If you are playing in booths, doesn't the headphones play random music to shut out as much sound as possible? And then you use your in-ears for ingame sounds under the headphones?

And if you are playing some sort of open bracket in a huge area where you only have your in-ears I would guess no one actually have music as long as you're not allowed to play music tru the computer. I have a hard time seeing someone being able to have 2 set of in-ears in your ears at the same time, 1 for ingame sound and 1 for music from your ipod etc. Can't recall seeing anyone in BW with a real headset, maybe it's more common in SC2?

Utinni

Canada1196 Posts

July 12 2011 20:15 GMT

#23

On July 13 2011 05:06 Malgrif wrote:
wow i just looked at (P)

iNcontroL's page and realized now why he wanted to focus more on gaming. o.o he's not doing too hot in sc2

Having a ELO ranking under 300 in the world is pretty decent for not winning anything. With all the stuff he had on his plate... I am surprised he even did that well. Hopefully we can see some beastly entertaining games in the near future with more dedication towards his craft

godemperor

Belgium2043 Posts

July 12 2011 20:16 GMT

#24

doesn't listening to music put yourself at a disadvantage in regards to dts, Nydus, nuclear missile and others thing which have audio queues and otherwise hard to detect.

TheBanana

Norway2183 Posts

July 12 2011 20:19 GMT

#25

On July 13 2011 04:54 Lokian wrote:
Isn't that against the rules to listen to different music? Using outside devices is forbidden, and there's also risk of cheating using sounds. I KNOW, it sounds farfetch, but people can go extreme when they're playing for thousands of dollars.

for example, maybe you didn't practice and you got a recorder telling you the build order lol

Maybe you could use music for perfect timings?

Lock parts of the music to different timings in your memory and take advantage of that.

trancey

United States430 Posts

July 12 2011 20:23 GMT

#26

there's a few players who play music at tournaments,

I know huk did at a few mlgs.. he has a trademark of leaving whatever song/kpop open after he leaves his station.

Windows 7

United States236 Posts

July 12 2011 20:26 GMT

#27

Is it just me, or do players in GSL always have earbuds on under the headphones? Can anyone explain the point of this? I always assumed the earbuds were for music players, since I don't think the gamers can use the computer to play their music from.

Aelip

Denmark321 Posts

July 12 2011 20:29 GMT

#28

On July 13 2011 05:26 Windows 7 wrote:
Is it just me, or do players in GSL always have earbuds on under the headphones? Can anyone explain the point of this? I always assumed the earbuds were for music players, since I don't think the gamers can use the computer to play their music from.

The sound comes from the earbuds afaik, the headphones are just extra sound isolation.

vincom2

Singapore1775 Posts

July 12 2011 20:30 GMT

#29

On July 13 2011 05:19 TheBanana wrote:

Show nested quote +

Maybe you could use music for perfect timings?

Lock parts of the music to different timings in your memory and take advantage of that.

Sounds like episode 7(?) of evangelion lol.

Aren't the earbuds to listen to the games, and the "headphones" just covers for noise isolation?

Navillus

United States1188 Posts

July 12 2011 20:33 GMT

#30

On July 13 2011 04:35 GreEny K wrote:
I'm gonna go ahead and assume some do and some don't...

Blasphemy!!! You must choose one and hold to it, there is no possible way that all progamers can't be thrown into one category or another on every possible issue!

SomeONEx

Sweden641 Posts

July 12 2011 20:41 GMT

#31

On July 13 2011 05:19 TheBanana wrote:

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Maybe you could use music for perfect timings?

Lock parts of the music to different timings in your memory and take advantage of that.

What if you just record yourself to say "Inject Larvae" and "Creep" and have it said every 40 and 30 sec? Or mayby like "DONT FORGET MARINERS!!!!" over and over again.
Wait, brb making laddering-music...

Otori

Sweden164 Posts

July 13 2011 02:19 GMT

#32

To you idiots who are insinuating that I was asking weither all progamers listen to music or not, it's obviously not what I ment, I ment to ask how common it is for progamers to do that during live tournaments and was asking how it affects their gameplay to do that or not doing that (if they are not allowed).

Mayor

United States472 Posts

July 13 2011 02:21 GMT

#33

MLG injects music into their earbuds while you're in the booth, so, sometimes it's forced.

Noxie

United States2227 Posts

July 13 2011 02:21 GMT

#34

Most of the guys on vVv don't at ~~LANs~~ live events . It can get distracting.

Saicam

262 Posts

July 13 2011 02:21 GMT

#35

interesting question, i would assume no

imPERSONater

United States1324 Posts

July 13 2011 02:30 GMT

#36

More likely would be audio that dings every 20sec or something so you never miss a larva inject. That would probably be more applicable

Gator

United States3432 Posts

July 13 2011 02:33 GMT

#37

definitely have seen a clip of TLO looking up his epic music on youtube in between games in some MLG montage

epikAnglory

United States1120 Posts

July 13 2011 02:38 GMT

#38

I do not see any rules about that on the MLG site or anything, sorry. The only fact I know is that Jaedong listens to music on his iPod while practicing a few minutes before his games (Proleague). I personally find that a prestigious, strict tournament should disallow it past the preliminaries, but that is just my opinion though.