Curse interviews HUKs, WSVG kicks off in Louisville
by Mike Schramm 
Jun 22nd 2007 at 10:30AM
Just in time for the WSVG's kickoff of the Louisville event this weekend, Curse has a video interview up with THE HUKHUKHUKHUKHUKS of Flow Gaming, the US Regional 5v5 Champions. The interview itself isn't really that gripping unless you really follow this arena tournament stuff (I like that they do fit in at least one sports interview cliche: "I feel really good about our win today"). There one complaint about the way WSVG handles gear-- apparently, they give everyone standard gear to make sure things are balanced, but HUK's Shaman says that he gets resilience gear rather than the stamina and crit that he usually uses.Unfortunately Curse doesn't ask about the disqualifications that happened recently (when players were found to be using each other's accounts, against the ToU), but they do ask about another problem I have with WSVG, and that is commentating the matches for spectators. As the players say, "they don't even have a good system to really view the matches as they're happening." So there's a nice goal for some would-be entertainment mogul: figure out a way to make watching players play videogames both understandable and interesting.
Meanwhile, the WSVG is in Louisville, and their sparse schedule says they've got WoW on the menu for all four days. If you can't make it down there, Curse will have streaming video all weekend (if you can get it to work-- I couldn't) right here.
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Ranking, Guilds, PvP
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ryan Jun 22nd 2007 10:54AM
When we were running Quake tournaments, we always just used a proxy server called 'quaketv' which was run by a spectator. This allowed an almost unlimited number of players to connect to the proxy server and view the match from the spectator's perspective. This is something that Blizz will have to implement though, as I don't believe they even have spectators available in arenas.