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On October 07 2010 14:54 beetlelisk wrote:Show nested quote +On October 07 2010 14:39 0neder wrote:On October 07 2010 13:24 Jaguaresaqui wrote:On October 07 2010 10:05 astalkulo wrote: is there vods available, sorry I've been living under a rock lately Someone posted the matches on Youtube. Just do a search for starcraft 2 gsl finals Or, if you want to actually put your money where your mouth is and support E-Sports, you can pay GOM to watch all the VODs from the GSL. You know, the legal and ethical way. You can also wait with that until they improve quality of their stream at least. Only people not paying will make them do that. I don't know what was the cost of streaming and how many people paid for this season but it rather easily can be said there was at least 10 000 people who did. That's 195 500$ right there, the prize pool was 170 000$ and GOM is sponsored already. And I did pay for this season, I fucking did it right before semifinals. It's not like I regret that and most probably I will pay for the 2nd and, fuck it I have money to spare, for 3rd as well just this year but I'm just a lazy, naive loser and like I said, there is only 1 thing that will make them improve quality faster. edit: and to give you something to consider it seriously - I have to work for about 7-8 hours to earn that 20 bucks.
I will be the one to say it but i watched every game (didn't pay) but it was Korean commentated on some Korean website my friend game me PM if you wanna watch the finals
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edit: I think I was polluting this news thread with that part of my post. I can blog this shit.
On October 07 2010 15:02 Moonling wrote:Show nested quote +On October 07 2010 14:54 beetlelisk wrote:On October 07 2010 14:39 0neder wrote:On October 07 2010 13:24 Jaguaresaqui wrote:On October 07 2010 10:05 astalkulo wrote: is there vods available, sorry I've been living under a rock lately Someone posted the matches on Youtube. Just do a search for starcraft 2 gsl finals Or, if you want to actually put your money where your mouth is and support E-Sports, you can pay GOM to watch all the VODs from the GSL. You know, the legal and ethical way. You can also wait with that until they improve quality of their stream at least. Only people not paying will make them do that. I don't know what was the cost of streaming and how many people paid for this season but it rather easily can be said there was at least 10 000 people who did. That's 195 500$ right there, the prize pool was 170 000$ and GOM is sponsored already. And I did pay for this season, I fucking did it right before semifinals. It's not like I regret that and most probably I will pay for the 2nd and, fuck it I have money to spare, for 3rd as well just this year but I'm just a lazy, naive loser and like I said, there is only 1 thing that will make them improve quality faster. edit: and to give you something to consider it seriously - I have to work for about 7-8 hours to earn that 20 bucks. I will be the one to say it but i watched every game (didn't pay) but it was Korean commentated on some Korean website my friend game me PM if you wanna watch the finals
I think I know which you mean, I know about those. Thank you edit: TBH since Korean stream and VODs are for free I don't think there is any problem with posting info about http://www.wfbrood.com/movie/search.asp search for GSL
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Sick writeup! It really was Cool´s GSL and it was an epic one! Really looking forward to season 2 with all the big names and there will be so much upsets!
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Very well written, was an awesome read
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On October 07 2010 13:13 BradyBunch wrote: this was not a sc1 tournament. cool didnt win. didnt see any rainbows either. this stuff is very annoying and makes esports look silly. its like calling the Tennessee Titans the Houston Oilers just because thats what people use to say/recognize. moronic. it was stated on gomtv that they wanted to be called a fruit dealer and hopetorture. it shouldnt be this confusing/difficult
Get off your high horse -_-. They were known as cool and ITR, I don't see a problem if people refer to them as such. I highly doubt people will refer to Boxer as manofoneway. I'm starting to get really annoyed at people who are like "SC2 is not SC1, SC2>SC2" or "I don't want any connections with SC1." Clearly there's going to be some. Live with it.
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Nice writeup and congrats again, Cool.
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I never played online with sc1, but it was an eye opener to me on the level of play fruitdealer set out. I would love to see more people of his caliber play later on after the ranks and qualifications are set.
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Bring the Hype, make SC2 history, thats what TL does.
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On October 07 2010 13:13 BradyBunch wrote: this was not a sc1 tournament. cool didnt win. didnt see any rainbows either. this stuff is very annoying and makes esports look silly. its like calling the Tennessee Titans the Houston Oilers just because thats what people use to say/recognize. moronic. it was stated on gomtv that they wanted to be called a fruit dealer and hopetorture. it shouldnt be this confusing/difficult Unfortunately your analogy does not make sense because a gamer's ID is largely determined by what the fans recognize him as, not what the progamer calls himself. It is not the same thing as a professional sports team moving cities. When proteams change their names (from KTF MagicNs to KT Rolster for example) the entire community calls them the updated name. But when a player selects an ID, it's a much more informal thing and the fans basically decide what to refer to them as.
Thus, you are free to call them whatever you wish, but to many here they will always be Cool, Rainbow, and Boxer. This will always be so in our news posts, in our official TLPD statistics database, and in our forum threads. Get used to it. Cool's main ID here might be interchangeable just because of how awesome "Fruit Dealer" is and how little he accomplished in BW, but Boxer and Rainbow will never be more known on TL than as their original IDs.
In the GSL2, there is no way I'm calling Nada "BnetLagNotKESPA" and July "XtraLargePizza" just because they decide they set those IDs.
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The "Bisu" Award for Best Single Play Goes to Tester for his forcefield split against JSL. Bonus points for the commentators losing their minds over it. "I'm Tester, SUP." -- Artosis.
BEST. GSL was so legit. Worth staying up late every night to watch. :D
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lets try to see a protoss player in the semifinals next time :D
I was kinda sad that there was no cheesiest moment.
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Very nice read! Keep up the good work
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Wow, that was pretty frickin' epic.
I must leave, to hunt for fruitdealer replays. Wait for me in the fall.
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Great write up, love the awards =D
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whoa I was shocked before I clicked in here I thought the picture was luxury kissing the trophy " sorry it's pretty late over here @@" .. sleepy eye.
on the other hand nice! zerg rich now
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"The "Jaedong Hugs His Mom" Award for Best Tournament Moment The Fruit Dealer fans at the finals holding up the melons and bananas."
Lol that really happened!? <3 Cool
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Solid write up. Well done as usual.
Also, that vid was fantastic. Gave me goosebumps.
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Nice recap, I enjoyed read this. Fruit Dealer is just so good
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