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Where dat snitch at?37043 Posts
MAL presents: Smallest Map Possible is an online tournament organized by MAL, aka James the Translator from WCS 2013 S3 Finals, 2014’s S2 and S3, all circuits of Red Bull Battle Grounds, and IEM Toronto, and sponsored by Psistorm Gaming and 2LD.
Online tournament sometimes lacks the live atmosphere. It also has difficulty reaching out to the players to hear their thoughts. The tournament will feature all players’ webcams and microphones to see reactions in the midst of a battle and to hear more from the players during the map vetoes and pre/post game interviews.
Have you ever wondered if a player is close with his/her opponent? Were you ever curious why map vetoes happened in the fashion that it did? Have you cursed or screamed out of joy in middle of a game and wondered if the players did too? This is the tournament that will educate you on all your wonders, or at least attempt to.
MAL presents: Smallest Map Possible is a meta breaking tournament. The current meta consists of big maps which leads to one big bang with few minor battles here and there. By bringing old and small maps, the tournament seeks to answer and showcase how the current understandings of games would translate if that was then.
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Where dat snitch at?37043 Posts
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Looks fun!
OP says 6pm GMT, while Liquipedia says 6am GMT, which is right? I'm assuming 6am because 6pm is middle of the night in Korea.
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On February 06 2015 07:41 Crot4le wrote:
Let's go Heart!
i was wondering how i'd missed you for so long <3
but yeah gogo heart (and creator if heart can't win)
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your Country52797 Posts
TaeJa, Korhal Floating Island, and completely impossible times for me, sick tournament :D
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Kinda relieved that this acutally isn't a tournament on the smallest map possible. :D
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Smallest Map Possible.
No Steppes of War.
Joke tournament.
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your Country52797 Posts
On February 06 2015 13:08 TheLordofAwesome wrote:
Smallest Map Possible.
No Steppes of War.
Joke tournament.
They're competition worthy maps 
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United States97276 Posts
On February 06 2015 13:28 The_Templar wrote:Show nested quote +On February 06 2015 13:08 TheLordofAwesome wrote:
Smallest Map Possible.
No Steppes of War.
Joke tournament. They're competition worthy maps
Steppes was played in GSL. Sounds competition worthy to me
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Taeja has been sapped of all his powers by his return to the motherland.
PartinG's got this.
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On February 06 2015 14:09 Shellshock wrote:Show nested quote +On February 06 2015 13:28 The_Templar wrote:On February 06 2015 13:08 TheLordofAwesome wrote:
Smallest Map Possible.
No Steppes of War.
Joke tournament. They're competition worthy maps Steppes was played in GSL. Sounds competition worthy to me
Plus Steppes was played in a different era. Nowadays the meta (and game itself) have changed so there's no reason not to try it with high level players.
Just because something ended up being bad at the time doesn't mean it's bad when you have new units and a new meta.
Early SC2 Steppes vs late SC2: HotS Steppes. Different games.
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China6330 Posts
I thought Korhal Floating Island is a pretty big map?
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France1677 Posts
Oh !
No steppes of war, no desert oasis, no scrap station, no jungle bassin !
I'm so disappointed, the tittle made me so hard now I'm sad
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United Kingdom31935 Posts
Go Journey 
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Thanks for organizing this, Mal!
Go Check
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