Now we will have to wait and see...

Will this one stand as a true invitational that invites promising and good players, or will it fall with the other bunch of invites-tournaments that'll take 4-5-6 spots to invite popular (but bad) players just to get more views/interest in it?

CarlosOmse

Germany507 Posts

April 24 2012 18:44 GMT

#63

Gonna be an awesome event! but why rob simpson?

ChaosArcher

Germany956 Posts

April 24 2012 18:47 GMT

#64

Wow Guys, lets get more Hyped about this!!! Its freaking red bull, they are fucking Big in x-Treme Sports
<3 red bull

Dannnnn_The_Man

United States166 Posts

April 24 2012 18:47 GMT

#65

Because rob simpson is a boss. No but really he is a really light hearted fun entertaining guy to listen to and i personally think he is a good caster.

Nice to hear Redbull seriously getting into E-sports.

By the way: offline event? Ohh, i just realized i interperted that in the wrong way...i see what you mean now.

Rkie

United States1278 Posts

April 24 2012 18:49 GMT

#66

This event has the makings of an excellent tournament. I enjoy invite tourneys because the players there almost always deserve it, and with a prize pool that substantial, there are definitely going to be high quality games.

On April 25 2012 03:04 Pjorren wrote:
This is going to be absolutely sick. Austin city is east coast right?

I think you are thinking of Atlantic City.

TheFlock

United States389 Posts

April 24 2012 18:51 GMT

#67

This looks awesome! Big props to Red Bull.
Can't wait to see who the other invites are.

NoGasfOu

United States1117 Posts

April 24 2012 19:00 GMT

#68

I wish they do something like 8 qualifying spots for each region. Invitation is not good for the long terms.

torm3ntin

Brazil2534 Posts

April 24 2012 19:04 GMT

#69

Wow. this is looking to be amazzzzzzzzingggggggggg

IMNasty

663 Posts

April 24 2012 19:04 GMT

#70

its gonna be most of the people from redbull orlando + bomber + some fan favorites . wish they would just release all the invites, really nice prize pool though

KainiT

Austria392 Posts

April 24 2012 19:11 GMT

#71

Looking forward to it. I have kinda hoped though that Red Bull start their own Competition series like MLG, IPL, Dreamhack, Assembly, etc., but maybe an Invitational is the next natural step from their training lans. At least it's not an 8 man invitational, cause those are just stupid imo.

Gladiator6

Sweden7024 Posts

April 24 2012 19:13 GMT

#72

Sick tourney! Will check it out for sure

Deleuze

United Kingdom2102 Posts

April 24 2012 19:14 GMT

#73

Sweet this gonna be awesome!

Go e-sports!

Tobblish

Sweden6404 Posts

April 24 2012 19:15 GMT

#74

Don't mind that it's a invitational, as long as they invite players from multiple tournaments and some wild cards.
As long it's not a damn 8man invitational that makes 0 sense with PPV model...
Good think that it's a crowd so the feeling isn't robbed.

Any news on the steaming for this event?
Free SQ, pay for HQ? FPS 25,30,60?

Cokefreak

Finland8096 Posts

April 24 2012 19:16 GMT

#75

On April 25 2012 04:15 Tobblish wrote:
Don't mind that it's a invitational, as long as they invite players from multiple tournaments and some wild cards.
Good think that it's a crowd so the feeling isn't robbed.

Any news on the steaming for this event?
Free SQ, pay for HQ? FPS 25,30,60?

2x free HQ streams I hear.

1st_Panzer_Div.

United States621 Posts

April 24 2012 19:23 GMT

#76

Sweet. I also like some of these really sweet invitational. 16 players is just about the perfect number, and it often yields really great games and good plans, whereas the players can sometimes get tired at the huge open bracket style. And I think that putting out the results that parting and stephano have, they shouldn't need to qualify for every event through online qualifiers etc. We know they're good and fun to watch already

IntoTheBush

United States552 Posts

April 24 2012 19:24 GMT

#77

This is really awesome and all, but they really need to have more open qualifiers for events like these. imo there are players that deserve a chance to compete at the highest level, but they get over looked because all these events just want to invite people that will help bring in viewers... Sure there are open qualifiers for some of the tournaments, but just think of the player pool they have to go through to get there, and then theres only 1 or 2 spots. The game is too ez, so a possible superstar could easily be upset and not qualify. Events like this are great, but they need to give other players the proper opportunity to qualify for these events.. my 2 cents

Testuser

6469 Posts

April 24 2012 19:29 GMT

#78

woo!
the red bull lan was really enjoyable, and I feel like we haven't seen mr. Sean Plott for some time (god, if his name was Jean Plot...), so this will be exciting!

gogo <3

NoGasfOu

United States1117 Posts

April 24 2012 19:33 GMT

#79

Won't be surprised if Idra and Scarlett are next on the list. If that's the case, then it won't be good for foreign esport at all. There are so many no namers on NA and EU waiting and hoping to make it big but they don't have a qualifier like code A qualifier to go to. NA an EU tournaments are turning into casters + personality tournaments. Last MLG had 8 players and 9 casters.

avilo

United States4100 Posts

April 24 2012 19:37 GMT

#80

Another invite tourney for the same group of players....disappointed tournaments keep going this route. I don't know how e-sports is going to keep "getting bigger" when essentally the same 10-30 people are auto-invited to tourneys without having to "earn it."

On April 25 2012 03:02 RageBot wrote:
Why no qualifiers?

E-sports is currently about marketing yourself as a player/tournament more than it is actually getting in new blood and having people actually qualify for things. It's short sighted, but tournaments want immediate views. It is a bit frustrating for the 100's of players that would want to attempt to qualify for these things and then it's like, "oh here they go again, handing out invites not allowing anyone new to even have a chance to break in." Yeah...