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  • MMMigMMMig Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Topia wrote: »
    Trus wrote: »
    So guys; how's the NASL going?

    circ de soleil of starcraft

    with the most creative/deaf sound engineer at the controls

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  • TopiaTopia Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    NASL is the bottle depot of starcraft. God bless them giving the less fortunate jobs.


    edit: I'm sorry. The NASL has production issues but I am still watching it. They do produce exciting starcraft, and thats actually what I'm here for. I just like making jokes.

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  • MMMigMMMig Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    NASL = Not Able to Stream Loud

    but in all seriousness, I'm really enjoying this

    they definitely zoom in on the players in ways that you can appreciate their existence more than other regular leagues, making them seem like the real stars they are

    Day9 definitely trumps most negativity with his AOE manner


    Daycontrol > Gretcontrol

    HD stream is playing really well too

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  • TopiaTopia Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Oh, by the way HotBid is observing now.

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  • MMMigMMMig Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    I'm actually very surprised at the considerable lack of company advertising.

    I was expecting M$ and other such companies trying to neural parasite their diet cokes and such into our psyches.

    Maybe the NASL investor fund is actually really small, and so they're making do with what they have?
    Seems like it. Kudos to them.

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  • TannerMSTannerMS "I'm confidence cause I'm zerg!" Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Topia wrote: »
    Oh, by the way HotBid is observing now.

    I hope he knows that he's the best observer in the world. It sounds like a joke but if he's actually doing it I'm going to tune back in

    EDIT: v Oh well, Tuned in to see marines trying to shoot broodlings instead of the broodlords and I know Morrow learned a good lesson

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  • TopiaTopia Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Oh whoops it's actually thegunrun. Sorry

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  • 815165815165 Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Koreans owning white dudes.

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  • MMMigMMMig Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Korean translator should be repeating the question in Korean into the mic.

    ^^'

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  • 815165815165 Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Also, Koreans boring white dudes.

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  • TopiaTopia Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Hasuorbs/

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  • undeinPiratundeinPirat Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    how about we just not have awkward interviews after every game

    that sounds good to me

    also of course the koreans are going to beat everyone

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  • Fizban140Fizban140 Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2011
    815165 wrote: »
    Koreans owning white dudes.
    Huk already dominated racist moon, no need for that.

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  • 815165815165 Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Just to note I will cry if someone responds with "well Huk is Korean now he trains there."

    Actual tears will be produced.

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  • Fizban140Fizban140 Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2011
    But Huk is canadian!

    Yeah, Tyler, Idra, Huk, Ret, are all Korean. Just like all those great Baseball and basketball players, they are all American.

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  • KeamienKeamien Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    well Huk is Korean now he trains there

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  • 815165815165 Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Haypro is actually Korean though, listen to how interesting and thought provoking his interviews are.

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  • undeinPiratundeinPirat Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    i'm not comprehending what you are saying

    in other news, did anyone else catch that hon is going to be in nasl in season two? so now it's the north american star league, which isn't actually just north america and isn't just starcraft

    i mean hon is cool

    but it seems kind of random and they don't exactly have a 100% grip on starcraft either

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  • KeamienKeamien Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    SOUND! ARRGGGHHH NASL

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  • Fizban140Fizban140 Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2011
    i'm not comprehending what you are saying

    in other news, did anyone else catch that hon is going to be in nasl in season two? so now it's the north american star league, which isn't actually just north america and isn't just starcraft

    i mean hon is cool

    but it seems kind of random and they don't exactly have a 100% grip on starcraft either

    What is wrong with their SC2 tournament? Besides some mess ups for the live event the season was great.

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  • undeinPiratundeinPirat Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    i'm not saying their prerecorded stuff is like terrible shit, but there is still room for improvement

    i don't know, i just don't see them exactly in a position to take on something like that (which probably has a much higher logistical component considering hon has five man teams that all need to coordinate together and get on at the same time, etc etc)

    i'm a big quibbler though so

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  • Fizban140Fizban140 Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2011
    i'm not saying their prerecorded stuff is like terrible shit, but there is still room for improvement

    i don't know, i just don't see them exactly in a position to take on something like that (which probably has a much higher logistical component considering hon has five man teams that all need to coordinate together and get on at the same time, etc etc)

    i'm a big quibbler though so

    I am guessing it will be another team or something, not sure why they brought in HoN especially since I think HoN is a less popularr version of LoL.

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  • chuckleberryfinnchuckleberryfinn Ireland Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Seems like Gunrun is drafted in to fix everything again. :)

    http://twitter.com/#!/thegunrun

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  • undeinPiratundeinPirat Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Fizban140 wrote: »
    i'm not saying their prerecorded stuff is like terrible shit, but there is still room for improvement

    i don't know, i just don't see them exactly in a position to take on something like that (which probably has a much higher logistical component considering hon has five man teams that all need to coordinate together and get on at the same time, etc etc)

    i'm a big quibbler though so

    I am guessing it will be another team or something, not sure why they brought in HoN especially since I think HoN is a less popularr version of LoL.

    while hon has less people playing (at least I'm pretty sure it does) it is 10000000X better for competitive purposes, unless things have massively changed with LoL

    observer mode, to start

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  • 815165815165 Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Fizban140 wrote: »
    i'm not saying their prerecorded stuff is like terrible shit, but there is still room for improvement

    i don't know, i just don't see them exactly in a position to take on something like that (which probably has a much higher logistical component considering hon has five man teams that all need to coordinate together and get on at the same time, etc etc)

    i'm a big quibbler though so

    I am guessing it will be another team or something, not sure why they brought in HoN especially since I think HoN is a less popularr version of LoL.
    The HoN folks might have seen LoL buying themselves a Dreamhack tournament and how much attention it got their game and want in on that.

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  • His CorkinessHis Corkiness Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    I didn't realise that every game but one in the Ro16 is Foreigner vs Korean (and the other one is Korean vs Korean). So I guess we'll be lucky to see a single non-Korean in the Ro8.

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  • kedinikkedinik Captain of Industry Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Fizban140 wrote: »
    i'm not saying their prerecorded stuff is like terrible shit, but there is still room for improvement

    i don't know, i just don't see them exactly in a position to take on something like that (which probably has a much higher logistical component considering hon has five man teams that all need to coordinate together and get on at the same time, etc etc)

    i'm a big quibbler though so

    I am guessing it will be another team or something, not sure why they brought in HoN especially since I think HoN is a less popularr version of LoL.

    while hon has less people playing (at least I'm pretty sure it does) it is 10000000X better for competitive purposes, unless things have massively changed with LoL

    observer mode, to start

    LoL's a stupidly imbalanced and borderline impossible to meaningfully observe game. Not least of which because yeah there's no observer mode.

    But I think "Has a giiiiiiiiiiiiiiigantic built in audience" is more important than pretty much anything else if you're adding to your set of gaming leagues.

    I mean really, LoL's first foray into Dreamhack with a half-assed observer mode hack and shitty casters dwarfed every other Dreamhack game combined.

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  • KeamienKeamien Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    All the MOBA games are kind of a bummer for esports.

    Because MOBA is taking off like whoa.

    But all these companies are making MOBA games, so one game might do well for a while, then something new comes out, and I don't think there will be enough time to gather a solid community behind each game.

    I dunno, maybe the genre will do well esports-wise

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  • TopiaTopia Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    I didn't realise that every game but one in the Ro16 is Foreigner vs Korean (and the other one is Korean vs Korean). So I guess we'll be lucky to see a single non-Korean in the Ro8.

    Two (one is white ra and sen, one is boxer MC).

    I think Hasu, Sen, and perhaps even Darkforce could win (and most likely to win in that order, too, I'd say).

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  • kedinikkedinik Captain of Industry Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Darkforce has moments of brilliance interspersed between disappointingly one-sided losses.

    Could do great if he chained together consecutive brilliant performances.

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  • His CorkinessHis Corkiness Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    TL thread says Sen vs Zenio and WhiteRa vs Select. Could be wrong, though.

    edit: oh right, Select is kind of a foreigner. TL thread has a Korean flag next to his name, confused me.

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  • Fizban140Fizban140 Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2011
    kedinik wrote: »
    Fizban140 wrote: »
    i'm not saying their prerecorded stuff is like terrible shit, but there is still room for improvement

    i don't know, i just don't see them exactly in a position to take on something like that (which probably has a much higher logistical component considering hon has five man teams that all need to coordinate together and get on at the same time, etc etc)

    i'm a big quibbler though so

    I am guessing it will be another team or something, not sure why they brought in HoN especially since I think HoN is a less popularr version of LoL.

    while hon has less people playing (at least I'm pretty sure it does) it is 10000000X better for competitive purposes, unless things have massively changed with LoL

    observer mode, to start

    LoL's a stupidly imbalanced and borderline impossible to meaningfully observe game. Not least of which because yeah there's no observer mode.

    But I think "Has a giiiiiiiiiiiiiiigantic built in audience" is more important than pretty much anything else if you're adding to your set of gaming leagues.

    I mean really, LoL's first foray into Dreamhack with a half-assed observer mode hack and shitty casters dwarfed every other Dreamhack game combined.
    I think LoL has observer mode now, isn't that what they showed off at dreamhack? They also mentioned replays and other things. I mean they have good intent, but they really are just in it for the money. Simple as that, they ruin the game by releasing 2 champions a month.

    I mean they have a really good team with the best intentions I think, but fuck...they game is never the same it is constantly being changed.

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  • undeinPiratundeinPirat Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    well all dobas are really impossible to observer, this has been true ever since dota even had a minute competitive following

    but to get any observing in lol you basically have to get riot on deck and have them do it for you

    it's just infinitely easier to do hon because you don't have to get the game developers to arrange every match for you so you can just watch it

    but overrall, i think because of how impossibly hard to spectate the entire genre really isn't cut out for big things

    but what do i know

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  • Fizban140Fizban140 Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2011
    I agree, it is a very hard game to observe. I mean even WoW is, and mobas are like WoW except spread out over 30 minutes and across a huge map.

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  • 815165815165 Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Bloodline Champions (which is kinda a cross between Dota and wow arena) is surprisingly fun to watch, though.

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  • Fizban140Fizban140 Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2011
    Yes, that is an infinitely more interesting game. Too bad it isn't more popular.

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  • ImpyrockerImpyrocker Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    SOOO MANY BANELINGS!

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  • TopiaTopia Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    HAhahahahahahhahahaaaaaaaaaaahahha

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  • SevorakSevorak Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Impyrocker wrote: »
    SOOO MANY BANELINGS!

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  • KeamienKeamien Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Koreans are tearing it up today

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