The 7th Seed
Invisible Choir
Reach Freaks
4.7 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The views expressed in the following episode are those of the subjects interviewed or individual presenters from the case and you not necessarily reflect the views of reach Greeks LLC or the Invisible Choir Podcast. |
| 0:16.0 | Invisible Choir explores detailed depictions of violence and murder and is not appropriate for all audiences. |
| 0:23.0 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:31.0 | Growing up, a parent or guardian most likely at some point told you not to play video games. |
| 0:36.0 | Whether for disciplinary reasons, the violent nature of certain games such as Grand Theft Auto or simply just because they would quote, |
| 0:44.0 | fry your brain. While our folks certainly meant well, they surely never anticipated that years later, professional gamers would be collecting up to $100,000 cash prizes, making what most of accrued in debt at a four-year college from a single professional championship tournament win. |
| 1:02.0 | What a time to be alive. |
| 1:05.0 | If this sounds mind-blowing to you, that's because it is. E-sports, otherwise known as electronic sports, is a community built of gamers that come together to compete at both amateur and professional levels from all over the globe. |
| 1:19.0 | It wasn't until the late 2000s that these competitions would erupt, becoming so huge that the video game developers and large companies would begin to notice, hoping to cash in, investing large sums of money into the next best thing that was E-sports. |
| 1:34.0 | By 2010, larger competitions were reported to bring in upwards of $1 billion in revenue per event, filling major stadiums of nearly 20,000 fans at venues such as New York City's Barclays Center. |
| 1:49.0 | E-sports have undoubtedly become one of the fastest growing networks of the past century, oftentimes settling into the neighborhood of up to 500 million views for any given professional competition stream, on popular platforms such as YouTube or Twitch. |
| 2:03.0 | Professional gamers are seen as professional athletes. They can be found taking photos with adoring fans and signing autographs, after each match at these events. |
| 2:14.0 | Popular titles played in these competitions include Overwatch, League of Legends, Call of Duty, and the renowned football franchise, Madden. |
| 2:23.0 | Even in the virtual world, however, there is a dark side. While positivity and good sportsmanship is perpetuated in these professional gaming events, what we don't often see is the sacrifice, hard work, lack of sleep, and intense trash talk that comes with reaching professional gamer status. |
| 2:42.0 | In a realm that is seen as an outlet, a form of escapism for so many gamers, we often fail to consider that some might get lost in the fantasy. The games become their second life, if you will, and some never make it back. |
| 2:57.0 | Well, what happens when a professional gamer commits too far to his newfound place in the world? |
| 3:03.0 | This is that story, a tragic tale of a disturbed young man, and the innocent victims he would selfishly take with him one Sunday afternoon, on August 26, in 2018, in Jacksonville, Florida. |
| 3:16.0 | David Katz seemed to have a pretty good life, at least from an outsider's field of view. |
| 3:33.0 | Growing up in the upper middle class suburbs of Howard County, Maryland, David grew up with his brother Brandon, his mother Elizabeth, and his father Richard. |
| 3:42.0 | David's mother was a successful toxicologist, working for the US Food and Drug Administration in nearby Rockville, Maryland. |
| 3:49.0 | David's father, Richard Katz, was a prominent engineer for NASA, designing electronics to be used on spacecrafts. |
| 3:57.0 | In terms of, quote, keeping up with the Joneses, the Katz family seemingly had it all. A nice family, a nice home, all in a wealthy tree-lined neighborhood. |
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