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Speaker 1: Good afternoon. It is eighteen minutes after four news talks.

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Speaker 1: There'd be We've just spoken to Esports New Zealand. They've

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Speaker 1: missed out on funding from High Performance Sport in New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: Loads of feedback on that. By definition, let me guess,

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Speaker 1: it's not a sport. Not a sport. Darcy's here for

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Speaker 1: sports afterening. Well, actually no, here is the defense our darts.

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Speaker 1: A sport is stand up pistol shooting a sport. Neither

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Speaker 1: requires physical prowess. That's true, Darcy.

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Speaker 2: There's a theory that says if you don't have to

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Speaker 2: change your shoes, it's not a sport.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, Or they don't even need to wear shoes,

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Speaker 1: do they They just sit on the couch.

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Speaker 2: Well, they do whatever they want so they can do it. Look,

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Speaker 2: the thing is, it's a growth area in entertainment, sporttament

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Speaker 2: if you will. It's about the ability to it's the

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Speaker 2: best way. I remember when I was younger going to Wizards,

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Speaker 2: which is a people may remember that from way back

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Speaker 2: in eighties. It was a video game parlor christ Church,

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Speaker 2: it's the big thing. You want to do it? And

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Speaker 2: I was like, well, you know, Dad, can I have

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Speaker 2: some money because I need to go to Wizards because

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Speaker 2: my hand eye coordination is going to go through the roof.

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Speaker 2: I'll end up being a.

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Speaker 1: Really good So we missing out though on something by

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Speaker 1: not funding it. Now, you know the problem with.

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Speaker 2: The funding model that High Performance Sporting z has is

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Speaker 2: that it's based on we you successful last time. If

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Speaker 2: you were, we'll give you more money you can do

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Speaker 2: it again. But if you soiled the bed cheats last

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Speaker 2: time out in a Pinnacle event, we're going to take

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Speaker 2: your money off you because you weren't good enough. So

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Speaker 2: it's an interesting whip bash from behind or a carrot

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Speaker 2: out the front. Now with E sport, which has got

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Speaker 2: its own Olympic event coming up, there's no history. So

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Speaker 2: how I Performance Sporting Exeder would look at that? They go, well,

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Speaker 2: we don't know. And there's the argument whether it's a

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Speaker 2: sport or not, and that goes on and on because

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Speaker 2: apparently chess is a support as a sport.

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Speaker 1: It's so well they say it is only moving your finger.

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Speaker 1: So who's missed out?

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Speaker 2: Then?

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Speaker 1: Based on the Paris.

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Speaker 2: Hockey hockey have been smashed. They've lost one point four

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Speaker 2: million dollars of funding and a million of that's been

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Speaker 2: taken off the Wahana. The big thing here is it's

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Speaker 2: the trickle down because there's other sports that get funding,

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Speaker 2: but then they're quite elite anyway, snow sports are getting

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Speaker 2: a whole lot after what they've done globally. And I

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Speaker 2: think it's magnificent because I'm a snow junkie, not that

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Speaker 2: I've been up the mountain for so long because I'm

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Speaker 2: old and my knees gone.

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Speaker 1: But you were saying they shouldn't get it because they're

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Speaker 1: largely rich people.

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Speaker 2: Well no, no, no, What saying is that based on

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Speaker 2: what they had and what they've achieved, they do need

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Speaker 2: that money, but it doesn't affect a wider scale of people,

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Speaker 2: whereas hockey does.

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Speaker 1: It's played by a lot more ye.

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Speaker 2: Played by a lot of people down to a grassroots level.

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Speaker 2: I mean, did you play hockey when you're a younger woman?

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Speaker 1: Noo? What it does to your your shins? No way,

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Speaker 1: you're beginning mean shin pads? Come on, man, now, are

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Speaker 1: we talking about this next interview or not?

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't know what you do.

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Speaker 1: Mitchell Santana has been made clause I.

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Speaker 2: I'm very very pleased to him. He's a top bloke.

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Speaker 2: He's got a very dry sense of humor and he's

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Speaker 2: not afraid to use it. I think some people lose

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Speaker 2: that sense that he has when he's being interviewed. He's

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Speaker 2: so laid back, and even in the press conference today

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Speaker 2: is heid, I'm really excited by this. I look at that.

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Speaker 2: I am, because that's the way he with everything brilliant

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Speaker 2: and you can shoot him and he just look at

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Speaker 2: you and go, why did you do that? Hell?

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Speaker 1: I mean Darcy will see tonight. Good to see it done.

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Speaker 2: Matt Caleb Bly join us on the show tonight as well,

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Speaker 2: talking about who swapped from rugby to Lee Brilliant.

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Speaker 1: Darcy Watergrave, host of Sports Talk seven o'clock tonight on

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Speaker 1: news Talk ZAB, someone says, good afternoon, Ryan, regarding esports,

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Speaker 1: I do believe the current Formula Champion Formula One champions

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Speaker 1: competitors hone their driving skills on a simulator. Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: then they go and do the real thing. That's different,

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Speaker 1: isn't that? Nine two nine two? It is twenty two

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Speaker 1: after four.

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