AZKziek is just an ignorant person. This is great for ESports and could even bring new interest to Starcraft2 genre with people seeing pros playing it.

Xayvier

United States387 Posts

September 10 2011 22:06 GMT

#162

MLG/ESPN partnership, one can dream

mav451

United States1596 Posts

September 10 2011 22:13 GMT

#163

Lol this interview is really funny. Pretty cool that they held off the "shop-talk" on the lock-out until the very end.

Khalleb

Canada1909 Posts

September 10 2011 22:42 GMT

#164

On September 11 2011 07:06 mrKamiya wrote:
MLG/ESPN partnership, one can dream

it alrady happened bfr i can't see why they won't be partner again :D

wishbones

Canada2600 Posts

September 10 2011 23:05 GMT

#165

On September 11 2011 07:06 mrKamiya wrote:
MLG/ESPN partnership, one can dream

dont dream for too long sc will be mainstream eventually its happening already ^_^ i just cant wait till it happens so i can rub into all my friends faces that i made the right choice 8 long years ago.

Bradleo

United States9 Posts

September 11 2011 01:07 GMT

#166

The eve of ESPN StarCraft matches is upon us. Huzzah for a step in the right direction. I mean they have poker on ESPN and not StarCraft... something is wrong there.

applejuice

307 Posts

September 11 2011 01:21 GMT

#167

On September 11 2011 07:06 mrKamiya wrote:
MLG/ESPN partnership, one can dream

ESPN's name used to be attached to MLG's top ten plays, and they used the same graphics as they do on Sportscenter top tens, etc.

They broke off their partnership a couple years ago, though. And it was never on ACTUAL ESPN, just featured on MLG's website.

Scereye

Austria154 Posts

September 11 2011 02:56 GMT

#168

MLG should definitely contact ESPN again...

ShamTao

United States419 Posts

September 11 2011 03:00 GMT

#169

This is awesome to see!

Whole

United States6046 Posts

September 11 2011 03:04 GMT

#170

I don't like how they call him a pro gamer, but the publicity is still really awesome.

Stropheum

United States1124 Posts

September 11 2011 03:05 GMT

#171

I love how the interviewer keeps calling it "spacecraft"

inamorato

United States263 Posts

September 11 2011 07:11 GMT

#172

What is this the BBC version of ESPN?

MangoTango

United States3670 Posts

September 11 2011 07:38 GMT

#173

He may have done more in the last month for ESPORTS than anyone since Boxer.

DisaFear

Australia4074 Posts

September 11 2011 08:12 GMT

#174

Excellent news, good to see the love for eSports spread

Ghostface_Killa

United States168 Posts

September 11 2011 08:17 GMT

#175

What's sick is Hayward is pretty good. He ain't some scrub. He can shoot dem 3s.

Madera

Sweden2672 Posts

September 11 2011 08:22 GMT

#176

Great article! Gordon is such an awesome dude.

Bedrock

United States395 Posts

September 11 2011 08:44 GMT

#177

If anyone has any good ideas that could help bring e-sports on to ESPN, please PM me! I figure TV isn't the right medium for SC, but there are plenty of other platforms that ESPN serves up to. I want to try and help, but it's hard without any hard data to back up the growth.

If people are wondering, yes, I do work for ESPN.

FreudianTrip

Switzerland1983 Posts

September 11 2011 11:31 GMT

#178

On September 11 2011 16:11 inamorato wrote:
What is this the BBC version of ESPN?

Lol it's like the exact opposite of the BBC.

It's a bunch of "lads" talking about stuff that "lads" are into like football (soccer) and birds and vans. Their sports presenters are Alan Brazil who spends the entire time either drunk or telling people his stories about when he was drunk and Andy Gray + Richard Keys who were fired from SkySports (our ESPN) for being sexist pigs

Then they round it off at night with some right wing Bill O Reilly type to talk about how the worlds awful and that we need to become fascists to save it or some other bollocks.

Awful radio station.

Gojira621

United States374 Posts

September 11 2011 15:38 GMT

#179

to be completely honest I could see something like MLG being bought out by espn in the near future if it keeps growing. It would add a huge numbers of viewers to the channel especially for season of the year when they have few sports to play on tv like during summer and such. If pro bowling and poker can be on espn no reason that starcraft 2 and other e-sports can't be. Plus MLG already has a strong fanbase and i feel is pretty "american" enough to get tagged from espn. Cant wait