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Hey everyone, as some of you may have seen, at the start of the year I began a youtube show called "What Happens in Starcraft" with the goal of providing a short weekly update on the premiere professional scene in Starcraft 2. I had never been on camera in my life before then, hated having pictures taken and was generally terrified of any form of public speaking. I did however have a feeling that there was a hole in the Starcraft 2 scene as far as spectators were concerned, and had an idea on how this could be remedied. Thus, What Happens in Starcraft was born after several months of planning and saving for the right hardware and software I would need. As expected the first episode was awfull, but I stuck with it and slowly warmed up to being infront of the camera even if my hosting skills were still lacking. Atleast I am now over the fear of being infront of a camera.

However, to get to the point of this blog. Just over a week ago GOMtv started up a show very similar to "What Happens in Starcraft" with a bigger budget, more experience and an attractive female host. In short the show is far superior and fills the void far better than mine ever could have so I have decided to suspend "What Happens in Starcraft" in favour of supporting GOMtv's GNN. There is little point in trying to compete with what they are doing and with me being a 1-man production the work load to try and produce something at the same quality as them would be enormous. As it stands a regular episode of What Happens in Starcraft can take as much as 40 to 50 hours a week to put out. This meant that I regularly didn't have any time to load up SC2 for myself even once for a week or two at a time. Although I hate to say it, the show is never going to bring in enough money through ad revenue to make that time investment worth it when something like GNN is out there with greater exposure and production quality. When I started the show it wasn't out of any desire for fame or exposure of my own. Infact I wished someone else was doing it, because I wanted something easy to keep up with the pro scene myself. Now that there is, I feel like I can stand down and maybe give some of my other ideas a shot. I will be giving youtube a break for a couple of weeks to play more Starcraft 2 and hopefully get some solid improvement and then I hope to start uploading some other stuff that I think could help with spectator Starcraft.

Finally I would just like to thank those of you who did watch "What Happens in Starcraft" and gave your feedback and support. I was overwhelmed by the positive reception from everyone despite my severe shortcomings as a host and show producer. And I would encourage you to go and check out GNN on GOMtv's site. It is available as a free VOD each Monday (or Tuesday if there are no games scheduled for Monday) after the first live broadcast. I do want to be clear that I have no negative feelings about being outdone by GNN. Although it is unlikely I would like to think/hope that someone with influence at GOMtv saw an episode of my show and thought to themselves "we can do a better job" and I indirectly helped e-sports in that way. But hey, we can all dream can't we?

Just remember, What happens in Starcraft shouldn't stay in Starcraft!