Sorry for waiting to get this up until this morning. I was tired and fell asleep listening to the new Rebel FM podcast, which I recommend if you were a fan of 1UP FM (and you’ve been following the drama of UGO buying 1UP.com, etc). Anyways, enough of that.

The show went great last night, we had our highest numbers yet for a live show and hope to only grow. I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that it was two hours later, I kept the stream live all day with music playing, Serennia posting on World of Ming early in the morning, a combination of all three, or just the fact that the show is growing in numbers. Whatever the reason, thanks for everyone who listens and enjoys the cast.

Many people have expressed to me that they would like a direct download of the show. From now on, the day after recording, I will be doing this. I have to record by playing the show with “what-u-hear” setting, capturing the sound in Audacity (sound editing tool) in real time, so it will always take the show length plus a full minutes to snag and delete the skips from the stream. I apologize if I missed any this time, and apologize in advance to any I miss in the future.

Award Results

On to the Awards! The awards are spoken about on the podcast, with some banter about the winners/categories, but here they are in text form.

Category: Private Player  Vote Winner / Public Vote Winner

Best Druid of 2008: Carekoala / Sodah
Best Rogue of 2008: ZyZ / Neilyo
Best Warrior of 2008: Rhaegyn / Rhaegyn
Best Warlock of 2008: Glickz / Glickz
Best Priest of 2008: Hydra / Hydra
Best Mage of 2008: Venruki / Venruki
Best Hunter of 2008: Cherez / Cherez
Best Paladin of 2008: Serennia / Sck
Best Shaman of 2008: Kollektiv / Kollektiv
Best Team of 2008: Nihilum Plasma / Fnatic
MVP of 2008: Rhaegyn / Inflame
Breakout Player of 2008: Zyz / Hydra
Best Event of the Year: MLG San Diego / Blizzard WWI Paris
Epic Fail of the Year: Serennia / Swarm rage
Composition of the Year: WLD / WLD

Thanks to everyone who voted for both the public and private polls.

Would you read a Twitter?

Since ESFI isn’t launched yet, I have no way of setting up an rss feed (I’m sure its easy to do but I’m pretty awful at this type of thing). A lot of listeners have asked where they can find show updates and things like that, apart from visiting GameRiot every couple of days to see if I have posted anything. Well, how about this. I just recently started using Twitter (I’m so behind the 2.0 days) and my personal Twitter can be found HERE. Subscribe to it or whatever you like, or just visit it every day or so. I’ll try to update it with as much information as I can. I’ll most likely use this space to post e-sports related news, ArenaCast related news,  but also funny YouTube videos, etc, will likely be placed here.

But this brings up another subject: would you guys enjoy reading a Twitter that all the cast members post on? I’m not sure how dedicated the guys would be to posting on it, but I would most likely keep it rolling with new stuff as much as possible. Let me know what you think about this idea.

See you guys next week on Wednesday at 8 p.m. CST, our new weekly time. Maybe this time Yog will give me the correct phone number so when I text him I don’t receive a call from some woman asking who the fuck I am. Jackass.

 

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