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I head the Emory University CSL team, and we beat undefeated MIT last week, so the Sports section of our school paper decided to do a feature on us. Thought I'd share it with you guys: not so often, as far as I know, that a newspaper covers Starcraft exploits in the Sports section.
Interesting anecdote about this: it actually pissed off the basketball coaches, who wound up sending an angry email through a golf coach to the editors of the section. They were mad because the basketball teams got no coverage whatsoever in this issue, whereas (to paraphrase) "Starcraft got 2/3 of the section — and many people would not even consider Starcraft a sport!"
So outside of that butthurt, I think it was a success overall. The writer did a pretty good job considering he knew next to nothing about Starcraft. I guess what I'm trying to say is this: Starcraft is becoming more mainstream, at least in the US, and I'm really excited about it.
http://emorywheel.com/detail.php?n=30666
Also, here's the VODs from our win agains MIT if you're interested. Games start around 18 minutes:
http://www.twitch.tv/mitcaelestis/b/307664459
And the reps:
http://www.cstarleague.com/league/matches/1719
Pretty big upset. Before we beat them, MIT was one of only 2 undefeated teams in the entire 200+ team CSL. The other one? UC Davis, featuring the world-famous VileSpanishiwa.
We got pretty lucky, but there were some good games  Looking forward to a rematch, maybe in the playoffs.
In any event... COLLEGIATE ESPORTS FIIIGHTING
Edit: Just wanted to say that, thanks I think primarily to views from this post, the news article on the Starcraft team jumped to the top of the "most read" articles:
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/UtTRk.png)
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Nice congrats on the win!
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Always great to see schools being featured in their local paper. It's becoming a lot more common now, gogo Emory!
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Wow great job!
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That's an awesome story great to see CSL working out so well.
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holy shit good job
MIT where you at
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Did the basketball win anything? If they did then sure they can be a lil mad but if they didnt then...ESPORT
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Congrats for the win.
However at the same time what's a CSL match? Sometimes like 4 total games? Anything can really happen.
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On February 13 2012 13:55 Nizzy wrote:
Congrats for the win.
However at the same time what's a CSL match? Sometimes like 4 total games? Anything can really happen.
Set 1: 1v1
Set 2: 1v1
Set 3: 2v2
Set 4: 1v1
Set 5: Ace
it's like GCPL or NASTL format except ace match is still bo1. and yeah, crazy snipes can happen which makes it a pretty exciting team format imo
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Awesome!
Fun article too.
For some reason I derive so much pleasure from reading an article that describes starcraft to noobs.
"When he took his army to attack [my expand], I went to attack his main base which had his main production facilities"
Lol I liked that alot, seems like a pretty good game. What was the matchup?
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ffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu we lost? 
[though i'm not really entitled to say "we" because i don't play sc2/am not on the team]
actually, i wasn't even aware that we lost. oops.
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Congrats, emory came out from nowhere and took out the perennial big dog.
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On February 13 2012 14:22 BrassMonkey wrote:
Awesome!
Fun article too.
For some reason I derive so much pleasure from reading an article that describes starcraft to noobs.
"When he took his army to attack [my expand], I went to attack his main base which had his main production facilities"
Lol I liked that alot, seems like a pretty good game. What was the matchup?
Matchup was TvT! There was a pretty sick base trade — could have gone either way. We got pretty lucky I think, but we'll take it
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EMORY EMORY EMORY
AND WE DID IT ALL WITHOUT KOREANS
EVEN THOUGH THE SCHOOL IS 1/3 KOREAN
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Congrats Emory. It was heartbreaking </3 but fun =D
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EPT
