On April 04 2012 23:19 Loxis wrote: Err... this is great but.. I myself live in montreal, and tbh, it is true that there is a big fan base in montreal, but toronto..? Toronto is boring, evevryone goes to bed around 9pm, there is nothing to do there.. we call it: ontario. It is a great city, but not for a starcraft event, thats my opinion. Should definetly have happened in montreal. People from montreal are party animal, evrything is open all night long, could have had great barcraft opportunitys, the night life is much more interesting, and montreal is pretty open minded, not that toronto isnt, but its different.. anyway. I am not gonna drive 6 hours to go to toronto, this city is boring.
i live in Toronto and i basically agree. the attendance at Club 1234 earned Montreal its shot as first place in Canada for an eSports event.
Starcraft is not a mainstream event like UFC or even WWE is...
Toronto is good for giant mainstream events where 10s of thousands of lemmings who have no clue pay big dollars to watch what they are told to watch... and cheer when they're told to cheer.
On April 04 2012 23:25 bonifaceviii wrote: Is HuK in the NASL? I'm sorry, I haven't been following.
If he is, I would suggest he burst through the crowd swinging a huge American flag with the Hulk Hogan "I AM A REAL AMERICAN" music playing so that the crowd goes into a mouth-frothing frenzy of hate and confusion.
sorry man.. Toronto loves the Hulkster...
before the big Wrestlemania events ever happened... 70,000 people piled into the CNE Stadium to watch The "real American"
Ticket information. NOW. I am ridiculously pumped. Living in Ottawa I feel kind of removed from the larger Esports scene and now I cant let this just walk past me!!!
On April 04 2012 23:26 JimmyJRaynor wrote: Toronto is good for giant mainstream events where 10s of thousands of lemmings who have no clue pay big dollars to watch what they are told to watch... and cheer when they're told to cheer.
The solution, then, is obvious: all that needs to happen is for Don Cherry to refer to HuK as a "good Canadian kid" in one of his moronic senile ramblings about how the Leafs would win everything if only they had one more "good Canadian kid".
well... once esports see's what Canadian esports fans are like, there won't be anymore live events in the US. BTW objectively speaking there're a lot sicker fans in MTL but I'm sure we'll all travel to Toronto. I'll go
OH SHIT, time to call my parents, I'm coming home to Toronto >: )
I should drag some friends as well. They don't believe e-sports exists and that no one would pay to watch others play video games. >:O
@West coast Canadians, well uh... Vancouver took Toronto's Olympics! >:O, ... that's all I got But I know how you feel, it's like hearing Ontario and realizing it's in California as noted 38572878 times.
Good to see that canada gets some love, from what I remember from the barcraft shots the crowd is atleast as energetic as the US crowd. Last big esports event in canada that I can remember is MLG Torronto in 2008, so it's about time you guys get another major event :D Also I love the time zone, pretty good for EU viewers as well.
lol wtf, i type in some random keywords into google to look this up, and I got
"Toronto Blizzard NASL". Which sounds relevant but it's the north american soccer league (what the fuck, soccer league? in north america?) and the Toronto team is called blizzard -.-
I wonder when there's gonna be details about seeing this live, like time, purchases and stuff.
On April 04 2012 23:19 Loxis wrote: Err... this is great but.. I myself live in montreal, and tbh, it is true that there is a big fan base in montreal, but toronto..? Toronto is boring, evevryone goes to bed around 9pm, there is nothing to do there.. we call it: ontario. It is a great city, but not for a starcraft event, thats my opinion. Should definetly have happened in montreal. People from montreal are party animal, evrything is open all night long, could have had great barcraft opportunitys, the night life is much more interesting, and montreal is pretty open minded, not that toronto isnt, but its different.. anyway. I am not gonna drive 6 hours to go to toronto, this city is boring.
Sorry, but this is a load of BS.
The gaming community is huge in Toronto and the surrounding suburbs, primarily because of the huge Asian population and the tech companies that headquartered there. Toronto is a work-hard/play-hard city.
People in Toronto aren't afraid to commute an hour to see something or spend the money to do so, unlike the laissez-faire, bumbling, low-economy Montreal you've described.
I'm not sure what kind of attendance NASL is hoping for, but they'll sell at least 2000 tickets easily.
EPT
I feel bad for you but if you are in vancouver at least you get really good weather 
