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Mod Edit: Please do not send in any further emails to TED. Please see:
Sean Plott (@day9tv)"So TED e-mailed me and is getting flooded with requests. If you'd be so kind as to halt ze e-mailing, I don't want anyone to drown <3." and "Regarding last tweet: For TED, only one person needs to send a single submission. Apparently they've received... well many more than one :D"
EDIT: We seemingly have a lot of people stating that "Day9 doesn't want to do it". Remember that he can always refuse a nomination, and we also don't know if he will get the speech in the first place.
EDIT #2: Day+TED do not want the continuous spam so let's stop sending nominations. Just please support the idea in your hearts and hopefully we can someday see this happen if TED decide to accept!
For those of you unaware, the Technology, Entertainment, and Design (TED) Conference is a world-famous conference held in various locations around the world. It attracts hundreds of visionaries and leaders such as Bill Gates and David Cameron, to famous scholars, artists, athletes, and scientists such as Malcolm Gladwell, James Cameron, Jane Goodall, and Al Gore. Each speaker is given roughly 20 minutes to speak and present an idea "worth sharing", in which no topic is off limits.
Watched by over 500 million total views across the world, I believe that TED can provide a platform to attract many more people into our awesome Starcraft 2 community. However, presenting SC2 in an informative, educational, and (most of all) fun way requires an intelligent and articulate speaker.
And who better that Day9?
The frontier spokesman for our community, it would be amazing to see Sean present our beloved game on stage for millions of non-gamers around the world to see. We could somehow even raise a fund for him to go speak. Sean provides years of experience, the backing of thousands of fans, and a passion for the game that I believe is unrivaled.
After watching MLG, GSL, and the various tournaments around world wide, I've realized that SC2 is DEFINITELY a topic worth being presented at TED. The events have done nothing but solidify my conviction that our community is worth being heard. From our small basements where nerds gather to LAN over a weekend, to massive tournaments with the best of the world from overseas competing in a virtual arena, our SC 2 community deserves to be heard by the larger audience. And if you have any doubts about Day9's speaking abilities, click the links below. 
Day 9 Daily # 100 (Sean explaining his love for the game and how it has the power to change lives): + Show Spoiler +
Day 9 Blizzard Interview: http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/2658252
TED Website where you can watch more talks: http://www.ted.com/
Credits to Reddit thread for original idea: http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/iuac1/would_anyone_else_like_to_see_day9_give_a_ted/
TED's next theme: Radical Openness (Fitting much?)
http://conferences.ted.com/TEDGlobal2012/
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some one make this thread number 1 on team liquid ... anything less is unacceptable.
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It was would be awesome, but has day9 himself shown any interest in this?
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If Sean is willing to do it, which I guess he would if it only helps esports and starcraft since his love to these games are so amazing: D, but I hope everyone in tl will do their efforts^^
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Oh HELL YES! I'm doing this, althouth TED is smart enough to not just have a blind poll ):
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mod please front page this...... FOR THE LOVE OF ESPORTS!!!
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On August 02 2011 21:34 TheSubtleArt wrote:
It was would be awesome, but has day9 himself shown any interest in this?
it does not matter what he thinks ... he has to do it.
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On August 02 2011 21:34 TheSubtleArt wrote:
It was would be awesome, but has day9 himself shown any interest in this?
Yeah, somebody should go ask him. I'm not sure if SC2 really fits into the TED style of conferences, although Day[9] would be a great speaker to present SC2 to non-gamers.
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i really doubt if day9 has anything insightful to present? but if he is willing to do it, i will support so.
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seems like you need an email to contact day9 directly. dunno if there is one that he will answer or will give out to a mass of people to nominate him.
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This is a great idea! Cant believe what a great idea this is. A lot of my friends and adult friends watch TED talks and if Day 9 had a TED talk, it would really open them up to starcraft and the esports scene.
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Was filling in the form, but email and phone for the Nominee are mandatory and I don't know those, maybe add them to the op?
Although I'm pretty sure his phone number is private anyway?
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It would be good if you could provide details in the OP as it requires an email address and telephone number for Sean. I take it most people dont know his telephone and email adress.
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On August 02 2011 21:38 Beyonder wrote:TL normally does not promote such stuff, but I think here an exception can be made. But, I think day9 has to show that he truly wants to do this first  So until then, its just a thread.
I'd email him, but he probably gets so much spam on the email he normally has out in the public that he'd never read it 
The best thing to do is for someone to get him to read this thread and reply/post in it hopefully.
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Multiple nominations for the same person won't influence the speaker selection team in any way. We review every nomination that comes in, and it only takes one.
So actually it would be better if he would write his nomination himself. Someone should tell him :<.
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On August 02 2011 21:37 tyCe wrote:Show nested quote +On August 02 2011 21:34 TheSubtleArt wrote:
It was would be awesome, but has day9 himself shown any interest in this? Yeah, somebody should go ask him. I'm not sure if SC2 really fits into the TED style of conferences, although Day[9] would be a great speaker to present SC2 to non-gamers.
Has been talks about games before, ted is not at all restricted to or from any particular theme, it is just about sharing 'ideas', e-sports definetly being one of those up and coming ideas that I am sure the majority of the TED crowd are ignorant of. Although I can't say for certain that Day9 would want to do this, he is always for spreading e-sports and its basically what he does\is trying to do is to make e-sports more mainstream, and doing a TED talk would definitively be one of the better things he could do for this. Have seen this idea posted a few times before on reddit (and also on teamliquid?) and always been supportive of it. Would be good not only to introduce the TED Crowd to esports, but could also be a good videoclip from a serious source to show people you know who are not yet familiar with e-sports as a way to introduce them.
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We need his email info , etc to be able to nominate him
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Watching Sean on TED Talks would really make my week. This is awesome!
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