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We're happy to introduce the first StarCraft II World Championship Series event here in the world: the Italian Nationals. This exciting tournament takes place in Naples on May 1, and will see eight participants battling for an exciting $5,000 prize pool and two slots in the European Finals. Find out more details below.
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Where: Napoli Gamecon, http://gamecon.it/
Address: Entrance: Piazzale Tecchio, Pavillion 1, 2, 3, — Mostra d'Oltremare s.p.a., Viale Kennedy 54, 80125 Napoli
Opening hours: 10:00 – 20:00
Admission fee:
€12 EUR Season Ticket (Entitles entry to the fair between April 28 and May 1).
€8 EUR Reduced rate season ticket (under 12 years old or over 65 years old) Free (under 6 years old).
Click here to buy tickets online. Click here to find a shop near you to buy tickets in advance.
Getting there:+ Show Spoiler +
By Car: Tangenziale, exit n. 10 "Fuorigrotta". Follow indications for "Mostra d'Oltremare/Via Terracina". 1000 parking spaces inside the fair (entrance from via Terracina, viale Kennedy, viale Marconi).
By Metro: Line 2: Campi Flegrei station, Line 6: Mostra station, Cumana: Fuorigrotta station.
By Bus: Bus stop: Stazionamento di Piazzale Tecchio, Lines: 180,181, 615, C1, C2, C6, C7, C8 e R6.
By Train: From Stazione Centrale (Alta Velocità and Eurostar) you can take Metro Line 2 and get off at Campi Flegrei station. Campi Flegrei station (regional trains or Intercity from Rome/Sicily).
By Plane: From the Capodichino Airport you can take a taxi to Piazzale Tecchio (15 minutes) or a bus and get off at Piazza Municipio (then you can take another bus directed to Fuorigrotta) or at Stazione Centrale (then you can take the Metro line 2 and get off at Campi Flegrei station).
By Ship: From the Harbor you can take a taxi to Piazzale Tecchio or a bus directed to Fuorigrotta.
You can see the original directions in Italian on the Gamecon site.
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Casters: VaSaCast
Stream Link: http://www.twitch.tv/esltvitaly
VOD of VaSa: http://it.twitch.tv/vasa83
- 08:00 GMT (+00:00) ~ RO8 Championship bracket (BO3)
- 10:00 GMT (+00:00) ~ RO4 Championship bracket (BO3) and RO8 Losers bracket (BO1)
- 11:00 GMT (+00:00) ~ Final Championship Bracket (BO3) and RO4 Losers bracket (BO3)
- 12:00 GMT (+00:00) ~ RO4 Losers bracket (BO3)
- 13:00 GMT (+00:00) ~ Losers final (BO3)
- 14:00 GMT (+00:00) ~ Grand final (BO5)
- 15:00 GMT (+00:00) ~ Award Ceremony
Results off stream:
+ Show Spoiler +Jeal 2-0 Maestro
ClouD 2-0 Loacker
StarEagle 2-0 ZyM
Orion 2-1 Evaner
Evaner 1-0 Maestro (shala) (LR1)
Result on-stream
+ Show Spoiler +ZyM 1-0 Loacker (LR 1)
ClouD 2-0 StarEagle
Jeal 2-0 Orion
ClouD 1-2 Jeal (WB final)
StarEagle 2-1 Orion
StarEagle 2-0 ClouD (LR Final)
Jeal 1-0 StarEagle
Double elimination format
Bracket: http://www.esl.eu/it/blizzardsc2nationals/qualifier/wcsiq_final/rankings/
1st = 2.500 $ + paid trip and hotel for the European final
2nd = 1.500 $ + paid trip and hotel for the European final
3rd = 750 $
4th = 250$
Blizzard + Show Spoiler +
ESL + Show Spoiler +
VasaCast + Show Spoiler +
Tt ESPORTS + Show Spoiler +
Source:
- http://eu.battle.net
- http://www.esl.eu/it/blizzardsc2nationals/qualifier/
- http://www.facebook.com/Vasacast
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Too bad that the only one I know from this list is ClouD T_T
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lol you know one from list, i don't know any pro from holland 
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On April 28 2012 02:32 Sipario wrote:lol you know one from list, i don't know any pro from holland
ret? grubby?
I recognize stareagle and cloud :D gl all
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Should be fairly straightforward for Cloud.
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Hello.
Will you guys post the replay pack after the event? i am really looking forward to see those reps from Italian players, my family it's from there and i dont know those players.
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On April 28 2012 03:23 Maggost wrote:
Hello.
Will you guys post the replay pack after the event? i am really looking forward to see those reps from Italian players, my family it's from there and i dont know those players.
I don't know.
I'm going to ask to the manager of the event.
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The manager isn't 100% sure about replays.
Anyway the event will start at 10:00 GMT + 2 (CEST)
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cloud is going to take it. Second place is hard to predict, maybe Jeal, maybe Orion, maybe Stareagle
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On April 28 2012 02:28 MrMercuG wrote:
Too bad that the only one I know from this list is ClouD T_T
To bad you didn't play Brood War or Stareagle would be familiar to you.
It's honestly gonna come down to Cloud or Stareagle.
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On April 29 2012 01:54 stichtom wrote:
The manager isn't 100% sure about replays.
Any news about the replays or at least someone saved the Stream?
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On April 30 2012 22:17 Maggost wrote:Show nested quote +On April 29 2012 01:54 stichtom wrote:
The manager isn't 100% sure about replays. Any news about the replays or at least someone saved the Stream?
We will have VOD for sure on twitch.tv.
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Added the schedule!!!
And.... here we come
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Zym and Jeal will be nice surprises 
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On April 29 2012 10:52 FT.aCt)Sony wrote:Show nested quote +On April 28 2012 02:28 MrMercuG wrote:
Too bad that the only one I know from this list is ClouD T_T To bad you didn't play Brood War or Stareagle would be familiar to you. It's honestly gonna come down to Cloud or Stareagle.
Italy has got 2 spots in the european finals, so most likely both of them will go through.
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i dont think stareagle or evaner can beat cloud. the only one who has a chance is Jeal
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I have a doubt.
If we don't have an account of ESLTV ITA on TL how can we add the stream to the teamliquid's calendar tomorrow?
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How is Cloud eligible to win this tournament? Doesn't he have to qualify in Germany?
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will there be an english stream for this event?
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On May 01 2012 08:23 stichtom wrote:
I have a doubt.
If we don't have an account of ESLTV ITA on TL how can we add the stream to the teamliquid's calendar tomorrow?
Try to get hold of an admin over IRC?
Edit: nevermind you are on there :D
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On May 01 2012 16:52 onedayclose wrote:
How is Cloud eligible to win this tournament? Doesn't he have to qualify in Germany?
Because he's Italian?
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On May 01 2012 17:02 Niko_Thien wrote:
will there be an english stream for this event?
No, only in italian. But i suggest you to see him because he is crazy :D
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On May 01 2012 17:10 Jono7272 wrote:Show nested quote +On May 01 2012 16:52 onedayclose wrote:
How is Cloud eligible to win this tournament? Doesn't he have to qualify in Germany? Because he's Italian?
The rules stated something like "nationality is considered upon which country you live in", but eh...
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On May 01 2012 17:15 PlosionCornu wrote:Show nested quote +On May 01 2012 17:10 Jono7272 wrote:On May 01 2012 16:52 onedayclose wrote:
How is Cloud eligible to win this tournament? Doesn't he have to qualify in Germany? Because he's Italian? The rules stated something like "nationality is considered upon which country you live in", but eh...
No it doesn't.
"How do you define nationality? For the 2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series, nationality is defined by your country of citizenship. Should you have multiple countries of citizenship you must choose one for the tournament year, and you will have to qualify through that country’s path in order to climb through the ranks."
Source: http://eu.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/4012602/_links.html#faq
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On May 01 2012 17:17 Jono7272 wrote:Show nested quote +On May 01 2012 17:15 PlosionCornu wrote:On May 01 2012 17:10 Jono7272 wrote:On May 01 2012 16:52 onedayclose wrote:
How is Cloud eligible to win this tournament? Doesn't he have to qualify in Germany? Because he's Italian? The rules stated something like "nationality is considered upon which country you live in", but eh... No it doesn't. "How do you define nationality? For the 2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series, nationality is defined by your country of citizenship. Should you have multiple countries of citizenship you must choose one for the tournament year, and you will have to qualify through that country’s path in order to climb through the ranks." Source: http://eu.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/4012602/_links.html#faq
Yeah my fault, thought citizenship was something else there for a moment.
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We are live
The first Match is Evaner vs Orion
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Thanks God I ...kinda can understand Italian.
Very curious on how this will turn out
E: Just tell them to speak slowly XD
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Hope it starts soon........
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We are having some problems with one of the computer. The first game will start ASAP
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one hour and 8 minutes later still no games, stuttering problems, and so on. Will no more watch tourney hosted by Esl. No wonder esports is not supported there in italy. If it is like that, how come it should be.
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I think its finally fixed. Casters taking positions
E: NVM >_>
E: And as soon as I edit my post they actually start.
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Lol epic Matrix music
Game starting.
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Mettete il timer!
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Results off stream:
+ Show Spoiler +Jeal 2-0 Maestro
ClouD 2-0 Loacker
StarEagle 2-0 ZyM
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StarEagle vs ClouD coming up. (RO4)
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^ loooool
gonna watch for see how weird italian cast is... gogo cookie monster :D
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Italy420 Posts
On May 01 2012 18:58 0kz wrote:
^ loooool
gonna watch for see how weird italian cast is... gogo cookie monster :D
and italian english :D
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even if cloud can't win german eps, he sure as hell can win italy wcs
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ESL Italia FTW! Cloud FTW! :D
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Cloud is just so ahead ...
2 base vs 4 lol
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Simply the best Cloud!
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TIL Cloud is "Claude" in italian :D
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Italy420 Posts
this casting is so italian : ) love it
go mauri e carlo
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dat sound effect for hellions ahaha :D
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Cloud played this so well.
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helions brum brum formulo one :DDD
Cloud did pretty well!
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Wow Cloud got realy good lately. Some days ago at the German EPS he was a little unlucky but today its just amazing. Of course he's the favorite but still impressive.
Casting is great ! I can't understand a word (except of the unit names) but its like watching the final of a world championship :D
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Cloud vs Jeal in Finals is my bet.
Fot those who don't know jeal. he is around top 80 EU GM toss.
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Cloud Interview:
caster asked Cloud if he expected the proxy/rush in the first map, he said since the map was too long wasn't a very good idea so didn't know why Stareagle did it.. then caster asked Cloud why he went mech in the second map. Cloud said that it was a normal push and if the other player doesn't go mech too is free win, he also said mech is pretty good ~
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"famous casters stay always sit, ok i'm gonna stay sit " ahahah
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That guy has the most beautiful long hair I have ever seen :D
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On May 01 2012 19:41 MBH wrote:
That guy has the most beautiful long hair I have ever seen :D
Meh he ain't no Fabio
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I have to say that the cast is really funny :D (for italians)
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not sure whats that all about but they seem to have fun :D
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Well they have NVIDIA as sponsor and Blizz makes a lot of advertisment for them and then no english stream? That's very disappointing, haven't seen a Lan in a while where they don't find anyone to cast in english.
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The winners final is coming up right now.
Jeal vs ClouD
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Did Cloud pull a dying MULE that couldn't have time to return what it mined off the closest mineral patch as to not waste the next MULE's time ???
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Goddamn, italian caster bringing the passion.
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Nice game. Gogo.. go to third game here.
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Commentators are sick!
More excitement than tastosis.
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The Italian commentary sounds just like Italian football commentary, lol.
Cloud just lost to someone I never heard of, thought he would qualify without losing a single map tbh, but protoss just seems to be a real problem for him.
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anyone know who the italian caster is? he's pretty awesome lol
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On May 01 2012 20:41 Champloo wrote:
The Italian commentary sounds just like Italian football commentary, lol.
Cloud just lost to someone I never heard of, thought he would qualify without losing a single map tbh, but protoss just seems to be a real problem for him.
He is a GM Protoss player.
The caster is VaSa and yes, he's pretty awesome :D
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On May 01 2012 20:41 efren wrote:
anyone know who the italian caster is? he's pretty awesome lol
Vasacast
http://www.facebook.com/Vasacast
The guy with the long hairs is the one running musics during games :D
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On May 01 2012 20:41 efren wrote:
anyone know who the italian caster is? he's pretty awesome lol
Edit: Ninjed :D
GO Jeal!
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I do not understand a word, but this is the most epic cast I've ever heard, great job!!! If take and monchi commentated the eps finals like that, it would have been much more enjoyable (just the first cast that came up in my mind to campare). So keep it up, go Italy
Edit: most epic non-korean cast I'd have to add.
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Cloud vs JeaL on CLOUD Kingdom. Who will win?
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There seems to be lag every game, I hope this annoys Blizzard as much as me, but I don't think they care.
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I love the casting. It's simply amazing!
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JeaL playing so greedy but it seems to work.
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Haha, it feels like I tuned in to a Serie A match. :D
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On May 01 2012 20:39 YourMom wrote:
Did Cloud pull a dying MULE that couldn't have time to return what it mined off the closest mineral patch as to not waste the next MULE's time ???
Not the next mules time, he pulled it off because if a mule mine the minerals but don't deliver they are lost.
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Nice, picking off all the Collosi before they could do any damage was really important. Not it doesn't look that grim for Cloud anymore.
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Italy420 Posts
jeal is so young! nice win over cloud
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Told you Jeal would have been a surprise :D
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First player to qualify for the European Finals!
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really nice matches and so AMAZING Casting by Vasa!!!
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Cloud really needed to pull all SCV's and repair the ebays when DT's were in main.
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This is suprisingly enjoyable so far, commentor seems to be doing a good job.
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I love this caster..don't understand anything he's saying though
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Norway25712 Posts
Terran losing a baserace? I've never!
Also, caster is awesome. So enthusiastic.
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wow great game
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Was it the lag that resulted in the protoss losing his HTs?
Echo the comments re the commentator
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Stareagle had clock on banshee so it was over anyway
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On May 01 2012 23:20 JohannesClimacus wrote:
Was it the lag that resulted in the protoss losing his HTs?
Echo the comments re the commentator
The game was already over.
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Norway25712 Posts
That lag could possibly have something to do with it. oRioN didn't micro his HT back and he didn't want to waste storm on that small group of units. He probably wanted to use it on the larger group that was going for his last Nexus.
Terran had it anyway, he had mining, bunkers, and two cloaked banshees.
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Skrillex makes this event even more epic
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Remember to like VasaCast on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Vasacast . Gaming is small in Italy and we need a lot of support.
Next game: ClouD vs StarEagle (Losers final)
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loser bracket final Cloud vs Stareagle right now
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There are a lot of people in the crowd. this is a very good result for the italian community
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Awesome italian commentator. :D
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omg, this music and commentary is fuckin epic
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Please Cloud don't lose. 
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On May 01 2012 23:43 stichtom wrote:
There are a lot of people in the crowd. this is a very good result for the italian community
The bad/delayed start aside, I concur.
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Been keeping the stream in the background since it started music + commentary is quite entertaining thou i dont really know Italian Games arent too shabby either
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I miss BW mech. The SC2 counterpart lacks the ''Ooooomph'' that the heavy metal from BW had.
Also, Cloud's gonna lose.
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Wow, really enjoyed the games and the casters so far, 3 years of Italian and I can't get as much as I'd like but it's exciting nonetheless. One thing! If the casters are reading this, make sure you invest in a pop filter in the future, your voice is clipping an awful lot. A cheap fix for it is to take a pair of pantyhose, cut it, and place it over the mic It'll make do until you can invest in a better one.
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Cloud having a bad day
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GG
StarEagle at the end of the game had something like 50 CC
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On May 01 2012 23:56 sashkata wrote:
What is the score atm?
1-0 stareagle
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On May 01 2012 23:47 PlosionCornu wrote:Show nested quote +On May 01 2012 23:43 stichtom wrote:
There are a lot of people in the crowd. this is a very good result for the italian community The bad/delayed start aside, I concur.
....AAAAnd right there, I jinxed everything.
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Norway25712 Posts
What's the score between StarEagle and ClouD?
EDIT: Nvm I'm an idiot, forgot to refresh page before asking.
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Only audio for this game. Unfortunately the PC crashed
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I don't speak Italian, but things sound bad for Cloud. lol Hope I'm wrong
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Can some Italian explain what's happening in the game. Is cloud winning. Heard the word battlecruiser in there. ^^
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Shitloads of Battlecruisers. Microed like Marines.
That's all i got so far 
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Seems like StearEagle is in small advantage, with 200 food and battlecruise out.
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wow this is like hearing a soocer match in a radio.. more exciting!
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One of the best games I ever HEARD.
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Base trade, Cloud 104 Streagle 200 food
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GG
StarEagle 2-0, Cloud out
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Aotearoa39261 Posts
cloud
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ClouD is out. StarEagle and Jeal are qualified for the European finals.
In 10 minutes we will have the grand final between StarEagle and Jeal (BO5)
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Stareagle won Cloud and reachs the final vs Jeal (TvP mu)
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Aotearoa39261 Posts
On May 02 2012 00:29 stichtom wrote:
ClouD is out. StarEagle and Jeal are qualified for the European finals.
In 10 minutes we will have the grand final between StarEagle and Jeal (BO5)
Surprised that this round wasn't Bo5, seeing as it was the playoff to see who goes through to the EU finals.
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on line for the grand final all problems fixed
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inf.Jeal vs tri.Stareagle started...GL
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Norway25712 Posts
I'm kinda surprised that ClouD was knocked out by StarEagle.
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On May 02 2012 00:50 KristofferAG wrote:
I'm kinda surprised that ClouD was knocked out by StarEagle.
According to liquipedia he 2-0ed Stareagle earlier too, interesting.
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it was a very intensive game lasting for 40 minutes i suggest to download the rep, it is already available
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On May 02 2012 00:52 TheDougler wrote:Show nested quote +On May 02 2012 00:50 KristofferAG wrote:
I'm kinda surprised that ClouD was knocked out by StarEagle. According to liquipedia he 2-0ed Stareagle earlier too, interesting.
Yeah, he took him out in the upper bracket semis.
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Awesome games so far.
The score in the grand final is 2-2 at the moment.
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Norway25712 Posts
I really wish they had scoreboards up...
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"If there's a mule, there's still hope" ;D
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Jeal is the Italian champion
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On May 01 2012 03:04 Arpayon wrote:Zym and Jeal will be nice surprises
I don't like to autoquote, but I told you Jeal rocks!
GG!
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It was an awesome event.
I hope this will be the start of the e-sports in italy.
And vasa, the caster, is awesome. Much love for guzzostain too.
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Awesome final match. wp to jeal and stareagle, thx for games and be so manner.
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Great event and good job Jeal, well deserved first place!
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Balance prevailed on skill once again.
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