Thursday, January 31, 2013

A New Addition


I would like to introduce the newest member of the the team here at e-Sports (The Rise), Myself.

I am Preston "Tripped" Orr, avid e-Sports viewer, commentator and player. After years of being influenced by personalities such as Day9, Tastosis, and TobiWan I am ready to start taking a more active role in the e-Sports community. My primary focus will be on Starcraft 2 with a smattering of insight into the Dota2 community; and some good natured trash talk towards League of Legends.

With introductions out of the way I want to bring attention to the most important event in International SC2 e-Sports; which happens to be occurring in just over 6 hours. EG.Stephano [RC], the foreign hope, will be making his GSL Code S debut. 

For those of you who are not familiar with the Starcraft2 e-Sports community this game is hugely popular in South Korea, and the programmer scene is dominated by Koreans. Therefore anyone who is not Korean is considered a "foreigner". With a prize pool of over $160,000 USD GSL Code S is largest Starcraft 2 tournament in the world. If Starcraft was Soccer, the GSL would be England, and Code S would be the Barclays Premier League.  

EG.Stephano [RC] is regarded by many as the best foreign progammer of all time. Teamliquid posts "Already the best non-Korean to play the game, success in Code S would make Stephano one of the greatest[progammers], period." The hopes and dreams of foreign SC2 fans across the world rest on Stephano's shoulders, directly under his ridiculous hair.


Tune in tonight at 1:10 AM PST at GOMTV.net and support Stephano, The GSL, and the e-Sports community.


Image Via Team Liquid

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