good job, continue to include as many top tier kespa players in tournaments as possible, will always prefer watching skill over fame/personalities in everything other than HSC

Metak

296 Posts

June 11 2014 17:24 GMT

#22

Very interesting writeup, thanks for an amazing event.

Kosak

Czech Republic193 Posts

June 11 2014 17:32 GMT

#23

clapping my hands off, it was a great event and everything said in the article is absolutely true no matter how harsh it sounds to some butthurt foreigners

btw my toughts about HerO's participation are exactly the same, the guy is playing na level of starcraft for the last year+ and I dont think he is anywhere near close (mostly due to his mental status) his form from the past

GREAT TOURNAMENT, please bring us more top level starcraft because thats exactly what everyone wants to see, I even think that proleague could go to much bigger numbers if it was being played in some eu-friendly time

and the last thing I want to say and I hear this a lot is --> people in 2014 demand quality and watching gsl or proleague in 480p is a disgrace that is actually killing the game because folks out there are just unwilling to watch such content, even tho the games might be awesome

algue

France1436 Posts

June 11 2014 17:35 GMT

#24

It took more efforts staying awake while reading this "summary" than staying awake to watch the games

I'm glad the event was a success, I hope Flash will win the sandisk-shoutcraft-invitational 2 !

Leviance

Germany4079 Posts

June 11 2014 17:38 GMT

#25

Thank you TotalBiscuit for creating all this mega awesome content! TaKe, you and those French guys I always forget the names of are doing the bestest job for SC2 ♥♥♥

Zax19

Czech Republic1136 Posts

June 11 2014 17:43 GMT

#26

The Chinese figures look pretty great. Nice event, just please less shouting and hyping up next time – let the games speak for themselves.

TotalBiscuit

United Kingdom5437 Posts

June 11 2014 17:45 GMT

#27

On June 12 2014 02:43 Zax19 wrote:
The Chinese figures look pretty great. Nice event, just please less shouting and hyping up next time – let the games speak for themselves.

Nope. I am confident in my casting ability and that my style is appealing to a wide audience and while Husky remains the most popular caster in Starcraft 2 I think it's safe to safe that the numbers are on my side. I am sorry that you cannot share my passion for the game, that is a bit sad.

Silvana

3713 Posts

June 11 2014 17:45 GMT

#28

What a great recap! It put a big smile in my face :D Thanks for sharing all this info, I'm so glad to effectively know things went so well for all the parties involved! I hope we all -tournament organizers, sponsors, viewers- learn from what we had here.

You've put so much effort in running this, glad to know it paid off. TB, you are doing it right

forsakeNXE

Germany539 Posts

June 11 2014 17:46 GMT

#29

Thanks for the write up was a very intereting read! gl in the future!

MaxiTB

Austria34 Posts

June 11 2014 17:46 GMT

#30

Will there be a breakdown of viewers by country again, like for Shoutcraft America, where 50% viewers were actually Europeans ? :-)

Shellshock

United States97274 Posts

June 11 2014 17:46 GMT

#31

Glad it sounds like everything went great. Always love seeing more content coming out of Korea since the players don't get nearly as many chances to show off their stuff. Would love to see another all Korean SHOUTcraft tournament.

vinsang1000

Belgium365 Posts

June 11 2014 17:51 GMT

#32

Great article. Thanks to SanDisk.

I'd like to say I agree with the level of players which directly trigger the level of excitement. When I watched the semi-finals, I had the same feeling as when I was watching OSL semi-finals back in the BW time. And it's a very good sign

The re-broadcast think is always a problem. personnaly I felt it was too early for Europe but...you gave your arguments.

Also, the casters. You chose Artosis. While it's not my favorite caster, he is a good choice for such event : good balance between serious and knowledgeable adn good pair with you.

About the advertisement also, congratulation for you teasing job, it was perfect.

Last but not the least. I think you could try local re-broadcast. For example in France (or Germany), there is a developed infrastructure/caster/channel for wathcing starcraft in French (OGaming, Millenium, ...). I presume they'll be pleased to perform "live commentary from replays" at prime time the day after your "night" European tournament. I think they only need you to drop them the replays..

Good job anyway.

Thalandros

Netherlands1151 Posts

June 11 2014 17:52 GMT

#33

On June 12 2014 02:45 TotalBiscuit wrote:

Show nested quote +

Haha, I do actually kind of like that from TB. Most other casters hype it differently, you actually tell the audience how magnificent and brilliant that move just was, the awesomeness of a certain attack etc. If I'm watching casually, makes for a great show. Keep it up, TB. I only caught the finals live but it was awesome!

Saechiis

Netherlands4989 Posts

June 11 2014 17:56 GMT

#34

Loved watching this during my sleepness nights, just very back and forth high level play and good casting in my opinion. Hope to see similar events in the future.

Sachem

United States116 Posts

June 11 2014 18:03 GMT

#35

ESL was my favorite tournament to watch, and these days I pretty much follow Proleague only. It was amazing to see tournament like this with my favorite PL players, thanks Totalbiscuit.

I needed an SSD anyway to make my GIS research more manageable, so I'll probably pick up something from the SanDisk folks, X210 most likely. Beyond telling the Sandisk folks on twitter, anything in particular that'll help Totalbiscuit out with them?

Bulugulu

Israel250 Posts

June 11 2014 18:06 GMT

#36

Great matches, great tournament.
Thanks alot!

Qaatar

1409 Posts

June 11 2014 18:08 GMT

#37

Excellent tournament, TB. I haven't watched SC2 in a while, only keeping tabs on liquipedia, but being able to watch Flash play some of the best SC2 that he's ever played was a real treat. Thanks!

caznitch

Canada645 Posts

June 11 2014 18:12 GMT

#38

This has been the best starcraft I've seen all year (on the same level of Code S). I commend you for that. I subscribed to your twich and would honestly pay a one time $20 fee to watch your next tournament. Glad the tournament worked out and hope to continue on in the future.

KatatoniK

United Kingdom978 Posts

June 11 2014 18:19 GMT

#39

Interesting read and I'm glad to see the tournament was a massive success TB, I need to catch up on the VODs just because of the timings of the live show weren't good for me given that it was a Korean event and such I fully expected that however.

Seeing that you want to do more of these specifically after ProLeague made me fangirl a little just because of the vast pool of players you'd have at that stage. Maru, sOs, Soulkey, Rain, soO, Classic, Stork, the list is endless.

Keep up the amazing work TB, can't wait for your next event, whenever that may be.

McRatyn

Poland901 Posts

June 11 2014 18:20 GMT

#40

Thank you for awsome quality tournament, have not yet watched every single game bu I'm on it. Definietly hoping for more!
Sad to hear that you're kinda giving up on the western scene tournament creation, but I understand your point, you're completely in the right on this one.
I'm kinda meh on the idea of increasing the amount of Bo7 matches but it's your tournament and you knw your stuff, I'll watch it regardless

A format that I am curious about, probably because it happened before my time, is the super old-school MSL bracket, it's probably suboptimal to today's standards, I just especially liked the idea of double elimination with a bit smaller amount of games played (by that I mean the Bo1 rounds).
A link for reference: 2003 TriGem MSL

Again thanks, and gl in future endeavors.