Esports: The Newest Craze Sweeping The Nation
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Comedy Central
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🗓️ 14 January 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Michael Kosta visits the training facility for Team Liquid to find out why esports (competitive video gaming) are so popular.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:02.7 | Ow! |
| 0:06.5 | Hi. |
| 0:08.5 | I'm Michael Costa. |
| 0:10.0 | And before I started covering the news on cable TV, |
| 0:12.9 | I was a successful professional athlete. |
| 0:15.3 | What sport? |
| 0:16.3 | Tennis. |
| 0:16.9 | Duh. |
| 0:17.7 | I was ranked 864 in the world, |
| 0:20.1 | so I was a natural to investigate the newest sport sweeping the nation. |
| 0:24.9 | Video games. |
| 0:25.9 | Competitive video gaming known as eSports is booming. |
| 0:30.1 | There's even a training center with five training rooms and six locker rooms. |
| 0:35.4 | The Olympics are considering adding eSports. |
| 0:38.2 | I went to California to a so-called training center in someone's garage |
| 0:42.5 | to talk with these eathletes about why video games isn't a sport. |
| 0:50.0 | What the hell is this? |
| 0:51.3 | This was the Alienware training facility for eSports team liquid, |
| 0:56.3 | complete with scrimmage stations, a war room, PR department, |
| 1:00.7 | a team coach, and even an in-house chef. |
| 1:04.2 | The team star whose name is Taco was acquired from Brazil's top team. |
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