[Show] The Stim Cast - Official Thread

Topics: Mapmakers, Skew leaving SixJax, Skill gap and training gap between Korean’s and Foreigners, Motivation for Foreigners, and One Super Awesome Boxer painting. (at very end may have been cut by twitch and on original show match vod (Destiny vs. DDE) has it at the very end) some explicit language. Please enjoy!

This was an absolutely amazing episode as it directly followed the EGiNcontroL vs. Destiny showmatch – and iNcontroL was kind enough to hang out with us for the entirety of the podcast, we would really like to extend our sincere thanks for his staying with us.
Following is a list of topics we talked about, but we also digressed into several other things, we hope you enjoy the conversation!
Topics:

Interview with EGiNcontrol
tt eSports sponsorships for players
Balance discussion 2 parts
Part 1 bru frame herion
korean control or op
Skill gap between EU and NA
Attitude motivation NA players lack. money motivation
Part 2 Protoss under powered
Idra state protss plays wrong all are retarded and turtle = autowin
IncontroL states otherwise and make a nice robust argrument that makes sense
Tumba applies to be protoss representative and replace incontrol. Stating Incontrol makes too much sense in his arguments and we need to be mroe like zerg and Idra and bitch bitch.
Poker similarities to starcraft
Korean Teams Pull out of NASL – http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=253750
foreigners happy they don’t need to compete against koreans?
will anyone take the league seriously, because no matter who wins, the koreans didn’t compete?
will koreans that are signed to foreign teams compete?
will koreans that are in partnership with foreign teams compete?
HON being added? star league

NAvs EU
MLG Raliegh
MLG Orlando
MLG points system

HuK to EG! Tumba knows which sports agents are on the way.
Idra, HuK, and Puma to Korea
EG splitting resources between North America and Korea?
Yankees?
Arizona Team House – Axslav, StrifeCro – what does this mean for them?
Sc2communitycup and the poor response to EGiNcontroL
iCCup.TV Dissolves
iCCup.tv and iCCup.com separate entities in a partnership.
Were casting Blizzcon China, recieved Cease-and-desist from Blizzard because iCCup.com runs technically illegal BroodWar servers
iCCup.tv instantly (within 24hrs) rebrands to ESV.tv to continue casting
No further connection with iCCup
iCCup been in severely negative light more and more – not sure if yall have kept up with that
IPL Atlantic City
SlayerS_Jessica closing her Twitter
Playhem qualifiers
IEM

We had to do a condensed show this episode because we only had an hour before MLG Raleigh began, so we basically just focused on the most pertinent topic of the moment…the 1.4 patch notes!

Stim Cast #5

MLG Results
Foreigners Eliminated more Koreans
Top places still all korean
MLG Jersey situation?
Mob-Mentality of ESPORTS “Fans”
MLG Jersey Situation
NASL Hate
Teams needing PR teams?
ESPORTS-brand Pitchforks (TeamLiquid Thread)

iNcontroL
Doing too much again?
needs to go to korea?
FnaticFenix moves to IM!
First foreigner truly recruited to Korean team
Dominated in GSTL debut
3-0
Foreigner Hit Squad
Nestea, mvp, losira vs Fenix
Major leaves SJ
“Deal-making” in SC2
2 Players in semifinals agree to split prize money
Less competitive games
Hard if not impossible to enforce

Rapid Fire Questions (30 second responses maximum):

Total Biscuit casting DH instead of Day[9]
Marine Arena
“Slowverlords” on Day[9]
Will Dota kill StarCraft (actual TL thread)
Season 1 of GSTL is in Playoffs. Who will win it all?
Puzzle to SlayerS
YellOw!!!!
FoxeR/MKP is the YellOw – 2nd in Code A
Liquid`HerO in Code A

Jaedong

OMG Jaedong
He would destroy everyone currently on the scene within a month
What team would he go to?
Why Flash isn’t coming...yet
Will this inspire BW sponsors to come to sc2
Can we just talk about BroodWar for 2 hours? <-I know you can Jack -Tumba
Brood war is more popular in Korea
Sponsors change over waiting on Flash / Jaedong timeline?
Brood war will live on far after popularity is gone

Destiny spamming stream snipers (Deezer) (refer to footnotes at bottom)This desrves it’s own topic not just rapid fire.** explination in footnote of Bliz actions

Was Destinys Ban justified?
Should Dezzer also be banned?

Gordon Heyward
NBA player, streams sc2
Invited to IPL (obvious publicity stunt, still cool)
Lebron Parody video (http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=263456)
Various articles + response
TeamLiquid
CBS
ESPN
MVP joins oGsMC and Nestea as the leader of his respective Race and may be best overall in the world. He has claimed the throne and his rule looks lengthy.
Why he isn’t a Bonjwa - He’s not untouchable, and THAT’S what Bonjwa means.
When he goes undefeated for 6 months, call me. - iGrok
Does anyone stand a chance?
More IM power
Neural parasite nerf
Will this make TvZ unbalanced due to mech play. Thor has arrived
At least now they can’t neural your colossi!
New Blizz Stance Terran is just better, deal with it unitl HOTS? (this may actually be a good thing?)
Balance takes time, and this is a good thing, rather than wreck/nerf Terran remember it’s a long haul be patient and we will all have super awesome sauce Races IMO -Tumba

Rapid Fire Section:

Which two players would be your dream matchup?
ToD to Fnatic
Neural Parasite change good, bad, or just ugly.
Have we seen the very best of MVP yet?
Flash or Jaedong?
Foreigner crazy not to play Terran?

Stim Cast #7
Nicholas Frichette winner of the Dr. Pepper ultimate gaming house stops by to talk SC2 and about his new set up “the hatchery”.
Blizzcon/GSL finals - MMA takes out best player in the world 4-1
MVP>Nestea - that debate is settled?
MLG Orlando---
Beta stC first and second
MLG Providence Finalsreams honest opinions and critique (player view casting finals good/bad idea? obviously yes but need reason to promote it lulz)
Idra vs. Boxer best series in SC2 history?
General MLG Orlando stuff
Kidnapping clutch( Clutch is fucking awesome )
Boss Toss and President M
oGsTHESTC so good
Slayers and EG
Blizzcon new units and new rocks(Might want to push this to the end, otherwise we’ll just talk about this all night)

Rapid Fire!
Neural Parasite
NexSickness Stalker Juggling
incontrol to remain a progamer in 2012
MLG or IGN?
Metalopolis
the shattered temple

Show Notes:

Clutch’s MLG experience (interviews etc.)
TT1 Leaves FnaticMSI / FXOtgun and FXO part ways
Related, smaller teams breaking down?
Money is SC2 (aTnCloud)
Slow payment from tournaments big and small
Korean players reportedly practicing SC2 including big names
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=280168
Milikis leaving eSports
Team Liquid Website Changes
Team Liquid Non-Featured List
Players
Organizations
iGrok leaving MotM
Rapid Fire!

Fungal & Viper OP
GrandMasters not really Top 200 (Combat Ex for Prez)
No reserved spots for high MMR this season
IdrA not GM lol.
Day9 Plays Amnesia (fucking amazing)
Blizzard eSports Manager
IPL Map Contest! :D
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=280402
New GSL Format

Stim Cast Episode 9
Stim Cast #9
Diamond
ESV Korean Weekly
PPSL Fiasco
Gus Ledesma - A person we can all hate
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=283641
Its complicated, read it
Real money missing - $13,000
7k from SC2 prize$
2k from HON prize$
4k travel & Hotel expenses
People could go to Jail for this
Were being held at the hotel by police
UPDATE: Gus has apparently showed up at the hotel to pay that part
Only ~$900
Team AZK known for shady Dealings
Entire Event was corrupt, biased for them
Apparently even they haven’t been paid yet
Comes just after the WCG LoL stuff, very similar situation (minus the money being stolen).
IPL seems totally clean
witholding funds until everything is sorted out.
Update: they’ll be paying what they can to people Gus stole from
Removed PPSL Stream Priveleges
Could this be the catalyst for an oversight committee?
Hell, KeSPA would be better than this
TL Mapmaking Contest
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=284075
7 new maps, possibly for the Ladder Pool
3 2v2 maps!
Special TLOpen that will be played on all the finalist maps
Week after Providence.
Drama!
GSL Protoss!
All Code S protoss are in Ro16
No Code A Protoss have lost yet, technically speaking
Talk about Win%s (I’ve done my research Tumba!)

Rapid fire
HotS not coming out until 2013
At least according to the Investor Conference Call
HotS will have a shorter Campaign
TGun to ItsGosu
HerO hits #1 GM Korea
NaDa in Code A (Not Code S) for the first time ever.
Amnesia Finale tonight!