IGN’s upcoming announcement is very much so a venture of their own. Those working in the newly formed eSports division of the company have been working extremely hard to build an IGN eSports brand that is distinctly theirs. I feel comfortable dismissing the rumors that this announcement is that IGN will be teaming with NASL; IGN sees the potential in eSports, specifically Starcraft, and they want to do things themselves. Their current project is big, very fucking big, and the plans they have for future projects are even bigger.
I’m going to give their efforts and vision a solid 8/10. The project itself relatively straightforward. Those in charge of arranging the specifics for the project did their homework and got things right; I don’t think anyone in the community will surprised, confused, or disappointed in what’s to come.
I can assure you that IGN’s production facilities are down right incredible. The equipment was sick and the crew running everything was very competent. I sat in some of the filming and I was impressed with most of what I saw. The community should be delighted when they see the quality of the finished product.
Considering everyone is following 15 other players with IPL. in their name and the blog post said there were 16 players invited, this may be a list of everyone playing in it.
Edit- Added IPL.machine
Hm that line-up doesn't interest me in the slightest, which means I will have somewhat of a real life left with all these leagues around. Glad they made it NA only. ^^
Same. I'd like at least one or two kr invites, or eu invites at least.
NA scene is definitely bigger in terms of available prize money than the Korean scene now...
GSL has a total prize pool of 1.3-1.5 million for the year. How is NA still bigger?
Not only that, but there also seemed to be a ton of money poured into production, studio, tryout computer lab, and professional TV cameras. Just look at the lighting inside GOM studio and fire shooting up from tubes to create excitement. People have no idea how much money GOMtv put into behind-the-scene production. They also have to pay that Secret K-pop group, too.
Consider how NASL was hyped up at the beginning. $400,000 popped out of nowhere and they try to create a false impression that it's the prize pool. It turned out the prize pool is $100,000 for the 1st season. I wouldn't be surprise if there's going to be one season/year since it takes almost 4 months to finish a season, and then there's break.
Now IGN pops out $150k. I wouldn't be surprise if it's going to be one season/year also; and prizes might be earned as a team of five or six players instead of single player.
It's hard to be optimistic when tournament organizers always try to give wrong impressions of the prize pool.
tbh, I love it when esport grows, but I'm not a fan of over hyping when they give wrong impression numbers.
Think about it, if Idra was to stay in code S he would have been playing 7 GSL seasons/year plus the GSL World and potentially much more endorsement (the reason Idra and Jinro are big names and attracting sponsors is because they're in code S). Now he's in NASL thinking he could dominate but the Koreans are following him and go after the NASL.
Considering everyone is following 15 other players with IPL. in their name and the blog post said there were 16 players invited, this may be a list of everyone playing in it.
Edit- Added IPL.machine
Hm that line-up doesn't interest me in the slightest, which means I will have somewhat of a real life left with all these leagues around. Glad they made it NA only. ^^
Well, we don't know anything for sure yet. Also the blog post did say that they had invited 16 North American players. Its always possible that they are planning on inviting other players from other regions.
They could also be planning on having multiple tournaments like GSL and GSTL.
Considering everyone is following 15 other players with IPL. in their name and the blog post said there were 16 players invited, this may be a list of everyone playing in it.
Edit- Added IPL.machine
Hm that line-up doesn't interest me in the slightest, which means I will have somewhat of a real life left with all these leagues around. Glad they made it NA only. ^^
Well, we don't know anything for sure yet. Also the blog post did say that they had invited 16 North American players. Its always possible that they are planning on inviting other players from other regions.
They could also be planning on having multiple tournaments like GSL and GSTL.
Well the blog post said there will be a series of tournaments looking for the best player in America, so that rules out euros and koreans.
A thing I think a lot of people, including myself sometimes, overlook when they say, "Well they're excluding Korea so the League is going to be worse games" or the same with Europe etc. etc. However I think with something like this with so much money on the line, the NA players are going to get a lot more serious, and start to be able to equal or surpass European and Korean players in terms of skill.
On March 23 2011 12:24 hifriend wrote: Hm that line-up doesn't interest me in the slightest, which means I will have somewhat of a real life left with all these leagues around. Glad they made it NA only. ^^
Well, we don't know anything for sure yet. Also the blog post did say that they had invited 16 North American players. Its always possible that they are planning on inviting other players from other regions.
They could also be planning on having multiple tournaments like GSL and GSTL.
Well the blog post said there will be a series of tournaments looking for the best player in America, so that rules out euros and koreans.
Yeah, you're right, disregard everything I said in that post. Though I suppose a team league is still possible.
This is great news. However, I find it extremely peculiar that the timer counts down to midnight on April 5th, which was the date originally given for the NASL launch.
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