Again, I'm going to say, this is not just an Australian forum. I'm from QLD, but I'd love to see the talent of our community who reside in NZ, or Singapore etc. compete against people from my state. I am of the opinion that if you want to further esports in our community, you cannot just prevent certain people from playing because of their geographical location.
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State of Origin is inherently an Australian-based competition. That's been the case for Day of Defeat, Counter-Strike (1.6/Source), Call of Duty (1, 2, 4, 5, MW2, Black Ops) and the Battlefield series.
Why are you under this delusion that holding one geographical based competition that coincides with - SURPRISE, THE ACTUAL STATE OF ORIGIN - somehow is a hindrance to eSports in our community?
It's these kind of events that tie in competitive gaming with the rest of what goes on with society that makes eSports more awesome. What do you think Barcraft is? This is a novelty event - if you try to be all politically correct by not wanting to piss anyone else off (not that they would be, this is an Australian tradition for ****'s sake) you're just going to ruin the event for everyone.
And to think I was feeling good when I woke up. Holy ****.
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