ASUS ROG announces their next StarCraft II tournament, ASUS ROG Winter 2014, which takes place in Helsinki on January 31st to February 1st. With 32 players, a prize pool of $25 000 USD and 4000 WCS points.
The year 2013 has been a great year for StarCraft II. Since the launch of StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm we have seen over 30 premier tournaments and numerous amount of other competitions being played in the global and local scale. To keep the pace up, ASUS ROG kicks off the year 2014 with another premier StarCraft II tournament in the Nordic, ASUS ROG Winter 2014!
ASUS ROG StarCraft II tournaments return to Helsinki on January 31 with a two day event presenting a roster of 32 players and a $25 000 USD prize pool. The tournament is also part of the StarCraft II World Championship Series as a WCS Global Event, with 4000 WCS points to distribute. Naturally, a free HD stream is provided with professional English commentary. On-site audience can enjoy the action live in the ASUS ROG arena.
Quick Facts about ASUS ROG Winter 2014
Time: Fri 31 January - Sat 1 February 2014
Place: Helsinki Exhibition and Convention Centre, Helsinki, Finland
Players: 32
Prize pool: $25 000 USD + 4000 WCS points
Format: 2 group stages & single elimination playoffs
* StarTale.Life replaces mouz.VortiX. * Alliance.SortOf replaces Acer.Nerchio. * Menace.Protosser replaces Acer.Bly. * Property.MorroW replaces Empire.Kas. * Fnatic.Naama replaces Ai.Strelok. Bischu had to cancel due to illness, no replacement will be added. Alliance.NaNiwa also cancels due to illness, no replacement will be added.
The tournament format is the same that has been used in the ASUS ROG Summer tournaments. The players go through two WCS style group stages and the top eight advances to the single elimination playoffs. All the matches are best-of-five except for the final which is a best-of-seven match. Since the tournament is a two day event, as opposed to the three days in the summer, both of the group stages are played on the first day of the tournament while the second day is reserved for the playoffs.
Participation
There are two ways to gain one of the 32 spots in the tournament, by a direct invite or by an online qualification tournament. In order to receive an invite, players must first request an invite by filling out an application form (deadline December 29th). Everyone is encouraged to request an invite first, and participate in the qualifiers second if need be.
Online qualifiers
There are two online qualifiers which each give out four spots for the main tournament. Please note that the qualifier tournaments will only grant the right to participate to the main tournament. Travel and accommodation expenses are not covered.
ASUS ROG Winter 2014 Online Qualifier #1 Date: Sun 29 December Time: 15:00 CET Sign-up:tournaments.peliliiga.fi Server: Europe Prizes: Top 4 players receive a spot in the ASUS ROG Winter 2014 tournament Requirements: Master or Grandmaster on any Battle.net region Rules:pdf
ASUS ROG Winter 2014 Online Qualifier #2 Date: Mon 30 December Time: 17:00 CET* Sign-up:tournaments.peliliiga.fi Server: Europe Prizes: Top 4 players receive a spot in the ASUS ROG Winter 2014 tournament Requirements: Master or Grandmaster on any Battle.net region Rules:pdf
*Time fixed from 18:00 CET. Apologies for the mixup.
Community streams Like many other organizers, ASUS ROG relies on the StarCraft II community to provide commentary on languages other than English. If you are interested in casting ASUS ROG Winter 2014 or the online qualifiers, please send an application before January 9th.
ASUS ROG releases the all of the 237 replays and VODs of ASUS ROG Winter 2014.
ASUS ROG Winter 2014 was a blast. Two days full of high class StarCraft II action lead to a new champion, yoeFW.San! Congratulations to him once more. Catching all the games from the first day especially was a challenge, if possible at all. Fortunately we will continue the tradition, and are now releasing all the replays from the tournament for you to enjoy and study. The VOD links are also available for those who prefer the matches with commentary. Have fun!
For the rest of the VOD links we point you to SpoilerFreeSC that has done a wonderful job collecting all the VODs from different streams to the same page.
With the replay package you can do much more than just watch the games. Analyzing the replay pack with tools such as SC2Gears you can find interesting data such as the map popularity ranking below.
ASUS ROG Winter 2014 announces the stream schedule featuring the main English stream with Khaldor & Grubby and 16 community streams in nine different languages to cover the busy event.
ASUS ROG Winter 2014 launches this Friday January 31st at 12:00 GMT (+00:00) with the 16 simultaneous bo5 matches of the first round of the first group stage. In an effort to cover every single game of the event, each group will have at least two streams following the action taking place in Helsinki. To accomplish this, we have invited a total of 16 community streams with nine different languages to broadcast the first, and busiest day, of the tournament. On the second day the playoffs are played one by one with seven streams, all in different languages.
Stream schedule In order to easily keep track on which group comes from which channel, we have crafted a stream schedule for each tournament stage. The schedule will update on the go as the tournament progresses.
ASUS ROG announces the initial groups for ASUS ROG Winter 2014 with 32 top tier players duking it out for the prize pool of $25 000 USD and 4000 WCS points.
The first group stage of ASUS ROG Winter 2014 starts off on January 31th 2014 at 14:00 EET. It includes 32 high caliber players divided into eight groups of four which are played in WCS style double elimination format with all matches being best-of-5. Only the top 16 players continue to the second group stage which is played in a similar fashion right after the initial groups. The playoffs are played on the second day of the tournament on February 1st starting at 14:00 EET.
Roster changes The first groups have now finally been drawn and we apologise for the delay which is due to late roster changes. Unfortunately Ai.Strelok, Empire.Kas, Acer.Nerchio and Acer.Bly have cancelled their participation to the event. They have been replaced by Alliance.SortOf, Fnatic.Naama, Property.MorroW and Menace.Protosser whom we thank for being available in such a short notice.
Group Stage 1 - January 31, 13:00 CET The first matches are player 1 vs player 4 and player 2 vs player 3.
Group A: 1.1 | 8.1 | 4.2 | 5.2 Group B: 2.1 | 7.1 | 3.2 | 6.2 Group C: 3.1 | 6.1 | 2.2 | 7.2 Group D: 4.1 | 5.1 | 1.2 | 8.2
Playoffs - February 1, 13:00 CET
Ro8 A: A.1 vs B.2 Ro8 B: C.1 vs D.2 Ro8 C: B.1 vs A.2 Ro8 D: D.1 vs C.2
This time we have decided to announce the full tournament layout beforehand and not do any sort of random draw during the tournament. This way we hope to compensate the fact that the group stages are played on the same day, and thus leave little to no time for players to prepare for their individual opponents. With the double elimination groups there should be no real risk of intentional losing for the sometimes more attractive second place, especially when the groups are all played at the same time.
ASUS ROG reveals the full player list of 32 players and the casters for the ASUS ROG Winter 2014 StarCraft II tournament coming up on January 31th with a $25 000 USD prize pool on the line.
ASUS ROG Winter 2014 kicks off in less than three weeks on January 31th in Helsinki, Finland. It is time to reveal the full roster of the tournament. With 24 invites and 8 qualified players we have an outstanding line-up of some of the top players from Europe, America and Korea. The players will be divided into eight groups of four in the first group stage which will be announced closer to the event.
* StarTale.Life replaces mouz.VortiX who had to cancel.
Stream staff
The main English broadcast at ASUS ROG Winter 2014 will feature the veteran caster Khaldor accompanied by the experienced player-commentator Grubby. The in-game camera is at the steady hands of FunKaDeLiC while the German esports powerhouse TaKe will host the event. His interviews with our Korean quests shall go smoothly with the help of the translator inuh.
Thomas “Khaldor” Kilian - Caster
Manuel “Grubby” Schenkhuizen - Commentator
Alexandre “FunKaDeLiC” Verrier - Observer
Denni “TaKe” Gehlen - Host
Hun "inuh" Park - Translator
Schedule The schedule for the event has been finalized and it looks as follows.
ASUS ROG announces the next eight invited players and the map pool for the ASUS ROG Winter 2014 StarCraft II tournament taking place in January 31 -- February 1 in Helsinki, Finland.
Before the online qualifiers for ASUS ROG Winter 2014 start on Sunday December 29 and Monday December 30 we would like to release a new set of players who have been invited to join the main tournament on January 31st in Helsinki. With the new eight invites, 16 out of the 24 invitees have been revealed. The online qualifiers will soon add another eight players to the roster while the last eight invites are to be announced later.
The tournament map pool for ASUS ROG Winter 2014 is the WCS 2014 Season 1 map pool which we will also see in the Battle.net ladder starting on the Janyary 3rd.
Alterzim Stronghold TE
Daedalus Point
Frost LE
Habitation Station LE
Heavy Rain LE
Polar Night LE
Yeonsu LE
Rough schedule
Below is a rough schedule for the event. While it is not final yet, it gives a good estimate for those planning on watching the tournament especially if you have something special like a BarCraft in mind.
The tournament was released just a couple of days ago but it seems to have catched the players' attention. Dozens of applications for invites have already been received with many familiar names on the list. We are very excited about the applicants and want to give you an early look at what the next new year will hold.
We are still accepting applications for invites for ASUS ROG Winter 2014. If you are interested and prepared to enter the tournament, please fill out the application form. Note that the deadline for applications is quite soon, December 27, so that the invites can be handled before the online qualifiers.
ASUS ROG
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Only one week until the online qualifiers. Not much time to sort out the invites. Please, let there be more than two Finns in the tournament this time!
cool stuff ! first premier tournament of 2014 ? we'll see which team are really motivated to send their player abroad mouzDear and Jaedong i hope, and some guys like Life or Soulkey could please me !
On December 22 2013 07:21 Keeemy wrote: Hopefully I'll have the weekend off from my military service so I could go check this out! Missed out on the last ROG(s) in Finland. ;_;
Same story here, I know I can't there even with a weekend off but at least I could watch the streams :p
On December 22 2013 07:34 McRatyn wrote: The 4000 is somehow split, like prize pool, or is it winner takes all?
win asus rog, automatically qualify for WCS global finals.....Honestly with everythings thats happened recently it wouldnt surprise me if they did that
Really would like to go and support pretty much the only big event in Finland by attending. Seeing some SC pros actually in a live setting would be fricking awesome! To anyone who has previously attended, what has the ASUS ROG tournament area been like to someone who isn't interesed about the Assembly LAN itself?
On December 22 2013 08:01 tuoli9 wrote: Really would like to go and support pretty much the only big event in Finland by attending. Seeing some SC pros actually in a live setting would be fricking awesome! To anyone who has previously attended, what has the ASUS ROG tournament area been like to someone who isn't interesed about the Assembly LAN itself?
Assembly Winter has always been more gaming oriented compared to the summer event. And now since Assembly Winter is held in Helsinki Exhibition and Convention Centre (Messukeskus), there is more room for a stage and an audience stand for the tournament. The setup should be similar to ASUS ROG Stars Invite in 2011 (which was at the same venue). For the off-stage games there is a separate tournament area which is visible to the audience.
On December 22 2013 07:33 Dodgin wrote: Not sure how I feel about 24 invites and 8 qualifiers giving WCS points but what are you gonna do, there should be tons of top players there at least.
I second that opinion. Looking forward to that event, but it really shouldn't carry any WCS points.
On December 22 2013 07:33 Dodgin wrote: Not sure how I feel about 24 invites and 8 qualifiers giving WCS points but what are you gonna do, there should be tons of top players there at least.
I second that opinion. Looking forward to that event, but it really shouldn't carry any WCS points.
According to the WCS requirements for other tournaments, only 25% of the tournament spots need to be attainable through qualifiers. In this case 8/32 is 25% so it passes the bar barely. I don't know if 25% is a good number, but that's what has been set for 2014.
On December 22 2013 07:33 Dodgin wrote: Not sure how I feel about 24 invites and 8 qualifiers giving WCS points but what are you gonna do, there should be tons of top players there at least.
There exists an "opportunity gap" in eSports. Look at why Western Wolves disbanded recently, the team had difficulty getting their players to Premier individual tournaments. It's incredibly hard for an up and coming player to make it to many of these tournaments nowadays, whereas players on the established teams (Liquid, EG, Acer, Mouz, etc.) have it much easier.
We'll continue to see Jaedong, Taeja, Hero, Hyun, etc. etc. the same old faces. Since he's joined Acer, we're seeing a bit more of Innovation at these tournaments, and the same will soon be the case with Dear as well. These players will have a near lock on foreign tournaments from 2014 and into the foreseeable future.
On December 22 2013 07:33 Dodgin wrote: Not sure how I feel about 24 invites and 8 qualifiers giving WCS points but what are you gonna do, there should be tons of top players there at least.
I second that opinion. Looking forward to that event, but it really shouldn't carry any WCS points.
I agree with this. IMHO, it is not fair that some players earn points just by being invited to events, specially when those points are later used to determine seeds in other tournaments :/
Is there gonna be any requirement for the players to earn those points? Like reaching the Ro8 or something similar?
On December 22 2013 07:33 Dodgin wrote: Not sure how I feel about 24 invites and 8 qualifiers giving WCS points but what are you gonna do, there should be tons of top players there at least.
Yeah I don't really like to see tournaments like this give WCS points but I guess at least WCS will be more accessible for foreigners to play with the new qualifier format so it could be worse.
On December 22 2013 09:14 Darkdwarf wrote: Invites are killing esports. (no, but seriously, they suck)
See, now that's the thing. When you have too many invites, it's hard for up and coming players to have an opportunity to come unless the tournament strategically invites them.
However, that's not always in the best interest of the tournaments, who want the fan favorites that will bring in viewership. They are interested in hyping up and maximizing interest in their own weekend tournament, which could be done by inviting fan favorites.
And viewers are fickle. We say now that invites suck and that we should have more open qualifiers, but when Koreans that we don't know very well make it through, we complain that there's no one interesting and we lose interest. Imagine a tournament without any EG, Liquid, Mouz, Axiom-Acer, etc. No Hyun, no Polt, no Life, no DRG. Let's not kid ourselves, most people would not be happy.
On December 22 2013 09:14 Darkdwarf wrote: Invites are killing esports. (no, but seriously, they suck)
See, now that's the thing. When you have too many invites, it's hard for up and coming players to have an opportunity to come unless the tournament strategically invites them.
However, that's not always in the best interest of the tournaments, who want the fan favorites that will bring in viewership. They are interested in hyping up and maximizing interest in their own weekend tournament, which could be done by inviting fan favorites.
And viewers are fickle. We say now that invites suck and that we should have more open qualifiers, but when Koreans that we don't know very well make it through, we complain that there's no one interesting and we lose interest. Imagine a tournament without any EG, Liquid, Mouz, Axiom-Acer, etc. No Hyun, no Polt, no Life, no DRG. Let's not kid ourselves, most people would not be happy.
We don't even know what we want
I think we know what we want. We just don't agree. I'd rather have no invites, everyone earns a spot. But I want the qualifiers casted too, because upsets are exciting.
Awesome! Should be a sick event :D (Especially with the new, larger venue!)
The last ROG had a totally different production crew / organization involved - Helsinki has already hosted this event four times and Finnish internet is top tier.
Overlapping with Sao Paulo shouldn't be too big a deal because of time zone differences :D
I really dislike how tournaments that give WCS points can have 75% invites. It gives such an advantage to already popular players.
I'm not sure if inviting based off of last years WCS points is better or worse, but at least it's fair. This way, ASUS ROG can decide to invite any player they like. It's especially bad since they are sponsoring a player who plays in the WCS (Desrow).
I'm very much fine with having invites to tournaments, but then they shouldn't give WCS points imo.
edit: To ASUS ROG: How do you decide the invites? Do you have any rules for it?
I sound really bitter, but other than WCS part I really love these tournaments and it will be a blast as always!
People are strange when you're a stranger, faces look ugly when you're alone, women seem wicked when you're unwanted, streets are uneven when you're down.
I wish they'd have more qualifying spots open, but really looking forward to this years format and seeing how it all plays out.
On December 23 2013 03:28 DJHelium wrote: I really dislike how tournaments that give WCS points can have 75% invites. It gives such an advantage to already popular players.
I'm not sure if inviting based off of last years WCS points is better or worse, but at least it's fair. This way, ASUS ROG can decide to invite any player they like. It's especially bad since they are sponsoring a player who plays in the WCS (Desrow).
I'm very much fine with having invites to tournaments, but then they shouldn't give WCS points imo.
edit: To ASUS ROG: How do you decide the invites? Do you have any rules for it?
I sound really bitter, but other than WCS part I really love these tournaments and it will be a blast as always!
At least the WCS points are only for top 16+, so they can´t invite anyone into points directly and since they will invite some people, who would probably qualify anyway, I think there will not be to much of a problem, although I agree with your general point.
On December 23 2013 03:28 DJHelium wrote: I really dislike how tournaments that give WCS points can have 75% invites. It gives such an advantage to already popular players.
I'm not sure if inviting based off of last years WCS points is better or worse, but at least it's fair. This way, ASUS ROG can decide to invite any player they like. It's especially bad since they are sponsoring a player who plays in the WCS (Desrow).
I'm very much fine with having invites to tournaments, but then they shouldn't give WCS points imo.
edit: To ASUS ROG: How do you decide the invites? Do you have any rules for it?
I sound really bitter, but other than WCS part I really love these tournaments and it will be a blast as always!
At least the WCS points are only for top 16+, so they can´t invite anyone into points directly and since they will invite some people, who would probably qualify anyway, I think there will not be to much of a problem, although I agree with your general point.
I think the bigger deal is something like what happened with IEM and Revival last year. Tournament invites can make or break players chance of getting to Blizzcon.
On December 23 2013 03:28 DJHelium wrote: I really dislike how tournaments that give WCS points can have 75% invites. It gives such an advantage to already popular players.
I'm not sure if inviting based off of last years WCS points is better or worse, but at least it's fair. This way, ASUS ROG can decide to invite any player they like. It's especially bad since they are sponsoring a player who plays in the WCS (Desrow).
I'm very much fine with having invites to tournaments, but then they shouldn't give WCS points imo.
edit: To ASUS ROG: How do you decide the invites? Do you have any rules for it?
I sound really bitter, but other than WCS part I really love these tournaments and it will be a blast as always!
At least the WCS points are only for top 16+, so they can´t invite anyone into points directly and since they will invite some people, who would probably qualify anyway, I think there will not be to much of a problem, although I agree with your general point.
I think the bigger deal is something like what happened with IEM and Revival last year. Tournament invites can make or break players chance of getting to Blizzcon.
I think the the whole Revival-thing last year got more attention, than it sould have gotten. The seeds were supposed to be given out by WCS points, so Revival would have gotten one of the original seeds, if IEM would´nt have given a welfare seed to Flash, who had about 1000 points less than revival. So Revivals seed should have been there originally, according to the rules, with Flash having to play the open bracket and Nerchio getting ForGG´s forfeit seed.
On December 22 2013 09:14 Darkdwarf wrote: Invites are killing esports. (no, but seriously, they suck)
See, now that's the thing. When you have too many invites, it's hard for up and coming players to have an opportunity to come unless the tournament strategically invites them.
However, that's not always in the best interest of the tournaments, who want the fan favorites that will bring in viewership. They are interested in hyping up and maximizing interest in their own weekend tournament, which could be done by inviting fan favorites.
And viewers are fickle. We say now that invites suck and that we should have more open qualifiers, but when Koreans that we don't know very well make it through, we complain that there's no one interesting and we lose interest. Imagine a tournament without any EG, Liquid, Mouz, Axiom-Acer, etc. No Hyun, no Polt, no Life, no DRG. Let's not kid ourselves, most people would not be happy.
We don't even know what we want
I think we know what we want. We just don't agree. I'd rather have no invites, everyone earns a spot. But I want the qualifiers casted too, because upsets are exciting.
You prefer watching Solar, Hurricane, Hack over Taeja, Jaedong, Polt, Life?? Really?? Maybe, but you might be the only one (or one of very few).
But i agree this far that we should have at least 1/2 of the tournament seats through qualifiers. So we have the fan-favorits and local heros on invite-spots and enough room to qualifiy for the talented rest....
On December 22 2013 09:14 Darkdwarf wrote: Invites are killing esports. (no, but seriously, they suck)
See, now that's the thing. When you have too many invites, it's hard for up and coming players to have an opportunity to come unless the tournament strategically invites them.
However, that's not always in the best interest of the tournaments, who want the fan favorites that will bring in viewership. They are interested in hyping up and maximizing interest in their own weekend tournament, which could be done by inviting fan favorites.
And viewers are fickle. We say now that invites suck and that we should have more open qualifiers, but when Koreans that we don't know very well make it through, we complain that there's no one interesting and we lose interest. Imagine a tournament without any EG, Liquid, Mouz, Axiom-Acer, etc. No Hyun, no Polt, no Life, no DRG. Let's not kid ourselves, most people would not be happy.
We don't even know what we want
I think we know what we want. We just don't agree. I'd rather have no invites, everyone earns a spot. But I want the qualifiers casted too, because upsets are exciting.
You prefer watching Solar, Hurricane, Hack over Taeja, Jaedong, Polt, Life?? Really?? Maybe, but you might be the only one (or one of very few).
But i agree this far that we should have at least 1/2 of the tournament seats through qualifiers. So we have the fan-favorits and local heros on invite-spots and enough room to qualifiy for the talented rest....
Your first paragraph implies, that Taeja/Jaedong/Polt and Life only be able to be invited and could´nt beat Solar, Hack and Hurricane in those qualifiers or would´nt attend, which seems to be wrong IMHO. Before he was established, Life got into TSL4, MLG Fall Championship, as well as Iron Squid 1&2 due online qualifiers. I think, that he would be perfectly able and willing to play them again, if everyone else does as well. Just by playing qualifiers, popular players will not attend to a less extend, they will just have to earn it. And IMHO, that is a better thing, than inviting them purely because of popularity and taking away spots from more deserving players.
In terms of results ret is below everyone else. Serral>ret lately just in results. That being said ret has insane mechanics, nvr know when his gonna figure out zvp :D
Well, today the first qualifier starts, and there appears to be plenty of room to attend: Contestants (80/256) (from their web page). Welmu is among them not listed... I'm so curious to see the final list of participants!
On December 30 2013 02:28 Azhrak wrote: Ro8 bracket can be found here: http://tournaments.peliliiga.fi/winter14/brackets/view/4 It's in double elmination format from Ro8 on. So players need to reach Ro2 in upper or Ro2 in lower to be in the top 4.
Heart vs Bischu is played on European server and Heart declined streams in fear of extra lag. He had his wish, so unfortunately that match goes unstreamed. The replays are available after the match.
On December 30 2013 03:48 Dinotramp wrote: Did Heart forfeit the tournament?!
Yes, Heart left because he wasn't able to play on EU server. Zanster would have played on NA but apparently his next opponent would't have. Also it's getting late in Korea now.
Nerchio is the first to qualify by the way. Congratz to him!
On December 30 2013 03:52 Azhrak wrote: Yes, Heart left because he wasn't able to play on EU server. Zanster would have played on NA but apparently his next opponent would't have. Also it's getting late in Korea now.
On December 30 2013 03:52 Azhrak wrote: Yes, Heart left because he wasn't able to play on EU server. Zanster would have played on NA but apparently his next opponent would't have. Also it's getting late in Korea now.
Tomorrow December 30 at 16:00 GMT (+00:00) is the second qualifier where another four players earn a spot in the main tournament. Khaldor will be covering the games again. See you then!
Tomorrow December 30 at 16:00 GMT (+00:00) is the second qualifier where another four players earn a spot in the main tournament. Khaldor will be covering the games again. See you then!
Nice qualifications! Especially with proximity to Finland for travel :D
Hello ROGtournament, you made a mistake here on teamliquid, saying the qualifier is starting at 18 cet. I came here to check in for the cup, but it has started already.
TargA, Tarrantius, Fuzer, Alastor, Titan and Verdi also all win their first match and advance to the ro64. Storm 2-0 DaNa That is a bit surprising, considering DaNa´s run yesterday. On the other hand, Storm is also one of the guys, who regularely go far in online cups
Satiini, Tassadar and Livezerg win their ro128 matches 2-0. Also jms3016 advances and plays Verdi next, correct me if I am wrong, but that is Genius, right?
On December 31 2013 01:21 Acer.ParanOid wrote: Hello ROGtournament, you made a mistake here on teamliquid, saying the qualifier is starting at 18 cet. I came here to check in for the cup, but it has started already.
I think they accidently put wrong time/zone to TL.
Who ever wrote that most likely thought that it starts 18:00 in Finland. But in CET it starts at 17:00
On December 31 2013 01:21 Acer.ParanOid wrote: Hello ROGtournament, you made a mistake here on teamliquid, saying the qualifier is starting at 18 cet. I came here to check in for the cup, but it has started already.
I think they accidently put wrong time/zone to TL.
Who ever wrote that most likely thought that it starts 18:00 in Finland. But in CET it starts at 17:00
This happened to me as well . . . This is really really really sucky T______T
TargA 2-0 Lambo and is the first player in the ro32. Meanwhile Apocalypse is still waiting for his ro128 opoonent Edit: Titan and Bly also win their ro64 matches and advance.
On December 31 2013 01:21 Acer.ParanOid wrote: Hello ROGtournament, you made a mistake here on teamliquid, saying the qualifier is starting at 18 cet. I came here to check in for the cup, but it has started already.
I think they accidently put wrong time/zone to TL.
Who ever wrote that most likely thought that it starts 18:00 in Finland. But in CET it starts at 17:00
This happened to me as well . . . This is really really really sucky T______T
Woooow that sucks indeed. Like really REALLY sucks.
Those last 15 min were pretty rough for korea with Genius, Tassadar and Stork all dropping out. Only Apocalypse, Trend and Armani left now and Trend will play Armani before the double elim. stage.
Genius thought he had won after the first fight and then gave the game away: losing all his distance mining probes at the 4th; not checking on potential expansions of LIAM; trying to fight against ultras with colossus stalker
On December 31 2013 04:56 Sabre wrote: btw LIAM (Ourk) is playing Zerg today, not Protoss
He's just off-racing Zerg and he beats genius? O.o
I don´t think, that anything Ourk does regarding races does count as off-racing anymore. Zerg may or may not be his main race atm. and TLPD may just not be fast enough to catch up.
I wonder how long it takes before people start throwing around "patchtoss" as they did back when up&coming zergs were winning during broodlord infestor
On December 31 2013 06:16 nkr wrote: I wonder how long it takes before people start throwing around "patchtoss" as they did back when up&coming zergs were winning during broodlord infestor
On December 31 2013 06:16 nkr wrote: I wonder how long it takes before people start throwing around "patchtoss" as they did back when up&coming zergs were winning during broodlord infestor
During that "final" major fight if toss player just would have stayed awake I think he would have won that. He lost at least 20 probes to non controlled drop at the same time when fight was kinda over. (Few protoss units left anymore)
On December 31 2013 06:16 nkr wrote: I wonder how long it takes before people start throwing around "patchtoss" as they did back when up&coming zergs were winning during broodlord infestor
It already happened some months ago. The Oracle patch didnt help
It hasn't become as mainstream yet as the term was for zerg in the BL Infestor era, though to be frank, if things continue down this path it really won't be long till then.
On December 31 2013 06:21 TheBloodyDwarf wrote: During that "final" major fight if toss player just would have stayed awake I think he would have won that. He lost at least 20 probes to non controlled drop at the same time when fight was kinda over. (Few protoss units left anymore)
he tried to defend, but could only warp in some zealots who died.
On December 31 2013 06:21 TheBloodyDwarf wrote: During that "final" major fight if toss player just would have stayed awake I think he would have won that. He lost at least 20 probes to non controlled drop at the same time when fight was kinda over. (Few protoss units left anymore)
he tried to defend, but could only warp in some zealots who died.
Khaldor laying down the wisdom, I love getting some matter of fact straight up opinions instead of those filtered political correct answers a lot of people give.
On December 31 2013 06:39 Destructicon wrote: Khaldor laying down the wisdom, I love getting some matter of fact straight up opinions instead of those filtered political correct answers a lot of people give.
On December 31 2013 06:39 Destructicon wrote: Khaldor laying down the wisdom, I love getting some matter of fact straight up opinions instead of those filtered political correct answers a lot of people give.
What did he say?
He said he things FF is a bullshit mechanic that should flat out be removed from the game, told people to check out Morrow's old thread regarding it. Also said that, unfortunately given the current game design, its also a necessity, so he feels a redesign of the protoss race from top to bottom without FF would be a good idea.
On December 31 2013 08:23 Boucot wrote: I hope ASUS ROG will invite a lot of terrans, only 4 so far out of 24 players. :/
What EU terrans could be invited that didn't participate in the qualifiers already? Bunny, Heromarine, Sjow, Krass, Morrow, Goody, Strelok? Many barcode men on the ladder, no idea who they all are...
On December 31 2013 08:23 Boucot wrote: I hope ASUS ROG will invite a lot of terrans, only 4 so far out of 24 players. :/
What EU terrans could be invited that didn't participate in the qualifiers already? Bunny, Heromarine, Sjow, Krass, Morrow, Goody, Strelok? Many barcode men on the ladder, no idea who they all are...
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On December 31 2013 08:23 Boucot wrote: I hope ASUS ROG will invite a lot of terrans, only 4 so far out of 24 players. :/
What EU terrans could be invited that didn't participate in the qualifiers already? Bunny, Heromarine, Sjow, Krass, Morrow, Goody, Strelok? Many barcode men on the ladder, no idea who they all are...
MMA and Mvp, the WCS Europe Season 1 and Season 3 Champions!
Hmm, why didn't all these terrans try to qualify even? That is 8 of them there alright...
Wtf, only 7 out of 14 invites Korean? Come on, you can do better than that, ASUS ROG!!! How can you hold an international tournament with not even half of the invited spots going to Korea? Take a look at the Global Starcraft League to see how it's done right!
That Samsung Solar invite is REALLY strange and random rofl. Good job he playing well in Pro League at the moment so people know who he is Hope some more KESPA players get invited in the last invites.
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