Thursday, January 31, 2013

Climbing The Ladder #42 w/ guest Totalbiscuit - Green card and Axiom eSports

https://archive.org/download/ClimbingTheLadderPodcast/ClimbingTheLadder-042.mp3

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Weekly Update for 01/2813 - 02/03/13

Hey everyone!

Weekly update time! I wanted start off saying Iron Squid was an amazing event this weekend. Big props to the organizers, casters (<3 Day9, Kaelaris, Khaldor, etc.), hosts (Soe/ToD/etc), and most of the all the crowd! The chants and cheering were amazing even for all of us at home. Iron Squid breaking out the full orchestra and band was pretty cool too. That was also one of the best ZvZ finals Ive seen in a VERY long time. 0-3 comeback? Siiiiiiiick! Congratz to ST.Life with a stunning comeback victory! 

Also worth mentioning AWESOME and AMAZING the shared replay/restore/take command feature is in Heart of the Swarm. Ive been eagerly waiting for this feature since it was announced in spring 2012. People that know me can vouch that Ive been saying that this will be THE MOST IMPORTANT thing that's ever happened to Starcraft 2 from a player practice and improvement standpoint. I had been advocating that teams hire map makers in the past to recreate these scenarios for players but the restore replay feature has always been the most optimal way of achieving this. To all teams/players ... PLEASE take advantage of this tool! Structured practice and replay archives should be created by all teams/players. It would be awesome if there was a public repository for replays that the whole community could share too. The level of improvement from all the players (pro and amateur) will be accelerated greatly so get ready for some more refine play people! *chills*

Let's get to the shows schedules this week. 

Tuesday 4pm EST / 10pm CET we have the lovely Genna Bain (Owner of Axiom eSports and CEO of Cynical Brit) on Climbing The Ladder to discuss the latest exciting announcements concerning Axiom eSports.

Wednesday 10:30pm EST the crew (myself, EG.Machine, iS.Temp0, Eternity.LivinPink) will be continuing our weekly adventure into the Starcraft 2 Arcade playing and rating games. This week we'll be playing Mass Destruction 2, Mafia, and more. Come join us (subscribers will get first priority) in some games!

That's going to be it for the show schedules. All VODs from past episodes can be found at http://youtube.com/chanmanv

That's going to be it for now. Hopefully Ill see you during the shows!

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Weekly Update 01/21 - 01/27

Hey everyone! Going to try my best and update you guys using the blog as well as continue posting the audio versions of the shows here.

Just want to start off by giving a huge THANK YOU to all you guys that watched and commented/msged me how much you enjoy and appreciated the last show. As crazy as it might sound, it caught me by surprise and I have to admit it gave me some "nerd chills" which is never a bad thing. So I appreciate the new and continued support and you can count on lots more episodes every week. ;)

But enough about that .. this week's going to be a fun one!

We've got Kevin Lin (COO Twitch.TV) on Climbing The Ladder  Tuesday 4pm EST / 10pm CET to continue some of the discussion from this last episode on advertising revenue particularly pertaining to Twitch.TV. For those of you that don't have any idea the workings of the ad revenue model, we're going to try our best to explain as much as we can and clear up any misconceptions some folks might have on how things are weighted right now. We may see some other folks from Twitch TV (djWHEAT or Justin Wong or Stuart Saw) jump on  at some points too. So get your questions ready! ;)

Wednesday Night Sprites will be on Wed 10:30pm EST with the full gang (barring internet issues on my end) with some great new unknown arcade games. Come watch me, EG.Machine, iS.Temp0, and LivinPink play/rate some SC2 arcade games and hop on some games with us.

And Pro Corner is tentatively set to start back up this week w/ guest Liquid'TLO on Thursday 4pm EST / 10pm CET. We'll talk to him about IEM Katowice and hopefully snag one of the replays to go over (hopefully one of the Mana ones).

I do have one update about Pro Corner for folks that might not be reading the show's TL thread. Pro Corner will not necessarily be every week moving forward. In the past, Ive pumped these episodes out each and every week which was a lot of fun.  But I feel because of the unpredictability in the players' schedules not necessarily lining up with my own commitment to the viewers to have it every week, the quality and impact of the episodes were compromised at times. So I want to change that and have better episodes for the viewers and hopefully better timed episodes to give player guests the most exposure possible. Also I will be lining up some episodes with some great Razer Academy tutorial videos from some of the top players in the world. Everything else will be the same with giveaways and q&a. I just wanted to give you the heads up about the change in the frequency.

Enjoy!

Friday, January 18, 2013

Thursday, January 3, 2013