[Pics] MLG Columbus Day 1

Zeroes

United States1102 Posts

June 04 2011 12:35 GMT

Oh man I was so tired yesterday I drove for 9 hours. Does anyone know what is up with all the road kill? I must have passed by like 10 dead things while driving. I saw at least 5 deers, a Squirrel, a cat and random dead flesh on the road.

I came with Kibbit who is at almost every NYC event. He is our token black guy with a fro while I am writing this he is still asleep since he is also pretty tired.

I am very sad that I missed the first hour of games and the Idra vs MC game which I heard was pretty epic. I have to watch the replays for that.

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The crowd is amazing, they added a ton more seats but it still isn't enough as a lot of people still standing or sitting on the floor.

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Incontrol vs Losira

The energy in the crowd is amazing also people can see players reactions so clearly from the audience that they react to every expression on the player's faces. The player cam is also a very nice touch for the stream to enjoy.

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Player's area, I really want to get a one of those passes so I can enter.

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Pokebunny says he will get to the winners bracket easily.

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Firezerg vs Attero- Epic ZvP! Game 1 Attero did a 2 base timing attack that came extremely early. It felt unsafe but he had a good read on his opponent and hit before FireZerg had any spine crawlers up. Firezerg defended it but at the cost of a ton of drones and proceeds to go almost pure infestors and made infested terrans to snipe Nexuses but Attero kept him down to even bases and then surpassing him in bases until Firezerg had to gg.

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Moon

Moon vs Gretorp- Moon had a very epic tactic. He would run a group of zerglings and banelings into Gretorp's main and then spread burrowed banelings 2 at a time. This would force Gretorp to use scans and if he forgot to scan he would walk into a baneling minefield. The expression on Gretorp's face when moon blew up all of his marines was epic.

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July from far away I couldn't get a good shot of him

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Sheth is one of my favorite zergs. He is so hug-able like a teddy bear.

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I messed up my picture of Peanut, one of my favorite people in the sc community. I will have to take another one later

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Reach and Blackops is kinda empty, granted it was pretty late. Starcraft didn't as many people as it did before but the seats were still full and some people were standing around.

HellaMonster

Portugal9 Posts

June 04 2011 12:45 GMT

SC2 is taking over MLG ?? :D it's awesome for the foreign comunnity

konadora

Singapore66359 Posts

June 04 2011 12:47 GMT

wow looks awesome

hacklebeast

United States5090 Posts

June 04 2011 12:55 GMT

On June 04 2011 21:45 HellaMonster wrote:
SC2 is taking over MLG ?? :D it's awesome for the foreign comunnity

As some one who also went: halo was pretty packed too. They didn't have 100 plus people standing around outside of the fixed seating, but they did have more seats to begin with. Starcraft had more people, but not by leaps and bounds. Call of duty was pretty weak though.

I will add that no one was watching the secondary stages for halo or CoD, but SCII pulled in a good number of people, any where from 50-150 depending on who was playing.

Kiante

Australia7069 Posts

June 04 2011 13:04 GMT

Were they broadcasting artosis and tasteless's audio at the secondary stage?

sob3k

United States7572 Posts

June 04 2011 13:11 GMT

You mean Moon finally learned to pair burrowed banelings?

I'm shocked and dismayed

hacklebeast

United States5090 Posts

June 04 2011 13:16 GMT

On June 04 2011 22:04 Kiante wrote:
Were they broadcasting artosis and tasteless's audio at the secondary stage?

there was no way to listen to tastosis. They had about an hour technical delay with losera vs incontrol, and they should have just played the blue stream then, but they didn't for whatever reason. The second stage was only either one player's fp view or the others depending on which side you stood on.