Alot of information are waiting for you and i have to inform you that HomerJ will not cast this tournament with me cause of some privat reasons and instead of that Yoan "ToD" Merlo will cast the tournament with Kevin "Rotterdam" Van der Kooi and me together I am really happy to announce that because ToD already casted the WC3 GOM Series with Kevin in China and they did a great job.
You guys probably already know that i refinance the tournament almost with ESL TV Premiumkeys. We will offer a 5 day ESL TV Premium for 2,50 Euro and this will start next week wednesday. I will inform you in this thread and link you to the page and i really hope that you like the idea of the tournament and all the players etcpp.
The Stream will have 2mbit and i use HD cameras in my apartment and i have 10 Players at my place for the people who missed the first thread of this tournament
Beside that i have the Grid for you which is finally done and i ve watched it 1000 times and i am so happy to have all this player in my tournament
It will be played Best of Three till WInnerbracket Finale then Best of Five and the Loserbracket consolidation and consolationfinale will be also Best of Five. The finale will be Best of 7 with 1:0 lead for the guy from the Winnerbracket.
We will the GO4SC2 Maps and Vetosystem (3 maps for each player in a Best of Three and 2 maps in a Best of Five and 1 map in a Best of 7)
Start of the Show on Saturday (15.01.2011) : 11:00 GMT (+00:00) Start of the Show on Sunday (16.01.2011) : 11:00 GMT (+00:00)
(Vote): Bratok vs Dark.Force (Vote): Nani vs Naama (Vote): Tarson vs Haypro (Vote): Mana vs Morrow (Vote): Socke vs Demuslim (Vote): Sjow vs Dimaga (Vote): Cloud vs White-Ra (Vote): HasuObs vs TLO
On January 08 2011 02:10 uNiGNoRe wrote: Time zone is CET so this starts at 11:00 GMT (+00:00), in case someone doesn't know. Take, you should add the time zone to your op.
Is it 6AM or 6PM eastern time. Thanks! I'm a newbie when it comes to converting time zones.
On January 08 2011 02:10 uNiGNoRe wrote: Time zone is CET so this starts at 11:00 GMT (+00:00), in case someone doesn't know. Take, you should add the time zone to your op.
Is it 6AM or 6PM eastern time. Thanks! I'm a newbie when it comes to converting time zones.
If you have set your default time zone in your TL profile, it should convert the time zone automatically.
On January 08 2011 02:10 uNiGNoRe wrote: Time zone is CET so this starts at 11:00 GMT (+00:00), in case someone doesn't know. Take, you should add the time zone to the op like this:
[time]12:00 CET[/time]
Also he should add a date since its not this Saturday and Sunday but next.
On January 08 2011 02:10 uNiGNoRe wrote: Time zone is CET so this starts at 11:00 GMT (+00:00), in case someone doesn't know. Take, you should add the time zone to the op like this:
[time]12:00 CET[/time]
Also he should add a date since its not this Saturday and Sunday but next.
Oh yes, I didn't even notice that. Its on Saturday, Jan 15 11:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) and Sunday, Jan 16 11:00am GMT (GMT+00:00). + Show Spoiler +
[date]January 15 12:00 CET[/date] and [date]January 16 12:00 CET[/date]
Awesome, the only thing I didn't like about the cup (HomerJ, I just can't stand his casting/voice/anything) got removed :D Now I'm pumped as fuck for this, thanks for organizing it!
youve got demuslim listed as german, and hes most definitely british even though he played for a couple german teams for WC3.
and i really dont like rotterdam as a caster. he was a pro orc player for a number of years, then during the past WCG Finals he couldnt remember the manacost for the blademaster's spells. after that i lost faith in him.
On January 08 2011 06:33 EcstatiC wrote: youve got demuslim listed as german, and hes most definitely british even though he played for a couple german teams for WC3.
The Take works for and with ESL and they state the players residency and not their nationality that is why demuslim is shown with a German flag. He lives right now in Germany. I guess that Take just took the information including flag from the ESL website.
On the other note I am looking forward to watch the stream. Sadly I can not make it to the planed party.
On January 08 2011 06:33 EcstatiC wrote: youve got demuslim listed as german, and hes most definitely british even though he played for a couple german teams for WC3.
He is listed on german on the ESL page, because he plays in the german EPS. And you have to live in germany to compete in there.
Well, pretty sick lineup. Mad respect for all the work you put in this! You will have my 2,50 for sure ;D
On January 08 2011 06:33 EcstatiC wrote: youve got demuslim listed as german, and hes most definitely british even though he played for a couple german teams for WC3.
and i really dont like rotterdam as a caster. he was a pro orc player for a number of years, then during the past WCG Finals he couldnt remember the manacost for the blademaster's spells. after that i lost faith in him.
Tasteless didnt know you could move archons and he plays protoss if u make it exciting u can be a football jock for all i care, just need a good commentator and a crazy excited caster
On January 08 2011 03:46 Weavel wrote: Omg ToD and Rotterdam casting?! That's like the best casting ever. Hopefully ToD has enough knowledge about Sc2.
I believe Take said something like this in an interview.
@resilve Yeah. Perhaps write Take a PM, he obviously took the country flags from the ESL, and Demuslims lives and plays in Germany, so got the German Flag.. Need to be fixed though
He's fromt he UK but he lives in Germany atm with rotterdam (for the EPS)
I can't wait for this tournament, will definitely be paying to watch, although I probably won't wake up on time so i'll miss the first couple hours each day, but thats okay, ewll worth 2.50 euros to USD in price.
So many great games, it's really hard to decide which one i want to see the most. Voted for DeMusliM vs Socke though. DeMusliM is a great player and Socke's PvT is just awesome.
As for Homer J... Without any information about those personal reasons (hope nothinh bad happened), as a caster i won't miss him. Looking forward to some ToD+RotterdaM action.
On January 09 2011 07:52 Zumm wrote: Demuslim ist German now. I like!
This picture is taken from the ESL website and the flags show the players' residences. Since DeMusliM is living in Cologne, Germany, he got a german flag. Same for ClouD, who is living in Leipzig, Germany and Naniwa, who was living with him in Leipzig and probably didn't update his ESL profile since then.
On January 08 2011 06:33 EcstatiC wrote: youve got demuslim listed as german, and hes most definitely british even though he played for a couple german teams for WC3.
and i really dont like rotterdam as a caster. he was a pro orc player for a number of years, then during the past WCG Finals he couldnt remember the manacost for the blademaster's spells. after that i lost faith in him.
He was one of the few orcs that played Farseer and you are criticising his blademaster knowledge on the fly whilst casting....talk about picky.
On January 08 2011 18:35 Malaz wrote: So many great games, it's really hard to decide which one i want to see the most. Voted for DeMusliM vs Socke though. DeMusliM is a great player and Socke's PvT is just awesome.
As for Homer J... Without any information about those personal reasons (hope nothinh bad happened), as a caster i won't miss him. Looking forward to some ToD+RotterdaM action.
yeah! tod+rdam as casters make me very happy, too. reminds me of the good old times when they casted wc3 on GOM. ♥
Kinda sad that Kas isn't invited, then we would see all the best players from Europe in this tournament (except ret and jinro of course). But I think that Kas has started to dominate European tournaments when Take already invited all players.
I hope that the players at Takes place will be doing good at the tournament, but I like all players there so I wouldn't be sad to see anyone win it. Even naniwa is becoming mannered lately and I like his play.
What a great line-up. You've got pretty much all of Europe's best players. Well done!
I'm just wondering, how did you do the seeds? 'Cause some of the players that I would put in the top5 are down in the teens, which has caused some insane match-ups in Rnd1.
I took the liberty of trying to seed the tourney myself, don't shoot me! It's a really tough field, but based on recent tournament performances, I would do something like this:
Just to inform you. We seeded the games without 1 to 16 we seeded with strength of the players, Matchups and took care for matches in round 2 so who would play against each other.
Just give it a try what you think who reaches round 2 etc
On January 11 2011 08:35 TaKeSeN wrote: Yes haypro and TLo are already at my place.
Just to inform you. We seeded the games without 1 to 16 we seeded with strength of the players, Matchups and took care for matches in round 2 so who would play against each other.
Just give it a try what you think who reaches round 2 etc
//Dennis
They must be celebrating hardcore at your home for placing high at the pokeridol tournament. I think TLO and Haypro finished 1st and 4th, respectively.
Tried to create an account at ESL but it says I've already created an account with my email, even though it says "No account found for the entered email address!" when I try to retrive the password Made a ticket about it, hope it gets fixed before saturday! x)
Just ordered a ticket. I'm not sure, if I can watch it, but honestly we all have to support Take so that he can continue doing these cups and improve his equipment. I also hope you'll find a bigger apartment soon Take. Perhaps then you can invite like 32 players for the next cup
my weekend attempted at revision is officially RUINED! I hope every games rubbish so I can turn it off and get some work done :D But there's noway that is going to happen, looks so amazing.
got a ticket, too. luckily, i can spend the weekend as i like and I'm going to stash a lot of beer and snacks to enjoy the event on my couch with some firends
On January 14 2011 01:19 ptbl wrote: Will the premium stream be in English? I'm planning to get it, but if it's in German then...
The whole tournament will be in english.
At the moment we wanna tell you, that nearly everthing is working fine and more and more players are arriving at TaKe's place. Stay tuned for more Information )
On January 14 2011 02:42 JustPassingBy wrote: Yes, everything will definitely be in English, I just read that at readmore.de
TakeSen, for people who are too busy to watch everything over the weekend, will it be possible to watch HQ vods afterwards, if you paid for a ticket?
thanks in advance, jpb
Every other esl.tv stream gets released as hq vod afterwards, so I'm pretty sure they will also upload the vods for this event. But you won't be able to access them after your 5day ticket expired.
Can anyone who has ordered the premium stream confirm that the 2.50EU is just a one time fee and not a subscription? I don't understand why it says "equates 2.50 EUR per month"?
As far as I can tell it's only a one time fee, just strange/unnecessary wording
Anyways, glad to pay and help support the stream/tourney. Best of luck to the players.
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thats a sad story but im glad to hear that ToD will cast and im looking forward to this event!
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