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The first all-quadriplegic esports team levels the playing field
A new documentary follows the rise of the Quad Gods.
Hunt and his fellow teammates are at a Central Park memorial service for Chris Scott, the gamer and former skydiving instructor who initially dreamed up the Quad Gods while receiving treatment for his spinal cord injury. In a film that’s packed with poetic reflections on what it means to live in a body that doesn’t always work the way you want it to, Hunt’s meditation on the power of gaming as a democratizing force, a form of physicality in and of itself, stands out to me as the central thesis of Quad Gods, which streams on Max on July 10th. It elegantly weaves together a number of classic documentary formats like sports, competition, and animation, but what ultimately makes it work is the fact that it paints vivid and humanizing portraits of its central characters.
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