Bling is amazing, he really did well in the brackets but I felt his lack of stage experience vs SeleCT let him down. That said he did legitimately win game 1 very well. I look forward to seeing more of him

There will be VoDs going up over the next few days and my voice is fucking doomed. Solocast for about 6 hours before I did the finals, which ruined me completely.

wakefield

United Kingdom114 Posts

April 25 2011 09:43 GMT

#132

On April 25 2011 08:19 TotalBiscuit wrote:

Show nested quote +

Directional PA and HEAVY soundproofed ear protectors + in-ears. This was tested before hand, they can hear nothing at all.

lol learnt after i40 then :D it looks really nice there, i wish i went, dumb exams getting in the way! I have a feeling i43 is going to be huge?

DeMusliM

United Kingdom401 Posts

April 25 2011 10:00 GMT

#133

On April 25 2011 08:30 Chillax wrote:
Great work today TB, get some rest mate you earned it

Bling has some fantastic potential, his first big lan and he almost won. Only turned pro a few months ago.

Not to bring down bling at all, as he did play very impressive actually - he's improved alot.
He has been to quite a few lans now within the UK, Including i41 and that gadget show lan a week or so ago.

Chillax

England585 Posts

April 25 2011 11:45 GMT

#134

On April 25 2011 19:00 DeMusliM wrote:

Show nested quote +

God the sad thing is i watched the gadget show one too, memory failing me

Think the tournament organiser said "great performance considering this is your first stage match" at the prize presentation. Threw me off.

Worth it to get a reply from my favourate British player though ^_^ Hope to see you at some more tournaments soon Ben, your always fun to watch.

Karma`

United Kingdom13 Posts

April 25 2011 12:52 GMT

#135

On April 25 2011 08:19 TotalBiscuit wrote:

Show nested quote +

Directional PA and HEAVY soundproofed ear protectors + in-ears. This was tested before hand, they can hear nothing at all.

Good to know, I had no idea they did it this way - Still doesn't make me like the fact that they're still so close to each other I remember going to an iEvent in 2003 and watching the RTS final on big screen and the players were no where near at all

Sombrero

United Kingdom134 Posts

April 25 2011 18:49 GMT

#136

Great atmosphere at the finals, Cheerfulls and all. Good work to all people involved, massive improvement on previous events

TotalBiscuit

United Kingdom5437 Posts

April 25 2011 19:44 GMT

#137

On April 25 2011 19:00 DeMusliM wrote:

Show nested quote +

Well the Gadget Show was a different environment. There was no stage, all the casting was done remotely from a seperate area and the matches displayed on a couple of screens as well as the stream.

I think the stage might have gotten to him, as it tends to do to a lot of people. Plus we had an audience which seemed to be as large as the Dreamhack Invitational (which was what, 500 capacity)? Either that or there were less of them but they were way louder. Nothing better than a crowd of drunken englishmen for eSports spectating.

bakor

United Kingdom290 Posts

April 25 2011 21:21 GMT

#138

Was a great event, some issues casting side (Thanks Xsplit) but never the less amazing. Massive thanks to multiplay staff + admins couldn't be done without them. Nice to meet and work with all the guys there i wont say names cause its a long list. See you at i43.

Kharne

United Kingdom114 Posts

April 26 2011 09:24 GMT

#139

Thanks to Bakor and Leonstarcraft for being massive helps with the tournament - it wouldnt have been quite as epic without them. Hopefully next event the coverage will be more complete because we will have better luck with the stupid streaming software!

Totalbiscuit again was incredible - brings a lot of life to the matches and adds the "show" part to the live matches. He is welcome any time in my view.

All the players were excellent - all well mannered and when they voiced opinions or problems it was never ever in a rude way - I have taken a lot of the feedback due to the bracket layout into consideration and will try to have things changed in our tournament system for the next event.

i43 will be MASSIVE if last year was anything to go by (last years summer LAN i40 had 126 players sign up) so I look forward to an even better tournament then.

I hope we can get more big players to fly over with a bigger prize pool also based off the success of this one!

Well played SeLeCT and BlinG!

LeonStarcraft

United Kingdom173 Posts

April 26 2011 14:02 GMT

#140

Great tournament and a good weekend in general.

Unfortunately couldn't cast much due to technical difficulties, but was no ones fault. Got some great experience and can't wait for the next event to come around.
Big thank you to the admins who dropped everything asap to help whenever we had a problem!

Thank you to team dignitas for putting up with my harassment for interviews etc, SeleCT BlinG and PureBall were awesome banter, as well as all of the infused.tt booth!

Overall fantastic for the UK Scene, cant wait to get going again! :D