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Hi SEA/ANZ players.
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ESL Asia will be organising the Intel Extreme Masters South-East Asia SC2 Asia Qualifiers, where the winner of the qualifier will stand a chance to fight against the best in Asia to qualify for the Intel Extreme Masters World Championship!
Preliminaries: 22nd January 2011
Semi-finals and Grand Finals: 23rd January 2011
To sign up: Players are to access the ESL-Asia website HERE (http://www.esl-asia.net/sea) to register for the South-East Asia Regional Qualifiers until Friday 21st January 23:59 (Beijing Time).
A help guide
+ Show Spoiler +is available on this page to help you create an ESL account in no time (http://www.esl-asia.net/sea/gettingstarted).
Most necessary information can be found in this link click here
More information about the ESL Intel Extreme Masters can be found here
PRIZE: The winner of this tournament will be qualified for the ESL Intel Extreme Masters Season 5 Asia Grand Final. This Grand Final will be a match between our SEA champion against the champion from China&Taiwan qualification. The overall will be send to the ESL Intel Extreme Masters Season 5 World Finals in Germany during the Cebit in Hannover. He will have 1000$ of travel expenses covered and will be hosted during the tournament. The prize breakdown of the world finals is not yet public but will feature more than $20000
Coverage for this event: will be done by kellyMILKIES on her stream at justin.tv/kellymilkies
The rules and regulations for the South-East Asia Regional Qualifiers are as followed:
+ Show Spoiler +1. Is considered as SEA player, any player that can access the SEA Battle.net server without living in China, Taiwan or South Korea (they have their own qualifiers).
Any European that makes an account and fake their logins for this event will be rejected.
2.The South-East Asia Regional Qualifiers will be taking place on the Blizzard Entertainment SEA Starcraft 2 servers (Players are expected to be ready with an account for the Regional South-East Asia Qualifiers).
The qualification format are as followed :
Best of 1 until the Quarter Finals, then best of 3 to decide the Champion from the top 8. All the BO1 matches will be played on Saturday. Sunday will feature the BO3 matches.
The ESL map pool will include :
+ Show Spoiler +1st Round Xel Naga Caverns 2nd Round Jungle Basin 3rd Round Metalopolis 4th Round Scrap Station 5th Round Steppes of War 6th Round Shakuras Plateau 7th Round Delta Quadrant Quarter Final (see rules) (see rules) Semi Final (see rules) (see rules) Final (see rules) (see rules) read the link below http://www.esl-asia.net/sea/sc2/1on1/iem5sc2quali/leagueinfo/
For the BO1 games, the map to be used will be announced on the ESL website as soon as the Qualifiers are ready to begin. From the Quarter Finals onwards, each player will be allowed to ban 2 maps each from the selection above, and the un-banned maps will be used for the BO3 rounds.
In the event of a disconnection during a game :
+ Show Spoiler +the game has to become rehosted under the following conditions :
• First 4 minutes of the match, if there was no opponent contact.
• If a player drops after the 4 minutes, the remaining can decide to restart the game or you have to upload the replay and a admin will decide to rehost or not.
In a re-hosted game each player has to chose the same race as he/she picked in the disconnected game. (in the event that a player has chosen random, the player can decide to continue using random)
If both players do not agree to a rematch, both players are to upload their replays before the disconnection took place to the ESL, in which the ESL admins will decide to award the victory accordingly.
In case of any questions, problems; you can contact the admin team by using the Chat function on the SEA Page, the ESL-Asia SEA Forum HERE or the Support Ticket system (http://www.esl-asia.net/sea/sc2/support). The chat and the support system do not require you to be registered or login into ESL to use them.
ESL Committee have the final say to the terms and conditions as stated within this IEM V South-East Asia Starcraft 2 Regional Qualifiers.
For those who might be curious if your timezone is different for your region when comparing to Beijing Time, this is a guide as followed :
+ Show Spoiler +Beijing Time : GMT + 8
Australia Timing :
- Queensland, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Hobart : GMT + 10
- Darwin, Adelaide : GMT + 9.30
- Perth : GMT + 8
New Zealand Timing : GMT + 12
Singapopre: GMT+8
Malaysia Timing : GMT + 8
Thailand Timing : GMT + 7
Brunei Timing : GMT + 8
Indonesia Timing :
- Sumatra, Java, West & Central Kalimantan : GMT + 7
- Bali, Nusa Tenggara, South & East Kalimantan, Sulawesi : GMT + 8
- Irian Jaya, Maluku : GMT + 9
Vietnam Timing : GMT + 7
Philippines Timing : GMT + 8
Please feel free to drop your inquiries below in your posts so that we can get back to you as soon as possible.
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I dont understand the IRC part, if im competing what channel do i put in the drop down menu/empty field in personal info.
ALSO what is ICQ?
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On January 14 2011 23:40 Atlare wrote:
I dont understand the IRC part, if im competing what channel do i put in the drop down menu/empty field in personal info.
ALSO what is ICQ?
Hi there Atlare.
ICQ is the IM messenger used mainly in Europe, and would require an account for it. You can leave it empty if you do not have a ICQ account. As there will be a IRC chat integrated into the webpage already, you are not required to fill in any information in regards to the IRC field.
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On January 14 2011 23:51 krysis2010 wrote:Show nested quote +On January 14 2011 23:40 Atlare wrote:
I dont understand the IRC part, if im competing what channel do i put in the drop down menu/empty field in personal info.
ALSO what is ICQ? Hi there Atlare. ICQ is the IM messenger used mainly in Europe, and would require an account for it. You can leave it empty if you do not have a ICQ account. As there will be a IRC chat integrated into the webpage already, you are not required to fill in any information in regards to the IRC field.
Thanks for your help, done and signed up. Hope to see you in Germany?
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Use the chat channels instead of IRC
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Why is the page all in Chinese? I can't really read it well :/
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It's weird. When i sign up it says that the e-mail has been used. But when i use the forget password feature, it says the e-mail is not in the database.
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On January 14 2011 23:54 netherDrake wrote:
Why is the page all in Chinese? I can't really read it well :/
Hi Drake. Is there any inquiries you would like answered?
As the portal is integrated together with ESL Asia, part of the ESL Asia portal is written in Chinese for the Taiwanese and Chinese players who are using it at the same time.
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On January 15 2011 00:02 krysis2010 wrote:Show nested quote +On January 14 2011 23:54 netherDrake wrote:
Why is the page all in Chinese? I can't really read it well :/ Hi Drake. Is there any inquiries you would like answered? As the portal is integrated together with ESL Asia, part of the ESL Asia portal is written in Chinese for the Taiwanese and Chinese players who are using it at the same time.
Nevermind, I figured out how to register, thanks anyway.
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On January 15 2011 00:00 dtz wrote:
It's weird. When i sign up it says that the e-mail has been used. But when i use the forget password feature, it says the e-mail is not in the database.
Hi dtz.
Might I know whether you have an account with any of the previous ESL websites before? If you have registered an account before, then you will not be required to register another ESL account again.
Thanks.
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cn u translate the registering part? I can tell top 2 part is acct name and pw but i hav no idea what to fill for other parts.
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email
retype email
Nickname
Clan tag
(optional)
Country
Timezone
Language
How did you hear about the ESL?
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wat a annoying website ffs ..... can you just sign me up plox.
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Ergh. I agreed to work that day. Will check it out what time I finish and try and fit in...
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On January 15 2011 21:57 nGenWild wrote:
thx,
btw any prize?
Hi nGenWild, I will need to check if there will be a separate prize allocated for the Asia champion. However, the SEA champion will have to fight against the China regional champion for the qualifying slot at the Intel Extreme Masters World Championship. I will keep you guys updated.
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yuck that's a questionable map pool. No Shakuras Plateau?
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Delta quadrant and Steppes of war in a Bo1 Map pool.
There goes any hope of qualifying against semi-competent competition.
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gogo moonglade  Would be nice to see him represent SEA as he is definitely the best player to come out of there, and would give IEM the best chance for a high showing out of SEA server
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GOGO ! Sign up for a chance to go to Germany!!!
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On January 18 2011 19:42 ZlaSHeR wrote:gogo moonglade Would be nice to see him represent SEA as he is definitely the best player to come out of there, and would give IEM the best chance for a high showing out of SEA server
I wouldn't bet on it, I'd be assuming he'd have to off-race in order to qualify on a map pool like that, no Terrans or Protoss out there are still incompetent enough to lose a P/TvZ on Steppes or Delta.
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Map Pool is pretty terrible, theres a reason no tournaments use steppes or DQ anymore;
Steppes is an autowin for T in TvP and TvZ and P in PvZ
DQ is almost as bad for ZvP and ZvT and so-so PvT
Especially in Bo1... either way, worth a shot I guess so I signed up could get lucky with my opponents on certain maps =/
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Hey guys! Map pool has been updated! You can check it out in the link below!
http://www.esl-asia.net/sea/sc2/1on1/iem5sc2quali/leagueinfo/
1st Round Xel Naga Caverns
2nd Round Jungle Basin
3rd Round Metalopolis
4th Round Scrap Station
5th Round Steppes of War
6th Round Shakuras Plateau
7th Round Delta Quadrant
Quarter Final (see rules) (see rules)
Semi Final (see rules) (see rules)
Final (see rules) (see rules)
This is based on a setting of max signups.
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[QUOTE]On January 18 2011 22:59 Rhodan wrote:
Steppes is an autowin for T in TvP and TvZ and P in PvZ
DQ is almost as bad for ZvP and ZvT and so-so PvT
U have no idea what ur talking about
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I was sad that I was going to miss this...
Till I saw everything about the comp other than "IEM".
But seriously the format is pretty atrocious :/. Bo1s with broken as hell maps?
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The format is BO1 until the quarter finals.
Those "hell maps" as you call them are included into the ESL Intel Extreme Masters European and American Championship. When our Asia Winner will reach the World Finals in Germany with each single match valued at least a couple hundreds/thousands dollars, it will be better for him to have already played the maps during his own qualifier/championship.
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Just because they are used in the other ESL IEM tournaments does not make them better maps. They are still horrible and still should not be used.
I like how ESL tries to do so well, and they have a strong community, but in my opinion ESL always fails with what they try to do. Money is the only real reason I think ESL is seems so successful.
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It has never been said they are better map. ESL is listening to the community, however in this case it is a regional qualifier to a big tournament. Why would we use other maps than those of this tournament, this would not benefit at all to our champion.
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oh dear the format/maps T_T.
im not playing in this but i pity players with a geniune shot at winning IEM SEA aka glade having to go against say a decent toss on jungle basin or terran on steeps in a BO1 which will really screw him over.
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Format and maps aside, hoping to see some competition and some solid games. Good luck to everyone entering I'll be tuning in for surreeee.
Bo1 really sucks but lol :<
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All maps should be based on a veto system, so that noone has to play on the most garbage maps for their race/matchup.
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Unless we use two time the same maps during the Bo1 Phase, we do not have any other choice than using those conflicts maps.
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On January 19 2011 18:23 Xp wrote:
Unless we use two time the same maps during the Bo1 Phase, we do not have any other choice than using those conflicts maps.
There is no problem using the same maps twice. From a competitive standpoint, in bo1's you absolutely will need to use the same maps twice or more simply because there are 3-4 balanced maps per matchup at most.
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On January 19 2011 14:49 Xp wrote:
It has never been said they are better map. ESL is listening to the community, however in this case it is a regional qualifier to a big tournament. Why would we use other maps than those of this tournament, this would not benefit at all to our champion.
If the maps disadvantage a better player/potential chamion such that he will lose to the lesser player in a bo1 series, it wouldn't be fair to his chances.
IMO the bo1 map should just be XNC as it's probably the most balanced map out there, maybe Shakuras.
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On January 19 2011 14:49 Xp wrote:
It has never been said they are better map. ESL is listening to the community, however in this case it is a regional qualifier to a big tournament. Why would we use other maps than those of this tournament, this would not benefit at all to our champion.
On January 19 2011 14:49 Xp wrote:
It has never been said they are better map. ESL is listening to the community, however in this case it is a regional qualifier to a big tournament. Why would we use other maps than those of this tournament, this would not benefit at all to our champion.
The logic used to come to this argument is so unbelievably broken. Have you played on these maps? If not, let me tell you something; There is no way in the world you're going to find a Zerg qualifying from SEA or any other region if you continue to use those maps. They are horrendous for Zerg in all but a mirror matchup, literally unplayable against competent competition.
Why do you believe that the IEM qualifiers in Europe produced 10 terrans and 2 protoss? This isn't an oddity; it's a direct result of the Maps. Players like dimaga just don't qualify because 'Europe terrans are better', they don't qualify because your map pool essentially inhibits them from competing.
You Justify your completely broken maps in the qualifing stage by explaining that they are the maps picked in the finals of the tournament but this doesn't address the issue at hand. Map imbalance is not a new thing, it is a well understood issue among the community and all signs point to maps like Steppes, Delta and to a lesser extent Jungle Basin and Lost Temple being almost unplayable/heavily imbalanced in ZvX Matchups. These maps are beyond unfair, they'll bring the finals of your tournament down to two races, and give one an inherent advantage at that.
If changing the maps at the finals is what is required to change the maps in the qualifiers then start there. But if you want the IEM to have any sort of balance integrity, these maps is what you should be addressing.
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On January 22 2011 13:48 MooiSh wrote:+ Show Spoiler +On January 19 2011 14:49 Xp wrote:
It has never been said they are better map. ESL is listening to the community, however in this case it is a regional qualifier to a big tournament. Why would we use other maps than those of this tournament, this would not benefit at all to our champion. On January 19 2011 14:49 Xp wrote:
It has never been said they are better map. ESL is listening to the community, however in this case it is a regional qualifier to a big tournament. Why would we use other maps than those of this tournament, this would not benefit at all to our champion. The logic used to come to this argument is so unbelievably broken. Have you played on these maps? If not, let me tell you something; There is no way in the world you're going to find a Zerg qualifying from SEA or any other region if you continue to use those maps. They are horrendous for Zerg in all but a mirror matchup, literally unplayable against competent competition. Why do you believe that the IEM qualifiers in Europe produced 10 terrans and 2 protoss? This isn't an oddity; it's a direct result of the Maps. Players like dimaga just don't qualify because 'Europe terrans are better', they don't qualify because your map pool essentially inhibits them from competing. You Justify your completely broken maps in the qualifing stage by explaining that they are the maps picked in the finals of the tournament but this doesn't address the issue at hand. Map imbalance is not a new thing, it is a well understood issue among the community and all signs point to maps like Steppes, Delta and to a lesser extent Jungle Basin and Lost Temple being almost unplayable/heavily imbalanced in ZvX Matchups. These maps are beyond unfair, they'll bring the finals of your tournament down to two races, and give one an inherent advantage at that. If changing the maps at the finals is what is required to change the maps in the qualifiers then start there. But if you want the IEM to have any sort of balance integrity, these maps is what you should be addressing.
Quoting this because its the truth sadly.
On an unrelated note, I thought I had signed up but it appears It didnt work.... so good luck to all playing
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On January 22 2011 16:33 Rhodan wrote:Show nested quote +On January 22 2011 13:48 MooiSh wrote:+ Show Spoiler +On January 19 2011 14:49 Xp wrote:
It has never been said they are better map. ESL is listening to the community, however in this case it is a regional qualifier to a big tournament. Why would we use other maps than those of this tournament, this would not benefit at all to our champion. On January 19 2011 14:49 Xp wrote:
It has never been said they are better map. ESL is listening to the community, however in this case it is a regional qualifier to a big tournament. Why would we use other maps than those of this tournament, this would not benefit at all to our champion. The logic used to come to this argument is so unbelievably broken. Have you played on these maps? If not, let me tell you something; There is no way in the world you're going to find a Zerg qualifying from SEA or any other region if you continue to use those maps. They are horrendous for Zerg in all but a mirror matchup, literally unplayable against competent competition. Why do you believe that the IEM qualifiers in Europe produced 10 terrans and 2 protoss? This isn't an oddity; it's a direct result of the Maps. Players like dimaga just don't qualify because 'Europe terrans are better', they don't qualify because your map pool essentially inhibits them from competing. You Justify your completely broken maps in the qualifing stage by explaining that they are the maps picked in the finals of the tournament but this doesn't address the issue at hand. Map imbalance is not a new thing, it is a well understood issue among the community and all signs point to maps like Steppes, Delta and to a lesser extent Jungle Basin and Lost Temple being almost unplayable/heavily imbalanced in ZvX Matchups. These maps are beyond unfair, they'll bring the finals of your tournament down to two races, and give one an inherent advantage at that. If changing the maps at the finals is what is required to change the maps in the qualifiers then start there. But if you want the IEM to have any sort of balance integrity, these maps is what you should be addressing. Quoting this because its the truth sadly. On an unrelated note, I thought I had signed up but it appears It didnt work.... so good luck to all playing
me too, lol
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On January 22 2011 16:47 deth wrote:Show nested quote +On January 22 2011 16:33 Rhodan wrote:On January 22 2011 13:48 MooiSh wrote:+ Show Spoiler +On January 19 2011 14:49 Xp wrote:
It has never been said they are better map. ESL is listening to the community, however in this case it is a regional qualifier to a big tournament. Why would we use other maps than those of this tournament, this would not benefit at all to our champion. On January 19 2011 14:49 Xp wrote:
It has never been said they are better map. ESL is listening to the community, however in this case it is a regional qualifier to a big tournament. Why would we use other maps than those of this tournament, this would not benefit at all to our champion. The logic used to come to this argument is so unbelievably broken. Have you played on these maps? If not, let me tell you something; There is no way in the world you're going to find a Zerg qualifying from SEA or any other region if you continue to use those maps. They are horrendous for Zerg in all but a mirror matchup, literally unplayable against competent competition. Why do you believe that the IEM qualifiers in Europe produced 10 terrans and 2 protoss? This isn't an oddity; it's a direct result of the Maps. Players like dimaga just don't qualify because 'Europe terrans are better', they don't qualify because your map pool essentially inhibits them from competing. You Justify your completely broken maps in the qualifing stage by explaining that they are the maps picked in the finals of the tournament but this doesn't address the issue at hand. Map imbalance is not a new thing, it is a well understood issue among the community and all signs point to maps like Steppes, Delta and to a lesser extent Jungle Basin and Lost Temple being almost unplayable/heavily imbalanced in ZvX Matchups. These maps are beyond unfair, they'll bring the finals of your tournament down to two races, and give one an inherent advantage at that. If changing the maps at the finals is what is required to change the maps in the qualifiers then start there. But if you want the IEM to have any sort of balance integrity, these maps is what you should be addressing. Quoting this because its the truth sadly. On an unrelated note, I thought I had signed up but it appears It didnt work.... so good luck to all playing me too, lol
I'm in the same boat it seems, ah well, i guess this gives me a less stressful way out of this tournament!
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should have required 30 min check-in.
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hey guys if you may you can add this streamer as well to the tournament livestream:
http://www.own3d.tv/live/10552
Sorry, I don't know who to PM regarding this concern. Thanks
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Wow I really want to watch this but all I see are casters for 90% of the time.
What the.. 
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I loove Kelly Milkies... Her SC2 commentary is almost as good as her DotA one. Kelly FTW!!
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On January 22 2011 22:31 SushilS wrote:
I loove Kelly Milkies... Her SC2 commentary is almost as good as her DotA one. Kelly FTW!!
+1. i hope she gets to commentate the GSL!
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On January 18 2011 19:42 ZlaSHeR wrote:gogo moonglade Would be nice to see him represent SEA as he is definitely the best player to come out of there, and would give IEM the best chance for a high showing out of SEA server
Isn't Sen from SEA ?
Edit : Ok, at least he is not in the brackets.
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On January 22 2011 22:41 BaLoO- wrote:Show nested quote +On January 18 2011 19:42 ZlaSHeR wrote:gogo moonglade Would be nice to see him represent SEA as he is definitely the best player to come out of there, and would give IEM the best chance for a high showing out of SEA server Isn't Sen from SEA ? Edit : Ok, at least he is not in the brackets.
Sen is from the Taiwan server.
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Hey people!
Remember to be on the justin.tv/kellyMILKIES stream tomorrow at 1700 HR GMT+8 for the ongoing IEM SEA Qualifiers, where we will be featuring the top 8 players battling for the spot to qualify at the IEM Asia Finals!
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I don't understand. Kelly is the worst commentator I've ended up listening to... In what way is she good?
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On January 23 2011 08:38 jjmmtt wrote:
I don't understand. Kelly is the worst commentator I've ended up listening to... In what way is she good?
Female...most the geeks need something to wank over...
I agree though, not the best. Too fast and therefore I cant understand a word said.
User was warned for this post
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On January 23 2011 08:38 jjmmtt wrote:
I don't understand. Kelly is the worst commentator I've ended up listening to... In what way is she good?
i prefer hdpheonix imo, her pronunciation is terrible :/
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the constant imba talk from kelly about protoss and terran is very annoying but otherwise the stream is fine, good quality games so far
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lol wtf his dad is chilling on the stream.
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First time I hear these two commentators. Not bad, but both wants to talk a lot, and the guy just overrides her. About the only thing I like about the female, is that she sounds super foreign, from Thailand or something?
She should turn her microphone volume down, cause her voice hurts my ears when she talks, its not her voice, I just think she is a bit louder then the guy. Damn I should learn the names of them
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Kelly's speedling art FTW! hehehe!
seriously I've been loving these SEA games and the casters are great. I hope you two keep covering SEA games in the future! (And please ignore chat more. They say such silly things, it's embarrassing -facepalm-.)
EDIT: Oh and good luck with the Code A casting app!!
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I dont know but I just think their understanding of the game is quite shallow. They talk about unrelated stuff rather than cast about the game.
But they are novices compared to the other casters so I guess they will improve overtime.
GoodLuck
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And thanks for the constructive criticism. Kelly and I are quite new to this but we are working on improvements so future shows could and should be better. =)
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Nice work, looking forward to more VODs and casts of the IEM once they're all uploaded tidily.
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EPT
