$200 FRB Grand Tournament! - Page 5

On April 03 2012 15:12 SaroVati wrote:


I still want my $14.50 from that online tourney that was held!

On a side note it looks like a lot more players have signed up and this should be funnnnnnnnn :D

On April 04 2012 05:36 OldManSenex wrote:
Nope, I get to spill them!

coL.GanZi will be taking part in the tournament! For those who don't know who he is . . . where have you been? He's a Code S Korean Terran who most recently finished top 8 in the MLG Winter Arena, after slaughtering his way through the lower bracket and defeating players including Socke, MVP and MC. For those who want to know more of his accomplishments (and there are a lot of them!), check out his liquipedia at:

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/GanZi

One other quick update, due to popular demand and reconsideration from FRB's creator Barrin, 6m Entombed Valley has been removed from the official FRB map pool, and will be therefore also be removed from the FRB Grand Tournament map pool. The difficulty in taking and holding bases, weirdness with destructible rocks and general closeness of the map made it less successful as a FRB map than had been originally hoped, and it will be replaced by the new map 6m Braxis Delta by Barrin. For more information on that, check out http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=325475

The full list of professional players who are taking part is now: col.Ganzi, is.Axslav, vileIllusion, coL.Goswser, GoSuViBE, NrGLuckyFool, cvgFitzyHere, NMxMasa, HeavensLighT and ClashShew. However, if you're a community member hoping to take part in the tournament don't despair! There are still slots left and we'll be picking from the best community members to fill them in the brackets released this Friday, April 6th!

On April 04 2012 10:36 goswser wrote:
I predict ganzi destroying everyone

On March 27 2012 02:40 chuky500 wrote:
I don't really see why there needs to be a tournament to study whether less minerals and geisers is balanced. It's kind of obvious it shifts the balance towards Zergs and Terran since they benefit the most from more hatches and orbitals (more larva and mules, hatches are cheaper, cc can lift and mine other bases later). Zergs will also benefit from the fact that 1 rich gas now cost 25 minerals + 1 drone compared to 50 minerals + 2 drones.

The game has been balanced around 2 gas geisers and 8 mineral patches mostly because it allows more variety in gameplay, I don't have anything against smaller bases here and there like on crevasse or daybreak but it can not be the norm unless you also change the cost of buildings and units.

Tournaments helping the mapping community are a good idea but they should play all kinds of maps not just trying to prove Barrin's ideas, like when he said the only viable symmetry was the "VARS", the true left right symmetry. If these maps work I'll make maps with 3 patches 1 gas, and gold bases with 1 gold patch and 1 gas and we'll see if games are more interresting.

On April 04 2012 14:51 Bijan wrote:
Can we set up a donation link so we can add to the prize pool? I'd like to see if we can entice more Koreans or some of the tip-top foreigners. Or even pay one of the high-profile casters so we can get huge exposure.