10k/blizzcon 2009 [image heavy]

Man, these things took way longer than I thought, and I still have stuff lying around. The basic idea was that we were going to make the easy buttons from staples say "ESPORTS" when you press them. They're pretty cool. I think that me and mikeymoo got around to delivering buttons to chill and kennigit, or possibly hotbid and kennigit. Not quite sure. Anyway, below are the build picutres, as we were trying to get our stuff together at about 10 pm the night before blizzcon. No rest for the weary. If kennigit or hotbid or chill would post picture/video of the finished product, that would be cool, as I don't actually have anything finished. I also made one that said "GG" for nada, and losingid8 was able to give it to him and explain what it was. no pictures of that either, but hopefully nada will win again, and show you guys what i made <3

Blabber mikeymoo, and josh working on easy buttons

generalnukeem in the corner, mikeymoo showing off the fact that we're watching iris get kwanrolled

me and mikeymoo pulling parts apart 1

me and mikeymoo pulling parts apart 2 (girl who decided to try to help us in background)

after we got the actual easy part sanded off (that was easy) we only needed to work on the electronics. This left blabber, generalnuekem, and my housemates with nothing left to do.

mikeymoo, breaking things

all of mikeymoo's broken things
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This is what it looks like when you first get past security. Huge hall, really pretty cool. There were a bajillion dorks like me hanging around, and it seemed kind of overwhelming. They said something like 26k people there, which means that they need to rent out a bigger hall so that everyone can get tickets -_-;;

Skyhigh warming up. He had one of the first games

This was the setup for the various games, I have pictures of it in action later. basically, the left screen was used for an fp view of the left player, the right screen was used for the fp view of the right player, and the obs was the middle screen. Really really cool. Nothing like being able to see everything.

Ret and Idra, posing for pictures

This was the gaming area. Pretty large, but not actually large enough -_-; There were always lines to play stuff. It turns out that this was one of the three gaming areas, where you could actually play the blizzard games.
pictures of the crowd at the opening ceremony:
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This was the soundboard that they were using. Remember that it was going out over directtv, through the package, so they basically had cameras on pretty much everything, and had a full tv crew running around backstage.



Skyhigh vs (see next image)

zero was the first match. The way that the matches worked kind of sucked - the ones that they thought would matter were played on the main stage with commentary. The other ones, that somone didn't think was going to be as good, were placed in the progaming area, where basically no one was supposed to watch it. No obs, and no commentary in the progaming area.

Tasteless, artosis, and djwheat on camera

and in real life

they even had splash images for both players, which was pretty cool. Obviously this one was skyhigh

and this one was zero

I have no idea what sword this was supposed to be. obviously i haven't played enough blizzard games. It kept getting in the way though, and so i thought that i would get at least one decent picture of it.

Blizzard had camera guys who focused on the players the whole game, just like you see on korean tv. However, I guess that the camera guys didn't have anything to do after setting up the cameras, and so they probably learned something about starcraft.


Yes, the pro's use the same start screen us mortals do. This is just for reference, I believe that I have an example screen later that shows their name later

Nada vs ret

nada vs ret

extra points if you can identify all of the tl people in the picture. This really is why you go to blizzcon, as you get to meet these people who you talk to all the time on here. I spy hotbid, Idra, Incontrol, machine[usa], and azndsh. There are of course more.

nada

ret

savior waiting for the nada ret game to finish. He had already beaten either beckham or ret at this point.

skyhigh and savior

Idra- I believe that this was his game vs ret.
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losingid8 was really excited to get skyhigh to wear his usc sweater. I wonder if losingid has washed it yet. I wouldn't xD
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Savior vs zero, on the big screen
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This is what the bracket looks like at this point. Just for reference.

Nada vs. effort, as skyhigh and savior watch effort play. Kind of sad, as both zero and nada didn't have any starcraft team mates make the trip over to blizzcon
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Fuddx was amazing. He can make balloon animals and do magic tricks. Meet him if you can, there are examples of his amazing balloon work later in this post

Nada vs skyhigh. Skyhigh is playing in the USC sweatshirt xD. iirc, Skyhigh still lost Nada played like a beast though, and it's amazing just to sit behind these guys and watch them play in real life.
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Effort vs zero (there were way too many zvz's. blizzard, please invite a P player next time.)
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huge crowd of people in hotel room. Chill got us the room with his title being some sort of esports manager -_-;

The CJ team said that they had to leave early however. This left us doing showmatches on the big screen, before the disappointing osl final. At least the OSL final was short -_-;


ret and kennigit

I believe his sn was themango? anyone care to correct me?

vs incontrol. he was very drunk, as was ret. We gave incontrol the microphone to talk to everyone

intrigue of course was obs (becuase he's a master)

Ret was attempting to distract incontrol, but then...


he decided that it was going to be more effective to just take over for themango instead

ret killed his screen at one point, zatic was helping.

Incontrol's chair gets stolen, ret and inc wrestle, and then make up.
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Next game was chill vs ret, and chill was not very drunk. Doesn't quite seem fair really. Incontrol took over commentary after he determined that ret sucked at both playing and commentating (according to inc xD)

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Then we had machine vs idra, and we had incontrol still commentating, and finally we had day[9] commentating for the osl finals. Very nice. I think that someone was recording all of the stuff that was going on at the front. If you find it, it was really really funny. If it dosen't exist anymore...well then everyone dies a little on the inside, and wishes that it was recorded.
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all of them standing in line for the awards ceremony


mbc guys filming the awards ceremony

dunno their names, but they were team 1

three screen setup in action

team 2

resource counter - now we don't need to be a tv studio or tl to be able to obs and look at mineral/worker counts

obs screen T base

obs screen P base

the minimap looks exactly the same

building counter in obs mode

camera guy again watching the game. must be boring with a non-moving camera

all of us eating

fuddx doing magic tricks

fuddx had us enraptured for the whole night practically




not only does fuddx do magic, he makes awesome balloon animals. How cool.

The maps are terrible for P, and make jb sadfaced