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Physician
United States4146 Posts
MyM & StarCraft
Good writing does not happen just at Tl.net & GG.net. It is good to see stuff like this come from different sites. Site in question MyM who has perhaps the best integration of all its functions, from news, messaging, to blogging etc.. pity about those minute icons and all the non essential games (i.e. all not StarCraft.)
I have always though that the fact our game has not made it properly in multi-gaming sites is as much as our weakness as our strength. In general StarCraft has difficulty surviving in multi-gaming sites; I don't really know why. Stubbornness? Lack of support? Lack of numbers? But it really would help our game if we did better.
Anyway I digress. For those of you who have missed them, three very good articles in dire need of reading. I know MyM don't really need the help, they are doing well regardless, but their StarCraft editors, particularly Alpine, has been pumping out some really decent stuff over there. It is the readers, that make the editor, that fuel him. So if you are interested in reading more, and willing to share a few seconds, leave an encouraging remark there or leave a decent rant. Without feedback, we that like writing for others, write less and wither away.
{adding spoilers soon}
MoTR#5: SarenS v iNcontroL
After a several month hiatus, the Master of The Races Showmatch series has returned to MeetYourMakers.com! During it's time here, the showmatch ran for four best-of-seven matchups as several top players got their chances to compete. For those who are unsure of how the MoTR works, it's basically a King of the Hill style series, where the winner from one match advances to the next round, and is matched up with an opponent of a varying race than the ones he's already beaten. For those skilled, and lucky, enough to defeat one member of each race, and a random/racepick player, they will be rewarded with $50 & a new Raptor K1 Gaming Keyboard!
Results & More here:
http://www.meetyourmakers.com/news/929.html
Pj, Lx, & F91 Compete in Chinese Tour
The Player's Labor Union (PLU) of China has just begun yet another tournament for the countries greatest players. Appearing just a week after the completion of the IEST 2006 tournament, China is certainly becoming one step closer to South Korea in the e-Sports sector everyday. This tournament has invited 6 of the best Chinese gamers to take part, and we at MYM are truly proud to see 3 of those members also belong to our own ranks! China MYM.Pj, China MYM.Lx & China MYM.F91 have all been chosen to take part amongst this strong field, also containing China Super, China Phoenix66 & China Chinatttt. The first matches of the tournament were played earlier today, and for all the viewers out there, the PLU has set up a LIVE stream at their homepage (link at bottom of this article).
More here:
http://www.meetyourmakers.com/news/932.html
BWCL - MYM vs. CDS
After 2 very solid weekends of matches in the Brood War Clan League, Internationa- MeetYourMakers.SC moves on into it's third matchup of the season! This Saturday, starting at 16:00 CET, MYM will be taking on the higher ranked team: Czech Republ- Czech Demolition Squad (or simply CDS) for short). MYM was able to come from behind last weekend to defeat Internationa- United Team with a score of 4:3, while CDS continued on it's winning streak again by taking down the Germans of Germany DkH, also in 4:3 fashion. Currently, the Czechs are holding onto the #2 position on the rankings this season with a total of 8 points, while MYM is just slightly behind with 7 points, and a tie for the #5 spot with rivals uT) & United State- Micro Media.
More here:
http://www.meetyourmakers.com/news/926.html
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Korea (South)11579 Posts
mym site i dun like, cuz it always tells me to pay them >.<
but these articles do sound pre' cool.
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Osaka27149 Posts
My suggestion to Alpine, as it is to several other sites without a significant reader base, it so find a niche to cover that other sites are neglecting, or doing poorly. The problem I have found with the mym site is that there does not seem to be a theme there. They have not given me a reason to think their site is the authority on something, when I know I can go out and read it somewhere else.
The best way to do this is on internal features. The race showmatches is a good example of that. There are also under represented parts of this community looking for a voice, and it is that kind of stuff that MYM needs to pick up on.
Of course, it doesnt help that the BW team seems to not be active. (maybe i am wrong on this, but I dont see much about mym these days.)
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Physician
United States4146 Posts
Can you guys see the pics here on tl.net? on the first view or not at all?
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On December 15 2006 19:03 CaucasianAsian wrote:
mym site i dun like, cuz it always tells me to pay them >.<
but these articles do sound pre' cool.
nobody is asking you to pay anybody, its just sponsor things on the side. Without them there is no team so its a tradeoff...anyways manifesto offered good advice but the problem is that alpine is a 1 man news team and well theres only so much he can do. Mainly what I think he does is spread sc news to the w3 guys that mainly visit mym because thats the main audience there. It has worked somewhat as some of those guys have gotten interested in bw. But I'm sure there are some other things that he could find that might lure bw people in to read bw news. Only time will tell I guess
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On December 15 2006 19:12 Manifesto7 wrote:
My suggestion to Alpine, as it is to several other sites without a significant reader base, it so find a niche to cover that other sites are neglecting, or doing poorly. The problem I have found with the mym site is that there does not seem to be a theme there. They have not given me a reason to think their site is the authority on something, when I know I can go out and read it somewhere else.
The best way to do this is on internal features. The race showmatches is a good example of that. There are also under represented parts of this community looking for a voice, and it is that kind of stuff that MYM needs to pick up on.
Of course, it doesnt help that the BW team seems to not be active. (maybe i am wrong on this, but I dont see much about mym these days.)
Yes, but I think all these things, like any mym insider stuff is only available for pay. So they may have that stuff, but I dont know.
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On December 15 2006 19:54 Physician wrote:
Can you guys see the pics here on tl.net? on the first view or not at all?
Not at all for me.
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Osaka27149 Posts
not at all for me either.
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their website is really nice, i suggest everyone make an acct if u havent already, their articles are very interesting and well done
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Physician
United States4146 Posts
#Zeller
K thanks, no big deal, they were just the same pics the articles had. Removed the fugly broken links. I copied my MyM profile, cause it was one of my better ones, to my tl.net profile finally (had to renew my password cause I had forgotten it; probably why tl.net has so many empty profiles!)
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They are not broken, I guess the mYm website, doesn't allow hotlinking of images.
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Physician
United States4146 Posts
#funKie
Ya I asked, they don't want beefed up stats is one reason I was told (if pics link are set to work their stats go up artificially, apparently they want real stats - I assume for sponsors; I suggested they recode it cause pics with logos/site address, when shared freely, if one has the bandwidtht of course (& and they do) own when it comes publicity.)
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ey if u want me to post stuff in there i can o.Oa
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mYm is pretty inactive, which is kinda weird for a big money team, that they can't even bring winning lineups to BWCL Premier League ....
but Alpine is a good guy, and writes some nice articles.
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Germany / USA16648 Posts
Since Starcraft wise I don't take much interest in anything besides progaming and the discussions in our forum make tl.net vastly superior to anything else in this particular department I never really got into MYM.
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Thats pretty strange considering you've done an interview for them,
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Germany / USA16648 Posts
Because Archi asked me to :p
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I think they should use their Players more to draw attention to their site. The community is always craving for ways to get in touch with good players. MyM should convince their players to do some show matches with fans or maybe give out some training lessons or replay analysis. That would always get them lots of attention and there is no competition at all.
The Starcraft community seemed to be very indifferent towards most special features that sites have brought up in the past. But the drive to get better is exceptionally strong among us.
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Osaka27149 Posts
On December 16 2006 01:58 Asta wrote:
I think they should use their Players more to draw attention to their site. The community is always craving for ways to get in touch with good players. MyM should convince their players to do some show matches with fans or maybe give out some training lessons or replay analysis. That would always get them lots of attention and there is no competition at all.
The Starcraft community seemed to be very indifferent towards most special features that sites have brought up in the past. But the drive to get better is exceptionally strong among us.
really good post and ideas.
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Thing with MYM is that most of their players dont care about the community overall. Now Im not flaming them or anything, but you'd pressume oldschool legends like Blackman, Raven, Stinger and Advokate to at least share some insight and/or strategies, instead of just collecting and showing up for the occasional CW. The team is top class skillwise, but to me the members seem inactive/dont careing, and I dont know why it's like that 
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Thanks all for the helpful suggestions and hints.
On December 15 2006 19:12 Manifesto7 wrote:
[...]The best way to do this is on internal features. The race showmatches is a good example of that.[...]
We are currently working on a big feature. We hope to reveal it this or next week.
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MYM has done showmatches.. like the war of the races which i had posted in several places.. they got top players to play against each other to see who was the best of each race or something (i forget the details) but yeah they do stuff like that. i do think they need to advertize in other sites more though to draw people to their site when events like these occur.
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Is this new feature going to be anything like the ECC 2006?
Four months go by and still nothing.
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Thank you all for the feedback on this post. It's all items that I specifically will be working on in the near future. And thank you Physician, couldn't believe it when i saw you had posted that stuff.
Dknight - i'm not familiar with the ECC, i had no part in that. But what Archi mentioned...is actually going to be really big in the sc scene.
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On December 16 2006 13:29 mYm.Alpine wrote:
Thank you all for the feedback on this post. It's all items that I specifically will be working on in the near future. And thank you Physician, couldn't believe it when i saw you had posted that stuff.
Dknight - i'm not familiar with the ECC, i had no part in that. But what Archi mentioned...is actually going to be really big in the sc scene.
hey dude can i put MYM in my name cuz it looks so cool?
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On December 16 2006 02:11 Guybrush wrote:Thing with MYM is that most of their players dont care about the community overall. Now Im not flaming them or anything, but you'd pressume oldschool legends like Blackman, Raven, Stinger and Advokate to at least share some insight and/or strategies, instead of just collecting and showing up for the occasional CW. The team is top class skillwise, but to me the members seem inactive/dont careing, and I dont know why it's like that
AFAIK, they do. But you have to pay money to see these things, as they are under the pay section of the mym website I think
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Thanks for the update. It was really useful, especially since I've been keeping tabs on all three since last week. 
By the way, are they allowing obs in the matches?
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Osaka27149 Posts
On December 16 2006 17:05 fusionsdf wrote:Show nested quote +On December 16 2006 02:11 Guybrush wrote:Thing with MYM is that most of their players dont care about the community overall. Now Im not flaming them or anything, but you'd pressume oldschool legends like Blackman, Raven, Stinger and Advokate to at least share some insight and/or strategies, instead of just collecting and showing up for the occasional CW. The team is top class skillwise, but to me the members seem inactive/dont careing, and I dont know why it's like that AFAIK, they do. But you have to pay money to see these things, as they are under the pay section of the mym website I think
If that is the case they might as well be invisible.
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