European LAN Championship Part 1 - Page 9

On October 18 2012 08:45 FyRe_DragOn wrote:
im still waiting on why i need to include every smurf name ive ever played on. I will register soon as that is cleared up, and i can collect some replays and whatever else it said i needed (the registration process seems tedious and that + the event not taking place just yet is probably making a lot of people procrastinate, like myself)

On October 18 2012 08:45 FyRe_DragOn wrote:
im still waiting on why i need to include every smurf name ive ever played on. I will register soon as that is cleared up, and i can collect some replays and whatever else it said i needed (the registration process seems tedious and that + the event not taking place just yet is probably making a lot of people procrastinate, like myself)

On October 18 2012 05:22 Eywa- wrote:

This will be rectified shortly.


If the situation of player count does not change within the next 3 weeks, qualifiers will also be opened for the event in Korea.

On October 18 2012 14:07 iFU.spx wrote:

We need better promotion for this tournament. Still a lot of people doesn't know about this.

On October 18 2012 22:35 Sneazel wrote:
15 replays per MU,
can i give replays with my fastnicks? or replays from tours like isl, gambit etc?

On October 18 2012 22:58 SilSol wrote:
Is it to late to reg?

On October 18 2012 14:56 Sinedd wrote:

indeed..

Eywa please dont let koreans play in this..

it will be just a slaughouse and people wouldnt want to play the next LAN's with koreans in them..

maybe a better idea is to create a separate tournament for koreans, with smaller prizepool, so they would play at this LAN too but not vs foreigners..

also - maybe you should think about changing the registration rules to some easier

like 5 reps per MU and not posting all your smurfs account because it is pretty tiring for some players and I bet they would register if the rules were a little bit less harsh

On October 19 2012 00:05 LML wrote:



You're getting a paid trip to a foreign country and get to compete for money, even if the other 7 players besides me were top koreans I couldn't ever beat I wouldn't sign out because of that. The experience and a free trip, already enough to compete for.
And 15 replays for each matchup? Maybe configure your auto replay so that it saves the races in the replay's name, then it takes 2-3minutes to find enough games, srsly.

On October 21 2012 18:09 trutaCz wrote:
Im wondering why there are only 2 russian players signed up, if the lan takes place in Moscow o_o

On October 21 2012 16:19 Stratos wrote:
Some thoughts from a discussion with Dollar. Compared to what money you want to invest into this, the promotion of this is ridiculously bad. One ugly picture and a thread full of words and a shitton of FAQ nobody will possibly read. You say you contacted some people (casters?) to help you promote this thing, none of them replied. Wonder why? There's a complex coverage on TL but not once has this been mentioned elsewhere outside this thread. Wonder why?

A lot of people did not have confidence in this at first and there's a reason. If there is something great to come, it should be presented that way. One should be able to tell that the people behind it are serious.

How come this: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=375617 looks some 2000% more professional than this thread?

I get it, it's hard to get help from volunteers because not many people had faith in this in the first place = and we're in an endless circle. In my opinion, the easy solution here is to take a small part of the prizepool and just invest it into promotion. Hire someone to make a SIMPLE website, graphics for the thread, some hype vid even, where the organization explains what's going to happen and why. It doesn't have to be top quality, it just has to be something.

I don't know if anything is under construction, but if not, it really needs to happen. Asap. Coupled with the uneasy sign-up process (45 replays, really?), this is hurting the event in so many ways. If the people behind this don't know what needs to be done in terms of PR in the first place, just hire someone to do it all. I'm sure there's plenty of people from the sc2 scene who would be happy to take the opportunity. Use them. Once you get a quality hype going, people will spread the word and more people will join, volunteers will show up and it can all happen. As it is, people are hesitating to even mention the event because they don't want to be the ones to promote a scam or something that's just not going to happen.

Splitting the tournament into parts and making Moscow happen would be a good step in removing these doubts. But if you want to make it pure BW, you want to make sure Moscow doesn't fail in the first place. Use your money wisely. What seems a waste might actually be crucial for this to happen.

edit: Just read signing up ends november 3rd.. well I guess that makes promotion for Moscow kinda useless. Focus on the next one then I guess :< Make sure there's good footage to use from the event in Moscow.