Yes! Numerous times I have been talking to someone on the ladder, when I'm not raging at protoss ^^, and the chat will lean towards tournaments and whatnot. I mention sc2sea and can imagine a blank stare looking back at me. From there I link them to sc2sea, and say check it out, its a really good site. Whether or not they actually follow through with it is a totally different thing altogether.
But if we want to grow the SEA scene, 2 steps definitely need to be followed:
1. Advertising on the actual SEA Server to people who have no idea what sc2sea.
2. Advertising through all Starcraft 2 Forums - TL, SC2SEA, SCReddit, Twitter etc. etc.
That, in conjunction with hype videos (DOX? haha) on youtube that are linked to screddit and TL is a good way to begin advertising for our region. Even players streaming daily. I stream daily, and I get 15ish viewers on average. Half are from SEA, half are from the rest of the world. 90% of the people from the rest of the world ask, 'what is the SEA server?' in the chat channel.
As we all know, They don't want to come here for anything because we apparently have very little to offer. If we want to improve our region, we have to go to them. It's sad but true.
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