Friday Night BarCraft at the Hilton Anaheim! - Page 3

On October 21 2011 10:43 Primadog wrote:


BarCraft is the Foreigner's answer to the Korean PC Bangs. It can do for StarCraft 2 what PC Bangs done for BW.

We now live at a time where everyone has high speed internet at home and a PC beefy enough to play StarCraft, so PC bangs are not coming back. Without them, the StarCraft community lost a home to congregate around. This is, in my opinion, the reason why BarCraft is spreading like wild-fire. It's not really so much about drinking, but about creating a local social-space and demonstrate a physical presence of our community to the public.

That's how we can get recognition, new sponsors and fresh faces, that's how we grow the scene.


BarCraft has the potential to create three things:

• Recognition - BarCraft garners mainstream interest like nothing else. To the mainstream world, BarCraft is face that they can observe and try to appreciate, because it creates obvious value. That's why while StarCraft is thirteen years old, it's BarCraft that got it featured on the Wall Street Journal.
  
• Rally point - Our community is huge, with over a hundred thousand hardcore audience and probably a magnitude more in casual ones, yet we don't meet up except for the sporaic major and local tournaments. BarCraft gives us a good excuse to finally meetup with fellow nerd ballers in a casual, social setting. Making friends are easier when you already shared interests.
  
• Revenue - BarCraft can be developed as a significant new revenue source for the industry, if properly harnessed. It has the potential to be the fund base to jumpstart local competitive scene beyond the "charity work" that had fueled StarCraft in the past. It can also help gather new sponsors, like the "lifestyle" brands that SirScoots keep harping about.

Unfortunately, money always dirties community intiatives. BarCraft will some soul searching.

On October 21 2011 10:33 Ballistixz wrote:
alot of barcraft events poping up lately... im not really interested in them at all since im not a drinker what so ever, but they do look fun. altho i wonder why all of these barcraft events are popping up everywhere all of a sudden.

"which will featuring Slasher and djWHEAT *both* getting their heads shaved on stage!"

On October 21 2011 10:33 Ballistixz wrote:
alot of barcraft events poping up lately... im not really interested in them at all since im not a drinker what so ever, but they do look fun. altho i wonder why all of these barcraft events are popping up everywhere all of a sudden.

On October 21 2011 12:34 zemotion wrote:

I'll help myself there this time even if you guys forget me. See youuuuu.