One hobby in my life that I devote a decent amount of time to is video games, and more importantly fighting games. I have been around them ever since I was in kindergarten when my dad would take me to the arcades and we would play Street Fighter together, he always won. And as my life has progressed this hobby has gotten more and more socially accepted and it has gotten to the point where it is accepted in the mainstream media.

Street Fighter, as a competitive "sport", has been on the rise ever since the early 2000's, when the B series of tournaments started. From that point on it has been getting bigger and bigger, and with the release of SF4 in 2008 its exposure blew up. It was featured as the main event in the Evolution tournament series and drew viewers from all over the world with its stream live on the internet.

Street Fighter isn't the only thing that has taken off though in the world of fighting games, yet it is the one that has most benefited from the internet. Other games made themselves big through word of mouth, the Vs series of games.

Since its huge exposure SF has gotten many blogs from different people in the communities; top players, arcade owners, even people who work at Capcom. Players keep updates that tell you what events they are participating in. Arcade owners tell you when they are getting new editions of the games or what events they are holding. Then people in Capcom talk about changes be