People wanted a link to SC2 cast
April 3rd, 2010
So HERE it is.
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Why no show?
March 21st, 2010
WoW is currently dead at the moment. I don’t feel like pressuring people into recording a show when nothing at all is happening in the scene. When stuff happens, we’ll record something. Right now everyone is playing SC2.
We’ll do a show here in a couple weeks when some announcements come through.
MLG Orlando and ArenaCast
January 5th, 2010
If you actually visit this site you’ve probably lost hope by now that a new show is coming. Well, contrary to popular belief, it is! Just not in the usual way the shows come out. This weekend I’ll be doing a ton of content from MLG Orlando. Interviews, round table discussions, and b-roll stuff will all be seen this weekend on the MLG Live Stream.
I’m not really sure what time for people to tune in but I imagine that the things we shoot will be shown multiple times over the course of the weekend. So while it isn’t anything today, this weekend expect some of the typical ArenaCast antics. See you all this weekend.
ArenaCast at MLG Anaheim
November 4th, 2009
UPDATE: Didn’t run the ArenaCast in the intro — technical difficulties. We’ll have it shown sometime throughout this weekend though for sure.
We didn’t do a show this week because our “show” will be featured in the pre-game this weekend at MLG Anaheim (99%). Make sure to tune in Friday at 6:30 PST for an interesting ArenaCast episode.
Keith and Jared will be doing commentary all weekend long and I’ll be running the Live Blog as well as fucking up interviews with the pro players, and perhaps some special guests! Make sure to tune in this weekend.
I won’t be updating this site over the weekend so make sure to check for all updates over at www.GOTFRAG.com
See you then!
Today is Jason Bass’s Birthday (GM of Complexity)
October 3rd, 2009
You might be wondering why this is another post without a show attached to it — we’re working on it. GotFrag expects a little bit more than usual on the production and editing side of things than we’re used to… but I promise the stuff we’ve done is something the community will enjoy. Now onto the point of this post.
Jason Bass (GM of Complexity) is celebrating his 67th birthday today and instead of receiving gifts he’s giving them. See below for full contest details.
He woke up this morning and felt like giving a birthday present to our fans. In celebration of his birthday, he is feeling a little crazy and wanted to try a big contest and an auction to help out one of our community partners.
First we are going to auction off three authentic compLexity Jerseys on EBay. All proceeds from the sale will be donated to ArenaCast.
EBay AuctionsThe Contest
The prize package is probably the largest we have ever given away. This package is sponsored by Creative, XFX, PureTrak, Fame Networks and G8 and they are all throwing something in.
The compLexity Pro Gamer Package is below:
Soundblaster X-fi PCI Express Sound Card provided by Creative
Soundblaster Arena Surround USB Headset provided by Creative
XFX GEFORCE GTX 260 Graphics Card
CompLexity Mousepad provided by PureTrak
Up to 20 Slot public server of your choosing for 2 months provided by Fame Networks (up to a $140 value)
An Authentic CompLexity Jersey(the same as the players wear) provided by G8
A CompLexity branded Hoodie provided by G8
A CompLexity branded T-Shirt provided by G8The winner will receive $300 cash. There is a catch to this money. The winner will be asked to write an honest review of all of the products he/she has won and upon completion will be given the cash via check or Paypal.
The total package is valued at OVER $900.
In addition to the grand prize, PureTrak has agreed to give away 10 more compLexity pads to 10 lucky random winners. So spread the word and post often.
The rules of this contest are simple yet confusing all at once, so make sure to pay close attention. This is a viral contest so spread it to your Twitter community, Facebook, MySpace etc. The more places you post this link the greater your chance is to win. People will have until October 8th to enter!
The Rules
ArenaCast and GotFrag Team Up
September 27th, 2009
The title really says it all: we’re joining the GotFrag.com community. Why do you care? Well, this means we’ll be able to broadcast matches (not sure about the frequency of this yet) on the MLG Tournament Realm. This also means that the show will be video (although you won’t see me and Keith via webcam — not anytime soon at least).
I wanted to present this to you in audio form but since we haven’t really been the timeliest as of late I just wanted to get the information out there. I’m going to start bitching at players and Keith (as well as myself) to do a show more often as well. I’ve been pretty busy nerding it up in Aion and prepping for graduation as of late and Keith is on the infamous job hunt. Enough of that.
Eventually we plan to move over to the GotFrag portal but for now we’ll be staying here. In the (near) future though things will start to change a little bit — but only visually. ArenaCast will still be the same show, have the same values (uh, what?), and not praise MLG as if they are the almighty organization in the eSports world. It was something I made sure we’d be able to criticize if it needs to be criticized.
Nothing is changing, we’re just growing. Most of the matches played will be exhibition matches (no money) but hopefully down the line we can get something to entice players and teams to want to play in the public eye.
We’ll try to get something up in audio form as soon as possible. I know we’ve sucked about that in the past, uh, what is it now, almost another month? The Orange episode is still going to happen. We would of recorded yesterday (Saturday) at noon but Orange had to play in the GOMtv Prelims with his team. He has all the questions though and will be going over them and we will be recording it.
That’s about it for now. I’ll update again when we have a show (OMGSOONIKNOWSRY) ready to put out and when we start doing matches (sooner then you think) we’ll post those up too. Thanks everyone for sticking around even though we slack. I’d like to mention that “late this weekend” usually means Sunday. See you soon.
Big Things a’Comin
September 24th, 2009
Things have been quiet around ArenaCast for the past week or so. That’s because we’ve been pretty busy getting everything situated for whats coming up this weekend.
Can’t talk about much at the moment but expect something late this weekend — something awesome. Like cotton candy, everyone loves that shit.
The Podcast Must Go On
September 16th, 2009
When I posted last night about the donate button I laughed, thinking we’d never get any donations (which I was totally fine with — I’m a poor college student myself). When I woke up with two e-mails with just over 50$ in donations I was pretty speechless. The day went on and more and more donations kept coming. Right now we’re just shy of $300 which I honestly can’t believe. It may not seem like much to someone of you but trust me, it is.
I have a hard time taking donations like this so most of the time when people messaged me saying they donated I would just tell them shut up or something because I’m not sure what to say other then “Thanks”. Keith wanted to do a little 5 minute audio thank you type thing tonight but I told him since I am getting sick (piglet flu) that I would rather not. Besides, he would of just said, “yall, lets buy up (y)all dem crawfish yall!” or something along those (cajun) lines.
No but seriously: thank you all. Shoutout to Complexity who contacted me about 4:00 p.m. today asking what the donation total was. Shortly after that, it doubled. I can’t thank you Complexity enough. That’s not to say everyone else who donated is on a lesser plane than Complexity — I cant thank any of you enough. I wish we had something to give you other then our hick-ish voices on a podcast. I won’t be posting who donated what other than Complexity . They don’t stop the giving there either. They’re running a contest at the moment and you can win a XFX ATI Radeon 4770 by simply retweeting. For the full contest you can go HERE.
The money will be used first off to improve a couple things around the site (new graphics, new layout, etc). Once it is up to snuff I’ll start looking into some alternative hosting options. I’ll keep you guys updated.
We’ll be announcing our new schedule on the Orangemarmalade show which should be up a little earlier than previously mentioned (pre October 2nd). Again, I can’t think everyone enough for the kind words and kind donations this past week. Thanks for reminding me why I started this podcast in the first place. Here’s a song to sum it all up.
I lied.
September 15th, 2009
We’ll be recording with Orange at noon on Saturday the 26th (cross your fingers). We’ll also be making an announcement the same day regarding ArenaCast in general. In case you didn’t see it, there is now a donate button on the page and the ads have been removed. I’m not telling people to donate (the show is still free), but it is just there if you feel obliged. All money will be put forward to updating the site design, getting new, faster, hosting, and overall improvements to the show itself. We’ll document where and who the donations go to if we get any. Oh, and we’re not dead.
It was a good run
September 13th, 2009
But like all good things, they must come to an end. How cliche of me. But yeah, we’re stopping production of ArenaCast.
As you can tell the past couple of episodes, or the fact we didn’t have a show for a full month, things have been sluggish and not as energy-filled as some of the episodes earlier in the summer. Me and Keith both decided that the amount of time and effort it takes to put into the show isn’t worth it anymore. With school starting back up, I know I’ve been busy. Keith can share his words on what he’s been busy with if he wants to — that’s up to him.
The Orangemarmalade show (if it happens, Orange hasn’t spoken to me in about a week) will be our final show. We’ll talk a little bit more about the fact we’re shutting down etc. If the Orange show does not actually happen then we will for sure have a final episode.
I want to thank all of our listeners and the small community we’ve started in #arenacast on irc.gamesurge.net — you guys were great. The IRC channel will remain there and I will continue to idle (and I’m sure Keith will as well).
I want to thank the people who criticized us along the way even more because without you guys we would of never known what was wrong with the show or what to improve on in the first place.
Thanks Bill (Lame) from Nurfed for helping with the hosting of the podcast for almost 9 months now. I cannot thank you enough. I also owe Jared and Ziot a lot of thanks as well for helping me get this (shit) site up and running. I’m sure I’m forgetting someone, I’ll prepare a better list for the final show and make sure I don’t miss anyone.
I’ll post on when we decide to do the final show here in a week or so. See you then.
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