In one day, we saw two very different sides of esports
At the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, a team of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players stands behind a giant stage, going over last-minute strategies before heading up on stage to play a semifinals match inside one of the biggest arenas in New York City.
Behind them sits a row of computers for practice, $400 gaming chairs, and a table stocked with bananas, granola bars, chips, and fruit gummies.
About 200 feet away in the bowels of the Barclays Center, a handful of the top Street Fighter V players in the world sit and stand among the crowd of fans, holding their fight sticks and controllers while waiting to be called up to compete in front of a crowd on fold-out chairs that take up about one half of the converted basketball practice court. Behind them is a nearly empty Red Bull refrigerator. Read more...
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