Lowyat.NET: Latest topics by FXOBoSs

Malaysian E-Sports + Mailing list

FXOBoSs — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:20:21 +0800

Dear e-Sports Community,

As some of you may know, some of you may not. My name is Joshua Dentrinos, I am an Australian living in Malaysia and am involved in global e-sports.
I am the CEO and chief organiser of the FXOpen e-Sports brand, which currently hosts starcraft 2 events and has one of the top starcraft 2 teams in the world.

In order to help the e-sports community as a whole (not just SC2) I have created this form to gather information of person involved in e-sports in Malaysia and create events, gatherings and support for all e-sports based activities within Malaysia.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewfor...1b2ZLdk5xZ2c6MQ

Its very simple, all I need is your REAL name, and a REAL email address.

I suppose you are wondering now what I will be doing with your personal details. Understandably so.

With your personal details, we will be sending out invitations to e-Sports events. As some of you know, FXOpen e-Sports has an office in KLCC which has a large projector. Our first set of events will have 'cinema' style viewing parties for e-sports games such as DOTA 2, Starcraft 2, League of Legends, Modern warfare 3 and many others.
On top of this, we will notify you on any tournament we are aware of in e-sports via email to promote that tournament (You can PM me if you want your tournament or event to be advertised).

Be aware that our organisation adheres to a high level of quality in organisations. If a tournament does not live up to our expectations, we will cease to advertise it

What we are hoping to do is some how tie the communities together in Malaysian e-Sports so that each game gets the same support as the other. At the same time, this will allow us to gauge the market and hopefully find additional funding for future e-sports events.

So if you are interested, please do fill out the form above. Those who do not fill out the form will likely not hear about what is being organised and will miss out on some events.

Kindest regards,

Joshua Dentrinos
(FXOBoSs)

E-sports events + gatherings Mailing list

FXOBoSs — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:50:31 +0800

Dear e-Sports Community,

As some of you may know, some of you may not. My name is Joshua Dentrinos, I am an Australian living in Malaysia and am involved in global e-sports.
I am the CEO and chief organiser of the FXOpen e-Sports brand, which currently hosts starcraft 2 events and has one of the top starcraft 2 teams in the world.

In order to help the e-sports community as a whole (not just SC2) I have created this form to gather information of person involved in e-sports in Malaysia and create events, gatherings and support for all e-sports based activities within Malaysia.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewfor...1b2ZLdk5xZ2c6MQ

Its very simple, all I need is your REAL name, and a REAL email address.

I suppose you are wondering now what I will be doing with your personal details. Understandably so.

With your personal details, we will be sending out invitations to e-Sports events. As some of you know, FXOpen e-Sports has an office in KLCC which has a large projector. Our first set of events will have 'cinema' style viewing parties for e-sports games such as DOTA 2, Starcraft 2, League of Legends, Modern warfare 3 and many others.
On top of this, we will notify you on any tournament we are aware of in e-sports via email to promote that tournament (You can PM me if you want your tournament or event to be advertised).

Be aware that our organisation adheres to a high level of quality in organisations. If a tournament does not live up to our expectations, we will cease to advertise it

What we are hoping to do is some how tie the communities together in Malaysian e-Sports so that each game gets the same support as the other. At the same time, this will allow us to gauge the market and hopefully find additional funding for future e-sports events.

So if you are interested, please do fill out the form above. Those who do not fill out the form will likely not hear about what is being organised and will miss out on some events.

Kindest regards,

Joshua Dentrinos
(FXOBoSs)

E-sports events + gatherings Mailing list

FXOBoSs — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:50:10 +0800

Dear e-Sports Community,

As some of you may know, some of you may not. My name is Joshua Dentrinos, I am an Australian living in Malaysia and am involved in global e-sports.
I am the CEO and chief organiser of the FXOpen e-Sports brand, which currently hosts starcraft 2 events and has one of the top starcraft 2 teams in the world.

In order to help the e-sports community as a whole (not just SC2) I have created this form to gather information of person involved in e-sports in Malaysia and create events, gatherings and support for all e-sports based activities within Malaysia.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewfor...1b2ZLdk5xZ2c6MQ

Its very simple, all I need is your REAL name, and a REAL email address.

I suppose you are wondering now what I will be doing with your personal details. Understandably so.

With your personal details, we will be sending out invitations to e-Sports events. As some of you know, FXOpen e-Sports has an office in KLCC which has a large projector. Our first set of events will have 'cinema' style viewing parties for e-sports games such as DOTA 2, Starcraft 2, League of Legends, Modern warfare 3 and many others.
On top of this, we will notify you on any tournament we are aware of in e-sports via email to promote that tournament (You can PM me if you want your tournament or event to be advertised).

Be aware that our organisation adheres to a high level of quality in organisations. If a tournament does not live up to our expectations, we will cease to advertise it

What we are hoping to do is some how tie the communities together in Malaysian e-Sports so that each game gets the same support as the other. At the same time, this will allow us to gauge the market and hopefully find additional funding for future e-sports events.

So if you are interested, please do fill out the form above. Those who do not fill out the form will likely not hear about what is being organised and will miss out on some events.

Kindest regards,

Joshua Dentrinos
(FXOBoSs)

E-sports events + gatherings Mailing list

FXOBoSs — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:49:28 +0800

Dear e-Sports Community,

As some of you may know, some of you may not. My name is Joshua Dentrinos, I am an Australian living in Malaysia and am involved in global e-sports.
I am the CEO and chief organiser of the FXOpen e-Sports brand, which currently hosts starcraft 2 events and has one of the top starcraft 2 teams in the world.

In order to help the e-sports community as a whole (not just SC2) I have created this form to gather information of person involved in e-sports in Malaysia and create events, gatherings and support for all e-sports based activities within Malaysia.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewfor...1b2ZLdk5xZ2c6MQ

Its very simple, all I need is your REAL name, and a REAL email address.

I suppose you are wondering now what I will be doing with your personal details. Understandably so.

With your personal details, we will be sending out invitations to e-Sports events. As some of you know, FXOpen e-Sports has an office in KLCC which has a large projector. Our first set of events will have 'cinema' style viewing parties for e-sports games such as DOTA 2, Starcraft 2, League of Legends, Modern warfare 3 and many others.
On top of this, we will notify you on any tournament we are aware of in e-sports via email to promote that tournament (You can PM me if you want your tournament or event to be advertised).

Be aware that our organisation adheres to a high level of quality in organisations. If a tournament does not live up to our expectations, we will cease to advertise it

What we are hoping to do is some how tie the communities together in Malaysian e-Sports so that each game gets the same support as the other. At the same time, this will allow us to gauge the market and hopefully find additional funding for future e-sports events.

So if you are interested, please do fill out the form above. Those who do not fill out the form will likely not hear about what is being organised and will miss out on some events.

Kindest regards,

Joshua Dentrinos
(FXOBoSs)

E-sports events + gatherings Mailing list

FXOBoSs — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:48:58 +0800

Dear e-Sports Community,

As some of you may know, some of you may not. My name is Joshua Dentrinos, I am an Australian living in Malaysia and am involved in global e-sports.
I am the CEO and chief organiser of the FXOpen e-Sports brand, which currently hosts starcraft 2 events and has one of the top starcraft 2 teams in the world.

In order to help the e-sports community as a whole (not just SC2) I have created this form to gather information of person involved in e-sports in Malaysia and create events, gatherings and support for all e-sports based activities within Malaysia.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewfor...1b2ZLdk5xZ2c6MQ

Its very simple, all I need is your REAL name, and a REAL email address.

I suppose you are wondering now what I will be doing with your personal details. Understandably so.

With your personal details, we will be sending out invitations to e-Sports events. As some of you know, FXOpen e-Sports has an office in KLCC which has a large projector. Our first set of events will have 'cinema' style viewing parties for e-sports games such as DOTA 2, Starcraft 2, League of Legends, Modern warfare 3 and many others.
On top of this, we will notify you on any tournament we are aware of in e-sports via email to promote that tournament (You can PM me if you want your tournament or event to be advertised).

Be aware that our organisation adheres to a high level of quality in organisations. If a tournament does not live up to our expectations, we will cease to advertise it

What we are hoping to do is some how tie the communities together in Malaysian e-Sports so that each game gets the same support as the other. At the same time, this will allow us to gauge the market and hopefully find additional funding for future e-sports events.

So if you are interested, please do fill out the form above. Those who do not fill out the form will likely not hear about what is being organised and will miss out on some events.

Kindest regards,

Joshua Dentrinos
(FXOBoSs)

Would you attend this venue if?

FXOBoSs — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:17:00 +0800

The purpose of this poll is to see how many people actually have problemss with going to events.

This thread is not for people to whine about venues, its a simple question, if the tournament was at any of the above locations would you join. If its only 1 answer select one, if its any of them select all of the above and then some.

I will express more details later on.

Have fun

My Problem with Malaysian e-Sports

FXOBoSs — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:08:52 +0800

Firstly, let me say that I am thankful for all the loyal supporters of sc2 and FXO from Malaysia.

But now I am going to rant on the mentality of Malaysian e-Sports (not just sc2).

One of the big reasons I live in Malaysia is because of the people. I love Malaysian people, the culture, the lifestyle and the fact they feed you no matter if there is a reason to celebrate or not. But its these things that I love that bring a reason why e-Sports in Malaysia on a professional level will most probably fail unless change occurs.

When we first suggested we would do events in Malaysia, there was a common word in every sentence by the people I spoke to to get a jist of what I should do here. That word was FREE.

Its my belief that players should always have free entry to events, and I can make that happen everytime no matter what. But that seems to not be enough. If you base an events success on the amount of free things you give to the community the minute you stop giving away free things, the event dies. Its a bad habit to get into. And is a reason no one will be successful.

Take for instance FXO 1.. 10-20 of the people who joined the tournament only showed up for lucky draw.. That includes some close friends of mine.

How is e-sports going to survive if people only show up for free stuff?

Then there is spotgamers sc tournament. Struggling to get anyone to show up, they announced free AMD mobo or something along those lines, for anyone who enters. Immediately the tournament got a good number of participants. But if they dont give that free thing again, they wont get the same numbers. So it will essentially die if they dont give free things.

Infact when they announced the AMD mobo thing my skype chat was filled with how people are gonna get it and sell it for money. By any standards, this is disgusting. Rich or poor, it could almost be considered theft.

So, HOW is malaysian e-sports going to survive?

There are dedicated people such as pRoGeney, a bunch of nDL guys (not all) and a few of the top players (who have other issues to deal with such as their attitude towards the community), who will always be there. But will it grow accordingly?

Starcraft 2 is now 29.99 USD. According to statistics, its price is now in the comfort mark for Malaysian people to spend on luxury items. (about 98 RM approximately). But because the price is affordable isn't enough because there is no exposure. No investment and worst of all, little TRUE community support.

I am sure no matter what I do I can get a good showing of players to an event, mostly because of free things. But where does it go from there? To get external people to enter the community you need firstly to have approachable stars (The stars of malaysian SC2 ARE NOT approachable..... They can b**** me as much as they like about saying this). You need to have a community that will support sc2 no matter what (this doesnt mean spending money). And you need to show that no matter what other people think, you are here (where ever you may be) to support the event because you enjoy it, and nothing but that.

Being too lazy to support something you have passion about, means you are not passionate about it. Spending a saturday or sunday with people who are your friend should have no excuse like "10 min drive too far lah". To be honest, if 10 min drive is too far, then you are a bad friend to begin with.

So now Malaysian e-sports is in this bad habit of mooching which is damaging its growth. How do we fix it?

I am not sure really..... I don't know if it can be fixed. I had made big plans for a Malaysian sc2 league to move forward. But because of the support (or lack there of) within the community, it is no longer a viable investment. Albiet the LAN's are no problem. Its alot of fun and the cost is minimal, but anything bigger is a waste of investment these days.

I have been planning to do barcraft but have been postponing it until I finished my research. I have contacts are 4 bars in Pavillion, 3 of them have shown interest. But should I do an event with the risk of everyone saying that pavillion is too far to attend? Or that there is no free gift for attending?

I know of about 10 people from the sc2 community who would 100% attend no matter what. Some would even bring a bunch of friends (ninjabear you stud!!). But it shouldnt be up to them to support the thing you love. IT should be up to EVERYONE to do it...

So, how far are you willing to go to support malaysian e-sports?