[FULL] William “Leffen” Hjelte talks winning Super Smash Bros. Melee at Evo 2018 | Esports | ESPN

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1. Btw, THATS A HUGE LEFF

2. Finally.

3. Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame, I want to see SPORTS, not gaming.

4. Although a clearly biased melee fan, I have to say to all the "real sports fans" that yes, gamers don't have to constantly train their body and bulk up or train for superhuman strength, but there's a lot of other psychological aspects in melee and other video games that are unique to esports. Not to say that physical sports dont have strategy, but the amount of constant adaptation and theorycrafting these players have to go through (and mostly on their own), coupled with the ever-changing metagame incites a different kind of avid viewership. The lack of monetary support and understanding for their game can make it very hard to commit to a professional endeavor. While esports and "real sports" may still have major differences, so do all competitive games whether it be track, baseball, football, skiing, archery, or in this case, melee. It may be nice to keep the perspective a bit more open and respect the effort of others rather than seeing it as some attempt to downplay million-dollar athletes

5. Sick video

6. Gaming shouldn't be named a sport, its honestly more convenient for people since they don't have to riskn their life or limbs. Let's find a new name (edit) what I mean is that I think gaming deserves it's own genre, because of how convenient and revolutionary it has become. I know full well about the gaming reprocutions it has on you. I'm a fighting player myself (melee, dbfz, mkx) so I hope my point was made more clear 🙂

7. Espn.zip

8. Wtf evo Already passed ?

9. Im glad super smash bros is taken srsly now

10. WTF i’m watching,they deserve an ESport Channel

11. This guy knows competition, unlike some of you here.

12. VICE ESPN?

13. Sitting on a device and playing Video Games is a sport? You're not actively moving your legs or working out by doing that.

14. This is cancer

15. WUMBO WILLIAM

16. I don't want no smoke….. Thumb warrior c

17. GIGANTE LEFFEN

18. I immediate knew this video game related when I first saw the thumbnail.

19. Fookin weasel

20. Leffen tweeted he would win, and did that shit

21. I popped off when he won. Let's go Big Leff!

22. So gay

23. HUGE LEFF

24. Why does dude lowkey look like Tobey Maguire from Spider-Man?

25. Super smash bros….Tha fuck is this?

26. Congrats Leff. Fuck all you white 40 year old men thinking he's not an athlete.

27. So now we are considering gamers as athletes. Lmao. Being able to use your thumbs on a controller doesn’t make you an athlete so don’t treat them guys as if they’re doing something ground breaking

28. J,ESUS CHRIST RETURNS, REP,ENT OF SIN AND CHANGE YOUR WAY OF LIV,ING

29. He’s the furthest thing from an athlete but he is a competitor

30. …

31. Lmao fat people playing video games is now considered a sport, apparently. Get this shit off of ESPN

32. Give ESports it's own channel please. I don't have a problem with it, but let's face it these are two different cultures clashing on the same channel

33. Lmao

34. This nigga look like an Asian ninja