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Da'Jour Jones. Actor: Players. He acts, he raps, he writes music, poetry, tells jokes, plays basketball, has a grounded foundation in life, he loves to cook, and he strives to help others. That's a description that encompasses new high school graduate Da'Jour Jones.
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Da'Jour Jones. Actor: Players. He acts, he raps, he writes music, poetry, tells jokes, plays basketball, has a grounded foundation in life, he loves to cook, and he strives to help others.
With Misha Brooks, Da'Jour Jones, Ely Henry, Holly Chou. Follows a League of Legends team looking to win its first championship after years. In order to make it to the top, their prodigy, a 17-year-old rookie, and their 27-year-old veteran must put aside their egos and work together.
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- 2022-06-16
- Comedy
- 35
- Gaming with Care
- Treating Esports Like Sports
- Players Invests, So You Invest
"Our show would fail if you felt as an audience that esports was a joke, [because] then you feel the stakes don't matter. And if you feel the stakes don't matter, our engine is broken, and there is no way you're getting past episode 2," Yacenda told Mashable during a recent interview with Players' two creators. "We felt that, at its core, this show...
Making Playerswork as an emotionally plugged-in sports story was the North Star that guided the show's two creators. They understand the genre as fans, and they know it's not the act of play that makes those stories sing, it's the people doing the playing. "Tony and I, to varying degrees, grew up with gaming, but...the bigger passion here is our lo...
In the end, Players works as well as it does because it treats its subject matter with love. The show invests just as much energy and focus in the emotional journeys of key characters as it does in the inherent comedy of kids who made too much money at too young an age, and far more than it does in the in-the-weeds specifics of Leagueitself. That h...
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Jun 16, 2022 · Actor Da'Jour Jones isn't the show's only Philadelphia connection. Exton native Tony Yacenda and his writing partner Dan Perrault wrote "Players." Da'Jour Jones appears as Organizm in 'Players' on the streaming service Paramount+. Both Jones and his character in the show are from Philadelphia.
Jul 30, 2022 · There are the performances, headlined here by Misha Brooks as Creamcheese, the polarizing veteran star, and Da’Jour Jones as Organizm, the uber-talented, soft-spoken prodigy that could shake up...
