Merch Booths at Live Competitions

CPTBadAss

United States594 Posts

May 14 2012 00:56 GMT

Since I’ve been following professional StarCraft 2, I’ve been to 2 live competitions: MLG Providence 2011 and MLG Columbus 2012. At both of these, I admired many awesome T-shirts.

This one just looks so cool in real life.

This is probably my favorite hoodie in all of StarCraft 2, on my favorite player.

Why do I love t-shirts so much? It’s not that I’m a fashion snob but that I am a diehard metalhead and StarCraft 2 fan. The two are related because, for me, being a metalhead and being an SC2 fan are both more like lifestyles than hobbies. I don’t just love to play StarCraft 2, I write about it and attend as many LAN tournaments as possible. I proudly wear both my TeamLiquid Steel t-shirt alongside my other amazing band shirts. I want to show off my love in the t-shirts I wear. And I like to support the bands/teams by buying merchandise.

When I go shows, one of my favorite things is to hit up the merch booths to see what new things I can buy to flaunt. Whenever I go to LAN tournaments, I try to check out all the stuff being sold as well. But the thing is, I’ve never really seen team merch booths at competitions. MLG has a booth where they sell MLG t-shirts but why not different teams? TeamLiquid claims that they’ve sold 5000 shirts so far. I believe that they could easily sell 500-1000 shirts in an MLG weekend. When I was at MLG Columbus, EG’s SirScoots tweeted that if you met up with him early Saturday morning, you could get a free team jersey from him. People ate it up and were running around like chickens with their heads cut off trying to get one of like 10 t-shirts. I bet EG could have a line all weekend at their booth if they brought some merchandise. Especially since they have a t-shirt sponsor, I could see EG easily having an extremely successful merchandising booth.

How awesome would it be if you attended a competition and when someone said, “Huk will be signing autographs at X booth at 3 pm.” And you could go and buy an EG jersey for him to sign. Or if Idra wins and everyone snaps up Release the Gracken shirts so show support. I know I would buy so many impulse shirts if they were available.

So what does everyone think? Would you buy a t shirt or hoodies at a competition? Would you like to see more merch booths at an MLG or IPL?

Thaniri

1264 Posts

May 14 2012 00:59 GMT

I would if there were any international esports events in vancouver ^^.

Antimatterz

United States1010 Posts

May 14 2012 05:18 GMT

I would seriously bring $200 to down on shirts, my EG jersey and my TL jersey are my two favorite and probably most well made shirts I own.

surfinbird1

Germany999 Posts

May 14 2012 07:28 GMT

That's a great, and in my opinion, very reasonable proposal. I'm a metal fan as well and am familiar with our t-shirt customs. When I think back to all the concerts and festivals, buying a t-shirt or apparel of sorts for me is not just supprt for the musicians I enjoy, it's also about the memory. You know how people by t-shirts on holiday or on a special concert tour as a souvenir basically? I'd imagine this would work the same way pretty much.

CPTBadAss

United States594 Posts

May 20 2012 20:38 GMT

On May 14 2012 16:28 surfinbird1 wrote:
That's a great, and in my opinion, very reasonable proposal. I'm a metal fan as well and am familiar with our t-shirt customs. When I think back to all the concerts and festivals, buying a t-shirt or apparel of sorts for me is not just supprt for the musicians I enjoy, it's also about the memory. You know how people by t-shirts on holiday or on a special concert tour as a souvenir basically? I'd imagine this would work the same way pretty much.

That's exactly how I feel. I think this would totally work for an MLG and IPL as well.

Primadog

United States4411 Posts

May 20 2012 20:48 GMT

There will be merc booth for gesl.

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