i might actually go to cologne for the gamescom if there is ql and sc2

Awesome, wish I could rise their ratings watching it on eurosport ;)

I wonder if it'd be possible to see a console title on IEM, being sponsored by Intel and all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurosport

It appears NA doesn't get that channel. Still very very interesting they went that route (since a few months ago Carmac said putting e-sports on TV would be the same as yelling in the woods, no one will hear you).

http://www.livestream.com/itview/video?clipId...m=ui-thumb

yeah, im kinda surprised by the move aswell. but i think eurosport is a great partner to have, its part of basic cable tv here

Eurosport is massive, yeah.

will be eurosport2 i guess,
eurosport2 is kinda their channel for alternative/new sport.

im pretty sure they have already broadcasted e-sport.

oh :(
never heard of eurosport 2 before

it's pay-tv

yep, still is very cheap

why dont they use the eurosport2 logo in the banner then?

just guessing you know, i personally dont see any space for starcraft on the main channel

Are you serious? They broadcast all sorts of crap to fill up time. A couple weeks ago I watched a rock paper scissors tournament from 2007, how can they not have a place for SC2 on Eurosport1?

+ Eurosport2 is a channel for new and alternative sports like you said yourself but gaming is already in the midst of our soceity it's not like Lacrosse in Europe. I wouldn't be surprised to see this on the main channel. SC2 is definitely able to get some good ratings in Europe.

They broadcast fucking everything on Eurosport, there's so much time to kill between "weekend" sports and athletics events after all.

Some eSport related news are broadcasted on Spox. Unfortunately only in German.

Couldn´t find the eurosport 2 website tho :/

i just saw that esl-tv is linked directly on the sc2 battle net page, awesome

and oh yeah, i got the game today first thing in the morning \o/

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Eurosport is the most boring sports channel EVER

Don't know about Iceland but here in Germany it's by far the best sports channel you get for free, heck even the pay-tv channels in germany suck.

I dunno, we get the British ones. They just show terribly boring sports for my taste like swimming, volleyball, tennis, boccia?! And when they do show interesting sports like football it's always terribly obscure events. I pay for an Icelandic one that airs all the best leagues from football/basketball/golf/driving :P

This the eurosport CEO talking about Iceland:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34mHZgP9vkc

:p

Fucking Scottish =/

I probably have different taste in sports then :) not suprising since I was a competitive swimmer for 10 years.

I don't even like football but I guess they won't show the big events because the broadcast license fees are astronomical and most privately run channels can't afford them, they still have to broadcast football though because the interest is way too high to neglect it. At least they have the license for the handball champions league :)

I had the HD package for a big pay-TV channel in germany but all they showed on the HD channel was golf, football, formula1 and tennis and tons of reruns inbetween seasons and from monday - friday. no icehockey, basketball etc. they show these on the non-HD channels.

Blame SKY innit :D

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new infos about the show: http://www.esl-world.net/masters/news/130467/

most importantly imho, it will be on the main eurosport station