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MLG's gone so far.

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Juliette
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States6003 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-19 17:08:11
November 19 2011 16:59 GMT
#1
I was introduced to video games by MLG. Remember those early mornings as a kid, couldn't quite wake up but not sleepy either? The only solution was TV.

I remember flipping the channel and seeing Halo 2 on USA. Of course I'd known about Halo but my only real experience was watching some friends play. I think it was 2006 or 2007, where the top tier of Halo was Carbon and Final Boss. I'd pick a side, listen to Chris Puckett teach me about the game, and cheer in my bed whenever Carbon would pick up a kill, or a flag, or a win. This was when Sundance, the CEO, would cast games with Puckett! And when he had hair...

I remember watching Halo 3 with some forum friends I played with. It was around 2008 at this point, and I still remember watching the classic Str8 Rippin lineup demolish everything. When 2009 came and I went to the Anaheim event, it was tD that was big.

The venue was so much different. The WoW area was this small section in the corner, and the Halo section had bleachers! There'd be a guy to tell us "CHEER NOW" and we'd all scream at the top of our lungs as the teams entered from this hallway in the middle of the bleachers.

The stream quality then was so much different. There was no fancy player, it was pretty simple I think, just pause, play, volume. Different pages on mlgpro with octoshape for each game. Man, back when Smash was on the circuit. They don't air the old spice commercials anymore, with it was the buff black guy (I forget his name!) that broke your monitor. :[.

Back in the day, as I mentioned, Sundance would cast, with hair, Halo 2.

Here's the 2007 Halo 2 Finals.
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I'm pretty sure this one's Sundance, with Puckett.


Note the smaller crowd than today, the bleachers. However, you have to notice that more importantly, the hype is the same. You still feel the same nerd chills running down your back when the players come in and are introduced.

Of course that was Halo 2, but the format was largely unchanged for Halo 3. Imagine, though, that with the addition of Starcraft 2 in the lineup, MLG changed from what you see in those videos to what you see on the stream right now as Machine sets up against Nestea. In barely over a year, MLG has gone from a mostly American tournament, where the major attraction was Halo, to an international tournament with the best players from Korea. In less then a year, MLG went from having a maybe a thousand people, maybe, come to their event (and I apologize if this is incorrect), to, how many was it at Anaheim? How many at Raleigh, or Orlando?

MLG is amazing.


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i was having nostalgia when i saw the mlg commercial that showed a simulated arena before the nestea/machine interview.... so good...


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OKAY FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE I SEE WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT
Soleron
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United Kingdom1324 Posts
November 19 2011 17:02 GMT
#2
I always wondered what game made Sundance keep doing MLG. Thanks for this!
OmniEulogy
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada6592 Posts
November 19 2011 19:12 GMT
#3
Awesome job Jules I watched like 40 minutes of that vid lol way to go =p
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unit
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States2621 Posts
November 19 2011 19:31 GMT
#4
On November 20 2011 02:02 Soleron wrote:
I always wondered what game made Sundance keep doing MLG. Thanks for this!

i think its more a love of the gaming community more than anything at this point, you can see the love of everything he does on his face every time he talks about MLG
Sermokala
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States13925 Posts
November 19 2011 20:23 GMT
#5
Yeah to be honest though that was a huge thing back in the day. that was the "main stage" and it was just a crazy feel. They just started streaming at the end of halo 2 and halo 3 was really the golden age of the halo esport genre. He was smack talking hard as shit when csl went down and it was just a great spot I havn't seen it again but it was just an epic moment. Final boss was really the team that made mlg what it is today. they where completly legit with hard working players that where great for sponsors and they had a lot of dominant performances. They had a thing with an nba star for a year or so and he sponsored the very first halo 3 ladder. smash died on the circut beacuse of match fixing sadly, and wow arena was wow arena. I remember the feeling when I saw sc2 for the first time at Raleigh. Husky in his hoodie and day9 rotating between series with jp was a great steady casting group. I ended up watching it more then anything else and really loved the huk vs root storyline. They talked about team liquid and I ended up going to the site because of that.

The thing that people don't talk about too much is that Sundance is the co-founder of mlg. the other guy is still in the business and is chairman of the board. He doesn't like his face in the public but hes made some statements back when they where going to have mlg on espn (Friday night content was only on espn 3 and not on the mlg site) The deal was that espn sent out a production truck like what they have now. People where really worried that this was mlg spitting on net neutrality and they backed off the deal. It was a great statement as well because he at the same time explained the situation trashed the communities opinions about why net neutrality was stupid and ignorant and then said that they where going to follow what the community wanted anyway.

They kept people going to their events by being nice to them. sundance gave t2 a free shirt for coming and he's said that was the happiest thing he's ever had going to mlg. final boss and carbon got sponsorship's that mlg searched for. the talent kept coming and then bungie had a mlg ladder on halo 3 which gave them so much legitimacy. The prize pools where always slanted hard tword the end of the circuit. mlg is just so well run I'm really happy that they're doing so well with sc2 now.
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