13-14 may BAiT Festival

13-14 may BAiT Festival - BW Lan tour

Herro_Korea

310 Posts

May 15 2011 18:25 GMT

Hello everyone, I'm known as Herro_Korea, 910124 or Hkorea. Today I'd like to blog about my BAiT Festival, Starcraft: Brood War LAN tournament experience.

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yeah I suck at taking pictures of things on my desk

Arbiter:
iS-KubciO

Paritipants:
Tarson
LRM)ZZZero
BoBo
BuTT-HeaD
DL)Apogeum
BazdA
Kebes
Warrior
Herro_Korea
Hei (SC2 dude)
Ybs)Dembski (SC2 dude)

I arrived to Cracow around 14 pm. From Cracow Gallery together with ZZZero and iS-KubciO we took bus to AGH university academic city where in middle of it, inside of Club Studio competition was being held. After bit of waiting we got inside. In the main hall there was DOTA tournament. On main stages were shown games with commentary. Quake 3, BW and Heroes of Might & Magic tournaments happend in bar lounge. As the time passed, more people showed up, spectators aswell. The atmosphere was really pleasant. There was no problem with space, also near location of bar where you could buy drinks was pretty swell. After all players were setup it was time to start contest. Groups were selected.

Group stage (all games bo1):
Group 1 (Group of Death):
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Tarson
ZZZero
Apogeum
Warrior
BoBo
Herro_Korea

Group 2 :
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BuTT-HeaD
Kebes
Bazda
Dembski
Hei

I left my group with 3-2 Score, droping games to ZZZero and Tarson, losing pvz and pvt(Tarson gettin T with random) respectively. Tarson rolled trough group with random. In 2nd group bH and Bazda pretty much crushed the group. Groups played decisive role on how bracket would get set up. My 3 wins+ Show Spoiler +

(all vs T)

felt pretty much lucky as 2 games I went for 1 base 3-4 gate zeal speed attack and other one with 12 nex, 6 into 8 gate goon/zeal all-in where opponent took fast 3rd after failed bunker rush and then tank push. I had few macro builds that could work, but I was afraid that level of all players was just too high for me. Also PvT being my weakest mu. I haven't felt much of rivarly between participants, some came just to have fun. I was prepared to get raped in all of my games not playing that a lot for last couple of months(like most of other players that played in tour

) and having problem with my wrists.

Winner Bracket & LB courtesy of Apogeum can be found here:
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WB finals(bo3) ZZZero vs Tarson
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2:0, Zero advances to finals, Tarson drops to LB finals

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Tarson

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1:0, BoBo advances to finals, Tarson is eliminated.

Finals (bo5) :
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ZZZero vs BoBo, match is started with 1:0 lead for ZZZero(BoBo lost to him in Winner Bracket earlier). After some awesome games, ZZZero takes the Finals 3:0 and wins BAiT BW tournament.

1-4 Places
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1. ZZZero
2. BoBo
3. Tarson
4. bH

I must say that I spent some A+ time with these guys there, everyone was friendly. Tarson is pretty cool guy, not acting like some superstar that you need to pass body guards to get his autograph. Anyone could approach him and talk with him. Even tho he plays SC2, he still shows real class in BW, pwning my 2 cheeses with pure clean micro. Everybody showed some strong games, even watching SC2 guys playing tvp + Show Spoiler +

T going for 2 base bio with tank vs P

was ok and a bit funny. I hope next tournament I attend (and I hope its BW) will be at least as good as this one.
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Sorry for lack of photos, I took camera just to realise that I forgot to take batterys

. And being too lazy to go buy them in market 60m away from Club.

I'd like to give shout-outs to all players. Also to Mr. Jaro(undead), _vh, NetWars community, BW streamers on teamliquid and finally to LRM)nOoNe.

P.S.
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u gotta skate

Edit // Some photos, by BAiT @ _vh
link : http://tiny.pl/hfgq8