EPTRed Bull announces offline event - Page 13
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United States104 Posts
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EightyFive
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I'm addicted to freaking Red Bull, and now they start going into eSports aswell. It's going to be a hard time staying off the Red Bull. | ||
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seoul_kiM
United States545 Posts
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Krogan
Sweden375 Posts
Personally I also really love this mixture of open bracket tournaments and invite tournaments as it gives us a large variety of tournaments to watch. Dreamhack was a treat last weekend but I have to say the first day was a little painful to watch, gave me new appreciation for why MLG likes their poll play. Watching Sase and Nani just mess around trying to find the most BM way to win(or lose) quickly lost its appeal to me. | ||
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Pull
United States308 Posts
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elt
Thailand1092 Posts
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Elitios
France164 Posts
Also best casting crew in a while, it's going to be sick ! + Show Spoiler + *Go Go Stephano!* | ||
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ThirdDegree
United States329 Posts
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hookyelyak
Egypt184 Posts
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dardoz
Ireland26 Posts
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Banj0
Sweden53 Posts
Casters = happy with all of them, curious to see Day9 back in action. I guess I am not a 'pure' SC2-skill fan because if RO8 is 8 koreans, I normally loose all interest in a tournament except for the occasional Liquipedia lookup. I like underdog stories and I want foreigners in there to the end. MLG Spring Arena - even though the lineup was exceptional players - was completely uninteresting to me. I hope they limit the korean invites to 4-6 players so a few more foreigners gets a chance to prove themselves. | ||
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Champloo
Germany1850 Posts
 PartinGMC PoltMMA NesTeaStephanoNerchioRetIdrANaNiwaWhite-RaHasuObsThorZaINKasIllusionDeMusliMWhy is this not in the tournament section btw? | ||
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Leijona
Finland56 Posts
On April 25 2012 15:50 seoul_kiM wrote: Why do people still want to see players like TLO, NoNy, Grubby, and Idra play? They really fell off the radar... No, grubby is just getting better and better everyday. His days are surely ahead. (In sc2) | ||
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KriptoKnight
United States6 Posts
On April 25 2012 02:52 JeffGoldblum wrote: Hulk Hogan will NOT be present at this event unfortunately. Lmao^ win | ||
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Fuchsteufelswild
Australia2028 Posts
My apologies if that was too much of a tangent. I'd like to see invitationals mix players that might be (highly skilled) crowd favourites who are often invited, such as Stephano, White Ra and TLO (not that ANY player should be invited to EVERY invitational) with more (still high-up) players who are less often invited or are simply lower profile just based on size of fan-base or the amount of hype players get. Having said that, one example of a player I'd love to see more of, especially at invitationals, is MorroW, but then Day9], Husky Rob, Red Bull and whoever else may have been involved in the recommendations seem to have good choice, so MorroW actually was at the last event. ^_^ I would say that the Red Bull invitationals aim to pick players that put in a good deal of effort but also show a generally positive approach to learning and make for a great display of skill and learning from a good mannered bunch of the community, which is not a bad choice for marketing either. They want to create a good image and make ESPORTS as clearly professional as possible. It's not BAD that players like Dragon are invited now and then, but just because they are fan favourites does not mean it is a good idea of they become 'regulars'. I quite like the idea though of small tournaments (but obviously larger than this in total number of players) having a set invited number of players for the pools with an additional small pool for an "invited open bracket" which would be good for showing off some players that are not so likely to be invited with just the small, set 16 invited. Another alternative that just puts more variety in is to just always go for Invitationals with 32 rather than 16 though. :Þ Perhaps it's all about focussing on the smaller number of players though, to make it more personal and give more exposure/the spotlight to a smaller group. Husky was great at the last MLG I remember seeing him at, congratulations to him for getting to the stage where most will give him credit and for sticking through all the criticism. Rob Simpson is great too, I don't know what people have against him unless they don't like seeing enthusiasm and smiles from someone without as much knowledge and insight as Sean and there seems to be a clear partnership of some form between Red Bull and these people, so no one should be surprised to see them together again. They did announce Red Bull would be hosting numerous events throughout the year. Did people seriously think it would be without the same hosts? I look forward to this and can only hope it'll be easy to keep track of the dates, stream location and other obvious details. *Putting it on my calendar* | ||
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SilentSC2
United States505 Posts
On April 25 2012 17:21 Champloo wrote: Yes, 4-6 koreans would be okay. I'd love to see a lineup like this: PartinGMCPoltMMANesTeaStephanoNerchioRetIdrANaNiwaWhite-RaHasuObsThorZaINKasIllusionDeMusliMWhy is this not in the tournament section btw? Wow, that would be great actually, but there has to be 1 more Korean Zerg... who should it be? | ||
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Madars
Latvia166 Posts
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Fuchsteufelswild
Australia2028 Posts
I came back here though to ask if anyone else had noticed/experienced this when they first went to the first page of this thread: http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n160/Endelite/TLPDJokeTrollGlitchBeingmodified-1.png | ||
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TheSir
1830 Posts
On April 25 2012 17:29 Leijona wrote: No, grubby is just getting better and better everyday. His days are surely ahead. (In sc2) yeah as a caster, as a player not anymore. | ||
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KainiT
Austria392 Posts
+1 It is funny how people always think grubby is getting "better and better everyday". He had a very succesful wc3 past and had all the best training environment once he started to play sc2. He already had sponsors, an esports supporting environment, knew how to practice for esports etc. etc. He was best at the beginning of sc2 and is now getting worse. That is also because of his age which does not allow him to be among the progamer elite anymore due to physical reasons. I like Grubby just as much as everybody else, but there is just absolutely no reason to believe that he is getting better besides the casters saying it all the time. Casters say many stupid things unfortunately. | ||
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