WCG Ultimate Gamer season 2 (with Justin Wong + Tekken 6)

But for a community (particularly, the gaming community) that is basically calling for better gaming rep, what does having a show featuring a group of pro gamers teaching a group of chicks do for them?

Would these chicks all be gamers themselves?
Would this show progress/promote/publicize the competitive gaming community somehow?
Would this show do something that wouldn’t give people the impression that it has a bunch of chicks on it JUST for the sake of having a bunch of chicks?

Sure, you can say it would fit a formula for ratings, but where would its main contribution be?

At least WCGUG2 has a mix of gamers, and has the winner being a part of worldwide promotion for WCG tournaments.

either be mainstream and add broads or go for the hardcore scene and show more gameplay and focus on only a couple of games. i’m not sure what you’re talking about by “contribution”, but TV shows don’t exist for some higher good they’re entertainment and advertisement, the more people that watch WCG [insert whatever here] for whatever reason raises the WCG profile, so it doesn’t really matter how substantial the programming is.

i’d rather watch WCG do weekly recaps for their various warcraft 3 and starcraft tournies or put the madden bowl on, those would be a “contribution” but nobody would watch that. this idea that the generic “gaming community” needs nurturing or something is laughable imo.

I disagree with your notion that there can’t be something made fitting into the grey area between mainstream and hardcore. Perhaps either or happens to be your personal preference, but there are, obviously, quite a few people who like WCGUG enough to keep watching it each week, helping it to continue its run on the air. Just because something isn’t purely cut and dry, black or white, fitting a clear and definite formula for a certain particular audience, it doesn’t mean it isn’t watchable and won’t be able to gain an audience.

And as for contribution, laugh if you want, but I like the idea that a show featuring members of a particular community does something to give back to that community, rather than just 100% leeching off of them for the sole sake of gaining ratings and making money. WCGUG adds to the promotion of competitive gaming. CGS, when it was on, was a global showcase for competitive gaming. And, to me, both shows are 100 MILLION times better than a show doing nothing more than pulling some “pros”, throwing in some chicks, and just trying to score easy ratings.

She is not. -_-

BTW.

I know no one said this but.

You don’t need a TV show to get thousands of facebook fans or twitter followers.

You don’t need a TV show to make that hustle/$$$.

All you need is a brain that works in the gaming industry.

All you need is love.

BTW, I love WCG.

I dunno man the scarf thing makes sense.

“Oh Markma… erm I mean AJ… Take this scarf with you for good luck. I want to know if you really love me after finding out my dark secret.” Takes off scarf to reveal Adam’s apple

Ackbar : “It’s a Tra…”

AJ : NOT NOW, ACKBAR! I NEED TO SHOW MY DAD THAT I CAN GET BEWBS WITH MY GAMING SKILLS.

you can like the idea all you want, but what’s the reality? i can’t find any site that lists the ratings for the show but i’d be highly surprised if it cracked a .2 on the nielsen, outside of SRK i’ve never heard of anybody checking for this show and i doubt many non-gamers watch the show at all.

if anything it looks like the WCG just threw a bag of money at somebody to get their name on the show since aside from the title they have no presence on any of the episodes i’ve seen. you’re playing yourself with this “well at least they’re promoting competition” angle considering there’s minimal competition on the show and they don’t mention WCG events. if you’re gonna watch random challenges and people getting drunk they might as well involve chicks, otherwise you’re just giving a free pass for lame TV.

Faye is ibuki
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according to sci fi wire:

episode 1: 0.8
episode 2: 0.9
episode 3: 1.1

which is pretty good for 11pm on a thursday on sci fi channel. i mean sci fi channel prolly gets like 300k just from cable fees for that hour block. the show is basically paid for by samsung and other sponsors. so its either run this show or a rerun of an asylum movie which will get a 0.2 rating

WCGUG adds to the promotion of competitive gaming because THE WINNER tours around the world as a public face for WCG, with their TV fame gained from the show helping to draw more attention to the various WCG events.

Did you think $100,000 was the ONLY thing being contested for on this show?

that’s WAY higher than i thought, but i guess that’s bcuz i only catch it at 3AM on USA. it’s lead in show is smackdown, i’m guessing.

Wow that actually was pretty funny. :rofl:

wtf? what happened to rsigley’s post?

I love watching WCG Ultimate Gamer. Im so glad that black dude got sent home last week. I couldn’t believe when Hannah confronted him when he was named to go against Yaz, and he was like “i just haven’t stepped it up yet.” Why the hell would you wanna wait until your second straight time going into elimination to try stepping it up…thats stupid as fuck. And honestly Sebastian did seem to be doing better against Yaz in the elimination game. But im just glad he got eliminated.

Nope. Smackdown comes on Friday at 8pm. And even after the coming move to SyFy, it will still be on Friday at 8pm.

The show on Syfy in front of WCGUG is Warehouse 13.

I called Blanka Thriller waaaay ahead of time but I still lol’d really hard.
She did a good job. So did the Juri actress.

you have to realize that the powers that be have been trying to get organized competitive possibly televise video gaming for years. You also have to realize how hard it is to do this without looking stupid to the rest of the public. I’m still shocked as shit that people watch tv Poker. WCG is getting its name in there for two reasons:
a) to give it clout to hardcore gamers
b) to get its name out to non-hardcore gamers

I still maintain that within 10 years (or much MUCH less, possibly 5), we’re watching video games TRULY being played competitively. Being the top 100 or maybe even 250 in a video game could actually be of use

Pax Seattle WCG ultimate guido (caesar) retard edition

So at pax Caesar and his hobbit friend (ryan I think…the dude who looks like merry from LOTR) come over to the console room free play area where me and some peeps were chillin after running some tourneys (we were the enforcers tasked with running the smaller tourneys). I had just won the SSF4 tourney and was screwing off with some seattle peeps doing gross mirror matches with characters we don’t play. So these 2 people come over and I don’t immediately recognize them. Caesar was wearing some hood thing and merry was towards the back. They had this ugly groupie broad with them who was lookin to get dicked up. Caesar with a cup of something with alcohol in it lookin a little sloshed already is talkin how his “boy” can take anyone when one of my boys jumps in and immediately is like NOPE! We proceed to iron out details and I get volunteered to make an example of him. He only has $5 on him so my friend decides that’s fine I say to merry “we can put a bill on it if you’re feelin confident” but he declines.

So we start to play. I pick my main cammy to make an example of him. He picks ryu and I already have a feeling on what he’s gonna be like. He is what I thought, a typical flowy ryu who’s mix-up is jump in MK/HK and either mash trow/mash jab/or mash dP. I proceed to destroy him the first match with AA’s and dive kick into hitconfirm->SA rinse repeat.

Next match I decide to just runaway. I make a few mistakes by eating a empty jump sweep and since I was just sitting there blocking I got trown a couple of times and I think I was hit with a Mash dP. I’m below 50%…he’s feelin himself and tells me not to lose this round. I say “I’m not gonna lose this round” I dP FADC ultra and proceed to do the dive kick->hitconfirm->SA until he’s loses. I destroy him the next round and it’s over.

Salty they proceed to say “mm me in BB” and I say “sorry I don’t play terrible games”. I know BB isn’t a terrible game I was taking a shot at them. They get all defensive talk about their success and shit and how much money they have (not alot since they only put up/have 5$) and walk away. Little do they know I’m self employed and my friend sittin right next to me is making hella money as a blue badge in Microsoft. We laugh and continue playing.

Later on they make another round with a fuckin TV camera and Swoozi pops in with his camera. They’re talkin more shit. We now have a buff ass GG/BB player and say if you wanna lose money in that we’re still down. Caesar backs down like the big mouthed bitch he is. I’m personally not a fan of cameras so while getting cit off by merry I studder a little. He proceeds to be a loud mouth clearly still salty and say “do you wanna play my friend for 200$” and I said “no I don’t wanna give Jwong 200$” All I wanted was to beat this so called “ultimate gamer (douchebag)” for talkin so much shit. They piece out and we get a good laugh. I was tempted to say yes to the jwong match just to see him come over, not do the match and ask if jwong is really on these douche’s leash so tight, but I know jwong is not such an outward dick and is actually pretty humble and nice in person so I wasn’t gonna go after him just because these dicks who are on a show with him could call him up.

Ya’ll should see Caesar’s buisness card. Hella funny. It’s just his name/email/#/something about gamer on white stock centered with nothing on the back. SOOOO weak. I mean it’s tight you’re on a television show and shit but man your attempts at hustling are weak.

Later on I won the Newegg tourney Swoozie was hosting and some of the WCG peeps popped in but for some reason weren’t talkin shit there. The fact that jwong is out (sorry spoilers) makes me sad because to me he is the only legitimate gamer I’ve met who I know is good at more than just 2-3 games.

AJ was pretty good at puzzlefighter and apparently he still has that scarf, he was lookin pretty depressed too. Someone told me he had to wash it LOLOLOL…Come on Faye I know the directors told you to go with it but damn…you lookin to get stalked.

BTW the white chick (the non bitchy lookin one) on WCG is much cuter in person, also much taller.

I hope somehow the WCG peeps see this. That weekend was hella tight.

Yo Justin stop crashing cars.

Damn this is long…sorry…I guess you had to be there but it was hella funny.

Duncan, it was nice meeting you at PAX lolol!

Also, that’s a pretty shitty story.

2 or 3 of the WCG UG2 ppl I met at PAX talked to me at the Mad Catz booth and wouldn’t stop talking about how much money they would make me if I worked with them.

It was a bit insulting because in my line of work, I take pride in what I can do for a brand/company and they think it’s that easy? I’m a cocky guy and I work very hard, but I can at least back it up with some REAL facts. Geeze.

<3 <3 PAX always brings great stories. I wish I so could have been there.