WCG Canada 2007 is being held at the Comic Festival in Toronto, Canada. 12 of Canada's finest players are coming out to play to compete for one spot in the Grand Finals in Seattle.
i know onlyrandom is "joshua" first name atlest.. so i would think so sounds like a nice event ^_^ GL Raptor, iefnaij, onlyrandom, testie!! GoGO FighTinG~
Raptor won't be coming Stalife won't be coming Target[light] also said he won't be coming Oldy / TT1 did not qualify
These people I asked and this is what they told me. It's simply too expensive to come. Hotels run big money and flights as well, + food and other minor traveling they may be looking to pay a minimum of $600 to play in an event that has no financial help or monetary prizes. Toronto, despite not being special in any way imo, is a pretty pricey city to live in.
Those who will come and hope to get a spot by simply being there despite not qualifying: Freaky[x] Fayth (Completely unpracticed of course. But I love hanging out with him and his girlfriend).
So the list to my knowledge is: MYM.Testie Schism[LighT]] prodigy[x] (Matt Down?) Iefnaij Bandit[LighT] (If he qualifies and he's the favourite so.. prolly yeah). OnlyRandom (not sure) Xion_G.Jiang
I think Matt may = JDrama. He's a W3 player that was attempting to qualify for that but ending up qualifying for sc since everyone else there sucked. Anyways I'm looking forward to this, I can't believe their is only 1 spot, increases the chance Testie flukes out and loses.
Anyways the important thing that needs to be asked is who is up for clubbing after the event on Friday night? The location is right in club district and we can literally walk to the club after. So far I know me and Freaky are going to go but who else? I'll choose a club and set-up guest list but you guys gotta let me know.
On August 19 2007 01:28 Prodigy[x] wrote: I think Matt may = JDrama. He's a W3 player that was attempting to qualify for that but ending up qualifying for sc since everyone else there sucked. Anyways I'm looking forward to this, I can't believe their is only 1 spot, increases the chance Testie flukes out and loses.
Anyways the important thing that needs to be asked is who is up for clubbing after the event on Friday night? The location is right in club district and we can literally walk to the club after. So far I know me and Freaky are going to go but who else? I'll choose a club and set-up guest list but you guys gotta let me know.
I had every intention of attending WCG Canada this year until a short time ago. I actually just got a call from WCG Phil dude yesterday. The cost is way too much for me at the moment, I just spent alot of money on an engagement ring and am unemployed. I'l definatly go next year if it happens but.. not this year. I think it would be a blast chilling with Blake (Chill) though. I'ed have to drink shorty under the table.
Oh yeah this is gonna be fun btw, the tourneys run all weekend. So friday night clubbing, when games start at 10 am the next day and Bandit's house (where I'm staying, I'm schism btw) is an hour away ... maybe a little but I'm not playing a drunk 2 drunk the next day lol ;p
Meh I don't know My competition seems to have been playing a lot of games. I might lose. Shrug, we'll see. But if I am beaten, the person who beats me won't advance from his WCG group. Of this i'm positive.
Look, you keep posting so you obviously want us to pester you and bother you about what your surprise is. Tell us. Jackass. Did you qualify from London instead of Pride / Bandit? Or what? ;p
Once I get the final list of players, then it will be decided...
I also have to see who ACTUALLY shows up.
... I'll be outlining how it works out beforehand, but probably won't actually assemble the groups until the first day when the players are 100% confirmed.
Ahhh thx Alexander Hulak, aka no.1 tourist of San Francisco.
Nah, not too many people play BW anymore. It's 10 years old, after all. ;p
It's just koreans who play it now. And even they have slowed down tremendously I think. Though I can't be sure, they might be doing a tonne of hamachi + lan. Bnet is certainly quiter than it used to be though.
i dont think its dropped off that much in korea, hamachi is definetly popular enough that it has a noticeable effect on how many koreas are online. almost any time you play someone whos an aspiring courage player or better they demand hamachi, and alot of casual players do too.
Perhaps Testie has the best chance at victory, but the champions of LighT will surely looking to skewer the icy black heart of Testie with a spear forged of pure righteousness and virtue. With such foul and protruding hair it will be easy for the forces of justice to weed this despicable creature out of the land and eviscerate his being with the the mighty wrath of the heavens.
On August 20 2007 13:59 Flooper wrote: Perhaps Testie has the best chance at victory, but the champions of LighT will surely looking to skewer the icy black heart of Testie with a spear forged of pure righteousness and virtue. With such foul and protruding hair it will be easy for the forces of justice to weed this despicable creature out of the land and eviscerate his being with the the mighty wrath of the heavens.
On August 20 2007 13:59 Flooper wrote: Perhaps Testie has the best chance at victory, but the champions of LighT will surely looking to skewer the icy black heart of Testie with a spear forged of pure righteousness and virtue. With such foul and protruding hair it will be easy for the forces of justice to weed this despicable creature out of the land and eviscerate his being with the the mighty wrath of the heavens.
ROFL do you talk like this face to face? Seriously, do you HAVE to talk like this? It just shows how immature you are, nothing else -.-
Ben, ya fayth's gf wants to go to her class at 1pm so he'll leave around 2pm from Quebec city, he'd come and pick us up whenever he arrives at montreal and then we go to TO. This would mean:
Quebec to Montreal 2:00 to 4:30
Montreal to TO
4:45 to 10:45
which means we'd be late, I'm trying to see if anybody else is going from Montreal so we can get a lift, if not we'll go by bus or ask cooltemplar for a lift if he's going by car. If you can't afford bus, i'll pay half of your share no problem... you have a better chance at winning than myself anyways.
Oh btw, xeris we still have to talk to stephan to get everything settled for the shoutcasting.
Also, we're probably going to set up polls, to see what tl.net and other people want to see for the shoutcasting. It will be easier to just see what people want.
Finally, chill I need to know if you really can come, because there is MAYBE a spot for you. If there isn't and the organizer gives one to me, I'll just give it to you.
I also wanna contribute with a little Testie interview we did few days ago. I can be found here:
Here is a preview:
Testie, tell us how do you feel about the coming WCG Canada qualifications. Did you prepare for it?
- No, I didn't prepare until a few days ago. I don't consider a week of practice before a tournament to be practice. More like a warm-up. Because you're still not quite 100%. I will do my best over the next coming days to try to get into the best shape possible to win this event though. I have less than a week left to do it.
If you are interested, you can read the full interview here.
On August 21 2007 00:49 Freaky[x] wrote: Ben, ya fayth's gf wants to go to her class at 1pm so he'll leave around 2pm from Quebec city, he'd come and pick us up whenever he arrives at montreal and then we go to TO. This would mean:
Quebec to Montreal 2:00 to 4:30
Montreal to TO
4:45 to 10:45
which means we'd be late, I'm trying to see if anybody else is going from Montreal so we can get a lift, if not we'll go by bus or ask cooltemplar for a lift if he's going by car. If you can't afford bus, i'll pay half of your share no problem... you have a better chance at winning than myself anyways.
Oh btw, xeris we still have to talk to stephan to get everything settled for the shoutcasting.
Also, we're probably going to set up polls, to see what tl.net and other people want to see for the shoutcasting. It will be easier to just see what people want.
Finally, chill I need to know if you really can come, because there is MAYBE a spot for you. If there isn't and the organizer gives one to me, I'll just give it to you.
last year did they allow anyone to randomly play fun games for the hell of it? Im brining a friend down, and its been a bit since weve both touched bw; but him and I will mostly watch/cheer on bandit/schism and of course play for the hell of it if they allow it. Did they last year?
yes, I've done it last year newblish, and anyways xeris is the official head admin or some bs like that, so you'll have to talk to him when we get there.
On August 21 2007 22:47 GoSuPlAyEr wrote: dude it would be so f'ing sick if smuft came from nowhere and won the tournament...sorry testie im not rooting for you anymore
Ok, well here is a list of confirmed participants for WCG Canada.
Jian Fei Wang (IefNaij) Nick Perentesis (Testie) Steve Resse (Prodigy[x]) Justin Ngo (who is he?) Claude Fortin (CoolTemplar) Herman Wu (CoolGuyNo.1) Mitch Dickinson (Bandit) Benjamin O'neill (Schism) Sami El-Dabbagh (Freaky)
POSSIBLY: Fayth (I dunno if he will be arriving on time to play...)
HAVEN'T HEARD FROM: Matt Down , GNS.I-Kelly
(if someone can get in touch with them by TOMORROW) tell them to contact me via TL.net ASAP, or send me pm with their MSN.)
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stalife - not coming target - not coming (you better change your mind and show up! bitch) raptor - not coming (same deal!)
Steve Resse = Prodigy[x] and kelly should be Jiang while Matt should be his brother from what I heard from ex light member GAME, he'll be there (Jiang)
Ok, so I'm going to propose a few options on how this should work... just vote or discuss / give thoughts and opinions on it.
Option A: - Since there will be 12 people, have 4 groups of 3 players each -> top 2 advance to 8 man double elim bracket
Option B: - Make 3 groups of 4 players each -> have top 2 advance -> 3rd place from each group plays a round robin -> top 2 of that advances to 8 man double elim bracket
Option C: - 4 groups of 3 players each, and only 1 advance to 4 man double elim bracket
Option D: - Target, Raptor, and/or some other guys show up and we get closer to 16 people, and I can do 4 groups of 4 with top 2 advancing.
Poll: What would you prefer (Vote): A (Vote): B (Vote): C (Vote): D
As much as D would sound like a good option because there are more people...it COMPLETELY ruins the idea of going to ANY preliminaries AT all...which means WASTED time for people who went to 2-3 prelims just to try to qualify. You might as well just let who comes to play next year and save ppl money from having to participate in prelims to attend. Make it whoever can come to Toronto PLAYS nxt year.
EDIT: Toronto, or which ever city the WCG people decide to go to.
Xeris, pipe down. I already know what to do in each individual case. The fact that you are asking for opinions means you are not experienced or steadfast enough in this manner and are simply showing up and being like.. "so.. what do you guys wanna do?". Just trust me when I say it'll be done fairly and awesomely.
I'll run the event at the event. I've done it for a few years and done it fairly so that all players agreed.
We only have 4 PC's to play Starcraft on. And I talked about this with Stephan ages ago.
How did cuteguy qualify from London when Bandit won?
1 from each qualifier, correct? That's why only Schism is coming. Also correct?
I'm talking to the event organizer right now, he's being a real hardass, and he said he's not letting people play that don't confirm with him... so if you have any way of getting in touch with these guys, tell them to get in touch with me so I can forward them to this guy, just so there is no worry.
Has there ever been an interview where Testie hasn't been "not in shape, I only have ____ amount of time, I will do my best even though as I said only have ____ amount of time, so if I don't win I wasn't at my best but I'll try"
well neo peaks has been used for like 4 seasons running + proleague, has over 200 games played on it. baekdu daegan was pulled after one season. theres a pretty big difference in quality.
Group A - Testie , CoolT, Prodigy[x] Group B - IefNaij, Freaky[LighT], Mattdown Group C - Schism[Light], JDrama, Fayth ( fayth did not show up ) Group D - Cuteguyno.1, Bandit, Jiang
Group A Results - Testie > CoolT | Testie > Prodigy Group B Results - IefNaij > Freaky[Light] | IefNaij > Mattdown Group C Results - No results at the moment Group D Results - Bandit > Jiang
2 Players from each group will advance, Me, Testie already advanced, along with JDrama and Schism since Fayth did not show. Group matches will continue tomorrow and following with a 8-men tournament. gl everyone !
On August 25 2007 11:12 Dknight wrote: Thats absurd. You don't qualify at regionals, you shouldn't play at the national finals. Some of these national qualifiers are so unprofessional =[
Testie vs CuteGuy is going to start in a few minutes ... and CoolT and Freaky went out to get food, should be back shortly, then Bandit vs CoolT will begin.
CoolT seems to have about 40 lings now, bandit with around 10 zeals with +1 attack, starting on +2 attack and +1 armor... he also has a few temps with storm ready and building robo for obs.
CoolT has gone fast lurker with a ton of lings, bandit working on 4th and 5th gates. moving around the side of the map to evade coolt's forces and possible do some damage.
Shuttle building for bandit, who is starting on 6th and 7th gates. obs nearly complete... and he moves out with shuttle with 2 temp and zeal to try and storm drop.
CoolT's side expo is killed by Bandit, who now has 11 gates it looks like and has completed his 2nd expansion. he moves probes out to take some more expands.
Bandit now going 9/10 gate build. probably going to try and end it early, or fend off a rush. but CoolT has obviously seen it by now, and will prepare.
CoolT going to bandit's base for adrop, but he has prepared with 4 cannons and a storm on his overlords... but the drop is still doing some damage.. Bandit is moving on CoolT with a large army.
CoolT moving on Bandit's base for another drop ... but Bandit has enormous army outside of CoolT's base. CoolT's army is dead and Bandit is moving on his main, but lots of lings dropped in Bandit's base.
JF sneaks a zeal into Bandit's main... so far no damage done, both players playing a bit passively.. JF expand is finished, and Bandit's still not complete yet,
Idra, How do you know it's not going to be close from what I hear the 2nd game was close. As I have said in the past you will never know the outcome nor be able to predict outcome of a regionals event. Always up and coming players that could do the unthinkable! (Lets hope that doesn't happen)
CoolT hurriedly getting up sunkens as Schism is planning on powering in... SCHISM ATTACKS SUNKS NOT UP YET, SUnks up and lings go to flank, CoolT is safe for now.
Ok, this is finishing up tomorrow with bandit vs schism. then winner of those 2 vs testie.
About Jianfei, he played very well today, but as you'll see in the replay he was greedy the 2 games vs Bandit, and vs coolt he let him take too many expos on peaks.
On August 26 2007 10:58 Freaky[x] wrote: Ok, this is finishing up tomorrow with bandit vs schism. then winner of those 2 vs testie.
About Jianfei, he played very well today, but as you'll see in the replay he was greedy the 2 games vs Bandit, and vs coolt he let him take too many expos on peaks.
meaning i'm sure he'll learn from this...and take 1st nxt year
I feel kinda bad for JF, he just had some bad luck. The first game vs Bandit he played absolutely flawlessly ... the 2nd game, Bandit just countered at a perfect time after JF's reaver drop.
Even though JF killed like 20 probes, Bandit had a larger army because JF sacrificed his reavers, so the counter killed him.
3rd game, Bandit got arbs earlier than him... so he won with a nice stasis... JF still played really well though.
And CoolT... I dunno what happened, he didn't harass enough and CoolT's macro was too much.
Bandit has been inactive for about a year, and has only played about 90 games on ICCUP, which I guess is enough to get him back in shape.
I got overconfident vs bandit seeing that he's been inactive for so long, they were good games though, and he played really well. vs coolt, i dunno what happened, after my loss vs bandit my mind had gone else where.
wow yooh guys. 18 pages of posting i didn't think wcg was that good this year to be honest. the stage with the samsung televisions and big screen was nice, but as for getting coverage for all the games.. it wasn't as good as i'd expected overall, there were lots of people and way too little room for spectators. in fact we didn't get seats -___- that was a little disappointing
only 4 comps to play SC on, therefore we were short on time and loser brackets were made bo1 only =/, and its only one representative to Seattle, its getting worse year by year =o
we've just arrived at the place today... LB finals is going to start in approximately 10 minutes, maybe a bit less.
I'll be reporting the LB finals, nobody lse is really here yet. We're kinda under time contraints so we came way early to get it played,because the grand final is supposed to start at around 1... and they're pretty strict with the time setup...
But ya, yesterday was a bit messy.... we didn't end up starting until 1.5-2 hours late because the comps were having some power source problems that caused some lag, so we were waiting to get it replaced, then it got fixed... and for the first hour or two we could only use two comps, because they were playing WC3 and Command and Conquer ... T_T!
Bandit has 2 expands , and is going to have 8 gates soon, with around 120 pop... really good macro so far, they've only been playing for about 7-8 minutes. Schism is moving out of his base now
JF... I'm not entirely sure, I KNOW that we're casting it live on the stage with a mic... but I'm not sure if there will be a stream you guys can listen to.
Schism melted all of Bandit's troops but his 2 carriers are doing a lot of damage... SCchism sending a stream of troops.... its unsure if Bandit can hold this off weven with his two carriers.
Bandit hiding and saving his goons waiting for more carriers so he can stop thi sattack, schism goes in with some vultures to kill a few probes, but it looks like Bandit will hold off this attack.. he has 4 carriers now. here come goliaths from SChism though
Bandit has almost no money left, and no mining capability... this game should be over in a matter of sconds, Bandit tries last ditch effort to attack with his arriers, but has lost one.
Bandit's main and expands are totally dead, he only has his 3 o'clock expansion left... but his carriers are doing a lot of damag to Schism, he has killed 2 CC's already... this is looking to be a really close game.
Bandit opts to try and kill Schism's factories, but some tanks are attacking Bandit's expand... this looks like gg, Bandit has nothing left but carriers. ... hes holding of though.......but this looks over....
Bandit microing his carriers like a madman, killing Schism's goliaths.... but he's lost almost all of his probes... nexus is still live though.... Schism has lost almost all of his goliaths... but is now coming with some reinforcements... both only have 1 mining base... but schism attacks bandit's expanision!!!
Bandit has no nexus at all, only 5 carriers, Schism only has 1 CC left, and Bandit is killing it now... it's going to be a really tight battle.....
both players have no income, and Bandit still with 5 carriers.... Bandit gets the armory of schism so he can't produce goliaths... SChism still has a lot of goliaths left.
Bandit opens with 1 gate and a gas.... maybe going to harass with a zeal... Schism's barracks is nearly complete. Bandit almost gets his scv... but it survives barely.
Schism gets his base walled off, but hasn't atacked the gas uyet... looks like he's possibly cheesing, Schism has now scouted Bandit's base.... goes to kill the gas with about 9 scvs
Gasgoes down and schism kills the scouting probe and starts gas... Schism has made a barracks ouside Bandit's base... but Bandit just scouted it.... SCHISM BUILDING BUNKER ,
Goon range finished, Bandit attacking the bunkers with a few goons... Schism sends 2 rax into Bandit's base to scout his build... robo done and Bandit making .... reaver bay and shuttle
Bandit with 2 zealots and 8 goons, looking to mayb break the contain... Bandit shuttles goons to the back of his expand,, going to try and flank the contain most likely.
Bandit attacks with a nice flank... bunkers going down..... lost his 2 scvs, the bunker is holding off the attack... now both bunkers dead, Bandit breaks free.
Bandit's expand nearly finished, Schism might have spent too much energy on the contain, his expand his slower.. Bandit has speed shuttle and 2 reavers, looking to harass now... shuttle moving out
Bandit saves both his reavers, continues harassing, Schism defeinding very well, but losing depots will hurt... Bandit massing gateways, getting 7 now... moving in shuttle again.
Bandit defending his expands now with a few cannons to prevent vulture harass.... has 9 gateways now, but his goons look to be stuck, so might have to kill a dgate... SCHISM HArASS WITH VuLTS, GETs some probes
Bandit killed Schism's expand without much loss, Bandit aking a 3rd expansion and making a couple more gateways.... Schism looks to start his push again and re-take the expansions.
Bandit has a large psi advantage, but Schism's defense is really good.
he has 4 running expansions and Schism only has two... arbiter or carrier tech i sneeded, SCHISM PUSHING, ATACK AGAIN .... Bandit holding off the downward push of Schism, but can't push him very far back
Schism sending army down, but Bandit keeps fending him off, he's losing psi, Schism is breaking even now.... Vultes coming down and more slow push, Bandit looks to be in trouble, he's nearly backed into a corner.
Schism still only has 2 expands, SCHISM PUSHES DOWN< BANDIT MOVES TO ATTACK AGAIN... Bandit's forces dying.... REINFORCEMENTS ARRIVE, Bandit moves in ...
Bandit scambling and macroing like crazy, having really good control to not lose units to mines.... Schism attempting to push down again.... both players 0-0 upgrades.. too hectic of a game both are macroing so hard..
Bandit trying to take a 5th expansion (the 12 o clock) and making some gateways there... Schism attemps AGAIn to push down, Bandit rushing at it again... looks like Schism might take it this time... Bandit moves back.
Schism killed all of Bandit's troops... Bandit rebuilding his army, Schism only mining off 1 ase... moving out again slowly, probably going to try and take another expand...
Bandit taking the left side expand.... Bandit gathering troops and Schism doing the same... Schism is moving to ehe left side of the map to kill expands.....
Testie *will* win, I find it impossible for a player of his caliber lose in a bo5 with someone like Bandit (who's a skilled gamer, too, but just not as skilled as Nick is)/
Great ! I honestly believe that this is Testie has the best chance among all the foreigners or could actually win If he could somehow aviod sAviOr. Felicidades Testie !
On August 27 2007 05:16 MesAiur wrote: Great ! I honestly believe that this is Testie has the best chance among all the foreigners or could actually win If he could somehow aviod sAviOr. Felicidades Testie !
Can't wait for them to draw groups for the WCG Grand Finals=D
On August 27 2007 08:57 slained wrote: testie played really amazing, ZvP on paranoid and Gaia. He maxed out SOOO fast second game it was ridiculous (like 13 mins).
On August 27 2007 08:57 slained wrote: testie played really amazing, ZvP on paranoid and Gaia. He maxed out SOOO fast second game it was ridiculous (like 13 mins).
On August 27 2007 08:57 slained wrote: testie played really amazing, ZvP on paranoid and Gaia. He maxed out SOOO fast second game it was ridiculous (like 13 mins).
Game 1: Testie at 12, Bandit at 2. Testie does 9 hat, 9 pool, toss does 10 12 gate. Testie defends carefully and also gasses but cancels once the probe leaves the base. Toss runs back to his base, testie comes out with lings with no speed outside tosses base. Testie takes the bottom right side of the map. Blocks bridges with lurkers ovies lings and scourges while toss is still massing up on the other side of the bridges, some scourges come and scare back the observer and bandit stays there. Testie moves towards the bottom left expo, but Bandit is there preventing him, Testie totally psyches out Bandit with a fake drop and Bandit runs his army back to his base, and testie just takes bottom left expo with no resistance. Testie with a large amount of ultras attacks, Bandit has a couple of dark archons and reavers, Testie just runs past them at the middle bridges and attacks his nat, some decent maelstroms, but has no shuttles to transport his reavers which are closer the middle to his natural. Bandit loses both reavers and all his gates. Testie just pumps lings and ultras nonstop from all his hatcheries and just out masses him. Bandit GGs
Game 2: Testie 8, Bandit at 6. Bandit FEs forging first, Testie does the mineral checking trick to scout Bandit, then goes 3 hat and masses lings. Testie gets den and spire but gets zero hydras/lurkers/mutas instead he goes straight for ultra, drone whores and slowly moves up, takes 9, then 12. Bandit meanwhile plays like a blindman unable to see any tech from Testie gets alot of goons templar and lots, which just melt from the clawing of zerglings. Testie with his massive blobs of lings, continues to pump like mad from a buttload of hatcheries in his nat main and expos. Testie takes the min only expo below from 12. Testie is maxed insanely fast with ultras and lings, Bandit throws some storms getting alot of lings but testies just too huge and rolls over bandit
the only reps that are missing to my knowledge are the finals ... because they were played on the stage.. and we got kicked off for CS and stuff.. and right after the last finals finished (CS) they took everything down really quick, so I couldn't get them.
other than that, I got all the reps that I found on the comps.