Sponmatches are online games (usually series) sponsored by fans. I think it works like this: fan brings money on the table (say 50$) and requests game (Bo3/5) between two players, if players agree winner takes all. Here you can see winrate/ELO for all players.
Sparkle proved that island maps may be possible to balance. Instead of Zergs being hilariously underpowered they bopped the other races. I somewhat hope to see another island map again.
Protoss needs to be gifted some free wins on maps like sparkle, transistor and 3rd world.. it's ok to have troll maps in tourney pools once in a while. Gives us a chance to be competitive .
On December 20 2018 13:29 TT1 wrote: Protoss needs to be gifted some free wins on maps like sparkle, transistor and 3rd world.. it's ok to have troll maps in tourney pools once in a while. Gives us a chance to be competitive .
Have you ever watched Artosis who plays with Protoss players?
On December 20 2018 13:29 TT1 wrote: Protoss needs to be gifted some free wins on maps like sparkle, transistor and 3rd world.. it's ok to have troll maps in tourney pools once in a while. Gives us a chance to be competitive .
Have you ever watched Artosis who plays with Protoss players?
On December 20 2018 13:29 TT1 wrote: Protoss needs to be gifted some free wins on maps like sparkle, transistor and 3rd world.. it's ok to have troll maps in tourney pools once in a while. Gives us a chance to be competitive .
Have you ever watched Artosis who plays with Protoss players?
One of my favorite things about this game is that they are always coming out with better maps. I never thought Lost Temple would be replaced by Python just as Phython got replaced by Fighting Spirit, etc.
These new maps are on point! Whiteout is what ice tileset has been begging for since its inception. Blockchain is the future of base layout and third design. Sylphid.... yeah. It needed a editors brush. Woo asl 7!
Wow Block Chain is bad. Really bad. At least Sparkle was aware of the balance issues and tried to fix it (it didn't but it tried). Block Chain is just straight up brainless (as far as PvT goes, this will probably have like an 80% win rate for protoss) and ZvT might be almost as bad but I haven't seen any ZvTs on it yet myself. Just awful design and I don't know how they pick these maps tbh.
NOVELTY!!! over sanity has been ASL's motto for at least every other season so far. The problem is that they seem to lack perspective a bit, so they don't necessarily pick the best implementations of whatever new thing it is they fancy (I'd single out Gold Rush and Transistor as positive exceptions though). Don't get me wrong though, I am not saying everything is terrible, and execution-wise there's definitely an upwards trend (not least thanks to S.I.'s ScmDraft updates!).