EPTI'm creating a company called Hot Lava Flow for the sole purpose of sponsoring PiQLiQ and sending him to NASL.
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Pervect
1280 Posts
I'm creating a company called Hot Lava Flow for the sole purpose of sponsoring PiQLiQ and sending him to NASL. | ||
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Minigun
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yoshi_yoshi
United States440 Posts
Maybe have 5 opens. Each winner gets to play the 3rd place finisher (or wild card playoff winner) from each division. Because the 50 people in the actual league have had enough chances to get in. On average that will just be 2.5 out of 16 slots going to the OPEN field but it feels a lot better IMO. Yes I realize it adds 4 more open tourneys worth of work. | ||
antilyon
Brazil2546 Posts
Custom ones? ladder? iCCUP or GSL maps? | ||
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Froadac
United States6733 Posts
On February 22 2011 10:48 Karthane wrote: So basically these guys has 400k sitting around to drop on a Starcraft 2 tournament? Nope >< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_capitalist | ||
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Pervect
1280 Posts
On February 22 2011 10:58 Minigun wrote: If the votes don't determine who gets in, then what does? It seems to be a little unexplained. I believe they use the votes as a basis for who the community would like the most and then the final decisions are probably made internally by iNc and company. Seems like the most logical thing, but we'll see what iNcontroL or someone says. | ||
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SushilS
2115 Posts
On February 22 2011 10:50 iNcontroL wrote: 1 player per division is important to this league. Also with the league only being 50 players it's important teams are at least on face equally represented in a small league. The OPEN allows for ANYONE to qualifty. #6 in your team? Sup, OPEN Sup 1000 man qualifier!? On the other hand I totally get the 5 Korean limit rule.. Tis is NOT a Global Starleague. Its the NASL. You have to keep things tilted to the american side of things as much as possible. Kinda similar to the ESL. But yeah I disagree with any rule that just applies to basically 1 team(i.e. TL) at the moment... EG, DIgnitas, Root while excellent have noway to say they have anything like >5 truly world class players. And the team-kill logic makes NO sense as Naz aptly illustrated. | ||
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Babaganoush
United States626 Posts
On February 22 2011 10:58 Pervect wrote: I'm creating a company called Hot Lava Flow for the sole purpose of sponsoring PiQLiQ and sending him to NASL. Is this some sort of inside joke? | ||
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aristarchus
United States652 Posts
 Obviously we all know what the current "teams" are, but I mention the OGS-Liquid example to show that this stuff happens naturally. Teams really do merge, and it happens gradually. Also, this applies not just to the 5 person cap, but also to the requirement that you be on a team in order to participate. What counts as being "on a team"? | ||
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Brad
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GizmoPT
Portugal3040 Posts
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iNcontroL
USA29055 Posts
On February 22 2011 10:57 tree.hugger wrote: iNc, what kind of participation are you expecting from other teams? I'm sure teams will want to be a part of this, but none of the players or managers seemed to have been informed of the details yet. Are there plans to support European teams if they come over? Have you contacted the other teams and locked down some participants? It's being taken care of We don't need to make EVERYTHING public. That is a bit unrealistic. Please read through the stuff we put out there and if you really really have some mind bending question that you think might have slipped passed us PM me. | ||
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hmunkey
United Kingdom1973 Posts
On February 22 2011 10:34 Liquid`Nazgul wrote: I don't get the maximum 5 players per team thing wouldn't mind hearing more on it. I can think of maybe 2-3 teams who can line up 6 players that can all make a deep run in such a tournament. This whole rule seems to have a rather small impact on the tournament but it badly hurts a few individual players, and I don't see the gain in removing 2 world class players from your tournament because they share a team tag with 5 others. If they're good enough they're good enough. Probably missing something about this rule but can't figure out what. Can't wait for additional information to come out. This is pretty significant. Look, we all know teams like Liquid have more than 5 players who could easily make it to the top given a proper qualification procedure and it seems unfair to prevent them from competing, especially because those spots will be given to players on teams like VT and whatnot (who are comparatively terrible, sorry). | ||
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joomanjii
United States284 Posts
On February 22 2011 11:00 SushilS wrote: Sup 1000 man qualifier!? On the other hand I totally get the 5 Korean limit rule.. Tis is NOT a Global Starleague. Its the NASL. You have to keep things tilted to the american side of things as much as possible. Kinda similar to the ESL. But yeah I disagree with any rule that just applies to basically 1 team(i.e. TL) at the moment... EG, DIgnitas, Root while excellent have noway to say they have anything like >5 truly world class players. And the team-kill logic makes NO sense as Naz aptly illustrated. It's a 5 person TEAM limit. If both OGS and IM send 5 players to the NASL they count as two separate teams. Anyways, it'd be awesome to see more Korean teams get in on this :D | ||
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Oxb
199 Posts
On February 22 2011 10:49 ithree wrote: Theres been no mention of sponsors so all thats left is the Paid HD stream and they even talk about making money in the interview so I'm not sure what their expecting.. Can't imagine Justin.tv putting money into ontop of providing the stream and laying fiber, but maybe. Still don't understand where incontrol is, I mean he's already closed a thread (about Huks Twitter) so not he's off the grid, the stream was (mostly) pre-recorded so theres no big stress to relieve, there isnt even an official thread so everyone's all of the place. Anyway thanks motbob ofr making something semi-offical  Blizzard is sponsoring/insured the money. No mention of sponsors yet*, Some buisiness guy is basically backing this since he saw a 'nice buisiness'. If you want to start a store you get a good buisiness plan and go to a bank, there's ur money. Justin.tv had 20k viewers during the announcement so say about 1/4 of that will pay for a season ticket. 5k *20$ = 100.000 :o prize money reimbursed. Looking how the votes are running and how hyped this all is there will definitely be some sponsors, intel and razer are always/everywhere sponsoring e-sport events. If the first weeks show promising I think sponsors will come in for the lans. Then there's a bunch of people who are going to watch the free stream, what about you pop an add or 2 between the games, 10k viewers on the free streams, 0.02$ add/viewers = 200$ per advertisement. they are talking about 3hours of games, so I guess that's like 5 or 6games a night? That's another 1000$ profit from advertisements alone, every night. Yes these are very speculative number but looking just at season tickets (if it takes off a bit decently) and advertisements they already got a huge sum covered, and then there is sponsorship. So it's definitely possible to make this very proffitable. | ||
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orotoss
United States298 Posts
I understand that they want the games to be entertaining, but people are impressed by the skills of the players, not their names. People wanna watch Jinro because he is awesome at Starcraft 2, and we would be even more entertained by someone who is better. | ||
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Pervect
1280 Posts
iNc said on his stream last night that PiQLiQ would randomly send him messages that said hot lava flow sometimes Also this announcment has owned so hard, still super pumped. Hype was worth it | ||
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GizmoPT
Portugal3040 Posts
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imyzhang
Canada809 Posts
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Fanciful
United States59 Posts
I don't understand why more of the TL community cannot be involved. There are many talented people in this community that would willingly work for free solely to see Starcraft 2 take off as a profitable esport. I understand that the budget is small but that doesn't mean the production value has to suffer. Why not ask for help? running a nightly show, 3 hours a day for 25 weeks is going to be brutal unless you have a decent sized crew. I love the ambition and so does everyone else, you guys should have some sort of rush night. What is the harm is asking? | ||
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