Big shout-out to Sandisk for making that tournament possible, and of course to our cynical brit too <3

Just to back up what TB said: I watched the Flash vs. Bbyong series late at night, even though I was knackered and sleep deprived, but couldn't get up from the chair once the games had begun. I was blown away how insanely good the games were.

myRZeth

Germany1047 Posts

June 11 2014 18:33 GMT

#43

those writeups are just plain awesome

so informative and they have soo much insight

i m glad that you re happy with your results and congratulations!

will tune in next time too if possible, this time it wasn t possible as a young european student

stuchiu

Fiddler's Green42661 Posts

June 11 2014 18:33 GMT

#44

I know you said you want to just go straight for the top tier play, but I think there might be room to include some of the Chinese players in the future if you're planning on building towards China. Though logistically I'm not sure thats possible.

Anyways, this was the best Online tournament all year and one of highest value tournaments (In terms of 5 star games) we've seen all year. Congratulations, I enjoyed the whole thing.

ricecake

152 Posts

June 11 2014 18:35 GMT

#45

On June 12 2014 02:45 TotalBiscuit wrote:

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Nope. I am confident in my casting ability and that my style is appealing to a wide audience and while Husky remains the most popular caster in Starcraft 2 I think it's safe to safe that the numbers are on my side. I am sorry that you cannot share my passion for the game, that is a bit sad.

Maybe I shouldn't feed your ego, but I totally agree with you on that

. Your play-by-play casting is great. And Artosis is the best analytical caster out there; you complimented each other perfectly.

dyDrawer

Canada438 Posts

June 11 2014 18:36 GMT

#46

I think including an official Chinese cast is probably the smartest thing you did this tournament, and not many people would make this decision. I'm a little surprised why people have ignored China for so long. Yeah, SC2 isn't the most popular thing there, but considering the fact that they have like a couple of hundred million netizens and gamers, even 1% of those people tuning in to watch is a big deal.

jpoiv

15 Posts

June 11 2014 18:43 GMT

#47

TB, loved the cast and the tourny.. seriously, best I've seen in ages. Felt like a gaping hole was finally being filled in the sc verse for some serious fine wine craftage -- Cheers, can't wait to see more!

iS.zemotion

United States246 Posts

June 11 2014 18:49 GMT

#48

Very nice~

imre

France9263 Posts

June 11 2014 18:58 GMT

#49

Thank you for the games (best sc2 tournament quality wise, not a lot of average games and a tons of good/exceptionnal ones) and for the feedback. Doing 2 all nighters for FlaSh was pretty cool

Pandemona

Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts

June 11 2014 19:04 GMT

#50

Damn that is alot of chinese viewers, didn't know that would be as high as that. Good job as usual mr Biscuit

Was my favorite tournament of yours so far because of the players you had in it :3

Boucot

France15997 Posts

June 11 2014 19:11 GMT

#51

Couldn't see a single game but I'm planning to watch at least the bracket matches. I enjoyed a lot this recap as usual, congrats and keep making this things happen !

Aveng3r

United States2411 Posts

June 11 2014 19:14 GMT

#52

I think its important not to forget how important artosis was to this cast, you and he seemed to compliment each other really well. Make sure he is on board with the next event

HaRuHi

1220 Posts

June 11 2014 19:19 GMT

#53

This writeup, I enjoyed a lot. Thank you for the transparency. TB for Prime Minister!

Incognoto

France10239 Posts

June 11 2014 19:20 GMT

#54

Oi, what is this I never even knew this event was taking place! TL coverage hath failed me?? :o

So a few questions. Where are the VODs? What are the best games to watch? Was this during EU time zone?

I 1000% agree with this:

Frankly, I've kinda given up on creating events for other scenes at this point. I've said it before, Korea has a gigantic cadre of talented players and not enough tournaments for them to play in.

Can we get artosis and tasteless to cast this next time? :B or even some NA caster, they're pretty good

neverls

9 Posts

June 11 2014 19:24 GMT

#55

Thank you for putting on such an amazing tournament! I really enjoyed the games I caught, which would have been a lot more if the rebroadcast had been later. There are still the youtube vods so it's not that bad.

Incognoto

France10239 Posts

June 11 2014 19:26 GMT

#56

ARTOSIS WAS CASTING THIS AND I DIDN'T WATCH

seriously

where are the vods. i don't even know who won yet

where are the vods

E: OK FOund them

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Strela

Netherlands1896 Posts

June 11 2014 19:36 GMT

#57

Thanks so much for this tournament. I didn't manage to watch all the matches because of time issues but the ones I managed to view were really awesome

True_Spike

Poland3432 Posts

June 11 2014 19:39 GMT

#58

Congratulations on a great event, TB.

ZAiNs

United Kingdom6525 Posts

June 11 2014 19:41 GMT

#59

TB <3. Please do more stuff like this!

bsdaemon

618 Posts

June 11 2014 19:54 GMT

#60

I was worried before that TB will stop creating SC2 events because of what happened to Shoutcraft America but I'm glad that is not the case. One thing that seems to be missing is a referral link to the Sandisk ssds. I need some and figured I'd buy from Sandisk but I could not see any referral links on the promotion posts or stream (if it was mentioned, then sorry my bad).