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First off, I have searched and found nothing quite like this  Before posting, I also checked the "Official want to play a game thread," and found it a little less than active.
With PGT down, and the community split between 50 billion channels on 50 billion servers, I'm finding it fairly difficult to get 1v1s with players of a similar skill level.
I've tried the obvious options:
- op tl-west: one third afk, one third just passing through on their way to the next TMM, and one third minor celebrities with better things to do (like...SITTING IN OP TL-WEST!).
- brain/fish: almost exclusively Koreans; a variety of good and bad players, but communication is difficult, and I get a little frustrated after seeing "õÿÔø ;;;;;;;;;;~" for the hundredth time and being kicked.
- random west pubs: some good players, more bad players, even more "You have been banned!"
- clan mates:
blahblah1[blahclan] - offline
blahblah2[blahclan] - offline
blahblah3[blahclan] - offline
blahblah4[blahclan] - offline
For me, none of these are a reliable and consistent way to log game time. What I'm looking for is a bunch of decent, active players to add to my messenger list. Friendly and well-mannered is a plus, but I'm not picky
If you're prepared to be asked almost every day for a set of 1v1s, please reply here with your MSN messenger address, race(s), and skill level (see below). I'll keep a list in this post of anyone who wants to be "advertised" like this.
Skill level:
I - still feel lost often; hard to decide on what to do most of the time.
II - been playing some time, pretty comfortable with the basics of the game.
III - can feel what's happening most of the time, and respond appropriately; rarely make unforced mistakes.
IV - usually feel able to really control the direction the game takes; have reaction down to a science, but prefer to be the one calling the shots.
V - I'M A BEAST!!!
Please don't take the rating system too seriously. It's meant only as a basic guide. If you have any suggestions on improving the wording, however, post away!
players:
fonger / yodathecoda at hotmail dot com / Terran / II
Kwark / kwaark at gmail dot com / Protoss / II (assumed, from what was posted)
Return / run_4_undercover at hotmail dot com / Protoss / III
madro / da_shocka at hotmail dot com / Random / III
Slayer91 / deathbychicken at gmail dot com / Zerg / II - III
nemY / daldernator at gmail dot com / Protoss / II
RtS)Night[Mare / lord_guxtavo at hotmail dot com / Random / II - III (assumed, from personal experience )
Pressure / moonlancer2004 at hotmail dot com / Terran / I
pyrogenetix / pyrogenetix at hotmail dot com / Random / II
thedeadhaji / hmurakam07 at hotmail dot com / Protoss / I - II
LegendaryDreams / jack9wang[at]hotmail[dot]com / Terran / IV
Ancient_Rage / dylan_perkins at hotmail dot com / Zerg / I
DeadVessel / JaredSWoerner at gmail dot com / Random / III
jtan / jtan86 at gmail dot com / Random / II
TheMachine / HA-Machine at hotmail.com /Zerg / III
decafchicken / decafchicken at hotmail dot com / Zerg / III
Sacajawea / firstrel at hotmail dot com / Terran / I
Artanis[Xp] / lex at pwcons dot com / Unknown / III
results:
LegendaryDreams (Z) 3 - 1 (T) fonger // replays
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Hmm.. Since there hasnt been a really good ladder in a long time now Ive actually thought of a pretty easy idea myself where you can go game. I came with up with it after playing a lot of dota.pickup but im too lazy to start it up and it might take a lot of work to get ppl there.
However the basic idea is to have a IRC channel where ppl can get game. You will have bots (which are really easy to adjust for assignments etc). In this channel you would be able to play on all servers, or even hamachi. (Probably best though if you had 1 server or client (hamachi) where all played, at least if you were to do a ladder)
Then after game you would just report to a bot or so and have a website which updated the results but you needed to confirm with a replay or so. It sounds alot like the old wgt system but at least it would be like a ladder-,-
... Or we can just get games as we do today :o Coz it works just fine 95% of time-_-
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Oh and just to add, the best thing incontrary of WGT's bot system, is that it wouldnt lag as much on mirc and bots wouldnt be down 24/7 -_-
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IRC channel for 1v1s is pretty good idea actually, I really like it. Imagine 300 ppl on irc channel shouting "1v1 D+ (or w.e:D) euro, msg me "
Are there any people that could set up those bots ? I'm happy that I can auth myself :D, but rly can't help with this 
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A really good post. I'd be happy to game you alone for that. Though going by your post I guess i'm not what you're looking for. + I could probably only do it a few times.
Best of luck. >.<
doesn't tl.net have an IRC channel with around 50-60 people in there?
Maybe a few of those from time to time would like to game.
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TL irc is really afk though. Ive been bored and gone there looking for games a few times, and to be honest you would have 1000% better luck just making a thread here, even if someone people are gonna be annoyed.
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an irc chan solely for games is a great idea but most of the starcraft players aren't that much into irc so most likely it will end in like a few people who are afk 90% of the time
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The IRC channel is more afk than the op TL-West channel -_- An IRC channel for gaming sounds good.
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Good idea.
I have a suggestion to the Mods. Maybe you can put an Irc Applet like http://cgiirc.sourceforge.net/ on Tl.net website and have a section for getting games. That way the mass traffic this site gets will be directed to the IRC channel and whatever system for getting games could be managed from there.
Also it would just be cool to be able to move with a click to the chat area
Thanks, and I hope we will find a good way to get games soon..
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United States43818 Posts
kwaark at gmail dot com
Protoss
Reasonably competent, but not great.
KwarK.cF- at Europe btw.
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Just thought this thread shouldn't be down so fast.
So what do you think bout it?
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run_4_undercover at hotmail dot com <--- msn
Protoss
I dunno really, some times II sometimes III and even sometimes IV overall i need to play a lot to gain consistency.
But i would probably say III is the most appropriate :S
tNB.Namine @Euro
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IPXZerg / themaestro@hotmail.com / Zerg / X
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United States3518 Posts
madro / da_shocka@hotmail.com / Random /II
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Belgium9950 Posts
seriously, the irc channel is more active now than it used to be
if im online most of the times I can play you btw
just go irc
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deathbychicken@gmail.com <-- MSN
Race: Zerg
II , maybe III
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daldernator@gmail.com <-- MSN
Race: Protoss
II
PS: I'm in ur team, mutal /f and on all the time; we should game sometime
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I'd like to play if my damn bw worked -_-
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lord_guxtavo@hotmail.com
Protoss
we're like 4-5 :p
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Thanks for the responses. I've updated the original post, and will be adding and spamming you all for games shortly
After making this thread I had an idea, which I'm currently working on. It's nothing big like PGT, but potentially an easy and convenient way to get games and possibly even have a ladder. Probably be posting about this within a few days, but in the meantime if anyone has access to an always-on, static-address server that they can allow me to run a custom program on (low bandwidth, CPU and memory usage), please let me know
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SirKibbleX - Roughly a I - II, depends on the day. I'm still kind of new to playing seriously, I mostly just play among a small crowd of total newb friends, some of whom don't even know what 'hotkeying' means. I'm at the top of the food chain in this tiny group b/c I also play a fair deal of U.S. East, but I don't last 5 minutes outside of U.S. Servers.
Oh, and I play random.
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On January 17 2007 10:53 Metal[x] wrote:
what team are u guys in?
[blahclan]
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Teamliquid IRC is so dead.. jesu
moonlancer2004@hotmail.com <-- msn
im on aim more often.. -> Into The Wow
Race : T
I
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thedeadhaji
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I feel like it wont hurt to add myself, i guess.
msn: hmurakam07 at hotmail dot com
bnet id: thedeadhaji
race: P
level: II... actually make that I~II since once in a while I'll play like a clueless dumbshit, like seeing spire with sair and yet NOT buidling cannons.
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On January 17 2007 17:59 rhapsOdy wrote:[blahclan]
is that a serious respponse? if so wat server is this on?
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United States3518 Posts
I'm rarely afk whenever I join op tl-west (if thats the only channel?)
bnet id: madro
aim : x7ML
I usually play random.
Yeeeeeehaw!
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We have an IRC channel that's very active, we have our own PvPGN server #Starcraft-aust on irc.Gamesurge.net we are working on getting a ladder up or at least a bot that could log results like already mentioned all we need is more players.
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Skill: III -> IV
Race: Terran
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Actually I\'m IV level.
I\'ll be willing to play bo3 bo5 daily on hamachi mainly.
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dylan_perkins@hotmail.com
Race: Zerg
Skill: I
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meh what can it hurt =]
JaredSWoernerATGmail.com
III Skill~
Protoss but I'll play whatever race
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Didn't play for a really long time, played a couple of games that last few days and really enjoyed it, so why not:D
Race: P or T or random...well ehatever really^^
Skill. No idea now..like 2 probably-.,-
I dont mind playing a lot better or a lot less good players though
jtan86@gmail.com
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Um.....
/f m 1v1 sexies~ You know you wanna~~
never worked for you?
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TheMachine / HA-Machine@hotmail.com /Zerg /|||
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decafchicken / decafchicken at hotmail dot com/zerg/III
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rel[sR], F7k
firstrel@hotmail.com
Terran
I
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layogurt at west
roc)yogurt at east
philopo816 @ aim
i'm like a II
zerg
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Artanis[Xp] on europe
Artanis[Xp] on west (rarely online)
lexatpwconsdotcom, probably around III.
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Updated the first post, sorry it took so long. Also encourage people to post results of any games/series they play against other people on the list.
Just got molested by LegendaryDreams' off-race, good practice though
edit: Oh yeah, I'll host replays of games for anyone who feels like uploading them too
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abadre-@hotmail.com
I'm decent zerg player.. prolly around II-III
add me up.. i love sc! and i want to get good at it
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ShuaiRan (europe)
cryptica at gmx dot net
Toss around II - III level I'd say
just msg me for games
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funkie on west
cloud)raul on east
pltoiszerg on europe
probably around I or II. I just plain suck.
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at the moment I'm Nightmarjoo)pS( on west, SenSe.Nitmarjoo on east, Nightmarjoo[BA] on euro (rarely on there) and same on asia (rarely on there as well).
my msn is Nightmarjoo@hotmail.com, feel free to ask me for games; I'm not always able to play or to be active though, school takes up a lot of my time
I'd say I'm about a zerg ||| level based on that, my performance varies as school results in little sleep often, or I was busy the week before and hadn't had any practice etc. zvt is my best mu, I think my tvz > my zvz but I'll play it my zvp just sorta blows, it's particularly bad if I don't have recent practice with it. My other mus are just bad ><
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