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Julia "Ailuj" Childress' 18 minute MLG interview - Page 10
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darthfoley
United States8004 Posts
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keiraknightlee
United States301 Posts
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Zirith
Canada403 Posts
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G_G
Canada178 Posts
On November 23 2011 05:01 Zirith wrote: dear Julia, please stop "scrolling" TLO used to do it and Day9 laughed at him for wasting apm, watching your match against losira half the time you were just hitting your arrow keys instead of macroing. Feel free to rebind those arrow keys to yghj so if you still feel compelled to worry about perfect camera angles over mechanics then you can be more efficient XD Please stay on topic. That has nothing to do with the "discussion" in this thread. | ||
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iMAniaC
Norway703 Posts
If I wanted to, I could have found the lowest skilled first time MLG player and interviewed him. "How is it, being a Bronze player at MLG?". He could have told us that he just picked up SC2 and that he wanted to become a pro during the next two years. He could have told us what his first impressions of MLG was or whatever. I could call it "The birth of a progamer". It may have been interesting and perhaps, in two years' time, it might even prove to be a real jewel of an interview to look back on, if he did succeed. But did I do the right thing? Did Leenock suffer a terrible injustice when I interviewed a bronze player instead of him? Was I somehow subtracting from his achievement by interviewing someone else? What if I walked up to the guy and thought about interviewing him, but didn't bother? Would Leenock still have suffered the same terrible injustice of having one interview less, or would it be okay, as long as that other interview did not exist? The same goes for forum threads. If I create a forum thread for my "Birth of a progamer interview", putting real effort into it making it a proper OP, would it be an injustice to Leenock? Should I instead have created a forum thread for Leenock? How would the injustice have been scaled if I thought about creating a forum thread and didn't? Would that have been okay, or would I still have mistreated Leenock, because I actually thought about it? Moreover, what's the correct ratio of spotlight a player should receive and who should police the media so that everyone gets what they deserve? I'm sure there are GM's out there who haven't gotten any media attention, but for example idra has gotten lots. Should idra be banned from getting more attention until everyone else with the same skill has gotten the same amount of attention, in the name of justice? And what is the minimum threshold required to be interviewed and what's the correct ratio? Is it 1 interview at Master level for every 10 interviews at GM? Perhaps 1 interview at Diamond for every 100 interview at GM? Has someone calculated the ratio of GM interviews to Diamond interviews? Perhaps Ailuj's is the 1 Master out of 100 GMs, so that it is, in fact, a legit interview. Or should all sub-Master interviews be banned altogether? Please tell me why everything I wrote is not the way you really think, because it sure looks like that. Then explain to me how it's somehow bad that people put their energy into different things instead of everyone focusing on the one top thing all the time. I really don't see how the existence of an interview for a Diamond player somehow hurts the top players, so please explain that as well, especially taken into account that if the interviewer didn't interview Ailuj, she wouldn't have interviewed an unknown GM instead, so the end result would have been one interview less. As for Ailuj and back to topic: Based on the interviews I really like her. She seems to have plenty of self-confidence, a serious attitude towards gaming and she chooses her words well when it comes to ... sensitive topics. She seems to have good potential for being a role model and inspiration for other girls to take the game more seriously. I hope she'll be able to improve and go to future MLG's and kick some ass. | ||
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Alejandrisha
United States6565 Posts
I happen to have known julia through sc2 for a long time now and consider her a good friend of mine. She didn't start streaming thinking "I want to be famous" or "I want a lot of viewers/fans to watch me." She streamed because she fucking wanted to, and had a good time interacting with her viewers, which at the time amounted to about 5-10 people on average. She wants to get good at the game. She doesn't merely want to be something for you to look at, which I'm sure is obvious by now from her interviews. She went to MLG to play the game. She didn't ask to get put up against losira, and she didn't ask to be put on the main stage. She didn't ask for any attention whatsoever. Then one day she put a webcam on her stream. Deal with it. Like I only watch IdrA because he has been working out with EG house lately -.- If you're not so great at the game and if she is getting more attention than you are and you are pissed off about that, go update your live journal or xanga about it. Everyone here who takes gaming seriously or actually understands why people go to events to compete sees right through you. You're throwing shit for absolutely no reason, and what is the result? Some one who is probably exhausted from all of this attention + interviews + competing comes home and sees a bunch of people on the internet don't really like her, and for no rational reason. That's all you've accomplished | ||
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Talin
Montenegro10532 Posts
There is NOTHING new you can say that hasn't been said and heard before on the topic - many times. It's just outright hostility now rather than an argument, no matter how nicely you phrase it. Seriously just lay off for the sake of decency. | ||
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hunts
United States2113 Posts
My only gripe here with julua and alej is they never come on mine/ngrys vent anymore, those jerks! | ||
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FireSA
Australia555 Posts
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desRow
Canada2654 Posts
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pwncakery
Canada131 Posts
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Utinni
Canada1196 Posts
On November 23 2011 09:02 desRow wrote: I'm disappointed this ends of the front page when someone like vile illusion took out sheth and spanishwa and got really far in the open bracket doesn't end up on the frontpage. yes shes a girl yes shes decent at the game yes shes good at promoting stuff but really ? comon -.- Front page of what? It's just in the sc2 general forums. | ||
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Alejandrisha
United States6565 Posts
On November 23 2011 09:02 desRow wrote: I'm disappointed this ends of the front page when someone like vile illusion took out sheth and spanishwa and got really far in the open bracket doesn't end up on the frontpage. yes shes a girl yes shes decent at the game yes shes good at promoting stuff but really ? comon -.- man you don't know much about media do you desrow :p | ||
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Doodsmack
United States7224 Posts
On November 23 2011 04:56 VirgilSC2 wrote: I don't think anything I've said could be remotely construed as whining, I'm simply making the point that it's not a physical difference between female and male esports players. It should also be noted that Julia is not even close to the best female Starcraft players out there. I'm not trying to be sexist, but she's on Check6 for her personality, and her ability to draw attention and viewers, and she was on the mainstage because of her looks, and Losira, not her talent as a player. I happen to do work with a team that had players at Providence, and one of my teammates faced Puzzle not once, but twice. Did he make the mainstage? No, because his skill level wasn't high enough to warrant it. I think in a world that constantly fights over equality, people should actually believe in equality. If you were to look at my other posts about this, or my Twitter, you would see that I'm actually pretty supportive of this girl and her activity in esports, however at this point I think it's a bit silly to be conducting all these interviews and spotlights when she wasn't even the best female player at the event. It's great exposure for CheckSix, but from the outside, ESPECIALLY as a female gamer, it might be LESS productive putting the prettiest girl on stage, over the better player. We don't need the status quo to be seen as "I have to be pretty to be a successful female gamer", Edit: Typo Get over yourself bud. Your teammate wasn't harmed by the girl's game on the main stage. Nor was any other aspiring male semi-pro. If you're involved in a semi-pro team you should have learned by now that esports marketing isn't about divvying out attention based solely on skill. Nor should it be. Glad to see there are many voices in this thread drowning out the ones claiming sexism against male gamers (lol). | ||
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desRow
Canada2654 Posts
On November 23 2011 09:12 Alejandrisha wrote: man you don't know much about media do you desrow :p ?????? nice argument you don't say why I'm wrong. I just copy pasted my post from reddit. Too many players had breakthrough at MLG and they get no exposure. Players like vile state or vile illusion had no interviews and they got really far in the chapiomship bracket. | ||
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Darclite
United States1021 Posts
Anybody else really want an interview with Nicaras also after the best PvP ever against Puzzle in game 2? lol | ||
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EscPlan9
United States2777 Posts
I'm very happy she is being given spotlight for playing SC2 competitively. I think it helps foster the growth in female gaming in general, as well as within SC2. Seeing her improve would be cool too. | ||
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McFeser
United States2458 Posts
On November 23 2011 09:24 desRow wrote: ?????? nice argument you don't say why I'm wrong. I just copy pasted my post from reddit. Too many players had breakthrough at MLG and they get no exposure. Players like vile state or vile illusion had no interviews and they got really far in the chapiomship bracket. Players breakthrough into the championship bracket/pool play all the time (Trimaster last MLG?), but girl SC2 gamers are far rarer. It may not be 'fair', but when MLG is in the business of putting out content that people want to watch they will put an interview out of Diamond level girl. However, the insinuations that the only reason people are watching her is because she is hot (she's ok - my gf is cuter ) is completely off base. There's a quadriplegic who plays SC2. People are interested in that. If a 6 year old boy started playing SC2 at MLG, people would be interested in that. And MLG would produce content that shows people more about these particular unique gamers.However some random pro that took out Sheth? Yeah, good for him. But that doesn't make him interesting, and when incredible results do not fill the content requirements that MLG wants, personality and background reigh supreme. Like seriously, you expect me to care about a random NA pro? I'd rather hear what it's like for a girl trying to be a gamer. | ||
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turnip
United States193 Posts
Best of luck, ailuj! Keep looking back to the basics and to your mechanics in your pursuit of master's league and beyond! | ||
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Torpedo.Vegas
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