MLG Summer Season Dates - Page 5

On May 30 2012 14:55 SniXSniPe wrote:
Why is there no MLG in Texas? Houston/Dallas/Austin etc. would all be great spots...

On May 30 2012 09:16 TheSir wrote:


No way......... How can you go back from a PPV model? Wouldn't make sense for at least a few years.

On May 30 2012 15:13 corpuscle wrote:


If you don't understand why there isn't an MLG in your area, look at that map. The darker portions are higher populations. Having events where there are huge swaths of highly populated areas just makes sense. Anaheim is in California, which is the center of population on the West Coast. Columbus is in the center of the most populated area of the Midwest, there's "reasonable" access from PA, MI, VI, KT, IL, etc. Providence and NY and obvious, the Northeast is the most densely populated part of the country, period. Raleigh is fairly centrally located for the more populated areas of the South excluding Florida, which they catered to with Orlando last year.

Places like Texas (choose a city), Chicago, Seattle, etc. are hard because pretty much the only people who are going to get to that event are people who live in the city itself; otherwise, it's a hassle. You also have to consider the cost of renting venues, which I know nothing about.

actually San Francisco would be in the center of population on the West coast, at least the closest to the center.

But you are correct in your post. Raleigh is a pretty good centralized location for the south east.

On May 30 2012 15:48 corpuscle wrote:


I meant that California is the center of population, not necessarily Anaheim itself, though you're technically wrong on that, too. SoCal has more people (~22m) than the Bay Area (~15m), and realistically, nobody's gonna drive from Washington or Oregon to SF for MLG anyway so the Northwest is sort of moot.

On May 30 2012 12:39 eviltomahawk wrote:

Could you elaborate on this?

I go to university near Chicago, and I would love to spend some time at an MLG if it's ever in town.

On May 30 2012 19:25 kaelle_sc wrote:
Why not 2 SC2 Summer Arenas instead of 1 SC2 and 1 LoL?

2 SC2 Arenas will be so much better even if Arena 1 will be 8-players and Arena will be 16-players. Really good for the hardworking and deserving SC2 pros.

Or 1 SC2 Arena and 1 Dota 2 Arena, srsly I wonder until now why IPL and MLG haven't invested in Dota 2 yet.

On May 30 2012 16:29 Blackfish wrote:
Hey, europe here.
Was thinking about going to an mlg event xD. Now is there any way ro get it rather cheap? The only flights from munich ( nearest big airport for me ) are munich - london - nyc - raleigh. Which coats about 700 euros . How long is it from nyc to raleigh per bus? Or train or so. And is there anyone who already traveled from europe to amercia and knows a cheaper/the cheapest way. Or is it just stupid and i just invest my money in a hd pass?

On May 30 2012 23:54 WightyCity wrote:
were can i buy a pass for every event for a year

On May 30 2012 16:58 1ntrigue wrote:
Like many others, I'm very interested in how the LoL arena turns out commercially. This will be a good indication of whether LoL can transcend esports into the realm of actual "sports". There is a huge playerbase (relative to other video games) and now we will see if that huge playerbase has fans who would pay money to watch games. If there is a positive feedback, then I have no doubt that LoL will be the first game to break out of the nicheness of esports coinciding with a lot of potential investment.

From a business perspective, I'm quite excited for LoL arena.

On May 30 2012 23:20 jobber123rd wrote:


It's about 10 hours from New York to Raleigh by train, maybe closer to 11 hours by bus. Slightly cheaper and shorter would be flying from Munich to Philadelphia and taking a bus from there. Ideally (from a cost standpoint), you'd want to take the Megabus service (rather than Greyhound) from NYC or Philly to Durham (which is in the same metropolitan area as Raleigh), but the routes (you are forced to change buses in Washington or Richmond) and general lack of availability in the Washington-Richmond-Durham corridor (only three buses per day) make it really tough to do.

Another option is flying into Atlanta and taking a bus north, but that doesn't seem to give much savings compared to just flying to RDU, unless (again) you're willing to fit yourself into the sparse Megabus schedule in that region (and you'd have to change buses in Charlotte).

It's really too bad that non-stops to from Munich to CLT are so expensive, because otherwise I'd suggest that you fly to Charlotte and take a bus (~3 hours) from there.

Edit: You might have noticed that I didn't mention much about the trains. That's because while Amtrak service is fairly regular and consistent within the "Northeast Corridor" (Richmond - Washington - Baltimore - Philly - NYC - Boston), in areas south of that (including Raleigh), there might be only 1-2 trains per day. For example, if you were to take my suggestion to fly the one non-stop flight from MUC to PHL, you'd get into Philly at 15:30, which would be way too late to catch either of the daily trains that go to Raleigh (which leave Philadelphia at 08:35 and 12:35).

Edit 2: However, because of the good Amtrak service in the Northeast, you'd be able to get to Providence rather easily (in the somewhat likely event that MLG returns there). There are about 20 Amtrak trains a day to Providence from NYC/Philly/DC (northbound) or Boston (southbound).