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Interview with Sundance DiGiovanni - Page 2

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beamingrobot
Profile Joined October 2010
United States685 Posts
November 20 2011 14:13 GMT
#21
Wow, Sundance is such an intelligent guy. Such an awesome interview.
speedphlux
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Bulgaria962 Posts
November 20 2011 14:14 GMT
#22
Great interview ! Looking forward next year MLGs even more now :D

Gotta thank MLG Dallas 2011 and Sundance's reaction to it. I mean it was a total disaster and he could've easly scrapped the whole SC2 idea out of MLG and stick to the "safer" console titles. But he didn't. He took a lot of shit, took it as a man should, and then choose to dive straight into it, despite all that went wrong.
Each MLG has gotten better and better since. In terms of game quality, stories, casting, crowds, drama and so on.
Keep it up ! :D
... Humanity Is Not What I Suffer From ...
s.a.y
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
Croatia3840 Posts
November 20 2011 14:15 GMT
#23
Waiting for December announcements.
I am not good with quotes
TBO
Profile Joined September 2009
Germany1350 Posts
November 20 2011 14:17 GMT
#24
On November 20 2011 23:13 jinixxx123 wrote:
wouldn't the new surge of barcrafts take a big dent out of the concurrent viewers? like for e.g Montreal barcraft i hear is 1500 ppl, thats 1500 views potentially .. Lots of people get together and watch from 1 view so i not sure why hes aiming for a specific viewer number.


as long as they get the numbers from the barcrafts, it's not problem for them to add them up. 1500 people bunching up in a bar to watch MLG is probably even more interesting for sponsors than 1500 running streams from people at home (who might be or might be not at their computer).
Jibba
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States22883 Posts
November 20 2011 14:18 GMT
#25
Really fantastic interview, and nice answers from Sundance.
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colingrad
Profile Joined March 2008
United States210 Posts
November 20 2011 14:18 GMT
#26
On November 20 2011 23:13 jinixxx123 wrote:
wouldn't the new surge of barcrafts take a big dent out of the concurrent viewers? like for e.g Montreal barcraft i hear is 1500 ppl, thats 1500 views potentially .. Lots of people get together and watch from 1 view so i not sure why hes aiming for a specific viewer number.


like he said sponsors and potential advertisers are going to care a lot about how many concurrent viewers there are watching the stream, i think being able to add on that there may now be even more thousands watching in bars on top of that number will definitely help peak interest in investing.
For the Emperor!
Stuv
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Netherlands942 Posts
November 20 2011 14:20 GMT
#27
Yes this kid is pretty good with the media.
Hopefully he can live up to the words and let MLG grow healthy.
Tukker
Profile Joined August 2011
Canada13 Posts
November 20 2011 14:21 GMT
#28
well done by all involved.

Excited for more MLG next season. MLG may not have the big payouts - but it is one of the few tournaments that I always try to plan my weekend around watching the tournament because of the casters / the crowd and the selection of great foreign and Korean players.
hookyelyak
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Egypt184 Posts
November 20 2011 14:25 GMT
#29
thnx for the great interview
life.parting.mkp.hero.rain.
Enki
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
United States2548 Posts
November 20 2011 14:26 GMT
#30
Wow, great interview! Sundance is always so great in these interviews, you really feel just how passionate he is about esports.
"Practice, practice, practice. And when you're not practicing you should be practicing. It's the only way to get better. The only way." I run the Smix Fanclub!
Madera
Profile Joined July 2011
Sweden2672 Posts
November 20 2011 14:28 GMT
#31
Thanks for the interview as always. ^__^
JustPassingBy
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
10776 Posts
November 20 2011 14:29 GMT
#32
very nice, now I am really looking forward to the future of MLG!
foxmeep
Profile Joined July 2009
Australia2337 Posts
November 20 2011 14:31 GMT
#33
Great interview, the only thing I hope they don't do is make MLG too frequent. One of the things I really like about MLG over GSL is that it's not on every single month. Major tournaments should limit themselves to one every 2-3 months.
soulist
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States932 Posts
November 20 2011 14:42 GMT
#34
Hmm Sundance said something about 185 million of bottles of dr pepper. I didn't really understand that. What did he say?
Evil Geniuses<3
Morale
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden1010 Posts
November 20 2011 14:45 GMT
#35
Great interview! Thanks alot!
soulist
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States932 Posts
November 20 2011 14:46 GMT
#36
On November 20 2011 23:17 TBO wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 20 2011 23:13 jinixxx123 wrote:
wouldn't the new surge of barcrafts take a big dent out of the concurrent viewers? like for e.g Montreal barcraft i hear is 1500 ppl, thats 1500 views potentially .. Lots of people get together and watch from 1 view so i not sure why hes aiming for a specific viewer number.


as long as they get the numbers from the barcrafts, it's not problem for them to add them up. 1500 people bunching up in a bar to watch MLG is probably even more interesting for sponsors than 1500 running streams from people at home (who might be or might be not at their computer).


I think its better for the sponsors because if there are people together while an advertisement then people can talk about it and be like "oh wow i really like hotpockets, do you?" and this conversation erupts about it. Rather than 1 person at home not giving a shit about the sponsors becuase its taking up their time from watching a starcraft game.
Evil Geniuses<3
mnu
Profile Joined October 2010
4 Posts
November 20 2011 14:47 GMT
#37
Thank you for the Interview!
I think MLG is great but what really gets me is how much they think of Gamers and Esports fans as"14-16 year olds" and it shows in a lot of stuff they produce (the music, the pimp my gamer bedroom show that runs between matches etc.). They should approach Starcraft 2 in a different way than console gaming.
JohnnyYen
Profile Joined September 2010
United States313 Posts
November 20 2011 14:47 GMT
#38
Cool interview. Usually I like hearing the team liquid guys asking questions, but this was nice too. I loved Sundance's answers to the numbers question, his idea for how starcraft will grow to reach the mainstream. MLG seems to be on top of their shit, great stuff all around.

"Some people will be always be unhappy"? I hope that's not foreshadowing MLG keeping the same extended series!!
ntvarify
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States331 Posts
November 20 2011 14:49 GMT
#39
Just finished, really good interview, answered a lot of questions. Can't wait to see what they're planning for 2012!
Noam
Profile Joined September 2010
Israel2209 Posts
November 20 2011 14:51 GMT
#40
Great interview and great editing
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