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College Student Organizers - The Real Champions of the Lone Star Clash
The Lone Star Clash: Gauntlet of Champions is over and done with.
If you didn’t get a chance to see it live, the saved videos are at http://www.twitch.tv/lonestarclash
The initial tournament announce thread is here: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=312816
This huge success featured 16 heroes of StarCraft II from all over the globe gathering in the UT SAC building at Austin, Texas: Destiny, Polt, NonY, Stephano, White-Ra, Dragon, Heavens, DeMusliM, iNcontroL, State, SeleCT, BlinG, Grubby, Sleep, Hawk, and viOLet. However, what goes unnoticed is the crew behind the magic in creating this truly historic tournament. What people need to understand is that this was created with an extremely low budget and almost entirely by UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGE STUDENTS who voluntarily contributed months of work.
One forum post cannot completely cover the hard work of everyone involved in making this happen. I am probably leaving many people out, but I will cover as many people as possible.
![[image loading]](http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j371/austintespa/TeSPALogoSmall.png) TeSPA (Texas e-Sports Association) Officers
TeSPA is phenomenal group of talent and dedication. Formed only a year and a half ago, this student organization did the unthinkable to bring e-sports to the community. Every TeSPA officer should be proud of what was accomplished.
Adam and Tyler - The visions behind the event. None of this would have been possible without their leadership and aspirations. If anyone asked us 6 months ago that we would be doing a $10,000 Invitational with 16 pro players from around the world, we would have laughed, but the twin TeSPA presidents proved that this crazy vision could be made into reality.
Brett – Mr. Reliable. This guy did all of the dirty work of the tournament: driving players from the airport, organizing schedules, moving all the equipment and tables, and being in charge of our limited number of volunteers.
Julia – Designer of the stage set and caster backdrop. This was a physically difficult challenge and involved help from everyone to get done. The stage made the atmosphere of the tournament feel complete.
Olivia – The amazing player room admin. She made things go so smoothly, even when things were so chaotic. The player room included the pro players and all 14 college teams. She made my job easy by inviting stage players and casters to every match.
Anthony – College coordinator in chief. This guy was responsible for the entire CSL portion of the LAN. Let’s not forget that a CSL tournament was going on at the same time as the pro invitational. If e-sports is to grow, it has to involve the college group as well.
Donald – The technical guru. This guy always comes up with crazy production solutions with limited budget. Keep in mind our entire stream production budget was a mere $600 for camera rentals only. All of the stream-chat complainers need their heads examined. After the setup was complete, Donald was communicator in chief, and ran around the place relaying information to the staff as we were spread across multiple rooms.
Jorge – The trusty stream operator. The detailed specifics of the stream setup will remain classified, but we basically had two computers and a soundboard for the entire stream. This guy sat next to me for the entire two days operating one of the computers.
ALL OTHER OFFICERS – Brian, Richard, Duc, Lydia, Albert, Chris, and David. I was backstage the entire time, and didn’t get to see everyone, but I’m sure everyone did a ton to help. This was the end of Spring Break, so many people weren’t around to help until the weekend. Somehow, we still managed to get things done flawlessly.
![[image loading]](http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j371/austintespa/CSNLogoSmall.png) CSN (Cyber Sports Network) Members
I did not get a chance to meet these guys until they came in the week of the tournament. However, CSN did an amazing job of co-hosting the tournament with TeSPA.
Andrew – The owner of CSN, and the coordinator of the pro invitational tournament. This guy helped bring in many of the pro players, and CSN did most of the admining and brackets of the tournament.
John – I didn’t get to meet him personally, but I heard great things about him. I heard he was a nice guy and stayed late every day to help complete the set. He also organized stream schedules.
Rachel – The MC of the entire event. She did a wonderful job, and I loved the interaction she added between the fans and players.
Additional Help
Many other UT students and additional experts came in to help
Vivian – Contest updater, stream admin, and crowd questioner. She helped in so many ways, not only helping with the stream, but also getting questions from the crowd.
Bo – The wizard of LANs. This man is amazing. He knows everything there is about power and internet: the two most important aspects of any LAN event. He even helped house many of the pro players, and his apartment was one of two practice houses for the pros before the event.
Luke – Quantic media artist. The entire shield logo and in-game overlay were initially designed by this guy. It is safe to say that the art and theme of the tournament revolved around his designs.
Sean – The SAC media support technician. This guy knows everything about sound, video, and cabling. There is absolutely no way the stream video and audio would have worked without this guy. He stayed late every day to help even though he works for the SAC venue and not TeSPA.
Gunrun – What more is to say about The Gunrun? He came in to help save the tournament, and needless to say, he did.
Kush – CES representative. This guy got in contact with us a few days before the tournament and helped out so much. He provided equipment for the cameras and had brilliant ideas on the stream and production.
Video Game Hour Live crew – These were the camera men behind the event. They came in early and stayed in late past their required deal. These guys got awesome shots of the stage and the crowd.
Automated Lights crew – They did a great job of lighting up the stage and players with a colorful display of lights. The professional quality lights and stage made the event tournament legit.
There is definitely more that have gone unmentioned. Everyone that helped with the tournament should be more than proud. TeSPA has made history. I kept hearing that this tournament had better production than professionally budgeted SC2 events. Somehow this is all a dream come true. I never would have imagined that a group of college kids could do something of this magnitude for e-sports.
Jerry “Maestro” Lu
Media Lead of the Lone Star Clash: Gauntlet of Champions
Webmaster of Texas e-Sports Association
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Y'all all did a great job, and thanks for letting me help!
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These people are known as HEROES OF ESPORTS
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props to the max, what an amazing tournament. you guys should be incredibly proud, I was very fortunate to be able to attend!
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Amen! I know just how hard you guys worked..awesome job. So glad we were able to help and get Kush to the event.
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i sincerely hope that some professional esports or general media organizations recognize the talents of some of you guys and offer work/jobs/etc to you for real money as a career doing event production.
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I don't see Adam or Tyler Rosen on this list.
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gratz to everyone i wish we could organize something half as good in my uni!
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amazing tournament guys, good job!
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Wow, 600$ production? You made it look great!
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It was a pleasure to help with the event how I could; it seemed that pretty much everyone helped out in their own unique and special way. Huge thanks to everyone that pitched in, without you the event could not have run so smoothly!
BTW - where are Adam and Tyler in this post? :O
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On March 21 2012 04:31 FishStix wrote:It was a pleasure to help with the event how I could; it seemed that pretty much everyone helped out in their own unique and special way. Huge thanks to everyone that pitched in, without you the event could not have run so smoothly! BTW - where are Adam and Tyler in this post? :O
Quantic no mention either ._.
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Very impressed with all the work you put in to this!
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I thought there would just be a giant picture of Bitterdam photoshopped in the Brobeback Mountain cover 
All jokes aside, huge props to everyone behind this event, here's hoping for more!
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Lone Star Clash should be in the E-Sports bracket. What is more E-Sports than a group of college kids slaving over something awesome for video games and getting absolutely nothing out of it except the satisfaction of throwing a awesome thing for the community?
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Great tournament, well done. It was a shame that the RedBull Lan was on at the same time, as it made me miss out on Day9!
"Resigning Webmaster of Texas e-Sports Association" - do you mean "Residing"?. Two similar words with very big differences.
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im sure all the people worked really hard. but making a topic to congratulate yourself just makes you look like a dick.
User was warned for this post
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On March 21 2012 07:30 turdburgler wrote:
im sure all the people worked really hard. but making a topic to congratulate yourself just makes you look like a dick.
I didn't mention myself anywhere in the forum post.
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props to everyone who helped out! especially the volunteer translators and UT CSL team for helping out ^.^
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On March 21 2012 07:34 Maestro- wrote:Show nested quote +On March 21 2012 07:30 turdburgler wrote:
im sure all the people worked really hard. but making a topic to congratulate yourself just makes you look like a dick. I didn't mention myself anywhere in the forum post.
"One forum post cannot completely cover the hard work of everyone involved in making this happen"
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I want to say that Jerry/Maestro here was the pro that produced all the awesome overlays, fancy transistions, brackets, cues and a clean professional looking stream. What you saw was pretty much a 1 man project. He pushed school out of the way and made this his no.1 priority as you guys witnessed from the polished look of the entire stream.
Seriously someone in the industry should hire this guy cuz it was all volunteer work and he didn't slack a single bit or cut any corners. reliability over 9000.
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Good job guys, I loved the tournament!
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On March 21 2012 07:05 ggYouWinLOL wrote:
Great tournament, well done. It was a shame that the RedBull Lan was on at the same time, as it made me miss out on Day9!
"Resigning Webmaster of Texas e-Sports Association" - do you mean "Residing"?. Two similar words with very big differences.
He means resigning.
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Yeah, you guys did amazing. Top notch production. Keep on making Texas proud!
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I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who made this tournament happen.
I also hate you, because I had a very important paper to write last weekend.
Seriously though; amazing job. I loved every second of the tournament, and think that TeSPA put together a truly amazing show, as evidenced by the massive amount of love the tournament has gotten from everyone.
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personally.. I can not thank the hard work and passion of the many students that helped make this event a huge success. Seriously.. I would use that crew for any event. No amount of venture capital or free resources can replace hard work, dedication and passion for the community and the growth of esports.
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Seriously someone in the industry should hire this guy cuz it was all volunteer work and he didn't slack a single bit or cut any corners. reliability over 9000.
Mad props to Jerry//Maestro. I seriously cannot fathom how the stream would be without this man.
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I'm really proud I was part of this awesome event when Ben asked me if I wanted to join him I said sure but didn't really know what to expect, certainly with the Red Bull Gaming lan going on at the same weekend I was kinda worried but wow, these guys rocked it, met a ton of nice people and just the overall vibe at the event was great, great fans, great players, SICK games (polt-stephano winner bracket -w-w-wwhata/?! y they so good?! :D and sleep's ZvP was really mind blowing as well! ) anyways everything was fun, they took really great care of the players and us as well, one weekend to remember for sure. Very inspirational people~
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Donald and Bo are the baddest of badasses.
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Really entertaining tourney from a fan's perspective. Thanks to everyone involved for putting this together, I appreciate the effort! Was tuned in as much as possible and caught some great games.
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I Love you all
from big to small
dat esports!
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My immense thanks and eternal gratitude goes out to everyone involved in making the Lone Star Clash this weekend happen. I am extremely impressed with what we were able to achieve and cannot wait to see what the future holds.
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I loved this event. You chose the perfect players, had awesome interactions with the players. Was really pro.
The only thing I want to mention is the time for the Eu was pretty bad.
Anyway I enjoyed it alot!
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That had to be one of my favorite events to date. Between the quality of players, Texas (yeah buddy!), the casting, the production, and the fucking epic finals of Polt vs. Stephano where the USA zerg finally overcame his perennial rival...
Well, all I can say is amazing job!
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Awesome event and great job. Really proved how great things come from people working together. Please keep up your hard work.
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On March 21 2012 23:15 FantaFanta wrote:
I loved this event. You chose the perfect players, had awesome interactions with the players. Was really pro.
The only thing I want to mention is the time for the Eu was pretty bad.
Anyway I enjoyed it alot!
Very sorry that Day 2 did not work out for the EU fans as we originally had planned. As you know.. things don't always go as we like. We had to make some adjustments due to SeleCT not getting in until late on day one. The last thing we wanted to do was disqualify him if he was already on his way. He was a great sport about it and so was heavensLight.. so we made it happen..but by doing so, it pushed things back a bit. I apologize for that.
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Thanks sooo much to everyone at Tespa for making this event as amazing as it was! I was able to volunteer and help in some small ways and it gave me a warm, fuzzy feeling to know that I was helping to grow the Esports community. I hope I get to volunteer for all future Tespa events because this was a magical weekend for sure!
Props to the CSN crew as well! They were very nice folks and this wouldn't have been as successful without them :D
Can't wait to see everyone again!
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Massively impressed hopefully college students around the world will try to organize events as well!
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