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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? What has he done in the past? I tried googling and couldn't find anything esports related.
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On March 23 2011 09:15 hugman wrote: I wonder if they're going to charge for VODs. I don't think the market can sustain three different leagues all charging for VODs, and if their business model requires it then it would be bad I think IGN will be more of a advertisement based model as they have so many advertisers for their site already + all the connections through their parent company, id assume its probably going to be completely free with advertisements its something IGN could defenetly do.
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On March 23 2011 09:12 Kennigit wrote:Show nested quote +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)
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More than GSL wow.... I didn't even know IGN cared about RTS at all...
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This is awesome - great to see more high end leagues like this appearing outside of Korea
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On March 23 2011 09:17 hugman wrote:Show nested quote +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?
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On March 23 2011 09:17 hugman wrote:Show nested quote +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.
He runs News of the World and The Sun, that"s enough to accuse him of crimes against humanity
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damn, wondering who the casters are going to be for this. team league would be great judging from the GSTL, that shit is so entertaining.
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On March 23 2011 09:17 hugman wrote:Show nested quote +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.
Liberals hate him because of Fox News. I don't see this affecting much of anything since the market is young gamers who don't care about liberal vs conservative politics.
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Cool move by IGN. Definetly a way to stand out from any other gaming website.
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So much starcraft to follow. No idea how I'm going to be able to keep up with the TSL, GSL, GSTL, and million other small tournaments a day.
Still really cool to see someone as big as IGN hosting a pretty big league though. And a team league at that, team leagues are awesome, and we don't have one right now.
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On March 23 2011 09:20 lac29 wrote:Show nested quote +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. Liberals hate him because of Fox News. I don't see this affecting much of anything since the market is young gamers who don't care about liberal vs conservative politics.
Also the company has a past in e-sports.
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This is really exciting news, but we really need more information on how its going to work with nasl and other events. I dont want to wait 13 days to find out!! gah
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Well, this is gonna be played in a LAN setting or Online?
It will probably be online, but at least this will be in the right direction for SC2 scene in NA.
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WHATTT a second NA league??? OMG omg omgOMGomgomgomgomgomg *faint
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On March 23 2011 09:20 Zechs wrote:Show nested quote +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.
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I believe a YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA is appropriate :D Go ESPORTS!
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MODS SPOTLIGHT THIS. It's Huge.
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Wow western e-sports doing work!
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On March 23 2011 09:20 Zechs wrote:Show nested quote +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.
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