Esports live events... Are they GOOD?

The Polygon Show

Vox Media Podcast Network

Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

It's been an AGGRESSIVE summer. Evo 2018 and the Overwatch League Grand Finals have blown us all... away. What's it like to be at a live event vs. watching it on Twitch? The biggest atmosphere changes? Chelsea talks fighting game drama at Evo, Allegra compares DragonBall FighterZ to the anime and Ashley gushes about seeing OWL players in person. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi and I'm your host Ashley O and with me as always is Allegra Frank
0:15.8	Hello Chelsea Stark and Simone is on vacation.
0:22.1	Yay! Yay!
0:24.0	I have scared my co-host into submission.
0:28.0	So today on the show we're going to be talking about fighting games and e-sports live events
0:35.4	But before we jump in Chelsea, please tell us about our upcoming live shows.
0:41.1	Yes, I will tell you, Ashley, my favorite person, about our upcoming live shows.
0:46.8	This weekend we're going to be at Play NYC, which is a, a, basically a New York City focused gaming conference.
0:55.0	It's going to have over 140 be playable games by indie developers.
0:59.0	It's going to have live panels.
1:01.0	It's all Saturday and Sunday at the Hammerstein
1:03.0	Ballroom. If you want to see us, the lovely ladies of the Polygon show, we are
1:06.8	going to be doing 2 30 minutes spots, one at 135 and 3, both on
1:11.6	Saturday. And you can buy tickets on play dash NYC.com and then there's more right
1:19.1	we're going to go to flame con which is the nation's largest queer comic-con.
1:24.3	And that's in, I think it's the shares in near Times Square.
1:28.7	And we are going to do a panel at 1230 on Saturday,
1:32.8	Saturday the 18th?
1:34.2	Yeah.
1:34.9	Mm-hmm.
1:35.9	I did it.
1:36.9	You guys better be there.
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