On June 23 2013 00:51 Dingodile wrote: the new guideline from blizz says alcohol and some stuff are forbidden on stream. So I think that is why we cant see the atmosphere and location so much like HSC 1-6.
Between this and the twitch enforcement, blizzard killing esports HSC
On June 23 2013 00:34 ThomasjServo wrote: Didn't they play Neo planet already or am I just missing something about the map selection options for this stage.
According to Liquipedia they did indeed xD
That is what made em double take, I was updating and had a 0___o wat moment.
I checked the match history, the first was on Bel'Shir Vestige in fact.
Got it changed. Best of 3s with map repeats would be rather rediculous.
On June 23 2013 00:41 Zarahtra wrote: Tzain finds SH interesting to watch, lol WHAT!?
Just because some people are very vocal about disliking swarm hosts on forums etc doesn't mean that everyone dislikes them. I love watching SH play.
It doesn't I suppose, but I die inside when I watch someone as brilliant as stephano just chill for 20 minutes doing nothing.
Don't expect pro players to use the swarm hosts correctly right away. By design you are supposed to constantly move them, instead of just letting them sit somewhere. It just takes time for people to become proficient at this.
The hatred for swarm hosts is a huge annoyance for me, zerg finally has a unit which encourages strategic and positional play and people hate it for spawning free units that are hardly different from siege tank shots or for promoting passive play when that's more on the players.
Swarmhosts are pretty nice, but the detection sniping is a huge problem (Need an Oracle, because of the 15 range). Have to fight through 2 waves of Locust normally and then you lose your obs because of 2 corrupters and an overseer coming from behind. It would be nice if the tiny blobs coming out had low hp so if an army sits on your swarmhosts they won't do alot damage. Would be enough for me though if Swarmhosts had 150 hp, so 2 non stacked storms are enough to kill.
On June 23 2013 00:51 Dingodile wrote: the new guideline from blizz says alcohol and some stuff are forbidden on stream. So I think that is why we cant see the atmosphere and location so much like HSC 1-6.
Between this and the twitch enforcement, blizzard killing esports HSC
On June 23 2013 00:51 Dingodile wrote: the new guideline from blizz says alcohol and some stuff are forbidden on stream. So I think that is why we cant see the atmosphere and location so much like HSC 1-6.
well, on thursday they were drinking on stream. I don't think the blizzard stuff applies to every single tournament. today, the hsc got kicked hard by twitch.tv, now they have to hurry up with the groups unless they want to play games until 2am.
On June 23 2013 00:51 Dingodile wrote: the new guideline from blizz says alcohol and some stuff are forbidden on stream. So I think that is why we cant see the atmosphere and location so much like HSC 1-6.
How can blizzard forbid that? Twitch I could understand but what has Blizzard to do with HSC?
On June 23 2013 00:51 Dingodile wrote: the new guideline from blizz says alcohol and some stuff are forbidden on stream. So I think that is why we cant see the atmosphere and location so much like HSC 1-6.
Oh no!
Goddamnit, this is probably some stupid government regulation, rather than Blizzard-imposed I'm guessing.
On June 23 2013 00:45 Juissi wrote: I'm not really getting the HSC feeling this time. I feel like all i see is games and adds so can't really say this tournament is unique at all compared to others.
On June 23 2013 00:51 Dingodile wrote: the new guideline from blizz says alcohol and some stuff are forbidden on stream. So I think that is why we cant see the atmosphere and location so much like HSC 1-6.