| Str1keFreedom United States. October 19 2010 07:54. Posts 112 | Profile # |
Is this the Lim Yo Hwan effect? Major SC2 Websites in State of Emergency!
Lim Yo-Hwan (BoxeR)’s appearance in GSL caused major SC2 community websites and GomTV to temporarily go down.
As soon as Lim Yo-Hwan appeared in the 5th match of Sony Ericsson GSL, the number of clients of PlayXP website exploded and caused the servers to go down. PlayXP predicted such events may occur and kept close eyes to its servers. Yet, the effort proved to be futile against the exploding number of users.
PGR21 Community users were also unable to connect due to the traffic, and Fomos also encountered the same problem.
This user created chaos caused the GomTV servers to go down when Banshee was coming out in Set 1 of the game. The Streaming server went down and caused most users to disconnect from the live streams. As if that was not enough, GomTV site itself crashed and no one was able to watch the broadcast for a period of time.
Users criticized GomTV for not being able to prepare themselves for such happenings. However, the ability of Lim Yo-Hwan’s popularity to shutdown GomTV servers was beyond anyone’s expectations.
Due to the longevity of the downtime, viewers found out about the stability of streams for countries outside of Korea and caused its number of viewers to skyrocket by whopping 13,000.
As soon Lim Yo-Hwan’s victory was decided, Zoo Gallery, Dusan Bears (Korean Baseball Team) Gallery, other Korean Baseball team galleries, and other sites with gallery’s that had anything to do with bears (Korean word for bear is Gom) were bombarded with insults and profanities. Even Mabinogi Gallery (Korean MMO) and SC2 Gallery could not escape the same fate.
This happening was not an exception for foreign communities. TeamLiquid site also experienced sudden increase in users and had brief connection problems.
The Lim Yo-Hwan effect was simply astounding. Most community sites in the country were all put into state of emergency and it even affected sites outside of the country. Not only that, GSL and Lim Yo-Hwan were in the Naver’s list of top searches next to each other.
If this continues whenever Lim Yo-Hwan plays his match, it is expected that many server maintenance staffs will be in for some troubling times in the matches to come.
Source: http://www.playxp.com/sc2/news/view.php?article_id=2200028
BoxeR game Viewer Estimates: (For those Who think This is a small happening)
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=161872
Last edit: 2010-10-19 10:31:32 |
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| leetchaos United States. October 19 2010 07:57. Posts 395 | Profile Blog # |
| If he does well I expect this game to explode in KR. |
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| aepal Netherlands. October 19 2010 07:57. Posts 118 | Profile # |
| It was really crazy trying to watch the vods with boxer playing today :s everytime i refreshed the view count jumped up everytime in an insane manner. :D Pretty cool the Emperor helps exploding this game into Esports ! |
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| Madder Australia. October 19 2010 07:57. Posts 365 | Profile # |
That'd be right. Good one, BoxeR. xD
Next up, NaDa! |
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| Ryusei-R1 United States. October 19 2010 07:58. Posts 1939 | Profile Blog # |
I suppose they didn't expect Boxer to attract a crowd THAT big.
Their fault for undermining the popularity and strength of Boxer's presence. |
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| Redmark Canada. October 19 2010 07:58. Posts 1987 | Profile # |
As soon Lim Yo-Hwan’s victory was decided, Zoo Gallery, Dusan Bears (Korean Baseball Team) Gallery, other Korean Baseball team galleries, and other sites with gallery’s that had anything to do with bears (Korean word for bear is Gom) were bombarded with insults and profanities. Even Mabinogi Gallery (Korean MMO) and SC2 Gallery could not escape the same fate.
hahahaha oh my god. This reminds me of that time the Japanese (?) insulted the Korean ice skater and there was some sort of internet warfare - but bears?
Also I never saw Boxer play in his prime, but it's amazing that he still commands such respect/attention. |
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| dcberkeley Canada. October 19 2010 08:00. Posts 844 | Profile # |
| Where is the interview? Need the interview! |
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| Sandrosuperstar Sweden. October 19 2010 08:00. Posts 523 | Profile # |
| Just so amazing. Boxer is truly a legend still. So fun to see him play sc2 :D |
| | I'm homo for Lomo, gay for GGplay, but at the end of the day I put my dong in Lee Jaedong | |
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| Str1keFreedom United States. October 19 2010 08:01. Posts 112 | Profile # |
| Do you want me to translate interview? or is there one already? |
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| Wings United States. October 19 2010 08:03. Posts 999 | Profile # |
| lesson learned: if you want to shut down Korea, call Boxer. |
| | The probability of Kim Carrier getting all those predictions wrong is similar to the probability Flash loses a TvT. Kim Carrier MUST BE a genius. His only big mistake... STORK. |
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| Draconicfire Canada. October 19 2010 08:04. Posts 1656 | Profile # |
| Oh man, Boxer is so good. Last edit: 2010-10-19 08:06:37 |
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| Baarn United States. October 19 2010 08:05. Posts 2392 | Profile # |
| Boxer is the Emperor for a reason. |
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| -HellZerg- United States. October 19 2010 08:06. Posts 406 | Profile Blog # |
I can't wait for the day when SC2 becomes as popular as Tennis professionally.  Go Federer! I mean BoxeR! :DLast edit: 2010-10-19 08:07:36 |
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| arb Noobville. October 19 2010 08:06. Posts 11089 | Profile Blog # |
On October 19 2010 08:04 Draconicfire wrote:
Oh man, Boxer is so good. But, is he facing Fruitdealer next round?
The Emperor does not know defeat. |
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| dcberkeley Canada. October 19 2010 08:07. Posts 844 | Profile # |
Found itLast edit: 2010-10-19 08:07:48 |
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| teacash Canada. October 19 2010 08:07. Posts 494 | Profile # |
The time will come when opponents of legends / fan faves like this are being paid off to lose their matches, in the interest of greatly increasing tourney revenue / popularity..
Hopefully it never gets too bad (or noticeable  ) |
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| Khalleb Canada. October 19 2010 08:08. Posts 1901 | Profile Blog # |
On October 19 2010 08:01 Str1keFreedom wrote:
Do you want me to translate interview? or is there one already?
omg plz do so |
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| Jonoman92 United States. October 19 2010 08:08. Posts 7411 | Profile Blog # | |
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| Anuzi October 19 2010 08:09. Posts 181 | Profile Blog # |
I don't get why all those sites were bombarded with insults and profanity  Can someone explain it? |
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| {ToT}ColmA Japan. October 19 2010 08:10. Posts 1886 | Profile # |
| just wait and see what happens when nada plays! |
| | Miss A fighting \o/ I ve too many biases :( Hyosung Jia Min Soyu Lime Bora Yookyung <3 | |
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