(Vote): Colonel Mustard in the hall with the knife
(Vote): Al Qaeda
(Vote): The Illuminati
(Vote): Godzilla
(Vote): Some guy named Steve keeps stepping on the internet line and wont tell anyone so it lags a lot now.

i'm calling it. its the illuminati.

ChatimentZ

Belgium227 Posts

April 02 2011 21:19 GMT

#4670

more 30mins

Ezkaton

Japan416 Posts

April 02 2011 21:19 GMT

#4671

The StarCraft 2 stream will return at 4:45 CT.

oursblanc

Canada1450 Posts

April 02 2011 21:19 GMT

#4672

They've started playing again.

Just not on stream.

Sneddo

United States277 Posts

April 02 2011 21:19 GMT

#4673

The big thing that is killing MLG and will always kill them is they can't just ask the ISP to have an upgraded network pipe for a day or two... They have to pay that rate for a contract period... For MLG is it worth it to buy a giant pipe and pay several thousands of dollars a month and then might not use it at all?

Again it sucks, but it really is a fine line of what the hell do you do.... It's sucks for us, it sucks for MLG. But it's not an easy fix either, they are probably on the call with their ISP and trying to get something worked out, but in the end they probably don't have a big enough pipe to their site. I would love to see the utilization charts on their main routers, I bet it's 100%.. For them to pay to have that increased when they only use that site for a weekend isn't worth it....

zarepath

United States1626 Posts

April 02 2011 21:19 GMT

#4674

On April 03 2011 06:17 Azuroz wrote:
just give the trophy to haypro and shut down this disaster..

Just what Haypro needs--another asterisk!

Eufouria

United Kingdom4425 Posts

April 02 2011 21:19 GMT

#4675

On April 03 2011 05:58 Skyze wrote:

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The thing is, its a match that is dominated by smart decision making and superior micro.. something that is generally lacking by most players because they practice build orders instead of understanding game sense..

You can tell this by all the rage about InControl's pylon vs TLO yesterday.. InControl said it best; "The opportunity presented itself, and I took it.".. Dont bash InControl because hes smart.

PvP is really about who can outsmart your opponent, and micro the best. Thats why MC almost always wins, and the only time in recent history we've seen him lose is when White-Ra showed him alittle creative warp prism play.

People just dont understand MC is not your average "practice 12 hours a day til my builds are smooth" player.. Hes really a strategic genius, and thats what wins him games. He takes the best positions and opportunities giving to him and it makes him look imbalanced because everything always falls into place.

Thats why hes the most likely SC2 "Bonjwa" and seems unbeatable while everyone else thinks the game is a rock-paper-scissors game..

I agree. Some people don't give players like MC and July enough credit and criticise them for relying a lot on all in timing attacks, but generally these are clutch decisions where they notice the opponent has given them a small window to attack and they exploit that. This is why so often they win games by crushing opponents fairly early on, they haven't gone into the game planning to attack at that window, but if their opponents build has given them the opportunity and they have exploited it. If the opponent was 1 basing they'd adapt to this and macro up before hitting their opponent with the timing attack.

The inControl, TLO situation was similar. I was supporting TLO (gogo European Terrans!), but you could see that inControl only put down the 4gate when he realised that TLO hadn't found the probe he'd hidden in his base, the strategy didn't rely on that though, if TLO had found the probe before the 4 gate was put down then inControl would have probably 3gate expanded.

Joseph123

Bulgaria1144 Posts

April 02 2011 21:19 GMT

#4676

SO why they don't release replays so we can watch them meanwhile?

zYwi3c

Poland1811 Posts

April 02 2011 21:19 GMT

#4677

On April 03 2011 06:14 SilverJohnny wrote:

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GSL at least has had connectivity issues on several occasions, most recently with MVP v Dimaga. Blizzcon and Dreamhack i'm not as sure about, i'd have to check but suffice it to say that this is not just an MLG thing.

Ok, there was a COUPLE dc's. But we cant watch MLG games for 2 days now ...