WWI Schedule and Live Stream

[Boubouille]

The schedule for the Worldwide Invitational is now available, we can expect the Diablo 3 big announcement @ 11:45 CEST time. While we wait for the announcement let's bring the teaser to the top of the homepage.

Official site teaser/splash screen - Day 5
This is the last day before the WWI, the eyes in the middle of the screen really start to look like the Lich King's ... However the creature artwork has been fully uploaded (we're not sure if it's an error or not) and we now have the full picture available.

The splash screen
This is the most obvious part of the teaser, a huge picture of a block of ice slowly cracking to reveal what seems to be a face. Each day a rune was added to the ice.

• Day 1 - The first rune looks a lot like the one found on the Lich King swords in many official artworks.
• Day 2 - The 2nd rune is the Hel Rune from Diablo 2
• Day 3 - The 3rd rune is the Protoss Symbol found on the Starcraft 2 official site
• Day 4 - The 4th rune hasn't been identified yet, and what looks like the eyes of the lich king appeared in the center of the ice crack.
• Day 5 - A new rune has been added and looks like a viking compass. The eyes started to glow, the creature artwork from the CSS files is now complete. The runes also started to glow, you can compare these screenshots : Screenshot #1 / Screenshot #2
  

Note about the streaming
You will need the Octoshape plugin to open these links and watch the event.

If the links below don't work, just right click, copy the link location, and open it with Windows Media Player (makes sure the Octoshape plugin is running first, if it's not just start it from your Start menu)

[center]Streaming - Main Stage



Streaming - Tournament Stage



Schedule

[slacker142]

How does that time translate to US time?

[Vakir]

How does that time translate to US time?

5:45 AM start time.

Set your clocks.

Also, "US time" doesn't exist. 5:45 AM EST, 2:45 PST

[slacker142]

5:45 AM start time.

Set your clocks.

Also, "US time" doesn't exist. 5:45 AM EST, 2:45 PST

thats what i meant, us time zones

[Tergeron]

5 am huh, UGHHH. Oh well, TGIF! Maybe this means I wont have to wait as long to get an announcement for this new game.

[slacker142]

5 am huh, UGHHH. Oh well, TGIF! Maybe this means I wont have to wait as long to get an announcement for this new game.

Gona suck when all it is is the release date for WotLK lol

[Haq]

So glad I'm on the west coast... 2:45 is much easier to stay awake for than 5:45 :P

[Haq]

uh.. do you need to pay for that plugin?

[mechleader]

So glad I'm on the west coast... 2:45 is much easier to stay awake for than 5:45 :P

Same here =P but couldn't you just Sleep and wake up early?

[Shadowkaji]

setting alarm clock for 5:30 lol goin to sleep in just a bit >_<


before that anyone know how to make that Octoshape plugin run in VLC Media Player rather than Windows Media?

[reytheist]

uh.. do you need to pay for that plugin?

You can grab the plugin here: http://www.octoshape.com/plugin/get.asp

[Efedorus]

omfg no way I hardly wake up 11:00 am EST on saturday :-[

[Moochookaboo]

Anyone know if it is possible to watch both at the same time?

[Shadowkaji]

Uhg guess i wont be sleeping tonight.

i wont be sleeping more than 5 hours tonight...which with a nice Peppermint Mocha with an extra shot of espresso will be enough for me lol.

...but with all honestly why did they have to choose Paris xD

[sousui]

there might be some problems with the link setup. While trying out the links on octos website to test the plugin, windows media player opens by default and plays fine. Clicking these links how ever wants me to open up an asf file. manualy choosing media player to be the one to open it, media player complains its an unknown format and cant play it (The difference being, I expected it to attempt to connect and fail. However the current result is not even being able to read the network connection settings from the asf file.)

[Bilo]

Is there a way to watch both streams at once?

[Freakshow9807]

Is there a way to watch both streams at once?

... use 2 computers?

[roflxo]

[sousui]

oh shnazz...spoilers..

[Domilol]

So, from how, how long is it till the entire thing starts? <_> I'm getting half an hour but i'm sure that's completely wrong.