Hmm, so I learned of pog in 2016 when my friends were into Overwatch, and pog was definitely used as an acronym from Play Of the Game (POTG is very clunky to say).
However, the PogChamp usage is from 2011, so the play of the game usage is either coincidental or an intentional decision on the part of Blizzard/Activision.
Most importantly, the POG in PogChamp does actually refer to the beverage disks. Weirdly enough, they were just a prop in an awkwardly acted ad for a gaming peripheral by a professional Street Fighter player/streamer. The actual usage of PogChamp probably started on 4Chan before appearing on Twitch, after which it spread.
I learnt PotG from Overwatch lol. I pronounce it “p-tog”. It’s what the fandom wiki for Overwatch calls it, it’s what reddit calls it (I couldn’t find even one example of pog being used that way from /r/overwatch, but I can see literally thousands of examples of PotG used that way) and what news organizations called it.
Hmm, so I learned of pog in 2016 when my friends were into Overwatch, and pog was definitely used as an acronym from Play Of the Game (POTG is very clunky to say).
However, the PogChamp usage is from 2011, so the play of the game usage is either coincidental or an intentional decision on the part of Blizzard/Activision.
Most importantly, the POG in PogChamp does actually refer to the beverage disks. Weirdly enough, they were just a prop in an awkwardly acted ad for a gaming peripheral by a professional Street Fighter player/streamer. The actual usage of PogChamp probably started on 4Chan before appearing on Twitch, after which it spread.
I learnt PotG from Overwatch lol. I pronounce it “p-tog”. It’s what the fandom wiki for Overwatch calls it, it’s what reddit calls it (I couldn’t find even one example of pog being used that way from /r/overwatch, but I can see literally thousands of examples of PotG used that way) and what news organizations called it.