Reliving LIVE 2008 - Video Replays and Live Blogging
Our Multimedia Team, led by Joey Alarilla, will be spearheading the project “Reliving Level Up Live 2008″. It’s basically a live streaming of specific segments of Level Up Live 2008 combined with Live Blogging with various Level Up personalities. This is one of the most innovative things I’ve seen in a while and I’d like to thank Joey, Kevin, Mel, Niel, and Gelo (our Multimedia Peeps) for doing this. So, what can you guys expect from this? Well, you can watch the highlights of Level Up Live 2008 again online! You’ll be able to see the RWC matches as well as the other games’ tournaments. I’m sure we will also be replaying the Orchestra as well as the Cosplay segment.
Here’s a portion of the official announcement posted on the Level Up site:
This five-day online event will be held from Nov. 10, Monday, to Nov. 14, Friday, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Philippine Standard Time.
Watch all the matches from the Ragnarok World Championships 2008, Flyff Heroes of the Dragon Emblem Tournament 2008, FreeStyle All Stars 08 Championship, Perfect World Phoenix Council Wars Finals, and RF Online Novus Elite Squad Tournament Championship.
See the Level Up! LIVE 2008/RWC 2008 opening ceremony in all its glory, and watch new footage not shown during the live stream such as the FILharmoniKa orchestra performing the themes from Ragnarok.
The Reliving LIVE online show video stream will switch from the video replay of Level Up! LIVE 2008 to the live feed from our studios during our special segments, so that players can see our guests as they chat with them on the Live Blog.
Learn more about our latest game, Grand Chase, as GM Cassiel and GM Mac chat with players during the live feed of their segment.
Get more juicy details about two of the new games that Level Up! will be launching in the Philippines, Rohan Online and Hello Kitty Online.
Find out what new stuff is waiting for you in Ragnarok Online, FreeStyle, Crazy Kart and Be There.
See GM Cydie of RF Online, GM Atma of Flyff and GM MeiShen of Perfect World as you chat with them during the live video feed.
And jam with Kevin Roy of Razorback and Loquy as he talks about his “Ampfufu!” song and music video and Level Up! Music.
This is just a taste of what we have in store for you in this five-day online show, so keep visiting Reliving LIVE: The LIVE 2008 Experience to find out the complete schedule of timeslots for the airing of the LIVE 2008 video footage and our live studio segments. And stay tuned as we’ll announce other guests who will join us in the studio segments.
As you’ve come to expect from our Level Up! LiveBlogging service, this show will be completely interactive, so use the Live Blog to send in your comments, join our polls, listen to our music and watch our videos. We’ll be sharing lots of pics from the event, plus this time the chat sessions will be shown on live video.
The Reliving LIVE: The LIVE 2008 Experience video stream and Live Blog will start on Monday, Nov. 10, 10 a.m., Philippine Standard Time, so mark the date on your calendar and help spread the word. This is an online event you don’t want to miss!
w00t! It’s Live 2008 time… er… again. 
Level Up LIVE 2008, Live Blogging
Tags: Level-Up-Live-2008, Live-Blogging
Level Up LIVE 2008 Summary
Level Up Live and the Ragnarok World Championships 2008 is now in the books! It will historically go down once again as the biggest online gaming event in the country. Personally I believe that this year’s event was the best ever produced by Level Up. Like what GM Tristan said, it’s an event of many firsts. I’ve made soooooo many posts about Level Up Live and the Ragnarok World Championships for the past few days and I’ve decided to make this summary post with links to all the Live entries that I’ve made. Check them all out after the jump.
Team Philippines beats Germany (2-0)
Level Up to bring Hello Kitty, Rohan, and Emil Chronicle to the Philippines!
Team Philippines Beats Japan
Powerspoonz Brings the House Down with Barrio!
Thailand Beats Team Philippines
Crazy Kart Booth at Level Up Live 2008
Ragnarok Creator at Level Up LIVE 2008
Thailand Emerges as RWC 2008 Champion
Waukster Film Festival 2008 Favorites
Level Up Live 2008 Cosplay Pictures and Videos
Team Philippines Intro Video
Meeting the Gravity CEO
Watch the matches of Team Philippines
Team USA: Lana Anderson
RWC 2008 Photo Gallery
Reflections of LU Live 2008
LU Film Festival Winners
CK Model Chek Kubota
Level Up Live Early Birds
Powerspoonz with Bakbakan
RPG the Movie Trailer
Ragnarok Themes by Filharmonika Orchestra
That’s a wrap! Looking forward to next year’s Level Up Live 2008! Cheers!
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Crazy Kart Model Cherry “Chek” Kubota
Crazy Kart model Cherry “Chek” Kubota was game enough to do a live blogging chat session during Level Up Live 2008. To those who don’t know Chek, she’s an FHM Babe who was also our model for Perfect World. Now she’s with us for Crazy Kart. The Live Blogging project was very successful and I hope that we continue to have more good content coming up even after Level Up Live 2008. Expect to see more of her during our succeeding events and live promotions. A few more pictures after the jump.
Photos and interviews courtesy of our really talented Multimedia team - Joey Alarilla, Kevin Codamon, and Mel Villanueva. You guys rock. Period.
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Reflection on LIVE 2008: It’s Not a Variety Show
I’ve been thinking about what to say about LIVE 2008 as a whole for the past 2 days. It’s actually hard to summarize two days of non-stop action in just one blog post - thus the multitude of posts I’ve been making lately. I usually just do 1-2 a day but I’ve been posting like mad since LIVE ‘08 ended. Anyway, after thinking about LIVE long a hard as well as comparing it to other gaming events that our competitors do, I came upon a conclusion on why I think LIVE is special and why it’s really the biggest online gaming event in the country. Level Up Live 2008 does not put the spotlight on celebrities, movie stars, bands, or sexy girls that have absolutely nothing to do with online gaming. Level Up Live 2008 is NOT a variety show wherein we use the acts to lure in people. We are not about cheap gimmicks. Level Up Live is about one thing and one thing only - it’s a tribute to the gamer. Yes, the sexy cosplayer girls are nice too but ultimately the main draw of LIVE is the tournaments. It’s the culmination of a year’s worth of blood, sweat, and tears for millions of gamers in the country.
I know that our company and our games are not perfect. Yes, we have bugs left and right and we may have the occassional customer support issues. But name a gaming company that doesn’t have that? Even Blizzard has their fair share of problems. My main point here is that when we are able to, we really do try to focus on what you guys need and want. I’ve said this a million times already, if only we were the developers of the game, then we would stop all development until we fix all the bugs. But that isn’t the way this business works. We are game publishers - not developers. It’s not an excuse but I can assure all of you that everyone here is really doing their best to give you guys a good gaming experience.
Level Up LIVE 2008 is a testament to that. It’s the most expensive thing on our annual budget, and it really is the most time-consuming and hardest-thing-for-the-year-to-do for everyone here at Level Up. We don’t actually earn from the event since we don’t charge entrance except for the measly P50 card which you buy beforehand anyway.
At Level Up LIVE, we don’t put up a good show. We just set the stage for the gamers because they are the stars of the movie. They are the ones who are providing the performance of their lives - showing everyone that they are indeed the very best at what they do. In other words, we do Level Up LIVE to make the best gamers out there look good (LOL). If you don’t believe me, then you should have been there during the opening ceremonies. We literally introduced the gamers as if they were WWE superstars! Complete with fireworks, nyahaha. The program of LU LIVE is really built on the psyche of a gamer and that’s what matters the most. If there’s one thing I’ve learned in the past few events that we’ve done, the crowd cheers louder at matches than they cheer during band performances or even during the Cosplay competition.
I can definitely say that Level Up LIVE 2008 was a phenomenal success. I don’t have the actual headcount yet of the number of people who came but I’m pretty sure that we surpassed last year’s 16,000. Last year we only rented 2 halls and we filled it up. This year we rented the ENTIRE WORLD TRADE CENTER and it was maximum capacity once again.
To all the gamers who went, please accept my heartfelt thanks. To everyone who competed, especially Team Philippines, you guys are all champions. You’ve proven that you are the best in the country and I know that it’s only a matter of time before we finally bring home the gold. To everyone at Level Up that worked hard to make LIVE happen - maraming salamat po!
I’m definitely looking forward to next year’s Level Up Live. I’m sure that everyone here will be scratching their heads trying to figure out ways on how to top this year’s event. Hahaha!
PS - I’ll be posting a few more stuff about LIVE then I will do a wrap-up post summarizing everything.
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Team USA Lana Anderson
You have to give it to our Multimedia team! You guys asked for a feature on Team USA member Lana Anderson and apparently it’s now up on the Level Up website. Lana won the hearts of the crowd at the Ragnarok World Championships with her very warm smile and cheerful personality. She played the camera very well and you could really notice that each time the camera was on her, the crowd would cheer and go crazy. Sometimes she even got more cheers that the Philippine Team, Lol. Well… if you guys don’t know yet, Lana is actually half-Filipina.
I’ve reposted the entire article at the Level Up Website after the jump.
As it turns out, Lana is half-Filipina! Her mother is a nurse from Manila. The American High Priestess admitted that her Filipino lineage isn’t that evident, and said this is only her second trip to the Philippines. According to Lana, she first visited our shores when she was around five.
Lana was introduced to the world of gaming via Final Fantasy when she was two years old, and it appears that the video game bug has stuck with her ever since. Proof: Pokémon kept her busy when she was 10. Today, Lana owns an Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii.
Despite having all the consoles that would turn many local gamers green with envy, Ragnarok Online remains Lana’s favorite game (Isn’t it obvious? She’s a national champion). She also dabbled in Perfect World, but she said her heart belongs to Ragnarok. And her boyfriend, of course. Sorry guys.
The role-playing game genre may be Lana’s favorite, but she also likes playing Halo and Silent Hill. When the latest installment of the Konami-published survival horror game was brought up (Silent Hill Homecoming), Lana’s eyes lit up and she giddily started talking about the series’ trademark scares. While this Ragnarok fan also takes some time to play the adventures of Master Chief, she clearly isn’t that big a fan of first-person shooters. Perhaps it’s the whole concept of using gamepads and analog sticks.
When the High Priestess isn’t kicking butt and taking names, she spends her time drawing and playing cards with her teammates. Like many teens living in the States, Lana is a working student. She is employed at a clothing store, does some modeling, and is studying at the University of California, Los Angeles. By some strange sorcery, this High Priestess still finds the time to do all that and play Ragnarok for at least 30 hours a week.
Lana also made her instant fans all over the world happy when she took the time to field questions from readers of the Level Up! LIVE 2008 Live Blog during a chat session set up by the Level Up! Multimedia team. Scroll down when you click on the Live Blog Replay as the chat was held during the evening of Day 2 of Level Up! LIVE.
Team USA may not have won it all in the Ragnarok World Championships, where Thailand emerged as back-to-back champion, but Lana promises to return for another shot at the title next year.
I’m sure Lana’s Filipino fans are going to be thrilled to hear this news, but it’s hard to say if the tournament would again be held in our shores, or if her squad would again win on the national level since the competition is fierce. Whatever happens, 2008’s Team USA will be remembered fondly.
Lana and her team may not have won the Ragnarok crown, but she has indeed won our hearts.
I wouldn’t be surprised if she gets an offer from ABS-CBN or some other media company here in the future based on this event alone, hahaha!
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Tags: Ragnarok-World-Championships, RWC-2008
Meeting the Gravity CEO
Other than the players that came from all over the world, we also had executives and directors from various gaming companies who went to the Ragnarok World Championships. We had a welcome VIP dinner for them at the Tower Club in Makati City. It was there that I got to know Gravity’s CEO - Yong Seuk Kang and the Ragnarok Creator Myung Jin Lee. What’s funny is that most of the executives at the dinner looked very young - and most of them were really gamers at heart. It’s nice to see that the core teams of the various publishing companies know what their market is all about.
With LU BPO Head Jasper, Gravity CEO, LU Found Ben Colayco, LU COO Pet Syling
I uploaded the video I took of the Gravity CEO’s welcome speech during the opening ceremonies of the Ragnarok World Championships 2008. You can watch it after the jump.
Gravity CEO Welcome Speech at WTC
To all the gaming executives who came to Manila, I hope you guys enjoyed your stay! To everyone who was at the World Trade Center, thank you for showing our visitors what the Filipino spirit is all about. You guys definitely rock.
Cheers! 
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Level Up LIVE & RWC 2008 Cosplay Pictures and Videos
Any major Level Up gaming event wouldn’t be complete without Cosplay! Just like the Film Festival entries, this year’s Cosplayers showed a lot of talent and resilience. There was a bit of controversy during the actual competition when one of the Cosplayers fell through the stage but thankfully he’s okay. Anyway, I took a bunch of pictures and videos and I’d like to share them with you today. Instead of posting every single picture though, I compiled them and put them into a picture slideshow video which you can watch after the jump. Get ready to see lots of cute Ragnarok Cosplayers… and a dancing Red MAU!
RWC & LEVEL UP LIVE 2008 COSPLAYERS
Out of all the cosplayers, my favorite was the RF Online RED MAU and the Ragnarok Online Bloody Knight. The problem with the Bloody Knight though was that it was too bulky for the Cosplayer to move while wearing it - unlike the RED MAU which was even able to dance. I’d also like to commend all the other cosplayers who braved the crowd and gave the performance of their lives. You guys really rocked the event!
By the way, I’m currently uploading all the pictures that I could get my hands on into my Flickr Photo Album. Once it’s done, I’ll make a separate post inviting all of you to visit it. Special thanks to GM Atma for giving me pictures from his camera.
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Waukster Film Fest 2008 Favorites
This year’s Film Festival was just great! The movies that were made by the players really took the entire gaming community by surprise because they were so good. Even the international players from other teams were laughing their hearts out during the Ragnarok fan-made movies. Personally I loved all the film entries - and I agree that Noratu’s Perfect World masterpiece should be 1st place. I just want to share with you guys my other 2 favorites. Edwin’s and Diwa’s “Hindi Ako Botter” and Precious Jewel’s “Ascension”. I’ve searched for their entries on Youtube and I’m reposting them here today so that those who haven’t seen them yet can watch.
ASCENSION
Watch “Hindi Ako Botter” after the jump!
HINDI AKO BOTTER
Thanks Diwa for putting me in that video. Damn you. Lol.
Let me just give special attention to Precious Jewel’s entry. While you weren’t able to reach the top 3, I just want you to know that I loved your entry and I enjoyed it so much! Please do continue making movies like that if you can!
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Thailand Emerges as RWC 2008 Champion!
Thailand pulled off an historic win over South Korea making them back-to-back World Champions for 2 years in a row! The defending champions literally bulldozed all of their opponents and showcased how good they were by constantly changing their tactics depending on their opponent. The finals between Thailand and Korea really proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that they were strong contenders deserving of slots in the finals. I don’t know if I’m calling this right but I think the main difference for the fight was when Thailand used the Gypsy. Apparently Korea had low VIT characters and they almost often found key players stunned which disrupted the over-all flow of their teamwork.
Details and results of the other matches after the jump.
At the end of the day, Team Thailand came out victorious over Korea with a 3-2 record. This is the second time in history that Thailand has become world champion and Korea reached 2nd place. It’s really sad to note that the Philippines earlier bowed out to Indonesia in a battle for the third. However, you can’t help but still be proud of Team Philippines given the effort they’ve given to reach where they are now. Remember that they are still the 4th best in the world, and that they are still your back-to-back Ragnarok Philippine Champions.
There is nothing to be ashamed of and I’m sure that it will only be a matter of weeks before these guys get back on their feet and roaring in-game during the weekly sieges and PVP.
Thank you Team Philippines for giving it your all! We will always be proud of what you’ve accomplished. To Thailand, Korea, and Indonesia - Congratulations!
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Tags: RWC-2008, Ragnarok-World-Championships, Level-Up-Live-2008
Crazy Kart Booth at Level Up Live
Other than the main stage activities, there are also several side activities that one can enjoy at Level Up LIVE 2008. One of the most visited booths is Crazy Kart. Why? Er… other than the hot booth babes (as you can see above), we also displayed the real life Crazy Kart Drift Car and we also had mini racing cars with steering wheels that would allow you to experience CK on a whole new level. See what I’m talking about after the jump.
Do try to come to Level Up LIVE 2008! You still have the rest of the afternoon. We still have the Cosplay, Orchestra, RWC Finals, and a whole bunch of other activities that everyone can enjoy. Cheers!
Crazy Kart MMORPG, Level Up LIVE 2008
