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Today, I had a lot of fun. Why? Because I hosted a Starcraft 2 tournament with 16 of my friends, and most of them don't even own the game.
So basically, when Starcraft 2 came out, only 2 people in my group of friends got the game. Gradually, me and my brother have gotten more and more people to get the game, and it felt like this was the next step.
We've been organizing this tournament for a month. We got everybody to bring 10$ for a prize pool and pizza, as well as a laptop if they had one. We set up a Powerpoint presentation for before the tournament to explain the rules of the tourney, the basics of the game, and describing the maps (We used iCCup maps, and maps of our own creation). We set up a TV with an HDMI cord to have everyone watch certain games on the big screen while we had 2 other matches in the background. It started, and it was a blast, an all-day experience that included mothership rushes, Day9 Sentry monobattles, awesome macro games, Thor rushing, and two noobs 6 pooling each other (THAT was awesome).
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Some players getting intense.
So I urge everyone to spread the Starcraft 2 Love, whether it's making an elaborate tournament like this, or just showing some of your friends some casts, I promise it'll be worthwhile.
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I'm a fan of the books and the ship, of and of course, player-made Starcraft 2 tournaments.
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sounds amazing  you should have streamed it
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On November 14 2010 12:12 Phos wrote:sounds amazing you should have streamed it
We would have tried, but it would have been way too hard on our internet. I miss you LAN 
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Thats me with my sleeves pulled up! :D
But really, this should probably be in the blog section I'd say.
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have you asked for a blizzard license?
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Osaka27149 Posts
Awesome! Glad you guys had a good time. Spotlighted 
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I'd love to do something like this. You got all your friends to buy the game?
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On November 14 2010 12:39 0mgVitaminE wrote:
I'd love to do something like this. You got all your friends to buy the game?
We got two guest accounts for the people who didn't have the game. Worked very well. We did get around 15 people to buy it though through showing them VODs and how to play and such. Funday Mondays are great to get people wanting to play.
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I'm the one with the red hair and the tie as a bandanna.
It was really fun, and we all had a good time. People should do things like this more often.
We should do another one of these sometime, really.
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Looks like you had a really good time, I wish I could convince my friends to play starcraft but most of them don't even have computers capable of running it .
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L1F3 upload a link of that final batle between you and mitch here
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Sick, nice that you organized this for your friends!
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I did a similar thing like this with my buddies, first time had a double elimination tournament, second time, had a team-based match. It's really fun stuff, even if the skill level might not be as high as pro tournaments.
Pretty badass that you did this.
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Looks like fun I've been trying to get some of my friends from college to form a team for cstarleague (I know we'll suck but it will be fun) hopefully I'll have as much success as you have.
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Souds great and I hope that all of you had a realy great time evern the once how wheren't that good. Did you also played 2v2 or ffa's? they would probably also be a blast.
Keep it up and maby next time you will get 32 to this mini LAN. 
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haha that sounds fun. More people should do this
the Powerpoint part cracked me up though.
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Hahahaha a Powerpoint, that is awesome! May I request that said Powerpoint be posted? :D
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Heh, that looks like a blast. Always nice to get more people into the games you like and them actually liking and wanting to play each other. Makes me wish my friends liked this sort of gaming as much as me.
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this is so great dude, i'm surprised it took a month to organize though.
so all of your friends in the tournament have played sc2 before right?
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That is an awesome boat. Sounds like you had fun, If only my friends could stand playing default multiplayer rather than insisting on custom games .
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that`s how it all started years ago! <3
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I was at a party some time ago, when a friend requested if I'd play a game on the big screen (we had a beamer), was awesome. Actually people watching while you game (even though it are your friends) is weird though xD.
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On November 14 2010 15:16 Kinky wrote:The guy on the left must be so uncomfortable  His table is so small that he has to put his keyboard on top of the laptop keyboard and his mouse is in a weird position.
I didn't even notice that. Hahahaha. It really sounds like you guys had a great time.
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Cool ship
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I've organized a LAN coming up in the beginning of january with some friends. So yes, I will be spreading the gaming love and SC2 in particular =)
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I organised a StarCraft LAN at my mates place, gave them a month and a half notice, invited 20+ people, and 2 other guys showed up besides my mate who lived there and myself. >_>
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LMAO .. great to hear =D~!!
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On November 14 2010 19:30 prodiG wrote:
I like your map choices~
haha, you dirty motherfucker xD
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OMG AWSOME!!! i wish my friends would do that too... but we have exams and it counts for my future ><
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Singapore66163 Posts
man, i wish i could do things like this here. people (and most of my friends) aren't that into gaming
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nice job man, today I had 3 of my roommates (2 who barely play, 1 who doesnt at all) watching mostly the GSL games instead of the football game haha
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i wish I had friends that would do this with me :/
i am too much nerd for them apparently though...
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nice, spread da love !
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Did your friend lose a bet with Incontrol or does he always wear that shirt?
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This is awesome. And wait, did someone bring their iMac along for that? That keyboard looks cramped.
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On November 16 2010 16:40 chindian wrote:
This is awesome. And wait, did someone bring their iMac along for that? That keyboard looks cramped.
The iMac was one of ours, so we just took it to the basement. Also, if your sensitivity was high enough,it wasn't really that cramped. We hd more problems with battle.net lag.
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On November 16 2010 17:17 L1F3 wrote:
The iMac was one of ours, so we just took it to the basement. Also, if your sensitivity was high enough,it wasn't really that cramped. We hd more problems with battle.net lag.
Ah I see. I would expect so, Blizz should really fix b.net or give us LAN.
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