Fwd: Update with Esports in Central Minnesota
Aaron Miles
From: Aaron Miles <routinetr...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: Update with Esports in Central Minnesota
To: kevin spande <kspa...@gmail.com>
Greetings e-sports lovers, geeks, starcraft aficionados, tco
participants, etc etc
Keven and I (Aaron) want to get involved in the local e-sports
community again. We all have had our side projects, but I haven't
done much collectively with you guys since TCO1 and 2... Kevin,
myself, and I'm sure all of you have many ideas to share. I want to
create a fun local e-sports scene that can expand globally if ever
given the chance, however above all else I want it to be fun, and I
want everyone to be able to be involved in planning or participating.
Kevin had many great ideas, I have a few ideas I would like to bounce
off of you guys, and I'm sure you guys have ideas/quality input to
give. I generally have the weekends off but almost always I have
Sunday/Monday off. If we could find a time to meet to talk about this
in person that is great however if we cant meet up due to
schedules/transportation/etc we can always have a skype conference
call. We had a great spark with our first meeting, a lot of talent
and great ideas. I don't want that to be snuffed out. I think
e-sports can only grow and I think Minnesota and the Midwest has had a
lack of events - and its not that there is a lack of interest here its
just that we need to get this beotch goin. So now that I'm getting
long winded and completely boring you now I'll cut to the chase: Feel
free to message me with times/locations that work for you to either
meet in person or times you can have a online conference call. If you
do not have transportation I'm sure we can work out rides.
I hope to hear from all of you! Its been a long time.
~Aaron "routinetrafficstop" Miles
(p.s. a message for Kevin: Sorry for some reason your reply got buried
in my inbox by a bunch of junk and I didn't look far enough back to
find it until now when I decided to send you another reply to double
check to see if you were still down... I found out you were indeed
down and I was the one that didn't respond. The HOTS trailer looks
baller for sure tons of cool units. I'm not sure if I'm too much of a
purist to be ok with this idea but what if they added a 4th race (like
in war 3?)? Thanks for your initial e-mail I hope that you have
re-kindled this thing and we can keep it going... oh and sorry about
all the fire analogies :)
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 4:06 PM, kevin spande <kspa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> No problem man. We who love Esports want it to succeed here in the
> Midwest. It is only a matter of time before someone starts it up so, like
> you said, why not us? My skype is Dexvin33. I am available Sunday after
> 7:30 and anytime after 3:30 Monday. Let me know what works with you and I
> will talk to some of the people I have been in touch with and see if they
> will be able to join us as well. Have you seen the new heart of the swarm
> trailer??? holy shit man, big changes!!
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG_3R9BoVvg&feature=player_embedded
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Aaron Miles <routinetr...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I'm with you 100%. Persistence is key, if we don't hop on this
>> now others will and I would love to work with you on barcraft/a
>> Midwest tourney/ a team league/ and or my planned esports show with
>> show matches. I think with the people we know, the connections and
>> resources we have we can keep the esports scene fire alive in
>> Minnesota and the Midwest otherwise others will. Right now all events
>> seem to be on the coasts new york, Atlantic city, Anaheim, LA, the
>> Midwest has lacked major events. There is a void that will be filled
>> the question is will it be by us or others? So i'm with you I think
>> we need another meeting either on Skype or at a place of business. I
>> have Sunday and Monday off maybe we can do a skype call and talk about
>> our ideas and possibly invite a few of our friends that have helped in
>> the past and we can divvy out some responsibilities to people to get
>> the ball rolling. I spoke with DOA and he said he will give my next
>> event a shout-out so that's pretty big if we can have him give us a
>> shutout during a GSL cast and on his twitter account that has several
>> thousand followers. I hope we can finally produce a major midwest
>> event and get our niche in the community.
>>
>> Give me a holler about when you think a conference call would work for
>> you, i'll also email the tco google group to invite others to the
>> conversation as well.
>>
>> Thanks for lighting a fire under me again :)
>>
>> Aaron 'routinetrafficstop' Miles
>> 612-250-2953
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:33 PM, kevin spande <kspa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello Aaron!
>> >
>> > This is Kevin Spande, just checking in with any updates you may
>> > have
>> > concerning the esport scene on your end. As for me, I am trying to push
>> > the
>> > barcraft scene up here in St. Cloud. I will be speaking to a few people
>> > at
>> > the St. Cloud State Gamer's Club one of these Mondays to see what kind
>> > of
>> > interests there is for a barcraft around this area. This is totally
>> > grassroots and hope it will pay off! If it cannot happen up here, I
>> > will
>> > try to coordinate to get people to come to the barcraft in the Twin
>> > Cities
>> > (this past weekend it was held in New Hope, if you didn't know). Please
>> > refer to r/mnbarcraft in reddit.com for further details. I have been
>> > speaking to one of the founds of this subreddit, whom I believe is
>> > responsible for setting up the barcraft. My future goal, however, is
>> > much
>> > more ambition. My goal is to start a Midwest Tournament that could draw
>> > some big North American names during the offseason of MLG or during the
>> > off
>> > weeks. With your help, I'm sure we have the resources to pull it
>> > together.
>> > It may take a while, but persistence is key. Esports is catching like a
>> > wildfire, and it is only a matter of time that someone will beat us to
>> > the
>> > punch. Let me know your thoughts, concerns or questions for me. I am
>> > willing to help any way possible. Please email me when you have the
>> > chance.
>> >
>> > Kevin
>> >
>
>
Nushi King
Let me know if there is anything I can help.
Nush
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