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![[image loading]](http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/1347/detailsrm.png)  KOTH AustralasiadeL and CyberGamer are bringing you King of the Hill Australia every weekend. Two community-voted players from Australia or New Zealand will be going head to head in a Best-of-Seven series with live commentary and stream. The winner of the BO7 each weekend will go on to play a new challenger drawn from the top of the Australasian SC2 talentpool as voted in by the Oceanic public, as well as score themselves $50 thanks to CyberGamer Australia. ![[image loading]](http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/3558/castd.png) Live coverage will be provided by gamestah casters kitfox and daman, with support from local Australian commentators deth and Unstable (varies week to week) on Gamestah TV or deth's livestream. ![[image loading]](http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/7128/ictvlogo.png) Gamestah TV1The next cast is at 7:00PM on Wednesday the 8th of September.![[image loading]](http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/9770/playerso.png) ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/Picon_small.png) Legionnaire was best known for his StarCraft: Brood War career, where he achieved what others from the Oceania region can only dream about - playing for a professional Korean team. Despite a slow start in SC2, Legionnaire was spurred to become more competitive by several large tournaments boasting prize pools that the former Protoss pro couldn't ignore. And so Legionnaire is back, despite never being completely absent from the top few Protoss players floating around the SEA server, and this week's KOTH series provides the perfect platform to let everyone know. Kowi has been the star of the New Zealand national team in recent tournaments so expect a strong showing from the kiwi protoss. His micro can be attributed to his WC3 status as the best and possibly only world-class player to come out of NZ and his PvP is one of his stronger matchups. Recently he defeated Azz in a showmatch 2-1 but a BO7 will really test his depth as he has been accused of recycling the same build every game with only minor tweaks. But if it ain't broke! ![[image loading]](http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/2014/prize.png) The winner recieves AU$50 courtesy of CyberGamer: ![[image loading]](http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/7338/cgtextmed.png) ![[image loading]](http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/7807/mapsz.png) Legionnaire < Kulas Ravine > Kowi Legionnaire < Blistering Sands > Kowi Legionnaire < Delta Quadrant > Kowi Legionnaire < Lost Temple > Kowi Legionnaire < Steppes of War > Kowi Legionnaire < Metalopolis > Kowi Legionnaire < Xel’Naga Caverns > Kowi![[image loading]](http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/5505/vodsv.png) Week 1 VODs pinder vs ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/Zicon_small.png) Hectic Week 2 VODs pinder vs ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/Ticon_small.png) KJHWeek 3 VODs Azz vs KJHWeek 4 VODs Azz vs Kowi![[image loading]](http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/8797/resultss.png) [url blocked] + Show Spoiler [Week 1 Results] +[url blocked] + Show Spoiler [Week 2 Results] +[url blocked] + Show Spoiler [Week 3 Results] +[url blocked] + Show Spoiler [Week 4 Results] +![[image loading]](http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/938/votev.png) The Australian and New Zealand community has the chance to participate in the KOTH event via a preliminary KOTH feature soon to be announced! Voting will no longer be used. The sign ups for participating will be situated at CyberGamer.com.au, but as stated the format is yet to be announced.
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Pinder to take it in convincing fashion :D!!
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On July 28 2010 00:54 QuasiMachina wrote:
i look forward to this
I can tell your excitement is barely contained.
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On July 28 2010 00:56 FireZerg wrote:
Pinder to take it in convincing fashion :D!!
haha <3!
looking forward to it, need to learn the new maps asap! xel'naga caverns looks hard to FE ><
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xelnaga caverns is horrid in general. But good for protoss!
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Looks awesome! w00t for more AU/NZ events 
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On July 28 2010 11:31 dethrawr wrote:
xelnaga caverns is horrid in general. But good for protoss!
Strange, pinder says the opposite 
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On July 28 2010 18:10 deL wrote:Show nested quote +On July 28 2010 11:31 dethrawr wrote:
xelnaga caverns is horrid in general. But good for protoss! Strange, pinder says the opposite
it might be good for P PvT, but the double entrance makes it difficult unless someone comes up with a creative sim city using the nexus as a wall point like on metalopolis
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so this forum is the gathering place for aussies or is some kind of teamaus.org revival in the works?
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Ah cool, I will be sure to tune in!
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On July 28 2010 20:28 iPlaY.NettleS wrote:
so this forum is the gathering place for aussies or is some kind of teamaus.org revival in the works?
atm the closest thing to teamaus.org in terms of gathering of decent aussie players is http://www.cybergamer.com.au/forums/pc/sc/
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On July 28 2010 20:28 iPlaY.NettleS wrote:
so this forum is the gathering place for aussies or is some kind of teamaus.org revival in the works?
The big two are definitely TeamLiquid and CyberGamer.com.au
TL is great because it has a large Oceanic community and also many SEAsians (and US players who we will be connected with eventually) but cybergamer is probably the best for aus/nz only local stuff.
There are one or two other sites in development for Aussie SC2 to keep an eye on too, bringing something new to the table. Teamaus is coming back I heard from a reliable source so that should be cool but the domain name is being camped :3
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On July 28 2010 18:18 Ftrunkz wrote:Show nested quote +On July 28 2010 18:10 deL wrote:On July 28 2010 11:31 dethrawr wrote:
xelnaga caverns is horrid in general. But good for protoss! Strange, pinder says the opposite it might be good for P PvT, but the double entrance makes it difficult unless someone comes up with a creative sim city using the nexus as a wall point like on metalopolis
Honestly its easier to expand to the raised 3rd than your natural as just about every race..the fuck?
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Good news guys, CyberGamer has picked up the tab and will be shouting the $50 to the winner so definitely head over to the SC2 section and express your thanks (as well as vote for your favourite players!)
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Added sensei (IGN: sAint) to the voting pool!
Good chance for him to start from scratch I think he can be a top player.
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Gotta wiki-fy those maps mate. Also looking forward to this n_n
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On July 30 2010 16:16 Pholon wrote:
Gotta wiki-fy those maps mate. Also looking forward to this n_n
When I made the post the maps weren't on wiki 
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this will be exciting :D maybe i didnt read correctly, but will there be an audio commentary?
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On July 30 2010 18:11 WarChimp wrote:
this will be exciting :D maybe i didnt read correctly, but will there be an audio commentary?
Not 100% about gamestah but I think that at least sometimes there are audio-only casts. Will provide a link if it is the case, but there will be a live video stream too!
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On July 30 2010 21:09 Luoson wrote:
Go pinder!
Did you want to be included in the voting mate? I remember you did well in a tourney and some people rate you highly in the NZ scene.
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Guys I added some polls to teamliquid to speed up the voting. These polls will be weighted less than the cybergamer thread votes because there's no guarantee that people know who the players are, but they still count
Poll: PICK 1. Next week's challengerShuffle (Z) (13) 30% Azz (P) (9) 20% kjh (T) (9) 20% deth (T) (4) 9% Mez (P) (4) 9% stroggos (P) (3) 7% fpx (Z) (2) 5% iaguz (Z) (0) 0% 44 total votes Your vote: PICK 1. Next week's challenger (Vote): Azz (P)
(Vote): iaguz (Z)
(Vote): deth (T)
(Vote): Mez (P)
(Vote): kjh (T)
(Vote): stroggos (P)
(Vote): Shuffle (Z)
(Vote): fpx (Z)
Poll: PICK 2. Next week's poll choicesKowi (P) (15) 37% GLaDe (Z) (13) 32% Legionnaire (P) (7) 17% SeMu (T) (3) 7% Guc (R) (3) 7% SoMuchBetter (P) (0) 0% Dox (T) (0) 0% tertle (R) (0) 0% Unstable (P) (0) 0% XaraCoS (Z) (0) 0% PwnStar (P) (0) 0% Filthy (R) (0) 0% 41 total votes Your vote: PICK 2. Next week's poll choices (Vote): SoMuchBetter (P)
(Vote): Legionnaire (P)
(Vote): SeMu (T)
(Vote): GLaDe (Z)
(Vote): Guc (R)
(Vote): Dox (T)
(Vote): tertle (R)
(Vote): Unstable (P)
(Vote): XaraCoS (Z)
(Vote): PwnStar (P)
(Vote): Kowi (P)
(Vote): Filthy (R)
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urrgh for some reason i thought this was 1st august
I am disappoint 
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On August 01 2010 13:43 QuasiMachina wrote:urrgh for some reason i thought this was 1st august I am disappoint
me too
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Voted, dethrawrrrrr for next challenger.
Pinder!!! Good Luck™
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On August 01 2010 15:40 deth wrote:Show nested quote +On August 01 2010 13:43 QuasiMachina wrote:urrgh for some reason i thought this was 1st august I am disappoint me too
I didn't think I'd have the time to confirm the $50 prize by the 1st, and it would have been kinda gay for the player up first if they didn't play for $$$ but next week did lol.
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i nominate kowi! he has sick stats
go pinder!
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On August 01 2010 18:03 aLt)nirvana wrote:
i nominate kowi! he has sick stats
go pinder!
You should make an SEA KOTH
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I like how everyone in the poll is on the same ladder. Go Leg
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I was thinking of changing the time to something more accommodating to other, larger events which may want to happen at this prime time.
While the time of KOTH will be pretty flexible to accommodate these I would like to find a default time to run them so there is some sense of continuity and consistency.
Poll: Best time for KOTH?Sunday afternoon (5-6PM) (8) 44% Same time (7:30PM Sunday) (4) 22% Thursday Night (7PM) (4) 22% Saturday afternoon (5-6PM) (2) 11% Saturday night (7PM) (0) 0% Other Weekday (specify) (0) 0% Wednesday Night (7PM) (0) 0% 18 total votes Your vote: Best time for KOTH? (Vote): Same time (7:30PM Sunday)
(Vote): Saturday afternoon (5-6PM)
(Vote): Saturday night (7PM)
(Vote): Other Weekday (specify)
(Vote): Sunday afternoon (5-6PM)
(Vote): Wednesday Night (7PM)
(Vote): Thursday Night (7PM)
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Last day for voting!
Will be broadcasting this tonight, so be sure to get your votes in. The winners of the polls will be announced during the stream.
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Should be good
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15 minutes
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gl pinder, i would also like to see SeMu play, i havn't heard much of him recently, which is a shame
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tuning in now
can the commentator with the deeper voice please talk a little louder , his voice isn't coming through as strong or clear as the other guy
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BTW don't worry about stream going down, it may do that between matches to modulate the VODs or fox kitfox's lag or w/e.
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Del you might want to fix the results as they're obviously wrong as we all can say with 100% confidence that there is no way a protoss could possibly lose on Delta Quadrant...
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Possibly the worst SC2 casters ever :/ Gotta wonder if they watch or play much SC2.
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On August 08 2010 19:36 Paz wrote:
Possibly the worst SC2 casters ever :/ Gotta wonder if they watch or play much SC2.
None of them play P lol, but there are no people out there who are good at both casting and the game atm aside from deth and pinder (and Unstable if he fixes his net).
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haven't watched that much sc2 but in these matches it seems like protoss has more 'options' - but maybe it's down to a skill gap
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On August 08 2010 19:17 MooiSh wrote:
Del you might want to fix the results as they're obviously wrong as we all can say with 100% confidence that there is no way a protoss could possibly lose on Delta Quadrant...
man, somehow my sweet 1-base 5 gate forge robo proxy-cannon warp-in strat lost. D:
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Also please note that next week's matches may be on the Monday to accommodate pinder's trip to the snow. I am sure kjh will agree because it means more practice for him >: D
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On August 08 2010 20:07 Ftrunkz wrote:Show nested quote +On August 08 2010 19:17 MooiSh wrote:
Del you might want to fix the results as they're obviously wrong as we all can say with 100% confidence that there is no way a protoss could possibly lose on Delta Quadrant... man, somehow my sweet 1-base 5 gate forge robo proxy-cannon warp-in strat lost. D:
I don't understand... with that many syllables surely you could've pulled out a win.
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Vote for Week 3 challengers now!
VOTING OVER
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On August 08 2010 19:41 deL wrote:Show nested quote +On August 08 2010 19:36 Paz wrote:
Possibly the worst SC2 casters ever :/ Gotta wonder if they watch or play much SC2. None of them play P lol, but there are no people out there who are good at both casting and the game atm aside from deth and pinder (and Unstable if he fixes his net).
its not being fixed its being installed >.< BS 10 business days to get phone line + net connected zzzzz
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On August 08 2010 22:59 Unstable87 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 08 2010 19:41 deL wrote:On August 08 2010 19:36 Paz wrote:
Possibly the worst SC2 casters ever :/ Gotta wonder if they watch or play much SC2. None of them play P lol, but there are no people out there who are good at both casting and the game atm aside from deth and pinder (and Unstable if he fixes his net). its not being fixed its being installed >.< BS 10 business days to get phone line + net connected zzzzz
BTW I might need you to stream next weekend, not sure. Daman said something about being away or maybe kitfox said it.
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im up for it as long as my nets installed >.<
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Week 1 VODs are up:
Week 1 VODs
pinder vs Hectic
Also, just to announce that the next cast is at 7:30PM on Monday the 16th of August.
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Nice work deL. Keep the aussie tournaments coming.
I know Seal is keen to get in some show matches. He's got my vote for the poll.
Keep it up.
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Just a reminder that this event is on MONDAY at 7:30PM, it was rescheduled as neither player could make the time Sunday but we should be back to weekend games next time.
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Ive seen KJH thru replays, should be good games
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This should be awesome
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who's streaming the event?
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On August 16 2010 12:08 deth wrote:
who's streaming the event?
I think gamestah can make it again.
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On August 16 2010 12:21 deL wrote:I think gamestah can make it again.
i should be able to stream in HQ, with TL stream status if need be
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On August 16 2010 12:39 deth wrote:Show nested quote +On August 16 2010 12:21 deL wrote:On August 16 2010 12:08 deth wrote:
who's streaming the event? I think gamestah can make it again. i should be able to stream in HQ, with TL stream status if need be
You can co-cast.
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Just get connection error when i click streamlive
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Is there a mirror? Can't get the stream to load, it just says "connectionError"
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Edit: Nvm, Del beat me to it
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The VoDs and casters do a nice job casting some games from players that I don't get to see on streams of VoDs frequently. Nice work SEA
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did pinder go afk on purpose during game 2? heh.
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On August 16 2010 23:01 GTR wrote:
did pinder go afk on purpose during game 2? heh.
He went to get a drink.
I think it should be pointed out that today was his first full day of quitting smoking cold turkey he was not in an amazing mindset.
On August 16 2010 21:50 uknable wrote:
Get tets in there!
Show us your tets!
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mOOnGLaDe is pulling out of KOTH and Shuffle, 2nd most votes doesn't want to play against Terran so taking GLaDe's place will be Azz if he accepts.
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Kowi doesnt want to play against KJH? or what?
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On August 21 2010 09:54 Nuri wrote:
Kowi doesnt want to play against KJH? or what?
He was not 2nd in the polls. The current poll shown is for next week.
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Reminder that this is on in an hour guys!
Need to show some interest or it might not be worth continuing, especially with top players reluctant to play against other top players in BO7 due to the blizz invite tourney.
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On August 22 2010 17:20 deL wrote:
Reminder that this is on in an hour guys!
Need to show some interest or it might not be worth continuing, especially with top players reluctant to play against other top players in BO7 due to the blizz invite tourney.
So I gather no-one has been invited as of yet? Anyone know when they will announce anything?
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On August 21 2010 09:38 deL wrote:
mOOnGLaDe is pulling out of KOTH and Shuffle, 2nd most votes doesn't want to play against Terran
sounds like both of them don't want to play vs Terran
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The reason there are no votes this week is because I am thinking of implementing a format change, what do you guys think of:
BO7, King of the Hill plays against 7 people who sign up, and has to go 7-0 to get a prize or something. So people would sign up and get chosen at random, placed on a map, and play in order. If someone beats the 'King' they get to play the next week?
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Note: The next cast is at 8:15PM on Sunday the 29th of August.
If Kowi doesn't show (unable to contact him this week) it will be pp'd to next weekend!
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This should be going ahead as scheduled at 8:15PM Aus time!
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Change to the voting system, there's only one poll choice how and the bottom few will be replaced each time.
Poll: KOTH week 5 challenger?[AU] Legionnaire [P] (14) 48% [AU] deth [Z/T] (7) 24% [NZ] Stroggos [P] (4) 14% [AU] Shuffle [Z] (2) 7% [AU] Paz [Z] (1) 3% [AU] sAint [T] (1) 3% [AU] Guc [R] (0) 0% [AU] fpx [Z] (0) 0% [AU] iaguz [T] (0) 0% [AU] SeMu [R] (0) 0% [AU] Mez [P] (0) 0% [AU] Hectic [Z] (0) 0% 29 total votes Your vote: KOTH week 5 challenger? (Vote): [NZ] Stroggos [P]
(Vote): [AU] Shuffle [Z]
(Vote): [AU] deth [Z/T]
(Vote): [AU] Guc [R]
(Vote): [AU] fpx [Z]
(Vote): [AU] Paz [Z]
(Vote): [AU] iaguz [T]
(Vote): [AU] SeMu [R]
(Vote): [AU] Mez [P]
(Vote): [AU] Hectic [Z]
(Vote): [AU] Legionnaire [P]
(Vote): [AU] sAint [T]
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Glade is not afraid of terran, he just doesnt to want to show his playstyle.
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interesting result for this last one wow
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You'd be surprised how strong Kowi's play is
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Kowi is rather impressive. In the last koth match he hadnt even played for a week and not even a pratice game before facing azz. Very nice
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Re-thinking some of the ideas for this event.
What do people think of the following points?
- Opening it up to SEA nations
- Opening it up to all levels of players (so, high level vs low/medium/high levels instead of high level players each week)
- Run it so that a high level player has to win against 7 'applicants' who can sign up to play in order to get the prize
- Less/more frequent
- Run a lower KOTH with less well known players ('Prince' of the hill?) for the right to challenge the main KOTH
- Prefer open to all players, or just decently well known players?
- Make it a chance for up-and-coming players to test themselves, or prefer to keep it as an exhibition of high level Aus/NZ players?
- Throw in some custom maps (e.g. SC1 map remakes) or other fun things? Some less well-known maps perhaps?
- Change the time it's run?
- Post-match interviews with the player, or some kind of lead-up event beforehand to slowly increase viewers?
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Pre-match stuff would definately help. Interviews with the players could help psyc it up a bit. I like the idea of custom maps to mix it up. It's nice weekly as it's frequent but I think people miss it a bit coz it is so frequent and thus forget/cant watch every week.
Idea of lower level players is good but how low would you be going? and how do you determine which lower level players would come along? Gets a bit difficult as there are a lot that are in low-mid diamond haha.
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Less often imo, as you can see finding players every week is a bit hard. Maybe once a month, that way you can hype it up a bit more along with pre-match stuff.
I like the idea of only AUS & NZ. But i guess if its hard just limiting it too AUS & NZ because of player base, its understandable for you to expand it to the whole of SEA server.
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New casters
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On September 03 2010 15:42 Tenz wrote:New casters
Not really worth upgrading from the worst casters in SEA to the 2nd worst caster in SEA man.
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Prince of the Hill sounds hilarious, it would be nice as a stand alone tournament (no prize maybe), and like you said, the best player could face off in KOTH.
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 Legionnaire wins the poll!
BO7 between Legionnaire and Kowi tonight at around 7:00PM!
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Leg couldn't play tonight! postponed to wednesday
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that was a stupid idea never mind
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wtf dude? u cant just say it was a stupid idea after kowi plays the games and rapes voices? Hope he did get the $50
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On September 09 2010 02:20 Nuri wrote:
wtf dude? u cant just say it was a stupid idea after kowi plays the games and rapes voices? Hope he did get the $50
Sure I can it was just experimental I grabbed him off friends list to see if it would be a good game, didn't even say it was KOTH. Just wanted to have something to show instead of yet another postponement. Voices wasn't even on the list for voting into the KOTH.
However, Kowi's reward is that he will be the defending champion when the tournament recieves a facelift.
This event will be on hiatus while the format is reimagined and focus is on PSI Storm!
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If your'e going to use the format where qualifiers play each other and the last man standing gets to play the defending champ. Can you have the games a week after the challenger is announced so they can practice for matchup?
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On September 09 2010 05:28 stroggos wrote:
If your'e going to use the format where qualifiers play each other and the last man standing gets to play the defending champ. Can you have the games a week after the challenger is announced so they can practice for matchup?
Yer well it will either be wednesdays for the qualifier KOTH, and sunday for the main KOTH, or just have it alternating each weekend.
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