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intense555
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States474 Posts
January 01 2014 08:45 GMT
#1
Its a new year now, and after seeing all the doom and gloom of players being ripped off, contracts ending, and teams dying, I decided that I should make some new years resolutions that will help starcraft 2 esports.

1.First off, I plan on providing more content for the community.
This includes streaming consistently, participating in tournaments, and maybe even writing some more strategy guides. I feel like a problem with esports in general is that there is not many interesting story lines to follow, so by doing these things I might be able to get more people interested in starcraft overall by giving them something to be interested in.

2. Qualifying for WCS
Ok, lets be honest. WCS clearly is not in a very interesting place right now, especially in the Americas region. When you turn on the WCS AM stream, you will hardly ever see a player from the Americas playing and those from the Americas that do play in WCS do not always have much story line to follow which lowers viewer counts and lowers interest in starcraft overall. As one of the few foreign terran players that stream with commentary and a webcam, I feel like I could definitely build a solid story line to follow if I could qualify for some bigger tournaments, the most convenient being WCS AM.

3.Having "fun"
You do not necessarily have fun while trying to play competitively, but it is made enjoyable because of the fans and people that watch, talk, and live starcraft. I know for sure that I would not be playing starcraft if it were not for all the people that I have affected by playing, streaming, and doing whatever else starcraft related. Even to this day, I still smile every time I beat IdrA and have people message me saying things like "oh you are bad" or "nice job beating him lol". No matter what people tell me, it makes me happy to see that people still care about what happens, even if its on something as minor as ladder. But this is why streaming is important, it can make things as petty as ladder more interesting than even the best faceless koreans playing in tournaments. I remember back when there was the Minigun/IdrA rivalry on ladder, and I remember watching CombatEX and Deezer trolling/teasing top players on ladder. Things like this made starcraft fun, unique personalities interacting while thousands of sc2 fans watch on stream was just amazing. I remember all the times I have linked my stream against pro players who stream even though I may get destroyed and people will come to my stream chat just to call me bad, but at the end of the day, those people will come back to watch them and other starcraft players because they will want to see their favorite pros wreck arrogant kids like me instead of watching them play against faceless ladder warriors. If more high MMR ladder players streamed with a mic and webcam, it would create more storylines, which interests more people, and helps starcraft.

4.How you can help
Assuming you are not trying to play competitively like me, all you have to do is enjoy the show. Watch your favorite players stream, and maybe even check through some of the non-featured streamers on Team Liquid and Twitch. Even though players, personalities, and tournaments make the scene interesting, in the end its the viewers and fans that make the scene great.

***
Aspiring Starcraft 2 pro for @mYinsanityEU, follow me on twitter @mYintenseSC
[NACSC] Haru
Profile Joined May 2013
Korea (South)9 Posts
January 01 2014 08:50 GMT
#2
+5 Stars
Hwaiting! - NACGaming
tar
Profile Joined October 2010
Germany991 Posts
January 01 2014 11:04 GMT
#3
that's the attitude! Happy New Year and best of luck for 2014!
whoever I pick for my anti team turns gosu
TameNaken
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
Australia361 Posts
January 01 2014 11:24 GMT
#4
That's a great initiative. Subscribed to your blog and can't wait to see what content you put out.
feardragon
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States970 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-01 15:58:11
January 01 2014 15:56 GMT
#5
Gogo Intense! Love that you are aware of developing your own story as a player in order to market yourself(rather than the seemingly only used storyline of "foreigner vs korean"). It's SOOO important when you're aiming to become bigger. Best of luck in 2014! I'll be rooting for you!
Ok Starcraft 2 Commentator
YouthSC
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United Kingdom355 Posts
January 01 2014 22:40 GMT
#6
Whatever you make in terms of videos (e.g. vlogs), making them short and sweet is key for people to take an interest in you. Nobody is going to watch a 30-minute video on someone they don't know, but we may watch a 5 minute one, so make that count!

Good luck in your endeavours!
The more I practice, the luckier I get!
TameNaken
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
Australia361 Posts
January 02 2014 08:34 GMT
#7
Great streaming today, I learned a lot!
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