[LoRDo]

Hi all!

This is the official thread announcing my intention to run an online Starcraft II tourney for SC2SEA! Information about the event can be found below but first some information about me.

+ [About Me] +

My name is Patrick “LoRDo” Gordon. I’m 22, work full time in IT, study part time and I have been gaming since as long as I can remember. I first started taking gaming seriously when I was in my early teens playing Counter-strike 1.5 and 1.6 in the Brisbane LAN and online scene. I was pretty crap, but it didn’t stop me from playing. As I grew up I played and quit WoW (terrible game hehe) and finally found closure in the strategic brilliance of MOBA and RTS games like Heroes of Newerth and Starcraft II. Whilst I like playing these games, I probably prefer watching them even more, tuning in to streams and casts as often as possible.

My greatest passion in life is eSports. If I was given the chance, I would work, live, breath and eat eSports 24/7.

Whilst I am sucky-ish at the games I so much love to play and watch, I appreciate that there are people out there who are amazing at it. I know for a fact that the day eSports gets to be on a world platform in a stadium with teams with cheering fans (GSL but maybe Superbowl level?) that I will be there with bells on, even if I’m 90 years old.

+ [Community Influence] +

I don’t have experience running events. As such, I’m putting a call out to everyone to help me make this to be an absolutely awesome experience for everyone. I want this to be a community event to the very core. I would like the members of the community to have a say in things like the map pool, the preferred dates/times, and some other things too.

I would like help running the tourney from people with past experience, to help cast the event, to help promote and to help expand on the prize pool.

I’d like people to put their hand up and say “yes, I would like to be involved in helping making this awesome”.

Why?

I want it to be this way because eSports is a fledgling at the moment. Sure, it’s getting bigger and more awesome, but we can help to propel it even further by uniting as a community – as this community does so often – to help it grow bigger in our own corner of the world!

I will talk about what I’m going to be contributing in another section.

+ [Tournament Particulars] +

As I mentioned I wanted this to be a community run tournament. So I was thinking of having a series of polls which would allow the community to determine things like:
- Map pool
- Dates/times
- Whether we allow foreigners (NA/Eu/KR) to be invited
- Perhaps the structure its run in (bo31s?!? [jokes])

As for prizes I will be injecting $500AUD to the prize pool to start with. I would be calling on others to contribute whatever they can – money, gear, vouchers, coaching lessons, hugs, etcetera.

Anyway, that is my intention. Please answer the poll and let me know if this is something YOU would be interested, my friends of the SC2 SEA community! If not, I will cry and rock myself to sleep.
Thanks all.

Quick Comments

	x5.Revenant:	+1 for the "work, live, breath and eat eSports 24/7" <3
	crAzerk:	Great i
	Asrathiel:	I shall donate hugs :D :D
	breadfan:	great initiative
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