Why aren’t more black kids going pro in esports?

[Lord Beasley]

Most of the 2k players I know are black. This thread also reminded me that the 2k draft is this Wednesday

 

[feelosofer]

When I was a kid..when this all started at Blockbuster...everyone tried to sign up for the video game tournaments. Especially Street Fighter 2 championship Edition, NBA Jam, Mortal Kombat.

Haha those were the days. I was the #2 Donkey Kong Country player in NJ back in 95.

 

[GoldenGlove]

this partially has to do with access to info. How many young brehs know they can get money offvideos games... how many brehs in here knew 2k was payin dudes a minimum of 32k, max 50k with endorsements for a 6 mos eleague with prizes totaling to a million? telll your young brehs about this shyt

My nephew was being considered for this... Was high on the leaderboards, but just got tired of the game. Not he's on Fortnite tho

 

[krackdagawd]

Too busy playing real sports unlike those fragile fakkits

I shouldn't be laughing so hard at this

 

[Morose Polymath]

I wouldn't be so quick to big up the FGC, the recent Caba/MenaRD-GO1 situation brought all the latent racist cacs... And don't forget about that bullshyt Chris G said about Black women

 

[B86]

this partially has to do with access to info. How many young brehs know they can get money offvideos games... how many brehs in here knew 2k was payin dudes a minimum of 32k, max 50k with endorsements for a 6 mos eleague with prizes totaling to a million? telll your young brehs about this shyt

While I hear you; nikka...every black male has a phone in their hand all day every day like everybody else. nikkas just aren't interested in shyt on the internet outside of social media (generally speaking, of course). We have all the information in the world, if we want to use it. I knew about the 2k Draft and all that shyt...know why? Because I find current, relevant topics (especially ways to make money) and read all day every day when I have free time; Not sit on Instagram, FB, and Snapchat. We gotta stop with the bullshyt excuses

 

[O.Red]

I wouldn't be so quick to big up the FGC, the recent Caba/MenaRD-GO1 situation brought all the latent racist cacs... And don't forget about that bullshyt Chris G said about Black women

Can you help me out with the racism in this Mena/Caba situation because I ain't seen any of it. I'm not denying that it's happening but I've been barely keeping up.

Caba IS wrong for the shyt he been doing tho

 

[Perfectson]

Didn't read the article. I honestly think it's just race baiting. In the Smash Bros competitive scene at least half of the pros are black. Tons of black players in competitive Street Fighter as well. Maybe the author of the article is looking in the wrong places (PC games, game genres that most black players don't care for, etc.)

That's why you should read the article amh

 

[Perfectson]

These kids know more than our asses. All my nephews do is watch streams.

My oldest nephew (12) was telling me one of his classmates got sponsored to play on an NBA franchise’s 2K team. Said he would have to move tho.

Whole time he was telling me i was like

Real talk, if my nephew is good enough I’ll invest in his eSports career. Matter of fact i might scour the hood for the talent and manage them.

This is the new wave ...30 years from now we are gonna be looking at physical sports as Savage and esports will be the top entertainment .

 

[Black Bolt]

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[Black Bolt]

Can you help me out with the racism in this Mena/Caba situation because I ain't seen any of it. I'm not denying that it's happening but I've been barely keeping up.

Caba IS wrong for the shyt he been doing tho

Just read any Twitter post/YouTube comments regarding the (none) 'incident'. Caba did nothing wrong but get too hype for his mans, boo hoo.

 

[CouldBeWorse]

FGC full of black people .

 

[OneManGang]

I just started looking at Daequan streaming Fortnite and breh is funny as fukk

 

[Morose Polymath]

the only prize i got from winnin the bowl in @South Paw and @Rekkapryde leagues is a coupon to captain ds

if you seen the prizes brehs were winning in our SFV tourneys you'd be tight...

 

[Ineedmoney504]

I think the biggest reason is cause we don’t really like the games being played.

Outside of 2k and madden we not really playing the other games on a mass scale.

Black people consider them games corny and boring as shyt. If u not really interested in something u ain’t gonna be good at it