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On August 02 2011 09:04 freddievercetti wrote:Show nested quote +On August 02 2011 08:28 Emporio wrote:On August 02 2011 08:27 freddievercetti wrote: Can somebody talk about the ball that was being tossed around the audience during the last day? Was it something planned or just somebody threw a ball and people started flipping it being bored? Have you never been to a baseball game? No I've never been to baseball game. I watch sports mostly from TV or online streams.
They throw beach balls around because 1 person manages to sneak it through the security and blows it up mid-game and throws it around. Happens all the time at graduations.
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On August 01 2011 23:50 jenzebubble wrote:http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/j5g8g/mlg_anaheim_after_asking_a_bald_guy_sitting_on/Some back story: apparently there is a section of seating in the crowd reserved for players, media, team reps, etc. A redditor's cousin won access to this area through some contest. Upon returning from a bathroom break/whatever they noticed a bald guy sitting in their seats. This bald guy was Sundance. Without knowing, they had asked Sundance to move and he happily obliged, without making it known who he was. The next time that they get up they decide to leave some personal effects on their seat as a way of indicating that the seat was occupied. I'm told by people that attended MLG that this was fairly common practice. Xeris, when noticing two unoccupied seats, takes it upon himself to displace the items on the seat. When told the purpose of the items he was throwing onto the floor and that those seats were being held for winners of a contest Xeris had this to say, "I won these too ... through hard work." Really Xeris? MLG management: respectful members of the community, awesome event all around. NASL management: will throw your shit on the ground. Well I doubt we'll get a response from Xeris, but this is ridiculous. I don't even know what he could say. "Hey man, obviously I was joking." "All the witnesses heard me wrong."? I hope more people see this, so they can see how Xeris acts toward community members.
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On August 02 2011 07:32 FabledIntegral wrote:Show nested quote +On August 01 2011 16:17 jacksonjackson86 wrote: Free Dr Pepper. I think I had about 8 of these during the day. Will let you know if I get diabetes. The only problem here was that the size of the bathrooms was in no way relative to the amount of free Dr Pepper being handed out! It was rare to get into the bathroom with less than 5-10 people lining up, which was annoying, but a necessary evil, I guess!
Thanks to the organisers, players and fans! If you met a big, excited, wide-eyed, Australian noob running around on a sugar high at some point on day two, it was probably me. I think I'm the only one that walked slightly further into the Hilton to use their super nice, completely EMPTY bathrooms with 8 perfectly clean stalls and a ton of urinals compared to the TWO shitty stalls and TWO urinals at the event. There was no way I was waiting in line when Hilton was around a 3 minute walk (took less time to even go there since no line). Also, to all the seating complaints, I heard they knwe there would be more but are limited to a certain amount of seats for safety reasons/firehazard/etc. Although they should just pack Halo/CoD into a corner or side somewhere and move the 100 total spectators that showed up for those two events combined and used their stages to feature SC2!
sorry for late reply, catching up on thread, but you realize at the event, inside, they turned the womens restroom into the mens restroom, and there was like... 50 stalls there right? (on the wall next to the halo feature stages 1 and 2?)
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On August 02 2011 09:05 StyLeD wrote:Show nested quote +On August 02 2011 09:04 freddievercetti wrote:On August 02 2011 08:28 Emporio wrote:On August 02 2011 08:27 freddievercetti wrote: Can somebody talk about the ball that was being tossed around the audience during the last day? Was it something planned or just somebody threw a ball and people started flipping it being bored? Have you never been to a baseball game? No I've never been to baseball game. I watch sports mostly from TV or online streams. They throw beach balls around because 1 person manages to sneak it through the security and blows it up mid-game and throws it around. Happens all the time at graduations.
Ahh I see. Its alot of fun watching the audience view in the MLG stream itself. I thought to myself that all these types of self-expression(troll boards, Gracken worm, flipping tables, Emperor T-shirts and EmperorFighting signboard) and fun are rarer in the GSL streams.
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On August 02 2011 08:54 Killerkrack wrote:Show nested quote +On August 02 2011 03:22 zoLo wrote:On August 02 2011 00:01 akalarry wrote: i went the first day and got to sit pretty far in the front, sitting behind incontrol and his gf. it was fun but the games were SUPER short because of korean domination (it was like 20 minutes of games and 45 minutes of waiting.) The background music after games were super loud (like you're at a club). It would've been nice to have some peace and quiet, but we didn't want to lose our seats lol.
i didn't bother going day 2 or 3 because it was REALLY crowded, and we knew there was no chance of getting seats unless you go super early in the morning. If we had to stand far in the back, there gets a point where it's actually hard to watch the games because the projector was far away.
i got to see mma and mvp play up close when they weren't playing on the main stage though, so that was really cool. how often do you get to see a top korean's fpvod? (besides byun streaming or something). they play so quick but efficient, its amazing
bleachers would've been awesome or something along those lines. sucks for the people who have to stand behind people who are 6'5'' and/or 300 pounds lol Sundance is a cool guy and gotta give props to him for running MLG so smoothly. Yeah, MLG had some rocky events, but they've been improving each time. Yeah sundance is awesome, it was almost impossible to get day9's autograph because of how busy he was so I approached sundance randomly and asked if he could get it for me. He said yes and immediately took my mouse pad back to day9, got the autograph and then contacted me on twitter later that night to return the mousepad to me in the hotel lobby. It was so cool that benefit so far out of his way to help out a single fan <3. He also gave his pizza to a friend of mine after overhearing how hungry he was and no I'm not kidding about that.
Woah Sundance is TOO nice. Makes me feel really bad for all the flak g he got after Dallas.
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On August 02 2011 09:05 StyLeD wrote:Show nested quote +On August 02 2011 09:04 freddievercetti wrote:On August 02 2011 08:28 Emporio wrote:On August 02 2011 08:27 freddievercetti wrote: Can somebody talk about the ball that was being tossed around the audience during the last day? Was it something planned or just somebody threw a ball and people started flipping it being bored? Have you never been to a baseball game? No I've never been to baseball game. I watch sports mostly from TV or online streams. They throw beach balls around because 1 person manages to sneak it through the security and blows it up mid-game and throws it around. Happens all the time at graduations.
There were two beach balls being tossed around randomly, and one of the security guard ladies grabbed it and took it away. The whole crowd boo'd her (really loud), a mix of that and the frustration they were causing for not letting the crowd sit on the floor. So after she was humiliated she joined the fun and threw the ball and we cheered her lol
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Sundance is awesome.
Wish I could have gotten a picture, but only saw him once and he was up on the main stage
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On August 02 2011 08:13 TheHova wrote:Show nested quote +On August 02 2011 08:02 vindKtiv wrote: There was literally only two guys in the Reddit thread who can back up the story of Xeris kicking him out. Only one guy heard "Yeah, we won these seats too... through hard work." The other guy said nothing other than Xeris kicked them out. For some reason, I think there is another side to the story.
Seriously, Xeris has been a community contributor since the days of BW. You can bash NASL all you want (because it definitely did have its problem), but you cannot say that NASL did not do a good thing for e-sports (though I've actually seen some people with bigger self-entitlement issues actually say so) and you cannot say the Xeris did a big part in advancing that. Xeris has brought us Fnatic.MSI with his hard work as well. It is two random reddit posters vs Xeris. I think I'm going to give Xeris the benefit of the doubt. He's just the manager of Fnatic.MSI. They would be here with or without him. And he's been like this for a long time. If you've been around awhile you'd know that. The old BW commentator GGRise posted about him too. "I met xeris IRL at WCG US finals that I was supposed to cast in NYC. I can confirm: he is a dick. I was standing watching either idra or machine playing and he literally walked and stood right in front of me - as in my shirt was touching his. I tapped him on the shoulder and asked him "excuse me, is there a reason you stepped right in front of me?" to which he replied "I felt like it" so I told him to "get out of my fucking way before I make you get out of my fucking way." eg.colbi was standing next to me and said "dude, this is motherfucking xeris." I not so calmly replied "I don't give a fuck who he is, you don't get in front of someone like that" (other than incontrol maybe, he's a much bigger guy than me) and he got out of the way. If he didn't, I was planning on pushing him over the midget barrier >:D tl;dr yes, xeris is a big douche IRL"
Lol oh Xeris...not surprising at all. Once a douche always a douche. The only thing surprising is that some (very few) people are actually surprised by this.
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On August 02 2011 09:08 Kazeyonoma wrote:Show nested quote +On August 02 2011 07:32 FabledIntegral wrote:On August 01 2011 16:17 jacksonjackson86 wrote: Free Dr Pepper. I think I had about 8 of these during the day. Will let you know if I get diabetes. The only problem here was that the size of the bathrooms was in no way relative to the amount of free Dr Pepper being handed out! It was rare to get into the bathroom with less than 5-10 people lining up, which was annoying, but a necessary evil, I guess!
Thanks to the organisers, players and fans! If you met a big, excited, wide-eyed, Australian noob running around on a sugar high at some point on day two, it was probably me. I think I'm the only one that walked slightly further into the Hilton to use their super nice, completely EMPTY bathrooms with 8 perfectly clean stalls and a ton of urinals compared to the TWO shitty stalls and TWO urinals at the event. There was no way I was waiting in line when Hilton was around a 3 minute walk (took less time to even go there since no line). Also, to all the seating complaints, I heard they knwe there would be more but are limited to a certain amount of seats for safety reasons/firehazard/etc. Although they should just pack Halo/CoD into a corner or side somewhere and move the 100 total spectators that showed up for those two events combined and used their stages to feature SC2! sorry for late reply, catching up on thread, but you realize at the event, inside, they turned the womens restroom into the mens restroom, and there was like... 50 stalls there right? (on the wall next to the halo feature stages 1 and 2?)
Nope! Didn't realize :p. Where the hell did the girls go then? :o. Hilton was still super clean though.
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On August 02 2011 09:08 Kazeyonoma wrote:Show nested quote +On August 02 2011 07:32 FabledIntegral wrote:On August 01 2011 16:17 jacksonjackson86 wrote: Free Dr Pepper. I think I had about 8 of these during the day. Will let you know if I get diabetes. The only problem here was that the size of the bathrooms was in no way relative to the amount of free Dr Pepper being handed out! It was rare to get into the bathroom with less than 5-10 people lining up, which was annoying, but a necessary evil, I guess!
Thanks to the organisers, players and fans! If you met a big, excited, wide-eyed, Australian noob running around on a sugar high at some point on day two, it was probably me. I think I'm the only one that walked slightly further into the Hilton to use their super nice, completely EMPTY bathrooms with 8 perfectly clean stalls and a ton of urinals compared to the TWO shitty stalls and TWO urinals at the event. There was no way I was waiting in line when Hilton was around a 3 minute walk (took less time to even go there since no line). Also, to all the seating complaints, I heard they knwe there would be more but are limited to a certain amount of seats for safety reasons/firehazard/etc. Although they should just pack Halo/CoD into a corner or side somewhere and move the 100 total spectators that showed up for those two events combined and used their stages to feature SC2! sorry for late reply, catching up on thread, but you realize at the event, inside, they turned the womens restroom into the mens restroom, and there was like... 50 stalls there right? (on the wall next to the halo feature stages 1 and 2?)
Lol no wonder why there weren't any urinals in the bathroom... I had a gut feeling it was the women's room, but wasn't too sure lol
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On August 02 2011 09:37 FabledIntegral wrote:
Nope! Didn't realize :p. Where the hell did the girls go then? :o. Hilton was still super clean though.
Womans RR was a little close to the halo stage than the mens but on the same side. I know because me and GF had to look around for a minute to find it for her.
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On August 02 2011 08:00 berrberr wrote: Is Xeris the guy who had a part in the most embarrassingly horrible SC2 tournament yet? He must be lying about the "hard work" since it was quite clear that no one put any sort of "hard work" into NASL. Not only that, he was involved in the tournament format of NASL.
Now I'm not a big shot like Xeris so my opinion probably doesn't matter to anyone, but I'd like everyone to remember that he helped design the NASL tournament format! Flying 7 or 8 Korean players over to California to play a single elimination tournament that's Bo3 up to the semi finals, that is genius. I don't think any of us less important, less clever people in the community would come up with a brilliant, innovative idea like that. Xeris has earned the right to kick those competition winners out of their seats, he is truly the greatest mind in tournament organisation that the Starcraft community has ever seen.
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On August 02 2011 10:23 Eufouria wrote:Show nested quote +On August 02 2011 08:00 berrberr wrote: Is Xeris the guy who had a part in the most embarrassingly horrible SC2 tournament yet? He must be lying about the "hard work" since it was quite clear that no one put any sort of "hard work" into NASL. Not only that, he was involved in the tournament format of NASL. Now I'm not a big shot like Xeris so my opinion probably doesn't matter to anyone, but I'd like everyone to remember that he helped design the NASL tournament format! Flying 7 or 8 Korean players over to California to play a single elimination tournament that's Bo3 up to the semi finals, that is genius. I don't think any of us less important, less clever people in the community would come up with a brilliant, innovative idea like that. Xeris has earned the right to kick those competition winners out of their seats, he is truly the greatest mind in tournament organisation that the Starcraft community has ever seen.
How the hell is this relevant? It's the Korean's choice to participate in the first place, please don't rag on him for irrelevant shit like this.
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On August 02 2011 10:24 FabledIntegral wrote:Show nested quote +On August 02 2011 10:23 Eufouria wrote:On August 02 2011 08:00 berrberr wrote: Is Xeris the guy who had a part in the most embarrassingly horrible SC2 tournament yet? He must be lying about the "hard work" since it was quite clear that no one put any sort of "hard work" into NASL. Not only that, he was involved in the tournament format of NASL. Now I'm not a big shot like Xeris so my opinion probably doesn't matter to anyone, but I'd like everyone to remember that he helped design the NASL tournament format! Flying 7 or 8 Korean players over to California to play a single elimination tournament that's Bo3 up to the semi finals, that is genius. I don't think any of us less important, less clever people in the community would come up with a brilliant, innovative idea like that. Xeris has earned the right to kick those competition winners out of their seats, he is truly the greatest mind in tournament organisation that the Starcraft community has ever seen. How the hell is this relevant? It's the Korean's choice to participate in the first place, please don't rag on him for irrelevant shit like this.
His attitude was really bad. People will rip on him however they like for a very long time =/
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dang, xeris seems like a really arrogant person. feel bad for the two people who lost their seats :[
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Guys I know what Xeris did was a douchebag move but can we please not de-rail the topic.
While I actually think it's important to have the discussion about what he did and its repercussions can we all agree it can wait till the next SOTG or something?
Please someone tell me more about the actual experience
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<evoli> During Boxer/Rain there were about twenty or so members of the press and other VIPs standing. <evoli> There were no seats, no seats at all. <evoli> It gets kind of irritating as the front two rows are reserved for press/vip/players, but it's a rule that isn't enforced. <evoli> I get a hold of MLGLish and ask if we can do something. <evoli> She contacts security and they say they'll clear it out after the game. <evoli> They don't. <evoli> Series ends <evoli> and hella people get up and leave <evoli> but everyone is 'saving' seats with bags or having their friends cover for them. <evoli> Gets irritating. <jenzebubble> did xeris say "I won a contest too.. by working hard" <jenzebubble> and did his girlfriend say "They don't know who we are" <evoli> No. <evoli> His girlfriend didn't say that. <evoli> He did remark on his hard work., <evoli> But anyway Xeris moves this bag to floor; the seat has been vacant for five minutes. <evoli> His girlfriend sits down next to him. <evoli> After about three minutes I go and move the bag too -- it's getting outrageous at this point. <evoli> There are twenty or so people waiting for seats and about 700 more fans. <evoli> So after about a minute of my sitting <evoli> someone comes up and asks for his bag and is given it. <evoli> After another minute a second person comes, very upset, and asks why the seats were taken.
Obviously there are a couple sides to every story. That said, Xeris has proven himself to be a douche on numerous occasions so it's hard to know what exactly the truth is.
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On August 02 2011 10:26 desrow wrote:Show nested quote +On August 02 2011 10:24 FabledIntegral wrote:On August 02 2011 10:23 Eufouria wrote:On August 02 2011 08:00 berrberr wrote: Is Xeris the guy who had a part in the most embarrassingly horrible SC2 tournament yet? He must be lying about the "hard work" since it was quite clear that no one put any sort of "hard work" into NASL. Not only that, he was involved in the tournament format of NASL. Now I'm not a big shot like Xeris so my opinion probably doesn't matter to anyone, but I'd like everyone to remember that he helped design the NASL tournament format! Flying 7 or 8 Korean players over to California to play a single elimination tournament that's Bo3 up to the semi finals, that is genius. I don't think any of us less important, less clever people in the community would come up with a brilliant, innovative idea like that. Xeris has earned the right to kick those competition winners out of their seats, he is truly the greatest mind in tournament organisation that the Starcraft community has ever seen. How the hell is this relevant? It's the Korean's choice to participate in the first place, please don't rag on him for irrelevant shit like this. His attitude was really bad. People will rip on him however they like for a very long time =/
Not only about that, but other projects too that he's been involved in.
The guy has had more scandals when it comes to rubbing people the wrong way than a dyslexic shoe shop owner.
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Xeries spit in my Dr Pepper then took my girlfriend. He said he "earned it," whatever that means.
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I didn't watch MLG out of protest for because of with holding replays. So this thread will be all I hear about how awesome the event was.... shame
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