I understand that streaming has been a huge part of SC2 sofar, but if we really want to give E-sports a serious chance to make it, sponsors are needed. And what do sponsors like? Numbers.

To emphasize what Tastosis said, sign up instead of watching the re-streams. Realistic viewing numbers will 1) Help estimate what kind of server capacity is needed 2) Show the sponsors that there's alot of interest outthere, and that people watch the stream. They can't tell that when people choose to watch the re-streams.

20$ isn't a ton of money for all the hard work everyone in Korea is putting into this event. Hours and hours and hours of awesome entertainment. If you weren't watching it, you'd be out spending 20$ on burgers and beer instead. I know i would! So for me, it's a good investment ^_^

Just something to think about.

Makwak

Australia10 Posts

September 07 2010 13:18 GMT

#363

Damn this is awesome!!!

GreEny K

Germany7312 Posts

September 07 2010 14:36 GMT

#364

GL TLO!!! Hope you do well!

Jeremy Reimer

Canada1044 Posts

September 07 2010 17:21 GMT

#365

Well, I plunked down the $20 to support Tasteless and Artosis, because I'm huge fans of them. I watched the live broadcast last night and it was pretty good. I'm satisfied enough with my purchase. However, I hope it won't be a $20 per month thing, as that's getting a bit much. I love Starcraft, but I'm not sure I'm up to paying $240 per year for it.

It is a bit weird that the VODs are of lower resolution and quality than the live stream. It's weird that I'm used to YouTube and UStream/LiveStream being higher quality video.

koshka

Germany181 Posts

September 07 2010 20:08 GMT

#366

hey i just saw that there are vods of all the games at http://sc2.plu.cn/
they are uploaded to youku
maybe you want to include that in the linklist in first post

Dazer

239 Posts

September 07 2010 21:25 GMT

#367

I mean, if you guys are serious fan for starcraft 2 but broke at the same time. At least please watch the standard quality stream and bear with it a bit.

Gom and Blizzard need you guys to be on their website so they can show to their sponsor so they can have sponsorship so you can view them for free in the future@

jax1492

United States1632 Posts

September 08 2010 01:27 GMT

#368

Tester Fighting!

xenobius1982

Romania54 Posts

September 08 2010 06:13 GMT

#369

how torch did?

Autxmn

United States7 Posts

September 08 2010 07:00 GMT

#370

Putting my money where my mouth is! Season ticket purchased! Showing my love and support for Starcraft eSports! Go IdrA!

DannyGlover

35 Posts

September 08 2010 20:28 GMT

#371

BRB blowing money to watch Koreans play SC and put their thumbs in the air for pictures.

Waste of money, similar to GOSUCOACHES!

Autxmn

United States7 Posts

September 08 2010 21:46 GMT

#372

I think it's more than that, DG. It's about supporting the scene at the most important time. This is the biggest tournament in the world with over $100k on the table. In some ways, our contributions now are ensuring the existence of future tournaments. In a way, I feel that buying a season ticket is like paying people to play Starcraft competitively (if only some ramen). It most certainly shows support for everyone at GOM, including their facilitating casting in English. It's also about being actively involved in the SC2 community as well as thanking the participants for developing cutting edge SC2 strats. If I can get all that for the price of a couple trips to McDonalds, then I choose Starcraft.

Ruien

China17 Posts

September 08 2010 23:40 GMT

#373

Autxmn is right. Even if you didn't know one name in the tournament, this event is incredibly important to the future of e-sports. If this fails horribly and loses a lot of money, how many sponsors will want to try again next time?

I live in China and my (tunneled-through-Hong-Kong) connection is only good enough to watch the (free) low-quality stream. Nonetheless, they still got my $20.

Edit: typo

Potion

United States24 Posts

September 09 2010 05:19 GMT

#374

On September 07 2010 05:31 Tiazi wrote:
relaaaax its just a joke! He is 'white' between the all 'yellow' Koreans. Black people don't play games. But on the rare occasion they do... they are awesome at it .. SK|SpawN!

I didn't even realize that little play on words in the article. I'm not sure that the race card is a good thing to pull for the leader of non-Korean Starcraft coverage.

Vimsey

United Kingdom2235 Posts

September 09 2010 06:41 GMT

#375

On September 09 2010 14:19 Potion wrote:

Show nested quote +

I didn't even realize that little play on words in the article. I'm not sure that the race card is a good thing to pull for the leader of non-Korean Starcraft coverage.

Well the phrase is a carry over from a time I would like to think we have left behind and a time when the white part of america was very very keen for someone to win back the title for more than sporting reasons. So for that very reason yea I do think its inappropriate and its about time we started looking beyond someones skin colour. I know its not intentional but then a lot of institutionalised racism isnt intentional.

Ruien

China17 Posts

September 09 2010 09:57 GMT

#376

On September 05 2010 00:30 Sadistx wrote:
Has anyone figured out if there's a way to watch Korean HD stream by using a proxy?

I have only used it for the English stream, but it should certainly be possible. I purchased a ticket, and then I proxy GOM Player using "Widecap" (freeware) through my hong kong server, since GOM blocks connections from china (why?!).

This should be equally trivial to get the Korean HD stream. Of course, you will still need a ticket for the stream through the normal Korean website.

xenobius1982

Romania54 Posts

September 09 2010 10:30 GMT

#377

koreans don t like hand shakes ) did u see the fuy s face when tast ofer the hand like wtf..u try..)

kilz3m

France2 Posts

September 09 2010 18:47 GMT

#378

hi, anyone know the song name of GSL opening ??

(ready to go ....)

Height

United States53 Posts

September 09 2010 22:02 GMT

#379

On September 10 2010 03:47 kilz3m wrote:
hi, anyone know the song name of GSL opening ??

(ready to go ....)

Found it by googling the lyrics. It's called Roar by Treat Coupe de Grace. Here's a link to it on the tube. :D

Also, + Show Spoiler +

TLO PLAYING TODAY! TLO FIGHTING!

Dutch_Destroyer

Netherlands7 Posts

September 10 2010 07:01 GMT

#380

Guys, to watch all vods of the GSL for free do the following:

Step 1: Open Google chrome
Step 2: Go to soku.com
Step 3: Translate the site using google chrome and search for GSL
Step 4: Profit