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PC Gamer journalist Richard McCormick recently gave me some info about Jaedong, Bisu, Fantasy and JangBi's appearance at Blizzcon. Wasn't able to release information before, but able to now. He will be on Live On Three RIGHT NOW to discuss this article and his time at BlizzCon, and how eSports has been taken at PC Gamer - Tune in at http://www.Twitch.tv/OneMoreGameTV
http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/10/26/why-blizzard-invited-the-worlds-best-starcraft-brood-war-players-to-blizzcon-2011/
Jaedong, Fantasy, Bisu, and Jangbi are some of the world’s premier StarCraft: Brood War players. This year, these four StarCrafting superstars were invited to Blizzcon.
They were there to see how StarCraft II – and esports in general – is consumed in the west. Confirmed by a Blizzard representative, Jaedong, Bisu, Fantasy and Jangbi (along with a representative from the Korean e-Sports Association that runs the league they play in) sat in on the StarCraft II tournaments taking place at the show – the GSL finals and the Blizzcon Invitational – to see first-hand the changes that have taken place in international pro-gaming during 2011, after hearing of a widening fan-base in the west. The players were reportedly blown away by the noise and spectacle of the events
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thats incredbile... hopefully would convince them to switch over when they see the huge world support!
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Sweet, maybe they come to SC2 soon
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I am so glad this is the reason. I am anxious on their thoughts.
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So.... You couldnt say that they were there... to watch e-sports?
Seems like... a not "secret reason" to invite extremely popular pros to a event... more like... publicity... Nothing new really, so i dont see how this is really "news"...
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good news but it doesn't really mean anything. They wont be switching over to SC2 until BW is totally dead.
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How anticlimactic.
But at least people can stop panicking now.
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This made me feel even a bit worse about the fact that they were constantly harassed by fans wanting autographs and shit while they were sitting there trying to watch the tournament.
On the other hand, maybe that gave them an even stronger impression of how big SC2 is getting.
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god damn you slasher. if what you wrote there is the "reason" they came, then please, you shouldnt have opened your mouth about something everyone was already saying.... wow....
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Well, the reason was always pretty obvious 
(Unless people were really going to buy "oh, did we just so happen to invite you to a conference that just coincidentally had the finals of 2 big tournaments?" (Not saying they tried that, just saying =P))
But it'll be interesting to see how it pans out.
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On October 27 2011 08:06 Malpractice.248 wrote:
So.... You couldnt say that they were there... to watch e-sports?
Seems like... a not "secret reason" to invite extremely popular pros to a event... more like... publicity... Nothing new really, so i dont see how this is really "news"...
It seems like this was more of a "This could be yours..... " type of deal.
Was this initiated by Blizzard? That's a pretty amazing thing for them to do....
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neat-o but i still feel that they wasted alot of potential bringing them over and only doing that with them :/
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Working on some technical difficulties, show should start soon.
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well im glad they checked the scene out. Even though they wont be switching due to them like bw aand contract reasons even if they wanted too, im still glad they see the potential of sc2
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Pretty self explanatory. Some of the best names in BW checking how their potential future is stacking up. Seeing if there is actually a thriving scene for SC2 or if it is all hype. This literally means nothing as far as players switching. They could stay with BW for who knows how long which makes the visit overall anticlimactic for me personally, cool to see some huge names checking out the SC2 scene though.
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On October 27 2011 08:09 GumThief wrote:Show nested quote +On October 27 2011 08:06 Malpractice.248 wrote:
So.... You couldnt say that they were there... to watch e-sports?
Seems like... a not "secret reason" to invite extremely popular pros to a event... more like... publicity... Nothing new really, so i dont see how this is really "news"...
It seems like this was more of a "This could be yours..... " type of deal. Was this initiated by Blizzard? That's a pretty amazing thing for them to do....
Even so; What i'm saying is this:
Was it worth the first post from slasher "OMG I HAVE DETAILS ON WHY THEY WERE THERE"
When, they were there to simply watch esports as blizzard holds a carrot in front of them, trying to get them to sc2 and convince kespa its good?
It just doesnt seem super hype worthy to say...They came to watch the esports...
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On October 27 2011 08:06 Malpractice.248 wrote:
So.... You couldnt say that they were there... to watch e-sports?
Seems like... a not "secret reason" to invite extremely popular pros to a event... more like... publicity... Nothing new really, so i dont see how this is really "news"...
Yah...kind of figured they would watch some SC2 while they were there...
Kind of disappointed that was the only reason they went. I'm assuming they're still not allowed to play SC2 publicly (even just show matches)?
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So,,these old BW stars have been living in a cave or what?
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