Hundreds of Punk Kids will fill the Arlington Convention Center this center for the first event since the city redeveloped the building into North America’s largest esports arena.
Arlington’s Entertainment District continues to grow [Are Irish Nachos not bringing in enough revenue?!], and the esports arena can hold 2,000 people.
I’ve never been a fan of “E-Sports.” Sports are fine. Just sports. There’s no need for the letter E. I do own an XBox, but I do not care to play games on XBox Live. When I’m playing a video game, I prefer to be left alone. Call me old fashioned, but that’s what I understand to be the whole point of playing a video game: so you don’t have to deal with a bunch of people [really hit the “p” when you say, “people.” Then tell everyone you’re not an old man.].
I felt all high and mighty for thinking it was crazy to build an arena with room for 2,000 people to watch other people play video games. Then I stood in the media area of the stadium… and watched other people play a video game. And then reported on it to seven million people in the DFW area.
The mayor of Arlington played the first round in the arena the other day, playing a game with the city manager against two esports game creators where they used trucks to knock balls into goals.
Frankly, that sounds like it’d be a blast if we tried it in real life.
Jeff Williams, and I swear I’m not making this up, explained this esports situation in a way I could understand. He says, having grown up on Doom, it was great to see the audio and visual effects that can be used now.
But he wasn’t focused on Doom. People from all over the world would see Arlington, not just sports fans or people coming to Six Flags. Corporations could make very detailed presentations with the audio and visual systems.
“Oh, so it’s a modern day Doom,” I sighed loudly, hitting myself in the forehead, clearly focusing on Doom. “Now, it’s all coming together. Maybe we could get some Frogger in there.”
When Texas Live[exclamation point] was first announced, the developers said they thought it was strange that you had a city the size of Cincinnati right outside DFW Airport, but if you wanted to do anything, you had to drive half an hour to Dallas or Fort Worth [Again, are Irish Nachos not an attraction!?].
The first event is this weekend, but I’d like to see more elected officials come out pro-Doom. Playing soccer with cars seems so childish. I would totally be up for a trip to the Esports Arena to shoot the devil right now. But apparently, Kids Today think playing Pong with trucks is more important than stopping the demon spawn of Satan. Whatever.
