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StarCraft finally received some solid, mainstream coverage this week through the growth of the BarCraft movement. WSJ journalist Amir Efrati attended BarCraft San Francisco (tuning in to MLG Anaheim) and tried to explain how nerd-ballers are no longer satisfied with watching by them lonesome, and coming to sports bars in droves, begging/demanding to watch some StarCraft with beer.
SAN FRANCISCO—One Sunday afternoon last month, a hundred boisterous patrons crowded into Mad Dog in the Fog, a British sports bar here, to watch a live broadcast.
Internet e-sports like Starcraft2 have big-name pro players, announcers who broadcast matches, and millions of fans who'd rather watch the action online or in bars than play themselves. WSJ's Amir Efrati reports.
Half the flat-screen TVs were tuned to a blood-filled match between two Korean competitors, "MC" and "Puma." The crowd erupted in chants of "M-C! M-C!" when the favorite started a comeback...
StarCraft and BarCraft are featured on
- The front page of Wall Street Journal website
- Front page of the dead-tree, August 23rd 2011 version of the WSJ
- WSJ this morning, a radio show produced by the Wall Street Journal that's syndicated worldwide.
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They make it sound like Starcraft II's being broadcasted on TV in Korea =(.
Oh well, this is great coverage nonetheless.
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This is win. Now all they got to do is have actual cable networks that broadcast these games.
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Thanks God they didn't cover the riots when MC lost hahaha
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Totally boss. I definitely encourage everybody to head out to one of these, I feel it really gains esports a lot of exposure.
I'm planning on heading to my first one in Boulder, CO this weekend for MLG :D
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Yeah so I must have missed the part where the bar fight broke out over SC2 being on the screen... Misleading title, but a decent article nonetheless.
+ Show Spoiler +The appeal is lost on some patrons. During a Barcraft in July at Public Tenley, a Washington, D.C., sports bar where seat cushions are made from the same leather used in basketballs and footballs, manager Deric Ortiz said he changed one of 26 monitors to a baseball game after a customer pleaded with him to switch the screen near him to show "anything but this videogame."
OMG what a tragedy!
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Great news. Its all good for da esports! :=)
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Hell, I'd go to a bar to watch starcraft II matches. Rather than watch alone and quietly at night, doing silent fist pumps when my favorite player wins, I can scream like I want to and not worry about waking anyone up.
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The article doesn't exactly get all its facts straight but I am super pumped that barcraft is getting mainstream attention!
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LOL the last paragraph
good coverage though, I guess ;p
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no barcrafts in Raleigh for MLG Raleigh? bummer, not everyone can get a ticket/has the time to go to the event.
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On August 23 2011 15:03 GenesisX wrote:
LOL the last paragraph
good coverage though, I guess ;p
Goes to show how slumping Baseball is as a bar sport in some areas.
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Looking at that map makes me sad the Ohio Valley area is completely left out 
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Win. Article talks about MC vs Puma, and how the
" digital swarms of an insect-like race called "Zerg" battled the humanoid "Protoss" on the bar's TVs."
" "It's a drone genocide! Flaming drone carcasses all over the place!" "
Was that Artosis?
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that is actually a pretty lengthy article, not some 2 paragraph blurb. Pretty amazing
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Wall Street Journal. Not bad 
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On August 23 2011 17:18 warblob004 wrote:
Win. Article talks about MC vs Puma, and how the
" digital swarms of an insect-like race called "Zerg" battled the humanoid "Protoss" on the bar's TVs."
" "It's a drone genocide! Flaming drone carcasses all over the place!" "
Was that Artosis?
I'm pretty sure the final series was casted by Gretorp and Incontrol, and now that I think about it I think Gretorp said that.
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i love how "Starcraft" is always put in quote marks in the article. that's like the one slight at the game in an otherwise respectful article.
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