I do remember that, thanks.

North America = continent. It's a big place. We have a lot of people and so the comparison is warranted.

Anyway, I have no idea if it'll all work or fail miserably. We'll see!

ThaZenith

Canada3116 Posts

March 23 2011 01:36 GMT

#262

Pro starcraft 2 advertisement on a site like IGN? For their own tourney? That's just about the best thing that could ever happen. Every gamer on the planet will know about professional starcraft 2 before that would be over. This is the kind of stepping stone you need to go from "just for SC2/Esports fans" to "for every interested gamer on the planet."

Get a big enough turnout for it (which, seeing as it's IGN, a 200k tourney by them would likely net 10x more than any previous SC2 tourney) and putting it on TV becomes a real option. (specialty channels, but TV none the less)

fatalities

United States91 Posts

March 23 2011 01:37 GMT

#263

Woah...
The explosion of e-sports growth since just a few months ago is really incredible...
I doubt I would have believed there would be such a huge infusion of prize money and whatnot if I went back in time and told myself.

Fojji

United Kingdom217 Posts

March 23 2011 01:39 GMT

#264

Feel like some of you guys don't realise how amazing this is.

IGN is the home for literally millions of gamers, who have no idea about "eSports" - If they get hooked from this tourney stuff will "explode". For real this time.

Only concern for me it's by the same guy who was apart of CGS, which just completely flopped.

chonkyfire

United States451 Posts

March 23 2011 01:40 GMT

#265

How long until guys like flash, jaedong and bisu switch over?

SC2 seems like it's starting to get pretty big.

eddytlaw

United States102 Posts

March 23 2011 01:43 GMT

#266

...jizz

legaton

France1763 Posts

March 23 2011 01:46 GMT

#267

Money in SC2 got big, but what about the talent pool and the viewer-ship?

DirtYLOu

575 Posts

March 23 2011 01:48 GMT

#268

On March 23 2011 10:40 chonkyfire wrote:
How long until guys like flash, jaedong and bisu switch over?

SC2 seems like it's starting to get pretty big.

They will switch when they have contracts as big as they have now. ( $200k )

schimmetje

Netherlands1104 Posts

March 23 2011 01:50 GMT

#269

Ok so.. I guess we all thought the e-sports side of things would grow this year, it seemed logical. This is getting slightly ridiculous however, it's only March guys, slow it down!

(Please don't slow it down.)

Wonder what the people who predicted it would really blow up knew though, aside from those who knew what Inc's announcement singularity would be. I guess we really are marketable these days :O

Striding Strider

United Kingdom787 Posts

March 23 2011 01:50 GMT

#270

WOWOW

Bart

494 Posts

March 23 2011 01:50 GMT

#271

With so many leagues coming up and so many games I think in the end viewers are going to follow their favourite players and not watch all the games of just one league. Thus viewership for certain games with high profile players will hit the roof while games with low profile players will be circling the drain.

tsuxiit

1305 Posts

March 23 2011 01:52 GMT

#272

It's happening!

Vei

United States2845 Posts

March 23 2011 01:52 GMT

#273

Awesomeeee. I post a lot on ign haha

e-- this is fucking awesome, i'm so stoked/proud of IGN.

Canucklehead

Canada5074 Posts

March 23 2011 01:58 GMT

#274

On March 23 2011 10:50 Bart wrote:
With so many leagues coming up and so many games I think in the end viewers are going to follow their favourite players and not watch all the games of just one league. Thus viewership for certain games with high profile players will hit the roof while games with low profile players will be circling the drain.

Yeah I will definitely only have time to catch select games of players I like, cause I already watch like 3 hours of gsl per day and I don't have enough free time to watch 3 hours of NASL as well, and how ever many hours of ign pro league on top of that. Just not enough hours in the day unless I watched sc 2 24/7.

Darpa

Canada4413 Posts

March 23 2011 01:59 GMT

#275

I think NA is becoming the new mecca of E-sports! This is such exciting news, I cant wait.

chonkyfire

United States451 Posts

March 23 2011 02:01 GMT

#276

On March 23 2011 10:48 DirtYLOu wrote:

Show nested quote +

They will switch when they have contracts as big as they have now. ( $200k )

Yeah... MC will probably make 200k in the first year of SC2's existence.

they're not going to get a 200k contract without winning anything in sc2 and those contracts will be coming if SC2 continues the way it's going. The teams we know now might not include a majority of their members. Eventually there are going to be some super teams if SC2.

GypsyBeast

Canada630 Posts

March 23 2011 02:03 GMT

#277

man i cant wait to see what e sports will be in a year from now. this is going to be sick, shit looks ligit

kvn4444

1510 Posts

March 23 2011 02:05 GMT

#278

crazy money being thrown around. I'm really glad they went the route of team leagues, gstl/gcpl has shown how fun those are, and there are already enough individual leagues. can't wait to here more news on this.

Lexpar

1813 Posts

March 23 2011 02:07 GMT

#279

I wonder how the gents at NASL feel about this.