lovely hat !

very nice interview, really liked it!

Nice interview carmac, Liden has, as you said, very interesting speaker. Hope ELC will be a big progress for the esports.

PD: there is a small mistake in the news tags, you wrote "intervew" :P

THAT! Is THE COOLEST had I've EVER seen.

I would have liked to hear more when he said "design it for tv", perhaps some concrete examples or changes they will make, he was a little vague.

Shame his reply to the most interesting question of what will the company look in 4/5 years time was dissapointing by stating the obvious that it will be different players, duh! :D

I wonder how he will make these "introvert, download movies all night" into stars! I hope they will make new stars not concentrate on the well-established ones :D Underdogs fighting!

But cool to see what someone thinks from an outsiders point of view, I just hope they can really push E-Sports with someone new and expand the fanbase as he said they will do.

Good stuff, sounds healthy!

"These people are mostly internet heros"

QUOTE OF THE CENTURY

well what ELC will provide will in my opinion be the first really professional regular league, professional in the meaning that only professionals or semiprofessionals work for elc, so the only esport persons will be the players themselfes actually... or thats atleast what i expect ^^

and with such a studio you can actually do great things! what, in my opinion, is missing in esports so far, are for example pre-shows, halftime analyses or special shows/events within the same format ( ... streaming )... so hopefully ELC will have something like this...
to get more detailed, stuff like statistics, pre-talks, invite another professional gamer as specialist, and of course packed into a professional broadcast design.
people often forget the importance of a high visual quality...

I just really hope they bring in quadv for the cs and some expert commentators for the wc3. This could all be ruined by bad commentators.

very very nice interview, i really enjoyed it, thanks

/me waves byebye to CGS in Europe

hey, nice interview!
whats the name of the song at the beginning?

good luck with elc

go go go ELC !!!

Basically, Johan is doing what every single one of us want. He's just actually making it happen because he has the required contacts and persuasive arguments. He's a great leader. :) I'm thrilled to be a part of it.

Kaze got it.

Fragbite did an interview with him a couple days ago, it was clear that he couldnt speak his mind in this one cuz of hes english. While in swedish he explained everything very clear and everything was much clearer.

He seems like a guy that could do something for esport for sure.

thx for this interview

He is talking about my dream!

Good Luck, Mr. Liden!

As kaze was saying earlier in the thread, it's awsome to be a part of ELC and Johan is a really nice guy that is good on what he is doing, he makes it happen. This interview was great stuff! Nice work Johan !