On March 23 2011 08:57 lac29 wrote:
IGN backing this is huge especially when you realize it's owned by Murdoch. There are essentially 2 big questions I have though.

1) Can they sustain this ... past a one-off kind of tournament/league?
2) Do they have enough community ties/connections to make it successful? HD seems to be the only one connected from what I've heard ... and if he's the only tie to the SC2 community, well that seems to be a bit weak.

HD is not the only connection. Did you see the pictures? There are tons of community figures involved. And even more were there that were not pictured.

the community seems involved!

Almin

United States583 Posts

March 22 2011 23:59 GMT

#123

So wait guys...I won't be embarrassed to tell my RL friends that I play Starcraft 2 anymore?

YES

Deadiam

United States69 Posts

March 23 2011 00:00 GMT

#124

I feel that big payouts will alleviate any concerns about over saturation. I could see it being an issue if these were all 10K tournaments but the reality is, the plays will go where the money is and there will be more chances out there for them to win it. The key is that all tournaments push eSports together, that means that coordination on event times needs to be done so the top players can compete in as many as possible.

The dramatic shift could be that the money will be made in NA, not KR at this rate. Do we ever expect Korean's to move to the states in order to compete. I feel they would be able to make a lot more than just the GSL alone.

*** Edited because I am grammatically stupid

Jukebox Joe

United Kingdom358 Posts

March 23 2011 00:00 GMT

#125

Fucking fantastic. Knew there was a reason I loved IGN.

Capsize

227 Posts

March 23 2011 00:00 GMT

#126

Woaw, is this iNcontroL with Jessica Chobot on this picture ?:
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Really cool that they take time to speak with some pros because they are probably not familiar with the SC2's scene. It's definitely huge though! They absolutely have the resources to make a show of high quality, now I can't wait for Europe to catch up with North America in terms of e-sport

Kennigit

Canada19447 Posts

March 23 2011 00:00 GMT

#127

2) False. An IGN employee posted a thread with pictures showing many community members at the IGN offices recently.

lac29

United States1485 Posts

March 23 2011 00:02 GMT

#128

Ah yeah you're right ... I actually do remember seeing those photos.

ZeromuS

Canada13387 Posts

March 23 2011 00:02 GMT

#129

tears of happy my friends tears of happy

trashcan

Mauritania56 Posts

March 23 2011 00:03 GMT

#130

Way more excited about this than NASL. Hopefully they don't have silly rules (and end up changing them anyway but look unprofessional and unsure in the process) and get someone other than HD to do commentary. HD is like some east noob spamming APM with his mouth. Even though it's a high volume it's 95% hotkeys, you know what I'm saying mate?

TheHunksta

United States122 Posts

March 23 2011 00:04 GMT

#131

On March 23 2011 08:53 drcatellino wrote:
Seems like HD will be one of the official casters for this, based on the pictures from the other thread and IGN sponsoring HD's own tournament.

I don't see how that is a connection whatsoever lol, Just because HD is there doesn't mean he's casting, he lives in the SF bay area so he could have just been going to hang out along with Painuser

On March 23 2011 08:56 Omigawa wrote:
Are they the main sponsor of NASL? Or a competing StarLeague?

This was already answered by the OP, there is no relation with the NASL and this, even evoli mentioned it in his thread. It's a different entity.

Talk about some wild assumptions lol, HD is the only one connected with the SC2 community? I'd say he's the least connected, he's connected to the YOUTUBE community, iNcontroL is there, ~10 other pro players are there, how is HD the only connection to SC2?

On March 23 2011 08:57 hitman133 wrote:

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Yea I think so too, that's great, I like him and his voice.

I don't think this is confirmed whatsoever though, I mean it could happen but no point creating hearsay yet

cheesemaster

Canada1975 Posts

March 23 2011 00:04 GMT

#132

This is huge! im assuming the prize pool is per season? would make sense considering the financial backing tha IGN has, looks like some other competition is moving in on NASL territory (different format, but they will possibly be competing for players?) I have alot of faith in IGN they are very experienced and have huge financial backing im sure whatever they bring out will be top notch. I think thats why many people are skeptical of the NASL because besides some names (russ duncan) we have no idea who their sponsors are and whos behind it. Supposedly there are 8-10 people working on the NASL on a daily basis( according to russ). I can imagine IGN having a huge staff, also so many people go to their site that making this league mainstream shouldnt be too difficult, im extremely excited and have nothing but good things to say about this :D

hugman

Sweden4644 Posts

March 23 2011 00:04 GMT

#133

See, this is better than NASL because there's a proper organization behind it

drcatellino

Canada346 Posts

March 23 2011 00:06 GMT

#134

Another reason the change the silly KST time from TL.net to the GST timezone.

TheHunksta

United States122 Posts

March 23 2011 00:06 GMT

#135

On March 23 2011 09:04 cheesemaster wrote:
This is huge! im assuming the prize pool is per season? would make sense considering the financial backing tha IGN has, looks like some other competition is moving in on NASL territory (different format, but they will possibly be competing for players?) I have alot of faith in IGN they are very experienced and have huge financial backing im sure whatever they bring out will be top notch. I think thats why many people are skeptical of the NASL because besides some names (russ duncan) we have no idea who their sponsors are and whos behind it. Supposedly there are 8-10 people working on the NASL on a daily basis( according to russ). I can imagine IGN having a huge staff, also so many people go to their site that making this league mainstream shouldnt be too difficult, im extremely excited and have nothing but good things to say about this :D

I'd take it all on the surface for now, 150k+ is how much the prize money is, it could be for one season, maybe 2 like NASL, maybe more, but it seems to me like the OP is saying everything that has been speculated from his source is written in his article, no more no less.

DirtYLOu

575 Posts

March 23 2011 00:06 GMT

#136

I hope it's going to be an Team League... To be honest with you I have enough of normal tournaments... And besides, GSTL is way more fun than 2 months of normal GSL.

Dgtl

Canada889 Posts

March 23 2011 00:07 GMT

#137

Man this sounds amazing! Team leagues seem to have that something special about them and with the large prize pool and prestige that will (hopefully) come with this tournament we will see a lot of great teams. The one thing that I love about team leagues is the strategy involved in picking who plays and the practice the teams do to snipe certain players.

My only worry is the casters. If you don't get a caster who is extremely knowledgeable in the scene and knows all the players and their styles I feel it won't be as interesting

LetoAtreides82

United States1188 Posts

March 23 2011 00:07 GMT

#138

Problem with having many leagues is that you get into the situation of having champions playing for different companies, and people don't know which champion is better. Boxing has had a hard time with that problem, with unified boxing champions being very rare due to the difficulty of setting these unified tournaments up.

Tonic420

Canada59 Posts

March 23 2011 00:08 GMT

#139

Off Jessica Chobot's twitter : "I have one week of 'vacation' before SUPER TOP SECRET AWESOME PROJECT STARTS! 4:05 PM Mar 21st via TweetCaster "

Finrod1

Germany3997 Posts

March 23 2011 00:09 GMT

#140

I hope for a really solid teamleague. But i would love to see all teams there including the european ones. But if you want to set something like the gstl its way better to have the players at one place. Hard to call.