Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakney.

With me today is one of my regular panel, freelance writer Julian Rabbit Murdoch.

Hello, hello. Welcome back to the show, man. I know it's been like three weeks. I thought you didn't love me anymore. Well, you know, when you started calling me like three or four times a day and asking me like, why haven't I been on the show? and then when I found that like rabbit boiled to death on my stove,

I was like, well, we should probably get him back on the show.

And we are also joined by first-time guest And then when I found that, like, rabbit boiled to death on my stove, I was like, well, we should probably get him back on the show.

And we are also joined by first-time guest, GameSpot's e-sports correspondent, and one of the hosts of the Live On 3 video podcast.

That seems really awkward, but the Live on three pro gaming show, Rod Slash

your Breslau. Rod, welcome to the show. Hey, how you doing? Doing pretty well. Rod,

you've been, you know, for those of you who don't know Rod, Rod is a, he covers e-sports

in all their various forms. He's one of those passionate advocates

I've met,

and he's been incredibly generous

in teaching me

how the hell to watch and decode esports.

And it's hard,

isn't it?

Coming from a background

that's not really used to it,

it's a cluster fuck of everything, right?

Shit, man. Yeah, it is. And that's actually a good place to start is, you know, when I first, like, you know, for various reasons, and we'll get to those later, but, you know, when I decided, like, okay, I should really start paying attention to e-sports. I'm really curious about what's going on in that scene and, you know, how to follow esports.

You know, trying to get into it from the outside was really difficult.

There's a huge barrier to entry.

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