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On August 03 2011 00:29 kedinik wrote:
Ah-hahahah.
I was with you until you transitioned into "WoW has so much to teach us and boosts social productivity."
WoW ruins lives. Ridiculous how many people I know who dropped out of college because mindless WoW quest grinding consumed them.
Alcohol ruins lives. Ridiculous how many people I know who -insert something bad- because mindless drinking consumed them.
See what I did there?
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MAKE IT Happen! With all of us nerds voting for Day 9, it'll happen 
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If you dont nominate Day9, you are RUINING esports
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On August 02 2011 21:54 Icx wrote:
It would be amazing, especially on TED, and I don't know a person that would be better suited to this then day9.
But I do have to ask, does he actually want to do this, or has he shown any interest in this himself?
If yes, then i'll gladly vote.
If no, you might want to consult day9 first instead of just putting him up there.
Do you know anything about Day9? I imagine he would jump at this opportunity, promoting BW and SC2 is just what he does to anyone who listens.
Also, though Cameron may not be a good leader, he is never the less, a leader.
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A PM to Sean would have been nice. I will vote for him if he wants to compete/ enter, whatever.
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If Day[9] will grace us with his presence and agree, I'll vote for him in a heartbeat.
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This seems completely inappropriate.
First off, Day9, so far as I can tell, hasn't expressed any interest in doing it. This seems pretty critical since he's the one that would need to prepare a presentation for a global audience that is entirely unlike the audience he's used to.
Even more to the point, I can't imagine how Starcraft 2 could be a relevant topic to TED. Typical ideas being discussed are new methods of locomotion, new information technologies, cures for all sorts of diseases. Starcraft 2 and esports aren't new by any stretch of the imagination and it doesn't belong at TED. TED isn't for commercial promotion of a product.
If Day9 came forward saying that he had something he wanted to talk about at TED I would support him, but until then wtf are you guys doing? This is completely wrong.
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This was also a Reddit thread a while back. Here's the link to the thread.
http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/iuac1/would_anyone_else_like_to_see_day9_give_a_ted/
In the comments someone wrote up a standard response to all the questions. I already filled out my nomination form.
TED is about big ideas, but some of the talks are more just for fun, and the growth of Esports is a fun and informative topic that should be talked about. Esports especially Starcraft 2 is one of the most international sporting events and that is something that is changing the world.
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Has anyone actually asked him about this yet? Does he even know what TED is?
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Wow this would be absolutely amazing! Go go Day9 :3 Hope this works out for him.
Gl and Hf!
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The problem is, we have to have phone numbers, and other personal info on day9, so really we can't vote for him >.>
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According to TEDs web-site multiple nominations does not increase the chance of acceptance
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On August 03 2011 00:56 Linwelin wrote:Show nested quote +On August 03 2011 00:29 kedinik wrote:
Ah-hahahah.
I was with you until you transitioned into "WoW has so much to teach us and boosts social productivity."
WoW ruins lives. Ridiculous how many people I know who dropped out of college because mindless WoW quest grinding consumed them. Alcohol ruins lives. Ridiculous how many people I know who -insert something bad- because mindless drinking consumed them. See what I did there?
Yes that was some good snark and misdirection. Unfortunately WoW's still a boring poorly designed treadmill / slot machine.
And Starcraft's still great.
And they're both extremely ill-suited for TED talks.
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Everyone just chill and wait for a statement from day9 and/or TED. "Voting" for him will not be beneficial, because this is not a vote.
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I love what day9 did
I also love TED talks and really enjoy them
But combining them both? I really think, there is no use here.
TED is all about informing the world about some things, they might have overseen.
Placing an Act about sc2 there, would be the same, like presenting some other new sports out there. Really don't see, what people should get excited about, if they are not interessted in competetive games in the first place.
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EDIT: the email is business@day9.tv or press@day9.tv
I realize he doesn't give out his phone number, so I just put N/A.
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On August 03 2011 01:04 Scigrex wrote:
TED is about big ideas, but some of the talks are more just for fun, and the growth of Esports is a fun and informative topic that should be talked about..
Would you "love" to see some exciting TED talk about football, golf or poker?
They all are widely known, they all have their fans and they are all no big new ideas.
The only thing that came to my mind after thinking really hard here, would be some social gaming driven talk, that points out some facts on the sc2 community. But to be honest, those facts and the whole talk about fast growing social networks within games, should be really impressive and eye opening. And they should fill 15 minutes
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Everyone who says that SC2 isn't a worthy TED topic either doesn't take E-SPORTS seriously or has never watched any TED presentations. E-SPORTS is not only worthy of a TED but to me is a lot more worthy than quite a few other ones that have been done.
That being said I think that if Sean wanted to do this he'd put in a nomination himself, because it would definetly be an amazing presentation if he put his heart and time into it, but I wouldn't want him to just do a makeshift presentation due to being nominated while not prepared.
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When I turned off the daily yesterday I wondered if I should make a video containing parts of this daily and open a thread with the title "this is why I stopped watching day9", but I guess it's pointless anyway, because everyone seems to like the endless crying-like shouting for about anything that happens. Just sayin'. He probably wouldn't do that for this TED thing, hopefully.
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I love TED, and this would be amazing. Maybe we should see what Sean thinks first.
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