How William Collis argues for his views
One of your exam questions asks you to focus on how William Collis argues for his views in the TED talk “How video game skills can get you ahead in life”.
- Collis relies on examples to support his belief that esports require a variety of skills from the players
- Collis relies on parallels to show that many of the things we recognize and value in traditional sports also exist in esports
- Collis relies on rebuttal to anticipate some of the counter-arguments that are often presented concerning esports
Collis relies on examples to support his belief that esports require a variety of skills from the players
When he discusses the skills necessary for playing video games and competing in esports, Collis mainly argues for his views with the help of specific examples. When he talks about “mechanically demanding esports” (l. 38), he gives the example of StarCraft, a video game in which professional players are able to surpass 600 actions per minute, “allowing them to literally control entire armies one unit at a time” (l. 39).
When he talks about the strategic skill, he gives the example of Rainbow Six Siege, a video game that constantly changes and updates, forcing its players to adapt and use their creativity to develop new strategies: “They introduce new abilities, new heroes, new maps. Constant change requires adaptivity. It...
