I've been involved in Esreality for quite a while, read the majority of the flames (and written a load myself), thoughts and opinions on the site which is the main reason for writing this piece. Inspired by other content on the site such as the Double Elimination post by Redeye; Let’s go massive by Flying DJ; the majority of articles by Vicious’ articles and more recently the slew of posts and articles regarding the newest member to gaming; WSVG. I begun writing this article quite a while ago, and since that time there have been so many posts along the same lines as what I was writing so I felt that I would also try to include the arguments voiced in these other posts (a list of links can be found below). Let’s start by taking a conceptual look at gaming and attempting to bring some conclusions and facts out of the soup in which we currently swim. Though I have to say I do diversify quite a lot in this article, looking at social and economical agenda’s and asking several poignant questions related to the medium of gaming. Rather than just looking at gaming I think we need to look at, to borrow from David Brent, the whole pie.

Redeye on Single Elimination
Redeye – Esports Are we there yet?
Redeye – On Winz
Vicious - Be here how

These are just some thoughts and views about ‘Gaming’ in general. Its spectator qualities; how those can be overcome. What is required for the mainstream, and perhaps why the mainstream cannot adapt to this ‘new form’ of entertainment and therefore how the entertainment must be changed to conform to mainstream ideals. This article was inspired by the recent discussion on the GGL ranking system, particularly the views of JonJay and Red. (Reference 2)

Reference:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/game-theory/
http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=995417
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_World_Cyber_Games