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On October 26 2011 02:31 OpticalShot wrote:
Hiya'd dad passed away. I was reading article about how players, coaches, and teams were already planning to attend funeral / offer condolences.
*edit: RIP.
Hiya'd dad passed away. I was reading article about how players, coaches, and teams were already planning to attend funeral / offer condolences.
*edit: RIP.
Source: fomos
New Proleague maps heavily anti-Protoss!?
http://vimeo.com/31016124
Recently, Stork, Jangbi, Best, Bisu, Horang2 and Movie met up for a small chit-chat. Stork, Jangbi, Bisu, Horang2 and Best started off by complaining about the new maps to be used in the upcoming Proleague season. Bisu wanted to complain about the maps during broadcast, but Stork said it'll be too late to change the maps by then. They all complained that they are heavily zerg favored in PvZ, while for PvT, as usual, it's Terran favored (lol). Jangbi stated that it may be because 3 years ago, the mapmaker went to Khan for advice, and his maps all ended up being heavily toss-favored, and thus, he does not trust the team for map balancing advice anymore. Bisu, during the discussion of carriers vs arbiters, commented that carriers take too much micro to use, while arbiters just require one spell cast.
Source: fomos
Netizen's general consensus about Proleague matches' frequency and other issues
The results were somewhat similar to the polls on TL.
60% of the 2720 netizens who voted said yes to 5 days a week, bo7 format, while 12.5% said 5 days, bo5, 17.7% said 3 or 4 days, bo5 while the rest voted misc.
out of 2535 people who voted on the winners' league issue, 51.1% said keep the current WL format (2 rounds of winners' league), while 40.1% said revert it back to 1 round format, while the other 7.7% said take it out of proleague, and remaining 1.1% voted misc.
with regards to SC2, 48.9% (or 1345 voters, out of 2752 voters) said no to SC2 completely, while the other options - "SC2 slowly integrated", "implement SC2 straightaway" and "misc" - got 34.2%, 16.0% and 0.9% votes respectively.
source: fomos
KT Rolster and Woongjin Stars to have combined workshop
The two teams will be going tto O2 Resort (somewhere in Gangwondo, Tae-bek) from the 26th to 28th to enhance teamwork skills and such. Interesting how it's a two-team workshop instead of individual ones.
Source: Daily E-Sports
Update: Apparently, they played soccer. Light's team vs Reach's team. Reach's team smashed light's team 4:3.
Hydra to get lasik
On October 27 2011 14:15 BLinD-RawR wrote:
in other news Hydra is getting LASIK(Laser eye surgery?) onhis damaged eye. (T/N: false info, it's actually on the good eye, but it's deteriorated)
source:DES
in other news Hydra is getting LASIK(Laser eye surgery?) on
source:DES
On October 28 2011 02:47 OpticalShot wrote:
Hydra's LASIK is on his "good" eye, not the damaged one. Because he's been solely relying on one eye for intense usage like SCBW, his eyesight is degrading on that good eye. Before he put on a lens he could barely tell what's going on in the minimap. He put on that lens and he had his recent surge as #1 Zerg (sigh JD get your act together).
So he's doing that LASIK on the good eye to see better without the lens. I'm not sure whether it helps him preserve his eyesight longer or whatever.
Hydra's LASIK is on his "good" eye, not the damaged one. Because he's been solely relying on one eye for intense usage like SCBW, his eyesight is degrading on that good eye. Before he put on a lens he could barely tell what's going on in the minimap. He put on that lens and he had his recent surge as #1 Zerg (sigh JD get your act together).
So he's doing that LASIK on the good eye to see better without the lens. I'm not sure whether it helps him preserve his eyesight longer or whatever.
Update: Hydra's surgery went successfully. He may even be able to start playing normally in 2 weeks!
BW to not have B.Net shutdown
On October 28 2011 02:47 OpticalShot wrote:
In other news, looks like the Shutdown Regulation will be edited to exclude Blizzard games. I don't have any official statements but there are articles on the usual sites (Fomos, DES, TIG, PlayXP, etc. blablabla) that report that Family Women's Council will make the necessary edits to exempt Blizzard's classic games from the regulation. The tricky thing is that this raises the question whether SC2 should also be exempt (for now it seems like it'll still be affected) as well, since it falls under the same category of "packaged, CD-installed games" but the user's age can be checked.
In other news, looks like the Shutdown Regulation will be edited to exclude Blizzard games. I don't have any official statements but there are articles on the usual sites (Fomos, DES, TIG, PlayXP, etc. blablabla) that report that Family Women's Council will make the necessary edits to exempt Blizzard's classic games from the regulation. The tricky thing is that this raises the question whether SC2 should also be exempt (for now it seems like it'll still be affected) as well, since it falls under the same category of "packaged, CD-installed games" but the user's age can be checked.
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