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On February 09 2011 05:13 gerundium wrote:
why do i think that this will end up being the first ever North-american based progaming house? It's just a guess but that seems more in the realm of possibilities. An announcement as big as basically saying that an entire North-american league is being set up to rival MLG (let's be honest, MLG is the final boss in NA esports tournaments right now) seems way above the paygrade of one professional starcraft 2 player.
A north-american EG / foreigner progaming house in California on the other hand seems like something that is very believable. Probably why Incontrol moved to California already, to set up the house and everything before the team moves in.
That is just my theory though.
I think your theory is pretty sound. Think the house is going to fill a dual purpose as being a player/coaching house and a launching pad/bootcamp house for players that plan to jump to Korea for a shot at GSL. A place they can train for however long before heading over. I'm 99% certain it's going to be a gosucoaching house sponsored by Intel.
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Why would it be a house?
If there is a tourney in the US big enough to warrent it, the koreans would just fly here anyway like they did for Blizzcon and win it. Unless they want to compete at the same time as a GSL, which would just totally split the SC2 community...
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a house makes no sense because gretorp is from fnatic and incontrol is from EG, plus they already have a gaming house in arizona or something. Also a gaming house in the US brings no huge benefits because your in the US on the US server.
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I think Incontrol will buy everyone ice cream sandwiches.
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On February 09 2011 05:20 Fa1nT wrote:
Why would it be a house?
If there is a tourney in the US big enough to warrent it, the koreans would just fly here anyway like they did for Blizzcon and win it. Unless they want to compete at the same time as a GSL, which would just totally split the SC2 community...
Why a house?Okay, first of they've all already moved to Cali and have to have some place to live, therefore house (lol get it). Secondly Intel has *tons* of money into esports, inculding being a sponsor of GSL/EG/everybody. I'm not sure it makes sense from a business perspective to leap into a continual tournament scenario vs both MLG and GSL. It's possible, just doesn't make much financial sense to leap in that hard when others already have plenty of infrastructure in place. What company really wants to make another multimillion dollar investment into something they've probably already put millions into. Granted a huge tournament would draw attention but there's already plenty of that.
Lastly, although a tournament is possible, unless it's scheduled continual thing and not some one off mass tournament it wouldn't require half the pro-gamers to locate into one area. Also to the other guy, it's always of benefit to have players under one roof. Back when I was a competitive gamer my team used to play another team all the time, and when we met up to bootcamp, talk, play, and live together for a few days our play was increased more than I can explain. Everything changed.
Also, Gretorp mentioned on coaching corner that as soon as his PC arrives in Cali he's going to start coaching. (Sidenote: I learned broodwar terran from watching Gretorp's old livestream, highly recommend him to anyone that can afford it). BAM gosucoaching house.
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On February 09 2011 05:28 barth wrote:
I think Incontrol will buy everyone ice cream sandwiches.
I would be totally satisfied with that announcement.
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What if it's a TV series that does coaching, tournament coverage, etc? It could be an actual TV series on TV. I mean, theres a ton of Youtube casters in Cali too, so theres no shortage of people to cover the more casual content.
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On February 09 2011 05:35 BadWithNames wrote:Show nested quote +On February 09 2011 05:20 Fa1nT wrote:
Why would it be a house?
If there is a tourney in the US big enough to warrent it, the koreans would just fly here anyway like they did for Blizzcon and win it. Unless they want to compete at the same time as a GSL, which would just totally split the SC2 community... Why a house?Okay, first of they've all already moved to Cali and have to have some place to live, therefore house (lol get it). Secondly Intel has *tons* of money into esports, inculding being a sponsor of GSL/EG/everybody. I'm not sure it makes sense from a business perspective to leap into a continual tournament scenario vs both MLG and GSL. It's possible, just doesn't make much financial sense to leap in that hard when others already have plenty of infrastructure in place. What company really wants to make another multimillion dollar investment into something they've probably already put millions into. Granted a huge tournament would draw attention but there's already plenty of that. Lastly, although a tournament is possible, unless it's scheduled continual thing and not some one off mass tournament it wouldn't require half the pro-gamers to locate into one area. Also to the other guy, it's always of benefit to have players under one roof. Back when I was a competitive gamer my team used to play another team all the time, and when we met up to bootcamp, talk, play, and live together for a few days our play was increased more than I can explain. Everything changed. Also, Gretorp mentioned on coaching corner that as soon as his PC arrives in Cali he's going to start coaching. (Sidenote: I learned broodwar terran from watching Gretorp's old livestream, highly recommend him to anyone that can afford it). BAM gosucoaching house.
I could be mistaken... but doesnt EG already have a team house in like arizona or something?
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On February 09 2011 05:22 Zaros wrote:
a house makes no sense because gretorp is from fnatic and incontrol is from EG, plus they already have a gaming house in arizona or something. Also a gaming house in the US brings no huge benefits because your in the US on the US server.
If it is indeed gosucoaching it goes beyond team boundries and your point is moot.
Anyway what BadWithNames said is my opinion as well, a tournament makes no sense at all. The only other real option where incontrol is so directly involved that he needs to:
1 move to california
2 arrange things himself
severely limits options basically only having the progaming house as a logical option left.
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i have a feeling the
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could be to do with the first MLG event, we have established the top line is the 5th of april 2010, if you add 4 to that you get the 9th add another 4 you get the 13th and for the 2101 if the 2 states the 101 is to the base 2 then 101 represents the number 5 and if you add 5 to the date you get the 18th of april 2010 which was one of the dates of the first MLG event for 2010 
EDIT :made small mistakes with binary (silly me) but it still gives a date of the first mlg event of 2010.
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Man I sincerely hope incontrol hasnt been teasing my dick for the last 2 months cos if he has I've felt nothing1!1
Also it would be pretty funny if this is the announcement. Reminds me of the SOTG thread where someone said that if they dont do a new podcast soon then somebody else will :D
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On February 09 2011 05:38 raf3776 wrote:I could be mistaken... but doesnt EG already have a team house in like arizona or something?
I could be mistaken as well but that house is SirScoots and was inhabited by Machine and Inka. I could be doubly mistaken that Machines name was listed off as one of the people that have moved to Cali, not sure about Inka though.
Edit: Mistaken indeed!
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I believe Machine drove up to California but did not move.
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On February 09 2011 05:44 Turgid wrote:
I believe Machine drove up to California but did not move.
say it aint so! This new league needs a mascot!
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Some moor twitter information from friends of incontrol
Sirscoots: How do you guys view poker sites going after the gamer demographic? Good biz or predatory?
JP: The more I watch / cast team leagues, the more I want to get one started at MLG...
mabye its a MLG team league ?
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goaching house, or tournament per month for 2011xD?
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On February 09 2011 05:50 Zaros wrote:
Sirscoots: How do you guys view poker sites going after the gamer demographic? Good biz or predatory?
Oh Scoots. How can one of the longest running and financially profitable businesses (gambling) throwing money at gaming be anything but good?
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I think there's going to be a lot of -_- faces, no matter what the big announcement is.
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incontrolling us with this nonesense. such a tease. pretty much nothing can live up to the hype he's built
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Its obvious now "Day of Dealers" Fruitdealer, iNcontrol is taking over the world with fruitdealer and intel is helping them!
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