BCX 2022

Over this past weekend, I flew down to Atlanta Georgia to attend the BCX (Brawlhalla World Championship Expo) 2022 esports event. Since I'm already involved in the brawl community, this was a perfect opportunity for me to go meet so many other content creators, developers, and professional players.
The whole entire experience was absolutely phenomenal. I got to meet so many cool people, win in game rewards, and just enjoy being in the city of Atlanta. Once again, I want to reiterate the importance of socialization, as it's probably the best benefit out of esports. Being able to be social and with the best players in the world is such an amazing feeling. I was also able to learn so much from talking with so many different people. 

What Went Down

To further explain, Brawlhalla is 2D fighting game consisting of dozens of legends with unique abilities brawling to the death. I've been a Brawlhalla streamer for a little over a year and a half now I've gotten to meet a lot of the other streamers like in the pictures above.
This past weekend was the Brawlhalla World Championship and players from all over the world like Brazil, Europe, and Australia came here to compete and it was hype.

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On the first day pros were coming in playing games on the main stage, side stage, and the other areas. There's was a large area in the center for spectators to watch the matches on the main stage. There was also a merchandise booth, free play area, content creator panel, and lots of minigames for people to earn in game cosmetics. I loved gathering around certain matches that have a large crowd surrounding the players, and whenever someone won the crowd would scream with excitement. 
I think what I enjoyed the most was after the day one was over, and I went with some of the pro players and content creators I met and had dinner with them. That's where I got to meet and know them and really have a good time.

Conclusion

Overall, I extremely enjoyed this trip, and it probably is the most fun I've had in a long time. I also really enjoyed being able to be included and spend time with the friends I made online, in person. I invite readers to look into your favorite games and find out what events may be held near you that you could attend. I look forward to attending more events in the future, meeting more people, and even competing in events in the future as well.

TwitchCon Current Event Post

2022 TwitchCon San Diego

Written by Jacob Jones       Oct.10, 2022

Last weekend, this year's TwitchCon was held in San Diego and a lot of things went down during this event. Many things went great with this event, but there were also a few negative takeaways from the event as well. This event specifically is being recognized on this blog because conventions like TwitchCon has some relevance towards esports. Content creation, streamers, social media influencers, and more careers are branches that extend from esports. For those who may not pursue professional gaming, content creation is another route many people take that's a part of esports.

TwitchCon is an event that is held every year in different locations, for streamers, content creators, and fans to come together and meet and have a fun time. This year it was a three-day event in the San Diego Convention Center, where streamers and fans from all over the country attended and had big expectations. 

TwitchCon 2022

Overview

As previously mentioned before, TwitchCon was a three-day event filled many different activities for streamers and the audience to participate in.  TwitchCon is an annual convention for the livestreaming video platform Twitch. The convention is organized by Twitch Interactive and focuses on the general culture of livestreaming and video gaming. Throughout the entirety of each day, there were multiple different activities the creators and fans could do like community meet ups, meet and greets, musical performance, interactive sessions, and the Loot Cave. 

The main purpose for TwitchCon is to be a convention where people can socialize, be free, and finally get to meet their favorite streamers and friends in person. One of TwitchCon's activities during the event is the TwitchCon party. "Twitch announced on Wednesday (Sept. 28) that Megan Thee Stallion will headline an all-women lineup of performers at this year’s TwitchCon Party in San Diego, Calif., on October 8." More information on the party and how Twitch celebrates its creators can be found at billboard.com.

Significance

This significance of TwitchCon circles back to the concept I mention in my previous blog post: Socialization. Socialization is a major part of esports which is how TwitchCon is connected with esports. This also includes other esports conventions and events around the country.  This concept is also how streamers, professional gamers, and aspiring esports enthusiasts learn about the actual esports industry. Experience is very important, and there's no greater experience than witnesses and learning in person. 

Aside from that, TwitchCon itself had a large and positive significance on the attendants in a lot of ways. Many of the creators were able to do a lot more and interact with others in the Twitch community. They were able to play games, talk, take pictures, and overall have a fun time with each other. This also gave room for creators to make plans with each other and also even the Twitch staff in the future for how to better the streaming platform as a whole. This is extremely important because with Twitch, there has been a lot of problems with the platform and addressing them virtually has had little to no effect. Being able to sit down and talk with them personally has a greater effect to bring more changes to the platform in the future.

Takeaways

As I mentioned in the beginning there were many positive and a few negative takeaways from the event. At the forefront of it all, the positive feedback was that it was clearly fun, interactive, productive, and engaging. However, there was some negative occurrences and the main one to point out that everyone is talking about is the "Adult performer breaks back jumping into foam pit at San Diego streamer convention." There was also an incident where famous YouTuber "Dream" allegedly got jumped at TwitchCon after doing a face reveal video that received over 40 million views. He claimed he "fell out of bed," but a lot of people on internet suggested otherwise. 

Overall, this was an overview of what went down at TwitchCon last week, including all the good and the bad. I'd suggest as esports enthusiasts, to plan out a time to go an esports convention of any kind anywhere. It's important to gain that experience and socialize with different creators and gamers and see how they made it to where they're at. If you want to see more on esports make sure to follow my Twitter and come back next week for a new blog post!