A lan center with 100 entries and about 50 PCs. We scheduled for tournament to start 10 PST. Soon after Round 1 initialized we start experiencing Bnet issues. Now most computers cannot connect to bnet at all, either to SC2 or wow, (the play offline error).

* We registered the tournament and requested white-list
* there are no technical difficulty or isp issues
* all other sites are accessiable, we're now watching mlg to pass time
* have been contacting Blizzard by phone, email, and through our friends of friends to try to get it resolved.

It's now 3 and half hour since tournament official start time. We still can't finish off round 1.

dmasterding

United States205 Posts

February 25 2012 21:36 GMT

#22

no response from blizz themselves?

Deckkie

Netherlands1595 Posts

February 25 2012 21:37 GMT

#23

Wasnt there a tournament that had similar problems (dont reemember the name). They then got computers with only sc2 on them. They didnt know why, but it worked.

Dice17

United States520 Posts

February 25 2012 21:37 GMT

#24

On February 26 2012 06:32 StreetWise wrote:
Yeah, this is bad PR for blizzard, especially since you did as required and registered... I almost went to this but overslept and saw the post about if I wasn't there by 9 I wouldn't get to play. Sad to see that the event might not even go down anyway, but I would be even more upset if I had made the drive.

lol I overslept as well I wanted to go

Thylacine

Sweden882 Posts

February 25 2012 21:37 GMT

#25

Screw blizzard.

dAPhREAk

Nauru12397 Posts

February 25 2012 21:38 GMT

#26

On February 26 2012 06:32 Loomies wrote:

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read the op. its in bold

it says they cant access battle.net, etc. it doesnt say why though.

edit: he clarified the issue a few posts above.

ODKStevez

Ireland1225 Posts

February 25 2012 21:39 GMT

#27

That must be very frustrating, when I was at the LAN we had connection issues but they thankfully resolved themselves. I hope all goes well for you.

hashaki

Norway210 Posts

February 25 2012 21:42 GMT

#28

Old interview with Dustin Browder. (9th februaru 2011, THAT old

)

Dustin: I think we're just excited to be a part of it. Esports has been played in a variety of different games over the years but our fans really took to StarCraft and Brood War, and really took off with that and showed us, and I think many people out there in the world, what eSports could truly be. It's just been absolutely exciting to watch what the fans have done with our products and all of the amazing amount of effort they put in, in order to make it work. And then for us, having seen that happen in Brood War, and then again in WarCraft 3, we just put as much effort as we could into making StarCraft 2 a platform that could hopefully be a very successful eSport which would sort of capture the imagination of fans and broadcasters around the world.

When the fuck will Blizzard and Dustin realize that the reason those other games did well was because they themselves stayed the fuck out of it? Blizzards business-model of this nazi-like DRM called Bnet 2.0 is bad, their totalitarian EULA for SC2 isn't helping either.

Blizzard is NOT a friend of Esport. If that was the case they'd stick to making the game and leave everything else up to the fans and people that know their shit.

A yes to Esports is a No to Blizzard.

To the OP I suggest you guys demand compensation from Blizzard for ruining the event for you. If you indeed had contact with them before the tournament and everything was in order it is clear that they fucked up. And if their fuckup hurt you guys economically in any way, have Blizzard pay. It's their 1984-like control of SC2 that is causing all this shit.

Primadog

United States4411 Posts

February 25 2012 21:44 GMT

#29

On February 26 2012 06:37 Deckkie wrote:
Wasnt there a tournament that had similar problems (dont reemember the name). They then got computers with only sc2 on them. They didnt know why, but it worked.

I believe it was Chicago last month

nGBeast

United States914 Posts

February 25 2012 21:46 GMT

#30

On February 26 2012 06:44 Primadog wrote:

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I believe it was Chicago last month

Yeah we had a issues at the chicago LAN, had to cancel took them like 3-4 hours before we got a response

Primadog

United States4411 Posts

February 25 2012 21:55 GMT

#31

It took us four hours, but we're white-listed!

Wroshe

Netherlands1051 Posts

February 25 2012 21:56 GMT

#32

On February 26 2012 06:55 Primadog wrote:
It took us four hours, but we're white-listed!

Glad to see this paid off. Good luck with the tournament.

darkcloud8282

Canada776 Posts

February 25 2012 21:56 GMT

#33

use hotspotshield to mask your ip and connect

dAPhREAk

Nauru12397 Posts

February 25 2012 21:59 GMT

#34

On February 26 2012 06:55 Primadog wrote:
It took us four hours, but we're white-listed!

congrats. too bad it took so long. =( have a great tournament.

vaderseven

United States2556 Posts

February 25 2012 22:09 GMT

#35

:-/

This sounds so shitty... one day the tech will be there.

StarcraftChicago

United States51 Posts

February 25 2012 22:37 GMT

#36

On February 26 2012 06:44 Primadog wrote:

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I believe it was Chicago last month

I so feel for you guys. 3.5 hours was about the same time it took them to finally repair us as well.

G2Wolf

United States261 Posts

February 25 2012 22:48 GMT

#37

On February 26 2012 06:28 dAPhREAk wrote:
went to a lan in berkeley. had like 30 comps and no issues. i doubt they registered with blizzard because it was like a $50 pot. what exactly is the issue you ar dealing with?

All of those computers weren't on the same IP. Almost all major colleges assign a unique ip address to every computer on the network. Colleges own giant blocks of IP addresses for this reason.

For a lan event like this, most of the computers are probably on one or two IP addresses. Blizzard doesn't like it when 20 accounts try to connect from the same IP.