On March 17 2009 03:14 InToTheWannaB wrote:
Does anyone know if your interveiwed fatal1ty for this? Maybe he was just too damn boring a person to get on, but seeing as he the most famous non asian gamer. I'm supprised he not on it.

I dont think they wanted gamers who are already rich and famous

IdrA

United States11541 Posts

March 17 2009 00:34 GMT

#1043

On March 17 2009 03:33 Flaccid wrote:

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Given that gaming resume appears to have been one of the lesser criteria for participation, I can believe that a guy like ZeRo4 wouldn't have made it.

This is a reality show and like all reality shows it has to be populated by 'types'. You have to have 'the jock', the 'angry female', the 'cheerleader', the 'black guy', etc. etc. A show populated with only the top gamers would be a bunch of guys like IdrA sitting around playing Magic: The Gathering.

It's not like any reality show is made up of the contestants most likely to stimulate the best in competition. It's all about that calculated mix of personality types that will lead to what we're all really after: Drama. Reality shows have had the same types of people in the cast ever since The Real World hit season two. These ones just happen to play an above average amount of videogames.

i have never played magic the gathering

however artosis used to play it competitively

CommanderFluffy

Taiwan1059 Posts

March 17 2009 00:54 GMT

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On March 17 2009 04:02 Liquid`NonY wrote:
Yeah, this show is to a gaming competition like Survivor is to a survival competition, pretty much.

Everyone here knows that the correct way to identify the best gamer in the world is to identify the most difficult game (BW) and determine its best player (Bisu). That was easy.

hahaa nice nony.

Jibba

United States22883 Posts

March 17 2009 02:13 GMT

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On March 17 2009 06:15 PIJAMA wrote:

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i remember that sometime ago (dont know exactly when) there was a competition to find out who was the best gamer in the world... boxer and heaton (from cs) and some other players were playing and boxer won at the end... does someone remember this and know how it worked?

It was just an ESReality feature with users voting.

Flaccid, I know that you're right but I'm just saying that's the reason it has people annoyed. For a lot of people, gaming is a refuge where it doesn't matter what you look like, how strong you are or what stereotype you fit. It's all about the bottom line (skill) and pop-culturizing it takes that away from people.

EscPlan9

United States2777 Posts

March 17 2009 14:17 GMT

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A little less than 12 hours til iNc on TV again! :D

cya in IRC then

shimmy

Poland997 Posts

March 17 2009 17:37 GMT

#1047

On March 17 2009 05:13 KizZBG wrote:

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Same here. I actually watched the first episode while beered up hard so the entire thing was very lulzy to me. Im rooting hard for iNcontrol to win this though, I loved how he spoke like a total of 7 words through the entire 40+ minutes - if thats not the definition of badassness I dont know what is.

Flaccid

8843 Posts

March 17 2009 17:48 GMT

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On March 17 2009 11:13 Jibba wrote:
Flaccid, I know that you're right but I'm just saying that's the reason it has people annoyed. For a lot of people, gaming is a refuge where it doesn't matter what you look like, how strong you are or what stereotype you fit. It's all about the bottom line (skill) and pop-culturizing it takes that away from people.

Yeah, I know what you're saying. I guess it's all about the attempt to bring gaming to more of a mainstream, casual audience and subsequently alienating your dedicated base.

This reminds me of an article by Chuck Klosterman where he talks about gaming criticism:

The Lester Bangs of Video Games

Klosterman talks about the lack of any one writing gaming criticism such as that experienced by other art forms like movies, theater, music, etc. The criticism he talks about is that which is written by people outside of the 'hardcore' and for other outsiders - the kind of stuff that a non-gamer would actually read. In the 60s and 70s when people like Lester Bangs were writing about rock music, they could touch on aspects of the culture itself and find an audience with people who would not be reading strictly about what guitar Jimmy Page uses or whatever. He argues that gaming suffers from widespread respectability because of it's insular nature - resulting in misconceptions and biases from the outside perspective.

If the article doesn't make sense to people, this Q & A with Gamespot is fairly straight forward.

I don't mean to equate anything Chuck Klosterman says with this show. After all, he's a good writer and this is reality TV ;-). But it's fun to talk about regardless!

uNcontroLable

United States1180 Posts

March 17 2009 18:15 GMT

#1049

On March 17 2009 01:00 motbob wrote:

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prolly not, see: ultralisk cake thread

Thank you. *sigh* You don't know how many calls we get going "OMGeeeeeee Geoff...are you and Kelly totally DOING each other behind camera? Are you dating her noooowwwwwwwww OMG does Anna know heheheheheheheheeeee" Just remember, they can edit anything to look like anything. Kelly wrote this note on her facebook:

Geoff and I
Are strickly friends. Of course the show will spin it around and make it look like were in LOVE with each other. But thats not true. We just clicked as friends, and it was a lot of fun to be around him. I mean come on people. Yeah, I was married at the time, and I met this guy for one day, and I'm instantly in love? Please. Get a grip, and realize that it's a reality tv show.

motbob

United States12546 Posts

March 17 2009 22:45 GMT

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WCG Ultimate Gamer Episode 2 (airs tonight, March 17th, at 10PM EST on Sci-Fi)

Come to Team Liquid's IRC channel as we support / make fun of INcontroL!

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Should I make a live report thread, or just keep the discussion here?

Yaqoob

Canada3334 Posts

March 17 2009 22:47 GMT

#1051

How can I watch this live from Canada?

Khenra

Netherlands885 Posts

March 17 2009 22:54 GMT

#1052

On March 18 2009 07:47 Yaqoob wrote:
How can I watch this live from Canada?

I can't watch it in Holland either, I'll just wait for it to upload on Youtube

I'm really looking forward to episode 2, I just love those reality shows

Tensai176

Canada2061 Posts

March 17 2009 22:55 GMT

#1053

On March 18 2009 07:47 Yaqoob wrote:
How can I watch this live from Canada?

I approve of this question.

motbob

United States12546 Posts

March 17 2009 23:00 GMT

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Guys I found a program without spyware that will let us watch online!

Here it is: http://www.tvunetworks.com/

It works perfectly! The stream is flawless. I'm not sure if other countries will be able to watch, though.

LeperKahn

Romania1845 Posts

March 17 2009 23:04 GMT

#1055

On March 18 2009 08:00 motbob wrote:
Guys I found a program without spyware that will let us watch online!

Haha! I love this sentence. I remember being warned by firefox that "this site might harm your computer" when I loaded up that other website we used to watch last time. I was like, "Well, worth it imo <.<"

Psyqo

United States401 Posts

March 17 2009 23:36 GMT

#1056

Let's go Geoff!!

violett

Germany143 Posts

March 18 2009 00:54 GMT

#1057

On March 18 2009 08:00 motbob wrote:
Guys I found a program without spyware that will let us watch online!

Here it is: http://www.tvunetworks.com/

It works perfectly! The stream is flawless. I'm not sure if other countries will be able to watch, though.

thx it worked, show will start there in 1 hour.
channel name is "10135 sci-fi"

b3h47pte

United States1317 Posts

March 18 2009 00:58 GMT

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Awesome site! Thanks.

zizou21

United States3683 Posts

March 18 2009 00:58 GMT

#1059

www.channelsurfing.net worked for me last week

edit: fuck, its down. and tvunetworks sucks and makes u download shit and imposes ads o_O

i love how this show is on after wrestling (lol)