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On December 03 2010 06:04 Kralic wrote:
What games would they broadcast? MLG has the north american broadcasting rights, gomtv the Korean rights.
Any large corporation can get broadcasting rights for their tournaments. Blizzard has a broadcasting form you can fill out on their eSports page.
edit: nvm, thats just to host tournaments. ^^; Sorry. I am sure Blizzard would let ESPN promote their game and company.
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Unlimited Computer/Broadband access is not available to a majority of people in the United States. And that's a factor in this discussion, so downplaying it is pointless.
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On December 03 2010 05:38 Torture wrote:
Exactly why I posted. Please continue to pick it apart.
I meant no disrespect, but feel free to submit with as many errors as you see fit. I'm sure it will increase your chances plenty.
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I don't think that ESPN broadcasts things like this. ESPN shows sports that are either familiar or easy to understand. You're better off with something like G4 or Spike.
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should we alert the chans?
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On December 03 2010 05:47 Torture wrote:Show nested quote +On December 03 2010 05:46 FabledIntegral wrote:
Idk why, I love watching SC2, would just think it'd be embarssing to have it on ESPN. Just not the channel I'd like to see it on... then again I also don't really care to see fishing on ESPN either, so whatever!
I think there would be a massive public outroar against it, however. The same type of email could be sent to other channels - G4TV, Spike, etc. ESPN is just the one the original reddit guy started it with.
Would seem more natural on G4TV, Spike, etc. than ESPN to me. Maybe ESPN2 as some brought up. Maybe.
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On December 03 2010 06:13 Bonham wrote:Show nested quote +On December 03 2010 05:38 Torture wrote:
Exactly why I posted. Please continue to pick it apart. I meant no disrespect, but feel free to submit with as many errors as you see fit. I'm sure it will increase your chances plenty.
He wasn't being sarcastic.
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On December 03 2010 06:18 Notam wrote:Show nested quote +On December 03 2010 06:13 Bonham wrote:On December 03 2010 05:38 Torture wrote:
Exactly why I posted. Please continue to pick it apart. I meant no disrespect, but feel free to submit with as many errors as you see fit. I'm sure it will increase your chances plenty. He wasn't being sarcastic.
What he said. ^_^
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On December 03 2010 06:13 Bonham wrote:Show nested quote +On December 03 2010 05:38 Torture wrote:
Exactly why I posted. Please continue to pick it apart. I meant no disrespect, but feel free to submit with as many errors as you see fit. I'm sure it will increase your chances plenty.
I believe he was sincere.
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On December 03 2010 06:16 FabledIntegral wrote:Show nested quote +On December 03 2010 05:47 Torture wrote:On December 03 2010 05:46 FabledIntegral wrote:
Idk why, I love watching SC2, would just think it'd be embarssing to have it on ESPN. Just not the channel I'd like to see it on... then again I also don't really care to see fishing on ESPN either, so whatever!
I think there would be a massive public outroar against it, however. The same type of email could be sent to other channels - G4TV, Spike, etc. ESPN is just the one the original reddit guy started it with. Would seem more natural on G4TV, Spike, etc. than ESPN to me. Maybe ESPN2 as some brought up. Maybe.
They show poker which has prize pools in the millions. e-sports wont compete. G4TV would be the only channel looking for something like this.
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On December 03 2010 06:13 Bonham wrote:Show nested quote +On December 03 2010 05:38 Torture wrote:
Exactly why I posted. Please continue to pick it apart. I meant no disrespect, but feel free to submit with as many errors as you see fit. I'm sure it will increase your chances plenty.
He wasn't trolling. That was sincere sure. Look at the how the OP has been changed.
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Your intentions are good but unrealistic. RTS games overall are not even near the level of popularity that it is in Korea, China and Taiwan. If ESPN or another network ever broadcasts a video game it will be one of much more mainstream appeal. Think something such as CoD or Halo.
I like that you are passionate about this but realistically, they are just going to laugh at you.
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On December 03 2010 05:40 Holcan wrote:
also the niche that ESPN is looking to fill isnt exactly filled by esports, im sure they arent lacking the 16-30 year old males.
They're probably lacking the geeky/nerdy 16-30 year old males though. ^_^
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Whoops, my mistake. Either I misread the OP or it was updated since my suggested edits. Sorry.
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While I dont think this will get far with ESPN, I will send an email if we can get one finalized.
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I personally would rather watch streams than G4 or Spike. They have so many commercials and even have ads DURING the programming in some cases. ESPN is in a class above those channels. If we can get enough support, this has a very high probability to get on ESPN2 if we do this right. If we could turn on ESPN2 at 3 or 4 am and see Tastosis casting the GSL, I'd be a very happy man. Once we get enough edits from people who actually know english, they will hopefully look at Reddit and TL and see what a strong following it has and consider this.
As a closing, how about
Sincerely,
The Starcraft II Community
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Isn't spamming ESPN with thousands of emails of the exact same thing an AMAZINGLY obnoxious thing to do?
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Looks like the grammar for the most part is ironed out. Anybody got numbers on the following?
Sales? All I can find is one/two day sales and one month.
Suggested Day9 or Husky cast to show what we're talking about.
GSL/MLG Viewer numbers
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I watched some of there Madden show. They actually didn't show a lot of the game being played, a lot of it was following the players around. I did like how before a lot of the plays they would ask the player why they chose the play they did. Though I think for SC2 you need to show the whole game, or most of it, they could use this same question with the player format. Why did you choose to switch to mutalisks at this point in the game? etc. Hope something like this works out somewhere, probably G4.
edit: Also, would it be better to have some kind of single email with a link to a list of signatures or something, I don't know.
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There's no way they are even going to consider this. SC2 prize pools seem like alot for e-sports/a video game... but think about how much more is in pretty much every other competitive activity. SC2 can't even dream of touching basketball/football/baseball, it's not even close to poker prize pools, even fishing/bowling have more money in them than SC2.
There's pretty much no channels that would ever consider broadcasting SC2. It's not financially sound.
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