Starcraft 2 & IPL

[darkrabbi]

Hey n00bs, for those of you who play/follow competitive SC2: I just started work @ IGN eSports working on the IPL! You can follow me at

http://people.ign.com/darkrabbi

http://twitter.com/darkrabbi

I'll probably setup a separate blog pretty soon so I can talk about the things actually on my mind without carefully picking my words.

IGN is investing a shit ton into this project, there's some big things planned for the next few months. If there was this much corporate interest in competitive gaming back when we played it would have been so different. The major difference this time around is that the casual viewers are involved and interested in the competitive scene. It would have been like if the dodmod.com kids instead of hating us with a passion instead sucked our dicks and followed all the leagues. That's really why SC2 is taking off the way it is, there's even people who have never played who follow the competitive scene.

So yea, follow me on IGN/Twitter! I hate twitter but I promise not to post bullshit like "LOL HAD INDIAN FOOD TODAY". It will be stuff relevant to competitive SC2 and the IPL with the occasional dod throwback.

[squatta_leader]

I hope you got this gig because of your dod raps.

[darkrabbi]

I hope you got this gig because of your dod raps.

LOL, unfortunately no but I definitely played a short clip from my 2nd dod video during my interview. Turns out Painuser actually played dod and had heard of me, apparently he used to be in exigent with nick patten but I don't remember him. He was probably like 14 or 15 at the time. Makes me feel like an old man, GET OFF MY LAWN SC2 KIDS

[`NG]

"LOL HAD INDIAN FOOD TODAY".

I lol'd

[Airnick15]

Time to start filling stadiums with spectators to get on the korean level

[motive]

i'd actually be interested in some indian food tweets because i imagine you get dat homegrown goodiegoodie shit

also i should start playing sc2 again since i went to the midnight launch, did my placement matches then promptly stopped playing. now i just watch matches all the time and laugh at people calling idra an asshole for making fun of crunchers alleged fatness

[t`RavE]

laugh at people calling idra an asshole for making fun of crunchers alleged fatness

Hahaha! All the good zerg players are assholes though.

[billbsod]

Pain User played for GL at summer cpl 05. He was a good rifle. I don't think he had ever really played with GL before the tournament. GL was just a cal-o team wanting to play at a LAN. I hated how the rounds were set up, they set up teams that were in seeded in the 30's against each other so one cal-im team would face a cal-o team and knock the cal-o team out. So all 6 of the guys on the cal-o team get to play one match for 300 dollars (50 dollars a person to play). It just feels like so many teams (including mine) went down there with no expectation of winning anything, some teams not even a single match, and paid all that money for it.

plus who could forget KAN =X

But yeah, congrats!! that's cool to see pain user adapting to the changing competitive gaming community.

[joeledmunds]

plus who could forget KAN =X

Lol poor poor Bayside High.

And congratulations! Game journalism, especially competitive, sounds like a pretty fun gig.

[St|ck]

Speaking of korean level, will IGN begin covering MLG and GSL, also? Or will it mostly be for IPL?