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More MLG Dallas '11 Spectator Coverage! w/ Video!

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GildedAdonis United States70 Posts April 03 2011 05:36 GMT #1 Hey there guys! Just a bit of background on myself firstly, being that this is my first blog post and all. I played BW since it came out, but generally only UMS games with friends; I never really followed the pro scene for RTS games until SC2 was announced. Don't get me wrong, I've always been competitive and wanted to perform on a professional level at something whether that be FPS, RTS, or playing cards, I just never got into the genre until later in life. I've watched all the big Beta tournaments, paid for every season of GSL, and followed most of the BW leagues since the start of the SC2 beta. I'm fucking terrible at the game (cheesed my way into Plat at the beginning but fell to silver when I switched to Zerg and started trying to macro), but I've watched so much SC now that I feel like mechanics are the only thing that really hold me back. Well, that and my inability to put my ego aside and just ladder like a fiend without worrying about losing. ANYWAY ------------------------------------------ Fast forward to today. I missed Friday cause I had to work this weekend, but felt sick that night and decided to call in Saturday to go and see the event and get a bunch of signatures from my favourite players for me and my friend who couldn't come on a count of him being in Austin. Speaking of signatures, I got both my CE of SC2 and my mousepad signed by the following players: Liquid Huk Tyler Ret Haypro Fnatic Fenix FXOQXC DignitasNaniwa EGIdrA LZGamer Gretorp ROOTKiwiKaki Catz Day9 cut me off twice for signatures!!!!!!!!!!! At least I got a picture... ------ Pics! ----- Here is my initial runthrough of the MLG Dallas floorplan: Here's another video of me bitching about MLG: Not bad. The player area was nice and large-ish, the main stage was actually pretty nice, and the featured match area was even better I think since you could stand right next to the best players. The anterior areas where all of the sponsors booths and stuff were actually kinda sucked. There were no interesting game demos, most of the sponsors no one cares about, and the merch sucked. Not enough giveaways (literally like none that mattered). Infinite Dr. Pepper was fucking awesome because it's the greatest drink on the planet, but that doesn't make up for the biggest problem: Lag. Sure, the main stage was shut down for most of the day because of lag issues attributed to having casters in the game observing and their excuse was that they were just going to cast replays until they could work out the network issues. That's fine. I just made sure that I hung around the player area and ran behind the terminal of the player I wanted to watch instead. Ultimately though, as the day drug on longer and longer, the lag became worse and worse. At the end of the day, MLG decided they were ready with the lag issue and tried to host HuK vs. KiwiKaki on the main stage and 2 minutes into the game it starts lagging. Bad. They wait 3 minutes, try again, and it lags again in 30 seconds. This time they leave poor DjWheat and Day9 to fend for themselves and fill time for THIRTY MINUTES while they wait for the lag to magically fix itself; like the problem was just going to disappear. After trying again and the lag persisting, they decide to drop Wheat and Sean out of the game and finish Game 1 then move the players back to the secondary feature stage where lag hasn't been that bad of a problem. Fast forward, and the game starts lagging again once Huk had decided to aggressively go into blink tech before Robo while Kiwi decided to rely on observers and immortals before getting blink. Requiring more intensive micro, lag is just going to destroy you, and that's exactly what happened. I know people are going to watch the replays and it won't exactly translate there because the lag is all crunched together and you don't see it, but trust me: if there was no lag HuK would have 2-0'd KiwiKaki. ----------- Did I enjoy myself? Yeah it was actually a lot of fun despite the bitter finish. Talked to a few gamers, saw some fucking SICK ass games (lolololololololololololol Huk vs. IdrA), found that most of the players are actually really cool people, drank a fuckton of Dr. Pepper, and now have a pimped out mousepad and CE to give to my friend. Fuck you MLG, Fuck you Blizzard for hobbling the legitimacy of your game for the sake of a buck, fuck you haters that don't support e-sports, and <3 to everyone else. Especially the ladies. No seriously, if you're in Dallas look me up; I'm a really cool guy. I cook food for a living and I will make you dinner then take you dancing. Peace.

udgnim United States8024 Posts April 03 2011 05:45 GMT #2 lmao at the crowd around huk and idra they really should have put them on the featured area thanks for the pictures and videos

EZjijy United States1039 Posts April 03 2011 05:49 GMT #3 Thanks for the video, although not the best quality, but its nice to have a general idea what these events are like. Were you one of the people that sat behind a monitor? Could you even see anything? What did most people do there since the main stage was down and all.

GildedAdonis United States70 Posts April 03 2011 06:05 GMT #4 Yeah I was behind them the whole time. Since there weren't any games going on at the main stage due to lag, the only way to watch shit was to stand behind the players in the player area or at the feature stage. The Player stage kinda sucked because there were three columns with two pc's on either side of the column for the players to sit across from their opponent, but the area was barricaded off to everyone but players and media so if you wanted to watch a player area match you had to stand behind the person on the outside even if you wanted to watch the player on the inside of the column. Additionally, if the match was in the inner of the three columns you couldn't watch at all because there was nowhere for you to get into the area to spectate. You could see the monitors in the player area on the edges, you just had to listen for them to call the match numbers and run to the computer number before it got crowded. For the HuK IdrA match there were so many people behind huk that no one could see so I was like..."Dudes can we collectively sit so that everyone can see the game? We know MLG sucks but let's make the best of it." and everyone all sat down at one time it was awesome.

McKTenor13 United States1383 Posts April 03 2011 06:14 GMT #5 hahaha I really liked the video. "play station, no one cares" <--how casually you just said that was priceless

GildedAdonis United States70 Posts April 03 2011 06:17 GMT #6 First videos I've ever made. I don't have the money for better equipment (kinda too much for me to have the iphone too but that's another story). Always wanted to get into casting and such since I feel like I missed the boat on actually being able to perform professionally (very great passion of mine, but I played too many FPS games and not enough RTS. Plus I'm too old to start now from scratch), but I injured my voicebox getting clotheslined when I was 7 so my voice isn't stable enough I don't think; especially when I'm sick.

Kennigit Canada19447 Posts April 03 2011 06:27 GMT #7 hahaha awesome. really enjoyed that. gjgj, Blog more tomorrow plz.

GildedAdonis United States70 Posts April 03 2011 06:31 GMT #8 Sorry, have to work. Like I said, I got lucky and got sick so I had an excuse to call in. Most people respond with something akin to: Just call in anyway like every other american. I'm not every other American

zaii Guam2611 Posts April 03 2011 10:06 GMT #9 Grubby is sponsored by Dr.Pepper? what really?

Zim23 United States1681 Posts April 03 2011 10:16 GMT #10 Love behind the scenes spectator stuff. Great blog man, more though, seriously.

GildedAdonis United States70 Posts April 03 2011 16:11 GMT #11 No, Grubby is sponsored by Steelseries and KiwiKaki is sponsored by Dr. Pepper. I got my facts mixed up in the video. I also like the part where I said that Jimmy was 1-1 with his opponent and that 'he was in the lead'.

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