VANT had 38,000,000 prize pool while this 24,000,000. At least this one is not top heavy and everyone in the RO16 will get some cash. Sounds cool.
First place getting five times as much as second place not too top heavy? Huh?
I meant not top heavy as the VANT league. That one the first place took 6 times as much and non below 4th place took anything. Here everyone does take something.
On June 15 2016 20:03 GTR wrote: remember that this is afreeca and kongdoo ponying up the prize pool instead of a sponsor so it's pretty generous if you ask me
Agreed. Hopefully this one will be a blast and attract more sponsors for the next season.
On June 15 2016 20:03 GTR wrote: remember that this is afreeca and kongdoo ponying up the prize pool instead of a sponsor so it's pretty generous if you ask me
Agreed. Hopefully this one will be a blast and attract more sponsors for the next season.
hmm, might attract a good amount of foreign audience if tastosis are casting but korean numbers have to be good for sponsors.
On June 15 2016 20:03 GTR wrote: remember that this is afreeca and kongdoo ponying up the prize pool instead of a sponsor so it's pretty generous if you ask me
Agreed. Hopefully this one will be a blast and attract more sponsors for the next season.
hmm, might attract a good amount of foreign audience if tastosis are casting but korean numbers have to be good for sponsors.
On June 15 2016 20:03 GTR wrote: remember that this is afreeca and kongdoo ponying up the prize pool instead of a sponsor so it's pretty generous if you ask me
Agreed. Hopefully this one will be a blast and attract more sponsors for the next season.
hmm, might attract a good amount of foreign audience if tastosis are casting but korean numbers have to be good for sponsors.
well just when we had the chance to mb get professional foreign casters back into Broodwar, there's a sharp decline. Less players advance from the prelims, less prize money and no sponsor. The last part is worrysome to me; if the annual big korean Starleague can't find a proper sponsor, it's sad times.
Happy to see this tho and best of luck to Scan who is training hard fot it. Competition is gonna be very tough.
On June 15 2016 20:03 GTR wrote: remember that this is afreeca and kongdoo ponying up the prize pool instead of a sponsor so it's pretty generous if you ask me
GTR, are you casting this event i'm guessing, and if so with who sir?
On June 15 2016 20:03 GTR wrote: remember that this is afreeca and kongdoo ponying up the prize pool instead of a sponsor so it's pretty generous if you ask me
Agreed. Hopefully this one will be a blast and attract more sponsors for the next season.
hmm, might attract a good amount of foreign audience if tastosis are casting but korean numbers have to be good for sponsors.
well just when we had the chance to mb get professional foreign casters back into Broodwar, there's a sharp decline. Less players advance from the prelims, less prize money and no sponsor. The last part is worrysome to me; if the annual big korean Starleague can't find a proper sponsor, it's sad times.
Happy to see this tho and best of luck to Scan who is training hard fot it. Competition is gonna be very tough.
Thanks for cheering me. I really do not know if I will be able to participate. My plane schedule is on 22nd which I will arrive in Korea night time on 23rd. Currently, I am having a difficulty of registering the qualifiers so I sent an email to them. I hope I can play..
So sick to see broodwar coming back! Afreeca has done a great job with GSL this season so I'm excited to relive my first experiences watching KR Broodwar all over again.
On June 16 2016 04:09 prech wrote: Hope all the top progamers participate. With the decreased prize money and all the time needed for prep/practice, that's less balloon-earning time...
Presumably Flash will play with his Afreeca relationship
On June 15 2016 20:03 GTR wrote: remember that this is afreeca and kongdoo ponying up the prize pool instead of a sponsor so it's pretty generous if you ask me
Agreed. Hopefully this one will be a blast and attract more sponsors for the next season.
hmm, might attract a good amount of foreign audience if tastosis are casting but korean numbers have to be good for sponsors.
well just when we had the chance to mb get professional foreign casters back into Broodwar, there's a sharp decline. Less players advance from the prelims, less prize money and no sponsor. The last part is worrysome to me; if the annual big korean Starleague can't find a proper sponsor, it's sad times.
Happy to see this tho and best of luck to Scan who is training hard fot it. Competition is gonna be very tough.
Thanks for cheering me. I really do not know if I will be able to participate. My plane schedule is on 22nd which I will arrive in Korea night time on 23rd. Currently, I am having a difficulty of registering the qualifiers so I sent an email to them. I hope I can play..
On June 16 2016 04:09 prech wrote: Hope all the top progamers participate. With the decreased prize money and all the time needed for prep/practice, that's less balloon-earning time...
Presumably Flash will play with his Afreeca relationship
On June 16 2016 04:09 prech wrote: Hope all the top progamers participate. With the decreased prize money and all the time needed for prep/practice, that's less balloon-earning time...
Presumably Flash will play with his Afreeca relationship
On June 16 2016 04:09 prech wrote: Hope all the top progamers participate. With the decreased prize money and all the time needed for prep/practice, that's less balloon-earning time...
Presumably Flash will play with his Afreeca relationship
On June 16 2016 05:10 MifuneKinski wrote: Time to tweet the sponsors to see a Tastosis cast?
Tweet your resident casters too. Some of us *wink* *wink* have been casting consistently big tournament's for the past 4 years.
Whos they? Only Bisu's name has come out so far.
Dodge harder bisu, he used SSL11 to dodge the army last year, now that he isn't even willing to compete in tournaments, how did he manage to avoid it this year?
On June 16 2016 04:09 prech wrote: Hope all the top progamers participate. With the decreased prize money and all the time needed for prep/practice, that's less balloon-earning time...
Presumably Flash will play with his Afreeca relationship
Ah come on if they do not participate it will be huge hit to the whole tournament
Yeah, their attitude towards the KCM tournaments has been poor too. It's very upsetting.
On June 16 2016 05:10 MifuneKinski wrote: Time to tweet the sponsors to see a Tastosis cast?
Tweet your resident casters too. Some of us *wink* *wink* have been casting consistently big tournament's for the past 4 years.
Whos they? Only Bisu's name has come out so far.
Dodge harder bisu, he used SSL11 to dodge the army last year, now that he isn't even willing to compete in tournaments, how did he manage to avoid it this year?
On June 16 2016 03:17 Wrath wrote: Please keep us updated if anyone notice Jaedong in the qualifiers.
Why would Jaedong play in a tourney without any practice? Pretty sure he would be very quickly recognized on ladder if he was practicing. It would be a dream if he is playing but false hope just leads to more tears.
On June 16 2016 03:17 Wrath wrote: Please keep us updated if anyone notice Jaedong in the qualifiers.
Why would Jaedong play in a tourney without any practice? Pretty sure he would be very quickly recognized on ladder if he was practicing. It would be a dream if he is playing but false hope just leads to more tears.
On June 15 2016 20:03 GTR wrote: remember that this is afreeca and kongdoo ponying up the prize pool instead of a sponsor so it's pretty generous if you ask me
Agreed. Hopefully this one will be a blast and attract more sponsors for the next season.
hmm, might attract a good amount of foreign audience if tastosis are casting but korean numbers have to be good for sponsors.
well just when we had the chance to mb get professional foreign casters back into Broodwar, there's a sharp decline. Less players advance from the prelims, less prize money and no sponsor. The last part is worrysome to me; if the annual big korean Starleague can't find a proper sponsor, it's sad times.
Looks like starleague.kr was updated today with VANT36.5 added under sponsor, so it's good to hear an outside sponsor is providing some financing.
Hopefully they're pleased with the exposure from the VNSL last year
On June 15 2016 20:03 GTR wrote: remember that this is afreeca and kongdoo ponying up the prize pool instead of a sponsor so it's pretty generous if you ask me
Agreed. Hopefully this one will be a blast and attract more sponsors for the next season.
hmm, might attract a good amount of foreign audience if tastosis are casting but korean numbers have to be good for sponsors.
well just when we had the chance to mb get professional foreign casters back into Broodwar, there's a sharp decline. Less players advance from the prelims, less prize money and no sponsor. The last part is worrysome to me; if the annual big korean Starleague can't find a proper sponsor, it's sad times.
Looks like starleague.kr was updated today with VANT36.5 added under sponsor, so it's good to hear an outside sponsor is providing some financing.
Hopefully they're pleased with the exposure from the VNSL last year
Based VANT36.5 saving Brood War!
If we get either Jaedong vs Flash or vs Bisu in the finals could we see they delaying the finals one week to get an outer venue? Man can dream
On June 15 2016 20:03 GTR wrote: remember that this is afreeca and kongdoo ponying up the prize pool instead of a sponsor so it's pretty generous if you ask me
Agreed. Hopefully this one will be a blast and attract more sponsors for the next season.
hmm, might attract a good amount of foreign audience if tastosis are casting but korean numbers have to be good for sponsors.
well just when we had the chance to mb get professional foreign casters back into Broodwar, there's a sharp decline. Less players advance from the prelims, less prize money and no sponsor. The last part is worrysome to me; if the annual big korean Starleague can't find a proper sponsor, it's sad times.
Looks like starleague.kr was updated today with VANT36.5 added under sponsor, so it's good to hear an outside sponsor is providing some financing.
Hopefully they're pleased with the exposure from the VNSL last year
Poll: BisuDagger Samples VANT products facecam stream?
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On June 15 2016 20:03 GTR wrote: remember that this is afreeca and kongdoo ponying up the prize pool instead of a sponsor so it's pretty generous if you ask me
Agreed. Hopefully this one will be a blast and attract more sponsors for the next season.
hmm, might attract a good amount of foreign audience if tastosis are casting but korean numbers have to be good for sponsors.
well just when we had the chance to mb get professional foreign casters back into Broodwar, there's a sharp decline. Less players advance from the prelims, less prize money and no sponsor. The last part is worrysome to me; if the annual big korean Starleague can't find a proper sponsor, it's sad times.
Looks like starleague.kr was updated today with VANT36.5 added under sponsor, so it's good to hear an outside sponsor is providing some financing.
Hopefully they're pleased with the exposure from the VNSL last year
Poll: BisuDagger Samples VANT products facecam stream?
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Your vote: BisuDagger Samples VANT products facecam stream?
On June 16 2016 22:10 Cele wrote: good to see VANT sponsor it again! Has the prize money been raised yet?
nothing has been said yet, but if it has, they should also increase the player pool to atleast 24 and seed the top 4 from the VNSL in the Ro16, which happens to contain both Bisu and ZerO the two people who have expressed doubt about participating, pretty much guaranteeing their participation.
of course rescheduling is going to be hard at this point.
Speaking of seeds, a news article/press release came out yesterday. It looks like EffOrt and Bisu are being provided byes into the Ro16 as seeds based on their VNSL performances.
Also some mention of Flash and Best, I think about being likely participants?
On June 17 2016 03:13 prech wrote: Speaking of seeds, a news article/press release came out yesterday. It looks like EffOrt and Bisu are being provided byes into the Ro16 as seeds based on their VNSL performances.
Also some mention of Flash and Best, I think about being likely participants?
On June 17 2016 03:13 prech wrote: Speaking of seeds, a news article/press release came out yesterday. It looks like EffOrt and Bisu are being provided byes into the Ro16 as seeds based on their VNSL performances.
Also some mention of Flash and Best, I think about being likely participants?
I would be more than happy with just a cast by BisuDagger and amazingxkcd, but wonder if the sound could be more consistent in volume (compressed?) if possible
On June 17 2016 03:13 prech wrote: Speaking of seeds, a news article/press release came out yesterday. It looks like EffOrt and Bisu are being provided byes into the Ro16 as seeds based on their VNSL performances.
Also some mention of Flash and Best, I think about being likely participants?
Woo! I'm really glad this is finally announced. I hope BW can rebuild the momentum we had earlier this year. It was so awesome to see so many people watching BW on Twitch, Tasteless & Artosis, Brood War trending on Twitter them announcing TWO leagues for 2016 ....and then the drought of nothing.
Oh well, enough of the whining, I'm excited for the future! I hope the schedule is nice enough for Bisudagger & xkcd can cast a lot of it.
having new blood is meaningless when its a fight for 16 spots, there should be at least ro32 for them to have chance. Also non ex-pro tours are needed to support that.
Are you sure they are young people? As I know in korea every young guy plays lol. Dont forget korea sold 4mio bw copies, Its clear that bw has still a big community of old fans.
On June 19 2016 17:43 GTR wrote: Might throw Shark an email to see if I can get official permission to go to the Seoul qualifiers and Periscope the event.
Do they usually allow spectators for the qualifiers? I would like to go if it's possible, or else I will just wait for the ro16 ;p
I feel like they gonna split to 32 ppl each session and pick 1st 2nd. For example, if there is 320 ppl coming for seoul qualifer, then split to 10 sessions. So there will be 20 qualified players and plus same thing for pusan qualifier. Whatever the number of players qualified play against each other for until 12 players remaining.
Idk my basic idea could be wrong. Idk how they are gonna pull out 12 players out of 600 players.
On June 19 2016 17:43 GTR wrote: Might throw Shark an email to see if I can get official permission to go to the Seoul qualifiers and Periscope the event.
Do they usually allow spectators for the qualifiers? I would like to go if it's possible, or else I will just wait for the ro16 ;p
Idk if u can come or not. Kongdoo probably bought like a day rent for that pc bang, and they will ask you to show your id to come in. Am I wrong? I can ask kongdoo company on fb page about this if you are planning to visit to watch. Idk
On June 19 2016 17:43 GTR wrote: Might throw Shark an email to see if I can get official permission to go to the Seoul qualifiers and Periscope the event.
Do they usually allow spectators for the qualifiers? I would like to go if it's possible, or else I will just wait for the ro16 ;p
Idk if u can come or not. Kongdoo probably bought like a day rent for that pc bang, and they will ask you to show your id to come in. Am I wrong? I can ask kongdoo company on fb page about this if you are planning to visit to watch. Idk
I was going to email Shark (CEO) in my broken Korean but if the venue is THAT far from Seoul (probably an hour train ride for me) I don't think it would be worth going anymore.
flash last sea larva kwanro hero mong free piano shuttle ssak best movie sky jaehoon rush guemchi mind ample kal hogil hiya lazy iris miso britney terror tyson shinee major rock (trolling)mini hyvaa pure trot zeus
and thats just the former pros qualifiers gonna be a fun slaughterfest #whynostream
7 players from each prelims will qualify. but if you get eliminated in seoul on saturday, you can try again in busan. Many of the ex-progamers are planning to do this because seoul prelim will be insane since almost all of them live or live near seoul.
List of notable players that are participating in the prelims. <Terrran> 1. Flash 2. Sea 3. Last 4. Mind 5. Sharp 6. Mong 7. sSak 8. HiyA 11. Piano 12. Rush 13. shiney 14. Icarus 15. Ample 16. Iris 17. Light
<Protoss> 1. Best 2. Shuttle 3. Kal 4. Movie 5. Free 6. Geumchi 7. sky 8. jaehoon 9. Tyson *Free might not participate due to his wrist and his age(army).
On June 19 2016 17:43 GTR wrote: Might throw Shark an email to see if I can get official permission to go to the Seoul qualifiers and Periscope the event.
Do they usually allow spectators for the qualifiers? I would like to go if it's possible, or else I will just wait for the ro16 ;p
Idk if u can come or not. Kongdoo probably bought like a day rent for that pc bang, and they will ask you to show your id to come in. Am I wrong? I can ask kongdoo company on fb page about this if you are planning to visit to watch. Idk
Sorry for the late answer, but yeah, I would like to come, I can be your personal foreign supporter hahaha. No but seriously, ID is not a problem for me, I have an f6 visa (married to a korean). But like I said, if it's not possible, I can just skip this and wait for the ro16.
On June 23 2016 14:15 classicyellow83 wrote: List of notable players that are participating in the prelims. <Terrran> 1. Flash 2. Sea 3. Last 4. Mind 5. Sharp 6. Mong 7. sSak 8. HiyA 11. Piano 12. Rush 13. shiney 14. Icarus 15. Ample 16. Iris 17. Light
<Protoss> 1. Best 2. Shuttle 3. Kal 4. Movie 5. Free 6. Geumchi 7. sky 8. jaehoon 9. Tyson *Free might not participate due to his wrist and his age(army).
On June 23 2016 14:15 classicyellow83 wrote: List of notable players that are participating in the prelims. <Terrran> 1. Flash 2. Sea 3. Last 4. Mind 5. Sharp 6. Mong 7. sSak 8. HiyA 11. Piano 12. Rush 13. shiney 14. Icarus 15. Ample 16. Iris 17. Light
<Protoss> 1. Best 2. Shuttle 3. Kal 4. Movie 5. Free 6. Geumchi 7. sky 8. jaehoon 9. Tyson *Free might not participate due to his wrist and his age(army).
[b]Player Hero Played Against ZvT - Mind 4:15, Mong 1: 9, Flash 4:11, Sea 1:5, Last 1:4, Sharp 4:6, Piano 3:4, sSak 6:6, HiyA 2:2, Ample 2:1, Shiney 2:0, Rush 3:0 ZvP - Bisu 4:11, Noble 2:1, Best 9:7, shuttle 6:4, sky 3:1,GuemChi 3:1,free 6:3, kal 4:1, Tyson 4:0, Jaehoon 11:1 ZvZ - Zero 2:1, effort 1:1
Flash's TvZ this month is 39:8 this month. Freaking 83% while Hero's zvt this month is only 33:63 (34.3%). It won't be epic. it will be a slaughter. Only Best has notable win rate against Flash, beating flash 14:8. It was worse than this earlier this month but Flash is catching up to Best little by little. No zerg is gonna beat Flash. His TvZ is getting better day by day. you can notice this if you watch his stream. it's freaking amazing. His weakest was TvP but hes getting back into form in TvP as well. I don't see anyone beating Flash in bo5 other than Best or Last(Last had the highest win rate in the month of March and April, well over 70% and has the second highest win rate this month behind bisu. Flash is 3rd). If it weren't for Best Flash would be first. It's funny how Last is strong against Best but weak against Bisu, but Flash is Strong against Bisu but weak against Best.
On June 23 2016 14:15 classicyellow83 wrote: List of notable players that are participating in the prelims. <Terrran> 1. Flash 2. Sea 3. Last 4. Mind 5. Sharp 6. Mong 7. sSak 8. HiyA 11. Piano 12. Rush 13. shiney 14. Icarus 15. Ample 16. Iris 17. Light
<Protoss> 1. Best 2. Shuttle 3. Kal 4. Movie 5. Free 6. Geumchi 7. sky 8. jaehoon 9. Tyson *Free might not participate due to his wrist and his age(army).
On June 23 2016 16:57 BLinD-RawR wrote: only BeSt and last have a winning record against flash, and with last its only 1 game so really its only BeSt, wow, just wow.
thanks for that statistics classicyellow
no problem. sorry for my horrible posting skills. ^^;;;;;;
Since the return of Flash, every single Terrans are copying flash's TvZ and all of the zerg's are getting destroyed by terrans. Only Effort has winning record against Terrans with 37 win and 33 losses this month. It's seems like it's getting worse and worse everyday.
Protoss has a hard time as well. Every Zerg player is copying Hero and running over Protoss. Bisu is the only Protoss that beats zergs these days.
Terran on the other hand is doing just fine. 4 out of top 5 players this month are Terrans.
Well, if Flash destroys all, he will solidify his bw god status forever u guess. I can understand bisu discouraged by last tournaments he lost, or the need to take some air off the pressure of tournaments, maybe hes getting tired. The real problem is, that there is not enough leagues for all the players to compete, that discourages them to practice hard and by that the overal form of the players decreaces. We need at least 3 big tournaments with 32 players per year to support somewhat healthy scene.
On June 23 2016 17:52 classicyellow83 wrote: Since the return of Flash, every single Terrans are copying flash's TvZ and all of the zerg's are getting destroyed by terrans. Only Effort has winning record against Terrans with 37 win and 33 losses this month. It's seems like it's getting worse and worse everyday.
Protoss has a hard time as well. Every Zerg player is copying Hero and running over Protoss. Bisu is the only Protoss that beats zergs these days.
Terran on the other hand is doing just fine. 4 out of top 5 players this month are Terrans.
On June 23 2016 20:19 _Animus_ wrote: Well, if Flash destroys all, he will solidify his bw god status forever u guess. I can understand bisu discouraged by last tournaments he lost, or the need to take some air off the pressure of tournaments, maybe hes getting tired. The real problem is, that there is not enough leagues for all the players to compete, that discourages them to practice hard and by that the overal form of the players decreaces. We need at least 3 big tournaments with 32 players per year to support somewhat healthy scene.
On June 23 2016 20:19 _Animus_ wrote: Well, if Flash destroys all, he will solidify his bw god status forever u guess. I can understand bisu discouraged by last tournaments he lost, or the need to take some air off the pressure of tournaments, maybe hes getting tired. The real problem is, that there is not enough leagues for all the players to compete, that discourages them to practice hard and by that the overal form of the players decreaces. We need at least 3 big tournaments with 32 players per year to support somewhat healthy scene.
proleague is where it is
clan wars could be possible right now, well they do happen and sometimes theres a broadcast but unless theres some money and some high profile players(actually from what I understand high profiler players do play occasionally) I don't think its very likely, although its something to communicate with organizers.
but something on the level of proleague would be impossible.
On June 23 2016 20:19 _Animus_ wrote: Well, if Flash destroys all, he will solidify his bw god status forever u guess. I can understand bisu discouraged by last tournaments he lost, or the need to take some air off the pressure of tournaments, maybe hes getting tired. The real problem is, that there is not enough leagues for all the players to compete, that discourages them to practice hard and by that the overal form of the players decreaces. We need at least 3 big tournaments with 32 players per year to support somewhat healthy scene.
proleague is where it is
proleague is best format, because new players also will get to playt, but i dont see it happening. it requires a big organisation which nobody wants to take care of.
On June 24 2016 13:32 classicyellow83 wrote: Each match is bo3. This is gonna take ALL day unless they rented the entire pc bang.
so similar to vnsl last year, first day lasted till evening i recall. not terrible really the only qualm is that no one wants to set up a stream to show a few featured matches or even a livecam there.
Holy brutal preliminaries, why it's so tight. Can't we start from ro32 or like SSL Challenge round then ro24. Flash got pretty noob group then. Too bad for Scan to get this king of challenge in his 1st (?) attempt for starleague. Just make wraiths and vessels against Zelot crazy zerg, he only knows and improvises same build as far as I see.
On June 24 2016 20:38 outscar wrote: Holy brutal preliminaries, why it's so tight. Can't we start from ro32 or like SSL Challenge round then ro24. Flash got pretty noob group then. Too bad for Scan to get this king of challenge in his 1st (?) attempt for starleague. Just make wraiths and vessels against Zelot crazy zerg, he only knows and improvises same build as far as I see.
zelot is not afraid of playing any pro. hes cheesy style is one dimensional but its very solid to often take games off pros who likes to play rigid macro style and hardly meet much cheesers at the top of the ladder. though said watching his stream hes gonna lose terribly if he meets shuttle, shuttle knows exactly every build he can do. he always loses to shuttle lol. by now mind and mong should also know what his style is about as well.
On June 24 2016 20:38 outscar wrote: Holy brutal preliminaries, why it's so tight. Can't we start from ro32 or like SSL Challenge round then ro24. Flash got pretty noob group then. Too bad for Scan to get this king of challenge in his 1st (?) attempt for starleague. Just make wraiths and vessels against Zelot crazy zerg, he only knows and improvises same build as far as I see.
zelot is not afraid of playing any pro. hes cheesy style is one dimensional but its very solid to often take games off pros who likes to play rigid macro style and hardly meet much cheesers at the top of the ladder. though said watching his stream hes gonna lose terribly if he meets shuttle, shuttle knows exactly every build he can do. he always loses to shuttle lol. by now mind and mong should also know what his style is about as well.
On June 24 2016 20:38 outscar wrote: Holy brutal preliminaries, why it's so tight. Can't we start from ro32 or like SSL Challenge round then ro24. Flash got pretty noob group then. Too bad for Scan to get this king of challenge in his 1st (?) attempt for starleague. Just make wraiths and vessels against Zelot crazy zerg, he only knows and improvises same build as far as I see.
zelot is not afraid of playing any pro. hes cheesy style is one dimensional but its very solid to often take games off pros who likes to play rigid macro style and hardly meet much cheesers at the top of the ladder. though said watching his stream hes gonna lose terribly if he meets shuttle, shuttle knows exactly every build he can do. he always loses to shuttle lol. by now mind and mong should also know what his style is about as well.
On June 25 2016 17:01 classicyellow83 wrote: piano advances 2:0
but.... here is what happened.... piano won the first game on fighting spirit. 2nd game was on circuit breaker. it went to late game and larva having 5 gas expansions to piano's 1 mineral expansion. the pc bang owner accidently turns off piano's computer. so they have to do the 2nd game again. Larva is pissed off throwing his headset. The regame starts. Piano does proxy 8rax cheese. piano wins. Larva turns off his stream......
I'd be fucking pissed as hell. This is so unfair....
That's unacceptable bullshit. It is clearly the fault of the PC Bang and the regame is not fair because making it from like 90% of winning chance to 50% for larva. If anything, it should have been re with larva 4 drones and piano 1 scv.
Anyway the real question now. Can BeSt hold the Protoss flag for the whole tournament and win vs flash in the finals?
Larva is one of the most hard training players and he gets this BS because of stupid owner of pc bang. I would kill him and only after then go to Busan...
On June 25 2016 17:01 classicyellow83 wrote: piano advances 2:0
but.... here is what happened.... piano won the first game on fighting spirit. 2nd game was on circuit breaker. it went to late game and larva having 5 gas expansions to piano's 1 mineral expansion. the pc bang owner accidently turns off piano's computer. so they have to do the 2nd game again. Larva is pissed off throwing his headset. The regame starts. Piano does proxy 8rax cheese. piano wins. Larva turns off his stream......
I'd be fucking pissed as hell. This is so unfair....
People on Ygosu are going crazy.....
Are we supposed to accept this kind of thing? :S wtf
On June 26 2016 08:41 GTR wrote: Why are people putting all of the blame on the PC bang owner? Some of it should go to the Kongdoo referee responsible for the decision.
Reminds me of the Nate MSL finals where the power went out during game 3. Instead of a remake they gave JD the win since he was ahead.
But will there be? Would be a shame if there was no english commentary for these games. I always find it more enjoyable with commentary I can understand.
On June 27 2016 00:40 RoomOfMush wrote: But will there be? Would be a shame if there was no english commentary for these games. I always find it more enjoyable with commentary I can understand.
On June 29 2016 08:40 c3rberUs wrote: Instead of looking fierce, Jaehoon is posing for 'next kpop sensation'.
BeSt is quite simply badass in this.
Is this the photoshoot Bisu mentioned in the other thread? I hope it's another event :3
edit - EffOrt looks like he just killed someone. Damn
Just wanted to post about Jaehoon but thought someone else will gonna do it. At least in posing he isn't falihooning that far. Sea with his "choker" stand, very funny. Mong looks like a pig. Mind looks like terminator. Also by.hero's look says "You know I'm good at it, I'll show you".
^^Pretty sure no new maps for the Ro16 groups. I watch streams every day and I haven't see any new maps being practiced. At the same time, lots of Blue Storm being played, so that should continue
Maybe a Korean speaker can confirm, but it sounds like PianO mentions the two new ones, Taekbaek Mountains and Overwatch, won't be added until the bracket/finals
On July 05 2016 11:45 prech wrote: ^^Pretty sure no new maps for the Ro16 groups. I watch streams every day and I haven't see any new maps being practiced. At the same time, lots of Blue Storm being played, so that should continue
Maybe a Korean speaker can confirm, but it sounds like PianO mentions the two new ones, Taekbaek Mountains and Overwatch, won't be added until the bracket/finals
He's saying one of the map from the qualifiers will be omitted to add the 2 new maps. He also said during his stream that he'll start practicing the new maps as soon as the the finalized versions come out. If I'm not wrong i think the current versions are .99.
On July 05 2016 11:45 prech wrote: ^^Pretty sure no new maps for the Ro16 groups. I watch streams every day and I haven't see any new maps being practiced. At the same time, lots of Blue Storm being played, so that should continue
Maybe a Korean speaker can confirm, but it sounds like PianO mentions the two new ones, Taekbaek Mountains and Overwatch, won't be added until the bracket/finals
He's saying one of the map from the qualifiers will be omitted to add the 2 new maps. He also said during his stream that he'll start practicing the new maps as soon as the the finalized versions come out. If I'm not wrong i think the current versions are .99. Hope this helps you.
On July 05 2016 11:45 prech wrote: ^^Pretty sure no new maps for the Ro16 groups. I watch streams every day and I haven't see any new maps being practiced. At the same time, lots of Blue Storm being played, so that should continue
Maybe a Korean speaker can confirm, but it sounds like PianO mentions the two new ones, Taekbaek Mountains and Overwatch, won't be added until the bracket/finals
He's saying one of the map from the qualifiers will be omitted to add the 2 new maps. He also said during his stream that he'll start practicing the new maps as soon as the the finalized versions come out. If I'm not wrong i think the current versions are .99. Hope this helps you.
Very helpful, thanks. To clarify, the two new maps are to be added later in the tournament, not for the initial group round? Or is PianO not explicit about the timing, just that at some point, they'll be added?
On July 05 2016 11:45 prech wrote: ^^Pretty sure no new maps for the Ro16 groups. I watch streams every day and I haven't see any new maps being practiced. At the same time, lots of Blue Storm being played, so that should continue
Maybe a Korean speaker can confirm, but it sounds like PianO mentions the two new ones, Taekbaek Mountains and Overwatch, won't be added until the bracket/finals
He's saying one of the map from the qualifiers will be omitted to add the 2 new maps. He also said during his stream that he'll start practicing the new maps as soon as the the finalized versions come out. If I'm not wrong i think the current versions are .99. Hope this helps you.
Very helpful, thanks. To clarify, the two new maps are to be added later in the tournament, not for the initial group round? Or is PianO not explicit about the timing, just that at some point, they'll be added?
Remeber FS, CB, BS was used in the qualifiers? One of those maps will be omitted and 2 new maps will be added to the ro16. Piano thinks Blue Storm will get omitted since it's rare to see two two-player maps in one tournament. The finalized versions of the maps are not out yet. That is why no one is practicing the new maps. They simply don't have the maps.
On July 05 2016 11:45 prech wrote: ^^Pretty sure no new maps for the Ro16 groups. I watch streams every day and I haven't see any new maps being practiced. At the same time, lots of Blue Storm being played, so that should continue
Maybe a Korean speaker can confirm, but it sounds like PianO mentions the two new ones, Taekbaek Mountains and Overwatch, won't be added until the bracket/finals
He's saying one of the map from the qualifiers will be omitted to add the 2 new maps. He also said during his stream that he'll start practicing the new maps as soon as the the finalized versions come out. If I'm not wrong i think the current versions are .99. Hope this helps you.
Very helpful, thanks. To clarify, the two new maps are to be added later in the tournament, not for the initial group round? Or is PianO not explicit about the timing, just that at some point, they'll be added?
Remeber FS, CB, BS was used in the qualifiers? One of those maps will be omitted and 2 new maps will be added to the ro16. Piano thinks Blue Storm will get omitted since it's rare to see two two-player maps in one tournament. The finalized versions of the maps are not out yet. That is why no one is practicing the new maps. They simply don't have the maps.
Awesome, thanks for the info! Does anyone have download links to the new maps? I'd love to test the most current versions so I'm ready to cast them. Also, if anyone has vods of pros playing the new maps please link them!
Both new maps have their own respective threads here on TL, just look for them. The current versions are just gruesomely badly made... So I'd wait for "final versions" to come out. There is a chance they are better (they certainly have been provided with all the info they need to fix the issues). Hope die last, I guess...
On July 05 2016 17:41 Freakling wrote: Both new maps have their own respective threads here on TL, just look for them. The current versions are just gruesomely badly made... So I'd wait for "final versions" to come out. There is a chance they are better (they certainly have been provided with all the info they need to fix the issues). Hope die last, I guess...
Thanks. I wasn't sure if those threads have been updated/would have the latest versions. I understand waiting for the final version, but I want to be familiar at least with the basic feel of the map.
On July 05 2016 11:45 prech wrote: ^^Pretty sure no new maps for the Ro16 groups. I watch streams every day and I haven't see any new maps being practiced. At the same time, lots of Blue Storm being played, so that should continue
Maybe a Korean speaker can confirm, but it sounds like PianO mentions the two new ones, Taekbaek Mountains and Overwatch, won't be added until the bracket/finals
He's saying one of the map from the qualifiers will be omitted to add the 2 new maps. He also said during his stream that he'll start practicing the new maps as soon as the the finalized versions come out. If I'm not wrong i think the current versions are .99. Hope this helps you.
Very helpful, thanks. To clarify, the two new maps are to be added later in the tournament, not for the initial group round? Or is PianO not explicit about the timing, just that at some point, they'll be added?
Remeber FS, CB, BS was used in the qualifiers? One of those maps will be omitted and 2 new maps will be added to the ro16. Piano thinks Blue Storm will get omitted since it's rare to see two two-player maps in one tournament. The finalized versions of the maps are not out yet. That is why no one is practicing the new maps. They simply don't have the maps.
Great, thanks.
With two new maps in the Ro16, advancing could well be even tougher. Who knows what inherent imbalances will be present, and if a player is unlucky with the draw of opponents and maps, he could get eliminated really quickly in those Bo1 matches :/
I think Tastosis casting this is great. Not that i don't appreciate all the work the 'tl catsers' did here, but at the end of the day tastosis are professional casters who are better at it (maybe not knowledge wise, not sure about that). It's also good for the potential sc2 audience. Looking forward to it!
On July 07 2016 02:24 The_Red_Viper wrote: I think Tastosis casting this is great. Not that i don't appreciate all the work the 'tl catsers' did here, but at the end of the day tastosis are professional casters who are better at it (maybe not knowledge wise, not sure about that). It's also good for the potential sc2 audience. Looking forward to it!
We are still paid casters for this. And I do like to consider myself a professional SC1 caster. I have been an official/paid/sponsor endorsed English caster for the past four major tournaments over the past two years.
On July 07 2016 02:24 The_Red_Viper wrote: I think Tastosis casting this is great. Not that i don't appreciate all the work the 'tl catsers' did here, but at the end of the day tastosis are professional casters who are better at it (maybe not knowledge wise, not sure about that). It's also good for the potential sc2 audience. Looking forward to it!
We are still paid casters for this. And I do like to consider myself a professional SC1 caster. I have been an official/paid/sponsor endorsed English caster for the past four major tournaments over the past two years.
You know what i mean (hopefully). Tastosis literally have no other job than casting games, that's not the case for you. You have other stuff to do which means less time to actually work on casting, etc Pls don't take this the wrong way, i am absolutely happy that you guys did what you did (and still do!), but i am also happy that tastosis are casting this on the gsl stream because i am sure that their involvement speaks to a broader audience for various reasons.
On July 06 2016 20:39 Dingodile wrote: bw tournament but sc2 banner?
I think thats common, the old art isnt high quality anymore. I've seen so many WC3 tourneys use WoW art too.
That's really stupid. SC2 itself is not pulling anymore. Giving it BW title may attract people to it as seeing something on old on top again, like a click bait. SC2 can't fulfill that role.
. So here we are in a situation where terms are agreed upon between the sponsor and us. Suddenly, we are informed that Blizzard (yes, Blizzard) has demanded this Sunday's selection ceremony can only be streamed my tastless and artosis. We have been instructed by Blizzard, who has shown no interests in SC1 for half a decade, to not stream because they want their SC2 casters to perform the cast in a studio. Blizzard has barred us from casting the players we love this Sunday and xkcd and I from making additional money this Sunday. We are expected to sit back and watch the casting archon cast this event. So I'm just incredibly frustrated.
This is the like the ultimate form of assholness, dickness, bullshtting anyone can think of.
On July 07 2016 02:24 The_Red_Viper wrote: I think Tastosis casting this is great. Not that i don't appreciate all the work the 'tl catsers' did here, but at the end of the day tastosis are professional casters who are better at it (maybe not knowledge wise, not sure about that). It's also good for the potential sc2 audience. Looking forward to it!
We are still paid casters for this. And I do like to consider myself a professional SC1 caster. I have been an official/paid/sponsor endorsed English caster for the past four major tournaments over the past two years.
You know what i mean (hopefully). Tastosis literally have no other job than casting games, that's not the case for you. You have other stuff to do which means less time to actually work on casting, etc Pls don't take this the wrong way, i am absolutely happy that you guys did what you did (and still do!), but i am also happy that tastosis are casting this on the gsl stream because i am sure that their involvement speaks to a broader audience for various reasons.
Sure I get that and I am okay with what you are saying. Here is the perspective from our end in two parts.
The money: This is a paid gig. And yes I am a professional simulations engineer so I do not need this money to put food on the table. But my co-caster xkcd is still in college. Every cast helps him a long way in extra cash. So for him, this potentially does help put food on the table. So here we are in a situation where terms are agreed upon between the sponsor and us. Suddenly, we are informed that Blizzard (yes, Blizzard) has demanded this Sunday's selection ceremony can only be streamed my tastless and artosis. We have been instructed by Blizzard, who has shown no interests in SC1 for half a decade, to not stream because they want their SC2 casters to perform the cast in a studio. Blizzard has barred us from casting the players we love this Sunday and xkcd and I from making additional money this Sunday. We are expected to sit back and watch the casting archon cast this event. So I'm just incredibly frustrated.
The passion: It would at least feel better if we knew the casting Archon was doing this because they wanted to instead of doing it because Blizzard holds their wallet. They wouldn't be casting these tournaments except Blizzard demanded that they did. We actually had the support of the Afreeca sponsors as they argued for us to be the sole Vant SL casters because they appreciate our passion for casting. Blizzard told them they had have them on. This is 100% true too. And finally, during the VANT starleague finals the casting Archon didn't even acknowledge our existence while we spent part of stream cheering them on and sending people in their direction to check them out.
I don't quite understand why blizzard wouldn't allow you to cast the selection ceremony but the rest is ok? Makes little sense to me. I disagree completely with your "passion" argument though. It's their job and while i actually think that they still like bw quite a lot (tasteless talks about it every other cast) at the end of the day it's a money thing. Afreeca probably wanted you to be the sole casters because you are cheaper, at least that's what i would suspect. Tastosis probably didn't even know that there was a second stream going on. I can understand your frustration, but at the same time i think some ideas here are a bit on the wishfull thinking side of things. Just keep doing it because you love it, other incentives are probably unrealistic though.
On July 06 2016 20:39 Dingodile wrote: bw tournament but sc2 banner?
I think thats common, the old art isnt high quality anymore. I've seen so many WC3 tourneys use WoW art too.
That's really stupid. SC2 itself is not pulling anymore. Giving it BW title may attract people to it as seeing something on old on top again, like a click bait. SC2 can't fulfill that role.
It is aesthetically more pleasing art, can we not be ridiculous?
On July 07 2016 02:24 The_Red_Viper wrote: I think Tastosis casting this is great. Not that i don't appreciate all the work the 'tl catsers' did here, but at the end of the day tastosis are professional casters who are better at it (maybe not knowledge wise, not sure about that). It's also good for the potential sc2 audience. Looking forward to it!
We are still paid casters for this. And I do like to consider myself a professional SC1 caster. I have been an official/paid/sponsor endorsed English caster for the past four major tournaments over the past two years.
You know what i mean (hopefully). Tastosis literally have no other job than casting games, that's not the case for you. You have other stuff to do which means less time to actually work on casting, etc Pls don't take this the wrong way, i am absolutely happy that you guys did what you did (and still do!), but i am also happy that tastosis are casting this on the gsl stream because i am sure that their involvement speaks to a broader audience for various reasons.
Sure I get that and I am okay with what you are saying. Here is the perspective from our end in two parts.
The money: This is a paid gig. And yes I am a professional simulations engineer so I do not need this money to put food on the table. But my co-caster xkcd is still in college. Every cast helps him a long way in extra cash. So for him, this potentially does help put food on the table. So here we are in a situation where terms are agreed upon between the sponsor and us. Suddenly, we are informed that Blizzard (yes, Blizzard) has demanded this Sunday's selection ceremony can only be streamed my tastless and artosis. We have been instructed by Blizzard, who has shown no interests in SC1 for half a decade, to not stream because they want their SC2 casters to perform the cast in a studio. Blizzard has barred us from casting the players we love this Sunday and xkcd and I from making additional money this Sunday. We are expected to sit back and watch the casting archon cast this event. So I'm just incredibly frustrated.
The passion: It would at least feel better if we knew the casting Archon was doing this because they wanted to instead of doing it because Blizzard holds their wallet. They wouldn't be casting these tournaments except Blizzard demanded that they did. We actually had the support of the Afreeca sponsors as they argued for us to be the sole Vant SL casters because they appreciate our passion for casting. Blizzard told them they had have them on. This is 100% true too. And finally, during the VANT starleague finals the casting Archon didn't even acknowledge our existence while we spent part of stream cheering them on and sending people in their direction to check them out.
I wouldn't blame tastosis for not giving a shoutout. Maybe Blizzard wanted them to not mention you too?
On July 07 2016 02:24 The_Red_Viper wrote: I think Tastosis casting this is great. Not that i don't appreciate all the work the 'tl catsers' did here, but at the end of the day tastosis are professional casters who are better at it (maybe not knowledge wise, not sure about that). It's also good for the potential sc2 audience. Looking forward to it!
We are still paid casters for this. And I do like to consider myself a professional SC1 caster. I have been an official/paid/sponsor endorsed English caster for the past four major tournaments over the past two years.
You know what i mean (hopefully). Tastosis literally have no other job than casting games, that's not the case for you. You have other stuff to do which means less time to actually work on casting, etc Pls don't take this the wrong way, i am absolutely happy that you guys did what you did (and still do!), but i am also happy that tastosis are casting this on the gsl stream because i am sure that their involvement speaks to a broader audience for various reasons.
Sure I get that and I am okay with what you are saying. Here is the perspective from our end in two parts.
The money: This is a paid gig. And yes I am a professional simulations engineer so I do not need this money to put food on the table. But my co-caster xkcd is still in college. Every cast helps him a long way in extra cash. So for him, this potentially does help put food on the table. So here we are in a situation where terms are agreed upon between the sponsor and us. Suddenly, we are informed that Blizzard (yes, Blizzard) has demanded this Sunday's selection ceremony can only be streamed my tastless and artosis. We have been instructed by Blizzard, who has shown no interests in SC1 for half a decade, to not stream because they want their SC2 casters to perform the cast in a studio. Blizzard has barred us from casting the players we love this Sunday and xkcd and I from making additional money this Sunday. We are expected to sit back and watch the casting archon cast this event. So I'm just incredibly frustrated.
The passion: It would at least feel better if we knew the casting Archon was doing this because they wanted to instead of doing it because Blizzard holds their wallet. They wouldn't be casting these tournaments except Blizzard demanded that they did. We actually had the support of the Afreeca sponsors as they argued for us to be the sole Vant SL casters because they appreciate our passion for casting. Blizzard told them they had have them on. This is 100% true too. And finally, during the VANT starleague finals the casting Archon didn't even acknowledge our existence while we spent part of stream cheering them on and sending people in their direction to check them out.
I wouldn't blame tastosis for not giving a shoutout. Maybe Blizzard wanted them to not mention you too?
Lol, you just made my day. AmazingXKCD was really broken up about it. It's like casting with a sad puppy now.
Lol at the day when BW needs a broader audience that is coming from SC2, SC2 doesnt exist in Korea (just being funded by Blizz to sustain the scene, and with small group of fans) and those SC2 foreigners fans who are declining fast too are not going to move to watch BW suddenly, btw the money that is going to be pay to Artosis and Tasteless should go to the prizepool because it is really small and let the community casters do the job.
On July 08 2016 14:43 Lucumo wrote: Blizzard doing some shitty moves? Doesn't surprise me at all to be honest.
yep, the fkers from blizzard killed BW intentionally to force people to like their new shit, but the shit died because... well because its shit. They killed such great pro scene and left nothing afterwards. Ruined progamers dreams and ambitions and betrayed all the fans. Progamers started to retire crushing fans hearts and people withdrew from sc2, just a few new people were interested. Bizzard morons probably thought ''OH we failed, koreans are not so stupid and can actually see how crappy is our new product is compared to the original. We couldve kept sc1 alive and get money from it in korea. Well then, lets mess with the remnants of bw and continue to plague fans with our shit."
having tastosis cast is super great, but restricting others to cast is bitch move. As if bd and xkcd will steal their viewers...
Who still expects anything different from blizzard? They're not the company they used to be. I haven't bought a blizzard product since WoW vanilla and Sc2 WoL and will continue to do so.
On July 07 2016 02:24 The_Red_Viper wrote: I think Tastosis casting this is great. Not that i don't appreciate all the work the 'tl catsers' did here, but at the end of the day tastosis are professional casters who are better at it (maybe not knowledge wise, not sure about that). It's also good for the potential sc2 audience. Looking forward to it!
We are still paid casters for this. And I do like to consider myself a professional SC1 caster. I have been an official/paid/sponsor endorsed English caster for the past four major tournaments over the past two years.
You know what i mean (hopefully). Tastosis literally have no other job than casting games, that's not the case for you. You have other stuff to do which means less time to actually work on casting, etc Pls don't take this the wrong way, i am absolutely happy that you guys did what you did (and still do!), but i am also happy that tastosis are casting this on the gsl stream because i am sure that their involvement speaks to a broader audience for various reasons.
Sure I get that and I am okay with what you are saying. Here is the perspective from our end in two parts.
The money: This is a paid gig. And yes I am a professional simulations engineer so I do not need this money to put food on the table. But my co-caster xkcd is still in college. Every cast helps him a long way in extra cash. So for him, this potentially does help put food on the table. So here we are in a situation where terms are agreed upon between the sponsor and us. Suddenly, we are informed that Blizzard (yes, Blizzard) has demanded this Sunday's selection ceremony can only be streamed my tastless and artosis. We have been instructed by Blizzard, who has shown no interests in SC1 for half a decade, to not stream because they want their SC2 casters to perform the cast in a studio. Blizzard has barred us from casting the players we love this Sunday and xkcd and I from making additional money this Sunday. We are expected to sit back and watch the casting archon cast this event. So I'm just incredibly frustrated.
The passion: It would at least feel better if we knew the casting Archon was doing this because they wanted to instead of doing it because Blizzard holds their wallet. They wouldn't be casting these tournaments except Blizzard demanded that they did. We actually had the support of the Afreeca sponsors as they argued for us to be the sole Vant SL casters because they appreciate our passion for casting. Blizzard told them they had have them on. This is 100% true too. And finally, during the VANT starleague finals the casting Archon didn't even acknowledge our existence while we spent part of stream cheering them on and sending people in their direction to check them out.
.... and because of this i boycott the tastosis stream, hope you guys can still stream the games.....
but i dont understand something here .. Tastosis team is working for afreeca,so why in the first place afreeca is getting bisu/ama to stream anyway,and i dont understand at all blizzard informing them this,shouldnt be afreeca the one deciding who the hell is casting this?a bit of the same with the last season where in the last moment afreeca put tastosis to cast the final ;; and not like im complaining it was f*cking awesome to have them,they are good casters,they were good players.but it doesnt make much sense what afreeca is doing here -.- .
Im actually really surprised that Blizzard still interacts in Broodwar. I would really like to know how many of the former broodwar development team still work for Blizzard. I believe that the number is close to 0, so in theory the current company doesnt have any involvement in the product. But ok theory.. and reality... :D
On July 07 2016 02:24 The_Red_Viper wrote: I think Tastosis casting this is great. Not that i don't appreciate all the work the 'tl catsers' did here, but at the end of the day tastosis are professional casters who are better at it (maybe not knowledge wise, not sure about that). It's also good for the potential sc2 audience. Looking forward to it!
We are still paid casters for this. And I do like to consider myself a professional SC1 caster. I have been an official/paid/sponsor endorsed English caster for the past four major tournaments over the past two years.
You know what i mean (hopefully). Tastosis literally have no other job than casting games, that's not the case for you. You have other stuff to do which means less time to actually work on casting, etc Pls don't take this the wrong way, i am absolutely happy that you guys did what you did (and still do!), but i am also happy that tastosis are casting this on the gsl stream because i am sure that their involvement speaks to a broader audience for various reasons.
Sure I get that and I am okay with what you are saying. Here is the perspective from our end in two parts.
The money: This is a paid gig. And yes I am a professional simulations engineer so I do not need this money to put food on the table. But my co-caster xkcd is still in college. Every cast helps him a long way in extra cash. So for him, this potentially does help put food on the table. So here we are in a situation where terms are agreed upon between the sponsor and us. Suddenly, we are informed that Blizzard (yes, Blizzard) has demanded this Sunday's selection ceremony can only be streamed my tastless and artosis. We have been instructed by Blizzard, who has shown no interests in SC1 for half a decade, to not stream because they want their SC2 casters to perform the cast in a studio. Blizzard has barred us from casting the players we love this Sunday and xkcd and I from making additional money this Sunday. We are expected to sit back and watch the casting archon cast this event. So I'm just incredibly frustrated.
The passion: It would at least feel better if we knew the casting Archon was doing this because they wanted to instead of doing it because Blizzard holds their wallet. They wouldn't be casting these tournaments except Blizzard demanded that they did. We actually had the support of the Afreeca sponsors as they argued for us to be the sole Vant SL casters because they appreciate our passion for casting. Blizzard told them they had have them on. This is 100% true too. And finally, during the VANT starleague finals the casting Archon didn't even acknowledge our existence while we spent part of stream cheering them on and sending people in their direction to check them out.
.... and because of this i boycott the tastosis stream, hope you guys can still stream the games.....
On July 08 2016 23:24 Basti1 wrote: Im actually really surprised that Blizzard still interacts in Broodwar. I would really like to know how many of the former broodwar development team still work for Blizzard. I believe that the number is close to 0, so in theory the current company doesnt have any involvement in the product. But ok theory.. and reality... :D
They interact with tournaments which have a prizepool larger than 10k because at that point you need a license to host it.
On July 08 2016 23:24 Basti1 wrote: Im actually really surprised that Blizzard still interacts in Broodwar. I would really like to know how many of the former broodwar development team still work for Blizzard. I believe that the number is close to 0, so in theory the current company doesnt have any involvement in the product. But ok theory.. and reality... :D
Can someone please tell me who is who? Thanks in advance
Newbie here? Left to right: 1 - Last, Jaehoon, Effort, Best 2 - Mind, Sea, Free, Mong 3 - Flash, Larva, Sharp, Hero 4 - Ssak (who didn't fit)
Thanks! Yeah kinda newbie haha. Played brood war in the past and I've recently started watching streams but never really followed the pro scene.. Until now but I still have much to learn
Can someone please tell me who is who? Thanks in advance
Newbie here? Left to right: 1 - Last, Jaehoon, Effort, Best 2 - Mind, Sea, Free, Mong 3 - Flash, Larva, Sharp, Hero 4 - Ssak (who didn't fit)
Thanks! Yeah kinda newbie haha. Played brood war in the past and I've recently started watching streams but never really followed the pro scene.. Until now but I still have much to learn
I'm sure you will have educational material to read on the front page of TL tomorrow. #hype
On July 09 2016 06:32 The_Red_Viper wrote: This will also be part of liquibets i guess? Probably the last tournament included this season?? :D
You think we'd forget about LB?
Well i wouldn't mind if the season was over now Nah should be fun
Of course you wouldn't. :D
On July 08 2016 23:24 Basti1 wrote: Im actually really surprised that Blizzard still interacts in Broodwar. I would really like to know how many of the former broodwar development team still work for Blizzard. I believe that the number is close to 0, so in theory the current company doesnt have any involvement in the product. But ok theory.. and reality... :D
Even if the original team isn't on Blizz anymore, StarCraft is still Blizz IP. IIRC, Metzen and Didier are still in the company.
On July 08 2016 23:24 Basti1 wrote: Im actually really surprised that Blizzard still interacts in Broodwar. I would really like to know how many of the former broodwar development team still work for Blizzard. I believe that the number is close to 0, so in theory the current company doesnt have any involvement in the product. But ok theory.. and reality... :D
Looks like the Kongdoo/Afreeca organizers placed the familiar CB and FS in the first and, most crucial, last positions, with the new maps in between.
Interestingly, they've used the name "New Taebaek Mountains" for the map, as opposed to just "Taebaek Mountains", perhaps to differentiate the updated v1.9 of the map with the significant changes
The only matchup I'm not excited for is Sea vs Hero cause Hero vs T.
The scene's top 4 TvTers are all going to duke it out But man, FlaSh vs Last has to be played too soon >.< The winner of that probably takes the title.
EPT
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Flash will play with his Afreeca relationship
Bisu and others already expressing some doubts 
EffOrt and 
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