This league was amazing, good casting, good stream, and amazing production. Give us some LAN finals and this will be the sexiest tournament out there.

CircusCaptain

Canada13 Posts

May 02 2011 01:25 GMT

#1623

Obvious mention of the restarted replay in Idra v Kiwikaki during livestream. It wasn't a big deal, but it was a deal, so is worth double/triple checking in future.

odder

United States405 Posts

May 02 2011 01:29 GMT

#1624

Great job with IPL #1, Can't wait for what you have in store for us with #2

Alex.IGN

United States1050 Posts

May 02 2011 01:30 GMT

#1625

Thanks for tuning in and supporting us throughout the season. We look forward to bringing you a great Season 2, and will be announcing details about both the main event and the qualifiers soon! Thanks again for all of great feedback and support everyone has given us!

Alex.IGN

United States1050 Posts

May 02 2011 01:44 GMT

#1626

If you missed any games, Grand Finals VODs are up at http://www.ign.com/ipl/videos enjoy!

sinani206

United States1959 Posts

May 02 2011 01:50 GMT

#1627

SO EPIC!
The return of IdrA!
Oh, and AMAZING job with production. NASL is like some local tourney compared to this.

Mabius

Canada323 Posts

May 02 2011 02:09 GMT

#1628

Any confirmation about the prize pool for season 2 Alex?

Joementum

787 Posts

May 02 2011 02:10 GMT

#1629

On May 02 2011 11:09 Mabius wrote:
Any confirmation about the prize pool for season 2 Alex?

$50k prize pool is what the internets have been telling me.

bkrow

Australia8532 Posts

May 02 2011 02:11 GMT

#1630

The incredible success of the inaugral IPL tournament was really encouraging; you have most certainly recruited a solid fan base for your future tournaments. Your presence on TL (particularly you Alex) is awesome, with questions being answered in a matter of minutes as you cruise the thread.

As you promised, the production values were off the chain, and the quality of games was sensational.

Alex.IGN

United States1050 Posts

May 02 2011 02:11 GMT

#1631

On May 02 2011 11:09 Mabius wrote:
Any confirmation about the prize pool for season 2 Alex?

$50,000 is correct

Ruyguy

Canada988 Posts

May 02 2011 02:14 GMT

#1632

wow next season is going to be awsome

Mobius_1

United Kingdom2763 Posts

May 02 2011 02:33 GMT

#1633

Incredible finals, congrats to our champion!

Can't wait for the next season with that incredible prize pool. The style (as everybody has said) is awesome, announcer voice is a little cheesy, but after GSL getting T-ara you really have your work cut out trying to out-cheese them!

A few suggestions, the VODs were kinda badly organised, I found it kinda hard to find the next game in a series which was slightly annoying, and the scheduling conflicts pained me to have to choose between NASL, IPL and D9D.

Anyway, thanks for the great show and GL HF!

Perseverance

Japan2800 Posts

May 02 2011 02:33 GMT

#1634

Idra is such a great zerg player!

dOofuS

United States342 Posts

May 02 2011 02:59 GMT

#1635

Out of curiosity, how does/will the merger with UGO change IGN's tournament efforts?

http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20110501/news-corp-s-ign-buys-hearsts-ugo-in-preparation-for-game-site-spin-off/

Alex.IGN

United States1050 Posts

May 02 2011 05:37 GMT

#1636

On May 02 2011 11:59 dOofuS wrote:
Out of curiosity, how does/will the merger with UGO change IGN's tournament efforts?

http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20110501/news-corp-s-ign-buys-hearsts-ugo-in-preparation-for-game-site-spin-off/

IGN eSports is still moving forward with our normal plans for IPL 2 and beyond. I cannot comment on UGO or anything else at a high corporate level.

Let it Raine

Canada1245 Posts

May 02 2011 05:40 GMT

#1637

just would like to say that IGN's season 1 was fantastic, and the only improvement I would hope for is that nothing leaks!

gg's throughout the entire thing.

hinnolinn

212 Posts

May 02 2011 05:51 GMT

#1638

Out of curiosity, are you planning on having the full tournament played before casting again? Or are you going to move towards a more intermixed method of games and casts?

Edit: Sorry if you've mentioned this elsewhere and I've just completely missed it. Also, season 1 was awesome, thank you and everybody involved for a very well done tournament.

Alex.IGN

United States1050 Posts

May 02 2011 05:56 GMT

#1639

On May 02 2011 14:51 hinnolinn wrote:
Out of curiosity, are you planning on having the full tournament played before casting again? Or are you going to move towards a more intermixed method of games and casts?

Edit: Sorry if you've mentioned this elsewhere and I've just completely missed it. Also, season 1 was awesome, thank you and everybody involved for a very well done tournament.

Yes the tournament will be done before casting starts. Right now, the only way to provide a highly polished and professional viewer experience is to get all of the games played, have our commentators cast them, then send the casts through post-production and finally slate them into a broadcast video. It's a very time intensive process but the results are worth it in our opinion.