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Hello fellow Teamliquiders!
I'd like to introduce my brand new league, the After Hours Gaming League! Rather than recruit the usual crew of top SC2 professionals, the AHGL joins eight teams from high tech companies - Amazon, Dropbox, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Yelp and Zynga. After a 7 week round-robin, Microsoft, Google, Zynga, and Amazon now compete in a single-elimination semifinals for a chance to donate $5,000 to the charity of their choice. The finals will be held this Friday, August 19th at the Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, CA and will be streamed live at http://day9.tv.
A major goal of AHGL is to help legitimize eSports in the west, to show that Starcraft 2 is an amazing platform for fun, friendly competition and teamwork. You get to see that the gamer communities in these major corporations are no different than your own. You get to see a realistic portrayal of a gamer as a smart, successful professional.
What is the schedule?
Semifinal: Microsoft vs Amazon: Tuesday August 16th, 8:30pm PST
Semifinal: Google vs Zynga: Wednesday August 17th, 8:30pm PST
Grand Finals and 3rd/4th Match: August 19th, 6:30pm to 10pm PST.
Where can I view the games?
Semifinals will be broadcast after the Daily this week (see TL.net calendar). Grand finals and the 3rd/4th place match will be streamed live at http://day9.tv from 6 to 10pm PST. Earlier matches from the group play can be checked out at http://afterhoursgaming.tv/schedule/
Where can I find out more about the teams?
Each team has submitted a full description and bio of each player.
Full team and player bios can be found at http://afterhoursgaming.tv/teams/
What are the charities for the semifinalists?
Amazon: Child's Play
Google: Child's Play
Microsoft: Amnesty International
Zynga: Save the Children
Who is casting?
Myself and HuskyStarcraft are casting the finals, and Me, Husky, Ahnaris, Diggity, and TotalBiscuit casted the regular season!
What should I do?
Tell your friends to join in the fun and promote the league. Have a favorite product? Root for the people that made it! Enjoying the format? Start a fun league of your own! The whole purpose of AHGL is to let people know how amazingly fun SC2 and eSports can be. So, the more fun you're having, the better  .
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Bill Gates vs Mark Zuckerberg showmatch please.
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Holy cow, this is pretty cool hahaha. Can't wait to watch some of these games and see if any of them are any good.
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Sounds great. Can't wait to watch!
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My internet is crappy.. here in my country you have many ISP.. and all suck 
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(: look very forward to it.. <3 Day9 always. See you in Raleigh!
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Gonna be awesome to watch the epic finale Mr [9] :D
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Woohoo! I've been watching all of the VODs on youtube.
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Hope Zynga wins, gogogo gamers ~
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Viewing party at Microsoft is going to be a blast! Thanks for organizing Day[9]! I've had a blast following my SC buddies in the league and it injected a lot of life in the SC community at MS. We had a great time organizing/playing/casting/watching our internal tournament and participating in the league after that.
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Microsoft have hired koreans for this.
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wow this really is a great idea day[9], props
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Good stuff as always  I like Microsofts' slogan: 'Macro hard, microsoft'
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Inb4 corporate buying of korean teams, eg gonna be the poor kid on the block 
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Oh Day9 how i love thy
I root for Microsoft because of their Macro hard, microsoft <3
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I gotta support Microsoft. Amnesty International is a great organization that does awesome work. Go Microsoft!
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Microsofts macros have always been a pain in the ass when using Word D:
GOOGLE FIGHTING!!
Day[9] you were, are and will always be a baller <33
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I am excited. Go go Amazon!
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Microsoft Hwaiting! (Can't believe I'm saying that - great charity.)
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Wow, this is really cool! The director of the company I work for is a huge starcraft nut, we regularly have water cooler chats about the latest IPL matches, I wonder if he'd be down for making a company sc team too.
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Needs more apple :D. Loved the games thus far, can't wait to see more. It does a great service I think to spread the word about starcraft in a non-stigmatized way. Keep it up!
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Dasnor from amazon team:
Whom do you fear most amongst the competition and why?
With the current meta-game, I fear Protoss players who know about upgrades and how to use the F key T_T
I LOVE THIS GUY!!!
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On August 17 2011 11:31 Delinius wrote:
Bill Gates vs Mark Zuckerberg showmatch please.
This would be something else. I would pay to watch this.
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I've watched most of the games, they're really fun to kick back and watch with some friends who don't give a shit about how crisp a build order is.
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I think it is a good idea. The only problem is that they all don't fight on the same level. Like how microsoft is owning right now.
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awesome tournament. I've been watching some games from day9's youtube ^.^. I wish my work would have a sc2 league =(
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I'm just curious about one thing: whose idea was this awesome league? One of the companies? Day9?
Btw, I <3 <3 <3 Day9 and his TV.
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Actually this is really awesome if I have time I'll definitely tune in. Great idea to however came up with it
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Great job putting this together.
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Well we're still far from guys in suits playing games after making transactions in million dollars in the day :p
Good initiative anyway and good luck to the participants.
Suit up guys !
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My roommate's cousin is on the google team. gogo google!!!
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Go go go Microsoft. :-) <3 Day9
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Great idea! First time I hear something like that. Day[9] fighting!
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This is awesome! Great After Hours title logo, by the way
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This Idea is so awsome, I watched some games from the season and it was really fun to watch and to hear all the casters! Good thing, Day9 + Team!
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This is what allows me to maintain my sanity between Funday Monday/SOTG and the weekend tourneys, fills the gap perfectly! GO DAY9!
+ Show Spoiler +I can't believe Day9 ruined Christmas for someone's daughter =(
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What a great creative thing to do, and for charity! Will watch this for sure.
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Am I the only one rooting for a Google vs Microsoft finals?
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Really amazing that you manage to get these huge companies involved in e-sports!
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brand advertising overload!
Cool casting team though, when no pro tournaments are streaming I'll watch some of this just for the casters most likely.
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On August 17 2011 14:17 InvXXVII wrote:
I'm just curious about one thing: whose idea was this awesome league? One of the companies? Day9?
Btw, I <3 <3 <3 Day9 and his TV.
Credit should go to Day[9] and Facebook. Day9 casted a tournament that Facebook held for its employees, which sparked the idea of companies playing against each other. Both then reached out through their contacts to get everyone together.
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Lookin forward to see this!
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Sounds great. I hope many will tune in regardless of the "line-up". :-)
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Day9 for president! I will definitely be tuning in!
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this is so good for E-sports :-D
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I want Google to win. This league is so much fun. It's a shame I can't watch it live.
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This is actually really cool, wish I'd seen it sooner.
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Sounds great Sean!
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Never really follow this league (so much stuff to watch right now ), but I will make sure to watch the finals =)
Someone definitly NOT killing E-Sports here
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Amazon and Google all the way because Child's Play has been my favorite charity for years now.
Great idea, and cool concept. I wont likely catch it live but I hope to watch the re-streams of it...if there will be *hope*
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If the opponents are playing with Windows systems, I fear a bluescreen is in place.
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On August 17 2011 11:31 Delinius wrote:
Bill Gates vs Mark Zuckerberg showmatch please.
I second this.
Seriously though, fun stuff. Any plans for the future to bring in more companies or is this just a one-off, fun event?
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this is such a cool idea. I will be tuning in
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Germany2762 Posts
i love this format and i regularly watched the vods! i'm really looking forward to the playoffs
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zynga will win with super gosu farmville taktics
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Great league (^_^)=b
I'd like you to post more on TL though Sean, WE NEED YOU.
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I live in the Palo Alto area.....how do I attend the Finals?!
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Go google! ;p
I hope this also gets a thread in the sc2 tournaments before it airs.
Thanks Sean keep doing what you do.
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Awesome stuff day
GL MICROSOFT!
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this league is awsome! I hope it makes some news station somewhere
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Will tune in !! love your work day!
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OMG add Intel to the league Sean!! I'd love to play
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United States4991 Posts
???
I have several posts on TL over the last month
(P.S. - go us!)
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On August 18 2011 03:45 Insane wrote:??? I have several posts on TL over the last month (P.S. - go us!)
Lies Peter. You disappeared off the face of the world : ( I don't see you on MSN or anything anymore :C
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On August 17 2011 11:31 Delinius wrote:
Bill Gates vs Mark Zuckerberg showmatch please.
Zuckerberg is affiliated with Facebook, not Zynga, as it were.
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Great stuff provided by a great man. Microsoft slogan is the best :D
I hope it have many seasons, it's a really nice move.
On August 17 2011 17:04 Zeroes wrote:
Am I the only one rooting for a Google vs Microsoft finals?
You're not alone
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Great Idea day[9] :D
i cheer for El Goog's boys of course ;D
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It would be awesome if Day9 did something like this for a college league! Same idea-ish...
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macrohard, microsoft!
LOOL
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How big will the live event be? Will we se Mark? :D
Good Job day9
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On August 18 2011 06:34 reaknox wrote:
macrohard, microsoft!
LOOL
i love that slogan too. microsoft should use it as official company slogan.
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These games are actually pretty fun to watch lol. Every game I watch though it's just Microsoft owning :o
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Can't believe I'd say this.. but go Zynga!
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Microsoft's slogan is probably the best.
Macrohard, Microsoft
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I did not watch the after hours gaming however this is a great direction for e-sport, props to Day9 for giving his own money to this event.
I hope we have more of this kind of tournament in the future, it really does give E-sport good publicity.
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How come Myspace wasn't invited =/
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On August 18 2011 08:11 -Jacob- wrote:
How come Myspace wasn't invited =/
They still stuck in broodwar era
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This is great ! Too bad i missed some matches
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On August 18 2011 07:16 Tacosalad wrote:
These games are actually pretty fun to watch lol. Every game I watch though it's just Microsoft owning :o
To be fair, we are a very large company compared to most of these companies from the perspective of # of employees, so we are going to have more good players just by sheer luck if nothing else.
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On August 18 2011 08:56 Insane wrote:Show nested quote +On August 18 2011 07:16 Tacosalad wrote:
These games are actually pretty fun to watch lol. Every game I watch though it's just Microsoft owning :o To be fair, we are a very large company compared to most of these companies from the perspective of # of employees, so we are going to have more good players just by sheer luck if nothing else.
Or maybe because you've always been beast at every game you play, so of course you teach everyone else in the company how to rape face. -_-;;;
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On August 18 2011 00:36 nurrune wrote:
I live in the Palo Alto area.....how do I attend the Finals?!
To be clear, the physical event is just for the players and teams since it's actually on Facebook's campus. Don't worry though, everything will be streamed live and recorded so that you don't miss anything ^_^
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Macrohard Microsoft, holy crap that is the best slogan ever created.
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On August 18 2011 08:56 Insane wrote:Show nested quote +On August 18 2011 07:16 Tacosalad wrote:
These games are actually pretty fun to watch lol. Every game I watch though it's just Microsoft owning :o To be fair, we are a very large company compared to most of these companies from the perspective of # of employees, so we are going to have more good players just by sheer luck if nothing else.
Yeah I guess that's true, I haven't watched too many of the games either. Need to start watching the vods! Are all the players on the Microsoft team from the Seattle area or are there some from other areas of Microsoft's offices?
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Insane, don't sell yourselves short! Microsoft has been training harder than almost every team in the league. They have regular practice matches and all that good jazz. The training is clearly payin off :D
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hopefully this encourages more big companies to Sponser events/ teams :-D Go day9!!
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lol who's the shifty eyes guy from Zynga? 
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/bwo3x.png)
dem eyes
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Is it going to be possible to catch Day9 in transit to Facebook? :D
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Can't believe those pay to win data harvesters won :/
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Wow nice comeback by the Zynga toss!
LOL "all you need to win when you're behind as protoss are DT's"
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On August 18 2011 12:05 Tacosalad wrote:Show nested quote +On August 18 2011 08:56 Insane wrote:On August 18 2011 07:16 Tacosalad wrote:
These games are actually pretty fun to watch lol. Every game I watch though it's just Microsoft owning :o To be fair, we are a very large company compared to most of these companies from the perspective of # of employees, so we are going to have more good players just by sheer luck if nothing else. Yeah I guess that's true, I haven't watched too many of the games either. Need to start watching the vods! Are all the players on the Microsoft team from the Seattle area or are there some from other areas of Microsoft's offices?
We're all from the greater Seattle area. The majority of us are on main campus in Redmond, but a few are from other ones around like Bellevue I think.
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On August 18 2011 13:01 Grobyc wrote:lol who's the shifty eyes guy from Zynga? dem eyes
I knew it. He's a Korean agent playing for them. The eyes say it all.
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Haha he looks like a pretty awesome dude imo. Definitely the mastermind behind it all!
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Go Microsoft! I'm completely self interested here, as I work for amnesty. ^_^
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WOW this looks sick! it would so filthy if zuckerberg played a few clutch games
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Oh wow Day9 you're amazing. Go Google!!.
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Since you're there with all these people how about talking some sponsorship deals for SC2 leagues ? I bet its on your mind already but we'd all like to know the answers you get.
I can't believe Facebook is at the bottom there. They should buy Idra and Huk from EG and get insta#1
But srsly supporting a progaming team for these companies is childs play. Work your magic Sean; show us the light of e-Sports in the west ^^;
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MacoHard, MicroSoft ... i love it :-)
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This is really great! Looking forward to it.
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i think you should add a link to the charities in the first post in case anyone else wants to donate.... can't hurt to promote the charities, right ?
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Hehe this'll be great. Anything with you Day9 <3
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can spectators come to the finals?
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On August 19 2011 02:10 boyle wrote:
can spectators come to the finals?
Quoting this from earlier:
On August 18 2011 09:10 WHiT3R4bBiT wrote:Show nested quote +On August 18 2011 00:36 nurrune wrote:
I live in the Palo Alto area.....how do I attend the Finals?! To be clear, the physical event is just for the players and teams since it's actually on Facebook's campus. Don't worry though, everything will be streamed live and recorded so that you don't miss anything ^_^
I don't think it can be open to the general public since it's actually on the Facebook campus grounds, and they don't want a bunch of non-employees traipsing in (from what I hear, it wasn't even easy to convince them to allow our players to show up early).
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On August 18 2011 14:03 Insane wrote:Show nested quote +On August 18 2011 12:05 Tacosalad wrote:On August 18 2011 08:56 Insane wrote:On August 18 2011 07:16 Tacosalad wrote:
These games are actually pretty fun to watch lol. Every game I watch though it's just Microsoft owning :o To be fair, we are a very large company compared to most of these companies from the perspective of # of employees, so we are going to have more good players just by sheer luck if nothing else. Yeah I guess that's true, I haven't watched too many of the games either. Need to start watching the vods! Are all the players on the Microsoft team from the Seattle area or are there some from other areas of Microsoft's offices? We're all from the greater Seattle area. The majority of us are on main campus in Redmond, but a few are from other ones around like Bellevue I think.
Yep, some from Bellevue for sure. The Bing guys are there.
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On August 19 2011 02:25 Insane wrote:Quoting this from earlier: Show nested quote +On August 18 2011 09:10 WHiT3R4bBiT wrote:On August 18 2011 00:36 nurrune wrote:
I live in the Palo Alto area.....how do I attend the Finals?! To be clear, the physical event is just for the players and teams since it's actually on Facebook's campus. Don't worry though, everything will be streamed live and recorded so that you don't miss anything ^_^ I don't think it can be open to the general public since it's actually on the Facebook campus grounds, and they don't want a bunch of non-employees traipsing in (from what I hear, it wasn't even easy to convince them to allow our players to show up early).
Lol, I wonder how they would of felt if it was Google vs Facebook in the finals. Oh boy.
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awww shit gonna be an awesome finals. zynga fighting.
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Day 9... you never cease to surprise with consistently epic ideas! HMS Esports cannot possibly fail with you and your bear seamen at the helm!
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No offense but this was posted a little late.I had no clue about this until today and it was posted yesterday so we wouldn't have even had the chance to catch the semi finals there we on the 16th.
Edit wait i am so confused my time zone must be crazy outta wack it says its the 19th unless its teamliquid that's the 1 out of wack.
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lol this is amazing.
at least one person of each company is playing sc2 ? lol :D
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On August 19 2011 09:07 danteafk wrote:
lol this is amazing.
at least one person of each company is playing sc2 ? lol :D
Well, a lot more than one person, considering each week is 4 (or 5 including ace) matches (and the finals are 6 or 7). I believe the larger companies had qualifiers (we at Microsoft held an internal tournament), whereas some of the smaller companies just took whoever they had who plays.
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I have no idea how you organised this but Good Job! Looking forward to it!
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ugh i feel like i wont rly ever get a chance to meet day9 sad face
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I hope Day9 goes to a local restaurant or something so us fans can mob him
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I cant watch the Final, so saddened
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Here's the tentative schedule in PST, since we can't predict the length of games it's unlikely to be accurate beyond the 6:30pm start time, and we will move the finals start time if 3rd/4th place ends early/late!
6:30pm - 7:45pm Live coverage starts on 3rd and 4th place match
7:45pm - 8:00pm Break before finals
8:00pm - 9:45pm Finals
9:45pm - 10:00pm Award ceremony
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I'm really looking forward to this!
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On August 19 2011 13:05 WHiT3R4bBiT wrote:
Here's the tentative schedule in PST, since we can't predict the length of games it's unlikely to be accurate beyond the 6:30pm start time, and we will move the finals start time if 3rd/4th place ends early/late!
6:30pm - 7:45pm Live coverage starts on 3rd and 4th place match
7:45pm - 8:00pm Break before finals
8:00pm - 9:45pm Finals
9:45pm - 10:00pm Award ceremony
As I mentioned on Facebook, this is terrible. How am I supposed to tell people what time our match starts?
As I recall, NASL pulled this bullshit, and rightfully got called on it. People who are tuning in for specific parts of the event (and to be realistic, people who I have told to tune in because they are interested in watching specifically me or specifically Microsoft play are not going to be interested in watching the 3rd/4th place match). And it's going to be stupid if I tell them 8 PM, at which point they dutifully tune in, only to discover that our match is halfway done already or something.
If you announce a schedule, you need to stick to it (I guess you can start later, although that's inclined to piss people off too, but at least then you don't actually cause people to miss things).
I don't know if you're the same guy who posted this on the AHGL teams-group or not, so maybe my message is duplicated.
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sweetest tournament idea I have seen
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This is the most amazing sounding league EVER. Just saying Microsoft vs Google sends chills down my spine.
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hey TLers,
I've been lurking on TL for a while now, looking for a good subject for an inaugural post. here's one of two pieces i've written for GamePro for the After Hours Gaming League.
the second one will follow, soon.
hope you enjoy it; glad to be a part of TL, finally.
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I have a Kindle so I guess i'm rooting for Amazon!
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I knew Peter Miller looked familiar...
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I love this freaking league man <3
1 of the funniest leagues in history.
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day9 never cease to amaze me.
GOGO microsoft!!!
btw, there's a GM Protoss on NA server named 'Google' sponsor him google boys? haha
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this is so sillyawesome (its a word look it up) I find myself entertainedestest (also a word) quite well
10k+ viewers o.O
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I wondered why this thread was so quiet, thank you for the link
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lol, megumixbear just got owned! Go Zynga! Oh, I see that's an imposter megumi.
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Dropbox fighting!!
edit:guess I am too late to root for anyone LOL
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On August 17 2011 11:31 Delinius wrote:
Bill Gates vs Mark Zuckerberg showmatch please.
I believe they wrestled for seeding.
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Watching the finals right now.
Looooved the regular season, watched casts by day9 and diggity, many jokes and very nice to see starcraft getting sponsored (whether by ourselves or others ^^)
MICROSOFT HWITING
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<3's Love it Love it Love it!
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Thanks for the entertainment, was fun to watch even though I didn't watch all the matches, those I did watch was quite fun.
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Microsoft is the perfect troll team. Going 7/0
With the slogan "Macrohard, Microsoft" and a male teammate who chose the nickname
"MEGUMIXBEAR"
edit: Also, I saw the tourney when it was first announced by Shean but I only watched 1 game since there are enough other leagues that have actual pros playing, watching the actual games is boring but seeing the page is still cool.
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I can't believe a Day9 thread isn't 40 pages by now. League looks interesting, I'm sure it'll be fun. Insane's comment has a lot of truth to it though -_--
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lol @ "macrohard, microsoft"
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On August 17 2011 11:24 Day[9] wrote:
After a 7 week round-robin, Microsoft, Google, Zynga, and Amazon now compete in a single-elimination semifinals for a chance to donate $5,000 to the charity of their choice.
I LOVE that. :D
Now, if you could get federal agencies to field teams...
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Was an amazing league and I had a lot of fun watching it. Thank You Day9 for bringing this to us
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For those who haven't watched this yet start. Its one of the best amateur tournament I've ssen to date.
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It might be a bit optimistic but i can imagine foreign progamers being sponsored by companies like these one day ^^ sponsored by companies like these day ^^ 
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Thank you DayJ for an amazing tournament, and for everything you do for eSports. FIGHTING!!!
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I've been watching through YouTube, but is says the 3rd, 4th and probably 5th games are private! I can't watch them!
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Really amazing stuff, thank you day[9] for all you do for this wonderful community.
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Great work, day9! :D Is there any way for other companies to get in on the action?
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Sick tournament. Should host another one.
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Any word on the Military teams in Season 2? I've got players lined up for a Marine Corps team, but still waiting on a follow-up e-mail.
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On September 02 2011 08:03 kierpanda wrote:
Great work, day9! :D Is there any way for other companies to get in on the action?
Only recently saw your post in the AHGL thread. They recommended using this when I asked them about it: http://afterhoursgaming.tv/contact/
It doesn't work in IE8 for whatever reason, so use Firefox if you usually use IE8.
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this is the only place I could think to put this-
Im watching the 3.16 cast and on my xbox the twitch app has the stream listed as the "aghl" which I can only assume is short for "after gaming hours league" and not the "after hours gaming league"
do with it what you will
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We all know Bill Gates APMs are off the charts so this will be an uneven matchup
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