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First Ever BronyCraft Tournament, Success!

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BioSC
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States636 Posts
December 04 2011 06:54 GMT
#1
You may not have heard of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. You may not have watched the show, and you may even not LIKE the show.

That's NOT what this blog is about. This blog is a summary of an amateur caster and his adventures running a small tournament, and having a 200 tonne explosion of awesome happen with one of the coolest communities within a community, the Team Liquid Bronies.

What follows is a recount of the events of Saturday, December 4th, 2011 in an amateur tournament for fun that ended up being just that. FUN.

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Pure Awesome.
"My sides hurt from laughing so much"
"My cheeks hurt because I can't stop smiling"
"This community is why I'm doing the MC server, and why I'm doing the Mare-A-Thon, and why Rael/Endrey/BioSC is freaking casting five hours of epic Bronycraft."
"This tournament is turning out EPIC"
"Best tournament.. EVER! xD"

This and many more quotes were taken from the IRC/Chat discussing the first ever BronyCraft US tournament. I speak for myself, but I am very confident in saying that it was a giant, pony-filled success! This open tournament to anyone who stepped into this very thread and posted were allowed to join. Was there a prize for first place? No. Was there anyone who even joined up? YES. 30 people signed up to play, and while there were a few who had to drop for various reasons, we still managed to clock 5! hours of Starcraft 2.

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(Most Terrans in the tournament =D)

I will begin by saying that I was probably not the best of casters to start. I was deathly nervous going into the first game of the day, and watching the VOD back I can see it in my casting. As the tournament went on, I loosened up much more, and got into it more. I am a HUGE fan of not only Starcraft, but ALL of E-Sports, and what I lacked in technical casting techniques, I tried to make up for with my passion and love for the game. I originally began casting as a color guy, and that is the role I was more comfortable in, so when Raelcun and Endrey joined to make the casting triplet, I was right where I felt was my strongest as a caster.

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(Me at the start of the Tournament)

While I did the brackets during the tournament, I could not have even come close to the amount of awesome that was BronyCraft NA #1 without the help of Raelcun and Endrey. Both of these amazing people helped me more than I thought possible. Endrey already had plans for announcing a tournament this same weekend before I actually wrote up the post wanting to go ahead with the tournament. I felt awful, and grouped up with him to do a combo-tournament of sorts, where his and my ideas mixed and became BronyCraft. He then made this post, showing he actually laid out a map pool for the tournament, and even got to work on custom overlays/loading screens for each map, decked out in pony style!

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(My personal favorite loading screen!)

Endrey had planned on using his own live stream during the event, but due to technical issues, we turned to none other than Raelcun, using his personal stream on twitchtv to have the main stream to watch. Watching a few of their early round VODs show that these two know what they are doing and make a great pair to cast the action. Rael was on top of the Pony soundboard, here, to give the stream that extra MLP flair. Both he and myself played PMV's during the downtime between rounds/games, and generally the casting was laid back, fun, and full of shoutouts to the show we all love.

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(That's when the semifinals started.)

I won't spoil the results for you in case you haven't watched any of the games yet, but Raelcun, Endrey, and myself teamed up on Skype for the semifinals onward to cast each Bo3 match. And that's when things got a little crazy. There were dancing zerglings, manner hatches and nexues, words spelled with pylons, crazy micro, and one of the biggest baneling minefield detonations I personally have ever seen. All of this punctuated with MLP soundboards, pony questions, wingboners, and all sorts of good natured jesting.

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The Godfather Himself.

All in all, it was an amazing, stressful, wonderful, worrisome, truly epic time, and I FULLY plan on hosting another as soon as my body will let me. A few thank you's to those who truly helped make this go beyond my expectations.

Endrey - Thanks for being a generally awesome person and helping me run/cast this tournament! I owe you one for when YOU host a tournament!

Raelcun - Thanks for taking time from your schedule to cast a simple, for fun tournament with your fellow Bronies, and thanks for answering some of my inane questions!

Cane/Alyear - Thanks for giving me the support I needed when I was very, very nervous about this tournament. You were right, it all worked out wonderfully!

And last but not least, all the Bronies. The ones that played in the tournament, the ones that watched on Raelcun's or My stream, and the Bronies that couldn't make it due to personal reasons or circumstances beyond their control: You all made it worth the effort, as always! Continue being awesome people!

As I said multiple time since the festivities came to a close: I haven't stopped smiling for several hours, and I will most likely have a stupid grin on my face for the next few days for no particular reason when I'm seen in public. Thank you all for making the first ever BronyCraft NA tournament something I will never forget.

Cheers,
~Bio

For those wondering about V.O.D's, I have all the games I casted on my channel highlighted HERE

For the Round games AND the Semi's onward, the bulk video for Raelcun's stream can be found HERE
If Raelcun hasn't highlighted them, I will probably get around to highlighting them sometime tomorrow.

PS: Yeah, we are STILL... STILL completely AWESOME!
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Thanks for reading!

****
Bio - Breaking it down
Crisium
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States1618 Posts
December 04 2011 06:58 GMT
#2
I lost my only game, but it was fun playing and even more fun watching some of the epic games.
Broodwar and Stork forever! List of BW players with most Ro16, Ro8: http://tinyurl.com/BWRo16-Ro8
Gary Oak
Profile Joined June 2011
Canada2381 Posts
December 04 2011 07:00 GMT
#3
As a participant in the tournament, I had a great deal of fun, though I think a metric ton of jokes were made at my expense. =P

I can't wait for the next one and I hope to show better games next time!
[14:15] <+Skrammen> I like clicking Gary's links, kinda. Its like playing with lava.
Sermokala
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States14036 Posts
December 04 2011 07:01 GMT
#4
Guys the games where so amazing. The vods for realcun should come out tomarrow and if you just watch the semi's and the finals and then finally the bronze match you will experience the best action you've never seen coming.
A wise man will say that he knows nothing. We're gona party like its 2752 Hail Dark Brandon
Bibbit
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada5377 Posts
December 04 2011 07:02 GMT
#5
Looks like it was a ton of fun ! I wanted to join in but it wasn't a good time for me, maybe next time. T_T

Can someone spoiler who won?
Crisium
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States1618 Posts
December 04 2011 07:05 GMT
#6
Spoiler brackets:

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http://challonge.com/bronycraft1
Broodwar and Stork forever! List of BW players with most Ro16, Ro8: http://tinyurl.com/BWRo16-Ro8
Gary Oak
Profile Joined June 2011
Canada2381 Posts
December 04 2011 07:08 GMT
#7
On December 04 2011 16:02 Bibbit wrote:
Looks like it was a ton of fun ! I wanted to join in but it wasn't a good time for me, maybe next time. T_T

Can someone spoiler who won?

+ Show Spoiler [Okay] +
Whitewingboner managed to take the finals 2-1 in an amazing upset because FireZerg pulled a Bomber and hotdogged too much. I found myself a Diamond level player amongst mid-high Master level players, so I sank to 4th pretty swiftly. Rainbowdash (GypsyBeast) took 3rd.
[14:15] <+Skrammen> I like clicking Gary's links, kinda. Its like playing with lava.
Chaman Jyash
Profile Joined September 2011
United States107 Posts
December 04 2011 07:13 GMT
#8
It was such a pleasure playing in this tournament even though I had to face firezerg early on. On our second game we loaded up both as terran (we play zerg) and so we just went with it, it didn't end up being the longest game but boy it was fun. I was proud to at least make it to the quarter finals, as was my goal. Please do another one of these soon Bio and thanks Endrey/Rael!
“Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.”
Rehio
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1718 Posts
December 04 2011 07:16 GMT
#9
I can't believe I missed something like this. I didn't even know it was happening. :C
BioSC
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States636 Posts
December 04 2011 07:43 GMT
#10
I truly wish that everyone who wanted to play could play, but since the tournament was just a small one for the first tournament, lots of people had to drop out/ I couldn't advertise too much. I fully plan on making the next one bigger and better, but that won't be for a while. But when it does!

Watch out =D
Bio - Breaking it down
3FFA
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States3931 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-04 08:10:27
December 04 2011 08:09 GMT
#11
How is it possible to have manner nexuses and hatches? Also, where can I go to see vods/replays?
"As long as it comes from a pure place and from a honest place, you know, you can write whatever you want."
pettter
Profile Joined December 2009
Sweden1032 Posts
December 04 2011 11:34 GMT
#12
VODs were mentioned in the post I think; specifically, they are up on
http://twitch.tv/bio_hon
http://twitch.tv/raelcun

Also thanks for organising this, Bio! It was an absolute blast

Manner nexi and hatches are simple, if the opponent doesn't leave, drop hatches and nexi in his main.
Lynda
Profile Joined May 2010
649 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-04 12:22:32
December 04 2011 12:19 GMT
#13
This was an incredibly amazing event; I like how everyone on #tlponies skipped out on NASL in order to watch this instead, and oh god was it most definitely worth it.

The casts were very entertaining, and I like how Rael found a fantastic use for the MLP Soundboard. Great to know that Endrey, Rael and Bio had as much fun as the players and the viewers. Can't wait for the next tournament.

There were a lot of highlights, but my most favourite ones were + Show Spoiler +
coL.FireZerg saying "you just got... flanked!" and "dear princess celestia, today i learned that protoss is op"
and one of the games in the semis containing + Show Spoiler +
trash talking + cannon rush into proxy dual Stargates next to the cannons, with Nydused Lings/Banelings in response, resulting in a tense game that ended with + Show Spoiler +
Carriers and a Mothership
that it wouldn't have felt out of place in a funday monday! If + Show Spoiler +
coL.FireZerg sent that replay to Day[9]
my life really would be complete. :D

Next time you guys need to get Trump and TLO to also sign up heh, although it was already really awesome that coL.FireZerg participated despite the lack of prizes.
Klyberess
Profile Joined October 2010
Sweden345 Posts
December 04 2011 15:04 GMT
#14
EU next time?
EmpireHappy <3 STHack <3 ByunPrime
Phant
Profile Joined August 2010
United States737 Posts
December 04 2011 16:39 GMT
#15
On December 04 2011 17:09 3FFA wrote:
How is it possible to have manner nexuses and hatches? Also, where can I go to see vods/replays?


The first few hours were pretty straight forward, things got REALLY interesting in the last 90 minutes once the semi finals were reached.
DuB phool
Profile Joined April 2011
United States1003 Posts
December 04 2011 17:04 GMT
#16
Sad I had to miss out on the last few games, but what I did get to see was most epic. I'll definitely be watching the VODs today.

Thank you everypony for making this amazing! It's so true... we are completely awesome.
"overwatch is jesus" - motbob 2016
GMarshal
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States22154 Posts
December 04 2011 19:42 GMT
#17
Lack of vods that I could link makes me sad.

Other than that, I'm happy it worked out, we actually appeared in the nightly roundup ^_^
Moderator
520
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States2822 Posts
December 04 2011 23:26 GMT
#18
It was awesome. I'm glad I got my games cast because it made it obvious what my weaknesses are. Now I know what to work on more!
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