WTF? Competitive cornhole league? I thought it was a game for drunk college students or drunk rednecks. I have played this game exactly twice, both times at a work team-building event at the beach. Basically you take turns tossing bean bags at an inclined board with a hole in it, with the goal of getting the beanbag to fall through the hole. That’s it.
I am posting about this because since I am bored out of my mind sitting at my sister’s house watching the dogs sleep, I was flipping through their 1000 channel cable subscription. Suddenly, this shows up:
Aiya, so many things wrong with this. First, it is cornhole, and competitive cornhole at that. Not to minimize their skills, since they seem to be able to drop the beanbag through the hold 99% of the time, but it just does not have the same feel as tennis, swimming, or even golf. I guess it is similar to darts. Two, the main sponsor for the “athletes” is Bush’s baked beans. I am more used to sport sponsors being companies like Nike, Adidas, or Gatorade, not Bush’s or Farmer John. Finally, look at these guys. One guy has Airpods in his ears during the entire competition, and the guy throwing in the screen grab has a death grip on his thermos. I assume it is coffee, but likely something stronger, like whisky. This competition was sponsored by American Cornhole League. I am sure there are many other leagues with hundreds of participants.
Really, I have nothing against cornhole, or the hundreds of other “party” games being competitively. If you can make a living from it, even better. It is like when e-Sports first became popular. “I can make money playing Starcraft?” Well, I cannot since I suck at it. To me, there is a difference between competing with the forces of nature versus a virtual man-made software world. Hey, it is a free country…
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