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Reply to "DOTA 2 coming to Vancouver"

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The form and structure is like the Worl series of Poker, and even professional sports, with qualifying competitions and then the big competition.

I read this from the article: "The Olympic-style games will last over seven months and involve more than 65,000 players from over 190 countries"

It makes me think about how many people play sports with the hope of becoming competitive, and how many people play esports in the hope of becoming competative and who has a better chance?

By comparison, there are 31 NHL teams who can only have 23 active players on their roster at any one time.

In the NFL they can keep 53 players on their roster. There are 32 teams.

Of all the kids dreaming of becoming an NHL player, there are 713 active players per year and there are 1696 active NFL players per year.

When kids say they want to be a professional gamer, what can a parent's response be?

8/23/184:06 PM

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