Hello everyone! Today, a mini-documentary was posted on START, IGN's premium YouTube channel. The focus of this mini-doc was an introduction and comparison to two of StarCraft 2's most well-known players, Mill.Stephano and White-Ra. START's content is geared towards mainstream gamers, so this introduction to competitive gaming / eSports could make a significant impact on many people who have never seen what an event can be like or what the players and their stories involve.

Here is Part 1 of the mini-doc:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo8mMSR4Drg

Part 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGXrIVVszN0

While IPL did not produce this content firsthand, we do have the ability to work with the creators to better show their audience what eSports is really like and what it could mean to people discovering it for the first time.

Please let us know what you think! =)

stichtom

Italy695 Posts

May 16 2012 21:27 GMT

These are awesome. I think these 2 videos are one of the best Starcraft 2 videos

Balgrog

United States1221 Posts

May 16 2012 22:04 GMT

Absolutely fantastic, please keep more stuff like this coming, this is awesome.

Schmoooopy

United States448 Posts

May 16 2012 22:07 GMT

IGN's undertaking into eSports has got to be one of the best things to happen to Starcraft 2/the industry as a whole. They've done so much to promote.

Valkola

Finland128 Posts

May 16 2012 22:13 GMT

Wow really nice presentation of starcraft2 for people that arent aware of it!

Superiorwolf

United States5509 Posts

May 16 2012 22:15 GMT

Maria and Kai from DAVIS ARE FAMOUS!!!

Shackadeemus

Ireland247 Posts

May 16 2012 22:16 GMT

Great videos, thanks IGN!

v3chr0

United States856 Posts

May 16 2012 22:21 GMT

Really good videos, and for anyone on any level of knowledge of SC/SC2/Esports. Probably one of the most well made peices on SC2 I've seen. Nice job, would love to see more of them in the future!

dextrin303

Sweden320 Posts

May 16 2012 22:23 GMT

Really well put together.
White-ra fighting !! ~~

heartlxp

United States1258 Posts

May 16 2012 22:31 GMT

#10

another props to IPL and the creators of these videos, keep up the good work!

phoenixfeather95

665 Posts

May 16 2012 22:33 GMT

#11

Very entertaining, well done IPL :D

SilverJohnny

United States885 Posts

May 16 2012 22:40 GMT

#12

Very entertaining videos, I love the focus on the players rather than on the game, that's a surefire way to bring people in to the community - story is everything!

revel8

United Kingdom3022 Posts

May 16 2012 23:18 GMT

#13

Extremely impressive. I like the way you worked a narrative in about these two players competing at IPL4 and how that fit into the wider SC2 scene.

Makes me recall just how awesome IPL4 was and fuels anticipation about IPL5.

Great production for this video and Kevin Knocke explained SC2 very well and gave accurate summaries of Stephano and White-Ra. Well done to him.

Diavlo

Belgium2915 Posts

May 16 2012 23:42 GMT

#14

That "special tactics" meme needs to stop. It was funny as hell when Incontrol told that story, and it was even more hilarious when White-ra rolled with it but now it's just painful.
Every time there is an interview of WR, every time someone talks about him, someone has to mention "special tactics".
And it's always in the sense that White-ra comes up with creative builds, which is contradicting the fact that he said that to describe a 10 gate, zealots-dragoons push he used twice in a row...

Other than that, great videos.

Bromazepam

820 Posts

May 17 2012 06:58 GMT

#15

I don't have anything to back this up besides an unsourced trivia on Liquipedia, but I'm fairly certain Stephano was born in Tunisia, not Indonesia like it's said in the video.

hegeo

Germany194 Posts

May 17 2012 07:04 GMT

#16

On May 17 2012 15:58 Bromazepam wrote:
I don't have anything to back this up besides an unsourced trivia on Liquipedia, but I'm fairly certain Stephano was born in Tunisia, not Indonesia like it's said in the video.

Haha, maybe they asked him where he was born and he said "in Tunisia", which was then misinterpreted due to his accent as "Indonesia"? Would be awesome.

BTW great videos, thanks

pRo9aMeR

595 Posts

May 17 2012 08:48 GMT

#17

haha, "sometime shit happen"
I love whitera so muchㅋㅋㅋ

Mentalizor

Denmark1596 Posts

May 17 2012 09:10 GMT

#18

Wow, these were amazing

I loved to focus on two top foreignors - while switching back n forth between CatsPajamas, the voiceover and live footage. Great production

Good job

I hope alot of people get to see this

IceFire

United States183 Posts

May 17 2012 09:12 GMT

#19

These were amazing. This seems like something I would show to someone who doesn't understand any starcraft stuff.

-Archangel-

Croatia7457 Posts

May 17 2012 16:35 GMT

#20

These were awesome videos. This is the kind of production we need on all levels and for all tournaments if Sc2 is ever going to come close to mainstream.

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