Glad to hear all the positive feedback from last week! Hopefully we can get at least that much enthusiasm this week! I'm looking forward to casting some more good 2v2 games!

Don't be shy! We're all very friendly at the Plat 'n' Up 2v2 Tourney! Sign up!

Toboe/SingleReed requested that I don't use smileys in this thread because it seems too whimsical. So the best I'll give is this:

\o/

Toboe

United States276 Posts

April 29 2012 01:47 GMT

#42

We got to see how one of the teams made it to the finals when we casted their games live, but what about that other team? Well, we just casted some tournament replays from the other team that made it to the finals - laLAlA and DeathWish.

You'll find the vods and replay packs for each tournament in the second post of this thread. Please check them out!

I think the mic position is better now to balance the audio between us (thought now we're both a little low/unclear...). I also modified my SCFH filter to automagically show and remove the overlay between games, so we won't have to worry about leaving that up any more!

Please join us Monday night to see the finals for the previous tournament played live and then for tournament #2! You can sign up or watch some of the games get casted live!

DoubleReed

United States4130 Posts

April 30 2012 02:42 GMT

#43

We're having the tournament tomorrow night, so sign up if you like! It can be a nice break from just Ladder play, to have some nice tournament competition!

There will be an epic cast of laLAla and Deathwish vs LeeroyJenkins and Manner at 8:00! The reed brothers (or is it reed sisters? You'll never know!) want some fun 2v2 action!

Xkfyu

United States165 Posts

April 30 2012 18:50 GMT

#44

pretty excited about tonight. gonna be a lot of fun.

Toboe

United States276 Posts

April 30 2012 21:45 GMT

#45

Hey everyone! We've already got 7 teams signed up, but it would be great to see a solid round of 16 like we had last week! Now I know many of you reading this just got back from work, but trust me - a 2v2 tournament is exactly what you need to unwind tonight! Join in the fun!

Freeze967

United States230 Posts

April 30 2012 21:52 GMT

#46

I would do this, but it's on a weekday. If you were able to do it on Friday or Saturday or something I would love it. Me and my 2v2 partner are masters so I look forward to doing this. I'm fine with a no prize pool for now. Hopefully you guys can move it to a weekend soon enough :D!

Xkfyu

United States165 Posts

April 30 2012 22:44 GMT

#47

So apparently my partner thought actually having a life outside of SC2 is acceptable, so unfortunately, we won't be participating in this one. He will get a stern talking to and we will be there for the next one.

Good luck to all the teams participating.

DoubleReed

United States4130 Posts

April 30 2012 23:39 GMT

#48

I went to the store today, and this guy came up to me. You know what he said? I'll tell you what he said. "Dude, are you casting the Plat 'n' up 2v2 Tournament? I hear that shit is bananas!" and I was all like "Dude who are you? You're some kind of alien," and then he flew away in his spaceship and I never heard from him again.

In conclusion, we're casting the finals of last week's tournament at 8:00 and right after that we have yet another tournament! Be there or die trying! Link to Stream!

Next week we're going to have the tournament on Saturday afternoon to accommodate all the Europeans and people who are unable to participate on weekdays.

NrT.RuSH

Germany214 Posts

May 01 2012 03:45 GMT

#49

Nice tourney Keep it up guys!

laLAlA[uC]

Canada963 Posts

May 01 2012 03:48 GMT

#50

On May 01 2012 12:45 NrT.RuSH wrote:
Nice tourney Keep it up guys!

Wow. Your ID looks familiar. I think I played with you before.

Toboe

United States276 Posts

May 01 2012 04:39 GMT

#51

On May 01 2012 12:48 laLAlA[uC] wrote:

Show nested quote +

Wow. Your ID looks familiar. I think I played with you before.

lol congrats guys

Tournament #3 is up in the topic, or you can go directly to the tournament and sign up here. This one is on Saturday so all those EU teams that wanted to participate can as long as you have some NA accounts.

I'll post a replay pack and vod link of the games from Tournament #2 tomorrow!

Thanks to everyone who watched and to the teams that participated. And I promise it can only get better

Toboe

United States276 Posts

May 01 2012 17:30 GMT

#52

The replay pack and VODs are up from tournament #2! You can find them in the 2nd post of this thread. I've added spoiler tags to that post to make things a little more clean and made direct links to the times in the vods so you can just click the time instead of having to navigating to it yourself.

Here's our change log:
+ Show Spoiler [Changelog after tournament #2] +

Rules:

Race switching is now covered in the rules.
Remakes are now covered in the rules.
Ro16 is now a Bo3.
The veto process is now: the team which vetoes first (a disadvantage) will get to pick the map for the first game of a match (an advantage). We had it wrong in the rules so one team got both disadvantages. It is now correct

Admin:

We learned how to correctly manually check teams in. If z33k does not allow you to check in even if you've signed up, please have both team members in the "2v2" chat on BNet so an administrator can manually check the team in.
We learned how to manually arrange the bracket if teams show up late after the first round has started.

Stream:

The overlay now correctly shows and hides based on if SC2 is in a game or not...
The music, however, will just keep playing during a game. We'll work hard to remember to shut it up when we get into a game. We'll also build a playlist for downtime.
For casting I think we got much better at remembering the score in a match and we're working on referring to players by their names more. As always we'll just keep casting and improving the best we can.
I used my ~~terrible~~ graphics skills to make the overlay look a little nicer in a few ways.
The game sound was a little loud compared to the casters. We'll adjust this for next time.

If you have any changes you'd like to see, please let us know!

Pengu1n

United States552 Posts

May 03 2012 21:50 GMT

#53

just signed up for the Saturday tourney :D

Freeze967

United States230 Posts

May 04 2012 00:13 GMT

#54

Glad there is a Saturday tournament now. Now I can compete :D! <3

On a side note, at the OP's. Could you please include a spoiler or something at the top of this thread with all of the weeks winners. like Week One: blah and blu. Week Two: bippity boppity and bobo. Etc.

DoubleReed

United States4130 Posts

May 04 2012 17:46 GMT

#55

Hey everyone! Tournament is tomorrow afternoon! I'd like to see some kickass Europeans on the docket as well as us westerners! Sign up now! I don't care if you're plat, diamond, or master! It'll be lots of fun and you might get casted by me and SingleReed! Woo!

Toboe

United States276 Posts

May 05 2012 02:37 GMT

#56

On May 04 2012 09:13 Freeze967 wrote:
On a side note, at the OP's. Could you please include a spoiler or something at the top of this thread with all of the weeks winners. like Week One: blah and blu. Week Two: bippity boppity and bobo. Etc.

Great idea, done and done!

Less than 24 hours until our Saturday tournament! Everyone join up gogogo!

laLAlA[uC]

Canada963 Posts

May 05 2012 02:47 GMT

#57

Oh man. So sexy. My name up there twice in a row.

Too bad I can't make the Saturday one :/

DoubleReed

United States4130 Posts

May 05 2012 14:54 GMT

#58

Tournament in only 4 1/2 hours! Sign up now!!

Toboe

United States276 Posts

May 05 2012 17:55 GMT

#59

Not long until the tournament starts. This is your last chance to show us if you want the tournament to be held on Saturday afternoons!

If not many people show up, I'll give the options to the teams that do show up to either do a round robin group before the bracket or to just try again on the normal Monday night time and hope for more people