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![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/O2f18xF.png) Balance Test Mod Invitational sponsored by BlizzardWe're very excited to announce that thanks to the help of Blizzard, we are hosting a $1,000 invitational to test the new Balance Test Mod, featuring the changes proposed on April 28th : https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/starcraft2/23405326/balance-update-april-28-2020The tournament will feature 20 players and will run from May 6th-May 12th. LiquipediaDatesGroup A - Wednesday, May 06 11:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)Group B - Friday, May 08 4:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)Group C - Saturday, May 09 4:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)Group D - Monday, May 11 4:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)Playoffs - Tuesday, May 12 4:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)Groups will be announced as soon as possible.Our current player list includes :  Reynor,  Clem,  ShoWTimE, Neeb, Harstem, Soul, Elazer, uThermal, MaNa, Bly, Kelazhur, SKillous, Denver, MarineLorD, GunGFuBanDa, TLO, NamsharPrizes1st - $300 2nd - $200 3rd/4th - $100 5th-8th - $50 9th-16th - $25 Streams  WardiTV  TaKeTVIf you would like to provide coverage for this tournament please contact Wardi. We will only be allowing one stream per language.
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HYPUUU Knew this was only a matter of time, but still nice to see Wardiii was actually organising this.. lets goo... Also, the balance team will watch these games.. So eh, will be interesting how the zerg players will perform.. Keepo
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Great tournament.
I just wished Drogo take part in it too
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That's great to see given that ordinarily no one plays the test mod.
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Italy3725 Posts
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Good idea and good players.
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Realy good mix of players there. Maybe MaxPax would be a good addition to see how good the Nexus ability realy is in PvP 
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Where you at Serral? Saving them microbial shroud strats for Valencia, eh?
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Dominican Republic627 Posts
anything about the patch? how is it going with it?
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Wow, Neeb actually winning some games?
So is this Patch helping Protoss After all?
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He didnt have the toughest group, dunno if the patch has much to do with it
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3 QF's going on at the same time, from the 4 official casters listed, one is casting wc3 and the other 3 are on the same match. I guess they are just langauge casters and dont have to cast the other matches, but still sucks and happens too often 
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On May 13 2020 03:17 ilax30 wrote:3 QF's going on at the same time, from the 4 official casters listed, one is casting wc3 and the other 3 are on the same match. I guess they are just langauge casters and dont have to cast the other matches, but still sucks and happens too often
Indy left the vanya vs gungfu match before it was over to cast uthermal vs soul
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On May 12 2020 05:38 dbRic1203 wrote:
Wow, Neeb actually winning some games?
So is this Patch helping Protoss After all?
I mean it's obviously helping protoss lol
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On May 13 2020 03:25 InfCereal wrote:Show nested quote +On May 13 2020 03:17 ilax30 wrote:3 QF's going on at the same time, from the 4 official casters listed, one is casting wc3 and the other 3 are on the same match. I guess they are just langauge casters and dont have to cast the other matches, but still sucks and happens too often Indy left the vanya vs gungfu match before it was over to cast uthermal vs soul
He showed clem v Geralt at the start though, thought he would stay in that match like all other casters. There would be 2 matches at the same time max I thought Wardiii said, so weird the players couldnt wait a bit longer. That series was minutes away from finishing
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On May 13 2020 03:37 ilax30 wrote:Show nested quote +On May 13 2020 03:25 InfCereal wrote:On May 13 2020 03:17 ilax30 wrote:3 QF's going on at the same time, from the 4 official casters listed, one is casting wc3 and the other 3 are on the same match. I guess they are just langauge casters and dont have to cast the other matches, but still sucks and happens too often Indy left the vanya vs gungfu match before it was over to cast uthermal vs soul He showed clem v Geralt at the start though, thought he would stay in that match like all other casters. There would be 2 matches at the same time max I thought Wardiii said, so weird the players couldnt wait a bit longer. That series was minutes away from finishing
Indys mistake, soul uThermal did wait for Vanya Gungfu to end
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On May 13 2020 03:25 InfCereal wrote:Show nested quote +On May 13 2020 03:17 ilax30 wrote:3 QF's going on at the same time, from the 4 official casters listed, one is casting wc3 and the other 3 are on the same match. I guess they are just langauge casters and dont have to cast the other matches, but still sucks and happens too often Indy left the vanya vs gungfu match before it was over to cast uthermal vs soul
Wow that's quite direspectful :/
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#antizergpatch?
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+ Show Spoiler +TvT final and TTPP top 4! You don't see that very often! But the Z lineup would probably have to be stronger to draw strong conclusions.
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On May 13 2020 07:22 Slydie wrote:+ Show Spoiler +TvT final and TTPP top 4! You don't see that very often! But the Z lineup would probably have to be stronger to draw strong conclusions.
It's the games themselves moreso than just the results that will drive player input and Blizzard's conclusions I assume.
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Skytoss is usually awful to watch, but I actually liked the Neeb vs Namshar game on eternal. I dunno, maybe it was that the oracle tag changed meant that Neeb had to be more active with his army, or maybe it was the speed-rays actually doing something, or maybe it was the fact that tempests are more interesting than carriers (which are just dumb units, tbh).
I'd still prefer it if the Protoss end-game was ground-based, but if this is a preview of what we're getting then it's not too bad.
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So what does Blizz do with the patch now? Any theories on what they will change? With these results I doubt we see any of these changes to Z and T. Maybe they go through with the P buffs and give them one more for vs Z.
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WardiTV Balance Test Mod Invitational/2020
