I thought it would be fun if I pass on the interview download ladder:

10. Episode 5: -orb-
9. Episode 3: TheLittleOne
8. Episode 1: Husky and HD Starcraft
7. Episode 2: Rise
6. Episode 8: qxc
5. Episode 4: Day[9]
4. Episode 7: Machine
3. Episode 9: HuK
2. Episode 10: SLush
1. Episode 14: iNkA

Jerimiah “TheBullFrog” Huang in his first interview talks about his journey from gold level beta player and how coaching hot him into the MLG Raleigh tournament last weekend. In a more laid back style interview we talk a bit about EG, balance, and all sorts of fun stuff. Check the Team Liquid thread to learn about when to catch the show live.

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Seriously, I will go to any tournament in Montreal or Toronto and I’d kill for a big show there.

MLG Toronto or MLG Montreal or WCG or something let’s do this!

Shew is a young new Protoss in the American scene, coming from next to nothing to spectacular performances in just a few short months. He is definitely a player to follow and the subject of this week’s interview.

Next week I am moving to Quebec and will likely not have time for an episode, between packing, moving, contacting way too busy players and of course my new addiction to EVE online will be just too much. I will get back to you when I finish the move and who knows from there. The next guess *SHOULD* be Sheth, but all the progamers these days are really busy and can be hard to contact. I will keep it up however!

Shew is a young new Protoss in the American scene, coming from next to nothing to spectacular performances in just a few short months. He is definitely a player to follow and the subject of this week’s interview.

Check the Team Liquid thread to learn about when to catch the show live.

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This is going to be a short post, but it is bringing to attention something really important for commentators, show hosts, or any content producer really as a recommendation to benefit the community and your followers.

Anyone who syndicates their show via Youtube or blip.tv knows that the majority of their viewers get their content via these syndicated venues. Right now, many of the most popular streamers / commentators have some form of subscription based way to access their content. RSS feeds are not everything, but can be a very important key to success.

Consider your average fan / listener / viewer for a moment. Like it or lump it, your tournament / show / content / games cannot be viewed by everyone who wants to see them. Things come up, people have lives, and sometimes other stuff is streaming at the same time. Now your typical audience is not going to be solely a fan of your work, they likely have other streams or content they watch. It is a pain in the ass to see great content and realize that the only way to see if new stuff is out is by going to their stream’s recordings page and check, or in the worst case find out they do not record their stuff at all. Most consumers of content should look into something like Google reader or another RSS aggregate so that they get a nice tidy list of new content when it is available. Easy as pie.

So what sites have this tool that will vastly help you retain and gain new fans?

First of all, this is not a feature available yet on Livestream or uStream live recordings. I think it’s something they both should seriously consider implementing, but for the moment this is not there.

Second, a Team Liquid forum thread also does not have an RSS link so keeping an OP updated on the forums while useful in some cases is not an option to get a feed for your content.

Good places to put video content up are Youtube and Blip.tv (Blip.tv also can host audio content). If you have the time I recommend both. If you do not wish to record your stream’s video onto a hard drive there is another option:

1. Create a free blog, blogger, livejournal, wordpress, all of these are useful.
2. Get the code for the player embeddable widget found on both livestream and ustream for your syndicated videos.
3. every time a new video comes out, simply copy this embed code for the new video into a new blog post.
4. ???
5. Profit, you know have a way that people can access your content via RSS with very little work on your end and their end. Trust me it is a great service to your fans.

The Starcraft community has some great content providers, and with all these tournaments getting streamed some great games are becoming hard to find, impossible to find, or just a pain to follow. I think if we got more Web 2.0 savvy we could definitely have a stronger and better platform for the very brilliant and creative content creators coming out of this community.

GL HF

Sorry I am so late on this message for you guys, but im currently on a trip of sorts where I’m watching someones house and taking care of a very needy dog. I lack the ability to record here, so there wont be an elitists this week. I will try to record this weekend and go for it. see you then.

Kelby “iNkA” Williams is a painfully underrated Protoss player for the Team EG. His style, guerrilla and angry. He comes on to the show for a rare interview to talk about himself and show you all that he does indeed exist. Some good talk here. We even talk about the big Gosu Camp going on this week.

Next week we will be interviewing Tesla to talk about casting and representing ICCup to give the story of ICCup in Starcraft 2. Check the Team Liquid thread to learn about when to catch the show live.

Also be sure to check out the Socal LAN 5 being held in Ventura California. It is going to be a massive LAN with many of your favourite SC2 pros duking it out for a nice prize casted by none other than Diggity and Day[9]. It all goes down on August 14th and 15th. Check it out at http://tinyurl.com/socal5

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This Week in Starcraft 2:
This week is chock full of the true opening of the flood gates for Starcraft 2 tournaments. Big ones small ones, some as big as your head! Plenty of opportunity here for awesome games, and of course lots of open tournaments to flex your skills.

Last Week:

King of the Beta:
qxc vs. IdrA: G1 G2 G3 G4 G5
Tester vs. IntoTheRainbow: G1 G2 G3 G4 G5
Finals: G1 G2 G3 G4 G5

Gosucoaching Weekly #6: Replay Pack

This Week:

GBFL SC2 Launch Tournament:
What: 128 person Single Elimination Tournament for Platinum and under players.
When: RO 128 is this week
Where: TL Thread, no news on stream for finals yet.
Prizes: Professional casting of the finals. Focus of tournament is on growth as players.

BASC: Semi-Invitational Starcraft 2 Tournament
What: Bay Area Starcraft hosted Semi-Invitational Starcraft 2 Tournament
When: RO 32 and RO 16 Qualifiers are this week
Where: TL Thread Waiting on sources for vods or streams

Global Gamers SC2 Invitational:
What: A tournament of champions. Where the best of the best will face off against the likes of the unknown trying to make a name for themselves.
When: RO32 and RO 16 this week, casted at casters discretion
Where: English Stream, ICCupTV, Italian Stream, GLHF.it

iCCupTV’s Map Series:
What: A series of games testing out new community developed maps.
When: August 3rd at 6 PM Est
Where: TL Thread. Will be streamed on ICCup’s stream

1v1 IGA Open Tournament #1:
What: North American single Elimination tournament for Gold and under players. Registration is full
When: August 3rd
Where: not sure if this will be open to the public, but there willb e forewarning for the next one so you can go register.

Guilloteen’s Coalition Cup #1:
What: Open registration 2v2 tournament. Currently full but will accept more if 16 more teams register. North American Servers only
When: 4th of August beginning at 12PM EST
Where: No stream announced yet, but will be available on the Team Liquid Thread

Craft Cup Europe #11
What: Open Signup tournament. Pregrid Rounds: BO1. Grid: BO3. Final: BO5.
When: August 6th, 5PM UTC
Where: Go here to sign up 30 minutes before the event. EU server players only.
Prize Pool: $50

PN Open #1:
What: Open Signup Single Elimination Tournament
When: August 7th, 11AM PST
Where: Go here to register for the event. North American Servers.
Prize Pool: 1st place winner gets $50

LS Gamers Weekend Open:
What: 32 person 1 vs. 1 Tournament
When: August 7th @ 3pm MST(-6 GMT), 5pm EST(-4 GMT)
Where: Signups are here (diamond players preferred). Open to North America only.
Prize Pool: $50 USD for 1st place
Additional Info: Team Liquid

Starcraft 2 Team League:
What: The Starcraft 2 Team League (SC2TL) is a weekly tournament run by Inflow Gaming. We hope to encourage more competition between various teams and groups in Starcraft 2 as well as have a damn good time while doing so. As the tournaments progress week by week, teams that place well consistently will begin being seeded. Statistics such as which players are doing the best and the results of each week will also be published. We also plan on releasing replay packs of all the games each week.
When: Next tournament on August 7th at 3 PM Est.
Where: TL Thread. Streamers will be present but there is none yet.

IEM SC2 Regular Season Cup II:
What: North American Qualification tournaments, open signup
When: August 8th, time TBA but int he afternoon
Where: Signups can be done here. It will be streamed here.
Prize Pool: The top four finishers in each of these cups will move onto the group stage of the Intel Extreme Masters, along with a $100 cash prize for the winner of each qualifying cup.

Go4SC2 Cup #27 and 28:
What: European Open signup tournaments
When: 27: August 4th, 2PM CEST 28: August 8th, 5PM CEST
Where: Signups are here. German Stream here. Looking for an English streamer.
Prize Pool: Winner gets 100 Euros.

Geekbox Summer Rush:
What: 1v1 Single Elimination Starcraft 2 Tournament
When: Tournament begins on August 9th
Where: You can sign up here open to North American Players
Prize Pool: 1st Place: $200, 2nd Place: $100 3rd Place: $50

Summer 2010 Summer Newegg Wanfest:
What: 1v1 open registration tournament
When: Registration closes August 14th
Where: Newegg
Prizes: 1st place $500, 2nd place $200, 3rd place $100

BIG T SC2 Tournament/LAN Party!!:
What: A northeast LAN and SC2 tournament. $10 entry fee.
When: August 14th, 2PM EST
Where: Will be hosted on location in California, PA 79 Ash Street. TL Thread if you wish to sign up.

Green Forest E-Cafe presents Socal LAN 5:
What: A LAN being held in Ventura, California. Casted by both Diggity and Day[9]
When: August 14th and 15th, Qualifiers were held July 31st.
Where: Ventura California, Stream is TBA. TL Thread, there is a $15 cover charge to enter.
Prizes: 1st: $1000 + Intel Core i7-870 Processor + Intel BOXDP55KG Motherboard 2nd: $300 + Intel Core i5-750 Processor + Intel BOXDP55SB Motherboard 3rd: $200 + Intel Core i3-540 Processor + Intel BOXDH57JG Motherboard

ESL Nordic Pro Series Qualifiers:
What: Registration is open for Nordic gamers who think they got what it takes to compete for 5000 euros.
When: Ladder closes on the 20th of August, but you can still sign up.
Where: TL Thread

Minerva Invictus Tournament:
What: 1v1 Single Elimination Starcraft 2 Tournament
When: This two day event will be held on August 20th-21st beginning at 11:00-11:15 pm
Where: Anyone on the US server can signup here. Deadline is August 15th, or once 128 players have signed up.
Prize Pool: TBA

News:

A Star is Born, Inferno Online Cup #1 Shakeup: Starcraft 2 Torunaments

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To celebrate Starcraft 2′s release, Dario and I decided to sit down and take some questions from the good people on Team Liquid and in our chat room. It went really well and we had a great time. Some good answers and discussion in here from our favourite German beast.

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IGN made an awesome 5 minute summary of the entire Starcraft story so far