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- Sep 13, 2016
I would chalk it up to being a result of different cultural mindsets and approaches to competitive activities than the cultural mindset that exists in the West. It sounds a bit silly to say it, but they train rather hard and are pushed much more intensely to do well, moreso than non-asian competitors.That's the funny thing about the pro scene, they're all asians, no matter where the team is from. Commentators use the term "foreign" for non-asians.
It's not just e-sports, though that's where it's most visible. Previously european-dominated 'real' sports are seeing a similar thing, too, fencing (the sport) especially on a state to international level.
I think Cool Runners did the whole 'coach with a bad past of negative press and duplicitous activities' backstory the best, it even delved a bit into why athletes who've cheated did what they did. Heck, they could just copy it.Calling it now: There will be a super amazing girl gamer, but her conservative, abusive father doesn't want her to waste her time with eSports. He will disown her or something equally silly, while her mom will secretly support her or tell her husband to stop being an asshole. By the end, he learns his lesson and we'll see him with a "I'm with her" button. Chances are, the mother character will reveal that she won a Pacman tourney in the 80s but was abused by gamers back then and had to quit her career or something.
Pfha. So I guess the gravytrain came to a stop and she is now having to deal with being an utterly toxic personality with a long history of manipulation, abuse and lies that caught up with her? Well, too bad.
Someone should remind her that this is the future that she chose herself. Or, you know, tweet her nude photos at her to remind her they will never go away... might as well be a decent choice.
The coach's backstory could be that she was some sort of trailblazer in the early 2000s competitive scene. Her fall from grace would be that she felt so pressured to win this one critical competitive tourney/match, perhaps due to having to pay for medical bills of a loved one, maybe to support a child, or some other empathetic justification for cheating, that she ended up doing something.
What that 'something' could be might be taking disallowed medication to improve her concentration, something that we've seen happen in the early days of competitive gaming, or even just using an aimbot so that she didn't lose.
Framing her backstory as a 'gamergate-like controversy' just gives off a really negative impression of how they intend to show this character, when she could be so much better. Granted, they may have just namedropped 'gamergate' to generate press buzz, and we know nothing about her outside of that little tidbit.