Two days in the past, within the days main as much as The Sport Awards 2022, I wrote about how the wildly inconsistent vogue on the occasion was indicative of the trade’s identification disaster. Issues shortly acquired out of hand.
The discourse machine revved up and started spinning at an impossibly quick price: Nintendo president Doug Bowser tweeted at me, Xbox president Phil Spencer replied to the thread and confirmed he’s now conscious of what Mike Mercante wears to go get bagels, everybody was weighing in on the “T-shirt with a blazer” match, and the phrase “drip” was discovered and subsequently overused by half the trade.
Different publications wrote concerning the discourse, builders weighed in, and the lead-up to The Sport Awards turned much less about hypothesis over which sport would win GOTY (spoilers: it was Elden Ring) and extra about whether or not or not Josef Fares would put on a skin-tight t-shirt once more (spoilers: he didn’t).
In the end, it looks like my call-out labored. Quite a few individuals who attended the occasion instructed me through DM that I shamed attendees into dressing higher. The presenters and on-stage expertise at this 12 months’s Sport Awards had been nearly uniformly sharper-dressed than in earlier years, and even Phil Spencer gave the impression to be sporting a barely extra formal outfit.
The Sport Awards is an opportunity to have enjoyable with vogue and to lean into the themes which can be so typically within the video games the evening is celebrating, so it was nice to see some folks actually doing that final evening. That’s why I made a decision to spotlight the best-dressed attendees and honorees at gaming’s greatest evening. You all did wonderful, sweeties.
