Just wondering what other games Go players mostly like to watch.
It can be a physical sport like something happening in the Olympics right now or an esport like Starcraft II or another board game.
I’m guessing many like to watch Chess. I like to watch Chess too. The streams can be quite entertaining even though I don’t understand what’s going on.
I also liked to watch Starcraft II but I have been watching less recently. I find it annoying that there’s no AI bar to tell me who is leading the game.
As for the Olympics, I like to watch tennis, Judo, athletics, swimming and diving. Gymnastics is also nice to watch but I don’t have enough art sense to appreciate all the moves
I used to follow chess closely, back in the days of Bobby Fischer and several subsequent champions. No broadcasts existed then. But I lost interest.
As a kid, I used to follow baseball, but baseball is better played than watched. However, I did attend most of my younger brother’s Little League games.
As a distance runner back in the day, I used to follow track and field very closely, including the rare broadcasts of various competitions (NCAA championships, U.S. Olympic trials, etc.). I got to slap Steve Prefontaine’s hand as he came down the finish chute at the 1970 NCAA Cross-Country Championship (a coach took me and a teammate down to Williamsburg to see the event). And I got to see Kipchoge Keino win an indoor mile in 3:59 at the Open section of the CYO Invitational at the University of Maryland in 1971 (or 1972?). However, I haven’t followed running closely in decades.
I largely gave up on the Olympics after 1972. I continued to watch the track events, and in one case, a team sport in which a friend won a silver medal (we had been training partners in high school). I stopped altogether in the 1990s. With the abolition of the amateur requirement, the Olympics seem pointless to me.
Incremental games, also known as clicker games , clicking games (on PCs) or tap games (in mobile games), are video games whose gameplay consists of the player performing simple actions such as clicking on the screen repeatedly. This “grinding” earns the player in-game currency which can be used to increase the rate of currency acquisition.[1] In some games, even the clicking becomes unnecessary at some point, as the game plays itself, including in the player’s absence;[2] such games are called idle games .
(Wikipedia)
Some games are not idle at all (civilization, scrabble, car simulators etc …)
Some are a bit but too complex to qualify (fallout, city builders)
Many pretend to be but in fact limit what evolve or not and for how long and with limits when not playing
this might sound super nerdy, but actually i love to watch streamers playing Super Mario Maker2.
There is this almost unlimited amounts of custom levels from the community and it’s fun to watch or even build your own levels and send them in to get played
I’m playing lots of games on BGA since recently, also like to play board games IRL. Haven’t watched any sports in at least 20 years. (I have been following cycling - well Tour de France, really - and Tennis at times in the past.)
