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Livestream tonight--including Devai!

Ladan — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:42:15 +0000

I wanted to let you all know about a livestream tonight (Saturday!)--all about livestreaming and making videos in raiding. I've asked three raiders who like to stream--Devai from DREAM Paragon, Smasher from Manaflask/For the Horde, and Affinitii from Blood Legion--to join me and talk about the current craze for livestreaming and why we all seem to love doing it and watching it. Details are: ...

The Raid Observer: The Rest of the Interview with Paragon! Oh and a new poll!

Ladan — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:24:19 +0000

And here's the conclusion of the interview with the guys from Paragon, including a little offline input from Seita and a drop-in by Paradar towards the end of the discussion.

The Raid Observer: New Interview with Paragon (including Seita, sort of!)

Ladan — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:50:35 +0000

So I cornered a few of the folks from Paragon and we had much fun doing an interview late last week. I've just finished editing and uploading the first part of the interview on my Raid Observer channel, so please do listen and enjoy. The second part will go up in a couple days.

The Raid Observer: Updates on Tier 13 and the Latest Interview

Ladan — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:03:56 +0000

In this short update I'll offer a few updates on tier 13 progress and provide links to the recent interview I did with the US raiding guild, Exodus, ranked 7th (and 9th overall) in the recent 25-man raiding race.

The Raid Observer: A New Podcast and Help Needed With a Research Project (not mine!)

Ladan — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:14:13 +0000

So I've had to restart this post 3 times now. This is apparently the cure for my typical walls of text... I have this unbearable need to keep this brief (before I throw my laptop out of the window).

The Raid Observer: Fleshing out the Top 50

Ladan — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:59:29 +0000

Just a tiny update with a couple interesting tidbits of information about the race in the past couple days. Read on!

The Raid Observer: Round Table Podcast with Top Guilds

Ladan — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:14:22 +0000

Last night I sat down and had a long discussion with members of 7 of the world's top ranked 25-man raiding guilds. We discussed the Tier 13 race and issues like the LFR ban, exploits, the content of this tier, the state of the raiding race going forward, the loss of long standing raiding guilds and appearance of new ones on the scene, and the shifting ranks up and down at the top. I thought it was a very informative discussion and I'm grateful to the participants.

The Raid Observer: Tier 13 race in the news

Ladan — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:45:15 +0000

It's not often that we have major newspapers reporting on our progress races, but thanks to an eagle-eyed, news-reading (work-procrastinating?) source, I've been alerted to an intriguing piece of news. Oh and vote in my latest poll: http://www.raidingresearch.co.uk/?p=1313. Anyway, read on!

The Raid Observer: A New Year with a new line-up

Ladan — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:09:13 +0000

After a holiday break, the Raid Observer is back with some midstream observations about how things went over Christmas and new years and how things are looking in the race in general.

So I'm back! I hope everyone had a nice holiday period and ate too much. While I was not making updates, I did keep half an eye on the progress rankings and I saw a few interesting trends, which I'll highlight below.

The Raid Observer: A New Year with a new line-up

Ladan — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:47:37 +0000

After a holiday break, the Raid Observer is back with some midstream observations about how things went over Christmas and new years and how things are looking in the race in general.

The Raid Observer: Week 4, Starting Over in Fits and Starts

Ladan — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:29:27 +0000

A couple more guilds have broken the 7/8 barrier and some nasty DCs are plaguing the EU servers. Here's a little update from the Raid Observer.
Last night we saw Stars, the highly successful, longtime world-ranked TW server guild (ranked 8th in Firelands), join the two Korean guilds at the top and become the second 25-man raiding guild to have killed the Spine of Death ...

The Raid Observer: Week 3, Tuesday Update (with a wall of sound)

Ladan — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:18:46 +0000

So I've opted to record my update for today. Read on for the podcast link!
I injured my right hand yesterday so in my bid try and rest it, I decided to record a wall of sound for you. It's only 6 minutes long, though, so not so bad! Right? Anyway, I cover a few things like the world first kill of Madness (congrats Kin Raiders!), some general impressions of how the race is going, and a few comments on whether Tier 13 is truly the unluckiest tier race (for some, at least) ever.

The Raid Observer: Week 3, Weekend Update

Ladan — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:30:45 +0000

Some interesting developments over the weekend so far, most notable being our very first 7/8 kill, thus providing a small bit of movement to a race that's got more and more guilds queueing up at the 6/8 stage and even more joining the overall heroic race. Read on!

The Raid Observer: Week 3, Back to Normal(Heroic)?

Ladan — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:02:13 +0000

Week 3 has started off and it looks like guilds that had been affected by the widespread suspensions are working on catching up. Also something interesting is *still* happening with Yor'sahj on heroic mode. Talk about a drama king.

The Raid Observer: Week 2 Wind Down

Ladan — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:13:14 +0000

Week 2 starts to wind down... heroic-mode catch up afoot, and some performance art!
So if you'd not had a chance to yet, do check out the podcast from yesterday. You can skip ahead to 07:20 to get to the start of the interview!

So we're at the end of Week 2 now for the US server guilds and the banned guilds will be trying to plan their "catch up" if they want to get back into the ...

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