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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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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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Good job! More content is always appreciated, "pro gaming caster Rod Breslau".
Just as a little aside: You could have dressed a little snappier.
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the number of comments on that site calling people who play games "no life losers" on gamespot hurts my head
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really interested in hearing how gamespot brass felt the weekend went
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Pre-Day 1 interviews with Huk, Leenock, MC, viOLet and DeMusliM, and post-Day 1 interviews with Sheth and Socke are up. Post-Day 1/Pre-Day 2 interviews with DRG, PartinG, Oz, Huk, Grubby, Thorzain, SjoW will be up shortly. The landing page for all coverage is at http://www.gamespot.com/features/starcraft-ii-pros-converge-at-mlg-winter-arena-2012-6350914/
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Interviews with DRG, PartinG, Oz, and IdrA (before he lost to NesTea) are now up.
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MarineKing, Huk Part 2 added
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Awesome interviews, a great look behind the scenes etc.
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On February 25 2012 07:58 zul wrote:
nice advertisement. -.- Slasher, I`m a fan of yours, but this sucks.
I hope you commented before the interviews were up.
Awesome content as always Slasher!
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Love these interviews thanks man. DRG fighting!
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Good questions, good interviews, terrible camera man. He's almost doing what the camera man at NASL was doing. Constantly zooming in and out, in and out. Tell him to pick and shot a stay with it for the entire interview. A tripod wouldn't hurt either.
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hahaha huk at the start of his interview
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Please interview Grubby! :D
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Good to know one can still become an e-sports journalist with a phrase such as 'you may have saw'.
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Great work Slasher, but sad to see all the negative comments on the GameSpot article. Didn't expect casual gamers to still be so stuck in the past.
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Nice interviews!
Looking forward to more stuff Slasher!
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LOL @ so many people upset at the gamespot users comments.
If youtube never existed gamespot could easily take their place in dumbest comments. I wish there was a transcript for all of this, the content is awesome but I feel I can read it faster than waiting for each video
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Good work, slasher.
I hope other sites will follow suit with this kind of stuff.
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excellent coverage. This needs to be spotlighted. This is the most videos we've seen for Arena
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"Got second to reapers." got to love Idra
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Can we get an interview with MC after his losses against Parting/Ganzi? His thoughts on the games, etc?
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On February 26 2012 23:37 -Archangel- wrote:
"Got second to reapers." got to love Idra
Oh man I lost it when he said that completely straight faced, too good.
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oh my god the female translators are hawt!
really good interviews Slasher!
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Oh awesome! I've been looking for these
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On February 26 2012 23:37 -Archangel- wrote:
"Got second to reapers." got to love Idra
what was the full comment? Not able to watch the vods for some reason, thanks!
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On February 27 2012 00:18 EleanorRIgby wrote:Show nested quote +On February 26 2012 23:37 -Archangel- wrote:
"Got second to reapers." got to love Idra what was the full comment? Not able to watch the vods for some reason, thanks!
he was saying in beta ? or early sc2 he got 2nd at a iem to reapers,
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On February 27 2012 00:18 EleanorRIgby wrote:Show nested quote +On February 26 2012 23:37 -Archangel- wrote:
"Got second to reapers." got to love Idra what was the full comment? Not able to watch the vods for some reason, thanks!
He said he was once one of the best sc2 players in the world and started to name his accomplishments. And said that as part of it :D
It is funny how after so long he is still angry and resentful because of that 2nd place :D
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appreciate the coverage slasher, TL coverage is always good too, but hotbid usually stops the interviews after day 1 with most events  its good to have some proper consistancy with your interviews slash, tyvm
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haha the end of the socke interview was nice =)
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Do you plan to post more up, Slasher?
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It's great to see GameSpot getting more and more involved. We all need to back this as much as possible. Send the videos to friends and make sure these get a ton of hits!
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Does anybody know which build is huk talking about? is it the 2 gate expo robo or sth?
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Great interviews slasher!
Wish you had been able to interview some players such as Demuslim or Ret after their upset matches!
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Also I love that you cut out the segments of the translators having to repeat the question to the player. It makes the questions and answers flow better in the interviews and I think it works great here!
keep up the great work!
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Definitely awesome interviews. I hope you get to do more for gamespot!
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Just saw this, great job and a great effort on getting the word out to a wider audience.
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I read some complaints in here about the article comments section, but I definitely wasn't expecting such hatred for progamers, as if they're absolutely disgusted by such a vile idea for a profession. Quite the audience you've got there :p (Though I'm sure it's more-so just a very vocal minority).
Thanks for the interviews.
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Canada5565 Posts
Hm, the Rob Simpson, djWheat, and JP Interview link is not working for me
These interviews are great, they add so much to the event.
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No Naniwa?
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Where is the Sundance interview?
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Huk loves trolling interviews.
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On February 27 2012 18:51 Jiddra wrote:No Naniwa?
Yes Naniwa
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Where is the Sundance interview you tweeted about?
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Don't see the Sundance interview that Slasher tweeted about.
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On February 28 2012 12:12 Rabbet wrote:Don't see the Sundance interview that Slasher tweeted about.
For now, you can watch the hot_bid one, but yes, I don't see it up either.
Also congrats Slasher on a job well done. I think you did very well in your interviews and written pieces so far for gamespot. Keep up the good work.
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A shining Rod in the gamespot.
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hi guys, i was slasher's producer at mlg this weekend. i promise the sundance interview will be up on the gamespot mlg feature page sometime in the morning along with the wrap-up of day 3, then an overall event wrap-up should follow sometime. i really hope you guys liked the videos, and please let me know what else i can be doing to improve esports coverage.
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Good job slasher and good luck.
I highly reccommend people to check it out and write a comment. The more the merrier.
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I really hope people get behind this content and at least go and check it out - this is a big stepping stone that I feel is necessary for eSports in general, to become much more than it is now
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On February 28 2012 16:54 beng wrote:
hi guys, i was slasher's producer at mlg this weekend. i promise the sundance interview will be up on the gamespot mlg feature page sometime in the morning along with the wrap-up of day 3, then an overall event wrap-up should follow sometime. i really hope you guys liked the videos, and please let me know what else i can be doing to improve esports coverage.
cool, thanks for the heads up, I look forward to watching it.
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it's awesome to have this much content surrounding a tournament. This is exactly what I've always wanted from SC2 news. I really hope GameSpot and Slasher do this again.
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On February 28 2012 17:41 LittleAtari wrote:
it's awesome to have this much content surrounding a tournament. This is exactly what I've always wanted from SC2 news. I really hope GameSpot and Slasher do this again.
edit: the grubby interview was my favorite.
( forum fail. Thought I was editing my post, not quoting my previous post T_T)
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gj great interviews
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I don't think it's really necessary to ask the players to state so many specifics like name/age/where they live, but nice interviews
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On February 28 2012 18:08 darkcloud8282 wrote:I don't think it's really necessary to ask the players to state so many specifics like name/age/where they live, but nice interviews
its probably because he's working the first time with a mainstream esport media and People dont really know the players on gamesport, we obviously dont need to know stuff like that or most likely know it all already except for gaming background in a few cases.
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Meeeeh, update the OP I want to see that Sundance interview! x_x
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Thanks for your patience guys, as Beng said he'll be getting the Sundance interview up as soon as he can. The Sundance interview was pretty long, so you guys should get some good information going forward and such. We'll try to post here when its up.
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Canada1637 Posts
Great coverage overall.
On February 28 2012 18:08 darkcloud8282 wrote:I don't think it's really necessary to ask the players to state so many specifics like name/age/where they live, but nice interviews
I like this.
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On February 28 2012 18:10 AsnSensation wrote:Show nested quote +On February 28 2012 18:08 darkcloud8282 wrote:I don't think it's really necessary to ask the players to state so many specifics like name/age/where they live, but nice interviews its probably because he's working the first time with a mainstream esport media and People dont really know the players on gamesport, we obviously dont need to know stuff like that or most likely know it all already except for gaming background in a few cases.
exactly. These interviews are meant to get out to a broader audience. Slasher was trying to show pro sc2 to a new audience. Its a good idea to introduce yourself to a new audience.
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On February 28 2012 16:54 beng wrote:
hi guys, i was slasher's producer at mlg this weekend. i promise the sundance interview will be up on the gamespot mlg feature page sometime in the morning along with the wrap-up of day 3, then an overall event wrap-up should follow sometime. i really hope you guys liked the videos, and please let me know what else i can be doing to improve esports coverage.
I guess it is still morning somewhere? One thing you can do to improve esports coverage is post the videos when you say you are going to, or don't tweet about them until they are ready for viewing.
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Just watched the Sundance interview, that was a great interview with lots of good information. I'm glad MLG has found something sustainable and will be doing more Arenas.
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Finally updated the OP will all the interviews from the weekend. Several others including SaSe, Thorzain, and more post and pre-game interviews from Day 3 might be up soon, but might have to wait a little while!
I hope everyone enjoyed my coverage this weekend!
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Seriously, Thanks Slasher & Gamespot. ALL of the interviews are exceptional, I must highlight the Naniwa one though. First time I've seen an interview with him go into details about his thought processes and such, when it wasn't in an apologetic/required scenario.
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IdrA interview up is the last one from the weekend. There are a few others not uploaded, but not sure if they will or not. Hope everyone enjoyed my coverage this weekend. If you did, let @GameSpot know and hopefully I'll be able to do this again at an event soon!
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How can we let Gamespot know? Through tweeting at them or is there a feedback link at the Gamespot website for this particular thing.
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The answer to the last question in the "Post-Event Interview - Leenock" isn't translated (starts at 1:45).
Otherwise great stuff. I've enjoyed all the ones I've watched.
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Was there a reason why you didn't interview neither Nestea nor Mvp?
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@Slardar you can let us know in the comments section (though our anti-trolling measures make it hard for newcomers), or say something to @gamespot on twitter... we'll hear you.
@OpticalPhoton i will look into that.
thanks for the kind words and honest feedback! there were a few interviews that i wasn't able to edit and publish before leaving new york and i will try to get them up but there's all this non-esports gaming stuff happening (like gdc and mass effect 3) that i have to prioritize, so i don't want to make any promises. because of the great support from the sc2 community for this content, i have a feeling we will be doing more.
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