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Hey TL.net crew! I'm a caster and (bald) GSL fan who lives in Seoul, and I want nothing more than to bring you the action live from the GSL Season 3 qualifiers in June. I've been talking to the executives at AfreecaTV here in Seoul. They have told me that if we want to see the GSL qualifiers streamed live, it would first require Blizzard's approval.
Here's the bad news: Blizzard is a black hole where esports information goes to die. I've emailed them several times about events and support and have never heard a peep from anyone. However, I think with enough community support, we can help turn the tide and I can get the qualifiers brought to GSL lovers worldwide.
So: If you read this post and want to see the GSL qualifiers casted live, here's what might help:
1) I tweeted about it. Blizz loves tweets. Maybe they'll respond to a popular tweet? You can tweet your own support for this idea to @esportsstarcraft.
2) Comment here on the TL.net thread. Would you watch the GSL qualifiers live? Of course you would! Tell Blizz this is something you'd support.
3) There's a reddit thread too. r/Starcraft is a pretty big community, so any love we can show there would be great!
Any help y'all can give would be great. I don't want to get paid for this. I don't want to set up a Patreon or any nonsense like that. I just want to bring the GSL action to the fans because I enjoy this game so much. There's no reason not to make it happen, and I appreciate any support you can offer!
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Even noregret's phone IRL stream for the qualifiers last year was very much appreciated by viewers. It'll be too cool if we can see casters providing a little bit of coverage and love for the qualifiers!
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Yes yes yes, triple yes, you advance!
But for real, I want to see this
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If you haven't already done so, I would encourage you to get in touch with prominent community figures about this, for multiple reasons:
- it's possible they have already tried something like this (there are lots of community streams already that I expect to be interested in GSL qualifiers as well), so maybe they can give you some insight into what they did and where they got stuck
- some (like Artosis or Incontrol) may have contacts within Blizzard to help you get past the being noticed problem
- they can help you promote and spread the word about your plans
- if you are successful, you should probably coordinate with other community streams anyways. Personally I would prefer if GSL qualifiers are streamed on an existing channel because it would prevent community resources from further fracturing, plus it's much easier to notice if GSL qualifiers show up on e.g. Basetrade.
I'd start with contacting Basetrade and the Pylon Show to cover the most important community stream and the main outlet for community news, respectively. Artosis and Incontrol have expressed both frustration with how Blizzard facilitates and advertises esports and a desire to promote new community projects so I'm sure this would help you in some way.
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Canada8989 Posts
Yes, yes and yes.
It's more then time to have actual coverage of GSL qualifier, cell phone coverage was already an highlight, actual casting would be great.
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Did you go to Tastosis with this? They may have a more direct line to whoever is responsible 
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That would be great. The one time NoRegret did a real stream of the qualifiers the viewership was quite good and even the potato quality over the shoulder cellphone streams that various people have set up over the years have been quite interesting.
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If you could make this happen it would be amazing, been too long since the qualifiers got proper coverage!
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Of course we want.
It's a good way to watch new blood who try to qualify. It's beneficial for the kr scene I suppose
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Yes for sure. It literally has zero risk of doing any harm to the scene and it will definitely attract some viewers, especially amongst the hardcore ones.
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Kr qualifiers are TLs life blood, of course we would love it lol!
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EPT
