An event is coming up that merits our collective attention. Something which South Koreans take for granted and today it is part of their every day Starcraft life. Something us foreigners have never had with the exception of WCG. A live Starcraft game will be broadcasted, both images and sound and commentated in English.
GGL will be hosting their final game, FROZ versus Evade. The event will be commented by WackSteven who what he lacks in Starcraft skill more than compensates with enthusiasm and commentating skills. This match will be hosted www.ggl.com for anyone to enjoy. They have bought extra bandwidth and the laughed at my suggestions that when the Starcraft community found out about the event their system would crash.
Of course they compare us to the counterstrike community who for quite some time now has been privy of these live VOD type broadcasts. Their reasoning is, if they can’t crash their servers nor will the Starcraft community. I guess we may prove them otherwise if the whole community shows up.
Another interesting feature is that the opponents will meet at BNet-X for the final match to keep everything clean and tidy. GGL has understood the most important rule of competitive gaming: Fair Play. Something that online is only provided by the “amateurs” like BNet-X and WGTour with their official BWscanner. If there ever was a bigger wake up call for Blizzard, this one is it. The community is begging for a fair ladder environment, keep the promise true like the Original Disc promised!
Froz from his home will meet at BNet-X with Evade from his own place. This is not their first game either at this competition. Earlier in the tournament, while both in the winners bracket, Froz beat Evade, 2-0 (ouch!) and sent him to the losers brackets. Evade has refused to go home with his loss and made it all the way to the final, apparently with a black-eye, hurt and mad, ready to face Froz again. Rematch! This is the battle we will see live commented by WackSteven.
For those of you who do not know Froz, he is the American that beat Boxer twice in Boxer’s last WCG (that he won). He has always been a solid USA player. As for Evade is less known, also from the USA, a clear underdog in this match but battle proven after the long losers brackets torment. I believe he is also known as 88)evade or Ve-S)Evade, but don’t shoot me if I am wrong. The winner will take home 1500 US $ and the loser will take home 1000 US$. Live world wide coverage, money prizes, not bad, not bad at all. What more does GGL has to do to attract our attention?
You will be able to view the match here sometime Monday, exact time to be determined. You will have to be registered so might as well register now and not at the last moment, up to you though. I do not know about you, but I am watching this one.
On February 04 2005 21:49 Physician wrote: GGL Starcraft Finals: GGL Live VOD Broadcast The event will be commented by WackSteven who what he lacks in Starcraft skill more than compensates with enthusiasm and commentating skills.
damn, dunno why you guys are hatin on WackSteven, he's a kewl guy.
i know some of you probably think you could do better than him at his job, but he's the one getting paid to do it, not the rest of us, it's not as easy you may think.
You will be able to view the match here sometime Monday, exact time to be determined. You will have to be registered so might as well register now and not at the last moment, up to you though. I do not know about you, but I am watching this one.
Guess that's the answer, though it's weird that it isn't mentioned on the site anywhere.
<Gessfk> So uh.. are the starcraft finals today? <GGL-DonKing> yeah <GGL-DonKing> if this is last week they are <Gessfk> I don't follow..how do I find out if this is the last week? <Gessfk> or are you saying they were played last week <GGL-DonKing> played last week <Gessfk> k
Is WackSteven the guy who commentated the last WCG? If so, that guy isn't very good :o. I prefer Manifesto's RWA's much more. He should commentate the next WCG :D
Is he the same commentator from the radio shoutcasts of WCG ?? If so then he is the worst most boring arse commentator I have ever heard with his thousands of "er" and the like.
Now the guy who did the counter-strike commentary, that was pure genius. "bawm bawm bawm"
you knew there was gonna be Replays and also Vods, so what's the problem?
i said the replays are ready, they've been ready since monday, as you can tell from the number of downloads shown, the Vod isnt ready yet, end of story.
On February 09 2005 09:07 SojT wrote: where are the replays?? how much longer for the vods??
The replays are in the Media Section . Click on Media Recordings at top. The thing is the files are called "unluck vs evade" .. took me a while, I had no idea Unluck was Froz.
I hope the Vod is Coming out soon. Does anyone know what its going to be like ? Is it just an RWA they are calling "vod" or what ?
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