EPTIPL3 - To the Bank - Page 3
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kanadiasteve
United States313 Posts
Literally had to avoid a stabbing at the nearby Hooters, but I suppose that's unrelated  | ||
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Eufouria
United Kingdom4425 Posts
In the future I think every player at a live event should be made to feel welcome and wanted. Cheer for both players and just cheer loudest for your favourite. A lot of ESPORTS fans are used to other spectator sports, where you cheer for your team and boo the other and some translate that over into SC2, one example being DRG at Dreamhack. In that case it probably didn't affect DRG too much, because he knows he's popular, but I don't think that crowd would have differentiated between DRG and Lucky. We need at least 2 players to give us a great game or storyline, so they all deserve support for helping provide the entertainment. | ||
blahz0r
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Order
Lithuania231 Posts
Going to IPL < Going to other events Watching IPL at home > Watching other events | ||
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Hemula
Russian Federation1849 Posts
Stephano with his play made me watch him just because of the way he plays, though I don't need to learn something from him or anything, I don't play myself, but his play is just so damn impressive. Shame on us for not cheering on Lucky. But he god some $, which is good. And yeah, Hayder's photo is just amuzing. | ||
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felisconcolori
United States6168 Posts
I think the entertainment value of matches, and the showmanship of presenting matches, will be important to the success of esports as spectator events. But the underlying truth (to me) is that eSports should not go the path of professional wrestling (entertainment) over true competition (aka, football (both kinds), baseball, cricket, etc). There are dull matchups in all competitions, but they help to make the amazing games really stand out. | ||
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WArped
United Kingdom4845 Posts
Lucky fighting!! | ||
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Noocta
France12578 Posts
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Talin
Montenegro10532 Posts
Secondly, It really has nothing to do with personalities, entertainment and star power factor. Plenty of unknown and unpopular players have made deep tournament runs and earned instant admiration and respect of the audience because of how impressive they've played. Even at IPL3 alone, there is a reason why Inori was better "received" by fans than Lucky. His run was nowhere as deep, but he absolutely dominated HuK and MC by sticking to a macro based PvP style every single game. He took out two of the best and most popular Protoss players in the world that everyone wanted to progress in the tournament, yet I'd say there were fewer negative comments about him than about Lucky and he gained quite a few fans for the play he showed. "I want to show good games" is probably the most common sentence heard in Korean players' interviews. It's not so much because they want to be entertainers and become popular that way. It's because they're aware that being dominant and having clear displays of skill and superiority is what makes a difference between a champion that everyone will remember and a fluke winner that people will either resent or forget about (probably both). This is especially the case in SC2, which still has far too much volatility in gameplay and variance in results. Oh by the way, when he said that he didn't do well in Brood War because he was unlucky... that's just asking for it. Speaking of BW, in recent OSL, how many people wanted Soo to beat JangBi, or even how many were happy about him beating Killer? Very, very few. I was one of them, and even that was all T1 bias and wanting a compensation for losing SPL than anything related to Soo specifically. It's nothing new and nothing unnatural. A lot of people can be winners, but not everyone can be a recognized champion. | ||
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Shuray
Brazil642 Posts
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Steel
Japan2283 Posts
Great write up. I really enjoyed IPL. From a viewer perspective it was the best event I had seen, but I think MLG topped them right after. But come on, MLG has SO much experience. If you compare the first live MLG to the first live IPL...they did a wonderful job. Hopefully they just plan a more central/accessible venue for the next one. Though it doesn't really encourage live views, I think that starting a tournament on thursday is a good idea and works well overall, and MLG could learn something from it if only to make the Open bracket less horrible. | ||
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BirdKiller
United States428 Posts
I still believe MLG > IPL for right now, but I'm now a fan/follower of IPL and hope it continues to improve. In fact, I hope IPL overtakes MLG considering that the former has solid financial backing from IGN and therefore have huge potential to become THE SC2 live tournament in United States. | ||
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