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King of Beta Finals/VODs

Text byHeyoka
August 1st, 2010 03:19 GMT
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On the eve of the release of Starcraft 2, hundreds of nerds gathered at Harvey Mudd College to swarm around one of the most prolific figures in esports. Sean "Day[9]" Plott played host to the world as he celebrated the end of the Starcraft 2 Beta and the release of Starcraft 2 Retail with his King of the Beta Tournament - sponsored by Razer. Of course, you know all about this event already and no doubt you have seen the pre-game vidoes from the community (check here if you haven't!).

At long last (after some technical difficulties), Day[9] has uploaded the vods for the semifinals and finals of the Razer King of the Beta tournament. For your viewing pleasure, we have collected them all here for you to watch - spoiler free! We also have an interview with the winner after the vods. So if you missed these three epic series, now you can finally see the games that we've been talking about all week!

Note that you can click the little TV icon next to the game to take you directly to the VOD on blip.tv. The spoilers contain embedded VODs.

UPDATE: blip.tv is being slow at the moment, so you might be here a while.
UPDATE#2: For those of you with ATI cards you may BSOD when watching these, you can find a fix for that here: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=136294&currentpage=185#3701

DISCLAIMER: If you currently have an ATI card and are running Catalyst drivers below 10.7 you may experience a blue screen of death viewing these videos. Watch at your own discretion.
You may download the latest 10.7 drivers here which will alleviate the problem.



Semifinal A

[image loading]Idra vs [image loading]qxc

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Not needed

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Not needed

+ Show Spoiler [Result] +
[image loading]Idra 3-0 [image loading]qxc
&#91;image loading&#93;Idra < Lost Temple > &#91;image loading&#93;qxc
&#91;image loading&#93;Idra < Steppes of War > &#91;image loading&#93;qxc
&#91;image loading&#93;Idra < Metalopolis > &#91;image loading&#93;qxc


Semifinal B

&#91;image loading&#93;Tester vs &#91;image loading&#93;IntoTheRainbow

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&#91;image loading&#93;Tester 3-2 &#91;image loading&#93;IntoTheRainbow
&#91;image loading&#93;Tester < Scrap Station > &#91;image loading&#93;IntoTheRainbow
&#91;image loading&#93;Tester Blistering Sands &#91;image loading&#93;IntoTheRainbow
&#91;image loading&#93;Tester < Steppes of War > &#91;image loading&#93;IntoTheRainbow
&#91;image loading&#93;Tester < Metalopolis > &#91;image loading&#93;IntoTheRainbow
&#91;image loading&#93;Tester < Lost Temple > &#91;image loading&#93;IntoTheRainbow


The Finals

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&#91;image loading&#93;Tester vs &#91;image loading&#93;Idra

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+ Show Spoiler [Results] +
&#91;image loading&#93;Tester 2-3 &#91;image loading&#93;Idra
&#91;image loading&#93;Tester < Lost Temple > &#91;image loading&#93;Idra
&#91;image loading&#93;Tester < Steppes of War > &#91;image loading&#93;Idra
&#91;image loading&#93;Tester < Scrap Station > &#91;image loading&#93;Idra
&#91;image loading&#93;Tester < Blistering Sands > &#91;image loading&#93;Idra
&#91;image loading&#93;Tester < Metalopolis > &#91;image loading&#93;Idra


+ Show Spoiler [Interview with winner] +
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Idra crowned king of beta

Hey Idra and congrats on your victory over Tester. How does it feel to win the final tournament of the beta?

It feels awesome, I wasn't performing particularly well towards the end of phase 1 so its great to be able to come back and win a tournament like this right before the big release.

Tester is a player who has given you a bit of trouble in the past. Do you feel like your victory over him is the result of personal improvement over the course of the beta, or do you think you simply adjusted to his style, allowing you to pull through?

It was almost purely an adjustment to his style, in tournament games he tended towards 2 base collosus/stalker based allins because he knows i prefer ground macro games. I recognized this and designed builds and tactics, the muta openings and faster ultras as well as the focus on ling runbys, to counter it. He also tends to open with zealot pressure, so the speedling opening helped vs that as well.


I noticed that Tester picked maps that were pretty cramped (Steppes and Blistering), while you chose maps that were more wide open (Metalopolis and Scrap). Was the reason for this mostly related to the ease of use of early pylon shenanigans, which he used on the maps he chose, or were there more complicated reasons?

Well we mostly chose along zvp balance lines, but the reason steppes and blistering are good for protoss is the relatively short rush distance, and the fact that they're 2 player maps. So while they're good for pvz in general they're especially good for rush builds like his cannon block. I chose purely for big open macro maps.

In the 5th set, you sniped Tester's robo bay at a critical moment. Hypothetically, if he had been able to build up a bunch of colossi, how would you strengthened your composition to deal with the inevitable big attack?

Once you have ultras out the stalker/collosus ball is almost useless. I would have just kept adding ultras and hatcheries, gotten drop and started harassing.

The beta is over. Do you have any plans that are set in stone as far as competing professionally in Starcraft 2? We know from previous interviews that you'll be attending various tournaments representing CJ, but are there any specific events that you know you'll be attending?

Nothings really set yet, most of the upcoming tournaments haven't even been announced as far as I know. I think there's a very good chance I will be at the Intel extreme masters event in Germany in August, but like I said nothing is for sure yet.

Well, I think this about wraps this up. Good luck in your efforts to win more tournaments in the future, in Korea and abroad. Is there anything you'd like to say to your fans?

A: Thanks for all your support, hope you enjoyed the games. Oh also, thanks to white-ra. He helped me practice the day before the match vs tester and it helped quite a bit. I probably wouldn't have won without those games.


And that well and truly caps of the beta. Starcraft 2 is an amazing game and it's already consumed all our lives, and will continue to consume them for many years to come. With a number of massive tournaments on the horizon, you can look forward to TeamLiquid giving you the very best coverage of all of these events - just as we have done and will continue to do for SC:BW.

-- SC2 Beta Writing Team
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ohN
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States1075 Posts
August 01 2010 03:21 GMT
#2
Thanks day[9] for uploading.
youlijp
Profile Joined February 2009
Brazil112 Posts
August 01 2010 03:22 GMT
#3
great!!
"I hate quotations" - Chang E. I.
huyNh
Profile Joined March 2010
Canada366 Posts
August 01 2010 03:24 GMT
#4
i only see a black box in video spoilers.
huyNh.703
Ursadon-n-Pals
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States928 Posts
August 01 2010 03:25 GMT
#5
Thanks to Day[9]! Hopefully he'll find time now to actually play SC2.
Nothing worth having comes easy.
TuElite
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada2123 Posts
August 01 2010 03:28 GMT
#6
Finally I'll be able to see this, yay! Thanks for uploading.
Always Smile - Jung Nicole - Follow Nicole on Twitter @_911007 and me @TuElite
Asway
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada37 Posts
August 01 2010 03:28 GMT
#7
Awesome! Cant wait to watch them!
^-^
MaxField
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States2386 Posts
August 01 2010 03:28 GMT
#8
That was a stellar night.
Now i can watch it all over again. hehe YEA!
"Zerg, so bad it loses to hydras" IdrA.
Antisocialmunky
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States5912 Posts
August 01 2010 03:35 GMT
#9
Many <3's for Day[9].
[゚n゚] SSSSssssssSSsss ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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CursOr
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States6335 Posts
August 01 2010 03:39 GMT
#10
Was there. Had a blast. Thank's Day[9]... I'm always gonna remember that!!
CJ forever (-_-(-_-(-_-(-_-)-_-)-_-)-_-)
potatomash3r
Profile Joined April 2010
Australia417 Posts
August 01 2010 03:43 GMT
#11
Idra and White-ra practice with one another?
Part of being mature is to accept your loss.
Nick_54
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States2230 Posts
August 01 2010 03:43 GMT
#12
Great, thanks Day9 and TL
0mgVitaminE
Profile Joined February 2009
United States1278 Posts
August 01 2010 03:44 GMT
#13
Day[9] always looks so into it. Epic tournament
Hi there. I'm in a cave, how bout you?
Nonsense
Profile Joined July 2010
United States53 Posts
August 01 2010 03:47 GMT
#14
i missed this on the actual countdown. im glad y'all finally got it up ive been looking forward to watching it :D
Megalisk
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States6095 Posts
August 01 2010 03:49 GMT
#15
IntotheRainbow vs Tester was amazing..really good play
The finals were good too .
Tear stained american saints and dirty guitar dreams across a universe of desert and blue sky , gas station coffee love letters and two dollar pistol kisses from thirty five dollar hotel room stationary .
Parsistamon
Profile Joined July 2010
United States390 Posts
August 01 2010 04:00 GMT
#16
I like the descriptions they have on the BW proleague/MSL/etc. Perhaps they could do that for SC2 in the future?

Regardless, many thanks to Razer, Day9 and the contestants!
AcrossFiveJulys
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
United States3612 Posts
August 01 2010 04:00 GMT
#17
damn, i'm getting black boxes for the videos, where are the videos hosted?
IntoTheWow
Profile Blog Joined May 2004
is awesome32274 Posts
August 01 2010 04:02 GMT
#18
On August 01 2010 13:00 AcrossFiveJulys wrote:
damn, i'm getting black boxes for the videos, where are the videos hosted?


blip.tv
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nayumi
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Australia6499 Posts
August 01 2010 04:12 GMT
#19
I can't connect to blip.tv :/

Can someone upload the VOD to another host? (with permission from Day9 of course)
Sugoi monogatari onii-chan!
Smoothie
Profile Joined July 2010
18 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-01 04:29:49
August 01 2010 04:15 GMT
#20
Click the little TV icon next to the game, well at least that's how i got it to work.
+ Show Spoiler +
Have yet to see the games yet, but Idra 3-0'ing qxc was really a surprise to me after qxc's 2-0 on ITR. I dislike idra for his rage, but he deserved it.

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