Say Wut???

[Snaggletiger]

This is a blurb from the web page for WDHN, a local TV station.

ASHFORD, Ala. (WDHN) — Senior Michael Pace Mcwaters became the first student at Ashford High School to sign a scholarship to play esports at Huntingdon College.

His specialty is “Super Smash Bros.”, a game played on the Nintendo Switch.

Is this a thing now?  Scholarships to play video games? 

[Snakebite]

This is a blurb from the web page for WDHN, a local TV station.

ASHFORD, Ala. (WDHN) — Senior Michael Pace Mcwaters became the first student at Ashford High School to sign a scholarship to play esports at Huntingdon College.

His specialty is “Super Smash Bros.”, a game played on the Nintendo Switch.

Is this a thing now?  Scholarships to play video games?

Competitive gaming has a huge following.  Kids these days will sit on YouTube for hours on end watching somebody else play them, and those gamers are making millions off posting the content.

[Snaggletiger]

If they had only given schollies for Atari Pong back in my day.

[War Damn Six]

If they had only given schollies for Atari Pong back in my day.

U OLD

[chinook]

diversity.

game over.

[Kaos]

Yeah.  It’s over. 

We are ripe for takeover.  And it’s happening.  Look around you Ellen.  We’re at the threshold of hell.

[Buzz Killington]

Kid obviously deserves a 6 figure NIL deal too

[wesfau2]

diversity.

game over.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?

Fuck some of y'all are so reactionary it's like you're sitting in for Ward Fuckin Cleaver.

[Buzz Killington]

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?

Fuck some of y'all are so reactionary it's like you're sitting in for Ward Fuckin Cleaver.

Goin' hard on the beaver

[Kaos]

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?

Fuck some of y'all are so reactionary it's like you're sitting in for Ward Fuckin Cleaver.

You were warned.