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Purpose of this thread:
+ Show Spoiler +To achieve a unified Toronto Starcraft 2 Community through communicating news on events, tournaments, and funzies within our local scene and the broader Starcraft 2 environment.
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+ Show Spoiler +By updating this main post and sending out an e-mail based newsletter. This post will be a rehash of the e-mail.
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Toronto Event: GSL/Blizzcon October
Date: October 21st (Friday), October 22nd (Saturday)
Where: 3030 Don Mills Road, North York, Ontario, M2J 3C1 Seneca Pub & Infiniti Internet Cafe
Further details: Original Thread, post here to show support
Hey Guys,
So i'm back from the long hiatus. Blah Blah Blah long story short newsletters are also back...semi regularly at the very least.
This week in Toronto there was mad competition stirring up as three simultaneous events took place, one in Markham, one Downtown, and one somewhere in Oakville or something. I attended the Victory Cafe as I always do due to helping out Chromate and the crew whenever I can and was very happy to hear that these guys have organized and to form E-Sports Canada (not the podcast) and will be continuing to provide events for the bigger tournaments as well as their own flavor of tourneys whenever time permitting.
Victory Cafe viewing
+ Show Spoiler +Victory Cafe was RAMMED. End of story the place was packed, if you were smart enough to come down and stick around you my friend did not miss one of the largest viewings to date. The atmosphere was superb and the O'Canada cheer that went up when the winner was crowned as King of MLG was...chilling... but I gotta say in a good way.
St.Louis viewing
+ Show Spoiler +I heard good things about St.Louis event but I think the biggest draw back was that MLG took place during a leafs game or something and the poor bar owner was forced to turn down the volume to that hockey can be heard? Sounds like bullshit, these hockey fans need to settle in and watch a real game where the point of the game is not to beat your opponents brain out with a hockey stick.
This week, Seneca Pub. If you've never been to Seneca Pub (and chances are you haven't because it's brand spanking new) it is a pretty sweet bar with TVs all over the place and a SICKLY huge projector screen. Pool tables, dart boards and fooz ball if I remember correctly means that during downtime you can either play standard games or run over to play a few sick matches of sc2. This is gonna be HUGE. I highly recommend.
That's it for this week. Stay tuned and enjoy the influx of Starcraft tournaments happening this month.
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I imagine there are plenty of GTA players on here (I'm currently in Guelph). What events or things we put together are of course, up to us.
Spazzer has his site, and is looking to produce some events in Ontario as well.
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That sounds awesome! I hope they work on new things soon, the last thing they did was the Toronto lan right? Unfortunately I had a test to prepare for o.O!
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whoa i Didn't know about that facebook group even!
insta-joined.
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I'm in Oakville.. definitely hoping there are more LAN's coming up!
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I'm nearby. Not into facebook though.
Add me in game if you want Zorkmid.332
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On March 21 2011 07:20 divito wrote:I imagine there are plenty of GTA players on here (I'm currently in Guelph). What events or things we put together are of course, up to us. Spazzer has his site, and is looking to produce some events in Ontario as well.
Matt Divito from cs?
Yeah I'm in toronto, i'd rather just use whats here on TL though.
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Canada450 Posts
I'm from Toronto (moving to Brampton soon though). Will add you guys when I get home.
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I think it's all good, GTA or within an hour or so is definitely "near by" lol as funny as that may sound! Speaking from an events point of you, would just outside of Toronto be easier to get people together for drinks and such or Downtown? I'm thinking of looking into bars and such where we can grab beers/eat and watch future tourneys...thoughts?
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I live in north york and work 9-5 in the downtown core. I'd be down for some drinking/tourney watching/LANing as long as it's not 3am like the GSL get togethers.
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Is anyone from the GTA interested in tournament play? I have been thinking of organizing a tourny for a while now and didn't know how to go about gauging interest. Let me know if you'd be interested and if yes, what would you like to see (i.e. min prize pool of $250 for first or $10 bucks for all day casuals, etc).
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On March 22 2011 04:12 supaskites wrote:
Is anyone from the GTA interested in tournament play? I have been thinking of organizing a tourny for a while now and didn't know how to go about gauging interest. Let me know if you'd be interested and if yes, what would you like to see (i.e. min prize pool of $250 for first or $10 bucks for all day casuals, etc).
i'd be interested 
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Im intrested too!
and i know i can speak for many others when i say please do it!
There was one not too long ago, and it had a great turn out. I know a few guys drove down from ottawa and montreal. The bigger the prize pool the more people appear from the far outskirts.
Regardless of how big it is, do it anyways! the more lans the better as far as i can tell.
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I am definitely in for any LANs in the GTA. It would be nice to find a larger venue as from what I heard, the last LAN was in a small internet cafe and capacity wasn't very large.
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Yeah man i'd definitely be down! I'd be willing to do a pitch based system too like everyone who is playing throws in 5 bucks and winner takes takes all but second place, third gets money back or something.
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I've been to like 8 lans in toronto, a lot of em go on at infiniti and turbo.
UofT has a player list of like 60 people, occasionally me and the other master players get together at a lan, we went this saturday actually.
I had a forum up but it died pretty fast. Maybe I should restart it
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Yeah man do that, how do you guys keep in touch? You set things up through like msn, or in-game? Don't tell me you're a hive mind plz 
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Canada6683 Posts
Nope, slained and amonkey are Protoss and Bekho and I are Terran.
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There are a lot of uoft players for sure. I go to western, but I'm from toronto, so def part of this community.
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same with most ppl from waterloo - we have a lot of players from the toronto area too
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