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On April 03 2011 03:14 Deadlyfish wrote:VileHawk i think. Decent zerg player, very aggressive. iirc.
This made me wonder why some players aren't using their team tag or "known" handles. Destiny is in as Steven Bonnell II when his in game and ROOT name is Destiny. huk is GoSuHuk? (it looks like the rest of the team is sporting the Liquid tag) kiwikaki, slush (slush450?), and sundevil don't have the ROOT tag while catz and drewbie do. Idra isn't sporting EG while the rest are.
Doesn't it help "brand" players and their teams if they always use the tag and/or at least always use the same name? What if VileHawk and Destiny go far? They'll be known as Hawk248 and Steven_Bonnell_II unless told by the commentators. Casual viewers won't even know they were on a team or who they "really" are.
I guess it gets to me because it's "eSports" and uniformity is one of the first things comes to me as a spectator. It just feels unorganized and "weird" to me 
It's probably not that big of a deal for everyone here, were all pretty hardcore about it but from a casual viewers perspective you'd think it would be hard to follow your favorite players.
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On April 03 2011 03:36 OreoBoi wrote:Show nested quote +On April 03 2011 03:35 Coolwhip wrote:
Question: why doesn't MLG just move their events to a country with proper internets? Yes because moving all their equipment overseas is free right? I'm sure the players wouldn't mind playing for the $5 left over for them to move to another country.
MLG is a NA event... so USA or Canada, but in fact we had the same issues as MLG at our last event in Canada named ETS LAN 2011 at www.lanets.ca the bnet 2.0 was spiking and lagging and our stream was down too so i think it's the same problem again Blizzard need to add LAN function that would help a lot, more free bandwidth for Streaming or at least MLG should add VPN for starcraft 2 and give a limited amount of bandwidth for other game who doesn't really need it anyway it's my opinion
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"For those that purchased HQ passes for Dallas, we will be providing you with free passes to watch the HQ streams of our Columbus Pro Circuit Tournament on June 3-5. "
Oh.. nice.
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On April 03 2011 03:39 AdreN- wrote:Show nested quote +On April 03 2011 03:37 Dutzz wrote:
"More than twice the number of people we expected, from 128 countries, have tuned in to watch the Dallas event. We were simply underprepared for the epic traffic."
This is pretty impressive, and it's not like it's their first SC2 event so I wonder what happened for the traffic to be so much higher than the previous ones.
It also certainly shows how great teamliquid has handled TSL3, with their 30 000+ viewers; the stream was still fine for me. Try 50K+ viewers.
50K on HQ (sometimes) + 5K on LQ + GOM restream. On good days.
50K on HQ + LQ + GomTV restream, on normal days.
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So much for 2011 will be the year of Esports.
MLG just set it years back.
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I would have been thoroughly engaged in the waiting process had they just looped the Jeopardy thinking music over a crowd/stage shot. *shrug*
Come to think of it...
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This mindless filler music is making my brain hurt
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On April 03 2011 03:41 Cynexyst wrote:I posted this yesterday and I will again today: ![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/m7Q5l.gif)
HAHA this is gold!! 
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This is the worst event ever
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On April 03 2011 03:40 jazzbassmatt wrote:
both halo and cod tournaments seem to be doing fine. I guess this is because they are LAN based?
Yeah imagine, another Activision game (far more monetized than SC2) at that that supports LAN. Sigh.
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On April 03 2011 03:41 Pvvned wrote:Show nested quote +On April 03 2011 03:34 lma wrote:Everyone complaining about the stream issues: 1) Go to http://support.akamai.com/flash/index.html (can take a while to load, the Akamai support player is meant primarily for video stream debugging) 2) Copy-paste into "Enter URL to test here" following RTMP-stream url: rtmp://cp121276.live.edgefcs.net/live/estreamsq_3@49981 3) Press "Test" button on the left 4) Video starts streaming with messed up aspect ratio - go to full screen mode on the player and enjoy. You won't be seeing any advertisements either (instead you just see "Stream will resume momentarily" static screen during the commercial breaks) The stream is LQ flash-stream where the browser falls back in case you don't have Octoshape installed. It is streamed via Akamai (_the_ premier content delivery network) and they have a ton of capacity to handle live streams unlike (apparently) Octoshape. It bums me a lot that MLG haven't got their stuff together considering the huge amount of funding they received from VCs. Don't really understand their decision still to continue using Octoshape even after all the problems that have been reported to them on previous occasions - and especially use it exclusively in HQ stream. Akamai's delivery costs are considerably higher than Octoshape's, but where in earth they are planning to use all the freaking dollars they got - the live streaming from the events is in the core of their business that I don't quite understand their decision making with regards to tech choices.. This works wonders, thanks
Thanks I can finally watch now :D
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On April 03 2011 03:41 Cynexyst wrote:I posted this yesterday and I will again today:
haha awesome
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On April 03 2011 03:38 vyyye wrote:Show nested quote +On April 03 2011 03:37 Ohdamn wrote:On April 03 2011 03:36 KristianJS wrote:On April 03 2011 03:33 theSAiNT wrote:
So is the stream working for anybody else in Europe? Nope (Norway) yes (germany) Fine in Sweden.
In France it works but there are no games.... (oh wait !)
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On April 03 2011 03:39 OreoBoi wrote:
TSL3 wasn't broadcasted live and is not a huge tournament taking place at a convention center. Anyone that's actually been to a convention in one of those centers knows that the internet is awful.
Anyone except MLG apparently.
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On April 03 2011 03:41 Jim7 wrote:Show nested quote +On April 03 2011 03:14 Deadlyfish wrote:On April 03 2011 03:14 rbkl wrote:
who's Hawk248? VileHawk i think. Decent zerg player, very aggressive. iirc. This made me wonder why some players aren't using their team tag or "known" handles. Destiny is in as Steven Bonnell II when his in game and ROOT name is Destiny. huk is GoSuHuk? (it looks like the rest of the team is sporting the Liquid tag) kiwikaki, slush (slush450?), and sundevil don't have the ROOT tag while catz and drewbie do. Idra isn't sporting EG while the rest are. Doesn't it help "brand" players and their teams if they always use the tag and/or at least always use the same name? What if VileHawk and Destiny go far? They'll be known as Hawk248 and Steven_Bonnell_II unless told by the commentators. Casual viewers won't even know they were on a team or who they "really" are. I guess it gets to me because it's "eSports" and uniformity is one of the first things comes to me as a spectator. It just feels unorganized and "weird" to me It's probably not that big of a deal for everyone here, were all pretty hardcore about it but from a casual viewers perspective you'd think it would be hard to follow your favorite players.
The bracket uses their MLG account name or something, which the players probably didn't realize would happen
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On April 03 2011 03:41 Jim7 wrote:Show nested quote +On April 03 2011 03:14 Deadlyfish wrote:On April 03 2011 03:14 rbkl wrote:
who's Hawk248? VileHawk i think. Decent zerg player, very aggressive. iirc. This made me wonder why some players aren't using their team tag or "known" handles. Destiny is in as Steven Bonnell II when his in game and ROOT name is Destiny. huk is GoSuHuk? (it looks like the rest of the team is sporting the Liquid tag) kiwikaki, slush (slush450?), and sundevil don't have the ROOT tag while catz and drewbie do. Idra isn't sporting EG while the rest are. Doesn't it help "brand" players and their teams if they always use the tag and/or at least always use the same name? What if VileHawk and Destiny go far? They'll be known as Hawk248 and Steven_Bonnell_II unless told by the commentators. Casual viewers won't even know they were on a team or who they "really" are. I guess it gets to me because it's "eSports" and uniformity is one of the first things comes to me as a spectator. It just feels unorganized and "weird" to me It's probably not that big of a deal for everyone here, were all pretty hardcore about it but from a casual viewers perspective you'd think it would be hard to follow your favorite players.
The brackets use the usernames that are used to buy the pass or whatever to MLG.
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On April 03 2011 03:41 Cynexyst wrote:I posted this yesterday and I will again today:
This was win yesterday and is indeed still win.
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FINALLY they are back. Jesus Christ.
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the people at mlg all seem to be having fun :O
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EPT
