[CSL] Finals Pictures

GHOSTCLAW

United States17042 Posts

February 23 2013 13:28 GMT

Last weekend, I went ahead and spent some time in the Peterson Automotive museum in LA, California. CSL has always been special to me, and as someone who has spent far too long at universities, both graduate and undergraduate, CSL has always been an experience that allows people who play video games to come together at Universities. I can honestly say that this CSL was the best starcraft event that I’ve ever been to: being held in LA, with a good event size, wonderful players and staff, and a BO7 Finals with America created an amazing experience.

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Collegiate_Starleague/AZUBU_Collegiate_Champions

Team Aarhus
I started off by getting there on Friday, as CSL allowed us to take some time to photograph the teams, and also so that they could get photos for their stream production. This provided a great opportunity to shoot the players somewhere other than just playing a video game, and allow the players to really show off their personalities

Caliber[Light] Playing for Washington

Players:
This also allowed the players to get a chance to speak to each other, and learn facts such as Aarhus University in Denmark was -10 (C) when they left; they enjoyed the 22 (C) of Los Angeles immensely.

Aarhus University enjoying the sun
In addition to this, the team league format of CSL allowed for some very entertaining photographs. As Day9 and Megumixbear were casting, the casting was basically the same as MLG, IPL, or any other major tournament in NA, and you could see that they were having a fun time casting some of the best collegiate players.

Aarhus+berkeley

Day9/megumi casting
The difference however between watching professionals react to the strategies that they develop for their teammates that are playing on the main stage, and watching college stars…is immense, to say the least.

Tilea[Light], Flown in with the Washington team

The UC Berkeley team, after

Conan “EG.SuppyRC” Liu takes out

Aarhus’s Thor “throminator” Bagge

Washington then played their games…which you should read on kawaiiRice’s blog about their preparation (KawaiiRice's Blog: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=399187
) as I could never ever do it justice. Suffice to say, they walked in thinking that they were one of the best prepared, hardest working teams, and I don’t think they were quite able to demonstrate it. However, they did play their hearts out. After they ended up losing their games, they got to play some for fun games…which lead to some quite interesting strategies being used.

USWAG#YOLO

KawaiiRice…what? Hammertime
While these games were going on (and before as well), UC Berkeley was picking lineups, and receiving their matchups against Chunnam Technological University – which had two barcodes on their team -_- ||||||(P) and ||||||(T). Very KR.

Kawaii and Tilea helping out UC Berkeley with their lineups

Now, here’s something about shooting Korean teams. In general, they all look like this:

Even when they’re together, they look like this:

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The rest of the story is told through pictures:

Honestly, This was the best starcraft 2 event in North America I think – I’ve been to MLG, IPL, NASL, WCG’s, Blizzcons, Launch Parties, Media/Press events, and Local LAN’s…and I think that this event had some of the best storylines, with some of the best pictures. Plus, suppy is a boss.

Special thanks to the CSL staff for putting on a great event (including League, in case you’re wondering what the random pictures at the end are) and thanks to the entire UC Berkeley team for making this a great event for me.
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Sorry this took so long to get up – I was done with the photos and hoping for vods, but I guess that was not to be.

Results:
Aarhus University vs. University of California, Berkeley
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Hjalte.723 > Abstinence.142

cloneHeshla#339 < bnYFan.949

impact.828 /

Inhuman.967 < Reach.144 / Sunshine.183

Defex.142 < PulseTwoOneJ.983

Thorminator.153 < GSL Daybreak > EGSuppyRC.539

Steinbagger.181 < GSL Metropolis > MnMDayaL.182

ACE < ESV Ohana LE > ACE

Chunnam Technological University vs. University of Washington

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||||||||.923 < GSL Whirlwind > salgoud.419

||||||||.1368 < GSL Entombed Valley > Gom.409

CTUSungJae / Rex.1876 < iCCup Deconstructed > Chemist.391

/ Rawls.143

eins.822 < ESV Ohana LE > Hwangpo.223

NosRedBlack < ESV Cloud Kingdom > CaliberLighT.662

nosmyfortic < GSL Metropolis > KawaiiLighT.713
ACE < GSL Daybreak > ACE

Grand Finals:

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University of California, Berkeley vs. Chunnam Techno University

PulseTwoOneJ eins

Abstinence IIllIlIIIlll
Reach SungJae Jo

:Z:EGSuppyRC NosRedBlack

MnMDayaL nosmyfortic

bnYFan llllllllllll

writeups and reports:
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Live report thread: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=398884
Silverfire's Blog:http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=399017
KawaiiRice's Blog: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=399187
CSL Writeup: http://www.cstarleague.com/news/101
Itsjustatank Blog: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=399272
Liquipedia: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Collegiate_Starleague/AZUBU_Collegiate_Champions

Gallery:
Please ask before using the photos; I like to know where they’re used

d3_crescentia

United States4054 Posts

February 23 2013 15:13 GMT

a great set as usual

glad to hear that you had way more fun than at a 'standard' event

itsjustatank

Hong Kong9176 Posts

February 23 2013 16:50 GMT

GHOSTCLAW #1 poser

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On February 22 2013 06:48 GHOSTCLAW wrote:

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courtesy of "itsjustatank" on teamliquid, photoshopped.

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some background: I was able to obtain a Berkeley CSL Team shirt in order to support Berkeley throughout their CSL run; this culminated in them beating a korean school in the live finals held in LA last weekend. Some of my friends thought that I was trying to switch over to berkeley, and so then photoshopped together the photo that you see above.