Starcraft II on ESPN 2? - Page 36

On October 02 2011 10:03 vx70GTOJudgexv wrote:


Cases like this are remote, if anything. Hate to break it to you.

I'm all for seeing SC2 on ESPN, but I'm not about to get my hopes up that the masses will be converted here.

On October 02 2011 07:41 Corrupted wrote:


Yeah...the first point is my opinion as well. I never understand this desire from people to move onto television. The internet is so much better than TV in virtually every way. TV ruins things that are incredibly cool without it. I don't even own a television anymore...and have no intention of getting one anytime soon.

On October 02 2011 12:02 ELA wrote:
Starcraft on television would have to work like Tour de France on television... There may be some times where it SEEMES that nothing is happening, but these moments are actually when the mood and the setting is made for the sport..

Imagine if every stage of the tour was boiled down into 5 minutes... I wouldnt watch that

I just dont believe that IF this is indeed happening, that TV networks such as EPSN/Eurosport will have the patience to show full games.. We'd be shown 3 minute snippets of each match.. If not full matches are shown, I would rather have none at all..

On October 02 2011 12:18 Darclite wrote:
Couldn't you run it like tennis, have like four matches at once and just switch to show the interesting parts until you get to semifinals and grand finals and show the whole games?

On October 02 2011 12:52 Adreme wrote:


The tour de france works on TV for the same reason that other sports work on TV and for the same reason that Starcraft is probably the worst sport to pick for a live series and thats that for the previous examples they have a rough idea how long the games will last. They schedule 3 hours for football and sometimes they go over and sometimes they go under but usually when they are under or over it isnt by more than 20% of the time asigned or 30 minutes each way. If I were to schedule a Bo5 it could go either 4 hours or 30 minutes and thats just a massive time descrepancy to deal with as a scheduler. Even if you were to use only 1 or 2 games a day then you still dont know whether you are going to fill 2 hours or barely fill 30 minutes.

This is rather signifigant to advertisers who like to know there products are being advertised during the primary thing they bought. If you were to start with broadcasting Esports over live TV it would have to be something like either Halo or Gears of War in America for there popularity and there ability to look nice enough on a TV to draw a national or even global audiance (unlike BW and CS 1. 6 would struggle in that department). If you pick those games then you have a rought timeline of how long it will take to within about 15 minutes depending on if a Bo5 goes 3 games or 5.

If they were to broacast it though it would either have to be prerecorded and done with highlights and player reactions (like the madden series they did awhile back) or part of a gaming block so that you could ensure advertisers got what they wanted and would want to pay for.

Slightly off topic I would be willing to bet that ESPN's interest was probably garnered by either the reaction they got to the Gorden Hayward article or when they saw the numbers Starcraft was getting when researching it.

On October 02 2011 09:50 FairForever wrote:


Uhh yeah right... you have to be kidding me. ESPN will definitely not run MLG live (for reasons mentioned millions of times). And you're crazy if you think they'd make the time to run SC2 for more than an hour or two at a time. That's enough for two, maybe three BO3s.

Exactly why I'm against this idea. If you really think ESPN is going to show SC2 on a Sunday (keep in mind this is MLG, so you are in the same/similar time zones) over...

1) Fantasy Football Pre-Game Show
2) A Soccer Game (Real Madrid is on ESPN tomorrow)
3) Multiple Random Programming (College Women's Volleyball, BodyBuilding)
4) WNBA
5) Women's Billiards

You gotta be kidding me. Maybe ESPN would cut one of the latter 3. But they aren't going to spend more than a few hours (which is how much each of these programming items get) showing Starcraft.