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Germany / USA16648 Posts
I can't believe this is actually happening. For so many years we have been waiting for something like this to happen and now we (and most importantly someone from our community in the very middle of it - Tasteless) will see it happen. This is such a great news. 
Also - I really love how the mention TL.net in their official press release. We win the internet again.
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YES! My favorite commentator!
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i will tell all my friends to watch so you get more hits 
gogo
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Fucking awesome tbh.
I'll try to relay this news on some french forums/websites
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This is so sick how they're acknowledging the foreign BW community. :  :  : ): ) :
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On February 05 2008 20:06 CanBudwiser wrote:Hey guys. I've gotten an official news regarding the GOM TV invitiational match. There is also an official English website at http://gsi.gomtv.comCheck it out! ----- Gretech To Broadcast GOM TV Starcraft Invitational League Games will be broadcast live both in English and Korean SEOUL, South Korea, February 5, 2008 - Gretech Corporation of South Korea announced today that it will begin XNOTE-Intel Centrino GomTV Star Invitational, a StarCraft game league made up of the world's best players sponsored by Gretech and supported by XNOTE and Intel. Games can be watched live on the English homepage (http://gsi.gomtv.com) and previous games are also provided as Video-on-Demand. Under 'Participants,' viewers can see the profiles of the 16 participants of the league as well as the players' best performance video clips. Nicolas Alexander Plott, a well known StarCraft commentator in the U.S., will be commenting the games live. Gretech has already successfully broadcast live in English before in November, 2007 when '21st Century Computing Conference' by Microsoft was broadcast by Gretech for four hours both in English and Korean. For network stability, Gretech invested around 1 million USD dollars in order to support up to 40,000 concurrent viewers online and set up streaming servers in the U.S. and in Japan. In addition, in case there is an unexpected high traffic, a server maintenance team is on standby 24 hours a day 7 days a week while the league is playing. International eSports communities are already showing a strong interest. Team Liquid, a StarCraft fan website, broadcast the group drawing live by text, and there is an opinion poll asking 'GomTV Star Invitation Group of Death.' As of this press release, group B with Jaedong, Nada, Much, and Boxer is leading the poll. The first match starts on February 17th at 6PM Korea Standard Time. peace!
Let's get spamming our favourite forums guys! We need to make a very good first impression to Gretech/GomTV in order for them to justify hosting similar events in the future.
Additionally, the more support we can muster, the more demand there will be for English commentators like Tasteless and vice versa...
The $1M USD investment for 40,000 viewers is extremely ambitious of Gretech imo but let us try our best.
Edit: I'm finding the test stream laggy as hell as well atm
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I find that you need to register to post comments, but I can't find where to register my user.
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my god our own TASTELESS on fucking GOMTV INVITATIONALLLL
im staying up for this no matter what gogo TASTELESS!
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On February 06 2008 06:05 SayTT wrote: I find that you need to register to post comments, but I can't find where to register my user.
Same here.
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Staying up to watch this no matter when it is
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I just downloaded and installed GOM Player.
Whenever I choose to START the program it says a "Skin" file is missing. Is this due to there being no live stream?
Much love and GL Nick : )
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Germany2896 Posts
On February 06 2008 06:05 SayTT wrote: I find that you need to register to post comments, but I can't find where to register my user. I don't have to register. The password is arbitary and you only need it to edit your comment.
9:00GMT bis 12:00GMT
1:00PST bis 4:00PST 3:00EST bis 6:00EST 10:00CET bis 13:00CET 18:00KST bis 21:00KST (If I didn't miscalculate)
Suboptimal for the americans.
On February 06 2008 07:00 NeO)MasCoT wrote: I just downloaded and installed GOM Player.
Whenever I choose to START the program it says a "Skin" file is missing. Is this due to there being no live stream?
Much love and GL Nick : ) Probably that means that it is not correnctly installed
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kljuiq! I've gotta catch this, wow awesome awesome awesome.
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On February 06 2008 01:41 MasterOfChaos wrote: I don't think their investment is just for SC. I am sure they know there are no 40k foreigners to watch a live SC-Stream.
There will be 40k on the stream, trust me !
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Germany2896 Posts
btw as the "noob" percentage(most of us know how SC works - more or less) will probably be much lower than at WCG, will tasteless's cast go more into the depth than at WCG? The korean commentators seem to analyze quite a lot, which I missed it tasteless's casts so far(which all had an audience not familiar with SC, so he had to point out the very basics)
On February 06 2008 07:15 JoxxOr wrote:Show nested quote +On February 06 2008 01:41 MasterOfChaos wrote: I don't think their investment is just for SC. I am sure they know there are no 40k foreigners to watch a live SC-Stream. There will be 40k on the stream, trust me  ! My estimate is closer to 4k
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On February 06 2008 07:00 NeO)MasCoT wrote: I just downloaded and installed GOM Player.
Whenever I choose to START the program it says a "Skin" file is missing. Is this due to there being no live stream?
Much love and GL Nick : ) Probably that means that it is not correnctly installed[/QUOTE]
Sorry bud, but I installed it right. I even got that little window that asks how you want to configure subtitles and all that. I tried a variety of combinations to see if they worked, even the recommended / default settings, and it install fines. As soon as I hit "Launch Player" is just says a skin is missing : (
Odd really.
Edit: Invalid XML skin path C:\Program Files\GRETECH\GOMPlayer\SKINS\(Korean Text, but it doesn't display in Korean)\SKIN.XML
That's the error message.
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Yeah, lets show them how big the community really is, by posting in their English-Forum!
Thank you so much Tasteless, allthough I am right in the middle of studying I will be done by the invitational. This is going to be like the olympics!
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considering wether to not go to sleep or not. staying up till 4am to watch tasteless commentate will be fappable, but results in sloppy days at college. Shit decesions.
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Sounds great! Good luck. I'll be listening.
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