Fnatic and MSI are proud to present the MSI Beat IT 2014 !
The MSI Beat It Gaming Tournament can be traced back to 2010, where the first tournament was hosted by MSI. The vision is to create a platform for all gamers to show their gaming skills and enjoy the competition against the best players in the world. The MSI Beat IT tournaments have made some of the top players of our time famous and provided players who want to enjoy gaming an unforgettable experience with the MSI Beat It Gaming Tournament Series.
About the qualifiers
Beat IT Global 2014 will feature seven qualifiers for the following regions: Europe, USA, APAC (CN, HK + Japan), South Korea, SEA, Australia and Taiwan. These qualifiers are, depending on the region, split into a Pre qualifier and a Main qualifier. Finally the best 12** players will compete the Grand Finals, which will be held on the 1st and 2nd November 2014 in Taipei, Taiwan.
Qualifier Dates (subject to change)
Korea (1st qualifier 5th September; 2nd qualifier 6th September; Main qualifier 21st/22nd September)
On May 26 2014 16:28 freeamount wrote: No WCS points for this event????
The grand finals are rumored to take place in December 2014, which sets it past the date for Blizzcon.
Uhhh the OP says 1-2 November 2014, am I missing something?
You're not but breaker must have just skimmed through the post
The event is held 1 week before Blizzcon so wouldn't have made it very awkward to give it WCS points.
As for the Australia/SEA question, Australians can only play in the Aust qualifier sorry.
My bad. A guy who is a caster here in Taiwan, and a full-time employee of MSI told me this. He told me, "December." but he's probably not in the planning part of this.
On June 28 2014 18:09 Pughy wrote: Updated APAC dates
That's good, since it was kind of conflicting with the TWOP qualifier, tho July 10th is the Final Asian qualifier for IEM Shenzhen, so I guess 2 of the chinese players will have to do the 11th qualifier instead.
I wish some of the Korean qualifiers were broadcast with the same hype and care as a live tournament, they're always so ridiculously stacked and there must be a lot of fantastic play exhibited that never sees the light of day.
On September 12 2014 19:57 Wombat_NI wrote: I wish some of the Korean qualifiers were broadcast with the same hype and care as a live tournament, they're always so ridiculously stacked and there must be a lot of fantastic play exhibited that never sees the light of day.
Imagine in game viewer, enabling you to pick whichever game you want and watch it from there.
Then you could have bracket in game as well, so you'd be able to follow it as you wish. Casted matches could be highlighted.
HerO proxy Twilight into blink attack. See's Maru has defense, make DTs, DT was a moved onto a bunker with nothing in it. Maru gets Turret up next to bunker after scanning away the DT. DT dies next time it is up ramp. Blink attack is denied. HerO miles behind. MMM walks over him whilst pushing Missile Turrets to spot DTs on his way xD
Gumiho had a great mech game vs DongRaeGu during early hots. Was on Akilon. He loaded 4 hellions into medivacs, dropped them and then transformed into hellbats. So cool :D
edit: I bet gumi forgets to rebuild barracks until he has to make orbitals!
edit2: haha there we go, I do this all the time :p
On September 12 2014 21:06 DJHelium wrote: Gumiho had a great mech game vs DongRaeGu during early hots. Was on Akilon. He loaded 4 hellions into medivacs, dropped them and then transformed into hellbats. So cool :D
edit: I bet gumi forgets to rebuild barracks until he has to make orbitals!
On September 12 2014 21:19 Liquid`Jinro wrote: Twitch super laggy for anyone else?
Fine for me.
Was lagging a bit earlier during KeSPA cup though.
Yeah Life doesn't seem well suited to SH games.. Though maybe that's just because I haven't seen him play many lately.
He's pretty good at SHs when he gets to use them aggressively. Just sitting and waiting was never his thing, and his decision making is terrible in situations like that
On September 12 2014 21:19 Liquid`Jinro wrote: Twitch super laggy for anyone else?
Fine for me.
Was lagging a bit earlier during KeSPA cup though.
Yeah Life doesn't seem well suited to SH games.. Though maybe that's just because I haven't seen him play many lately.
He's pretty good at SHs when he gets to use them aggressively. Just sitting and waiting was never his thing, and his decision making is terrible in situations like that
If you try to be aggressive with hosts that means you are using them poorly, in the vast majority of cases. There is a reason Snute wins an absurd amount of games that end up looking like that.
I don't think Life will ever be very good with hosts, kind of how it is with JD. Both of them are just far too aggressive and like being in the driver's seat too much. When you play SH, you have to play like the stoner in the backseat, who is just chilling out, smoking a blunt and listening to some smooth tunes.
On September 12 2014 21:19 Liquid`Jinro wrote: Twitch super laggy for anyone else?
Fine for me.
Was lagging a bit earlier during KeSPA cup though.
Yeah Life doesn't seem well suited to SH games.. Though maybe that's just because I haven't seen him play many lately.
He's pretty good at SHs when he gets to use them aggressively. Just sitting and waiting was never his thing, and his decision making is terrible in situations like that
If you try to be aggressive with hosts that means you are using them poorly, in the vast majority of cases. There is a reason Snute wins an absurd amount of games that end up looking like that.
I don't think Life will ever be very good with hosts, kind of how it is with JD. Both of them are just far too aggressive and like being in the driver's seat too much. When you play SH, you have to play like the stoner in the backseat, who is just chilling out, smoking a blunt and listening to some smooth tunes.
Keep in mind that Snute has used them vs bio builds. I haven't seen a Snute vs mech game in quite a while.
It's much harder to be "aggressive" vs mech, since you just ram onto their wall of siege tanks.
On September 12 2014 21:19 Liquid`Jinro wrote: Twitch super laggy for anyone else?
Fine for me.
Was lagging a bit earlier during KeSPA cup though.
Yeah Life doesn't seem well suited to SH games.. Though maybe that's just because I haven't seen him play many lately.
He's pretty good at SHs when he gets to use them aggressively. Just sitting and waiting was never his thing, and his decision making is terrible in situations like that
If you try to be aggressive with hosts that means you are using them poorly, in the vast majority of cases. There is a reason Snute wins an absurd amount of games that end up looking like that.
I don't think Life will ever be very good with hosts, kind of how it is with JD. Both of them are just far too aggressive and like being in the driver's seat too much. When you play SH, you have to play like the stoner in the backseat, who is just chilling out, smoking a blunt and listening to some smooth tunes.
Keep in mind that Snute has used them vs bio builds. I haven't seen a Snute vs mech game in quite a while.
It's much harder to be "aggressive" vs mech, since you just ram onto their wall of siege tanks.
Well, yes, that is because he is the best player in the world at using SH, regardless of what he's playing against. I've seen him do it to mech, bio, protoss etc.
Also, that was cringeworthy from Life, he seems lost against mech.
On September 12 2014 21:19 Liquid`Jinro wrote: Twitch super laggy for anyone else?
Fine for me.
Was lagging a bit earlier during KeSPA cup though.
Yeah Life doesn't seem well suited to SH games.. Though maybe that's just because I haven't seen him play many lately.
He's pretty good at SHs when he gets to use them aggressively. Just sitting and waiting was never his thing, and his decision making is terrible in situations like that
If you try to be aggressive with hosts that means you are using them poorly, in the vast majority of cases. There is a reason Snute wins an absurd amount of games that end up looking like that.
I don't think Life will ever be very good with hosts, kind of how it is with JD. Both of them are just far too aggressive and like being in the driver's seat too much. When you play SH, you have to play like the stoner in the backseat, who is just chilling out, smoking a blunt and listening to some smooth tunes.
Keep in mind that Snute has used them vs bio builds. I haven't seen a Snute vs mech game in quite a while.
It's much harder to be "aggressive" vs mech, since you just ram onto their wall of siege tanks.
Well, yes, that is because he is the best player in the world at using SH, regardless of what he's playing against. I've seen him do it to mech, bio, protoss etc.
Also, that was cringeworthy from Life, he seems lost against mech.
I agree on both points!
Glad we get another Gumiho match, hope he crushes Rogue!
Has every zerg forgotten how to play vs mech turtle all of sudden? These vipers were far too late, he needed to siege up with the 25+ SH army and then look for abducts, then flood corruptors.
Yeah :/ In the last game Maru went 2 rax.. But Dark knew it would happen (not like Maru is 2raxing every time it comes down to a last game) and went pool 1st and crushed Maru, then baneling bursted
so the invites are basically just people who were in the bracket finals of the qualifiers right? I didn't look at every single one but it seemed like the case for most at first glance
On September 19 2014 19:34 Shellshock wrote: so the invites are basically just people who were in the bracket finals of the qualifiers right? I didn't look at every single one but it seemed like the case for most at first glance
they had to improvise with the announcement of WCS Global final starting one week earlier
On September 19 2014 20:50 Yhamm wrote: anyone watched TY vs Rogue? it was 1-1 on khaldor's ui and Rogue won, but the brackets says 2-0, so what is it?
Khaldor didn't know what the score was at the beginning. Rogue won on Nimbus and Foxtrot, don't know if there was a game before those two.
On September 19 2014 20:50 Yhamm wrote: anyone watched TY vs Rogue? it was 1-1 on khaldor's ui and Rogue won, but the brackets says 2-0, so what is it?
Khaldor didn't know what the score was at the beginning. Rogue won on Nimbus and Foxtrot, don't know if there was a game before those two.
sKyHigh was a decent BW terran. I remember specifically searching for his vods back in the day. As far as I can recall, he was a TvT specialist. Am I correct, does anybody know?
edit (from Liquipedia):
Known for his monstrous TvT having over 70% winrate as of July 9th 2010.
On September 19 2014 22:16 OhDearGod wrote: Really don't want a repeat of Dear's Code A in the 1st GSL of 2014 where he was knocked out by Journey. That was atrocious.
Give me that Maru vs Dear rematch!
Looks bad. Journey just held his 2-base colossus push and has his 3rd up..
On September 19 2014 22:16 OhDearGod wrote: Really don't want a repeat of Dear's Code A in the 1st GSL of 2014 where he was knocked out by Journey. That was atrocious.
Give me that Maru vs Dear rematch!
Looks bad. Journey just held his 2-base colossus push and has his 3rd up..
No idea how that'll turn out. If it were a few months ago, ByuL easy 3-0, but lately he's been on a bit of a ZvT losing streak and Journey has vastly improved.
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