When MLG went to Anaheim last year, it was a massive event. The crowds were electric, the gameplay was incredible, and the mood in the venue all weekend felt like the best party you've ever been to. This year is going to blow last year right out of the water.
Casters: Tasteless, Artosis, djWHEAT, Mr Bitter, Apollo, Husky, TotalBiscuit, Rob Simpson, Robin, Gwin, Jorosar, Kibbelz, and Axeltoss, with Adebisi Observing on the Red stream.
Players: The Pools and full list of Open Bracket players will be announced over the coming days.
SCII Red: The Main Stage stream. Primarily showing matches from the MLG Spring Championship
SCII Blue: Primarily showing matches from the USA Nationals of the World Championship Series
2 POV streams: showing the viewpoint of the players on the Main Stage
SCII Premium 1 and 2: Top matches from the Championship and Open Brackets
All streams apart from the two Premium streams are available free in up to 480p. Free VOD will be made available after the weekend is over. Upgrade with a Spring Championship Live Streaming Pass and you'll get:
All streams in HD, up to full 1080p, without ads
Access to the two Premium streams
Immediate access to HD VOD throughout the weekend
Note: if you have a Spring Season Pass or Gold Membership, you already have access to all the above.
Broadcast Schedules (all times PT) Schedules for the two main streams:
Damn pretty sneaky of MLG to use one of the free streams to show the USA national games, instead of pool games. Would prefer the national games be on premium, but I get it, MLG wants more people to buy premium.
On June 01 2012 03:46 Canucklehead wrote: Damn pretty sneaky of MLG to use one of the free streams to show the USA national games, instead of pool games. Would prefer the national games be on premium, but I get it, MLG wants more people to buy premium.
To be fair, I would imagine Blizzard does not want the WCS tournament behind a paywall. I wouldn't chalk anything up to sneakiness.
If I bought a spectator pass to attend the event, can I watch the VODS when I go home on Monday or do I need to buy an online pass to get instant access?
On June 01 2012 03:46 Canucklehead wrote: Damn pretty sneaky of MLG to use one of the free streams to show the USA national games, instead of pool games. Would prefer the national games be on premium, but I get it, MLG wants more people to buy premium.
On June 01 2012 03:46 Canucklehead wrote: Damn pretty sneaky of MLG to use one of the free streams to show the USA national games, instead of pool games. Would prefer the national games be on premium, but I get it, MLG wants more people to buy premium.
To be fair, I would imagine Blizzard does not want the WCS tournament behind a paywall. I wouldn't chalk anything up to sneakiness.
Oh, I have no doubt, blizz doesn't want their tourney behind a paywall. Just for me I'm not interested in that tournament at all, since it'll probably be similar to your everyday NA playhem daily.
Would love to see more coverage for the WCS, first rounds are entirely skipped and the LB finals landed at an ungodly time. After going through like 20 online qualifiers those players should get more exposure, you miss out on storylines there.
I love how MLG thinks about Europe and the rest of the world and puts all times in a timezone only a part of the world (America) cares or knows about. Gratz, i'm sure i'll be converting all of those.
On June 01 2012 04:51 Apolo wrote: I love how MLG thinks about Europe and the rest of the world and puts all times in a timezone only a part of the world (America) cares or knows about. Gratz, i'm sure i'll be converting all of those.
How dare they put the times in the timezone the event is taking place....
On June 01 2012 04:51 Apolo wrote: I love how MLG thinks about Europe and the rest of the world and puts all times in a timezone only a part of the world (America) cares or knows about. Gratz, i'm sure i'll be converting all of those.
I know man. I wish they would follow the great example of Dreamhack. They sure post times in all diff times zones....oh wait, they don't. They just post times in CEST.
Still some streams behind a paywall... i dont get that but i have to work that weekend so wont see much anyway and im not interested in the Kespa games or the Nationals so then i guess ill take a weekend without any Starcraft.
Checking some VODS after it will do it for me when i see this schedule.
MLG weekends are so great! I'm really looking forward to USA Nationals, I feel these sort of high profile regional events fill the need for something people looking to break into the top-tier pro scene can use to get recognition.
EPT
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