Dan \"Artosis\" Stemkoski was a top American Terran player before beginning his casting career by covering mainly non-Korean online tournaments like Ascension. After casting the Razer TSL in 2008, Artosis moved to Korea and now does interviews and coverage for IEG, the media giant that sponsors the eSTRO professional gaming team. Artosis joined Tasteless to cast Blizzcon 2008 and 2009, as well as the WCG Grand Final this year. Artosis is known as \"The Wikipedia of StarCraft\" for his comprehensive knowledge of the game.
Nick \"Tasteless\" Plott is regarded by many as the top English professional StarCraft commentator. Tasteless began his career with WCG USA Finals in 2005, and casted several other live events throughout the United States. In 2008, he became the first English-only caster to move to Korea, covering all seasons of GomTV\'s TG-Intel Classic and the WCG Grand Finals from 2005 to this year. Tasteless also casted many events for Blizzard, including their World Wide Invitational (since 2006) and Blizzcon (since 2007). Tasteless\'s nickname is the \"Storm Observer\" for his energy, humor, and enthusiasm.
How to Watch? Stream will be provided at match time.
What is at Stake? Winner goes on to the TSL Round of 8. Loser is eliminated. Winner also earns a minimum of $500 prize money, and an opportunity for much more.
mouz.IefNaij wins 3-1 and advances to the Round of 8, to be played next weekend!
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will there be any "connected users to stream numbers" at the end of TSl like last time? would be pretty interesting. HI artosis :D HI tasteless :D gogo!
summing it up 1. kabal with a good manner pylon 2. white ra had a slower exp, so he wanted a faster 3rd 3. 3-4 goons were wondering in the back of the base, no AI pylons, gg
On February 07 2010 04:54 Heaven.ReV wrote: gogo White-Ra - I love you :D
Sucks that their mini map is so small while commentating, since it seems to make them miss a lot of the important action
yeah tbh that was quite disappointing when you see a shuttle directly flying over 4 goons or a reaver drop taking out an expo and the commentators keep on babbling about some general pvp stuff....
Kabal was also a lot better at spending his money. He was rarely over 500 while White-Ra was hovering over 1000 a lot. Macro >>> Micro in modern Starcraft.
Patience people xD The stream isn't dead, if it was there wouldn't be any sound or picture. You should also notice that the mouse pointer hasn't been on the screen for a while, hence they're fixing it other places on the screen which we can't see =)
On February 07 2010 06:10 Heaven.ReV wrote: How? He is denying expos, killing probes, constantly moving around making JF focused on that and not to mention very eco-oriented.
I'm just a noob, though, but I'm not quite sure how it's "terrible"
Do you truly not see how bad it is to get outmacroed 3v3, 4v3, 4v4 bases, macroing terribly and never getting anything accomplished despite having about 5000 more resources than normally?
EDIT: Not to mention terrible defense, building blocking, terrible mine and turret usage and so on.
On February 07 2010 06:10 Heaven.ReV wrote: How? He is denying expos, killing probes, constantly moving around making JF focused on that and not to mention very eco-oriented.
I'm just a noob, though, but I'm not quite sure how it's "terrible"
Do you truly not see how bad it is to get outmacroed 3v3, 4v3, 4v4 bases, macroing terribly and never getting anything accomplished despite having about 5000 more resources than normally?
EDIT: Not to mention terrible defense, building blocking, terrible mine and turret usage and so on.
I stand corrected =)
To all angry nerds: Their mini maps are tiny, though, since they're commentating based on a small part of their screen. It's somewhat annoying at times, but it's not like they're really bad - it's just really hard being able to notice everything based on the mini map.
Regarding the Shuttle which White-Ra picked down, Artosis noticed it and was showing it, however Tasteless was talking and it seems as though they're not able to or have decided not to interrupt each other, hence there'll be a couple of "slips" like that.
If there's anything to complain about, it's the tiny mini-maps, not the commentators - they're doing an overall great job, in my opinion =)
Observer is doing a terrible job so far, missing LOTS of action. Tasteless and Artosis are doing even worse in this regard, however. It's kind of surprising to see them doing so much worse than usual today.
On February 07 2010 06:22 michok2 wrote: obs is blind...
Dude stop -_--
EDIT: Well it was quite funny hearing commentators say recall and seeing a huge blue blop in natural and having observer try to find it for 30 seconds...
On February 07 2010 06:22 michok2 wrote: obs is blind...
Dude stop -_--
EDIT: Well it was quite funny hearing commentators say recall and seeing a huge blue blop in natural and having observer try to find it for 30 seconds...
Will you guys stfu? They're not terrible at all, and the small "blunders" from time to time are fully understandable.
This is so typical of people who're just looking from their own point of view without thinking that there just might be other factors to consider. It's like yelling at a tournament admin for being incompetent for not constantly telling everyone which map it is each round and if it's bo1 or bo3, when all you have to do is click a link in the admin's profile...
On February 07 2010 06:30 Heaven.ReV wrote: Will you guys stfu? They're not terrible at all, and the small "blunders" from time to time are fully understandable.
This is so typical of people who're just looking from their own point of view without thinking that there just might be other factors to consider. It's like yelling at a tournament admin for being incompetent for not constantly telling everyone which map it is each round and if it's bo1 or bo3, when all you have to do is click a link in the admin's profile...
Pisses me off.
a lot of words...but all i can see is : bla bla bla...
Really guys, enough with the asskissing. We appreciate everything the TSL staff does, but it doesn't mean we need to have our noses up their butts 24/7. We need to make sure they know what to work on in the future to make this event even better. It's not all black and white, for God's sake.
On February 07 2010 06:22 michok2 wrote: obs is blind...
Dude stop -_--
EDIT: Well it was quite funny hearing commentators say recall and seeing a huge blue blop in natural and having observer try to find it for 30 seconds...
hmm, i cant still see word "sorry" from U .
im right...obs is terrible .
What? ~4 different 1-5 post guys post just to badmouth the obs when they have done nothing at all and most likely only joined for that purpose. It's sickening and you won't be getting a sorry from me, bro.
Should definitely have spent that 3k minerals on turrets. ah, oh well. GosI is pretty smart though I must say, but JF has pretty damn good with his macro that last game
On February 07 2010 06:38 Blue wrote: Im the only one who has really bad echo from the commentators???
Check if you don't have browser + player on. I've had similar issue when i clicked the "Open in external video player" button and opened stream in WMP, i've had echo but nothing in browser. Then I closed browser and still had the echo. Then i checked in processes and i still had browser in processes - closed it and echo stopped
GREAT series! And i have to say - a huge thanks to the TL staff for this. It has been great before too - but the stream is working PERFECTLY; i guess R1CH is responisble (as always).
On February 07 2010 06:54 G.s)NarutO wrote: No terran in the world can hold 2 gates in his own main with gas first unscouted. This is 3-0.
Huge fuckup by JF (too many zealots, not enough probes, no gateway in main (he got 500? minerals when the vulture came to kill probes (did a pylonwall then) goons too late.
Still really good by GosI[TerraN] but if you play it right, terran is dead and as you could see Artosis basically agreed while casting.
Great games today. The players didn't disappointment one bit. It looks like we're going to have an epic Round of 8. My hat goes off to you guys once again.
Great games by the players and nice cast by Artosis and Tasteless. This games today were really enjoyable and a lot close than last week's games . I can't wait for tomorrow, the other two match-ups should bring some more great games to watch.
Finally i heard some passion from Tasteless side like im used to from GOMTV and wcg2009. Sometimes u just hear him scream random words wich tells you have pumped up he is Along with everything else, great job tsl. seeyou tomorrow
juan played really poorly imo call it nerves but he just seemed completely ineffective in all the games save for #3.. he held that incredibly well and was very impressive that game.
kabal/whitera gave a good show.. sad for kabal. Game 5 he had it SO bad but a single reaver/shuttle simply spread him out/damaged the economy and lost the game for him.. amazing multi by ra.
Im really greatful for the effort put in to this BUT the guy that's observing HAS to start clicking on stuff. Watching the first JF match atm and I can understand that he missed the vultures killing the probes in the field but when he saw he should have clicked on them so we could see how many kills they had. Really really frustrating to watch tbh.
The reaver at 12 by White-Ra saved him game 5.. Commentators missed it the first time when observer saw it and second time commentators saw it do minimal damage.
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