Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne - Page 245

On May 11 2026 02:45 Excalibur_Z wrote:


Yeah. I'm running a daily chart documenting their progress. Here it is today:



My notes on the players:

- Tyler1 has had an extra 12 days to reacquaint himself with the game, having known about the event and essentially leaking its existence via a chat bot command referencing his upcoming schedule, yet he has also had considerable difficulty. He sank from 1500 to 1250 over 4 weeks.

- Hera is obviously an AoE2 master, and was assigned Undead as a suitable challenge. He has been grinding a ton of games, often choosing to mass game rather than study. As a result, he's plateaued multiple times, but easily broken past them after small coaching sessions (you can see the dramatic slope shifts corresponding to coaching days).

- Pohx has extensive experience in custom games, giving him engine familiarity, but has not played a competitive game in many years. He has decided to leverage his solo hero experience and play mostly Warden, and it seems that his ladder anxiety is fading a bit and timings and concepts are clicking for him more, as he is currently on a 13-game win streak.

- YamatoCannon decided to play 100 games on Bnet before jumping into W3Champions, just to orient himself. He played War3 when it released, and apparently matched against Grubby on the ladder back then. He has shown incredible tenacity and growth, often having 12-16 hour streams full of analysis and practice and reaping the benefits. He hit 1400 at his peak and dropped back down to 1350 later that day, but with his versatility he could easily recapture it.

- Maxim doesn't have as much time to commit as some streamers, but he has jumped up to near 1100 without much difficulty. He's chosen to specialize in Pala/Rifle, as he feels it is still strong at his level.

- Simply is a Mario64 speedrunner, and predictably his strengths are in minor timing optimizations, which any RTS player knows pays rippling dividends. His improvement has been steady as he meticulously applies each new discovery.

- MaryMaybe is a significant underdog because at the time the practice period began, she was committed to a week-long sponsorship for a new gacha MMO, and shortly after that was doing event streams with her enclave in Austin. Nevertheless, she learns quickly, and executes strategies and tactics well, albeit a little slowly. Given a little more time, she can easily surprise the competition.

- Dantes' situation is similar to MaryMaybe's, as he was suddenly asked to coach Jynxzi (a 50k-viewer streamer) as he learned League of Legends, and so this was an easy business decision for him. Dantes is attempting to catch up by getting structured coaching from some W3C community figures, which can challenge his impulsive nature.

People seem to be excited about the clanwar format on Friday, in particular how the results impact the bracket assignments for Saturday. I think the event will be really fun. I've done admin work on both of the previous Grubby invitational tournaments, and will of course be doing more of that this weekend. I hope people check it out and enjoy!

On May 12 2026 06:07 Berstis wrote:

I could tell you that you have no idea what you are talking about, but you already did that yourself in great detail.

Let me dissect your initial post:
"It probably just needs a steam release"
Why? Because numbers arent where they should be?
"with all the possible modes/ ladders and whatnot"
Well, thats the "you dont know what you are talking about"
"player numbers would go up to AoE numbers"
You would have to know the Warcraft 3 numbers in order to say that

On May 15 2026 17:13 Crimson)S(hadow wrote:
what's the date/time for grubby's tournament?

On May 21 2026 06:14 Manit0u wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VAv8hKS2YX4

Just dropping it here for hype.