D Ranks Individual Tournament 7 Signup - Page 6

On October 20 2013 02:12 L1ghtning wrote:
So.... me, Floladriblere, Pebble and AtomicArchon. Nice veteran group.

On October 20 2013 08:49 MinscandBoo wrote:
what is the map pool for the group stages?

On October 20 2013 19:12 Qikz wrote:
As I've never played one of these before and I can't find the answer anywhere, is it Bo1 or Bo3 in the first group, just so I'm sure?

On October 21 2013 01:41 Falling wrote:
I'm a little confused about maps. Does that mean that the maps talked about at the end of Lmaster's stream are for DRTL and DRIT?

I think the list was (and it kept changing, so I might have this wrong.)

Fighting Spirit
Match Point
Tau Crossing
Circuit Breaker
Sniper Ridge
Oxide
Heart Breaker
and Ground Zero?

Which ones are being used for groups next week?

On October 21 2013 02:37 SynC[gm] wrote:

I'm trying to get a confirmation from him for the maps for DRIT, but the maps he listed at the end of the group selections were for DRTL5 Round 2. They were...

Fighting Spirit
Match Point
Tau Cross
Circuit Breaker
Sniper Ridge
Oxide
Neo Ground Zero
New Heartbreak Ridge

On October 21 2013 10:01 tonight wrote:
I super dislike that map.

On October 21 2013 22:36 Qikz wrote:
I don't mind whatever maps are played to be honest, I just enjoy playing the game.

It'd be nice to know what maps we need to practice ahead of our first games though. ^^

On October 21 2013 22:53 Qikz wrote:


Maybe I'm just weird, I mean my favourite map is outsider hah.

On August 14 2013 01:56 EchOne wrote:
Let me describe 815 a bit for people who haven't played it.

You start with a main. 9 mineral patches, 1 5000 gas geyser. Cool. Leaving the main you have a ramp. The ramp allows these units to pass through it:

Drone, Zergling, Hydralisk,
SCV, Marine, Medic, Firebat, Ghost
Probe, Zealot, High Templar

Every other ground unit in BW is unable to walk through this ramp. This means that all macro buildings other than Barracks or air production need to be built outside of your main unless you want to have an airdrop fleet that costs as much as your army.

Leaving that travesty behind, you have a natural expansion. Natural expansion only has 6 mineral patches, no geyser, and is completely wide open. Alright... what about the other bases? Every other base is an air expansion with 6 minerals and 5000 gas via 1 regular geyser or 2 half-geysers. Wtf is this 2 half-geyser shit? We aren't here to play SC2.

Ahem. So what does this all mean? I'll leave balance aside because people can make their own conclusions via TLPD stats and VODs. My opinion is that all of these features make the map not fun to play, especially for low-level players. You made a Dragoon in your main? Sorry, that guy is gonna be useless until you spend 200 minerals and a lot of APM shuttling his fat ass out. You have a build predicated on a 2nd gas? Have fun spending a few hundred gas to secure an air expo unless you want to sneak a main. You only have 100 apm? Well, half of that is gonna go to transporting units around in dropships.