ZOWIE DIVINA is a female Starcraft 2 tournament taking place from November 11th to 13th in PLU's studios in Taicang City, China.
Six girls have been invited to attend the event with all expenses paid. These girls are:
Florence ‘Flo’ Chee-Yun Yao, USA Anna ‘Laejten' Nordlander, Sweden Roxanne ’DaSakura’ Daviault, Canada Ga-Young ‘aphrodite’ Kim, Korea Chi Hun ‘SsQ’ Chun, Taiwan Zhu ‘Colagirl’ Li, China
The girls will compete against each other for a total prize sum of 10.000 USD.
1st place: 5.000 USD + a rare golden ZOWIE MiCO mouse 2nd place: 3.000 USD 3rd place: 2.000 USD
All prizes will be paid in cash following a prize ceremony taking place after the final game.
Metalopolis (no close spawns) Tal'Darim Altar LE Antiga Shipyard (no close spawns)
Maps are used following the cycle, after third map the cycle returns to the first map.
The players may eliminate a map from the cycle before each of their games. If the players ban the same map, they will play the following map in the map cycle.
Schedule: November 11th, exhibition games, West vs East
Game Format: BO1 – the winning player remains and face the next player in line from opposing team.
Stream starts at Friday, Nov 11 12:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
November 12th, ZOWIE DIVINA International Invitation On November 12th the tournament setup is changing slightly from the exhibition games, as this is when the official ZOWIE DIVINA International Invitation kicks off and the girls will be fighting for the impressive cash prizes.
Match type: All players will face the other players in one game, and the winners will receive one (1) point per won match. The 5th- and 6th-ranked players will be eliminated.
Game Format: BO1
Stream starts at Saturday, Nov 12 12:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
November 13th, ZOWIE DIVINA International Invitation On November 13th the tournament enters its final phase, the BO3 knockout phase. The players will be matched against each other based on the amount of points they have achieved on the 12th.
#1 vs #4 #2 vs #3
The winners continue to the final game for a chance to go home with 5.000 USD, and the losers compete for the 3rd place prize of 2.000 USD.
Match type: Knockout Game Format: BO3
Stream starts at Sunday, Nov 13 12:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
If you are unable to watch the streams for whatever reason, you will be able to find a recap of each day at http://www.teamliquid.net.
On November 10 2011 09:00 SovietHammer wrote: Why didn't megumi play? I was under the impression she was hands down the best female sc2 player.
Wrong, she is very good, but not the best. If I really had to pick who is the best, I'm willing to put my vote towards the Taiwanese player Luway, who is a legit grandmaster protoss who can and has beaten pro players (Julyzeg for example). I'm not sure why she couldn't attend, probably work or something too, but if she was at the tournament it wouldn't even be a contest.
I'm interested to see if Rain's girl is for real or is a bit of a fraud.
On November 10 2011 19:24 Fionn wrote: Will the stream be in English?
I will be watching this. I am interested in seeing how good the women are, the production, etc.
according to some chinese people's comment, DaSakura maxed out at 12 mins....holy macro beast and also beat TT1 before (through I am not sure how legit this is)
On November 10 2011 19:24 Fionn wrote: Will the stream be in English?
I will be watching this. I am interested in seeing how good the women are, the production, etc.
according to some chinese people's comment, DaSakura maxed out at 12 mins....holy macro beast and also beat TT1 before (through I am not sure how legit this is)
Looking forward to this, hope I can be around to catch all of it. I'm kind of cheering for Gayoung / Aphrodite / Rainbow's GF since she graced the Code A qualifier stream sometimes and made the downtime much more bearable, but I'm curious to see how everyone does. Just hoping for some entertaining matches, hope everything goes well :-)
On November 10 2011 22:23 herrmus wrote: as interesting as female football.
The Women's World Cup this summer was awesome.
GO TEAM USA!
I think this will be lots of fun. In a world today where there are twenty thousand SC2 tournaments and it has become over saturated with the same thing over and over again, I'm excited to see something new. No, it won't be the GSL or MLG, but it'll be fun and something different from the norm. I am looking forward to seeing what the ladies can bring to the table.
On November 10 2011 22:23 herrmus wrote: as interesting as female football.
The Women's World Cup this summer was awesome.
GO TEAM USA!
I think this will be lots of fun. In a world today where there are twenty thousand SC2 tournaments and it has become over saturated with the same thing over and over again, I'm excited to see something new. No, it won't be the GSL or MLG, but it'll be fun and something different from the norm. I am looking forward to seeing what the ladies can bring to the table.
On November 10 2011 09:00 SovietHammer wrote: Why didn't megumi play? I was under the impression she was hands down the best female sc2 player.
Wrong, she is very good, but not the best. If I really had to pick who is the best, I'm willing to put my vote towards the Taiwanese player Luway, who is a legit grandmaster protoss who can and has beaten pro players (Julyzeg for example). I'm not sure why she couldn't attend, probably work or something too, but if she was at the tournament it wouldn't even be a contest.
I'm interested to see if Rain's girl is for real or is a bit of a fraud.
On November 10 2011 09:00 SovietHammer wrote: Why didn't megumi play? I was under the impression she was hands down the best female sc2 player.
Wrong, she is very good, but not the best. If I really had to pick who is the best, I'm willing to put my vote towards the Taiwanese player Luway, who is a legit grandmaster protoss who can and has beaten pro players (Julyzeg for example). I'm not sure why she couldn't attend, probably work or something too, but if she was at the tournament it wouldn't even be a contest.
I'm interested to see if Rain's girl is for real or is a bit of a fraud.
Why would Rainbow's girlfriend be a "fraud"
Because if she earned masters in korea on her own, she should be able to blow everyone in this cup out of the water. If she fails to do so, thats what I mean by bit of a fraud where as maybe she had some help from her bf getting masters in Korea. I only say this because Ive never seen her actually play and has no listed achievements (other than getting masters and being rain's GF), hence the "I'm interested to see" part.
On November 11 2011 05:46 Santiago4ever wrote: The swedish representative is swedish AND asian. Lets hope she got e-sport both from her genetics and upbringing ^_^
Yeah I thought she looked Asian...but her name is definitely Swedish. I was real confused D:
In this thread your chief marketing officer said that you decided to do a 6 player event, but from the other posts made by Zowie, I've gathered that Megumixbear and CadenZa were also invited, but had to decline. So my question is: Was the 6 player format decided from the very beginning, or did you plan to do it bigger, but had to cut down when some of the players declined the invitation? If you had planned to do it with more players, how many players were you aiming for and how many invites were sent, in total?
I'm asking because this is the kind of fun trivia that I'd put on the Liquipedia page
On November 10 2011 09:00 SovietHammer wrote: Why didn't megumi play? I was under the impression she was hands down the best female sc2 player.
Wrong, she is very good, but not the best. If I really had to pick who is the best, I'm willing to put my vote towards the Taiwanese player Luway, who is a legit grandmaster protoss who can and has beaten pro players (Julyzeg for example). I'm not sure why she couldn't attend, probably work or something too, but if she was at the tournament it wouldn't even be a contest.
I'm interested to see if Rain's girl is for real or is a bit of a fraud.
Why would Rainbow's girlfriend be a "fraud"
Because if she earned masters in korea on her own, she should be able to blow everyone in this cup out of the water. If she fails to do so, thats what I mean by bit of a fraud where as maybe she had some help from her bf getting masters in Korea. I only say this because Ive never seen her actually play and has no listed achievements (other than getting masters and being rain's GF), hence the "I'm interested to see" part.
How many % of Korean master players have listed achievements?
On November 11 2011 05:46 Santiago4ever wrote: The swedish representative is swedish AND asian. Lets hope she got e-sport both from her genetics and upbringing ^_^
Yeah I thought she looked Asian...but her name is definitely Swedish. I was real confused D:
I once saw a black person with a Swedish name. Blew my mind!
On November 10 2011 22:23 herrmus wrote: as interesting as female football.
The Women's World Cup this summer was awesome.
GO TEAM USA!
I think this will be lots of fun. In a world today where there are twenty thousand SC2 tournaments and it has become over saturated with the same thing over and over again, I'm excited to see something new. No, it won't be the GSL or MLG, but it'll be fun and something different from the norm. I am looking forward to seeing what the ladies can bring to the table.
If it won't be as good as MLG, why is the prize the same..?
/devil'sadvocate
Because that's what the sponsors wanted the prize pool to be? You can't correlate skill/competition into prize money. If that was the case, any tournament not having a bunch of Koreans shouldn't have a large prize pool.
Also, it's the first time doing something entirely new. Could it suck? Yeah, it could be awful; the games could be an embarrassment, the tournament production could be terrible, and everyone can hate on it, but at least give it a chance first. If you come into the games looking for something fun, and maybe a bit of skill, you'll more than likely enjoy it. If you watch this tournament and go, 'WHAT THE HELL? WHY ISN'T THIS GIRL AS GOOD AS NESTEA? WHAT THE FUCK. WHY IS THERE $5,000 FOR THE WINNER?, then you'll be sorely disappointed and shouldn't watch to begin with.
But I know you're just playing devil's advocate, so I'm not talking directly to you. I really don't see this tournament that much different than the first TSL where TeamLiquid didn't allow any Koreans. Was it the highest level of games in the world? No, but it was lots of fun, had a lot of new people get interested in the foreign scene, and showed some great games in their own right.
On November 11 2011 18:46 red4ce wrote: The Swedish girl doesn't look very Swedish to me. Very asian in fact. But she has a Swedish name. Earth is a confusing place sometimes.
So far it's been a little intro montage of the players arriving at the airport. The play order has been revealed. Starer for the east is ColaGirl, then she'll be followed by aphrodite and SoQ if necessary. For the West it's DaSakura out first, then Laejten and Flo if needed.
http://2.plu.cn/ Chinese live, if u cant see on english live, click PPLIVE 观看, and wait for loading, when u finish view, dont forget close off PPAP.exe in process manager
dasakura pool first and does a little scouting in colagirl's hatch-first nat, sees the baneling nest on the low ground but not the roach warren on high ground. dasakura droning up behind 3 or so roaches.
p.s. theyre talking with own3d people on skype to figure out whats wrong
colagirl finishes her lig speed first, but dasakura is massing roaches and starts a cycle of lings in preparation for aggression. colagirl doesn't spot the army going around the right side auntil it's below the 3rd, as most of her scouting was on the left. 22 roaches vs 17, 28 lings vs 4
dasakura engages at the nat vs a spinecrawler aof colagirl's. colagirl has the lead in roaches locally but dasakura has the speedling advanage. colagirl briefly bulls drones to send off dasakura's roaches as the canadian backs off.
now colagirl moves out fwith a mass of roaches and some hydras to attack dasakura's third. neither player wiht a particularly good concave but dasakura has the defensive advantage and the extra hatch and is able to drive colagirl away. will likely try to max then attack.
colagirl with another round of misguided aggression. dasakura adding an infestation pit as colagirl finally gets her third up (hada macro hatch at the nat). dasakura sending some lings over to the 3rd but colagirl scouted it well and the lings turn away instanly.
dasakura adding a 4th and sneaks those same lings into the main as she maxes, causing colagirl to run drones away. have to imagine he canadian will make a few more pokes then try to win when she has fungals ready
dasakura attacks into a very very bad concave of roaches and hydras at colagirl's 3rd, colagirl now with the supply lead. dasakura flees and colagirl pursues for a while, but stops when her hydras can't keep up. for the first time this game colagirl catches up in supply. dasakur's 4th is now running but colagirl is getting aggressive again. dasakur's infestors have arrived and land some massive fungals, but not all of them had energy yet. colagirl's hydras survive and are able to bring massive ps to wipe out dasakura's army.
colagirl now has 6 or so infestors of her own, and is finishing +2 ranged attack (to make it 2/1) as she attacks into dasakura whose burrow is finishing. colagirl seems to have the beter fungals in the engagement, and now has a 40 supply lead. dasakura in big trouble, her remade 4th just finishes but colagirl's 4th has finished as well. colagirl gathering reinforcements at the statue outside dasakura's 4th
http://2.plu.cn/ Chinese live link, if u cant see on english live, click PPLIVE 观看, and wait for loading, when u finish view, dont forget close off PPAP.exe in process manager
On November 11 2011 21:54 EricFartman wrote: http://2.plu.cn/ Chinese live link, if u cant see on english live, click PPLIVE 观看, and wait for loading, when u finish view, dont forget close off PPAP.exe in process manager
it just has some chinese text in the middle of the screen. i cant read chinese :/ am i missing something here?
Laejten walling off the main and going for reactor hellions, colagirl going for baneling/speedling off pool first wih 1 spine crawler and a couple lings for defense as she drones up. first pair of hellions run into some lings and hav eto turn around, but the lings catch up and manage to take them out. terran OC lands at the nat, but colagirl is morphing a decen amout of banes at the watchtower between them and laejten olnly has 6 hellons and 4 marines to defend against 8 banes and about 10 lings. bane explosions are largely unsuccessful but lings clear up all the scvs at the nat easily. continuous stream of reinforcements hit laejten's wall and she runs her scvs around.
laejten manages to stabilize for now bu colagirl has about 30 longs and morphs some of them into banes right in the swede's natural below th efloating cc. can't make quite enough banes to bust the rax/factory wall a the main and laejten repairs up and retakes her nat. colagirl's lings try to attack in but there are enough terran units to fend it off rather easily.
both players macro up for a bit but colagirl has a significant supply and tech advantage, never being in danger the whole game, and laejten GGs out. flo is up next for the west, trying to fend off the all-kill.
Hmm.. was this just a bad game? For me it was laggy (with 800ppl only watching) with a very clueless commentary ("look, she scouts with 1 muta!" .... *scrolls down* "Oh! There are 6 more mutas killings SCVs! I wonder how many workers have died.." *gets distracted by the next thing*). Now the stream is dead.. not sure if I should be glad about that
As bad as the stream is, at least the idiots trolling the irc are making me laugh a bit. Hopefully it's fixed tomorrow so I can actually watch some games.
On November 11 2011 22:02 Xeris wrote: Their production value and studio setup actually look pretty good!!
I agree, I was shocked to see such a nice setup for such a small tournament.
it's at the studios for plu.cn, who run a whole number of leagues in sc2 lol, dota, and the like.
Makes sense. would be cool to see some of that quality in other offline tournies. I like the fact they even have some quality looking player hype vid, even though it's been too laggy to really appreciate.
flo now with a reactor fact and a 2 rax, 1 with techlab. colagirl starts her warren and ling speed, with her customary spine crawler for defense. the first 2 hellions pop out and are quickly spotted, colagirl witha 2nd queen at the nat and a evo chamber to help block off behind the minerals. hellions urn around as flo starts stim and marauders, colagirl ds the bane nest
flo moves out with a load of scvs, hellions, and marauders, aiming to hit right when stim finishes, at the same time colagirl sneaks a ling in the main, and has about 10 roaches and 4 banelings. all the lings hit marauders and scvs, and the hellions are ineffective against the roaches. colagirl is driving the attack off, helped by a round of reinforcing roaches. flo now in rouble with no nat, a thir dof the scvs in her main perished in the attack, and no significant damage on the attack
colagirl now morphing about 10 lings below flo's main as she readies to counterattack with abaneling bus. the depots are lowered so she can explode her banes on the marauders, killing all of them. flo ggs out, and colagirl finishes the all-kill!
i know why there is so laggy for english stream, the upload speed is really low in China, if they stream in China, you will get really lag. so just stream in observer mod in USA/KR will be better
On November 11 2011 22:42 EricFartman wrote: i know why there is so laggy for english stream, the upload speed is really low in China, if they stream in China, you will get really lag. so just stream in observer mod in USA/KR will be better
With such a big prize pool, they should have gotten a popular caster, such as Tastosis or TB to cast it, and use the caster (twitter, etc) to help promote the tourney
You could very well be right, stream quality and lag is a problem that almost all Chinese tournaments seem to face. Either that or lack of coverage in the first place. Maybe they should talk to the guys at IEM, their Guangzhou event seemed to find a way to get around the great firewall effectively.
On November 11 2011 22:19 Thrombozyt wrote: Hmm.. was this just a bad game? For me it was laggy (with 800ppl only watching) with a very clueless commentary ("look, she scouts with 1 muta!" .... *scrolls down* "Oh! There are 6 more mutas killings SCVs! I wonder how many workers have died.." *gets distracted by the next thing*). Now the stream is dead.. not sure if I should be glad about that
The thing is that Kelly & I don't have a separate obsing screen so we can't scroll down. All I see is what you guys see. I wasn't distracted, it's just really hard to predict what's going on when you don't see anything. I think they will try fix that so we can obs aswell tomorrow & the stream should be less laggy too =)
On November 11 2011 22:19 Thrombozyt wrote: Hmm.. was this just a bad game? For me it was laggy (with 800ppl only watching) with a very clueless commentary ("look, she scouts with 1 muta!" .... *scrolls down* "Oh! There are 6 more mutas killings SCVs! I wonder how many workers have died.." *gets distracted by the next thing*). Now the stream is dead.. not sure if I should be glad about that
The thing is that Kelly & I don't have a separate obsing screen so we can't scroll down. All I see is what you guys see. I wasn't distracted, it's just really hard to predict what's going on when you don't see anything. I think they will try fix that so we can obs aswell tomorrow & the stream should be less laggy too =)
Did not watch the games but according to the commentaries here, that seems like a good change, every tournament really should have a dedicated observer.
On November 11 2011 22:19 Thrombozyt wrote: Hmm.. was this just a bad game? For me it was laggy (with 800ppl only watching) with a very clueless commentary ("look, she scouts with 1 muta!" .... *scrolls down* "Oh! There are 6 more mutas killings SCVs! I wonder how many workers have died.." *gets distracted by the next thing*). Now the stream is dead.. not sure if I should be glad about that
The thing is that Kelly & I don't have a separate obsing screen so we can't scroll down. All I see is what you guys see. I wasn't distracted, it's just really hard to predict what's going on when you don't see anything. I think they will try fix that so we can obs aswell tomorrow & the stream should be less laggy too =)
Awesome, i really enjoyed it, and less lag + you guys getting to observe will make it even better
It was overall pretty good outside of the lag, which I imagine you guys had no control over... the production was really good, the games weren't too bad, casting was not bad either
watched the vod of game 1, was pretty good and dasakura could have won with her agressive expanding. it wasnt that one sided as I thought after watching the results.
On November 11 2011 22:55 SafeAsCheese wrote: With such a big prize pool, they should have gotten a popular caster, such as Tastosis or TB to cast it, and use the caster (twitter, etc) to help promote the tourney
From what I'm aware they did try to get big casters but Visa issues to China on this short notice have always proven to be difficult (look at...EVERY chinese event ever, or every chinese player trying to get out ever)
I think tomorrow will be great with less lag and the fact that the girls will be using their best strats should make for some awesome games. I also think that most of us were really nervous (including me, as it was my first time casting an offline event) and I think that tomorrow everything will be better and really epic so be sure to tune in . The girls have really impressed me by their level of dedication while practicing and they're also all very nice and awesome <3
even the vods are laggy. will the videos/replays be uploaded to a better host at any point? i stayed up but couldnt be bothered staying around with all the stream issues.
On November 11 2011 22:55 SafeAsCheese wrote: With such a big prize pool, they should have gotten a popular caster, such as Tastosis or TB to cast it, and use the caster (twitter, etc) to help promote the tourney
From what I'm aware they did try to get big casters but Visa issues to China on this short notice have always proven to be difficult (look at...EVERY chinese event ever, or every chinese player trying to get out ever)
I'm not popular enough for you cheese? Geez, sorry. Actually we had Doa to cast with me like we did in GSL but he had problem with Visa. Livinpink is pretty cool, give her a shot yo.
Lag is going to be fixed today. China internet is not exactly the best, but I'll be going down to help with fixing the stream issues to the English stream. VOD doesn't lag AFAIK.
Hi guys, the producers and I have been sitting here at the studio for a while now and we have been working on fixing the stream and now I can report that we have fix the stream quality.
Just a quick update, we DID test the stream yesterday but the Chinese internet providers have "peak periods" even though we have dedicated bandwidth, it lags at evening time. But we have smoothed out the problems so I guess we are good now!
The stream will be good later tonight, no lag, smooth, and 720p at least of great action! Be ready for 15 sets of amazing games!
I watched the vods of Flo vs ColaGirl and part of DaSakura vs ColaGirl (The vod was cut up and I couldn't find part of it). I though it was pretty good and the commentators did a good job... they're not Tastosis, but compared to everyone else they were just fine. My main hope today is that the stream quality is fixed and the vods are better (labeled by game and not chopped up).
On November 12 2011 21:21 Vinland wrote: Damn I hate own3d.tv, always so laggy
Yep, i don't know why is it but i ALWAYS have problems with Own3d and it seems i'm not alone. IMO every event should be using Twitch if anything, they seem to care at least a bit.
ok...it's sunday. supposedly the final day, and supposedly it's supposed to be starting now but...there's nothing. what gives? were the time incorrect?
EPT![[image loading]](http://www.zowiegear.com/images/DIVINA/divina350x87.png)
Florence ‘Flo’ Chee-Yun Yao, USA
Anna ‘Laejten' Nordlander, Sweden
Roxanne ’DaSakura’ Daviault, Canada
Ga-Young ‘aphrodite’ Kim, Korea
Chi Hun ‘SsQ’ Chun, Taiwan
Zhu ‘Colagirl’ Li, China![[image loading]](http://www.zowiegear.com/images/DIVINA/DIVINAgirls730.png)
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