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Yellow Dragon Stadium, Hangzhou, China.
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Benjamin "BreAKer" NovotnyWEC: Casters + Players +All details finalized
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BreAKerTV
Taiwan1658 Posts
Source: wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/World_E-sport_Championships_2014 Players Prize Pool Venu Yellow Dragon Stadium, Hangzhou, China. Caster / Host Benjamin "BreAKer" Novotny | ||
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Brutaxilos
United States2629 Posts
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TokyoGirl
Japan116 Posts
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BreAKerTV
Taiwan1658 Posts
On August 14 2014 08:54 Brutaxilos wrote: Are you going to be casting alone or will there be other casters with you? Maybe if we're lucky a player or two will opt to join me on stream. | ||
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iNcontroL
USA29055 Posts
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BreAKerTV
Taiwan1658 Posts
On August 14 2014 09:11 iNcontroL wrote: So let me get this straight.. you are solo casting AND hosting this tourney and you made the thread to announce yourself? O__________________________________O;; Yup. Feel free to Chime in Geoff, because to be honest you come from the days of the organization that this event is trying to replace. BTW, the sponsors for this event target audience is all Chinese. Don't ask me how or why I am going, but I will be there. EDIT: And it doesn't cost 5,000 USD to get me out there. | ||
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Brutaxilos
United States2629 Posts
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Undead1993
Germany17651 Posts
the line-up looks like it's time for another foreigner win, HerO can be beaten by anyone in his current condition, jaedong as well. hopefully one of the foreign tosses will make it. i really hope you will find someone to cast with though! thx for making the thread  | ||
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Faefae
2203 Posts
Too bad we don't get to see that picture of breaker with that girl from the Taiwan Open  | ||
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LockeTazeline
2390 Posts
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vult
United States9400 Posts
And Snuteh! TL top three inc? | ||
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Thax
Belgium1060 Posts
Hoping for a Snute v Bunny final. | ||
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XDEKSDEEXD
622 Posts
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Master of DalK
Canada1797 Posts
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BreAKerTV
Taiwan1658 Posts
On August 14 2014 09:47 Undead1993 wrote: tbh i am not a fan of your casting, but you did a great job hosting the Taiwan Open and i have to admire your dedication, breaker. the line-up looks like it's time for another foreigner win, HerO can be beaten by anyone in his current condition, jaedong as well. hopefully one of the foreign tosses will make it. i really hope you will find someone to cast with though! thx for making the thread Thank you for your honesty, and I will see what I can do about a cocaster. | ||
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riyanme
Philippines940 Posts
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Circumstance
United States11403 Posts
My big question so far is format. 2 groups? A single elim. bracket? A double elim. bracket? | ||
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BreAKerTV
Taiwan1658 Posts
On August 14 2014 16:09 Circumstance wrote: Gotta hustle to get ahead. And Breaker is certainly doing that much. My big question so far is format. 2 groups? A single elim. bracket? A double elim. bracket? I wouldn't mind seeing something "Unique" (something that IEM doesn't do, yet simultaneously something more complex than a simple Ro8 Single / Double Elimination tournament). EDIT: I just checked with the guys at WEC, and across other game titles as well, it would appear that adding more English casters is out of the budget... | ||
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Esto
Germany54 Posts
On August 14 2014 16:35 BreAKerTV wrote: I wouldn't mind seeing something "Unique" (something that IEM doesn't do, yet simultaneously something more complex than a simple Ro8 Single / Double Elimination tournament). Pokemon tournament for seedings? :D | ||
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Pyloss
Germany1515 Posts
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JustPassingBy
10776 Posts
Too bad that I won't be able to watch the event, but in my heard I will be rooting for the chinese players! | ||
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StarcraftMan
Canada507 Posts
On August 14 2014 09:47 Undead1993 wrote: tbh i am not a fan of your casting, but you did a great job hosting the Taiwan Open and i have to admire your dedication, breaker. To be honest, Chinese is one of the hardest languages to learn in the world for English speakers. It's ranked as Category 3 (the hardest category) by the US State Department: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Language_Learning_Difficulty_for_English_Speakers I have a lot of respect for BreakerTV because he got so fluent in Mandarin. You can bet BreakerTV worked his a** off to become fluent in Mandarin. Just give BreakerTV some casting tips. With the amount of dedication he spent to learning Mandarin, I don't doubt that he can easily pick up your tips to improve his casting. | ||
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Shinta)
United States1716 Posts
I'm going to pretend this is a random "Chinese Invitational" and follow it though. | ||
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BreAKerTV
Taiwan1658 Posts
On August 14 2014 18:04 StarcraftMan wrote: To be honest, Chinese is one of the hardest languages to learn in the world for English speakers. It's ranked as Category 3 (the hardest category) by the US State Department: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Language_Learning_Difficulty_for_English_Speakers I have a lot of respect for BreakerTV because he got so fluent in Mandarin. You can bet BreakerTV worked his a** off to become fluent in Mandarin. Just give BreakerTV some casting tips. With the amount of dedication he spent to learning Mandarin, I don't doubt that he can easily pick up your tips to improve his casting. I like the last part of that statement the best, to be honest. I mean that's the best I can do. And I must also admit that for the most part I just want every SC2 event in China and Taiwan, but getting in on something in Europe or NA (WCS America for example, Chinese players qualifying for Ro16 constantly and such) would be nice. Maybe it's time to start learning DoTA 2? | ||
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StarcraftMan
Canada507 Posts
On August 15 2014 00:30 BreAKerTV wrote: I like the last part of that statement the best, to be honest. I mean that's the best I can do. And I must also admit that for the most part I just want every SC2 event in China and Taiwan, but getting in on something in Europe or NA (WCS America for example, Chinese players qualifying for Ro16 constantly and such) would be nice. Maybe it's time to start learning DoTA 2? Yeah, just keep working on your casting. Even Artosis and Tasteless had a lot of negative feedback in their first season of GSL back in 2010. If you work diligently at it, you will definitely get better. Good luck! | ||
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theanticitizen
United States3 Posts
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TAMinator
Australia2706 Posts
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Shinta)
United States1716 Posts
On August 15 2014 01:04 StarcraftMan wrote: Yeah, just keep working on your casting. Even Artosis and Tasteless had a lot of negative feedback in their first season of GSL back in 2010. If you work diligently at it, you will definitely get better. Good luck! I still give them a lot of negative feedback, but that's mostly because they are experienced and established casters who aren't up to par with many of my expectations. Someone like Breaker still has a long way before he's established, so its a great building period for him. I very much agree with your statement. Keep working hard and get better and better with hard work and dedication. | ||
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drunkelf
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I am a little dissapionted though that there will be only 1 caster?Is this an online event?Thats very anti climatic to be honest I never watched a red bull before and chose to spend my data on it this month editL o its wec OK.Come on Jd bring it home | ||
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Idiocracy1
Bulgaria26 Posts
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digmouse
China6329 Posts
also Jaedong's WCS groups might conflict with WEC as well. | ||
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argonautdice
Canada2719 Posts
On August 16 2014 22:46 Idiocracy1 wrote: Hi, can someone point to an official site for that tournament where at least the dates of the event are written down. Looks like a good lineup but really hard to get any info. Liquipedia is your best bet: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/World_E-sport_Championships_2014 It's usually quickly updated as soon as the official information (which will be in Chinese) are out. Tournament happens September 5th to 7th. | ||
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argonautdice
Canada2719 Posts
On August 18 2014 03:27 digmouse wrote: https://twitter.com/Liquid_HerO/status/501071793440845824 also Jaedong's WCS groups might conflict with WEC as well. What are the WCS dates? | ||
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kyomezzo
57 Posts
According to this, it starts on September 4th | ||
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WGT-Baal
France3383 Posts
On August 15 2014 00:13 Shinta) wrote: This is trying to replace WCG? It failed already. I'm going to pretend this is a random "Chinese Invitational" and follow it though. I think you re confusing this event with WECG, which is trying to replace WCG. Granted both names are very similar. On topic: Breaker, you re doing a very good job with those tournaments! Good luck with that event! | ||
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shell
Portugal2722 Posts
I like the chinese e-sports tournaments! ok it has some problems, but overall i hope it will be a success | ||
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Dingodile
4133 Posts
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BreAKerTV
Taiwan1658 Posts
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Circumstance
United States11403 Posts
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digmouse
China6329 Posts
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JustPassingBy
10776 Posts
On August 14 2014 18:04 StarcraftMan wrote: To be honest, Chinese is one of the hardest languages to learn in the world for English speakers. It's ranked as Category 3 (the hardest category) by the US State Department: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Language_Learning_Difficulty_for_English_Speakers I have a lot of respect for BreakerTV because he got so fluent in Mandarin. You can bet BreakerTV worked his a** off to become fluent in Mandarin. Just give BreakerTV some casting tips. With the amount of dedication he spent to learning Mandarin, I don't doubt that he can easily pick up your tips to improve his casting. To be frank, personally I think that list is bullshit. There is no way that German or French is so much easier to learn than Chinese. Yes, there is a huge undeniable difference between English and Chinese, but they seem to forget that Chinese has next to no grammar. | ||
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BreAKerTV
Taiwan1658 Posts
On August 27 2014 22:06 JustPassingBy wrote: To be frank, personally I think that list is bullshit. There is no way that German or French is so much easier to learn than Chinese. Yes, there is a huge undeniable difference between English and Chinese, but they seem to forget that Chinese has next to no grammar. Well, take it from a guy with three credentials in the language as well as a degree: HSK Level III, HSK level IV, and 8 points short of earning HSK Level V (I failed the test by 8 points). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanyu_Shuiping_Kaoshi Persistance is key with learning any language, but with Chinese and Japanese, this is more heavily iterated than anything else, because just to learn to read a casual conversation in Chinese, a realistic one at that, you will have to sit down with a book and write every single word that you want to say for a year or two. At least, that's what I did. Throw me a book in German or Dutch, and I can learn to speak in a comparatively shorter period of time. | ||
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JustPassingBy
10776 Posts
Seirously, I can speak the language fluently, so why are you making it artificially hard for me to write it...? | ||
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BreAKerTV
Taiwan1658 Posts
On August 27 2014 22:29 JustPassingBy wrote: Yeah, here is me hoping that they will scrap the entire written language of Chinese and scrap it for just pinyin... <.< Seirously, I can speak the language fluently, so why are you making it artificially hard for me to write it...? Personally I think they should just keep it the way it is because I worked so hard to learn it - both simplified and traditional script. xD | ||
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digmouse
China6329 Posts
On August 27 2014 22:29 JustPassingBy wrote: Yeah, here is me hoping that they will scrap the entire written language of Chinese and scrap it for just pinyin... <.< Seirously, I can speak the language fluently, so why are you making it artificially hard for me to write it...? That idea was brought up literally 100 years ago as part of the New Culture Movement, scrapped after people finding it impractical to do. | ||
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phantomfive
Korea (South)404 Posts
On August 27 2014 22:06 JustPassingBy wrote: To be frank, personally I think that list is bullshit. There is no way that German or French is so much easier to learn than Chinese. Yes, there is a huge undeniable difference between English and Chinese, but they seem to forget that Chinese has next to no grammar. I speak Spanish and some Chinese. Speaking Chinese is easy, although getting the word order right can be confusing sometimes. The thing that kills it is the writing system. It basically doubles the amount of memorizing you have to do (because learning the vocabulary is the hardest part of any language.....I still learn new words in my native language, for example). | ||
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phantomfive
Korea (South)404 Posts
On August 28 2014 01:16 BreAKerTV wrote: Personally I think they should just keep it the way it is because I worked so hard to learn it - both simplified and traditional script. xD Personally I think that's the real reason they won't scrap it. | ||
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Speedbump
New Zealand338 Posts
EDIT: At least the Winner's Finals will be interesting. I think Snute vs Jaedong will be good to watch. | ||
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Moonblade
Poland5 Posts
Snute in finals ^_^ | ||
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Rustug
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Penev
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Idiocracy1
Bulgaria26 Posts
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BreAKerTV
Taiwan1658 Posts
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Idiocracy1
Bulgaria26 Posts
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