On April 07 2012 09:18 Proseat wrote: Looks like stream 2 just came back. Select vs Nasd currently.
Yeah, very weird decision on which game they chose to air.. They should've handled the open bracket streams WAY better today.
Stream2 is still black background and IPL logo for me. Chat works, and it is saddening, all those people being mad they saw like 4 Open Winner/Loser bracket games while bunch of amazing games are not getting streamed. :/
At least it seems live audience is enjoying, sucks there was absolutely no chance for me to be there. :/
Yeah, the stream started to choke again. Now there are ads playing. I hope IPL staff actually monitor their streams and come up with quick fixes.
On April 07 2012 09:23 Azarkon wrote: Gotta criticize Polt a little - he keeps pushing up that ramp at the third and gets funneled into Puma's tank fire again and again and again.
It's working now because he destroyed Puma's army, but it's not a smart move.
He wouldn't do so if he hadn't crushed the army before. Also its not very stupid, but rather clever. Mech scales with the army size. 5-7 tanks are less scary to engage than 16 by a lot. You easily need 3-4 times the army to engage such a tank count later on, if you can engage at all.
Yes, it was a brute force move to end the game, but the backfire potential was huge, and IIRC he didn't break the rocks, which made it worse.
On April 07 2012 09:14 Type|NarutO wrote: The schedule says there will be more open bracket games today... but they should have started 14 minutes ago for round 3, will they show more games? :o
This IPL has been VERY bad at showing games off the main stream. I'm glad I didn't pay for the subscription - MLG was better in every way this time around.
And MLG didn't have downtime? It had exactly the same problems with it and quality from this IPL is way better then MLG, even the 480p is freaking good, let alone the 720p @ 60fps which is pure awesomeness.
It had a bumpy start today with sound and color problems, but it's absolutely brilliant now and i love all the stats they are throwing around.
MLG had four streams and showed tons of games outside of pool play.
On April 07 2012 09:12 Cereb wrote: Foreigners in groups and left in open bracket winners: Stephano, Idra, Scarlett, Hawk, HuK and Illusion.
That's it.
Quite frankly, it's pathetic. Blows my mind how everyone else are that much worse than koreans.
I'm rooting for Scarlett though! :D
The foreigner's scene is dead. It's going the same way as BW.
Yeah, it really feels like it. Alot of the recent tournaments have been going this way with a very few guys trying desperately to hold the foreigner flag high.
I prolly wouldn't call it dead as much as I'd call it just plain bad, though.
Although its obvious that the foriegn scene is, lacking for lack of a better word, to the Korean scene, this tournament doesnt have ALL of the best foriegn players. I believe ALL the mouz and all (minus violet) of the empire guys are chilling in the European tournaments instead. There are plenty of really good non koreans (Naniwa, Morrow, Thorzain, Mana, Hasu, Kas, Happy, hell even Xigua and Macsed) missing, where besides DRG and MVP, it looks like almost all the korean powerhouses are around
I mean, you are right, but it just feels like this has been the scenario in most of the big tournaments in 2012.
I don't know this, but I'm wondering - isn't the reasaon they are not here because they didn't qualify? Of course you could argue that they could show up for the open bracket, but still....
On April 07 2012 09:14 Type|NarutO wrote: The schedule says there will be more open bracket games today... but they should have started 14 minutes ago for round 3, will they show more games? :o
This IPL has been VERY bad at showing games off the main stream. I'm glad I didn't pay for the subscription - MLG was better in every way this time around.
And MLG didn't have downtime? It had exactly the same problems with it and quality from this IPL is way better then MLG, even the 480p is freaking good, let alone the 720p @ 60fps which is pure awesomeness.
It had a bumpy start today with sound and color problems, but it's absolutely brilliant now and i love all the stats they are throwing around.
MLG had four streams and showed tons of games outside of pool play.
MLG Winter Championship was brilliant, so was Winter Arena which I gladly paid for.
On April 07 2012 09:14 Type|NarutO wrote: The schedule says there will be more open bracket games today... but they should have started 14 minutes ago for round 3, will they show more games? :o
This IPL has been VERY bad at showing games off the main stream. I'm glad I didn't pay for the subscription - MLG was better in every way this time around.
And MLG didn't have downtime? It had exactly the same problems with it and quality from this IPL is way better then MLG, even the 480p is freaking good, let alone the 720p @ 60fps which is pure awesomeness.
It had a bumpy start today with sound and color problems, but it's absolutely brilliant now and i love all the stats they are throwing around.
MLG had four streams and showed tons of games outside of pool play.
Weren't 2 of those stream only available to subscribers though?
On April 07 2012 09:14 Type|NarutO wrote: The schedule says there will be more open bracket games today... but they should have started 14 minutes ago for round 3, will they show more games? :o
This IPL has been VERY bad at showing games off the main stream. I'm glad I didn't pay for the subscription - MLG was better in every way this time around.
And MLG didn't have downtime? It had exactly the same problems with it and quality from this IPL is way better then MLG, even the 480p is freaking good, let alone the 720p @ 60fps which is pure awesomeness.
It had a bumpy start today with sound and color problems, but it's absolutely brilliant now and i love all the stats they are throwing around.
MLG had four streams and showed tons of games outside of pool play.
I really liked choosing the games I wanted to watch and there were a lot more to watch. Games always dry up towards the final day but when there aren't a lot of games left, its hard to watch them all. On the first day though, man there are a lot of games I wish I could be watching. I would also like it if the only games being broadcast weren't both TvTs.
On April 07 2012 09:14 Type|NarutO wrote: The schedule says there will be more open bracket games today... but they should have started 14 minutes ago for round 3, will they show more games? :o
This IPL has been VERY bad at showing games off the main stream. I'm glad I didn't pay for the subscription - MLG was better in every way this time around.
And MLG didn't have downtime? It had exactly the same problems with it and quality from this IPL is way better then MLG, even the 480p is freaking good, let alone the 720p @ 60fps which is pure awesomeness.
It had a bumpy start today with sound and color problems, but it's absolutely brilliant now and i love all the stats they are throwing around.
MLG had four streams and showed tons of games outside of pool play.
Weren't 2 of those stream only available to subscribers though?
Yeah, MLG wasn't very nice to non-subscribers, but for subscribers it was a blast.
EDIT: Damn, I feel like a MLG shill with this post - but check my post history to see that's not true.
BlinG vs JinrO in the open bracket and lots of Korean good matches and IPL does show SeleCt vs NasD. Not trying to be a douche but... really? :/ Thats kind of disappointing.
I know that this group is stacked with lots of nerd ballers, but I want Idra/MMA/Bomber to start already! I was praying to any God that will listen to make Idra beat MMA!
On April 07 2012 09:28 CosmicSpiral wrote: Is Puma...brooding? He might be done.
The thing is with Pewma is that he just doesn't seem to be able to consistently overcome serious Korean opponents; I don't know what his practice situation is with EG, but he needs something to push him to that next level. Maybe it's a confidence thing?
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