New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's opposition to North Carolina's commonsense bathroom law may keep one New York community college's baseball team from going to the national championships. While Cuomo's office tried to distance itself from the issue, the college insists that his injunction leaves it no choice. Tragically, the governor will ban travel to a state, but still travels himself to Cuba and China, which have a much worse record on LGBT issues. In March, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory signed House Bill 2, a law that declared multiple-stall restrooms in public facilities should be divided on the basis of biological sex. Shortly afterward, nearly 100 business leaders signed a letter rebuking the state and asking that they rescind the law. Cuomo responded by banning non-essential state travel to North Carolina.
This brings us to Hudson Valley Community College (HVCC) in upstate New York, and its baseball team this season. It has a 24-8 record, and player Kyle Bestle told CBS News, "I think we have a real shot at going to the national championship." If they win the sub-regional championships this weekend, and the regional championships next weekend, they should be able to compete nationally. Except they won't be able to. Not because of player injury, not because of foul play, and not because of anything any player did. This is when Gov. Cuomo's ban comes back to bite him. When you cancel all "non-essential" travel to North Carolina, you also implicitly ban a state team from competing in a national championship. State Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin rebuked Cuomo for "political grandstanding." McLaughlin condemned the governor's double standard between North Carolina and Cuba. "Cuomo goes to Cuba and embraces and praises a Communist dictator that jails and/or kills gay people...but a baseball team can't go to North Carolina because of a law that says use the bathroom of your gender."
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May 27, 2016
how E-sports dumbasses think
the problem with eSports is that it is too reliant on single games to keep the industry going, instead of an actual sport that people can experience in multiple ways.
Let's look at ice hockey. While you do have a pro league, the NHL, ice hockey can exist without the NHL. Hockey is a game where two teams compete to try and hit a puck into a goal more times than the other, there are X amount of players on the ice at once, etc. It can be played as a pickup game, it can be played in a high school or college league, etc.
Say there is an NHL lockout like there was in 2012 and the season is cancelled. Does hockey cease to exist? Nope. Sure, the pro league is gone but the game itself is obviously still playable and able to be enjoyed in many levels.
Now let's look at eSports. Look at a game like League of Legends. LoL can ONLY be played through the product released by Riot games. Let's say that Riot suddenly goes out of business tomorrow, or they introduce a massive update that alienates the whole playerbase, or whatever. When LoL is gone, so is the whole system introduced by the game. There's not going to be pickup LoL games in the park, amateur leagues, adult leagues, etc. It exists only in the product.
So this is where I think the eSports bubble is going to pop. Games like DOTA2 or LoL are getting huge and since they are these self-contained games and not just a set of rules on how to play games, once they're gone they're gone. Obviously DOTA2 and LoL cannot be at this level of popularity forever. That's just how video games work.
So if LoL does something that kills its popularity, that entire system is completely gone. If the NBA had to close tomorrow, someone can form another basketball league, but nobody can make another LoL. Sure, a company can make another MOBA and hope it captures the LoL audience/reaches that level of popularity, but they'll never make another LoL.
Let's look at ice hockey. While you do have a pro league, the NHL, ice hockey can exist without the NHL. Hockey is a game where two teams compete to try and hit a puck into a goal more times than the other, there are X amount of players on the ice at once, etc. It can be played as a pickup game, it can be played in a high school or college league, etc.
Say there is an NHL lockout like there was in 2012 and the season is cancelled. Does hockey cease to exist? Nope. Sure, the pro league is gone but the game itself is obviously still playable and able to be enjoyed in many levels.
Now let's look at eSports. Look at a game like League of Legends. LoL can ONLY be played through the product released by Riot games. Let's say that Riot suddenly goes out of business tomorrow, or they introduce a massive update that alienates the whole playerbase, or whatever. When LoL is gone, so is the whole system introduced by the game. There's not going to be pickup LoL games in the park, amateur leagues, adult leagues, etc. It exists only in the product.
So this is where I think the eSports bubble is going to pop. Games like DOTA2 or LoL are getting huge and since they are these self-contained games and not just a set of rules on how to play games, once they're gone they're gone. Obviously DOTA2 and LoL cannot be at this level of popularity forever. That's just how video games work.
So if LoL does something that kills its popularity, that entire system is completely gone. If the NBA had to close tomorrow, someone can form another basketball league, but nobody can make another LoL. Sure, a company can make another MOBA and hope it captures the LoL audience/reaches that level of popularity, but they'll never make another LoL.
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