Video Games has closed it’s doors in the middle of it’s second season. You might be wondering, Who? That’s the problem.
The World Series of Video Games was an attempt to televise video game playing in a manner similar to NFL football, MLB baseball or other national sports leagues. For all the attention they received, the 1 hour of televised coverage on CBS Sports, and Intel as a sponsor the final outcome is what most expected. Watching people play a videogame on television is even less exciting than Bass fishing or the WNBA. That really is a low point.
Of course they aren’t the only ones trying to make this concept work. There still exists the World Cyber Games, and Championship Gaming Series. Ultra-couch potatoes that find turning on their respecitve game consoles and mashing the various buttons too strenuous still have a chance to live vicariously through the 2 remaining leagues. I suggest TIVO of the events (videotaping them would require too much effort) because I expect both to go the way of indoor football or the Canadian Football League.
Don’t get me wrong. I love video games. Competitions to see who is the bast gamer, whether among friends or large groups of strangers sounds like fun. I doubt I’d win such a competition but I’d enter just for the thrill of it. The key is active participation.
I can’t imagine how watching someone play a game would be more interesting that putting the same game on and playing it myself. Every gamer I know would do the same. So who is out there watching these programs befuddles me.
Well never fear, Games Media Properties, which owned the World Series of Video Games and funded in part by William Morris Agency (the people who give us all the stars that look good above most all else), has a back-up plan. Sticking ads into the video games we love to play. Talk about the top of my pet peeve list. Hopefully they are as good at that as they were in running the league.
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