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Good call. It was.
OrangeYouGlad
Banned
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MLG Winter Championship in Columbus - Final Day
Mississauga, TheNix's via Go Bus, 2pm-10:30pm, March 25th, HOUSECRAFT:
Going:
TheNiX
Zzoram
Pandaman
Maybe:
scogoth
Not Going:
Spl1nter
mcrae
hoverX
I hope no one is allergic to cats. Also, I'm going to start PMing my email address so we can make solid plans and so Scogoth brings his ass out here.
Having a shared activity (ie. watching MLG) eliminates the awkwardness of any long silences.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
I hope there is a big tourny in SF/Norcal area sometime soon 
Fusion Pizza
Member
I hope there is a big tourny in SF/Norcal area sometime soon
Me too, I'd love to go to one.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
Then Norcal gaf can all drink and laugh at canada gaf.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
This didn't help btw...
Pancakes
hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
roach infestor?
BL/Infestor
Just hit before 17m and reinforce with some blink stalkers and you should be fine.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
I got destroyed by infestors doing that build once. Like most my army just sitting there getting owned
Then he moved into BroodlordsI hope there is a big tourny in SF/Norcal area sometime soon
Probably won't be any important tournaments hosted in SF anytime soon. ;_;
2 base fast archon/zealots is a pretty old school PvZ strategy that got abandoned because it couldn't handle mass 3 base roach.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
I hope IPL does it. With them being based from SF and alot of gaming news media located there it would be nice.
This could be it to be fair, they were mostly diamond players so I didn't really consider it at first though.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
Cant wait. Will be interesting to see how GOM interacts with OGN/Kespa.
PhoenixDark
Banned
zing!
LANs are always fun, I don't have a laptop to bring though
so just sleeze nix's computer or mine and i can 'coach' you both.
Awesome, although there likely won't be much time for that if MLG doesn't have much down time
ShallNoiseUpon
Member
I wonder if Blizzard will demand that SC2Proleague have English commentary too.
I sure hope so.
This at least shows that Blizzard recognizes that SC2 in Korea is going to die without KeSPA and OGN. Koreans just aren't that interested in SC2 compared to Broodwar, and Blizzard botched their marketing by waging war against KeSPA and Broodwar. Part of that has to do with SC2 not being on TV. Hopefully they've seen the error of their ways and work out a deal with OGN that is very cheap. Creating a high burden of cost in license fees for running SC2 tournaments is only going to further push OGN towards League of Legends or other free games where the developers aren't charging them fees.
http://www.twitch.tv/LoneStarClash
http://www.twitch.tv/LoneStarClash2
LoneStarClash going live in 3 minutes.
Polt Vs Heavens
State vs Select
Violet vs Dragon
Demuslim vs Destiny
Stephano vs Hawk
Bling vs Grubby
Whitera vs Nony
Sleep vs Incontrol
Best of 3, double elim, 10k prize pool. Mrbitter and rotterdam.
Also all the casters and presenters are wearing cowboy hats.
http://www.twitch.tv/LoneStarClash2
LoneStarClash going live in 3 minutes.
Polt Vs Heavens
State vs Select
Violet vs Dragon
Demuslim vs Destiny
Stephano vs Hawk
Bling vs Grubby
Whitera vs Nony
Sleep vs Incontrol
Best of 3, double elim, 10k prize pool. Mrbitter and rotterdam.
Also all the casters and presenters are wearing cowboy hats.
TheThunder
Member
Tyler is so bad, no name change will save you.
Is the stream lagging a little every now and then ?
Is the stream lagging a little every now and then ?
PhoenixDark
Banned
How serious is the LoL potential threat to Blizzard in Korea?
I wonder if pro league teams will be allowed to participate in gstl and vice versa. Kespa might not want older sc2 teams included early on as they'll no doubt dominate initially considering they've played longer. Eventually things will even out, with certain BW players possibly surpassing everyone
Very serious. I think LoL surpassed BW in popularity? Think I saw that on reddit, not sure
TheThunder
Member
Incontrol took a map off somebody ?
Tournament already a huge success.
Tournament already a huge success.
Next sotg we'll be hearing about how sleep is a really good player nobodies heard of.
PhoenixDark
Banned
"I pulled off a gutsy win against a tough player, I definitely feel like I had a successful run because of that. And you know what, I can build on that win throughout the year"
LoL is more popular so it has a larger potential fan base, largely because it's free and it's a team game so people can play with their friends. Also if you want to run a LoL tournament, Riot will contribute money to your prize pool. Blizzard charges you money for running an SC2 tournament and takes a cut of any advertising revenue.
SC2 is kinda dying in Korea. It's like the 18th most played game at PC Bangs, and costs more money to play because Blizzard tried to squeeze Korea for money but it backfired. In Korea, the advertisers are going to put their money behind LoL because it has more viewers. Also, due to Blizzard attacking KeSPA and trying to shut down Broodwar, you can bet that OGN is going to favor LoL over SC2 because Riot isn't hostile to them. Riot is believed to have put up most of the $170,000 prize pool for a season of LoL Proleague on OGN. If LoL on TV becomes bigger than SC2, and it likely will if stream number comparisons are any indication, advertising dollars will be going to LoL and not SC2.
Blizzard fucked up. They got greedy. They figured they'd make infinite money from Starcraft esports. They tried to squeeze tons of money from KeSPA, OGN, and Korean gamers by charging everyone tons of money. Even though SC2 advertising was plastered all over Korea for months, they lost the favor of Korea and sales fell far short of expectations. Nobody was willing to pay a subscription fee for SC2 in Korea, nor were PC Bangs willing to pay much higher than normal fees to host SC2. KeSPA decided to just ignore SC2, and without SC2 on OGN, it was absent from TV and absent from Korean thoughts.
I hope that Blizzard's CEO being in Korea this week to talk to KeSPA is a sign that they've finally admitted to their mistake and are going to try to correct it before SC2 is impossibly behind LoL. If they can broker a deal with KeSPA and OGN to get SC2 Proleague on TV for a really tiny licensing fee and not require every decision they make to go through Blizzard HQ for approval like they wanted, then maybe they can grow SC2 in Korea.
Blizzard also needs to fix 2v2 and 3v3 by putting in some non-shit maps. Those are the most popular modes because people like playing with friends, so ignoring those map pools is a damn foolish thing to do. SC2 needs those casual modes to maintain player interest to increase potential viewership.
ShallNoiseUpon
Member
x6 is checksix, not sixjax.