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On October 08 2011 18:39 Omigawa wrote:While I completely agree with you on the LAN issue, I don't think having LAN would have solved the specific problems IPL encountered today. The entire facilities' (and the surrounding area if I read it correctly) internet was down due to a freak accident; the IPL still would not have been able to broadcast the matches, even if they had been able to be played without an internet connection.
Well, there's always the possibility of playing the games and just rebroadcasting them at a later stage I guess. At least better than not letting the players play and just using random seeding (not saying that it was IPL's fault, they couldn't do anything about the situation and I think the way they handled it was pretty stellar).
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Haha, this is awesome!!! More BW on IPL3!!!
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On October 08 2011 18:40 desRow wrote:Show nested quote +On October 08 2011 18:35 Torpedo.Vegas wrote:
Technically, this only happened because SC2 didn't have LAN. Technically, Blizzard's reluctance to add LAN to SC2 temporarily brought to light during one of the major SC2 tournaments of the years. And technically, all of this was only made possible because a truck hit the main internet line knocking out all Comcast service in Atlantic City.
Also, who hand Brood War on hand for an impromptu tournament? Do people walk around with BW on flash drives stuck into holsters for emergency LANs? maybe they were able to download it online somehow before shit went down XD ?
it was one of those jim raynor usb from collectors edition, hope that helps 
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On October 08 2011 18:56 Fadetowhite wrote:Show nested quote +On October 08 2011 18:40 desRow wrote:On October 08 2011 18:35 Torpedo.Vegas wrote:
Technically, this only happened because SC2 didn't have LAN. Technically, Blizzard's reluctance to add LAN to SC2 temporarily brought to light during one of the major SC2 tournaments of the years. And technically, all of this was only made possible because a truck hit the main internet line knocking out all Comcast service in Atlantic City.
Also, who hand Brood War on hand for an impromptu tournament? Do people walk around with BW on flash drives stuck into holsters for emergency LANs? maybe they were able to download it online somehow before shit went down XD ? it was one of those jim raynor usb from collectors edition, hope that helps
I thought someone downloaded it via their mobile.
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wanted to see boxer vs socke 
still,it was really fun to watch and probably better than the sc2 group stuff :D
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On October 08 2011 04:32 Ikonn wrote:
siege expand with 3 on gas? did I miss something?
That was Fake Double, I suppose..
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Rofl I loved the sign
sc1 > sc2
lan > no lan
This is so true, you can't have a serious proscene without lan imo.
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On October 08 2011 18:39 Omigawa wrote:While I completely agree with you on the LAN issue, I don't think having LAN would have solved the specific problems IPL encountered today. The entire facilities' (and the surrounding area if I read it correctly) internet was down due to a freak accident; the IPL still would not have been able to broadcast the matches, even if they had been able to be played without an internet connection.
but if they couldnt connect to the internet for example for 2 days than what? Cancel event? Players go home? There is a priority, players have to play even if there is no live feed. Sponsors will suffer but players are always first.
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On October 08 2011 18:45 drsnuggles wrote:Show nested quote +On October 08 2011 18:39 Omigawa wrote:On October 08 2011 15:50 konadora wrote:
this is why SC2 needs lan :< While I completely agree with you on the LAN issue, I don't think having LAN would have solved the specific problems IPL encountered today. The entire facilities' (and the surrounding area if I read it correctly) internet was down due to a freak accident; the IPL still would not have been able to broadcast the matches, even if they had been able to be played without an internet connection. Well, there's always the possibility of playing the games and just rebroadcasting them at a later stage I guess. At least better than not letting the players play and just using random seeding (not saying that it was IPL's fault, they couldn't do anything about the situation and I think the way they handled it was pretty stellar).
No, they could broadcast due to some improvised internet connection (maybe over the mobile network?), but the latency was too high and it was not possible to play on battlenet. so if there were lan, then everything that would have happened is the stream quality going down due to that improvised way of streaming, nothing more.
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I want to give Boxer a hug whenever he plays BW, very different feel than playing SC2.
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Wait a minute...The replay on the side..It's really Boxer and huk? I thought it was some random guys who called themselves Boxer and huk. :D
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On October 08 2011 21:56 dartoo wrote:
Wait a minute...The replay on the side..It's really Boxer and huk? I thought it was some random guys who called themselves Boxer and huk. :D
its them for real
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On October 08 2011 20:52 Elroi wrote:
Rofl I loved the sign
sc1 > sc2
lan > no lan
This is so true, you can't have a serious proscene without lan imo.
Thats me =D
I have "Broodwar saved Esports" on the other side
I asked IPL that they should do showmatches or tourneys in Broodwar and they like that idea
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TBH it sucked for Huk the second game because Jessica blinded him just when the double-drop was coming in. Much closer game before that. But still very cool to see. :D
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On October 08 2011 22:31 VGhost wrote:
TBH it sucked for Huk the second game because Jessica blinded him just when the double-drop was coming in. Much closer game before that. But still very cool to see. :D
That was after some sick defense from Boxer. The spontaneity of this happening and HuK's shit-talk made this event a lot of fun to witness.
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Pretty fun event to watch haha
I was having my 10/15 imba qualms on longinus :D
I think this should be another pointer at Blizzard to make LAN available. However they want to keep their tight noose grip on everything in the scene, so I guess we'll have to wait until someone can emulate the entire server structure.
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Man CA that was the perfect time for you to play some BW with a pro!
how come i don't see a game of you up there?
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