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Some of you may have saw my announcement on Twitter, but I will be covering the MLG NY Winter Arena in-depth for GameSpot. Over the past few weeks I have been pitching mainstream editorial gaming sites to cover the world of eSports and professional gaming, and GameSpot was one that aligned with the same thinking that I had. My goal is to expand the audience and exposure of eSports to those who don't understand it so far, don't like it, or don't even know what it is. I want to expose those people to the community, industry, and sport that I've loved for nearly half my life. This weekend is an experiment to see the how things will go, so I implore everyone to at least check it out. The more views, comments and discussion around my coverage, the better chance I will have to continue to do this, and I appreciate any and all support from the community.
I will be providing interviews, recaps, previews and live coverage on http://www.gamespot.com/features/starcraft-ii-pros-converge-at-mlg-winter-arena-2012-6350914 and through Twitter and Facebook (http://www.Twitter.com/Slasher, http://www.Twitter.com/GameSpot, http://www.Facebook.com/GameSpot)
The first article that went up is actually a more general article titled 'The state of eSports: 2012' - http://www.gamespot.com/features/the-state-of-esports-2012-6350990/
UPDATED:
Post-Event Interview - Sundance DiGiovanni
Championship Interview - MarineKing
Post-Event Interview - Tasteless, Artosis
Post-Event Interview - djWHEAT, JP McDaniel, Rob Simpson
Post-Event Interview - IdrA
Post-Event Interview - Leenock
Day 3 Interview - MarineKing
Pre-Day 3 Interview - viOLet
Pre-Day 3 Interview - Oz
Pre-Day 3 Interview - DongRaeGu
Pre-Day 3 Interview - PartinG
Post-Day 2 Interview - NaNiwa (after NesTea match)
Post-Day 2 Interview - Grubby
Day 2 Interview - MarineKing
Day 2 Interview - HuK
Day 2 Interview - IdrA (before NesTea match)
Day 2 Interview - MarineKing
Post-Day 1 Interview - Socke
Post-Day 1 Interview - Sheth
Post-Day 1 Interview - Oz
Post-Day 1 Interview - PartinG
Post-Day 1 Interview - HuK
Post-Day 1 Interview - DongRaeGu
Day 1 Interview - Leenock
Day 1 Interview - HuK
Day 1 Interview - MC
Day 1 Interview - DeMusliM
Day 1 Interview - viOLet
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How exclusive will your coverage be?
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USA29055 Posts
I think this is where you shine most rod, all the best!
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Slasher is secretly inside the offices, hiding in the bathroom. He only comes out when Sundance is distracted, ambushing players during their bathroom breaks to get that sweet, sweet exclusive content.
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United Kingdom14464 Posts
Damn, the gamespot comments are pretty bad so far. I thought it was a great article, and its nice that Slasher seems to have found a home.
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gamespot.com url has period in it, doesnt work
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there's a fucking hyphen it's e-sports.
anyhow ilu will watch gamespot's coverage for sure great read loved it
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United States771 Posts
On February 25 2012 07:09 Slasher wrote:Some of you may have saw my announcement on Twitter, but I will be covering the MLG NY Winter Arena in-depth for GameSpot. Over the past few weeks I have been pitching mainstream editorial gaming sites to cover the world of eSports and professional gaming, and GameSpot was one that aligned with the same thinking that I had. My goal is to expand the audience and exposure of eSports to those who don't understand it so far, don't like it, or don't even know what it is. I want to expose those people to the community, industry, and sport that I've loved for nearly half my life. This weekend is an experiment to see the how things will go, so I implore everyone to at least check it out. The more views, comments and discussion around my coverage, the better chance I will have to continue to do this, and I appreciate any and all support from the community. I will be providing interviews, recaps, previews and live coverage on the front page of http://www.GameSpot.com, and through Twitter and Facebook (http://www.Twitter.com/Slasher, http://www.Twitter.com/GameSpot, http://www.Facebook.com/GameSpot)The first article that went up is actually a more general article titled 'The state of eSports: 2012' - http://www.gamespot.com/features/the-state-of-esports-2012-6350990/Interviews with Huk, MC, DeMusliM, viOLet will be up shortly on GameSpot, with more coming soon! Thanks everyone.
Just a heads up Slasher, your link to gamespot.com has an extra period imbedded into the link thus making the link broken.
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On February 25 2012 07:15 archonOOid wrote:
cool
but what about other e-sports organizations that were denied, the "not enough room" argument and the recent sundance tweet
This pisses me off kind of, giving the middlefinger to foreign esport media "/
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nice advertisement. -.- Slasher, I`m a fan of yours, but this sucks.
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On February 25 2012 07:09 Slasher wrote:Some of you may have saw my announcement on Twitter, but I will be covering the MLG NY Winter Arena in-depth for GameSpot. Over the past few weeks I have been pitching mainstream editorial gaming sites to cover the world of eSports and professional gaming, and GameSpot was one that aligned with the same thinking that I had. My goal is to expand the audience and exposure of eSports to those who don't understand it so far, don't like it, or don't even know what it is. I want to expose those people to the community, industry, and sport that I've loved for nearly half my life. This weekend is an experiment to see the how things will go, so I implore everyone to at least check it out. The more views, comments and discussion around my coverage, the better chance I will have to continue to do this, and I appreciate any and all support from the community. I will be providing interviews, recaps, previews and live coverage on the front page of http://www.GameSpot.com, and through Twitter and Facebook (http://www.Twitter.com/Slasher, http://www.Twitter.com/GameSpot, http://www.Facebook.com/GameSpot)The first article that went up is actually a more general article titled 'The state of eSports: 2012' - http://www.gamespot.com/features/the-state-of-esports-2012-6350990/Interviews with Huk, MC, DeMusliM, viOLet will be up shortly on GameSpot, with more coming soon! Thanks everyone.
Oh really ? I bet they have sponsored streams. Well maybe next time you can do the same for the LP. After all we are the ones who have the better bracket. Business is business, and I can understand that. Still I am not happy with this situation.
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On February 25 2012 07:35 MCDayC wrote:
Damn, the gamespot comments are pretty bad so far. I thought it was a great article, and its nice that Slasher seems to have found a home.
What did you expect from mainstream "professional" video game review site users
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It's so bizarre to me that on -gaming websites- like ign and gamespot, the hostility towards e-sports is so huge. I don't get it, are they jealous or something? Is it a classist thing where they think gaming too much crosses some border that makes you a nerd?
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On February 25 2012 07:35 Rinny wrote:
gamespot.com url has period in it, doesnt work
fixed, thanks!
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Just did interviews with DRG, PartinG, Leenock, GanZi, SjoW, Drewbie, Sheth, and CatZ. Got interviewed by Hot Bid. Will be up on http://www.GameSpot.com
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This is definitely a good thing, both for e-sports and Slasher. 
I just posted on GameSpot about some of the early comments I've seen, as they are down right stupid. Luckily these people are the minority and probably only play Call of Duty every other week with no real insight into anything else.
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On February 25 2012 11:44 Slasher wrote:Just did interviews with DRG, PartinG, Leenock, GanZi, SjoW, Drewbie, Sheth, and CatZ. Got interviewed by Hot Bid. Will be up on http://www.GameSpot.com
Thanks for these =) Feel like there haven't been enough interviews for such a stacked tourney. Can't wait to watch them all.
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Great work Slasher, keep it up man !
These are the growing pains we have to push through... if anything this should be encouraging because we have to see it and move past it.
I had some thoughts but I moved them into a blog post... just got to long winded
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