"MLG also sees that our Starcraft 2 tournament was only successful thanks to the Korean players."

I hope this is a bad translation... Some Koreans being there was great and all, but it certainly was no tipping point for me. I was watching either way. More of a success story would be the lack of any major stream disaster.

StyLeD

United States2965 Posts

July 16 2011 08:13 GMT

#24

League of Legends is getting picked up everywhere, I'm assuming it's not because the game is a great esports game but because it is incredibly popular. DOTA2 will be like judgement day for every MOBA game.

I also like how Sundance is not afraid to take jibes at other competing/parallel events such as NASL. You don't need models or anything like that as long as you have Tastosis casting the best games, lol.

Milkis

5003 Posts

July 16 2011 08:14 GMT

#25

On July 16 2011 17:11 GetToDaChopa wrote:
"MLG also sees that our Starcraft 2 tournament was only successful thanks to the Korean players."

I hope this is a bad translation... Some Koreans being there was great and all, but it certainly was no tipping point for me. I was watching either way. More of a success story would be the lack of any major stream disaster.

You're right, the "only" shouldn't be there. Oops. Fixed.

zerglingsfolife

United States1694 Posts

July 16 2011 08:14 GMT

#26

Much love Milkis. Good Interview! Not too much learned specifically, but I'm interested in hearing about whatever MLG and GSL are going to announce later this year.

Edit: are there any netizen comments worthwhile?

Whiplash

United States2928 Posts

July 16 2011 08:17 GMT

#27

Great interview, Sundance is a great guy and I'm glad that MLG has a person of his stature leading them.

red4ce

United States7313 Posts

July 16 2011 08:19 GMT

#28

▼ How do you decide which players to invite? And are there any players you specially want to invite?
- Even if they're not Code S, we want players that have talents in many areas. Especially though, we hope that the previous winner of the tournament comes back for sure. And I hope that NesTea comes very soon.

This x1000. Hopefully Nestea's competitive fire will burn with envy after MVP stomps his way through Anaheim.

Mioraka

Canada1353 Posts

July 16 2011 08:21 GMT

#29

▼ In the GSL, Korean Pop Idols have introduced the players, and in the NASL Grand Finals that went on recently, there was a female model that ran the interviews. What do you think of these attempts?
- MLG's casts are already made of individuals famous overseas such as Tasteless and Artosis. In the case of female cast members, I think what's important is to have people who know a lot about the game to increase the quality of production. You have to think of it within that scope of not damaging the production. I think NASL lacked the professional experience to a certain extent in that regard. [T/N: I would wait for an official statement before jumping on this]

haha, this would provide some controversy, but sadly its 100% true, I'm surprised Sundance would say it straight up tho lol

DystopiaX

United States16236 Posts

July 16 2011 08:24 GMT

#30

LoL and fighting games (other than tekken, hoping for SF) will be awesome! Gears 3 was to be expected I guess, since MLG basically has a chokehold on console FPS esports.

zoLo

United States5896 Posts

July 16 2011 08:24 GMT

#31

Thanks for the translation and a big thank you for MLG giving SC2 a chance. Great to hear MLG expanding to more fighters soon.

TheAmazombie

United States3714 Posts

July 16 2011 08:28 GMT

#32

Thanks Milkis. Good interview. Sundance is the man.

Lexxes

Sweden144 Posts

July 16 2011 08:29 GMT

#33

Thanks milkis. I like sundance more and more :-)

Maffe

Sweden133 Posts

July 16 2011 08:37 GMT

#34

Interesting read.

MLG is starting to fully live up to its name :D
Their "announcement" seems to be big. Better keep an eye out for that.

kmkg

Japan186 Posts

July 16 2011 08:40 GMT

#35

"CPL didn't understand the relationship with the communities." So true... Angel's ego got the better of him several times.

Freeheals

United States488 Posts

July 16 2011 08:40 GMT

#36

such a handsome guy

zoLo

United States5896 Posts

July 16 2011 08:44 GMT

#37

On July 16 2011 17:40 kmkg wrote:
"CPL didn't understand the relationship with the communities." So true... Angel's ego got the better of him several times.

Whatever happen to Angel anyways?

MartinN

Spain307 Posts

July 16 2011 08:45 GMT

#38

" I think it may be because CounterStrike's popularity slowly shrunk, and the market expanded to games such as World of Warcraft. "

lol.. world of warcraft is not a esports game.. you cant compare world of warcraft with Counter.Strike, the esports game number one with Starcraft! Counter.Strike should be in MLG and not LoL, it is the legendary game of esports since 12 years ago, and FPS games should be played on PC not console!

Nightrage

Greece212 Posts

July 16 2011 08:56 GMT

#39

Thanks for the translation, much appreciated.

I'm so glad that GOM-MLG are working together. This can only be a good thing for the SC2 scene.

Denzil

United Kingdom4193 Posts

July 16 2011 08:58 GMT

#40

On July 16 2011 17:45 MartinN wrote:
" I think it may be because CounterStrike's popularity slowly shrunk, and the market expanded to games such as World of Warcraft. "

lol.. world of warcraft is not a esports game.. you cant compare world of warcraft with Counter.Strike, the esports game number one with Starcraft! Counter.Strike should be in MLG and not LoL, it is the legendary game of esports since 12 years ago, and FPS games should be played on PC not console!

May be a stupid question from someone who knows little to nothing about CS but what's wrong with updating the graphics and modernising it (with the same controls because that's what makes it difficult?) and then putting it back on the market and getting more people into the game?