Guild Wars 2

ESL Go4GuildWars2 November Monthly Finals

The date is set, it will be on the 10th of December for both NA and EU, exact times are still yet TBA.

The Go4 ranking looks like this so far
NA:

1. The Absurd
2. The Abjured
3. Slippery Dingo Wranglers
4. Olrun And Kizos Happy Hour
5. Boreal Esports
6. hold my beer
7. Radioactive
8. Sharks With Lazers

EU:

1. Made in Meta
2. Cheese Mode
3. The Civilized Gentlemen
4. Team Champignon
5. Pizza With Nutella
6. Fifty Five Hp Monks
7. Purple Smokers
8. SWAGnir Has Returned

Stream/Cast Info:
Jebro will be joined by professional shoutcaster Kaelaris at the ESL studios in Cologne, Germany for the EU stream.
Grouch will cast with another professional shoutcaster, Frodan, at the ESL studios in Los Angeles, USA.

Sign up for the next Go4GuildWars2 for your chance of qualifying for the Monthly Finals!

I don’t know about you guys, but I feel like there’s much more competition on EU than NA. My opinion could be biased, though.

Just out of curiosity, have these shoutcasters played the game before? I have never heard of them. It will be interesting to see how they do.

F R O D A N B O Y S

Do those casters even know anything about Guild Wars 2?

infantrydiv.1620:

Do those casters even know anything about Guild Wars 2?

highly doubt frodan has vast knowledge of the game,

I want to believe……

Them not knowing anything may be the point. If it gets highly promoted and gets a higher amount of viewers than normal, those new viewers will have someone to relate to. Seeing popular esport shoutcasters will give newer viewers the sense that GW2 is really trying to go for it.

Phantaram.1265:

Them not knowing anything may be the point. If it gets highly promoted and gets a higher amount of viewers than normal, those new viewers will have someone to relate to. Seeing popular esport shoutcasters will give newer viewers the sense that GW2 is really trying to go for it.

Trying to be optimistic, this is what will happen: it will capture the attention of at least 10 (100 [generous]) viewers before most close the window and move onto something else.

This game is not at the point to being viewable at the moment and no changes have been made to do so. At this point the only people that understand what is going on in matches have to actively see minimaps and the shoutcasters knowledge of what is happening in the game, this alone brings a handicap to what a fresh new viewer will be looking at due to effects.

The shoutcasters can obviously make the stream entertaining while keeping the audience (viewers) oblivious into any strategy going on because the game isn’t there yet.

XGhoul.7426:

Phantaram.1265:

Them not knowing anything may be the point. If it gets highly promoted and gets a higher amount of viewers than normal, those new viewers will have someone to relate to. Seeing popular esport shoutcasters will give newer viewers the sense that GW2 is really trying to go for it.

This game is not at the point to being viewable at the moment and no changes have been made to do so. At this point the only people that understand what is going on in matches have to actively see minimaps and the shoutcasters knowledge of what is happening in the game, this alone brings a handicap to what a fresh new viewer will be looking at due to effects.

Exactly. There are still too many visuals effects on the screen when more than 2 people are fighting. Add to that the fact that the spectator mode is mediocre with no “free” camera and any gw2 newbie will close the stream after 30s.

As for the casters on the eu side, Jebro is not really the technical type of commentator, so pairing him with someone who doesn’t know the game… leaves me sceptical.

The faster we get a time the better. Since this event falls on a Wednesday, it would be nice to know as soon as possible whether I need to contact my employer to get the day off. (Or if it is after I get off work, I can stop worrying about it)

Backpack. The Absurd

Edit: work-school
Contact employer = convince my parents to let me skip