It's gotten so much easier to keep up with games discourse now that you can just watch people stream the game and not actually buy or play it yourselfhttps://twitter.com/GameSpot/status/1291140638751305729 …
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Given how many people play Overwatch, and how few people actually play Overwatch at an elite level, and how much the game evolves from top 50% to top 10% to top 1%... I think people who are experienced watchers of elite play have a better grasp of the meta than those who play
I peaked at 3000 which is apparently top 10% (~2300 now). I still felt like a completely horrible player compared to the elite streamers. I wasn't playing the same game. I'm in the top 3% or so in internet speed chess. I feel the exact same way when watching the super-GMs play.
Some of the best coaches were objectively bad players, if they played at a competitive level at all. In fact very few great players have even been good coaches. That alone should put paid to the idea that you have to play something at a high level to understand it.
This is true about board games too. Thanks to Let's Plays I have some strong opinions (both positive and negative) on games I'll never play.
As someone who watches sports and plays Overwatch, the gap between what people who watch it think about it and what's actually happening in the game is an equally yawning chasm as well
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