Thank you Day[9] for this awesome league and growing e-sports <3 enjoyed it! Thanks to Husky for co-commentating. Thanks to everyone who watched and participated. And thanks to Totalbiscuit, Husky, Diggity, and Ahnaris for casting during the season!

--------RESULTS--------

"Bronze Match" - Amazon vs. Google, Best of 7
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GuyWithName<Xel'Naga Caverns>

Tyir

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Cicero<Tal'Darim Altar>

NexusOne

+ Show Spoiler [Game 3] +

skynet<Backwater Gulch>

kodansha

+ Show Spoiler [Game 4] +

MuffinTopper<Metalopolis>

MoRFy
Google wins 4-0!

+ Show Spoiler [Game 5] +

(Anti-spoiler, game not played)

+ Show Spoiler [Game 6] +

(Anti-spoiler, game not played)

+ Show Spoiler [Game 7] +

(Really, you opened this one too?)

GRAND FINALS - Microsoft vs. Zynga, Best of 7
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NATO<Xel'Naga Caverns>

fredo

+ Show Spoiler [Game 2] +

Aristotle<Tal'Darim Altar>

Preposterous

+ Show Spoiler [Game 3] +

MegumixBear<Backwater Gulch>

joolz

+ Show Spoiler [Game 4] +

~~Cowsrule<Metalopolis>Shamwow~~
Disconnect, regame.
Cowsrule<Metalopolis>

Shamwow

+ Show Spoiler [Game 5] +

Perihelion<Shattered Temple>

sickiggy
Microsoft wins 4-1!

+ Show Spoiler [Game 6] +

Micro soft. MACRO HARD

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Microsoft won

Thanks to mewvolk for the results and the live report thread. Click here for the live report thread

In true Day[9] style i say "Helllooooooo everyyyyyybody!" to start this thread!

If you didn't tune into the new State of the Game last night with JP and the pillars of Starcraft 2 you may have missed an enormous announcement by Day[9]. Day[9] announced his "After Hours Gaming League". This league introduces major companies such as Facebook and Google into Starcraft 2 and Esports!

http://afterhoursgaming.tv/ is the official website for the league. You can find an "About" and "Press" sections on the site for further detailed information. The games will be played on their website as well as Day[9]'s stream. It looks as games started June 30th, last Thursday.

The finals will be held August 19th at the Facebook campus in Palto Alto, California!

An interesting piece of information:

Day[9]TV will donate the $5,000 grand prize to the winner’s charity of choice

Day[9] indeed is putting his full attention on the growth of Esports! With this league he is attempting to bring in some of the biggest and best tech companies in the world! Support from these kind of companies could change Esports.

Esfiworld's write up on the After Hours Gaming League.

http://sc2ratings.com/season-info.php?season=ahgl1&section=Group Play

You can rate the games here at the new sc2 ratings site. Really useful site if you haven't seen it yet. Thanks to Koibu0 for sending me this

You can always find up to date results at http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/After_Hours_Gaming_League courteous folks at Liquipedia.
Final standings for the season:

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Microsoft 7-0
Google 5-2
Zynga 5-2
Amazon 5-2
Twitter 3-4
Dropbox 2-5
Facebook 1-6
Yelp 0-7

Tiebreaker points below!

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Microsoft 17
Google 9
Zynga 8
Amazon 2
Twitter -3
Dropbox -7
Facebook -8
Yelp -17

Semi Finals results below

+ Show Spoiler [ Microsoft vs Amazon] +

Microsoft 4-0 Amazon

+ Show Spoiler [ Google vs Zynga] +

Google 1-4 Zynga

The Grand Finals and Bronze match will be this Friday, August 19th 2011, at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, California. They will be casted on Day[9]'s stream at 6pm PST - 10pm PST with guest caster HuskyStarcraft!

You can also find games casted by Husky, Ahnaris, and Diggity on their youtube channels.

Saicam

262 Posts

July 05 2011 15:19 GMT

I missed SOTG, this is pretty awesome news

Merany

France890 Posts

July 05 2011 15:32 GMT

I absolutely love the idea, seeing those big fat ass companies just having fun with some Starcraft is really cool.
The teams photos look soooo badass!

caradoc

Canada3022 Posts

July 05 2011 15:34 GMT

wow. mad props to day9 for making this happen-- The way this is conceived is so brilliant and hopefully it can bring in an audience from outside the traditional channels.

alexey350

United States22 Posts

July 05 2011 15:34 GMT

I don't know why more people aren't talking about this yet because this is a pretty big deal. You have to give day9 a lot of credit for busting his ass and getting this together. The bigger the names that are involved with SC2 in any way is good for SC2 (obviously).

Davichi

Korea (South)7 Posts

July 05 2011 15:37 GMT

canikizu

4860 Posts

July 05 2011 15:43 GMT

Sorry, I have to root for Amazon, too awesome of site to get all of my items.

TuRbii

United States38 Posts

July 05 2011 15:44 GMT

This is an awesome idea. Kudos to Day[9]
I'm rooting for Team Twitter.

ReachTheSky

United States3294 Posts

July 05 2011 15:48 GMT

so megumixbear is actually a guy huh?

Kh0nsu

United Kingdom183 Posts

July 05 2011 15:49 GMT

#10

Got to root for Google on this one...

Really excited to have to well produced, competitive SC2 content that is of a lower quality skill wise.

Day9's point about college level sports being more entertaining to watch is true for me personally, I love watching a gritty, messy match with a mixture of brilliant play and obvious mistakes.

simansh

257 Posts

July 05 2011 15:59 GMT

#11

I don't really care to watch some average players play, but I guess its good for ESPORTS and stuff

xSixGeneralHan

United States528 Posts

July 05 2011 16:15 GMT

#12

On July 06 2011 00:48 ReachTheSky wrote:
so megumixbear is actually a guy huh?

I think there are two, rofl

JiYan

United States3668 Posts

July 05 2011 16:15 GMT

#13

its not that these guys will show amazing plays, its that these guys have a measure of control over hundreds of millions of people

KimJongChill

United States6429 Posts

July 05 2011 16:20 GMT

#14

On July 06 2011 01:15 VPGeneralHans wrote:

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I think there are two, rofl

No way, I know one is a chick, but I've never heard of this other one.

xSixGeneralHan

United States528 Posts

July 05 2011 16:25 GMT

#15

On July 06 2011 01:20 KimJongChill wrote:

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No way, I know one is a chick, but I've never heard of this other one.

That's what I mean, there are two megumixbears. One with capital B and one without. ODD.
The famous one has no capital b.

Anyways, back on track. This should be exciting but weird that there hasn't been a lot of hype for this considering it already started.

RodYan

United States126 Posts

July 05 2011 16:39 GMT

#16

Best team slogan ever:
"Macro hard, Micro soft"

Nurmis

Finland81 Posts

July 05 2011 16:49 GMT

#17

Maybe next season we will have the mega grudge match between Microsoft & Apple.

Philymaniz

United States177 Posts

July 05 2011 16:56 GMT

#18

Pretty sick, face off of the big guys

Engore

United States1916 Posts

July 05 2011 17:02 GMT

#19

On July 06 2011 00:34 alexey350 wrote:
I don't know why more people aren't talking about this yet because this is a pretty big deal. You have to give day9 a lot of credit for busting his ass and getting this together. The bigger the names that are involved with SC2 in any way is good for SC2 (obviously).

Exactly why i had to make a topic. xD i was like wuuutt no topic yet?? K making one. <3 i can't wait for this really. I'm with google and facebook honestly. Facebook i love and Google has Chrome <3! Now we can say Facebook Fighting Google. Fo realz.