West Ham sign E-Sports star Dragonn

MrsGrey

.. with two Ns

;puzzled



http://www.whufc.com/News/Articles/2016/May/6-May/Enter-the-Dragonn

Yeoldhammer

We signed a FiFa player who will wear West Ham colours as he competes in E Sports tournaments for FIFA games.

MrsGrey

;doh

Or is this is a fantastic thing that the club is doing, and I am just showing my age?

McHammer

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36231379

Aligibsonham

Good signing that FIFA player! Online e sports are a massive growing industry think I seen a German club bought a player recently good to see us taking a lead in a new market. Very good marketing etc. IMO

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

Wait so we signed a guy who plays FIFA video games

I'm so confused ;puzzled

Is he gonna have to play as west ham and west ham players??

We really gonna pay a lad to wear our strip during these tournament things

Aligibsonham

Yep, one of the competitions had 36 million viewers this year and the prize funds are massive, sure the club will make their money back in no time

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

But surely everyone who watches it is a football/fifa fan already so will already have a team

But dayum 30mil people watch other people play FIFA and it's not even one of the big "esports"

So does he have to play with west ham because if he does don't think he's gonna be 2nd best in the world anymore ;whistle

MrsGrey

I think it's other competitions, not just FIFA?

It seems to me it's basically sponsorship.... club gives him some dosh, he wears a WH branded item of clothing in public while doing his thang

grey_til_I_dye

I just don't understand...

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

Would love to know how much we are paying him

Fair play but I just don't get it

Football fans that like fifa and watch him will already have a favourite football team and the other lads who play the other games probably aren't all that interested in football

Will be interesting to see how it pans out especially given it's apparantly seems quite popular in Europe

OutcastLondoner

People make ridiculous amounts of money with this type of thing but not quite sure how much the club get out of it...

Aligibsonham

Exposure.... Not sure why people are so confused in the grand scheme of things it will cost the club barely anything whereas we will get exposure in lots of foreign countries who may have only really thought about the big 4 etc... If it doesn't work then I'm sure it's only a small investment,

Lukerz

I'm struggling with this.

So is he technically a WHU player who could be selected for matches, but instead he will play online games in our strip?

SuzanneClaret

grey_til_I_dye said:

I just don't understand...

Me neither.

MrsGrey

Slaven_A_Laugh_Lukerz said:

I'm struggling with this.

So is he technically a WHU player who could be selected for matches, but instead he will play online games in our strip?

Here's the report when Wolfsburg signed contracted an e-player.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/06/wolfsburg-david-bytheway-official-fifa-gamer-football-video-games

it refers to clubs employing professional gamers to don its green and white colours and represent it at tournaments.

My take on it is that he's not signed as a football player, in the same way we sign other players. It seems to be that we've given him a job. Although it's presented in 'football speak' so we've 'signed him' and given him a 'squad number'. But he's not really a squad member.

Aligibsonham

Obviously he's not a proper squad member haha he's just a geek with talent for FIFA !!

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

Can we pay actors to wear our brands??

The new captain america film will probably make billions of pounds why don't we get Chris Evans to wear west ham merchandise for all his interviews/red carpet walks etc.....genius ;cool

SuzanneClaret

Chris Hemsworth in a home shirt.


*faints

OutcastLondoner

I think he should get a pre-season game.

grey_til_I_dye

Should we start him off on GameBoy and see how he gets on?

(GameBoy - is that showing my age?)

Expat_Hammer

Nah ..................... a sinclair ZX Grey, that's showing your age ;lol

grey_til_I_dye

Oh, yes!

Lords of Time and Horace Goes Skiing, and a Scrabble game where the computer asked 'Are you sure that is a word?' and if you said 'Yes' it scored it for you.

Did my first ever coding on a ZX.

KingHammerAbroad

Comodore Amiga cpc 464 with green screen monitor! I could beat anyone at spannerman, bomb jack or daley Thompsons decathlon.

chicagohammer

My first computer was an Amstrad 2286 - it had 1mb of RAM and a 40 Mb hard disk, I recall a Battle of Britain simulator that was one of most playable air air to combat games I ever played, graphics were terrible but it was really playable.

chicagohammer

1mb of RAM, you were lucky!!! Etc etc etc

TwistandShout

Slaven_A_Laugh_Lukerz said:

I'm struggling with this.

So is he technically a WHU player who could be selected for matches, but instead he will play online games in our strip?

Bet he's better than Moses...

SuzanneClaret

as am I

Ravel49

Enter the Dragon

IronHerb

And now so have Man City......

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36734518

MunichHammer

chicagohammer said:

I recall a Battle of Britain simulator that was one of most playable air air to combat games I ever played

I used to play that, too. BoB by Lucas Arts. My dad and I used to take turns to see who could shoot down more German planes.