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$27,000 ESET Masters 2013 - Page 11
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Wormi
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TheOneAboveU
Germany3367 Posts
On August 17 2014 08:25 xYc wrote: So, was the third place match played off-stream or will we get to see that and when? Patience and HeRoMaRinE agreed to share the prize money for 3rd/4th place, both didn't want to play a decider. Marine also agreed to give Patience the 3rd place trophy. As far as promotion goes: We planned on having BaseTrade cast, but as I said that didn't work out on short terms. Also it's pretty hard to promote anything without WCS points these days (and we did not get any points despite fullfilling all requirements and several applications to Blizzard - unlike some other events *cough*Gfinity*cough*). We still had nice numbers on the german stream, so thanks to anyone who tuned in. As I said I will anser any questions or concerns when I am home again. Once again, apologies to the english audience. | ||
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watchlulu
Germany475 Posts
On August 17 2014 16:07 Wormi wrote: the promo for this tournament was once again pretty non existent. there are plenty of 100$ showmatches every day that are hyped much more. i accidentally found it in the tl stream list. someone tell them to use more than their own facebook page to promote stuff. Well first of all these finals should've happened last year so I guess many just forgot about it. Also the HomerJ Crew seems to not give many shits about SC2 anymore. I mean they did an okay Job yesterday but it was way better in the earlier years. The Caster never really had to much game knowledge and his casting was about entertaining the audience rather than having good game analysis etc. ... but if you're only good at entertaining and you're not really excited by the game, you won't to great. Also I really don't like how they dealt with criticism in the Twitch chat. I mean there was of course a whole lot of bullshit going on but they threw out bans left and right even for the slightest little piece of criticism and the caster himself it trolling and talking bullshit about every single person he want's. I got banned permanently for saying that the poor guy that interviewed the players had really thick glasses (because he had)... I mean wtf. I have thick glasses by myself and I wasn't even trying to make fun of him. About the tournament itself: I think part of the little Hype was the lack of players to really cheer for combined with the feeling that Stardust will win this pretty easily (well it wasn't that easy but he won nonetheless). The Matches (I was able to catch) were not that exciting, only one game of Patience vs. Stardust got me, mostly because I really didn't want Stardust to win but that's another story. Overall I hope there will be a new Season, maybe with fresh motivation, but I'm really not sure if this is going to happen. | ||
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BaneRiders
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TheOneAboveU
Germany3367 Posts
 And I don't agree with the "too little hype"-thing - sure, the atmosphere was not like in the finals of the ESET Masters 2012 (but thats hard to overcome anyways), but the crowd actually had a lot of energy, Marine, StarDust and Golden are quite popular with the fans. Also having the Ro4 and the Finals going the full distance was pretty epic I think. HomerJ's voice was almost ruined from the day before, I myself stood upon a stage and did a broadcast for the first time in my life - so yeah, we couldn't go to the maximum unfortunately. About Twitch-Chat, no idea what happened there, but we wanted a positive atmosphere in there. All in all we dealt with a pretty crappy situation in these finals, and for what we had at our disposal we did well I think. I am not sure how much I can say in public, but please don't judge our abilities by this event... a lot was out of our influence unfortunately.  I started with the english blog while taking the train home, will finish it when I wake up tomorrow. | ||
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Clonester
Germany2808 Posts
I hope i dont have to say something to the sound problems, they were most annoying ( for you and for the viewers ). I dont know if there will be a ESET Masters 2015 ( with Finals 2015 ), but i hope it. And no offense, but the EPS Finals with smaller prize pool and without a current WCS Champion were much more succesfull when it comes 2 viewers and hype. Maybe just learn something for the future, when you stick with SC II. | ||
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