Very well done.

Idra and Wheat had excellent synergy---- Idra showing us his impeccable, insightful analysis, and Wheat giving the cast color and focus.

The 2v2 was an interesting wrinkle in the usual tournament format, and I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed the match. Seeing how these matches develop is actually one of the things that I'm looking forward to the most.

The production was nicely done. It had personality, was professional, and did a good job of showing us the relevant information.

I will definitely be tuning in to the rest of the tourny.

djWHEAT

United States925 Posts

May 09 2011 01:18 GMT

#643

Thanks for the comments. I wanted to make a quick note on the stream lag people were experiencing today. Due to an update with a few programs, there was some crazy shit going on. Long story short, some default settings got applied that shouldn't have, and I was using a very crappy configuration while streaming. This has been resolved and the upcoming Master's Cup matches should be a much better viewing experience. I take full responsibility for this as we've changed quite a bit of things over the past month, and this came outta left field.

I really hope people will be happy with the fixes now that we won't have crazy lag popping up when it matters the most. I'd love it if people would comment on it after tomorrows matches.

Thanks!

dizzy101

Netherlands2066 Posts

May 09 2011 01:20 GMT

#644

I loved the over-the-top radio voice in the intro... must be one of DJwheat's ol' broadcasting buddies from the radio or something.

Emporio

United States3069 Posts

May 09 2011 01:46 GMT

#645

Infestors + mass marines seems pretty OP. They seem to cover each other incredibly well. Marines add a good amount of extra dps to fungals and provide much needed anti-air while infestors cover up marines' squishiness by locking melee units in place allowing free kills and jamming up opponent army balls.

Also if Terran is dumping gas into zerg, since he's on marine only army, he really doesn't need the gas and infestors can come up super quickly for the zerg. And since infestors aren't quite as expensive mineral-wise, it's okay for zerg to go for a less economical build to put on early pressure and still transition into infestors with the extra gas input.

IzieBoy

United States865 Posts

May 09 2011 01:52 GMT

#646

where can i watch this?

Legend`

Canada381 Posts

May 09 2011 02:04 GMT

#647

Great quality + casting, keep it up

Alderan

United States463 Posts

May 09 2011 03:06 GMT

#648

Such a fun experience over all. The intro was phenomenal, games were fairly competitive, Wheat's shout casting was on point as usual, and Idra's analysis just shows you why he's as good as he is.

Love the idea of a Team League, really hope we can get the idea to catch on and get big, these thing's are so much better live

Colbi

United States535 Posts

May 09 2011 03:20 GMT

#649

Updated the OP with Fnatic vs. Millenium draw.

ct2299

380 Posts

May 09 2011 03:22 GMT

#650

So about ROOT being the strongest team?...
Nice results from Mouz
Shows people that Kiwi is their only strong player on the team. It shows, he's the only one to take a game off someone.

I don't know why Drewbie would "lol".
How many times has Morrow baneling busted Terran. I'm not saying it's cheesy so please don't interpret it at way. All I'm saying is it's a very strong strategy that Morrow uses to punish greedy Terrans. We all know Morrow is good at it.

Drewbie taking risks because he knows he's not as good?

Oboeman

Canada3980 Posts

May 09 2011 03:34 GMT

#651

Casting by Wheatra was great.

Cool to hear idra in a professional setting where instead of saying "yeah that was a stupid move, he's terrible", he'd explain why someone came out ahead, in a constructive way. Having someone with that level of understanding adds TONS of value to the commentary.

pak150

United States531 Posts

May 09 2011 03:35 GMT

#652

On May 09 2011 10:18 djWHEAT wrote:
Thanks for the comments. I wanted to make a quick note on the stream lag people were experiencing today. Due to an update with a few programs, there was some crazy shit going on. Long story short, some default settings got applied that shouldn't have, and I was using a very crappy configuration while streaming. This has been resolved and the upcoming Master's Cup matches should be a much better viewing experience. I take full responsibility for this as we've changed quite a bit of things over the past month, and this came outta left field.

I really hope people will be happy with the fixes now that we won't have crazy lag popping up when it matters the most. I'd love it if people would comment on it after tomorrows matches.

Thanks!

Good to hear. Keep up the good work, today's casting/analysis was among the best I've heard in a long time — you and Grack have good chemistry.

AdreN-

United States503 Posts

May 09 2011 04:36 GMT

#653

Enjoyed it. One suggestion is to make the 2v2 best of 3 as well!

Bart

494 Posts

May 09 2011 04:53 GMT

#654

dangit i didn't realise this started today

I'll tune in tomorrow.

Mordiford

4448 Posts

May 09 2011 05:03 GMT

#655

On May 09 2011 12:22 ct2299 wrote:
So about ROOT being the strongest team?...
Nice results from Mouz
Shows people that Kiwi is their only strong player on the team. It shows, he's the only one to take a game off someone.

I don't know why Drewbie would "lol".
How many times has Morrow baneling busted Terran. I'm not saying it's cheesy so please don't interpret it at way. All I'm saying is it's a very strong strategy that Morrow uses to punish greedy Terrans. We all know Morrow is good at it.

Drewbie taking risks because he knows he's not as good?

Hardly, Drewbie has beaten some really good Zergs and some really good players in general...

He just... does stupid shit sometimes...

As for ROOT being the strongest team, I'd still say they're the strongest team in NA with EG right at their heels.

Mouz just happens to be the strongest team in EU, and Europe has generally boasted strongest players than NA. Oh well, the games were kind of goofy in general, I didn't feel they were too indicative of a skill disparity, but ROOT did play a little poorly this time around.

Xeris

Iran17695 Posts

May 09 2011 05:09 GMT

#656

lol ~~ nevermind.

Fnatic is bad team despite winning GCPL over ROOT and EG, but they're clearly best teams in NA. It's at least a 3 team discussion. There is no clear favorite

Cuiu

Germany410 Posts

May 09 2011 05:12 GMT

#657

I liked the 2v2
great casting by idra
wheat always needs someone who has some knowledge about the game^^

Seronei

Sweden991 Posts

May 09 2011 05:17 GMT

#658

On May 09 2011 14:09 Xeris wrote:
lol ~~ nevermind.

Fnatic is bad team despite winning GCPL over ROOT and EG, but they're clearly best teams in NA. It's at least a 3 team discussion. There is no clear favorite

Fnatic is european haven't you heard?

Bear4188

United States1797 Posts

May 09 2011 05:21 GMT

#659

Fnatic is more international-y than NA-y, unless you want to consider the SA players to be NA. w/e.

I think EG is probably better than Root at this point for what it's worth. They've added DeMuslim while Root has lost qxc and Sheth.

Tazato

United States12 Posts

May 09 2011 05:54 GMT

#660

I think that the 2v2 was awesome, and I loved how both djWHEAT and Idra admitted that they didn't really know what's going on and then did a fine job casting it despite their lack of 2v2 casting experience.

And a quick comment on the synergy between Idra and djWHEAT; while yes there were hiccups in the cast, I think that this was the closest thing to a play by play combined with a color commentator I have seen in e-sports yet, Tasteosis excluded. Having those super defined roles when casting anything, be it Baseball or Starcraft II, makes the production values skyrocket in my book. In other pairings, from what I have seen, the commentators will step on each others toes a little bit, but with djWHEAT being the designated excitement guy and Idra being the go to analysis guy, the toe stepping was almost non-existent.