Did AlexCMoi retake his spot, therefore effectively making CombatEX go "OMG I'M GOING TO WCG!!!" only for Alex to say "Nope, actually I AM going to WCG" crushing CombatEX's dreams?
On November 26 2012 20:56 lichter wrote: 1st place prize surprisingly tiny. Though I guess that's because the player pool isn't that scary
It's the same as a MLG championship first place prize ;o
How nice of them to put all the KR players in different groups. I wonder which one of them is going to win.
MKP will win, this isn't located in Korea.
I think Group A could be interesting, YongHwa is the favorite, but LoWeLy can beast it up if he feels like it, while MacSed always seem to beat koreans in China...
Group B should be crushed by PartinG
However if it's all Bo1s... anything could happen.
On November 26 2012 20:56 lichter wrote: 1st place prize surprisingly tiny. Though I guess that's because the player pool isn't that scary
It's the same as a MLG championship first place prize ;o
How nice of them to put all the KR players in different groups. I wonder which one of them is going to win.
They didn't do it for KR. All the countries that had multiple representatives are in different groups. This makes sense and very common in other sports where you qualify by region. They usually distribute the regions like that. They also did it for WCS (except if was Asia instead of Korea so there was some overlap groups)
On November 26 2012 20:56 lichter wrote: 1st place prize surprisingly tiny. Though I guess that's because the player pool isn't that scary
It's the same as a MLG championship first place prize ;o
How nice of them to put all the KR players in different groups. I wonder which one of them is going to win.
MKP will win, this isn't located in Korea.
I think Group A could be interesting, YongHwa is the favorite, but LoWeLy can beast it up if he feels like it, while MacSed always seem to beat koreans in China...
Group B should be crushed by PartinG
However if it's all Bo1s... anything could happen.
Both MKP and SuperNoVa got knocked out in Ro8 last year to Kas and TiTaN respectively. It was up to Mvp to win it for Korea and he delivered.
And for all the people saying MKP is taking the easy way out. Please remember they had to go through the Korean Qualifiers to get here. And the Korean Qualifiers had ALL (Kespa/non Kespa) players. Granted, the Kespa players had just switched over at this point. So you could argue that this was a more difficult path compare to IPL5.
On November 26 2012 20:56 lichter wrote: 1st place prize surprisingly tiny. Though I guess that's because the player pool isn't that scary
It's the same as a MLG championship first place prize ;o
How nice of them to put all the KR players in different groups. I wonder which one of them is going to win.
MKP will win, this isn't located in Korea.
I think Group A could be interesting, YongHwa is the favorite, but LoWeLy can beast it up if he feels like it, while MacSed always seem to beat koreans in China...
Group B should be crushed by PartinG
However if it's all Bo1s... anything could happen.
Eh, last year it was bo1's too and the KR players made it through group stage.
Mvp 6-0, Supernova and MKP 5-1. Since then the skill gap between foreigners and Koreans outside of the top foreigners has become even larger. I can't see Parting Yonghwa or MKP losing a single game to anyone in their groups looking at the names here. All three of these guys are top top players, Yonghwa only recently got into the GSL but he's clearly Code S level, he won the KR qualifier ( beat MKP in the finals, lol. ) and got two all kills in GSTL in the past few months.
The only player I see causing an upset is fraer, and they will meet in the later rounds where It's not BO1.
Anything but top 3 KR would be extremely surprising. Maybe fraer could PvP Parting or Yonghwa out but even that's a stretch.
ugh, sorry, i stuffed up some of my calendar entries, adding four events this weekend over four days kinda messed me up haha. so atm some of the entries are wrong (ipl5 day 1, wcg day 2-4) but hope one of the mods can catch that
On November 26 2012 22:52 Gladiator333 wrote: The player pools seems very weak I must say, will be super suprised if finals doesn't include Yongwha and PartinG.
On November 26 2012 22:52 Gladiator333 wrote: The player pools seems very weak I must say, will be super suprised if finals doesn't include Yongwha and PartinG.
MKP stands a good chance against both/either
Yeah I just edited that, didn't see he was qualified.
Assuming Yonghwa, Parting, and MKP all top their groups, it looks like it'll be Parting and MKP facing off in the semis to see who will play Yonghwa in the championship.
The only upset I could see would be fraer getting first in his group (which should be quite possible), beating whoever comes out second in B (so probably Xluos, Fenix or Stareagle) which is quite possible, too, and then beating Yongwha to make the Grand Finals which is way harder but not out of the question with fraer's strong PvP.
It's not very likely, but that'd be the easiest path to a WCG Finals ever, all thanks to the reduced player numbers.
Apart from that, which would actually make me want to watch a bit, there don't seem to be many other interesting matches , so we'll probably see a Yonghwa vs X finals.
i remeber when WCG was the peak of esports, the summit of korea vs foreigners, cant get more oldschool than that ... nowadays the player rooster is very limited but still i'll be chering for d.killer!!!! i think he has a good chance of winning his group... he likes to pull upsets from time to time
On November 27 2012 00:51 Dgotto wrote: bo1 is so sad =(
Bo1 in groupplay with more players (6) is perfectly fine. You get to play 5 games guaranteed vs different players. Thats more fair than Bo5 single elim (3-5 games vs same opponent), or Bo3 double elim (4-6 games vs 2 opponents), two formats which nobody complains about.
On November 27 2012 03:29 grs wrote: Darkforce can't participate because of Visa issues, it seems. He just posted on Facebook http://t.co/I558ulJX
Oh, wow, thats sad to hear. And sheads another bad light on WCG, even if its only the German organision.
IPL and WCG on the same dates? Seriously, there needs to be some governing body to ensure major tournaments don't conflict. Not only for the viewership, but for the players who want to go to both events.
You can't just miraculously fix every scheduling conflict with some sort of almighty governing body, the end of the year is always incredibly busy and there are simply not enough weekends to have tournaments on without conflicting with others..
On November 27 2012 05:12 StarVe wrote: You can't just miraculously fix every scheduling conflict with some sort of almighty governing body, the end of the year is always incredibly busy and there are simply not enough weekends to have tournaments on without conflicting with others..
And to add, players as well as viewers are complaining about tournament fatigue. Why should we then make it possible to play/view even more? We should be glad that SC2 is in such a good state that we have so many tournaments. It just means that a player can't play all, and a viewer - if not totally hardcore - possibly won't view all.
On November 27 2012 05:12 StarVe wrote: You can't just miraculously fix every scheduling conflict with some sort of almighty governing body, the end of the year is always incredibly busy and there are simply not enough weekends to have tournaments on without conflicting with others..
With tournaments having been planned months ahead, it's hard to believe it takes a miracle to see a conflict and move a tourney a few days forward or back. The governing body needn't be almighty at all, just a central website repository that looks at the schedule during planning stages and reports a conflict. There's simply a lack of communication and it's wasn't until recently that major tournaments have started working together - namely MLG, DH & ESL.
On November 27 2012 05:12 StarVe wrote: You can't just miraculously fix every scheduling conflict with some sort of almighty governing body, the end of the year is always incredibly busy and there are simply not enough weekends to have tournaments on without conflicting with others..
With tournaments having been planned months ahead, it's hard to believe it takes a miracle to see a conflict and move a tourney a few days forward or back. The governing body needn't be almighty at all, just a central website repository that looks at the schedule during planning stages and reports a conflict. There's simply a lack of communication and it's wasn't until recently that major tournaments have started working together - namely MLG, DH & ESL.
I'm pretty sure IPL knew full well that WCG was on this weekend and went ahead with it still
dear god this tournament is going to be a korean walkover, the only players who have a chance, and that is a very slim one, are fraer and the chinese players
On November 27 2012 11:21 dLKnighT wrote: FireZerg <3
On November 27 2012 11:22 Stealthypoo wrote: =D looking forward to watching this. Firezerg fighting! ~
Mah ninjas. Go FireZerg Lmao Stealthypoo wouldn't it make you so happy to watch him beat Yonghwa after you were his main ZvP practice partner for the last few weeks? Ahah
So Parting, MKP and Yonghwa are the Korean representatives? This might be the best opportunity ever for a foreigner to win WCG at Starcraft. WCG doesn't have the same prestige it used to but it'd still be nice to Korea's 11 year streak.
without darkforce its way more boring so sad germany only send 1 ... now they have to pay for it becauzse no german in tournament ... damn sending 3 over whole years in sc1 and then bigger sc2 and only 1 ... dont understand wcg germany at all
On November 28 2012 18:48 CoR wrote: without darkforce its way more boring so sad germany only send 1 ... now they have to pay for it becauzse no german in tournament ... damn sending 3 over whole years in sc1 and then bigger sc2 and only 1 ... dont understand wcg germany at all
What the Fuck.. Canada managed to get more reps in than USA but somehow CombatEx got in? He really gonna show? I've still haven't seen him in action in a real tournament.
I don't know how many of you are watching but when this chick did one of her moves she hit her forehead so hard you could hear a smacking noise. Hilarious.
On November 29 2012 13:14 mayneeahk wrote: I don't know how many of you are watching but when this chick did one of her moves she hit her forehead so hard you could hear a smacking noise. Hilarious.
Lol now you make me wish I was watching Just having it on background for now
Can someone please explain to me how there are 3 Koreans, 3 Canadians, 2 Americans, 1 Russian, 0 Ukranians and 0 Swedes, please? I noticed some qualifiers and notices, but this seems very odd.
Seems like a very odd tournament...if I recall, it was up to each country to set up and pay for their own qualifying tournaments, so I think that's why there is disparities like 3 Canadians, only 1 American, 0 swedes, etc, etc.
Actually there is a Chinese stream broadcasted by NeoTV on two platforms, one is PPTV, the other is Fengyunzhibo (风云直播). All those Chinese websites use these two streams.
On November 29 2012 14:37 ragz_gt wrote: Mmm... back, after nearly dead laughing watching Dota2 stream
EHP vs. Mineski.Kor?
Yes, purple sword, red sword, green sword and the sword on cooldown certainly got the job done.
I didn't know wtf was going on except that the numbers on the left side of the screen were going way up while the numbers on the right side were lagging behind a lot.
Don't watch much DotA2 (though I'm pretty familiar with DotA). Hard to see what was what, but it seemed super one-sided? T__T
On November 29 2012 15:10 AngryFarmer wrote: I want Rotti to cast Not that these guys are bad just Rotti is too good Edit:Lol ok these guys actually dont really know what they are talking about
Is rotterdam there? He should definitely be casting WC3 if he is
On November 29 2012 16:02 ZerglingTwins wrote: It seems that Yonghwa is done at WCG. He pretty much can't get out of the group now. What a shame for Koreans.
Yeah... it would be hard for either MacSed or Lowely to go 2-3
On November 29 2012 16:06 Azarkon wrote: Well, they still got Parting.
Did he lose 2 games already or just the one against Fenix? (btw are there updated brackets anywhere?)
nope tournament coverage is terrible.
Coverage is really geared towards letting people see as many different events as possible (hence why there's basically no over laps between different games), so it is kinda unsatisfying for people who are just here to watch SC2 and not Dota / WC3 etc
On November 29 2012 16:21 ZerglingTwins wrote: let's hope for a non korean champion.
Hellz yea lets have a Chinese WCG champion, China really could use a world champion for once.
I'd feel bad for the Korean players at the tournament if they don't win. They're gonna get so much shit from other Koreans for finally losing a WCG.
Hey man... You don't know how difficult it is to be a progamer in China, seriously, alot of the legend players took alot of shit in rl and are persisting on will alone, no glamour, no prospects, some times no paycheque and they gotta work other part time / full time jobs. Compared with getting some frack from your team is just not the same, hell Chinese players wish they had good teammates to even get frack from.
On November 29 2012 16:13 Kal_rA wrote: LOL COMBAT AT WCG HAHAHHAHAHA
brilliant.
I've read his name mentioned several times and seems like being mocked. Please enlighten me who this Combat is
A player infamous for lying and being bm then repenting and begging for forgiveness before one again commencing to insult and bm.
this doesnt really go deep enough, combatex is pure scum
I'm guessing he's not a real pro? Don't think I've seen him in any big tournaments
He's not. He's slightly (in)famous for being a bm prick and maphacking/streamcheating.
Tells something about WCG reputation if someone like this can get in...
The guy's a douche, but he's still a GM (take that with a grain of salt considering streamcheating). And he did pretty well on LAN where he couldn't streamcheat. If you really want to know who he is, look him up on Liquipedia.
On November 29 2012 16:28 babylon wrote: So iG is super-big in DotA2, right?
Yeah, they're the shit.
Comparing iG, DK, and LGD?
What do you mean? I don't know too much about DotA 2.
Oh, I heard that DK and LGD also have/had really good teams (at least in DotA?). I don't know which is considered the best. I just know those four and Navi, lol.
On November 29 2012 16:28 babylon wrote: So iG is super-big in DotA2, right?
Yeah, they're the shit.
Comparing iG, DK, and LGD?
What do you mean? I don't know too much about DotA 2.
Oh, I heard that DK and LGD also have/had really good teams (at least in DotA?). I don't know which is considered the best. I just know those four and Navi, lol.
Those are pretty much the top 4 to my knowledge. iG won The International 2 (largest tournament) several months ago, but LGD won G-1 recently (large Chinese league).
On November 29 2012 16:28 babylon wrote: So iG is super-big in DotA2, right?
Yeah, they're the shit.
Comparing iG, DK, and LGD?
What do you mean? I don't know too much about DotA 2.
Oh, I heard that DK and LGD also have/had really good teams (at least in DotA?). I don't know which is considered the best. I just know those four and Navi, lol.
iG is top dogs, they won the international, and then 2 more chinese tournaments after, they have beaten iG and DK a few more tiems since TI2, but it is very close, DK and LGD can beat iG, but iG is favored.
also importnat to note one of the iG players cant play for iG as he isnt chinese, so that my give the edge to DK (LGD is palying dota1)
On November 29 2012 16:51 AgentW wrote: Can someone explain to me why YongHwa is out? If he wins out, he's 3-2, right?
He has to pray that both Lowely and Macsed both drop 3 games each first. edit* guess not, he's out. Traded all of his GSTL skill and lan tourney results to get into Code A.
On November 29 2012 17:03 DJSub wrote: According to Liquipedia, if FireZerg beat Mojon, there will be 3-way tie for 2nd place between Yonghwa, Lowely and Firezerg
Lowely beat Yonghwa, so... that is all. Yonghwa is eliminated.
On November 29 2012 17:03 DJSub wrote: According to Liquipedia, if FireZerg beat Mojon, there will be 3-way tie for 2nd place between Yonghwa, Lowely and Firezerg
Lowely beat Yonghwa, so... that is all. Yonghwa is eliminated.
On November 29 2012 17:03 DJSub wrote: According to Liquipedia, if FireZerg beat Mojon, there will be 3-way tie for 2nd place between Yonghwa, Lowely and Firezerg
Yes, looks that way. No way to tie breaker (except to play games of course) since they are 1-1 even if you just count the 3 of them.
On November 29 2012 17:03 DJSub wrote: According to Liquipedia, if FireZerg beat Mojon, there will be 3-way tie for 2nd place between Yonghwa, Lowely and Firezerg
Lowely beat Yonghwa, so... that is all. Yonghwa is eliminated.
but yonghwa beat firezerg, so 3way tie
yup 3 way tie, since yonghwa > firezerg > lowely > yonghwa
On November 29 2012 16:43 Caihead wrote: World of tanks is so strange to see...
This. LOL. It looks like a FPS just with Tanks instead of people. WTF.
Is there any SC2 Stream?
There's actually more to it than you'd think. The spotting system is pretty complex, and the armor has strong/weak points that are hittable but not easily. It's skilled and strategic enough that top players (or really teams) can really set themselves apart.
On November 29 2012 17:03 DJSub wrote: According to Liquipedia, if FireZerg beat Mojon, there will be 3-way tie for 2nd place between Yonghwa, Lowely and Firezerg
Lowely beat Yonghwa, so... that is all. Yonghwa is eliminated.
but yonghwa beat firezerg, so 3way tie
yup 3 way tie, since yonghwa > firezerg > lowely > yonghwa
On November 29 2012 17:00 Wolfswood wrote: holy sith they're still playing wc3 at WCG? fuck yeah!
before last wcg they said it was the last time for wc3, then they realized moon didn't win (and some other reasons, like wcg 2012 being in china) and put it up again without mentioning, whether it would be the last time.
On November 29 2012 17:14 Goldfish wrote: Who are the casters for WC3?
I'm glad WC3 is doing good still. A great RTS, vastly different from BW but still great.
Seems to be Khaldor and Tobi Wan, who also cast DotA2.
Ahh interesting. Yeah, I heard someone sounded similar to Tobi (so it is him then!). Khaldor sounds a bit different than usual (compared to GSL) but now I hear it now.
So seeing SC2 and Dota 2 caster casting WC3... that's great .
A bit off topic but taking cues from Dota 2, WC4 has so much potential as a F2P game (everyone likes customizing their hero).
On November 29 2012 17:14 Goldfish wrote: Who are the casters for WC3?
I'm glad WC3 is doing good still. A great RTS, vastly different from BW but still great.
Seems to be Khaldor and Tobi Wan, who also cast DotA2.
Ahh interesting. Yeah, I heard someone sounded similar to Tobi. Khaldor sounds a bit different than usual (compared to GSL) but now I hear it now.
It's interesting that Khaldor was the noob asking questions in DotA2, but the roles are reversed now in WC3. It really helps noobish players like me understand the games better
Kudos to WCG for casters and for WC3 again. The good thing about something like WCG is the variety of games on one stream. I mean, now everyone is forced to watch random games they may never seen before !
On November 29 2012 17:29 Azarkon wrote: Fly winning over Nicker is pretty normal. Ted winning over Lyn is an upset.
Hawk, not Nicker.
TeD over Lyn's definitely an upset, but Lyn actually drops maps to UDs pretty often now in Bo3s (but tends to win the whole series). Too bad for him this is Bo1. He's in a dangerous position with Fly in his group.
On November 29 2012 17:31 Wolfswood wrote: I don't really think you can anyone here a favorite, I expect most of these guys have not been playing wc3 seriously for awhile.
Lyn still plays War3 as his main game, though he does SC2 on the side afaik. I'd still consider him the favorite, esp. if he gets out of group stages. The two strongest players right now in China are probably Lyn and TH000 (who dropped out in quals).
Fly is the same as Lyn. Moon is supposed to be full-time SC2. Sky is ... idk, advertising, casting, and playing DotA. TeD just recently came back, but I think if he makes it out of groups, it could get pretty interesting.
I'm not even gonna watch. I just wanna express how sad I find it how much WCG has gone down the drain. The only somewhat respectable foreigners attending are Fenix and fraer, everyone else is at IPL. With WCG's terrible decisions, management and overcommercialization, it is their own fault, but it's sad nonetheless.
Remember when international live events were few and far between, and WCG was the event of the year? With foreigners getting a rare chance at competing with those unbeatable Korean demigods, a huge stir when someone actually took a single map off a Korean, Tasteless rising to prominence as a caster with unparalleled enthusiasm and energy... good old times.
On November 29 2012 17:31 Wolfswood wrote: I don't really think you can anyone here a favorite, I expect most of these guys have not been playing wc3 seriously for awhile.
Lyn still plays War3 as his main game, though he does SC2 on the side afaik. I'd still consider him the favorite, esp. if he gets out of group stages. The two strongest players right now in China are probably Lyn and TH000 (who dropped out in quals).
Fly is the same as Lyn. Moon is supposed to be full-time SC2. Sky is ... idk, advertising, casting, and playing DotA. TeD just recently came back, but I think if he makes it out of groups, it could get pretty interesting.
TH000 could only play well in domestic tournaments. Lyn and Infi play both SC2 and WC3.
On November 29 2012 17:31 Wolfswood wrote: I don't really think you can anyone here a favorite, I expect most of these guys have not been playing wc3 seriously for awhile.
Lyn still plays War3 as his main game, though he does SC2 on the side afaik. I'd still consider him the favorite, esp. if he gets out of group stages. The two strongest players right now in China are probably Lyn and TH000 (who dropped out in quals).
Fly is the same as Lyn. Moon is supposed to be full-time SC2. Sky is ... idk, advertising, casting, and playing DotA. TeD just recently came back, but I think if he makes it out of groups, it could get pretty interesting.
sky won the chinese qualifier right? he is in my opinion the most talented wc3 player of all time, i still remember him having a 90% winrate between 04-06 (?) and most of the games were played on 300+ ping. remind and lucifer could also take it, it's all pretty even once the euros drop out, even though hawk is also really good and i don't know much about the others
Even though WCG doesn't have the best competition in SC2, it is still very fun to see so many other games, it's a great casual party feeling while watching WCG.
On November 29 2012 17:31 Wolfswood wrote: I don't really think you can anyone here a favorite, I expect most of these guys have not been playing wc3 seriously for awhile.
Lyn still plays War3 as his main game, though he does SC2 on the side afaik. I'd still consider him the favorite, esp. if he gets out of group stages. The two strongest players right now in China are probably Lyn and TH000 (who dropped out in quals).
Fly is the same as Lyn. Moon is supposed to be full-time SC2. Sky is ... idk, advertising, casting, and playing DotA. TeD just recently came back, but I think if he makes it out of groups, it could get pretty interesting.
sky won the chinese qualifier right? he is in my opinion the most talented wc3 player of all time, i still remember him having a 90% winrate between 04-06 (?) and most of the games were played on 300+ ping. remind and lucifer could also take it, it's all pretty even once the euros drop out, even though hawk is also really good and i don't know much about the others
Lucifer isn't playing in WCG.
Sky has been playing sloppy for more than a year now. Even when he took 2nd last year, he wasn't playing well, just playing good enough to get past his opponents. He preps extensively for WCG though (almost exclusively the only tournament he preps nowadays), so maybe he'll prove me wrong. He definitely hasn't been the best HU for a long time though. Both TH000 and Infi (even after Infi's switch to SC2) have consistently shown better games than Sky imo. Sky just somehow turns it on for WCG-related events every year, it seems. >_>
ReMinD has been slumping recently. He's going off to military service next year as well, so this is kind of his last hurrah in terms of wider exposure. I haven't seen especially great play from him in months.
This group honestly should've been a walkover for Lyn, but he just shot himself in the foot playing greedy. He will probably win vs. Hawk, but Fly is a toss-up. If I had to pick favorites to win, I would choose Lyn and Fly, followed by Sky, followed by ReMinD. The problem is it depends on who gets through group stages, and Bo1s in War3 at this high of a level are really difficult to call.
Edit - NVM, I don't think Wolf is casting (Sounds like Doa is though).
Haha yeah, I thought it was Wolf too at first. Other guy is called Rambo I think.
CS Online is actually the same one as CS 1.6. It is online version for Asian scene but almost the same one without big change. But they do not have qualifier tournaments for Europe. Western guys are switching to CS: Global Offence any way. CS: GO is a different game since it is developed with a new engine.
how and when is the sc2 tiebreaker going to be solved? e:i just checked wcg 2011 page, there is gonna be some mini bracket for them, still don't know when though
On November 29 2012 18:00 DJSub wrote: Result is updated and Lowely is through. I don't think it's shown what happens with the tiebreaker, Firezerg score is just 1-2
On November 29 2012 18:00 DJSub wrote: Result is updated and Lowely is through. I don't think it's shown what happens with the tiebreaker, Firezerg score is just 1-2
Sad to see so few people watching (slow LR thread + only 4k viewers).
This is better than seeing deathball vs deathball for the umpteenth time IMO >.> (I like SC2 but unless I am following a specific player, it is getting stale).
The SC2 casters we all know casting WC3 is icing on cake.
Edit - Also thanks for the reply to my question. Good to know .
On November 29 2012 18:36 Goldfish wrote: Sad to see so few people watching (slow LR thread + only 4k viewers).
This is better than seeing deathball vs deathball for the umpteenth time IMO >.> (I like SC2 but unless I am following a specific player, it is getting stale).
The SC2 casters we all know casting WC3 is icing on cake.
Edit - Also thanks for the reply to my question. Good to know .
Khaldor came from WC3, so if he cast he'd actually know what he was talking about. Though doawolf are certainly amusing.
On November 29 2012 18:37 quannguyen wrote: Do any of you guys think that Sky wlll finally get his 3rd WCG gold medal this year? The guy really deserves it
Unlike but of course that would be really cool. I'd like to Moon to win his first WCG.
On November 29 2012 18:37 quannguyen wrote: Do any of you guys think that Sky wlll finally get his 3rd WCG gold medal this year? The guy really deserves it
This is Moon's year!!!! IT WILL FINALLY HAPPEN!!!!
On November 29 2012 18:37 quannguyen wrote: Do any of you guys think that Sky wlll finally get his 3rd WCG gold medal this year? The guy really deserves it
This is Moon's year!!!! IT WILL FINALLY HAPPEN!!!!
And then I can die happy.ö
moon really deserves this win, it would just top of the wc3 era
On November 29 2012 18:36 Goldfish wrote: Sad to see so few people watching (slow LR thread + only 4k viewers).
This is better than seeing deathball vs deathball for the umpteenth time IMO >.> (I like SC2 but unless I am following a specific player, it is getting stale).
The SC2 casters we all know casting WC3 is icing on cake.
Edit - Also thanks for the reply to my question. Good to know .
Yeah, I definitely enjoy watching WC3 more than SC2. Too bad the pro scene of WC3 is more or less dead; it's a great game.
On November 29 2012 18:36 Goldfish wrote: Sad to see so few people watching (slow LR thread + only 4k viewers).
This is better than seeing deathball vs deathball for the umpteenth time IMO >.> (I like SC2 but unless I am following a specific player, it is getting stale).
It could be more interesting if it didn't look like everything was in slow motion.
I loved WC3 back in the day, but now its just... Ugh.
On November 29 2012 18:43 Supercilium wrote: Haven't watched Wc3 in forever but I seriously doubt Wolf and Doa are correct when they say who is in the lead/behind. Paladyn is winning right?
On November 29 2012 18:37 quannguyen wrote: Do any of you guys think that Sky wlll finally get his 3rd WCG gold medal this year? The guy really deserves it
Unlike but of course that would be really cool. I'd like to Moon to win his first WCG.
Its not that unlikely. He reached the final last year, only barely losing to Lyn. I think he has a bigger chance this year considering that he didn't play any other games besides WC3 and others such as Moon and Lyn did.
As for Moon, the WCG curse is indeed too strong on him . And he is focusing entirely on SC2 now, so I don't have high hopes. Moon wins would of course be the best thing ever
On November 29 2012 18:43 Supercilium wrote: Haven't watched Wc3 in forever but I seriously doubt Wolf and Doa are correct when they say who is in the lead/behind. Paladyn is winning right?
Sky is ahead, he should be way further ahead though cos he didn't tech properly while wrecking the living hell out of Paladyn's expo attempts and killing the goblin shredder.
On November 29 2012 18:43 Supercilium wrote: Haven't watched Wc3 in forever but I seriously doubt Wolf and Doa are correct when they say who is in the lead/behind. Paladyn is winning right?
Though the game obviously just ended, sky was way ahead the whole time.
I want ReminD to lose solely because he denied the 3rd WCG gold of my hero Grubby. Normally I love his play, but after that series I was really mad T_T
Nothing surprising today, IMO. CHecking the results it went pretty much like expected. Thought XluoS would make it through, but Fenix is definitely good enough.
In Grop A I was expecting MacSed/YongHwa, so I just need Yong to make it.
On November 29 2012 18:58 KristofferAG wrote: Nothing surprising today, IMO. CHecking the results it went pretty much like expected. Thought XluoS would make it through, but Fenix is definitely good enough.
In Grop A I was expecting MacSed/YongHwa, so I just need Yong to make it.
Fenix suprised me. I missed the games though, don't know if he advanced in convincing fashion or not.
And WC3 is awesome. I love the casting and the game itself. I totally forgot that you stay on one base for so long ^.^
On November 29 2012 19:00 pedrlz wrote: Tobi casting W3 lool .
Does he know much about WC3? But yeah, fun to watch him cast WC3 (fun to watch any caster you know from other games cast some other game they never played before).
Also both Stream A and D going to Dota (WC3 Dota it seems).
On November 29 2012 19:04 sea_guy wrote: I woke up today to Tobi casting Spirit Moon putting the beat down on Remind in WC3. I never want to leave this timewarp I've fallen into.
Wasn't really a beat down, more like "when behind dark shrine" and it worked.
On November 29 2012 19:00 pedrlz wrote: Tobi casting W3 lool .
Does he know much about WC3? But yeah, fun to watch him cast WC3 (fun to watch any caster you know from other games cast some other game they never played before).
Also both Stream A and D going to Dota (WC3 Dota it seems).
I dont know, but I dont think so. He is more co-casting, responding what the other caster says, great way to pretend that you understand what is happening, haha.
Now, time for some Dota W3. Long time that I watched this, omg. The "meta" is the same than Dota II?
On November 29 2012 19:00 pedrlz wrote: Tobi casting W3 lool .
Does he know much about WC3? But yeah, fun to watch him cast WC3 (fun to watch any caster you know from other games cast some other game they never played before).
Also both Stream A and D going to Dota (WC3 Dota it seems).
I dont know, but I dont think so. He is more co-casting, responding what the other caster says, great way to pretend that you understand what is happening, haha.
Now, time for some Dota W3. Long time that I watched this, omg. The "meta" is the same than Dota II?
Haha. Supposedly he was a Warcraft 3 player before he started playing Dota. I wonder how long ago that was
Also, as a spectator activity is it just me that thinks WC3 Dota really trumps LoL? Irrespective of gameplay, which I don't really understand the subtleties of, I find the art design is more distinctive, and you can differentiate things more easily.
Equally this may be me having played WC3 and a few games of WC3 DOTA.
On November 29 2012 19:52 Wombat_NI wrote: Also, as a spectator activity is it just me that thinks WC3 Dota really trumps LoL? Irrespective of gameplay, which I don't really understand the subtleties of, I find the art design is more distinctive, and you can differentiate things more easily.
Equally this may be me having played WC3 and a few games of WC3 DOTA.
I prefer Dota to LoL and Dota 2. I played all three games, but I played years of Dota 1 and only ~10-30 games of Dota 2 and LoL each so I am clearly biased :D
While Chinese teams have transitioned to Dota 2, they still look better than teams outside of China in Dota 1. Dota 1 is going to come down to whether the Korean team, which I think is one of the older veteran teams in the scene, is capable of pulling an upset.
On November 29 2012 20:22 allen_ami wrote: omg who is this staregle guy? even able to beat xluos?
You make it sound like beating xluos is a big thing, lol. Outside of China he is even less known than StarEagle for sure.
who the hell is stareagle?
Well, I am not saying that StarEagle is very well known, just more well than xluos for sure.
StarEagle finished top 16 at WCS Europe, while xluos finished top 16 at WCS Asia. However, I would think that most people from the US scene know the EU scene much better than the Chinese one, simply because there is so much more coverage and information about it in English. Even the TL writers didn't do a preview for WCS Asia because they had no clue who most of the Chinese guys were. They do know StarEagle for sure though.
On November 29 2012 22:17 nimdil wrote: Why this is not covered on front page? This is freaking WCG after all!
"freaking WCG" holds a fair lot less weight than it did during BW times. we only do have a handful of writers, after all.
That's weird. I don't doubt that the competition level will be higher at IPL but I'm always more interested in tournaments with national qualifiers than purely professional events. And I have soft spot for WCG specifically. At least MKP and Parting are attending
Really expected Xluos and Yonghwa (as groupwinner) to get through, Parting was obvious and MacSed/Lowely was my second pick for Group A.. Very (happily) surprised about Fenix!
Paranoid and Killer/fraer + MKP and qxc/Jim to get through today!
EPT
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CombatEX > HuK?
gogo Gosia hwaiting 
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