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On March 23 2011 09:26 hugman wrote:Show nested quote +On March 23 2011 09:20 Zechs wrote:On March 23 2011 09:17 hugman wrote:On March 23 2011 09:15 Zechs wrote:
So, nobody sees Rupert Murdoch's name involved with esports again as a bad thing? What has he done in the past? I tried googling and couldn't find anything esports related. CGS... with CS: Source and some shitty Xbox games, and playboy bunnies, and horrible corny team names, faux-drama, even more hype than this (although it's early days for this one)... the list of flaws CGS had is pretty long. Maybe they learned something this time around? Ok I didn't know that he was involved, but I doubt he was involved directly with the stuff that went wrong. CGS.. what a fuckup. I remember that they fined CS some players several thousand dollars for playing CS 1.6 at a small LAN tournament.
Yeah, that's the one. He obviously wasn't involved directly, since he's the omnipresent behind-the-scenes guy (if that isn't an oxymoron) of 90% of popular media. In other words, he's arguably the most evil human being to ever have lived.
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SC2 Proleague, awesomeeee!!!
Need more info and official confirmation before I can truly celebrate though  .
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On March 23 2011 09:15 Zechs wrote:
So, nobody sees Rupert Murdoch's name involved with esports again as a bad thing?
-_- I just went from "YEY!" to "O FUCK!" when I saw your post. Now I'm a bit concerned about this as well. I hope it goes well, is all I can really say. Just hope he has no influence on this.
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On March 23 2011 09:28 noddyz wrote:Show nested quote +On March 23 2011 09:20 Zechs wrote:On March 23 2011 09:17 hugman wrote:On March 23 2011 09:15 Zechs wrote:
So, nobody sees Rupert Murdoch's name involved with esports again as a bad thing? What has he done in the past? I tried googling and couldn't find anything esports related. CGS... with CS: Source and some shitty Xbox games, and playboy bunnies, and horrible corny team names, faux-drama, even more hype than this (although it's early days for this one)... the list of flaws CGS had is pretty long. Maybe they learned something this time around? I remember that. Didn't they used to play FIFA and have commentators who would pretend it was a real game? 'And Giggs lays it off to Rooney' etc. Shit, i'm worried now.
Well im pretty sure they arent going to try and do the exact same thing because of how badly CGS failed, im happy that they have tried and failed already it means the second time around they will have learned from their mistakes and it will be of better quality
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On March 23 2011 09:28 noddyz wrote:Show nested quote +On March 23 2011 09:20 Zechs wrote:On March 23 2011 09:17 hugman wrote:On March 23 2011 09:15 Zechs wrote:
So, nobody sees Rupert Murdoch's name involved with esports again as a bad thing? What has he done in the past? I tried googling and couldn't find anything esports related. CGS... with CS: Source and some shitty Xbox games, and playboy bunnies, and horrible corny team names, faux-drama, even more hype than this (although it's early days for this one)... the list of flaws CGS had is pretty long. Maybe they learned something this time around? I remember that. Didn't they used to play FIFA and have commentators who would pretend it was a real game? 'And Giggs lays it off to Rooney' etc. Shit, i'm worried now.
The one time i managed to watch it on TV (yeah it was on TV for five minutes) they actually had Chris Kamara commentating. The fact that they could only rope in the circus-clown of the commentating circuit says a lot. And yeah, i think they did treat it like real football, though i dunno how else you could do it, to be fair. I haven't watched a lot of fifa/pes outside my own playing.
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Wow this just keeps getting better and better for NA and foreign eSports SUPER STOKED!! And a league no doubt, this is really good news thanks for sharing!!!!!!
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Considering rupert murdoch is probably making 0 decisions about this league (besides maybe financial decsions) i wouldnt be to worried, and its IGN running this and their employees so it is in now way the same people that did CGS.
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On March 23 2011 09:28 noddyz wrote:Show nested quote +On March 23 2011 09:20 Zechs wrote:On March 23 2011 09:17 hugman wrote:On March 23 2011 09:15 Zechs wrote:
So, nobody sees Rupert Murdoch's name involved with esports again as a bad thing? What has he done in the past? I tried googling and couldn't find anything esports related. CGS... with CS: Source and some shitty Xbox games, and playboy bunnies, and horrible corny team names, faux-drama, even more hype than this (although it's early days for this one)... the list of flaws CGS had is pretty long. Maybe they learned something this time around? I remember that. Didn't they used to play FIFA and have commentators who would pretend it was a real game? 'And Giggs lays it off to Rooney' etc. Shit, i'm worried now.
It's clear that they're talking to all the right people. If IGN talks to fifty players about what needs to be done with this project and they bounce ideas off of each other, I'm positive that they'll come up with something that we all can appreciate.
It'd be one thing if they just threw together a tournament and nobody who knew anything about StarCraft or Esports was involved, but either they've learned from their mistakes or have the right idea from the beginning.
I'm more psyched for this than the NASL, to be honest. I just worry about having too much competitive SC2 going on at once. If these are to be successful, people can't get burned out StarCraft. People need to get excited and support an event, but if there's too much divided attention it may not be profitable.
I know I'm already looking ahead at my busy life schedule in April and beyond and thinking it's going to be impossible to follow all of these leagues. Watching all the GSL and GSTL matches is already taxing on my schedule. Throwing in three hours a night of NASL and whatever else IPL is going to offer is just going to be too much.
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On March 23 2011 09:18 Vequeth wrote:Show nested quote +On March 23 2011 09:12 Kennigit wrote:On March 23 2011 09:09 TheHunksta wrote:
This is why announcements of announcements need to stop, TeamLiquid didn't announce shit about TSL until THEY ANNOUNCED IT and that kept all the hype and excitement balled up for when it was out. For TSL1 we had a 3 week long countdown timer :D . But yes i agree, announcements of announcements need to stop. Looks like this isnt an announcement, but a leak. (Im seriously fed up of announcements of announcements too, letting people run away with their imagination isnt such a good idea, they just end up being disappointed)
I'm just speculating but it feels like an intentional leak to me. You don't have a count down on your website if you aren't expecting people :p. You also dont make a preannouncement thread with pictures either ^^.
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Wow, I thought 2010 was good for eSports, but if things keep going this way... O_O
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ugh too much incontrol. He better get funny in a hurry
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Oh my fucking god. I don't know what to say. This news is AWESOME!
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Holy crap, e-sports is no joke anymore. This is very exciting news.
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So we will have the NASL individual league and the IGN's team league.
awesome.
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I won't be watching this not gonna fund rupert murdoch anymore than I already am by probably just existing.
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On March 23 2011 09:34 Vehemus wrote:Show nested quote +On March 23 2011 09:28 noddyz wrote:On March 23 2011 09:20 Zechs wrote:On March 23 2011 09:17 hugman wrote:On March 23 2011 09:15 Zechs wrote:
So, nobody sees Rupert Murdoch's name involved with esports again as a bad thing? What has he done in the past? I tried googling and couldn't find anything esports related. CGS... with CS: Source and some shitty Xbox games, and playboy bunnies, and horrible corny team names, faux-drama, even more hype than this (although it's early days for this one)... the list of flaws CGS had is pretty long. Maybe they learned something this time around? I remember that. Didn't they used to play FIFA and have commentators who would pretend it was a real game? 'And Giggs lays it off to Rooney' etc. Shit, i'm worried now. It's clear that they're talking to all the right people. If IGN talks to fifty players about what needs to be done with this project and they bounce ideas off of each other, I'm positive that they'll come up with something that we all can appreciate. It'd be one thing if they just threw together a tournament and nobody who knew anything about StarCraft or Esports was involved, but either they've learned from their mistakes or have the right idea from the beginning. I'm more psyched for this than the NASL, to be honest. I just worry about having too much competitive SC2 going on at once. If these are to be successful, people can't get burned out StarCraft. People need to get excited and support an event, but if there's too much divided attention it may not be profitable. I know I'm already looking ahead at my busy life schedule in April and beyond and thinking it's going to be impossible to follow all of these leagues. Watching all the GSL and GSTL matches is already taxing on my schedule. Throwing in three hours a night of NASL and whatever else IPL is going to offer is just going to be too much.
Although there is very little information so far, i am also more stoked for this than the NASL. Mainly because such a huge gaming site (look at the TSL from teamliquid :D) is behind it and they have huge financial backing, i am also pretty sure they will be using an advertisement model (IE completely free in the highest quality) and the chances of the production value being top notch and it gaining widespread popularity are much higher with a site like IGN behind it (they could get ads in newspapers and on Tv pretty easily if they wanted to) also the chances of it being on tv from the get go or sometime in the future is much higher considering their parent company. All in all the most exciting news for e-sports this year, incontrol may have had the biggest announcement for half a month  but it was overhyped anyways lol
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I can 100% confirm that Rupert Murdoch will have nothing to do with any decision making as far as the league is concerned. I doubt he even knows about it.
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On March 23 2011 09:35 Kennigit wrote:Show nested quote +On March 23 2011 09:18 Vequeth wrote:On March 23 2011 09:12 Kennigit wrote:On March 23 2011 09:09 TheHunksta wrote:
This is why announcements of announcements need to stop, TeamLiquid didn't announce shit about TSL until THEY ANNOUNCED IT and that kept all the hype and excitement balled up for when it was out. For TSL1 we had a 3 week long countdown timer :D . But yes i agree, announcements of announcements need to stop. Looks like this isnt an announcement, but a leak. (Im seriously fed up of announcements of announcements too, letting people run away with their imagination isnt such a good idea, they just end up being disappointed) I'm just speculating but it feels like an intentional leak to me. You don't have a count down on your website if you aren't expecting people :p. You also dont make a preannouncement thread with pictures either ^^.
Agreed. And now that I see evoli is involved in this project, I wouldn't be surprised if the "leak" of the NASL was also planned.
Smart idea, build up the crazy hype.
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