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With less than 36 hours until TL-Arena II opens its doors its time to start the polls and announce the players.
First some technical issues though: The show has been pushed back by half an hour. The event therefore will start at 22:30 CET, the 23RD OF OCTOBER (13:30 PST, 16:30 EST, 05:30 KST on Saturday 24th). Players, at this time, make sure to be in channel TL-Arena on ICC. Make sure you have the launcher on. Again, if you lag, we’ll kick you out – yes, we’re that ruthless :3 Our IRC channel will be #TL-Arena on Quakenet – we’ll try to read up on it during the show.
Now for the fun part:
Pre-game hype interview with
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ClouD+ Show Spoiler +
TL-Arena
- We all know you're a successful Protoss player. You won WCG Italy once again and you're going to China soon. Are you looking forward to that?
ClouD
- Of course I am, WCG has always been a fun time to me. It's too bad there are just 4 groups this year though, and it will be very hard to pass mine with Jaedong and Draco in it. I've practiced enough to give a good performance though, so I hope it goes better than last year ^^
TL-Arena
- We based the concept of Arena on the minigame from FF7's Golden Saucer. You got your nickname from the main character of that game - how do you feel about being in the "real" Cloud's position?
ClouD
- It's kind of funny, I still play FF7 from time to time and I have to say that the idea behind it is great. You did well using this for a Broodwar show
TL-Arena
- What handicap are you afraid of the most?
ClouD
- I'm not sure, the obs one looked tough at first, but some of the ones I've read on the TL Arena II topic are just cruel! I just hope I won't end up playing without t1 units or something like that
TL-Arena
- Yeah some are pretty ridiculous ^^ So Shauni made it out alive last time, but we've done our best to make it a bit more difficult. How far do you think you can get?
ClouD
- I'm not sure, it really depends on who I will play and how well they will. It will be hard to make it alive till the end, but if I lose with 6-7 handicaps that would be ok, as long as the games will be fun.
TL-Arena
- Well, hopefully it will be a challenge getting so far. Thanks for the interview and good luck!
ClouD -Thank you, I'll do my best!
Players
I actually put names in a hat and drew them eyes closed. I did it on stream, you can watch the video-on-demand on livestream.com/pholon. Watch it if you want suspense, else click the spoiler below:
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The reserves, in order, are:
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Tirentu // tirentu // Zerg // D+ // Canada
-orb- // de_inferno // Protoss // C- // USA
Mumblee // Mumblee // Protoss // D+ // Canada
Sha[DoW] // JST-ShaFoW // Protoss // C- // Canada
GG.Win // GG.Win // Zerg // C/C+ // Canada
Fanatacist // [RUTGERS]Fana- // Protoss // D+ // Angola
Raiju // DigitalLove // Terran // C // Australia
Grahf_ // grahf_ // Zerg // D+ // USA
Yenta // mG.yenta // Zerg // C // Poland
Blueblimp // blueblimp // Zerg // D+ // Canada
B-Roll // B-Roll // Terran // D+ // USA
Disco, never_nal, you’re excluded but, you know, if noone shows up we’ll let you play.
Onto the polls!
Maps
NOTE: Neo Medusa is already in the map pack but I guess we could play it twice? :/ (nice work requester).
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Handicaps
NOTE: CPU Ally requires rigged maps. Since it came up again this edition we wanted to look into making these. Someone is making them for us but I’ll only include the HC if they’re done/tested in time. Also note that we can't enforce No Minimap - we'll have to trust ClouD and a Post-it. "Sudden Death" means Lose 1 Nexus = Game Over. "Glass Ceiling" means No Probe production after 10 minutes.
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That’s it for now, keep an eye on this topic for the streamlink. Use this topic for LR/Feedback and keep enrolling/questions in the announce topic.
