EPTSo I'm here to ask the people of TL to come together in saving some of the matches on Dailymotion so they can be preserved. This channel (https://www.dailymotion.com/Epsil0n) should have their videos saved by any archive enthusiasts who have the hard drive space. This is the only major channel I've found, but there are also individual bits and pieces uploaded, like a ton of French casts of 2012 MLGs.
A lot of these VODs are from 2011/2012ish, aka the golden years, making them even more precious to preserve IMO.
For instance, this match - https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmhzdw
Game 2 is lowkey one of the most exciting games ever, because some random Diamond league player deadass almost beat Puzzle. There's one moment where you think he's actually done it, the casters and the crowd going wild. Then they cut to Puzzle's stalkers in his base and there's an audible groan of disappointment from the crowd. Absolute peak eSports. The real shit. And for a decade Dailymotion has been the only place to watch it.
There's a lot of GSL VODs on there too, but those are on YouTube, and have been safely preserved already thanks to StarCraft VODS (https://starcraftvods.com/downloads), which is also an amazing resource, but it puts complete tournaments up for download, and there are a lot of holes in these earlier MLGs and NASL tournaments so they sort of snuck through the cracks and are currently at serious risk.
Archival is so important to this game, and there have been great efforts made in preserving Brood War VODs so I know we can keep these VODs safe too. I'll do what I can, but I'm also only one guy and my hard drive is able to fail just as easily as anybody else's, though I do take my own steps to back them up. The more people have these saved, the better.
