This is all because of us! Keep supporting AND PAYING FOR eSports whenever you can and it will continue to grow and prosper!

PAY MONEY TO ESPORTS INSTITUTIONS WHENEVER YOU CAN.

feanor1

United States1899 Posts

February 16 2011 15:48 GMT

#168

People are all focusing on the expansion here, I think the really big thing is that Sundance said “It’s a great chance for competitive gaming to appear in traditional sports channels." I mean thats a pretty clear sign that MLG is very close to being on TV.
http://venturebeat.com/2011/02/16/pro-gamers-get-recognition-as-sports-athletes-on-major-sports-web-sites/
Also Sundance's Interview on Bloomberg, might want to add this to the first post.

ZeromuS

Canada13427 Posts

February 16 2011 15:51 GMT

#169

Wow this is huge for e sports and I am more excited now than I was hearing about idra only

InToTheWannaB

United States4770 Posts

February 16 2011 15:52 GMT

#170

Awesome news! Lets just hope its not to much too soon. We seen other leauges in the past fold because they underestimate the cost of running events around the world

DOOMy0

Denmark85 Posts

February 16 2011 15:53 GMT

#171

is it me, or does this deal make ESL's partnership with Eurosport look like amateur hour? :p

Draconicfire

Canada2562 Posts

February 16 2011 16:00 GMT

#172

Yay more MLG events!

Dantaro

United States69 Posts

February 16 2011 16:02 GMT

#173

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKf4Y2JB6LE&feature=player_embedded
heres the video for those who missed it

Corvi

Germany1406 Posts

February 16 2011 16:08 GMT

#174

pls someone explain to me, why this is so big to you.

i never heard more about MLG than some halo tourneys in the us i couldnt care less about ...

Jacopana

El Salvador210 Posts

February 16 2011 16:09 GMT

#175

Awesome news!! =D

Moosy

Canada396 Posts

February 16 2011 16:19 GMT

#176

Considering all of the best halo players are from the US and all of the best sc players are from KR looks like theres a lot more money to be made for them with the mass influx of low level players that is going to occur.

Frankon

3054 Posts

February 16 2011 16:20 GMT

#177

Listening to interview... MLG will still be US only (live events)

kNightLite

United States408 Posts

February 16 2011 16:25 GMT

#178

Hm I dunno, if IMG is so big why haven't I heard about it before? Have they produced any sc2 content I can preview? Is it like an EU version of ESPN or something? They chose a tough acronym to google.

DibujEx

Chile130 Posts

February 16 2011 16:27 GMT

#179

On February 17 2011 01:08 Corvi wrote:
pls someone explain to me, why this is so big to you.

i never heard more about MLG than some halo tourneys in the us i couldnt care less about ...

Really? do you live in a cave?

MLG (how they say in the video) is the most biggest gaming tourney of US (Starcraft II, halo, Smash and some others) in if this expands to other countries, will make esports more acceptable, and more big! and you don't see the importance? really? Just think of the big consequences of this

StUfF

Australia1437 Posts

February 16 2011 16:27 GMT

#180

On February 17 2011 01:25 kNightLite wrote:
Hm I dunno, if IMG is so big why haven't I heard about it before? Have they produced any sc2 content I can preview? Is it like an EU version of ESPN or something? They chose a tough acronym to google.

IMG are the first hit on google for IMG.

Think of IMG like vivendi, it's a company behind companies - they are major players.