Fantasy Soccer.
It’s known as fantasy football to anyone outside of North America.
World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen Is Now World Fantasy Premier League #1
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#12I'd love to see him take on Magic: the Gathering, especially formats like vintage or legacy.
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#13People may not understand how big an achievement this is. Yes you need a lot of good fortune, but there are 7m players of FPL. For most, getting into the top 100k is seen as a good result for the end of the season.
Magus is clearly a massive football fan though - he talks about it a lot on his livestreams etc.
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#16Fantasy Soccer.
"Football" is the proper name for hundreds of millions of people, and literally anyone outside North America.
The second part is not quite true. It's called soccer in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa (and sometimes in Ireland), Calcio in Italy, Sakkā in Japan, Zu Qiu in China...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_association_football
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#18People who are competitive at one game sometimes jump to another based on market trends, and although the transition can be rough, enough make it through that it becomes a visible thing. This is a mild argument for generality of competence.
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#19Fantasy Soccer.
It’s known as fantasy football to anyone outside of North America.
Regardless, the parent comment was useful to me and I assume others. Perhaps I should have assumed association football was meant, since Magnus is European, but for whatever reason I didn't.
Fantasy American football is extremely popular in the US, so I think a lot of people would automatically assume that's what was meant.
And yes, we're aware that people in different countries use different words for things.
(And no, actually, it's not called "football" everywhere outside North America. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_association_football)
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#20I'd love to see him take on Magic: the Gathering, especially formats like vintage or legacy.
The top MTG players have mostly gone on to poker, where the prizes are much more lucrative.