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

Joining me today for the first time is freelance writer Taylor Cock. Taylor, welcome to the show.

Hey, Rob, how's it got? Not too bad, just trying to deal with last-minute holiday craziness. And I know that's been an issue for our other guest. Welcome back to the show, our buddy, Andrew Gruen.

Hey, Rob, how are you?

I am hanging by a thread.

Just got a tree yesterday, discovered that there are tree farms that don't actually let you just cut down a tree.

They're actually like, do you have a tree reserved?

Which I didn't know was a thing, but apparently is.

So we had to go to a couple places, and it was absurd.

But I did buy a ton of booze, so I was able to put that day in the rearview right quickly.

Anyway, so Taylor and Andrew are kind of my e-sports colleagues.

We both do a lot of writing in e-sports, you know, at a variety of different places.

And I thought it would be good here at the end of the year, in part because we completely

drop the ball planning a regular show.

And Taylor and Andrew were just sort of hanging out.

But we thought it would be a good time to sort of look at the year of 2013 in e-sports and, you know, sort of take a look

at what happened, some of the big changes. I will say up front that if you are one of our many

listeners who don't really care that much for e-sports and as they relate to strategy games,

this is probably not the show for you. If you're curious about the scene and everything,

we definitely hope this is going to be an episode that you'll enjoy. But if you just hear e-sports and Blanche,

I got to say, like, we'll see you next week, and it'll be a show you enjoy. But for now,

we're going to kind of geek out on e-sports and what's been going on this year. And so to start us out, I kind of wanted to talk a little bit about what are some of the

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