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On August 21 2010 05:55 phungus420 wrote:
While it's awesome that this event is going on, and it's great Intel and Razor have put in a great prizepool, I simply can't say anything nice about ESL.
The ESL website is extremely confusing, and the Vod quality is about as low as one can get, plus it literally takes 3 hours to wait to load up any vod so that it's watchable, it's like trying to stream on dialup. Please ESL folks get your act together, honestly the coverage and organization just seems really substandard from a fan's perspective.
You get used to the ESL website. The tab system is confusing at first though.
An American friend told me that he had to wait 30 minutes to buffer a vod to 10 minutes.
As a European, I don't have this problem as there's no buffering time.
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How do I get the stream to work? On SC2.TV it just keeps looping commercials, and on ESL TV it says stream not found.
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On August 21 2010 18:36 SilverMyr wrote:
How do I get the stream to work? On SC2.TV it just keeps looping commercials, and on ESL TV it says stream not found.
I get the same issue however anything involving octoshape just gives me stream not found errors in both IE and Firefox.
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As an American user, I was having a hard time dling the vods as well and came up with a halfway decent work around. I was so frustrated by the slow streams I finally just ran a packet sniffer on the stream to get the direct link to the .flv file and download it directly. This worked fairly well but esl.tv hosting blocks multiple connections from the same IP, so no mass dling without multiple proxies...
Anyway... It seems at night in the US the streams are better, but clearly ESL has major hosting issues to work around, in addition to their "premium" vod video quality. I mean really, how hard is it to host a mirror in the US?
Regardless I am happy they are available at all but if you are going to do something, and in particular, sell something, then do it right, yeah?
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A link to the same thread we are in seems kind of pointless.
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where's the day 5 thread?
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Such an OSL ripoff with the entrance for the final. 
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I was there yesterday got to see the semi finals. Very nice Setup indeed
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Insane finish, I loved the finals.
Now the wait starts for the replays.
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personally i enjoyed the 3rd place games more than the finals themselves. Still a bunch of pretty good games to watch
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I really enjoyed the final day, there were some interesting games... still would have liked to see IdrA win and maybe have had TLO in the final instead of Morrow, not a fan of Morrow's attitude. Great games though, fun to watch.
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gg's from what I saw, although I was rather appalled by the interviewer especially after the finals
+ Show Spoiler +it was like a giant fuck you to idra pretty much saying everyone says you're the best but you clearly arn't because you lost 3-1 now don't cry imba, oh yeah you think they'll fix zerg soon?
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i just wanted the show of a lifetime and 5 racks imba rush is not the show of a lifetime.. also i agree @ the spoiler
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I have compiled a replay pack of all games of this tournament. Only one replay is missing, and that is the Group D match DeMusliM vs Strelok round 3 (the round on Delta Quadrant. The other two - Scrap Station + Lost Temple - are included in this pack). If anyone can get a hold of this replay, please send me a PM!
http://www.filefront.com/17224819/IEM-Global.Challenge.Cologne-Replaypack.rar
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Amazing tournament and event, lotsa good games, drama, problems. ESL can be MORE than proud  looking forward to next IEM <3
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lol i swear TLO walks onto the stage with such swagger
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metagame is changing to early baneling to counter reapers.
i'm serious. reaper does 7 dps to baneling compared to 16 dps to zergling, and reaper can't kite-kill banelings without getting splashed by acid.
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I was at gamescom and it was reallly nice !!
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I think the tourny ppl had the right idea for the online stream. Instead of having it just have people load up and crash the server, it was made to be shared through everyone else. There was no really no lag issue and I got to see some really awesome games. I really don't know why a lot of people were complaining.
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