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Important Update
In yesterday's Blood Bath Tournament the replay upload was apparently broken. Currently the developers of ingame try to fix the issue. However, it might happen that the report function might still bug. In case of bugs, please contact the tournament admins and tell the results. Also, winners should prepare to manually forward (via host or upload) their games, so we have stuff to cast. Thanks!
Also, please note that you must register an account on incup.eu and set a screen name (ICCup nick), before you can sign up / check-in. If you can't figure it out, please ask an admin right away. If everything else fails, and only if(!), we might lend you our accounts. For this, please contact the personell in channel broodwar.de on ICCup. Thanks.
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One of the oldest Brood War fanpages, broodwar.de, is going to host tournaments again. The page itself used to cover a lot of stuff for the German speaking scene - the  BWCL, the BW4Ever Tournaments, a giant VOD database and obviously the German national team. In the past three years relatively few happened there, but today they released a note - they're back in action.
What? Prizes? Info?
Actually, the page to sponsor is not exactly broodwar.de. Broodwar.de is part of the ingame.de network - which features a lot more titles. Hence the new name InStarcraft.de. One of their partner pages, inhearthstone.de, promotes the new part of the network. This will be uninteresting for most, yet it's important. InHearthstone was so nice to support former broodwar.de with prizes - 10 Hearthstone Betakeys. For all of you who are as unfamiliar with the eSports scene as I am: Hearthstone is some Blizzard Trading Card Game. Apparently it's quite cool, so maybe you want to try it out. Regardless, there will be a lot of Brood War - so sign up and play.
From Friday (25th) to Sunday (27th) three tournaments will be hosted on ICCup. Every tour has a theme - one for fun and team play, one features modern maps and one features really old and nasty stuff.
Friday, 25th: Blood Bath Tournament
The name says it all - a 1on1 tournament, Single Elimination on Blood Bath only. The finalists get a Betakey each. Yey! Sadly, at the moment, there's no caster for this tournament. If you're interested let me know, I'll forward you!
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Check-In Start: 18:30 CEST
Tournament Start: 19:00 CEST
Server & Channel: ICCup / broodwar.de
Saturday, 26th: Modern 1on1 Tournament
Saturday will be pure standard. A simple 1on1 Single Elimination Tournament, Bo1 until Quarterfinals. Top 4 will receive a Betakey - but they have to play all games; this means you should not simply walk away if you are in the Top8. You have to continue! After all, Brood War is awesome.
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Check-In Start: 13:00 CEST
Tournament Start: 13:30 CEST
Cast Start: 14:00 CET (Bakuryu casting probably in German!)
Server & Channel: ICCup / broodwar.de
Maps: Oxide, Fighting Spirit, Circuit Breakers, Sniper Ridge, Wind and Cloud
Sunday, 27th: Oldschool1on1 Tournament
Yeah, hopefully this tournamnet will attract a couple of bw.de's infamous oldschool flamers beloved characters. bw.de hopes to lure them into daylight with a couple of really, really dusty and nasty maps. Modes and prizes are the same as with the modern tournament - 1on1 SE, Bo1 until Quarterfinals, 4 Keys. Games have to be played!
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Check-In Start: 13:00 CET (Please note that Europe will go back to winter time, no more CEST. Double check with the calendar entry if you're not sure (subtract an hour for check-in))
Tournament Start: 13:30 CET
Cast Start: 14:00 CET (Bakuryu, Oxyactey casting probably in German!)
Server & Channel: ICCup / broodwar.de
Maps: Luna the Final, Lost Temple, Dire Straits, Hall of Valhalla, Bifrost III
Things are subject to change - it was quite a rush until now.
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hmh i love the netherlands o0 :>
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I need to remember my old bw.de account!
edit: I live in Aachen and I can attest that it's always much cloudier on the Dutch side of the border!
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Nice! A deceptive ploy to tempt brood war players to switch but more brood war nonetheless! I'm excited c:
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Can't wait to play in the oldschool tourney.
Especially the original LT:
+ Show Spoiler [taken from liquipedia] +
The original Lost Temple map had the following positional imbalances:
On 6 o'clock, it is impossible to build a wall-in with Barrack and 2 Supply Depots.
The 6 o'clock position had a distinctly inefficient mineral structure, leading to less minerals mined per unit time.
Terran players were able to land a tank on a small piece of land on the bottom left side of the 6 o'clock base that made it safe from melee attacks.
On 12 o'clock, it is possible to place tank on the natural cliff and be able to hit the vespene geyser at the 3 o'clock position.
On 12 o'clock, due to the bad mineral formation of the natural expansion, Terran players expanding there do not have enough space to attach an add-on to their Command Center.
On 12 o'clock, the base entrance is too far from natural, making FE harder (Zergs must make 3hatch in order to FE).
The 9 o'clock position's natural expansion and mineral only expansion were both vulnerable from the same cliff.
On a side note, I don't think that Luna is imba enough to be included alongside the rest of the maps.
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lol tobad I'm gone this weekend woulda loved to play in these :D
@Rulz
Luna has gas positional disadvantages so both right side bases mine gas slower, will most likely affect mirrors or any Z vs matchup.
Also I think bottom left and top right have pretty difficult PvZ walls for FFE, or maybe I'm jsut remembering that wrong
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On October 22 2013 03:14 ggrrg wrote:Can't wait to play in the oldschool tourney. Especially the original LT: + Show Spoiler [taken from liquipedia] +
The original Lost Temple map had the following positional imbalances:
On 6 o'clock, it is impossible to build a wall-in with Barrack and 2 Supply Depots.
The 6 o'clock position had a distinctly inefficient mineral structure, leading to less minerals mined per unit time.
Terran players were able to land a tank on a small piece of land on the bottom left side of the 6 o'clock base that made it safe from melee attacks.
On 12 o'clock, it is possible to place tank on the natural cliff and be able to hit the vespene geyser at the 3 o'clock position.
On 12 o'clock, due to the bad mineral formation of the natural expansion, Terran players expanding there do not have enough space to attach an add-on to their Command Center.
On 12 o'clock, the base entrance is too far from natural, making FE harder (Zergs must make 3hatch in order to FE).
The 9 o'clock position's natural expansion and mineral only expansion were both vulnerable from the same cliff.
On a side note, I don't think that Luna is imba enough to be included alongside the rest of the maps. I fucking love LT. Its the only map I played for like...seven years. Still saddens me that the community has betrayed it in favour of fluff like FS. 
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On October 22 2013 03:20 DarkNetHunter wrote:
lol tobad I'm gone this weekend woulda loved to play in these :D
@Rulz
Luna has gas positional disadvantages so both right side bases mine gas slower, will most likely affect mirrors or any Z vs matchup.
Also I think bottom left and top right have pretty difficult PvZ walls for FFE, or maybe I'm jsut remembering that wrong
I still don't think it compares to the other jokes in the mappool.
Just look at Dire Straits xD
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United Kingdom1744 Posts
I somehow didn't imagine this happening with Hearthstone.. But hey ho. I like more BW.
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On October 22 2013 03:37 ggrrg wrote:Show nested quote +On October 22 2013 03:20 DarkNetHunter wrote:
lol tobad I'm gone this weekend woulda loved to play in these :D
@Rulz
Luna has gas positional disadvantages so both right side bases mine gas slower, will most likely affect mirrors or any Z vs matchup.
Also I think bottom left and top right have pretty difficult PvZ walls for FFE, or maybe I'm jsut remembering that wrong
I still don't think it compares to the other jokes in the mappool. Just look at Dire Straits xD
Dire Straits is just slightly imbalanced. I was actually thinking of replacing Luna with Jungle Story, but pfff...
+ Show Spoiler +
ZvP: 1-8 (11.1%) [ Games ]
:mustafa:
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On October 22 2013 05:13 GeckoXp wrote:Show nested quote +On October 22 2013 03:37 ggrrg wrote:On October 22 2013 03:20 DarkNetHunter wrote:
lol tobad I'm gone this weekend woulda loved to play in these :D
@Rulz
Luna has gas positional disadvantages so both right side bases mine gas slower, will most likely affect mirrors or any Z vs matchup.
Also I think bottom left and top right have pretty difficult PvZ walls for FFE, or maybe I'm jsut remembering that wrong
I still don't think it compares to the other jokes in the mappool. Just look at Dire Straits xD Dire Straits is just slightly imbalanced. I was actually thinking of replacing Luna with Jungle Story, but pfff... + Show Spoiler +
ZvP: 1-8 (11.1%) [ Games ]
:mustafa:
Sounds great!
It was used in WCG. It must be good enough 
Of course, if nastiness is the main intention you can always go with a Blizzard motw map or Starcraft Stellar Forces. ^^
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On nom nom, games all weekend
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United Kingdom1744 Posts
On October 22 2013 05:30 dRaW wrote:
On nom nom, games all weekend
Same could be said for another tournament in play this weekend... 
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Bisutopia19397 Posts
Blizzard created hearthstone to revive ESports and bring back the brood war scene. They are so smart like that.
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On October 22 2013 03:41 ImbaTosS wrote:
I somehow didn't imagine this happening with Hearthstone.. But hey ho. I like more BW.
The Lord of Broodwar works in mysterious ways. Who might know what Flash thought, when he sat this up (;
For me, as long as it enables us to host a tournament with a prize, im satisfied.
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Russian Federation192 Posts
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On October 22 2013 02:24 Cele wrote:
hmh i love the netherlands o0 :>
I heard you also love this picture:
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/r4jYLbY.jpg)
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EPT![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/44sOKbT.png)
