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Hey all, Gamgee here. Putting this here so no one misses it, but I've moved to Raleigh for work, and can no longer really do much to help the Asheville Barcraft scene grow. I did pop into the AshevilleNC starcraft channel (join it if you haven't yet!) and LucidInterval did mention that he and another fellow are looking at doing something for the summer MLGs. I've still got some friends in the area, so I hope to see some awesome BarCrafting action whenever I visit Asheville again in the future :D For now, just keep an eye on this thread, get in the AshevilleNC channel, and hopefully something'll happen here in the near future!
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Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/100144814925286345534/posts
Reddit Thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/asheville/comments/kko4a/any_asheville_starcraft_players_interested_in/
SCII Chat Channel: AshevilleNC
Asheville SCII Players:
+ Show Spoiler +Squig.999
Lucid.725
ReMiiX.304
Malkavian.698
Mtndrew.717
Flower.565
vVvRuFF.266
MMMig.489
JeBi.851
UNCjer.172
Mordoc.638
EDIT: Also, while this was mainly for SCII, I still find BW pretty interesting (although sadly my knowledge is very limited in that area), so feel free to post if you're one of the BW holdouts too :D While it might be easier to hold a viewing party/BarCraft for some of the SCII lans simply because they're in the western hemisphere's timezones, an OSL/ProLeague viewing party could be quite a bit o' fun as well.
Previous BarCraft:
+ Show Spoiler +![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/images2/f/fc/2011MLGProvidenceBanner.jpg) Asheville BarCraft!Where: City Billiards, 124 College Street, Asheville, NC 28801, 828-575-2266 When: Sunday, November 20 4:00PM-8:30PM What: Facebook Event Link Reddit /BarCraft Thread Reddit /Asheville Thread Sunday, November 20 at 4:00PM we will be hosting Barcraft Asheville for MLG Providence at City Billiards! The finals are scheduled to end at 8:30PM but last event lasted until about 9:30.
This weekend we will be having a giveaway, compliments of Rumble in the Bronze, with prizes including Jinx gift certificates and coaching sessions from some of our better local players!
Once again we would like to say a special thank you to City Billiards for having us!
How can I help?
Flyers will be linked here in just a few minutes. Put them up everywhere you can! I have full-color, glossy versions of the flyers on my person. Message me to pick some up! Be sure to upvote the Reddit thread and tell everyone you know!
Contact Info
Squig/Garrett can be reached in-game as Squig.999, by email (and Google Talk) at lgarrettiii@gmail.com, on Google+ as Larry Garrett, on Twitter as @MrFreeman and on Team Liquid as Squig. If you have any questions feel free to contact him or pop into the Battle.net chat channel "AshevilleNC"
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You can certainly add me to the list. As far as even having a BYOB viewing party my place might be a suitable one. 
Squig.999 - High Platinum Zerg
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I'm a high Platinum Terran living in West Asheville. Barcraft would be cool around here for sure, I assume we'd have to find an owner/manager who's into the idea, but much stranger things happen in Asheville thats for sure! I'd be down to help ask around and my house would also be a great place for a get together. I'm going to add everyone who replies to this, would love to meet up with some local players. -Craig
Lucid.725
mentalinstra@hotmail.com
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Maybe not a lot of Asheville players on TL forums. We should come up with some other ideas on how to locate and involve SCII player in this area...
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I will post to /r/Asheville today and I'm trying to build up from my RL friends. There are a couple people interested, but the majority of people don't have TL accounts or just lurk here.
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I go up to Asheville (well Lake Toxaway, close enough) every summer for about a month and I would love to get into some lans with you guys.
ReMiiX.304
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I am malkavian.698 I am a bronze league player/about to be Silver, and I am more than willing to work on getting a barcraft up and running in Asheville. Anyone have any ideas that might have some tv's we could use?
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Glad to see some more activity here I'll go ahead and update the main post with the new info, as well as that reddit post - I'd hoped to confirm about 10-20 people interested in the area, then start looking around at various sports bars with the added leverage behind of a known group of people interested which might give bar owners more of an inventive to give this a try (rather than an unknown number who *might* be interested). Basically, if it's a sports bar with WiFi, it's a potential BarCraft home, at least that's my understanding (as the former indicates they won't mind a group of vocal sports fan, and the latter suggests the internet infrastructure to handle streaming).
Also, one idea that I just thought of, maybe have an Asheville chat channel in SC2? Didn't even think of it at first, as I really haven't messed with chat channels in SC2 before, but maybe that might help us get something going as well.
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Gold league terran in west asheville here. I'm trying to head down to orlando to see it in person, but if I can't I'm definitely down to barcraft for it. And doing it for other events is a definite. Glad to help any way I can, just let me know what I can do. I spent this whole weekend watching sc2 since there was so much on, so am always down to find new friends to chill with and watch and play sc2. Don't remember my character code since I'm at work, but I'll post it when I get home tonight.
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I live in Cullowhee, and I know there's at least one other person down here on TL. I'd definately consider driving up to Asheville for a barcraft.
Mtndrew.717 - Bronze Protoss
drewster1991@gmail.com
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Since we're starting to get a bit of response on this, what does everyone think of email as a means of organizing ourselves? I have a G+ but not a Facebook, so that's somewhat more difficult for me. Forum threads and Reddit posts are nice but I don't think they're well suited to RSVPing attendees for a viewing party.
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Clownbaby.771 for the record, now that i'm home and can see. Excited about making this happen.
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I'm not a Starcraft player, but a huge fan (major RSI issues).
Anyway, I do have a bar that I might be able to get barcraft into if I can show an interest in doing it there. I'll be glad to help in any way I can.
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Hey all checking in again. I've added everyone to my friends list and will msg people when I see them online. Ziggy can we have your character ID or email or something to talk more about using the bar for an event? We should organize some kind of meetup soon to get our core group together and talk about everything.
Shoot me an email if you want, I believe it was squig who i was talking to about making flyers and getting more people together so we have a strong core group of people that are interested in a barcraft.
Anyone have ideas for a mailing list, chat room, forum or dedicated community meetup of some sort?
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Also, IPL 3 is soon... We should have a get together and watch some of it i work weekends but could do the finals if they're on sunday for sure...
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Add me to the list. Please update me if something like this actually goes down =]
Flower.565 - NA - High Master's
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Okay, so here's the plan:
We would like to do a Barcraft for MLG Orlando but we're going to do a dry run for IPL3: Atlantic City! We will be hosting a viewing party at my home and the event will be BYOB/Snacks. Rather than putting my physical address up on the internet publicly, I'll be more than happy to give the details to anyone who PMs me in game or here on TL. We will get started Sunday afternoon around 4PM and the Semi-finals start at 5PM.
I can be reached here, in game at Squig.999, on Google+ as Larry Garrett or by email at unfortunatesquig@gmail.com
If all goes well and we have a good turnout we will discuss with some bar/restaurant owners about MLG Orlando for next weekend. :D
Please Note: I have cats. If you have allergies be advised!
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I will be there Sunday afternoon with beer and food to share! Should get out of work around 4-5pm and will head over. Will be cool to meet some local players and hang out, hope everyone can at least make an appearance!
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