Patches - major changes from each patch, thoughts on it
SC2 vs SC1 - major / minor differences, better / worse?
Match-up of the week: ZvT - an all encompassing discussion about the match-up
SC2's gunna be big in e-sports; we know that. What do we want to see happen, though?
Evolution of Play in SC2 -- Week 1 to Now
Map Banter: Desert Oasis -- discussions about the map

Podcast is recorded and can be downloaded >>HERE<<

>>Alternative Link<< (Filefront)

Sorry, download is kinda slow. Sorry, not all topics were covered. Sorry, Nony's computer died right before the cast or something. Hope he's not dead. PLEASE comment and tell me what everyone thinks!

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JP here from MLG. If you haven't watched or seen MLG's Showcase Series, then you probably don't know me. If you have, thanks for watching! This is a

A little about me...
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While I don't intend to tell my life story here, I do want to include a little background about my podcasting history. I've run a WoW PvP podcast (oh no, my secrets out!) for two years coming up this June. ArenaCast did quite well for itself, building a community and peaking at around 12,000 weekly downloads on shows. As of late, my interest in the game has slowed down, and I've stopped doing it as my co-hosts bowed out one-by-one.

Podcast Info
I've decided to go ahead and do a podcast -- maybe weekly, maybe bi-weekly, or this may be the first and last episode -- for SC2. Right now its a developing project, so I'm just winging it and naming it State of the Game SC2 Beta Podcast. Keep in mind that I'm still working on molding the show. I'm more of a dive-right-in, fix-it-later type guy so that's what I plan on doing!

User Questions

If you're interested in submitting a question to ask this weeks cast, simply respond to this post and include a bolded @Question tag before your question. Pretty simple!

As always, I am constantly looking to improve anything I do on the internetz. If you have any suggestions about topics or you feel like calling me a giant noob then feel free to post!

silver_fox

Canada243 Posts

March 31 2010 00:46 GMT

awesome.. looking forward to it

HDstarcraft

United States577 Posts

March 31 2010 00:50 GMT

Sounds interesting. Expecting great insight into the current metagame with the guests for week 1

Pekkz

Norway1505 Posts

March 31 2010 00:51 GMT

Really cool! Glad ZvP is first matchup to be discussed.

zerglingsfolife

United States1694 Posts

March 31 2010 00:52 GMT

OMG this looks Awesome!!!! I like Tyler's description, hahaha.

@Question How do you think the change to the Thor getting splash damage will change ZvT?

Edit: Spelling

Iaaan

Canada578 Posts

March 31 2010 00:55 GMT

JP is the man

Two_DoWn

United States13684 Posts

March 31 2010 00:57 GMT

Sweet. Cant wait for this!

@Question: What needs to happen in order for pure terran mech to migrate into SC2?

TieN.nS)

United States2131 Posts

March 31 2010 00:58 GMT

That's a pretty nice lineup.

SirGlinG

Sweden933 Posts

March 31 2010 00:58 GMT

Would be interesting to hear a detailed discussion about how starcraft1 skills translates over to starcraft 2. Are there notable differences in how the wc3 players and the sc players approach the game?

What makes the game fun to play? Are these factors probable to remain over time? The game is in it's beta stage but for how long do you think it can/will live as a game and as a e-sport?

Hope u'll find anything of this interesting enough for discussion.

I've gotta say that you've approached the elitist sc, particularly TL, community in a respectful and correct fashion. I see a future in these podcasts if the topics and guests remain as appealing as these sure are.

Thanks, good luck!

itmeJP

United States1101 Posts

March 31 2010 01:00 GMT

#10

On March 31 2010 09:58 TieN.nS) wrote:
That's a pretty nice lineup.

I've reached out to Tasteless but he's insanely busy at the moment. Going to try to rotate players each week (old and new) and have me and Sean be static chairs.

jeebuzzx

Canada365 Posts

March 31 2010 01:01 GMT

#11

those are some really good guests

Synwave

United States2803 Posts

March 31 2010 01:02 GMT

#12

Looking forward to it.

See.Blue

United States2673 Posts

March 31 2010 01:07 GMT

#13

On March 31 2010 09:57 Two_DoWn wrote:
@Question: What needs to happen in order for pure terran mech to migrate into SC2?

Seconded. I'm dying to see something like this happen. Seeing TLO's T match vs Nazgul on metalopolis was the closest ive yet to seeing this and it made me so happy haha

Alou

United States3748 Posts

March 31 2010 01:08 GMT

#14

Cool.

JP you're getting busy. Don't overload yourself too much!

Pervect

1280 Posts

March 31 2010 01:09 GMT

#15

Nice, look forward to this. Man though Day9 is doing a ton of SC right now (not that I mind at all, but by god the man is a machine).

silver_fox

Canada243 Posts

March 31 2010 01:09 GMT

#16

you should try to book the nexus liftoff guy ...

QuothTheRaven

United States5524 Posts

March 31 2010 01:10 GMT

#17

Wow, talk about an All-Star lineup. Can't wait to hear this!

CandleJack

United States104 Posts

March 31 2010 01:13 GMT

#18

Oh wow, this looks incredible. Really looking forward to this.

@Question Do you think the recent buffs to static defenses were significant enough to create a real 'defender's advantange'?

itmeJP

United States1101 Posts

March 31 2010 01:24 GMT

#19

On March 31 2010 10:09 kilika wrote:
you should try to book the nexus liftoff guy ...

I missed this meme -- please explain!

Rice

United States1332 Posts

March 31 2010 01:30 GMT

#20

this looks awesome so far, keep up the good work!

@Question Do you think the Marauder makes the terran matchups a lot less interesting due to how powerful it is in every matchup? What needs to be done(if anything) to fix this problem?