Each week join Jay Hairston (Senior Community Manager for Team Envy/Dallas Fuel) with special guests from the esports community to talk about their experience in the ever-changing esports scene and how they got to where they are in the community and everything that changes in esports along the way!
Ticket info for Ultimate Weekend: dallasfuel.com
Envy Merch store: shop.envy.gg
Be sure to give our hosts and guests a follow:
Jay Hairston - @jayhairston
Justin Rojas - @justrojas
Tim Krajewski - @PirateMushroom
Anuj Bajaj - @Spiffy_VR
The Center Ring Podcast - @TheCenterRing
Intro - 00:00
Hastr0 on The Center Ring Podcast and the Ticket - 3:40
Shout out to Kory McMaster - 5:00
What are you watching now? - 5:55
ESPN Classic and shows you used to watch as a kid - 6:30
Silver lining to getting knocked out of CWL Fort Worth - 8:40
Using Twitch chat IRL and misusing gamer terms - 9:50
What does C9/Shang9 really mean? - 12:30
Urban Dictionary for esports - 15:30
Do you have Twitch chat open or closed? - 17:00
What Twitch was like back in the day - 19:00
ASMR - 19:15
Making more chat rooms for Twitch chat - 21:00
Do games need to be #1 on Twitch to be considered successful? - 28:00
Making a game a good game is king - 30:00
PUBG being too focused on being an esport - 35:00
esports influencing how games are made today - 35:45
Is Fortnite helping or hurting esports? - 36:30
Bridging the gap between traditional sports and esports fans - 39:00
Legitimizing esports in schools - 41:30
Educating others about esports - 43:30
Local colleges in Dallas getting involved with esports - 45:00
Start up costs for an esports program versus a new traditional sports team - 46:15
Generational acceptance - 47:15
Cross over games for sports and esports - 49:00
Are events the key to mass acceptance of esports? - 50:00
Esports coming to the Olympics - 54:00
You don't need a perfect image to be in esports - 57:00
Shroud - 58:00
Media training for esports - 59:00
Heroes and Villains in esports - 1:01:00
Smack talking in esports, will it go away? - 1:05:00
COD franchising, how will it effect rivalries - 1:06:00
Close and announcements - 1:09:00