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On December 03 2011 14:02 Pick wrote:Show nested quote +On December 03 2011 13:54 Lumnis wrote:
People complaining about the audience numbers, are you forgetting day 1 of IPL and DreamHack winter, im pretty sure there are more people at this NASL event then those two events on day 1. I don't think anyone is complaining... just curious as to what went wrong. It is pretty clear from the massive amount of empty chairs that things are not going according to plan.
The internet is a fickle bunch. Rather than understand that NASL has its problems, but it still largely works through them and will undoubtedly provide a great live finals with a lot of great games, everybody has instead retreated to an position of hating on the NASL.
Once the bandwagoning starts, it's hard to turn it around. People prejudged this tournament before it started. Short of perfection (note, that also means removing HoN and god knows what else) to the community, it was going to get torn to shreds.
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I think TT1's intro has been the best one so far. Aviator(?) glasses and pokemon theme is pretty kick-ass.
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The crowd shot from the NASL season 1 finals...where is everyone?
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They should get some cardboard cut-outs of random people and line the red carpet with them.
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lol, why did it slow down when he was killing a pylon
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Aww disappointed with the choice of music 
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On December 03 2011 13:53 JesusOurSaviour wrote:Show nested quote +On December 03 2011 13:50 R!! wrote:On December 03 2011 13:49 Alpino wrote:On December 03 2011 13:46 Toppp wrote:On December 03 2011 13:45 JesusOurSaviour wrote:
Morrow's version of training in Korea:
"practicing against Sage is like... pretty impossible to win against him."
"It really killed my confidence to lose pretty much every game" Did he say that? I would actually expect Morrow to dominate Sage in practice... but alright... Isn't Sage known as a damn good PvZer? More like the best by far I've ever seen( vs curious or some other prime zerg on tal'darim). Orgasmic game. You're talking about the 3-way Phoenix zealot attack reminiscent of the Bisu Build? I think it was in a GSTL game and he wrecked that zerg into qqland Ya, iirc he made the first stalker at the 18 min mark and scouted like a mad man throughout the entire game with random zealots popping everywhere, sick sick game.
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On December 03 2011 14:04 Silver777 wrote:
They should get some cardboard cut-outs of random people and line the red carpet with them.
If they did I'd pay for every NASL season in the upcoming future
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On December 03 2011 14:05 VPCursed wrote:
lol, why did it slow down when he was killing a pylon
Do you not know how intense it is to destroy a protoss pylon? It is just epic!
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On December 03 2011 14:02 Lazerlike42 wrote:Show nested quote +On December 03 2011 13:53 Defacer wrote:On December 03 2011 13:51 Loxley wrote:On December 03 2011 13:49 Pick wrote:
How does a tournament with a $100,000 prize pool and well known players and casters only attract a live crowd of 20 people?
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Yeah still wondering about that.. Tweet the world with a 'free entrance' action or something. They still got 25k viewers onstream, make it more enjoyable for the bigger audience? It's like a Comedy Club. It's better to give away free tickets to play to an empty crowd. At least you'd be able to satisfy the sponsors, hopefully sell some concessions/merchandise, etc. Honestly, I think the problem, with NASL as a whole may simply be a lack of business acumen. For example, PR 101 is that when you're trying to promote something you make sure that the venue/arrangements are too small/little for the crowd you expect. You do the same thing in politics: when you're on the campaign trail, every stop should be a little too small to actually support the event. That way you create the perception of being more popular than you are. Of course, this is just one item, and certainly I can't imagine the NASL folks expected anything like this small a turnout. That said, everybody knows they're trying to really "save" NASL and to demonstrate that it should exist. It seems like even once they knew this wasn't going well they just decided to carry on and hope for the best without attempting to do anything. I think my point is just that even in bad circumstances, there are things to be done which more seasoned business minded folks would keep in mind, and this may be a manifestation of a generally poor business sense which is mucking the whole operation up.
At the end of the day ... something about the whole tournament is 'off'. I really appreciate and respect what they are trying to contribute to the community, but everything points to poor management and weak leadership.
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LOOOOOLLL!! Dat Music! XD
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nothing more dramatic than a blowing up an insignificant pylon in slow motion........
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Oh my god these song choices...
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Damn, they have so much trouble with the sound...
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Classy music choice by DeMusliM.
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