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Since this is my first blog, I guess Ill introduce myself, I'm a 20 year old college student that loves eSports, the growth, and most of all SC2. I'm sure you will find out more as I update this.
IPL3 Origins opened with a bang, HuK vs Boxer, and ended with an even more impressive Stephano being the foreign hope, beating some of the best in the world on the way to his first foreign tournament win, as well as his first major LAN win. As we all laughed this weekend with the great panels that IPL had to fill down time, and we all cryed as our favorite players got knocked out, (Because come on, Stephano was nobodies favorite to win this right?) we saw something new emerge from the online viewing experience, not just 4 streams of the games we were watching but, 2 back stage personal views of the event. IGN did something to this even that really made the online viewing experience special. I felt like I was there, I understood what the players were doing between games, how they prepared. It's almost safe to say, Being at home during this even may have given you more player contact than being at the event itself. All of this just added on to the great games we got to see. Allthough what seemed like a small crowd, they were into it. They cheered when a player did something amazing, and the air was sucked out of the room in those tight moments in the game. And IGN did a great job at giving the online viewer a great experience of this event.
Cheers to you IGN, you made it happen.
Now of course it wouldnt be an esports event without some troubles, we had the truck that killed eSports for a few hours (I hope the guy/girl driving was alright), but we all had LoL put on the SC2 stream for about an hour, which honestly isn't that big of a deal, but personally I can't watch that game. It's like someone started playing a world of warcraft character, then 45 minutes later after maxing it out and killing deathwing (WoW boss) they started over. But that is just me not liking the game, not IGN's fault for catering to what seems to be a large eSport. My last complaint is, during day 1 the main twitter for IPL gave us a twitter account to follow for coverage, but for some reason after about 5-6 results we didnt get another result for something like 4-5 hours. I dont know how the coverage for this was the rest of the weekend, as I was watching the event, but it was upsetting when I lost track of a few players before getting home to see the results online.
The last thing I wanted to bring up in this, I have for sometime now wanted to do a podcast of sorts, something like a radio talk show for eSports. Something similar to what we see in Sports radio, but talking eSports. Just 2 guys that are analysts of the game, and talk about their opinions etc about the game. If anyone is interested in doing something like this PM me and maybe we can start a show of some sort, I dont care if 5 people watch it, I just love to talk about the game, and would love to put something out there to have people agree/disagree with me, and talk about the game more.
-Divine
 
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Doesn't State of the Game do that?
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On October 11 2011 04:40 PH wrote:
Doesn't State of the Game do that?
State of the game is players talking about the game, which is awesome, I'm thinking of something more like Weapon of Choice. Also, I'm not bothered if there is something out there like it. There are a million different talk radio shows that are similar, doesnt mean people dont listen to them.
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for something like that to work it's really important that the guys hosting have really good chemistry and can ping pong a bit. If not, it gets really boring. So I think, just asking random people on TL to join u is the wrong approach.
But ye just because someone else is doing it, doesn't mean u can't do it so go for it.
Anyways IPL rocked and GL with the project.
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On October 11 2011 04:27 DivineSC wrote:
...Stephano being the foreign hope, beating some of the best in the world on the way to his first foreign tournament win, as well as his first major LAN win....(Because come on, Stephano was nobodies favorite to win this right?)....
No offense, but that part was spoken like a true American....
Anyway, I do share your enthusiast about IPL; well done indeed.
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On October 11 2011 04:58 Vortigan wrote:
for something like that to work it's really important that the guys hosting have really good chemistry and can ping pong a bit. If not, it gets really boring. So I think, just asking random people on TL to join u is the wrong approach.
But ye just because someone else is doing it, doesn't mean u can't do it so go for it.
Anyways IPL rocked and GL with the project.
Of course, it's not like I would get a message and then instantly go into doing it, haha I would get a feel for the person, I just dont know anybody that would be interested in attempting something like this, so TL could give me some options.
On October 11 2011 05:25 HereBeDragons wrote:Show nested quote +On October 11 2011 04:27 DivineSC wrote:
...Stephano being the foreign hope, beating some of the best in the world on the way to his first foreign tournament win, as well as his first major LAN win....(Because come on, Stephano was nobodies favorite to win this right?).... No offense, but that part was spoken like a true American.... Anyway, I do share your enthusiast about IPL; well done indeed.
Spoken like a true American? Honestly was Stephano ANYBODIES favorite to win IPL3? When you sat down to look at the people attending, were you like oh yea, Stephano will win this for sure. Of course you weren't. It was MMA, Idra, Puma, Demuslim, *Insert Korean here*.
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I like the podcast idea. Something like a mix of Adam Carolla era Loveline and Jim Rome is Burning could be very interesting talking about Starcraft II. Get someone with a lot of personality and wit and then another person with a lot of technical knowledge of the game, could work very well.
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On October 11 2011 05:47 Cruncharoo wrote:
I like the podcast idea. Something like a mix of Adam Carolla era Loveline and Jim Rome is Burning could be very interesting talking about Starcraft II. Get someone with a lot of personality and wit and then another person with a lot of technical knowledge of the game, could work very well.
Haha, exactly, someone that knows the game, likes to talk about it, and can really break down certain aspects of it, as well as someone that knows the game, can make you laugh a bit, and also likes talking about it. I know the game pretty damn well, just need to find the right person.
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