Monday, December 21, 2020

E-Sports, Dec. 20




The second half of the Tenmonkan Christmas Market event, on Sunday, was just an E-Sports demo. Not really sure if this was intended to promote a competition conference of some kind, or to get interest in online betting on sports video game tournaments. Either way, turnout was limited to no more than 20 spectators.



The two guys on stage took turns batting. I don't know if they also acted as pitchers, or if they were solely up against the computer. A few people in the audience were recording the game on camcorders, but I don't really know why. They also had competition video game rifle shooting, rowing and cycling (racing bikes on stands, with the course projected on wide screen TVs). Maybe it was the cold, but no one had any interest in playing anything except the target shooting game.



The two guys at the extreme right of the photo provided color commentary of the baseball game. Very silly.

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