ArenaCast

IEM Global Finals Preview ShoW + things

JP — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:05:12 +0000

There were some things I was supposed to include in here but I forgo.. oh yeah! Twixz links this in chat for some reason, you might find it interesting.

IEM is discussed in great length and we make predictions and then discuss the newest patch changes. Kintt also enjoys the new Adam Lambert song, go Google it if you’re really that interested.

Not talking about Starcraft 2 when all you do is play Starcraft 2 is really hard.

ArenaCast Fit for a King (now available)

JP — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:46:57 +0000

What the hell did we just talk about? I don’t even know what was discussed in this episode, but we recorded something. Keith isn’t on the show but a special guest comes back from the grave.

A Wild ArenaCast Appears!

JP — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:49:10 +0000

And by wild, I do mean wild. Probably one of our craziest shows yet. Keith gets replaced by a dog. Yiska calls someone a midget (guess who?). Twixz fronts on Bodi for Bodi frontin on Twixz. Flex.. well Flex does a heroic. Jhazy jumps in at the end to say sup to sponsors.

All this and more in this weeks ArenaCast. Just when you think we’re dead we jump back and surprise everyone for our debut show of 2010.

I’ll be posting on GameRiot in a couple of days. Until then, the one man wolf pack is out… to check my beeper.

MLG Orlando and ArenaCast

JP — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:05:29 +0000

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 – 12/18 – Christmas Party (No Cajuns Allowed)

JP — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:47:15 +0000

UPDATE: We did a show! OMG! CHRIS! YOU DOUBTED US! We talked about ESL Edmonton, a bit about live servers, about what’s coming up in Orlando early next year and I can tell you it will be a lot of fun and MLG got quite creative with their ideas.

We’ll probably record a new show tomorrow (Friday) around 1 p.m. CST and hope to have it uploaded before 4 p.m. CST. Just updating those who I promised a show today.

ArenaCast – 12.3.09 – Twixz’s Truck

JP — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:13:02 +0000

Another (2) week(s) another ArenaCast. Keith was unable to attend this week due to work but in his place we have quite the cast!

The cast this week:
Mike ‘Twixz’ Shane
Ryan ‘Realz’ Masterson
Elliott ‘Venruki’ Venczel
David ‘eslshawn’ Kugelmann
Sascha ‘Yiska’ Heinisch

We discuss such topics as the ESL American Championships happening next week in Edmonton, Canada, at the West Edmonton Mall.

Links discussed throughout the show:

Twixz’s Truck Hotel Room
Water bottle giveaway

See you next time!

ArenaCast – 11.20.09 – Twilight Edition

JP — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:00:12 +0000

Yeah, it’s been awhile. Yeah, we’re late on MLG Anaheim thoughts. Yeah, Yiska confesses his love for Edward the last 10 seconds of the show. All that and more this week on ArenaCast!

We have Isaac ‘Azael’ Cummings-Bently from Team EG and Yiska of Eurospective.com fame alongside myself (JP) and Keith ‘Igoaf’ Trahan this week. We talk about MLG Anaheim and ESL among other things.

p.s. Sascha is extremely ~~gay~~ awesome and if you do not listen to the last ten seconds of the show you’re missing the best soundbite in the history of the podcast

ArenaCast at MLG Anaheim

JP — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:59:00 +0000

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!

ArenaCast — The Orange Interview

JP — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:49:32 +0000

The long lost Orangeinterview many thought never took place is finally here. Not much else to say other then I apologize for getting this out so late. There’s a bigger post with a streaming version of this on GotFrag.

Let us know if you like the show. We might do more of these in the future with different players, and hopefully get better as we go along. Now enjoy me saying “awkward” about 500 times. Thanks for listening!

ArenaCast – 10.22.09 – Yiska and Douja join us

JP — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:37:50 +0000

Not really sure what to write right here. Woo write, right. Yiska from Eurospective and Douja from Fnatic join us this week to talk about life, love, and tiny dogs. Only one of these are really what we talk about. What will it be? Listen to find out!!!!?!!!

JP and T-Keith Return with ArenaCast

JP — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:15:14 +0000

A wild ArenaCast appears! I couldn’t decide on a title. One makes sense (the second, kinda?) the first one you have to listen to the show first. Keith’s microphone decided to be completely weird on his end with the recording tool and he sounds… I dunno, not normal.

There’s no way I can edit it to make it sound normal though so you’ll just have to listen to me talk clearly (ugh) and listen to Keith talk like a robot (ugh). On with the show topic!

Joining us is popular hunter Twixz from the winning team of MLG Dallas and also MLG PC Circuit Tournament Director (long title?) Ryan Moore in which he lets loose two of the teams that will be in attendance at MLG Anaheim. He also makes a kissing noise halfway through — we didn’t ask why. Maybe that was to Yiska of GameRiot.

So, it’s not perfect, but its something. Not sure when we’ll be back with a new show but keep looking out for it!

Today is Jason Bass’s Birthday (GM of Complexity)

JP — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:37:54 +0000

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 Auctions

Auction 1
Auction 2
Auction 3

The 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 G8

The 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

http://www.complexitygaming.com/index.php?c=news&id=1269

ArenaCast and GotFrag Team Up

JP — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:20:48 +0000

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

JP — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:41:23 +0000

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

JP — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:38:08 +0000

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.

JP — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:50:53 +0000

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

JP — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:55:05 +0000

~~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.~~

ArenaCast 9/12 — Kintt’s Final Show

JP — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 06:10:44 +0000

UPDATE: Igoaf still doesn’t have internet. Kintt most likely dodged the show dedicated to him like a douche. Taking stream down. Show canceled.

Today on the show we celebrate the life of Nathan ‘Kintt’ Quinn, one of WoW eSports most well known names. Join us to say goodbye to the Wing King tomorrow at 4 p.m. CST.

Ustream will be posted below with a downloading of the show afterward. See you then.

Orangemarmalade Show Announcement

JP — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:36:55 +0000

Here in America, the Korean World of Warcraft scene is something we, or even our friends across the pond, know little about. In a couple of weeks, we’re going to try to change this.

While working at Major League Gaming Dallas this past month, Button Bashers Mage Orangemarmalade made friends with a lot of the WoW players and commentators. Since the tournament, myself and a lot of players have been talking with him online because his English is actually quite good. This got me to thinking about bringing him on ArenaCast in the future, but I didn’t want to make it like every other episode — it had to be different.

For this special episode, I’m trying to get as many communities involved. If you have any questions for Orange yourself you can send them to questionsfororange AT gmail DOT com. These questions will be asked (as long as they are appropriate) to Orange himself and we will try our hardest to ask every question submitted (as long as they are appropriate).

The deadline for question submission is Saturday, September 26th. Thanks for all those who submit a question. We are all looking forward to this very special episode.

ArenaCast 9/5 – We’re Back!

JP — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:15:01 +0000

UPDATE: Show is posted below. I got rid of the Ustream player and found a way to export the show as an mp3 so it is now available for download below. You find out at the end of the show why this problem occurred. See you all next week.

Also post on this thread if you have an AJ account to help us grow! Thanks.

Yes, its been about three, maybe four… It’s been a long time since we’ve done an actual show. That all changes tomorrow as ArenaCast is back at 4 p.m. CST!

Show Ustream will be posted below. After the show a download link will be provided (like always). See you all tomorrow!

ArenaC.. No, not really… SFCast?

JP — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:47:48 +0000

Not really sure what to call this but here’s the apartment that I’m currently at in SF (It’s 720p so thats why its 250mb). It isn’t really Arena related so if you’re looking for that then come back to this site later this week for some special videos.

The apartment belongs to Bill / Ctide (You might remember these names from ArenaRecaps awhile back) and Tivoli, the creator of NurfedUI.

Probably should of uploaded it to FileFront. If anyone with decent upload wants to (I’m on random wireless here, took forever to upload that) then feel free, link it in the comments, and I’ll throw up the link.

Couple more days till BlizzCon, hooray! More videos later this week.

DOWNLOAD HERE

ArenaCast Live 8/15 — Maybe? Maybe Not?

JP — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:44:43 +0000

Due to Keith working and me being in San Francisco staying at Bill and Ctide’s apartment (#arenacast, irc.gamesurge.net), we definitely wont have a live show today.

I might try to do a video show of sorts but not sure when or if I’ll get that recorded. I’ll update though if something changes throughout the day.

Anyways, BlizzCon this week! Ahhh! Can’t wait till the event starts on Thursday night.

ArenaCast Live 8/8 — BlizzCon / MLG Preview

JP — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:25:46 +0000

Show’s done and posted below! It was kind of short (50 minutes or show) but we haven’t had stuff to talk about in a long time so we ran through the content pretty quickly! I’ll update later once I figure out some more information on what we’ll be doing content wise the next three weeks for everyone, but for now enjoy this.

Holy shit we have something to actually talk about on this weeks show! I’m so excited! Guests for the show tomorrow: Keith will be on time yet again (two weeks in a row?!?!), an old friend/member of the show comes back, and a sponsored WoW player will be there as usual to preview both BlizzCon 2009 and MLG Dallas.

See you all tomorrow at 4 p.m. CST / 11 p.m. CET!

ArenaCast Live 8/1 — Thank Keith Show

JP — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 08:50:55 +0000

Update: Shows up below, also enjoy this clip from my favorite Paperkat :)

Hooray thanks to Keith for making the show happen at normal times! You know, last week was the first anniversary of ArenaCast and I totally forgot. We should of done something special… O well!

We try to talk about WoW in its current state (AKA nothing going on) Show starts at 4 p.m. CST, so don’t miss it! Will post Ustream.tv link in here tomorrow morning.

ArenaCast Live 7/26 — Blame Keith 3.0 Sunday Show

JP — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:33:24 +0000

UPDATE: Show is posted below. You might be asking why the show is only about 30 or 40 minutes long? Keith forgot to record the first twenty-two minutes of the show (also known as I forgot to tell him to record ???????????????????) so you miss out on some World of Ming trash talking and some other stuff.

There is good news though! We will be back at our ORIGINAL TIME NEXT WEEK, SATURDAY 4 P.M. CST OH MY GOD I CANT BELIEVE I AM TYPING THIS RIGHT NOW SEE YOU NEXT WEEK.

ArenaCast Live will be this Sunday either at 4 p.m. CST or 7 p.m. CST. Most likely earlier. Keith has a wedding to go to on Saturday afternoon and I have family coming over for birthday celebration (not mine). So we’ll do it live on Sunday and once I can confirm an actual time for then I will update this post. See you all then!