The true story of professional video gaming. Almost everyone in the world has played a video game, but some kids do it for a living. FRAG shed light on the struggles that kids face while trying to break into and maintain success in pro gaming. At a young age, they are faced with making adult decisions that impact the rest of their lives. Below the surface of a simple game is an underbelly of corruption, money, drugs, and even death. Exploited, abused, and abandoned, most gamers fail to reach the top, but like all sports, there are heroes, FRAG pulls the curtain back on the biggest sport industry in the world..one that you know nothing about.
if you're into gaming at all, should look into this series, its a great documentary
Being On a highly Competitive Team Fortress 2 team myself, this was one of the best things i've ever seen on Youtube
there are also anti-cheat apps you have to run for most online tourney's and the one for the Current Alienware tournament has bandwidth usage that maxes out my 180k/28k^ connection, which makes things.....interesting, to say the least (300+ping randomly)
Re: FRAG: the Story Behind Pro Gaming
Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 12:23 pm
by smack323
walter day - that guy is funny.. watch the movie King of Kong - he is in that one also.. its sooo funny (i am not sure if it was ment to be) its about this guy trying to set the high score in donkey kong
Re: FRAG: the Story Behind Pro Gaming
Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 4:03 pm
by skier
smack323 wrote:walter day - that guy is funny.. watch the movie King of Kong - he is in that one also.. its sooo funny (i am not sure if it was ment to be) its about this guy trying to set the high score in donkey kong
interesting, did you watch the whole series? because only like 3 minutes of this one clip has to do with him lol
Re: FRAG: the Story Behind Pro Gaming
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 11:33 am
by smack323
no i only watched the first one you posted. billy mitchell he is in King of Kong also, so were a few other guys i seen in there.
Re: FRAG: the Story Behind Pro Gaming
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 5:45 pm
by skier
the later sections are much better
Re: FRAG: the Story Behind Pro Gaming
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 6:26 pm
by smack323
i watched thru about 5 then lost interest. i founbd the fisrt one the most interesting. I though tit was great when they showed the skanks in the hot tub..lol
Re: FRAG: the Story Behind Pro Gaming
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 5:14 pm
by Dragon_Cooler
Excellent post I watched it all. Very interesting and sad to say the least. This certainly changes my views on quakecon and the pro gaming. My heart goes out to em!
Anyone who says gaming isnt a sport, but will fight poker is to the death..the only difference is....Well there really isnt much of one. It would be funny to see gaming end up in the Olympics!! aHAHAH
Re: FRAG: the Story Behind Pro Gaming
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 11:01 pm
by shamrok3
Hmph "Team 1 sets world record for Warcraft 3: Defense of the Ancients, completed in 2:12"
Re: FRAG: the Story Behind Pro Gaming
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 1:18 pm
by skier
sections 7-9 are the most informative i'd say (after watching the whole thing 3 or 4 times)
/practices for a Total Warfare League match later tonight
Re: FRAG: the Story Behind Pro Gaming
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 3:46 am
by shamrok3
Total Warfare? I thought that the competitive RTS scene was pretty small. AOE2 ATW.
Re: FRAG: the Story Behind Pro Gaming
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 7:20 am
by bubba
Ok, after watching those I know a couple things.
1. Don't think I could stand 5 minutes in a room with Fatality. I'd have to hurt him.
2. Most of the competitive gamers interviewed are are some whinny bitches, not all of them, but a good bulk of the ones interviewed.
3. I like to game, now way I would spend the bulk of my day, every day, gaming; or give up on completing school to do it either.
Re: FRAG: the Story Behind Pro Gaming
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 5:29 pm
by skier
shamrok3 wrote:Total Warfare? I thought that the competitive RTS scene was pretty small. AOE2 ATW.
woops, meant Team Warfare League TWL, they do L4D/TF2/CS/COD leagues (22 games total) i play Team Fortress 2 like some other ppl here do, there are several leagues i've played in before too(STA, CEVO, CAL, UGC, ESEA etc.)
oh, and i know the person in the 7th vid, Carnage, who pissed on his laptop , he primarily plays TF2 now but was pro in Quake, currently plays for Complexity (coL.) in tf2
Re: FRAG: the Story Behind Pro Gaming
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 7:00 pm
by shamrok3
DAMN! I was hoping to creep into the Pro-Gaming scene with my epic AOE2 Skillz,, because I, honestly, suck at FPSes, although I do play quite a bit of CS:S.
, he primarily plays TF2 now but was pro in Quake, currently plays for Complexity (coL.) in tf2