[Meatex]

The fate of SEA server was sealed when blizzard herped on real id and completely cut communication between servers
If the SEA scene wants to grow got to encourage players from other servers to jump on SEA enough to warrant them wanting to be part of the community. We have some koreans that hang out here and play in the open tournaments and I think need to encourage more players somehow.
This will become so much easier with HotS when anybody will be able to jump on any server without needing to buy separate accounts so we may have to work towards that timing?

And about Boss, I don't necessarily dislike him but I certainly don't trust his word
I spent a lot of my free time working on 2 video projects for him on empty promises and blind hope. I was under immense stress at the time and had my gf nagging me as to why I was spending all my time working for free. It was always me that had to chase him up despite him always telling me I will get in touch with you soon about blah blah
When I was half way through the second video hearing Boss saying he has moved away from e-sports and now looking at clothing lines I started to doubt that my time was being well spent and quit shortly after

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AxS.Sorathez:

Hopefully, with the global servers idea that's being tossed around for HotS will fix the first part.

[PiG]

Originally Posted by FaDeMeatex

The fate of SEA server was sealed when blizzard herped on real id and completely cut communication between servers
If the SEA scene wants to grow got to encourage players from other servers to jump on SEA enough to warrant them wanting to be part of the community. We have some koreans that hang out here and play in the open tournaments and I think need to encourage more players somehow.
This will become so much easier with HotS when anybody will be able to jump on any server without needing to buy separate accounts so we may have to work towards that timing?

And about Boss, I don't necessarily dislike him but I certainly don't trust his word
I spent a lot of my free time working on 2 video projects for him on empty promises and blind hope. I was under immense stress at the time and had my gf nagging me as to why I was spending all my time working for free. It was always me that had to chase him up despite him always telling me I will get in touch with you soon about blah blah
When I was half way through the second video hearing Boss saying he has moved away from e-sports and now looking at clothing lines I started to doubt that my time was being well spent and quit shortly after

Try to keep it on topic please guys (talking to you too rogue!). I don't know much about Boss and frankly don't care. I'm responding to the ideas expressed in his blog which was a talking point a few days ago. As for the Blizzard thing that reminded me of two points which I really think will grow esports!:

1) Integration of major tournament scene advertising with Battle.net. Battle.net should advertise ACL freely as they do for MLG and Dreamhack. When you logon to bnet it should have a link to the ACL event page around events. Same for barcrafts . Currently I've only seen this for WCS events...

2) ACL + SGL/Respawn style events:

SGL/Respawn have a sick casual gamers event with MASSIVE sponsorship, fanbase and backing. They usually get plenty of room to hold tournaments and just need some simple internet management (respawn figured this out on there first go) and you instantly have an event which viably can amuse hundreds of spectators for the length of the entire event. People play pingpong, fighting games, lan games, eat food, do cosplay competitions and get drunk. Basically it's a giant nerd party!

Dreamhack operates off this concept and it creates a sick atmosphere for the competitive games to be played amongst. The difficulty can be in providing computers for interstate players if there's a sponsorship clash, but normally this shouldn't be too huge an issue.