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BlizzCon Updates27 Sep 2008, 00:51
by Sixen
BlizzCon is approaching quickly.. Just a mere two weeks left until the big event. With a recent update, there's lots of new stuff to talk about now... The three tournament brackets and players/teams have been announced. Simply click on the tournament links to view the player/team profiles and photographic brackets.
  • The Starcraft Tournament will consist of the following matches:
    • 1. Savior vs 8. Strelok
    • 4. Xellos vs 5. fOrGG
    • 2. Yellow vs 7. IdrA
    • 3. Nada6. Jangbi
  • The Warcraft3 Tournament will consist of the following matches:
    • 1. Check vs 8. Lucifron
    • 4. SaSe vs 5. Nilknarf
    • 2. Happy vs 7. ReMind
    • 3. Sonkie vs 6. Lyn
  • The WoW Arena Tournament will consist of the following matches:
    • Fnatic Orz vs Made in Taiwan
    • R.O.C vs Council of Mages
    • x6tence vs selective queuers
    • H O N vs Nihilum Plasma


The hosts of the BlizzCon TV Special have also been announced, they will be:
  • Geoff Keighley, executive producer and host of Spike's GameTrailers TV, the #1-rated videogame show on television
  • Becky "AKTREZ" Young, creator and leading lady of the Girls Entertainment Network
  • Kat Hunter, general manager of professional gaming team for the Championship Gaming Series, the San Francisco Optx, and former Frag Doll
There'll also be two celebrity guests and a few other special guests from Blizzard:
  • Patton Oswalt - performing a comedy routine during the closing-night ceremony
  • Jay Mohr - returning to host the live BlizzCon contests
  • Level 80 Elite Tauren Chieftain - Concert
  • Rob Pardo, Jay Wilson, Dustin Browder, and Jeff Kaplan - Senior Blizzard Developers who will be rotating in and out of the broadcast desk throughout the day
You can use the DIRECTV Special to view it in the USA or the Foxtel Special to view it in Australia. Blizzard is also looking into the possibility of bringing televised BlizzCon 2008 coverage to other regions of the world, so keep an eye on the BlizzCon Website for further updates/information.

14 comments

3 months 2 weeks ago

#1 shadowie Sweden(se)

 
Someone with access to those TV-channels better stream it online for us europeans :roll:
3 months 2 weeks ago

#2 PKZeppelin Sweden(se)

 
Quote:Level 80 Elite Tauren Chieftain - Concert

Oh noes... Michael Jackson sings without his nose better, though.
3 months 2 weeks ago

#3 Sixen United States(us)

 
PKZeppelin wrote:
Quote:Level 80 Elite Tauren Chieftain - Concert

Oh noes... Michael Jackson sings without his nose better, though.

I think the ETC songs are the only Rock music I wouldn't mind listening to.

Aside from them, I listen to Rap & Hip-Hop.. So yeah, that's gotta be saying something, =p.
3 months 2 weeks ago

#4 PiF Bulgaria(bg)

 
I'm really looking forward to the SC matches. Kind of disappointed of the warcraft ones.. Grubby and Moon are not on the list and those 2 are my favs.

and about the 80 level noobs...they suck lol
3 months 2 weeks ago

#5 Undifty Aland Islands(ax)

 
I kind of find L80ETC kind of funny, interesting lyrics with okay music. :)
But then again it has a long way to go to match up with death metal.
3 months 2 weeks ago

#6 shadowie Sweden(se)

 
As a finn your standards on death metal is probably pretty high though :)
3 months 2 weeks ago

#7 PKZeppelin Sweden(se)

 
Well, maybe my post was too cynical, but still, what's the point of that devs rock band? People listen to them just because they are Blizzard fans, and even if the composition and vocal would be the suckiest in the world, they would still enjoy listening to song about Murloc :) I listened to these songs and saw the vids - ETC is an amateur band, but they pretend to be like true hard-rock music sharks, which is funny, sorta :)
3 months 2 weeks ago

#8 shadowie Sweden(se)

 
Eh the point? A lot of people play in small amateur bands, what's the point of that? Most musical endeavors are about having fun, not about selling platinum or being the best. The ETC guys have been playing together for a long time, for fun. Lately they have discovered that other people have fun watching them live as well, isn't that enough of a point?

They obviously try to act professional on stage because that makes it funnier, no one (including themselves) expects them to be as good as other bands out there.
3 months 2 weeks ago

#9 PKZeppelin Sweden(se)

 
Whatever. Peace :D

I really hope they will give at least some clues about WoW movie. It supposed to be in the works but still no info :(
3 months 2 weeks ago

#10 Sixen United States(us)

 
PiF wrote:I'm really looking forward to the SC matches. Kind of disappointed of the warcraft ones.. Grubby and Moon are not on the list and those 2 are my favs.

and about the 80 level noobs...they suck lol


I'm kind of surprised Grubby and Moon are not in the tournament as well... Grubby took the first place prize one year..

Undifty wrote:I kind of find L80ETC kind of funny, interesting lyrics with okay music. :)
But then again it has a long way to go to match up with death metal.
Quote:Well, maybe my post was too cynical, but still, what's the point of that devs rock band? People listen to them just because they are Blizzard fans, and even if the composition and vocal would be the suckiest in the world, they would still enjoy listening to song about Murloc :) I listened to these songs and saw the vids - ETC is an amateur band, but they pretend to be like true hard-rock music sharks, which is funny, sorta :)



Well, as shadowie said, it's just for fun. They aren't anything big, and the main reason people listen to them is because they're fans of Blizzard. It's just something they can do for fun, that will give us a little laugh..

Quote:Whatever. Peace :D

I really hope they will give at least some clues about WoW movie. It supposed to be in the works but still no info :(


Agreed. There was little information there last time, however there was a whole panel about it.. Perhaps more information this time.
3 months 2 weeks ago

#11 shadowie Sweden(se)

 
I'm hoping they will do a full-length in house animated movie, Imagine a Blizzard trailer 2 hours long :)

Also, everyone already know the characters as animated. They would have to be really really good at casting a live action movie or they risk hurting the franchise. On the other hand a LOTR-style movie with Peter Jackson directing would be awesome :P
3 months 2 weeks ago

#12 Sixen United States(us)

 
shadowie wrote:I'm hoping they will do a full-length in house animated movie, Imagine a Blizzard trailer 2 hours long :)

Also, everyone already know the characters as animated. They would have to be really really good at casting a live action movie or they risk hurting the franchise. On the other hand a LOTR-style movie with Peter Jackson directing would be awesome :P


That would definitely be made of win. I think i'd be drooling if I saw that, =X.

But hmph, it'll be a live action movie, meaning real actors.
3 months 2 weeks ago

#13 PiF Bulgaria(bg)

 
I prefer a Blizz cenematic-quality movie :D
3 months 2 weeks ago

#14 PKZeppelin Sweden(se)

 
I know a guy who could play Arthas - anybody seen "13th Warrior" wtih A. Banderas coming from Arabia and slaughtering tribal Scandinavian nations who were attacking fairly civilized inhabitants? So there was a prince Buliwyf(on Bandera's side):

Image

His name is Vladimir Kulich(he's from former Czechoslovakia) and made fairly good for a foreigner career in hollywood, mostly 3rd and 2nd plan roles in TV series and movies. The problem is that he's sorta old now though, so I don't think he could play non-corrupted young Arthas, but would fit perfectly as Lich King in the movie =) By the way, there are rumors that Blizzard were inspired by that Buliwyf from 13th warrior when created Arthas image, something like Zerg from Starship Troopers or Protoss from Predator etc.
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