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On November 23 2011 06:00 elvideo wrote:
What about alternative Starcraft communities Kennigit was talking about during his interviews. I recently visited one and it was nothing but haters spamming reddit memes. Shouldn't we completely blacklist that sort of behavior, especially since the mods seemed to be encouraging all the hate I believe these alternative Starcraft communities are truly holding back ESPORTS and contribute nothing back (they even claim reddit images to be their own. wtf?)
The best thing we can do is just to ignore them and pretend they don't exist. The kids on these sites will grow up eventually and either transition to a more mature forum like le Reddit or just go away completely.
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This blogpost easily deserve my first post on TL. Thank you for writing this
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Honestly it was really worth it to read all of this (:
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Great post. The only thing that it is keeping the growth to go even faster is the haters, there's people who hate on absolutely anything, who will absolutely flame the living hell out of a new caster or player or tournament (I still remember the start of the NASL, dear god people complained big time). None in the community wants to be seen as a spoilered brat, am I right or am I right?
by the way, isn't Dreamhack's final going to be held in a hockey stadium or something similar?
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Amazing article Incontrol! I have always been a fan and will be for many years to come.
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On November 23 2011 06:18 Ko1tz wrote:
Great post. The only thing that it is keeping the growth to go even faster is the haters, there's people who hate on absolutely anything, who will absolutely flame the living hell out of a new caster or player or tournament (I still remember the start of the NASL, dear god people complained big time).
Yeah, how DARE they to criticise a tournament that was far from perfect!
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On November 23 2011 06:18 Ko1tz wrote:
Great post. The only thing that it is keeping the growth to go even faster is the haters, there's people who hate on absolutely anything, who will absolutely flame the living hell out of a new caster or player or tournament (I still remember the start of the NASL, dear god people complained big time). None in the community wants to be seen as a spoilered brat, am I right or am I right?
by the way, isn't Dreamhack's final going to be held in a hockey stadium or something similar?
its up to the community to grow despite the haters and to show that they are a minority and that the majority are all awesome
and yes the dreamhack finals is in a hockey stadium
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Also great post off to follow more people on twitter etc now
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damn good write up geoff
I truly wish e-sports will grow bigger and bigger!
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On November 23 2011 06:07 coddan wrote:Show nested quote +On November 23 2011 06:00 elvideo wrote:
What about alternative Starcraft communities Kennigit was talking about during his interviews. I recently visited one and it was nothing but haters spamming reddit memes. Shouldn't we completely blacklist that sort of behavior, especially since the mods seemed to be encouraging all the hate I believe these alternative Starcraft communities are truly holding back ESPORTS and contribute nothing back (they even claim reddit images to be their own. wtf?) The best thing we can do is just to ignore them and pretend they don't exist. The kids on these sites will grow up eventually and either transition to a more mature forum like le Reddit or just go away completely.
Stop it. Both of you.
Anyway,
True passion lies within the recesses of alternative communities.
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This is slightly off-topic, but InControl mentioned 200k+ watching MLG finals. In Sundance's interview he said he was hoping for 300k viewers for MLG Providence or else he'd be disappointed. I *think* he meant for the whole tournament, he wanted 300k independent people to tune in at some point throughout the whole tournament.
My question is:
Has anyone has seen MLG's stats for viewership at MLG Providence and did MLG hit their targets for viewership, subscriptions, etc(for what was an EPIC tournament)?
Anyway, great write-up, InControl, and very motivational. And best of luck winning some tournaments!
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On November 23 2011 06:31 Smackzilla wrote:
This is slightly off-topic, but InControl mentioned 200k+ watching MLG finals. In Sundance's interview he said he was hoping for 300k viewers for MLG Providence or else he'd be disappointed. I *think* he meant for the whole tournament, he wanted 300k independent people to tune in at some point throughout the whole tournament.
My question is:
Has anyone has seen MLG's stats for viewership at MLG Providence and did MLG hit their targets for viewership, subscriptions, etc(for what was an EPIC tournament)?
Anyway, great write-up, InControl, and very motivational. And best of luck winning some tournaments!
That would be quite the disaster since they had a million unique last time
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On November 23 2011 06:33 coddan wrote:Show nested quote +On November 23 2011 06:31 Smackzilla wrote:
This is slightly off-topic, but InControl mentioned 200k+ watching MLG finals. In Sundance's interview he said he was hoping for 300k viewers for MLG Providence or else he'd be disappointed. I *think* he meant for the whole tournament, he wanted 300k independent people to tune in at some point throughout the whole tournament.
My question is:
Has anyone has seen MLG's stats for viewership at MLG Providence and did MLG hit their targets for viewership, subscriptions, etc(for what was an EPIC tournament)?
Anyway, great write-up, InControl, and very motivational. And best of luck winning some tournaments! That would be quite the disaster since they had a million unique last time
They've never had a million concurrent.
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On November 23 2011 06:41 Thrill wrote:Show nested quote +On November 23 2011 06:33 coddan wrote:On November 23 2011 06:31 Smackzilla wrote:
This is slightly off-topic, but InControl mentioned 200k+ watching MLG finals. In Sundance's interview he said he was hoping for 300k viewers for MLG Providence or else he'd be disappointed. I *think* he meant for the whole tournament, he wanted 300k independent people to tune in at some point throughout the whole tournament.
My question is:
Has anyone has seen MLG's stats for viewership at MLG Providence and did MLG hit their targets for viewership, subscriptions, etc(for what was an EPIC tournament)?
Anyway, great write-up, InControl, and very motivational. And best of luck winning some tournaments! That would be quite the disaster since they had a million unique last time They've never had a million concurrent.
It's a good thing I said unique then, I almost embarassed myself there
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Thank you for that motivating speech, sir. Do my best to help improve SC2 and e-sport community!
Greetings from Poland.
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Another reason I'm very sad you won't be at Dreamhack... I would be able to thank you in person for all you do in this community. I recently ordered two of the new Teamliquid shirts and I ordered EG clothes at splitreason for these reasons. My hardware and peripherals have several Intel, Kingston, Steelseries and Razer parts. I recently begun streaming and uploading highlights to youtube, opened a twitter etc... I need more content though since I've been having a rather slow start. I'm hoping to record videos etc at Dreamhack to put on Youtube, who knows... Maybe someone out there will watch it and start following SC2.
Great writeup, 5 stars.
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Great post man, I'm really happy to have read it and see the responses coming out of it. 
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I'm Captain Peabody, and I support this message.
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Good read. Hope to see esports grow to new levels.
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