MLG recently released its self-collected statistics about its 2011 season regarding viewership numbers and other assorted facts about the three different games that it featured and the DotA-clone exhibition added to the second-half of the 2011 season. I added this post to ESFI referring to the press release and the infographic that is being distributed… Read more »
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Sometimes I feel like /r/starcraft understands.
Case-in-point: this self-post regarding the casting selection for the NASL finals. I really can’t emphasize how important it was to have coherent and well-respected casters bring the final match of the tournament to everyone. I didn’t have to hear someone who wasn’t sure of what was going on and didn’t have to survive through the… Read more »
Realization why so few watched NASL’s second regular season.
Gretorp and orb, among many technical failings. I’m not quite sure how to say this… but I sure do hope that these two aren’t casting the finals of the tournament. I know that they’ve been working hard for the smaller-than-expected viewership throughout their second season, but one would think that after weeks of casting together… Read more »
Second chances and boxing rings.
These two things typically don’t go together, but that’s exactly what’s being merged together with the North American Star League’s Season Two championship beginning this afternoon and running through Sunday. There’s a DotA-clone tournament going on as well as the single-elimination best-of-five StarCraft 2 playoffs. Quite a few names are in attendance for the chance… Read more »
When do the gloves come off? (Part 1)
I’ve been doing a bit of thinking about some of the comments recently made by (some would argue) important people within the StarCraft 2 community. I arrived at the question posed in the title of this column after coming to the conclusion, that perhaps it is time to do so. Kennigit brought this up on… Read more »
A little delay with the next column.
Well, I had been planning to publish a series of columns to ESFI on Mondays (ideally just after business hours conclude on Monday afternoon) but it seems that its not to be this week as we begin to roll out some preview coverage for the upcoming MLG Providence event. The delay caused me to be… Read more »
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