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• Account sharing is not allowed, players must own a North American account.
For the main event, especially given the long delay time between matches and broadcast, I hope you are going to provide anonymous accounts to all the players. Without those it's pretty difficult to avoid tournament spoilers. I don't want to have to be careful for a month on the forums.
I visit the Idra fanclub regularly and in season one there were spoilers all over the place. Not just from ill-intentioned people, but from idiots who think that "WOOO IDRA [IPL Spoiler in spoiler tags]" is not actually a spoiler. Instead of being super-excited for Idra in the later rounds of IPL, I'm now just catching the Idra VODs when I have the time.
(PS great job)
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United States1050 Posts
Guys, this isn't that complicated. If you live in the EU/LA/NA regions you can play.
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I sort of agree, i think that someone who gets top 8 three times is more deserving than someone who gets 4th once, etc
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On May 04 2011 06:30 yoshi_yoshi wrote:
• Account sharing is not allowed, players must own a North American account.
For the main event, especially given the long delay time between matches and broadcast, I hope you are going to provide anonymous accounts to all the players. Without those it's pretty difficult to avoid tournament spoilers. I don't want to have to be careful for a month on the forums.
I visit the Idra fanclub regularly and in season one there were spoilers all over the place. Not just from ill-intentioned people, but from idiots who think that "WOOO IDRA [IPL Spoiler in spoiler tags]" is not actually a spoiler. Instead of being super-excited for Idra in the later rounds of IPL, I'm now just catching the Idra VODs when I have the time.
(PS great job)
If it is live this time then spoilers are a non issue. As long as there is a delay of a few min to prevent cheating it should be good.
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On May 04 2011 06:33 On_Slaught wrote:Show nested quote +On May 04 2011 06:30 yoshi_yoshi wrote:
• Account sharing is not allowed, players must own a North American account.
For the main event, especially given the long delay time between matches and broadcast, I hope you are going to provide anonymous accounts to all the players. Without those it's pretty difficult to avoid tournament spoilers. I don't want to have to be careful for a month on the forums.
I visit the Idra fanclub regularly and in season one there were spoilers all over the place. Not just from ill-intentioned people, but from idiots who think that "WOOO IDRA [IPL Spoiler in spoiler tags]" is not actually a spoiler. Instead of being super-excited for Idra in the later rounds of IPL, I'm now just catching the Idra VODs when I have the time.
(PS great job) If it is live this time then spoilers are a non issue. As long as there is a delay of a few min to prevent cheating it should be good.
It will not be live, only the qualifiers will be live.
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United States1050 Posts
We will be using cloaked maps at least for the actual event and no player will have the full bracket.
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On May 04 2011 06:33 On_Slaught wrote:Show nested quote +On May 04 2011 06:30 yoshi_yoshi wrote:
• Account sharing is not allowed, players must own a North American account.
For the main event, especially given the long delay time between matches and broadcast, I hope you are going to provide anonymous accounts to all the players. Without those it's pretty difficult to avoid tournament spoilers. I don't want to have to be careful for a month on the forums.
I visit the Idra fanclub regularly and in season one there were spoilers all over the place. Not just from ill-intentioned people, but from idiots who think that "WOOO IDRA [IPL Spoiler in spoiler tags]" is not actually a spoiler. Instead of being super-excited for Idra in the later rounds of IPL, I'm now just catching the Idra VODs when I have the time.
(PS great job) If it is live this time then spoilers are a non issue. As long as there is a delay of a few min to prevent cheating it should be good.
For the main event, there is almost a month between playing and finals broadcast. I think they really need to have some system to hide results. If players use their own accounts it will 100% be spoiled.
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On June 11th we will do WR 1, WR 2 and LR 1, LR 2
On June 12th we will do WR 3, WR 4 and LR 3, LR 4, LR 5
On June 18th we will do WR Finals and LR 6, LR 7
On June 19th we will do LR Finals and Grand Finals
Main Event Information
When:
Targeted Date is Thursday, July 14th at 8:00pm EST
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>> We will be using cloaked maps at least for the actual event and no player will have the full bracket.
I think you need both cloaked maps and cloaked accounts. Internet sleuths are pretty smart.
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Calgary25981 Posts
On May 04 2011 06:07 Alex.IGN wrote:Show nested quote +On May 04 2011 05:50 Chill wrote:On May 04 2011 05:31 Alex.IGN wrote:On May 04 2011 05:30 Chill wrote:On May 04 2011 05:15 Alex.IGN wrote:On May 04 2011 05:13 Chill wrote:The IGN eSports team will pick a group of commentators for each event and issue each caster a media package with overlay graphics for the live stream. As an added bonus, we will select one caster each day to be the featured IPL commentator, meaning that the caster will gain the privilege of having their cast streamed on www.ign.com/ipl on the IPL justin.tv channel in exchange for promotion on our website. I don't understand this. Some people get chosen to cast, but it isn't livestreamed? It's just VOD uploaded? Sorry Chill I didn't make that very clear. Everyone who gets chosen to stream the qualifiers are totally free to stream on their channels, and we'll pick one person to stream on the IPL channel. Oh okay, I didn't follow that the format had been changed to a live one. The qualifiers are live, the event is not. Okay then I'm back to not understanding. You give replays to 5 casters. One is the featured caster. You stream his games. What happens to the other 4 series from the non-featured casters? Their games just get lost? Maybe I'm slow here. Can you pretend I'm 8 years old and explain it?  thx! The qualifiers are not streamed from replays, it's more like a normal event where we empower the casters to jump into any game they want and cast live, using the given overlays. Zero replay casting for the qualifiers.
So then their job stops at the online qualifiers? Will there be a separate call for the main event or will you be determining that internally?
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great show IGN!
keep them coming. i will watch for sure!
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On May 04 2011 06:31 Alex.IGN wrote:
Guys, this isn't that complicated. If you live in the EU/LA/NA regions you can play.
I think youre updated notes on the front are good enough. you shouldnt have to keep replying to people who dont want to read that first. Great job so far explaining everything and responding to every msg but I feel like at some point its going to be counter productive.
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I hope for the following casters: Day9, Artosis and ofcourse the one and only TOTALBISCUIT!@#@!@!#@!#!@#
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United States1050 Posts
On May 04 2011 06:41 Chill wrote:Show nested quote +On May 04 2011 06:07 Alex.IGN wrote:On May 04 2011 05:50 Chill wrote:On May 04 2011 05:31 Alex.IGN wrote:On May 04 2011 05:30 Chill wrote:On May 04 2011 05:15 Alex.IGN wrote:On May 04 2011 05:13 Chill wrote:The IGN eSports team will pick a group of commentators for each event and issue each caster a media package with overlay graphics for the live stream. As an added bonus, we will select one caster each day to be the featured IPL commentator, meaning that the caster will gain the privilege of having their cast streamed on www.ign.com/ipl on the IPL justin.tv channel in exchange for promotion on our website. I don't understand this. Some people get chosen to cast, but it isn't livestreamed? It's just VOD uploaded? Sorry Chill I didn't make that very clear. Everyone who gets chosen to stream the qualifiers are totally free to stream on their channels, and we'll pick one person to stream on the IPL channel. Oh okay, I didn't follow that the format had been changed to a live one. The qualifiers are live, the event is not. Okay then I'm back to not understanding. You give replays to 5 casters. One is the featured caster. You stream his games. What happens to the other 4 series from the non-featured casters? Their games just get lost? Maybe I'm slow here. Can you pretend I'm 8 years old and explain it? thx! The qualifiers are not streamed from replays, it's more like a normal event where we empower the casters to jump into any game they want and cast live, using the given overlays. Zero replay casting for the qualifiers. So then their job stops at the online qualifiers? Will there be a separate call for the main event or will you be determining that internally?
That part stops at the qualifiers, but we'll be determining the main event casters from four main factors: past history with casters, our impressions of the casters, community feedback on casters, and palm readings.
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this is fucking awesome!
season 1 was just impressive! hope 2nd season is even better
keep it going guys!
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I hope the scheduling conflict with DreamHack wont be a problem. Considering the time between the play dates and broadcast dates it seems a bit unnecessary to choose the same date as another big tourny and simply NOT allow for rescheduling. But I suppose they have their reasons...
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United States1050 Posts
On May 04 2011 06:49 Kreb wrote:
I hope the scheduling conflict with DreamHack wont be a problem. Considering the time between the play dates and broadcast dates it seems a bit unnecessary to choose the same date as another big tourny and simply NOT allow for rescheduling. But I suppose they have their reasons...
We will be working with people who are in both.
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Yeah! Only qualifiers, I like that! GL with running the league!
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So many qualifier spots. Very excited for that.
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Looks great. Really love that there are qualifiers and not pure invitationals.
gl!
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United Kingdom16710 Posts
On May 04 2011 06:47 Alex.IGN wrote:
and palm readings.
May I offer my services as a palm reader? I live in the UK though so there might be some lag.
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