On April 12 2013 06:34 aintz wrote:
honestly useast is a good compromise. most eu players get like 150ms. uswest players would get 200+ on eu servers.

The problem is that US East works fine for folks in central Europe, but Russia is quite a lot farther away as well.

739

Bearded Elder29903 Posts

April 12 2013 12:57 GMT

#1722

Tbh, with a pretty average internet speed (got 60mb/s here in Poland) You're getting AT MOST 90ms to USE, EUW is like 32ms, so there is no big difference between EU and USE servers.

Acrofales

Spain18194 Posts

April 12 2013 13:56 GMT

#1723

On April 12 2013 21:57 739 wrote:
Tbh, with a pretty average internet speed (got 60mb/s here in Poland) You're getting AT MOST 90ms to USE, EUW is like 32ms, so there is no big difference between EU and USE servers.

Well, CIS players are another 1000 km (or more) to the east from you and I have no clue what kind of connections they have. For Fnatic and NTH I agree that this shouldn't matter much and their pings should be okayish to US East, but US teams will still have a slight advantage there and that is unfair in a European tournament. US tournaments on US servers, Euro tournaments on Euro servers should be the rule if there are region problems.

Acrofales

Spain18194 Posts

April 12 2013 14:01 GMT

#1724

On April 12 2013 17:27 hfglgg wrote:

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i think a lot of it comes down to preparation for certain matches. if you play 40 official "maps" a month (thats what fnatic played in february i think) you cant expect them to be as well prepared and focussed as the chinese who play maybe 10 "maps".
yeah IG is unbeatable and lgd.cn is probably better than anything in the west but with the right strategy and a bit of luck, the top 4 of the west (atm i'd say nth, fnatic, vp and liquid on a good day) could beat xiao8 and co.
DK isnt so far ahead anyway and the sea teams are not very consistent in their performance. (these ice3 plays...)

I'm not sure I agree. Unless you refer to preparing specifically for a matchup with one team (somewhat like GSL in SC2), those 40 maps that Fnatic plays in official games are a high level of practice. No, they aren't as free to experiment with new setups/heros as they might be in the ladder, but even without that explicit mandate for exploration of your playstyle, new things happen: just look at TL in the D2L finals tossing out an Ogre Magi which they said they had never trained with.

teapoted

United Kingdom24425 Posts

April 13 2013 08:36 GMT

#1725

Lol, I just realized the LGD showmatch is overlapping with the finals (depending on how long it takes), wanted to check if anyone else noticed.

duoform

Spain5180 Posts

April 13 2013 12:33 GMT

#1726

On April 13 2013 17:36 teapoted wrote:
Lol, I just realized the LGD showmatch is overlapping with the finals (depending on how long it takes), wanted to check if anyone else noticed. https://twitter.com/robertohlen/status/322780763466653696

And that WePlay tournament as well. And people give shit to Adebisi for saying our scene isn't a cluster fuck, lol.

Grettin

42381 Posts

April 13 2013 13:03 GMT

#1727

Weppas! 8)

TheSubtleArt

Canada2527 Posts

April 13 2013 13:11 GMT

#1728

Gyrocopter 3-11, damn O_o

duoform

Spain5180 Posts

April 13 2013 13:11 GMT

#1729

Yeah... this A logo now that I look at it looks like a logo completely rushed.

Fwizzz

Philippines4420 Posts

April 13 2013 13:16 GMT

#1730

Not really liking the name Alliance.

Jinxed

United States6450 Posts

April 13 2013 13:19 GMT

#1731

On April 13 2013 22:11 duoform wrote:
Yeah... this A logo now that I look at it looks like a logo completely rushed.

It was cropped from the rest of their logo it seems. Not surprising considering that it was announced yesterday, but I'm curious to see what their "official" logo looks like.

Grettin

42381 Posts

April 13 2013 13:19 GMT

#1732

On April 13 2013 22:16 Fwizzz wrote:
Not really liking the name Alliance.

Welcome to the club.

icystorage

Jollibee19350 Posts

April 13 2013 13:19 GMT

#1733

Alliance using [A] tag.

nihlon

Sweden5581 Posts

April 13 2013 13:20 GMT

#1734

Alliance is about as good as naming your team after a state of matter.

icystorage

Jollibee19350 Posts

April 13 2013 13:21 GMT

#1735

On April 13 2013 22:20 nihlon wrote:
Alliance is about as good as naming your team after a state of matter.

i see what you did there

Grettin

42381 Posts

April 13 2013 13:22 GMT

#1736

Admiral prophet. wooo

duoform

Spain5180 Posts

April 13 2013 13:23 GMT

#1737

On April 13 2013 22:19 LeLoup wrote:

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It was cropped from the rest of their logo it seems. Not surprising considering that it was announced yesterday, but I'm curious to see what their "official" logo looks like.

Am I the only one who would like to see something like this?