[BWWI] Day 1+2 - Teamliquid Blog

Things to expect in this blog
- Meeting with the progamers
- Pictures as Chill and Kennigit pass the masses of WoW players to get into the venue a bit early and their subsequent reactions.
- Random thoughts on Starcraft 2
- Our abusive strategies specifically designed for this build of SC2 (We already have some theorycrafted LOL!)

Things you shouldn't expect
- Deep insight to the game itself
- Naked pictures of Manifesto7 (worth more than Murloc pets, I know)
- All those important things will be presented in a much more presentable fashion a little later on.

We will be continuing this blog similar to the Blizzcon one throughout the day. To give you a more in depth feeling of what the event has/will be like, and our experiences in Paris and with other TL members.

+ Show Spoiler [StarCraft Tournament Results] +

1st round

sAviOr 2-0 (P)

Dreiven

Mondragon 0-2 (T)

Sea

Kal 2-1 F91
(P)

Stork 2-0

IdrA

2nd round
(Z)

sAviOr 2-0 (T)

Sea

Stork 2-1

Kal

IdrA 2-1 F91
(P)

Dreiven 2-1 (Z)

Mondragon

Sea 2-0

IdrA

Dreiven 0-2 (P)

Kal

Kal 0-2

Sea

Stork 2-1

sAviOr

Loser bracket final:
(T)

Sea 2-1

sAviOr

Day 2 - Finals:
(T)

Sea 0-2

Stork

+ Show Spoiler [Finals VOD] +

http://www.teamliquid.net/tracker/details.php?info_hash=1ddefed870e238ddbfced9a948f3a25497b9dc96

Day 2 - Aftermath
- Typing the events which transpired last night would not do them justice. We are uploading a whole bunch of video clips including a 2 hour long post event synopsis with Chill, Kennigit, Meat and Mani.

- We are starting to upload right now.

I'll start - Mani

From left to right: XeoFreeStyler, Stork, Kennigit, Chill, Haji. The bald guy in the back is my man Chosi.

Day 2 - Part 5
Rage got Savior and the CJ "chaperon" to agree to do Team Liquid Attack. More to come later. And they're coming to the TL party tonight, evidently.

Day 2 - Part 4
- The finals just finished and my hopes were crushed that Sea would win two BO3s ;_;
- We yelled 3,2,1 fighting for Sea and Stork
- The MBCGame camera crew heard this and came running over to interview us. They were interviewing Taiche and then got us to do the cheer a couple more times on film - hence tasteless and mani having to keep stopping hahah.
- We had the letters of Teamliquid.net on single pieces of paper for the camera but apparently the stream had a black audience - that's OK - it will be seen by all of Korea cause MBC filmed that too

- Rest of the day will mostly be playing SC2. We had a good talk about it last night and it will be nice to play each other and not random scrubbers who die to 1 zeal 1 probe harass.

We arrived pretty early to get front seats. Unfortunately the first 3 rows were reserved for Blizzard employees and VIPs, so we were in row four. We actually got everyone in rows four and five somehow I think, except for Kwark who just randomly appeared and followed Idra into the VIP section.

We decided to do the cheers first when the players were warming up so they could hear it. We did 3 2 1 Yum Bo Sung fighting! I think it was pretty loud and he definitely heard it because I saw a little smirk on his face when we did it. Then Manifesto said something like "Oh that's nice from the boys at Teamliquid, although it would be nice to hear something for Stork.......Okay then" because we hadn't readied anything for Stork. We finally got around to doing the 3 2 1 Song Byun Goo fighting and all was well.

After we did the cheer some MBC Game camera guy (who was also kind of directing the action) and a translator lady came over and asked who was a Stork fan. It took awhile to respond since we were mostly Sea fans, but Taiche was a big Stork fan. He eventually got to do an interview with MBC Game on the spot, and I actually missed a lot of game 1 because I was leaning out of the way of the camera and trying to listen to the interview. At the end the translator lady asked us to do a Stork cheer but it kind of sucked because it was mid game and we didn't want to randomly yell out. Then I looked up and saw Sea dying to DT cheese -_-

Then we decided to do the cheer at the start of game so that it would be recorded into the VOD and so TL could hear it. We were pretty loud (I led the Sea cheer and Haji led Stork) but I was worried it wouldn't get recorded because there seemed to be no microphone on the crowd, but apparently IRC heard it. After we did the in-game cheer, MBC Game came rushing over and to ask us to do it again so they could record it. It was hilarious because you would always seem them come bolting full speed down the aisle after we did anything, and then they turned on their floodlight and started recording. That's why there's two cheers on the one game.

Man, when Sea + Show Spoiler +

EMPd all the Arbiters and pushed out, I was going insane. Then Stork somehow had a 70 supply army in reserve and cleaned up.

At the end, MBC Game and some other camera filmed us with the TL sign across our section.

Anyways, not much going on now. Kennigit and I are going to play SC2 and then obs the finals of the 2v2 tourney in an hour. Later.

Day 2 - Part 3 (random video dump)
+ Show Spoiler [more later] +

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMluzYpO9II

Day 2 - Part 2 (random pic dump)

+ Show Spoiler [more later] +

Manifesto7 - Official Progamer

BWWI Entrance. They had these rotating ads to show up coming events. Blizzard bought the ad space for all of them. It went from BWWI to...BWWI

Haji, Chill, Savior, Kennigit

Idra

Day 2 - Part 1

Kennigit and I are sitting at the main stage right now, we're trying to reserve the entire front row for TL. We couldn't get a white board unfortunately, but most of the people had TL shirts on yesterday. I'm wearing my pony shirt that all the progamers signed. We have to all be in the front so we can 321 Yum Bo Sung fighting! There's been some talk about rushing the stage to congratulate the winner. I don't know where we stand on that, but if it happens you'll probably see it on the stream.

Not much else to say. Haji was fucking tanked last night and it was everything I thought it could be and about 7 times more. And we're going to get drunk with progamers tonight. Easy.

Alright, Kennigit will probably update this with something useful while I put up some pictures.

Day 1 - Final
Wow what a crazy night.

- We watched the match between savior and Stork
+ Show Spoiler [Results] +

2-1 for stork ;_;)

- After this, about 25 of us went to the TL meet up which Taiche organized. First of all let me say what a baller Taiche is for setting that up - it was a huge success (pix and videos to follow).

- We were all drinking quite a bit but I'll recall everything interesting I can:

- Our cast (barring any forgotten names) was as follows - Liquid`Meat Chill Kennigit Tasteless Zizou21, Idra, Taiche, Taiche's GF, Retkusage, G.S)Naruto, Nyovne, Rage, Xeofreestyler, Chosi, Talic, Talic's GF, MYM.Raven, and some random TL guys - I'm sorry I don't remember your names but afairemember you simply told me that you were a lurker LOL including the guy who only has 50 posts and only flames people - he wouldn't tell me his TL ID cause he thought we'd ban him LOL.

- During the night we were joined by a few people:

- The WGTour guys, featuring DKnight

- MONDRAGON!!!!

- BLIZZARD EMPLOYEES!!!

- BLIZZARD EMPLOYEES WEARING TL SHIRTS (John (not jon :D), Martin, Anna, Christopher and....i think Johnathon, if I'm wrong on the last then shoot me. 4/5 with 4 pints).

- We tried to get the progamers to join us but unfortunately Savior and Sea had to play the losers final at like 9:30pm and they thought it would be too late. Don't think they were dodging however, Rage had a sick experience with Sea.

- Xeo and Rage couldn't find us during the Dreiven vs Kal match - they sat down in the front row with Sea[shield]. He recognized them from our earlier meeting and said "ahahaha Draiyven...many minerals....very bad bad. hahaha" LOLOL!. Sea was such a cool cat, he was legitimately excited to come chill with us tonight so we will try make up for it tomorrow.

- I demanded that Mondragon answer why he would not be on TL:Attack. At first he said something like "have you ever seen me vs. noobs???!!! NEVER!!" After Liquid`Meat bought him a beer he agreed to do it. No timeline set but we are so holding him to it

- RAGE BEAT KAL AT SC2 AND IS THEREFORE THE BEST SC2 PLAYER IN THE WORLD AT THIS MOMENT. Go read his blog or something if he posts about it for more info

- I forgot to mention that at the beginning of the day Chill and i had a funny experience. We snuck back stage to the progamer area (was empty) with mani and as we were sauntering out some blizzard employee walks up to us and goes "HEY ARE YOU FROM TEAMLIQUID?" "Yes" we reply "Next time, update your TLPD so I don't download Bluestorm 1.1 onto all the computers" ....we stood there stunned. I think our response was something like "ok LOL"

[mod note: TLPD is updated now :p]

- I have like 50 pictures of the TL Meet and a couple funny videos which i will be adding to this shortly.

Day 1 - Part 4

Stork > Kal 2-1. Was a pretty entertaining PvP, and Stork's PvP looks ridiculously solid. I had to keep asking Haji and Kennigit how Stork was still ahead after losing so much.

We're trying to do a video interview with the foreigners, but we can't get into the lounge. They said they'll come out to talk to us after they've played their matches.

We have seen everyone on the stage except Savior. I'm so sad because he's my favourite player (both here and just in general). I was talking with Xeo, trying to get Stork's signature, when suddenly he looked up and was like "wtf Savior???" and then we all rushed him for pics / signatures. I don't have pics with him since it was usually on someone else's camera. But I do have this:

+ Show Spoiler [Shirt signatures] +

From bottom left, clockwise, that's Manifesto7, Kal, Sea, Tasteless, Savior, Stork. Just need the foreigners and then maybe I'll get TL people to sign the back. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it, maybe a prize or something.

Anyways, Kennigit and Manifesto ditched me and everyone else is getting food so I'm going to get some food and then go show some newbs the meaning of pain in SC2

Day 1 - Part 3
+ Show Spoiler [Sea] +

+ Show Spoiler [Stork (kind of)] +

We just ambushed the progamers. Sea had a translator so we could actually have a conversation with him. I got my TL shirt signed, gave him a TL shirt and a cheerful which was pretty good. And he said he might come to the TL dinner, so we had to use Taiche's phone so we could get Sea's phone number (will be done).

Same treatment from Stork and Kal. Savior has been locked into the basement so we haven't seen him yet. I'm really looking forward to meeting him.

Sea > Mondragon 2-0
Savior > Dreiven 2-0
Stork > Idra 2-0
Kal > F91 2-?

Now Stork is playing Kal on the stage. We loaded up an image of Goon range and held it up for a while in the front row but he didn't look at it. Then to make him feel better we did a Stork cheer.

Day 1 - Part 2
- We finished the opening ceremony - thank god i had some glorious diablo 3 to block out those commentators.

- I filmed the mondragon vs sea[shield] matches
+ Show Spoiler [ Match result] +

2-0 for sea but nice games

- Sea is a little baller and all the teamliquid crew ran over to get autographs/pics with him. One of the MBC coaches is here who speaks English. Based on the rest of the schedule for StarCraft they are going to come to the TL meet tonight.

- just saw dreiven vs savior. we are going downstairs to watch more sc

Day 1
- We just met Mani and toured around the event. Its big. REAL big. The main stage is like the largest wide screen TV you ever imagined, plus 2 more attached to the side. We just met lordofascension, who is standing right behind me as i type this. Mazor and vilda from GG.net are to our right, and the two SCLeagacy guys are just behind us.

- We met 3 Blizz employees who are in charge of the RTS tournaments. Very cool guys - 1 was wearing his TeamLiquid shirt underneath his Blizzard employee one! There's some TL guys apparently a few rows back who Chill has gone to find and chat with - we'll be updating this blog with pictures in a few minutes.
+ Show Spoiler [photos] +

- Its about 30 minutes till the opening ceremony starts.

- We just played a bunch of random matches - vs random noobs. Wow. None of you can ever say anything about my SC skill ever again. 10 pool has been nerfed a bit since the build that LR played in California, but siege tanks blasts are completely raping. 2 tank blasts killed 13 marines just as one guy was leaving his base.

- The closest a guy came to beating me was walling his ramp with rax and two deports which fits perfectly - Zealots however completely rape.

- we are both 5-0 but i realized we simply need to 2 gate rush/10 pool whatever kill 3/4 the mining units and then explore the tech tree. We'll probably do that this afternoon

- Lastromantic i tried everything to test your strat. I even got 3 blizzard employees to come over to show me and finally one realized that salvaging isn't in this test build. Back to old theorycrafting board.

- During our short play test we found we were both in "broodwar" mode ie. splitting quickly of the go selecting mining units etc. I even forgot about MBS until after we got back here. We were playing standard bw builds (2 fac for example) and they work for the most part. Imagining tornado terran is scary because siege tanks blasts are so strong - they will have to be toned down

Day 0
- I arrived at my hotel around 10am and had to wait 2 hours before i could check in. The lady wouldn't give me access to the wireless until we checked in so i went to a near by park and leached it off some unsuspecting parisian. HA!

- Around 12pm when i arrived back at the hotel, the lady at the front desk looks at my sternly and says '...there's someone that would like to talk to you'. My first thought is that its French customs or my mom or something , but i was greeted with the pleasant voice of some guy. Haji

- Thedeadhaji and i met his hotel and then came over to mine to wait for Chill.

- Thoughts on haji: at first i thought he was paid actor. No way could a regular guy like this produce awful posting like that. We "chilled" and watched some vods and discussed why he has gone from fascist mod to tl troll!

- Chill arrived around 6pm and we laughed for about 45 minutes at Kwark's blog asking for help and the replys it got. Around 8:20 we started to make our way to our meeting point with mani and taiche.

- Taiche set up and organized a small dinner for us the first night. So we head over to this Blizzard hotel....i immediately knew we had arrived when i would see random excited men and women in their 30s talking loudly (American ofc) and strutting...probably a "i work for a company that makes $5000000000000 per year from wow" kind of strut. Very cool cats, but haven't had a chance to talk to them.

- We asked the girl to call mani in his room but she said he hadn't arrived yet. Just as we began to formulate plans to call our "other" friends including Dustin Browder, Chris Siggity, Ma Jae Yoon and Yum bo sung i saw Samwise Didier.

- Whoa. Its crazy seeing people in real life who you've only seen videos off (i imagine the effect will be similar for DB). We were about to approach him to get pix etc, when all of a sudden we realized mani had arrive. Fuck, the sacrifices i make. Now I'm just going to be one of the millions of WoW monsters that approaches him today LOL.

- Mani had spent 23 hours traveling so we waited while he changed, and lounged around with Taiche and Liquid`Meat. Taiche had seen the Koreans walking around the hotel, we also saw Mondragon off in the distance go walking by - sir we have drinking to do ce soir.

- It was funny meeting mani. Even though this was the first time i had met the man it was like I'd known him for much longer (...perhaps through the internet). We jumped on the subway and went to me Taiche's girlfriend at a cozy french restaurant.

- You know when people joke and make stereotypes about the french and their food? Yes those are all true, i saw a guy standing with a cellphone in his hand but also large baguette in the same hand...looked like he was talking to it. My first thought was to take a picture for IRC but it was just as we arrived at the restaurant.

- Taiche and his girlfriend were amazing. The busted out some french on the waiter and we got a wide selection of wine and food and talked about things we all had in common - TL and Starcraft(except taiche's gf but he filled her in). Chill and i were just talking and we agreed that Taiche is like the nicest guy we've ever met - true baller.

- Around midnight we started to head back to our respective hotels. Haji came back with me and chill and they watched the Luxury vs Best vods. I fell asleep after the 4th game. Fuck.

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Stuff for today. We are about to leave for the subway and head over to the venue. If you see us in our tl shirts come over and say hi, we will be at 1 of 3 locations - the SC2 area, the right up by the stage watching mani and tasteless cast or in the press room planning our attack on the progamers.

- we hope to live stream our encounter with the progamers. This also includes having them interact with you guys via stickam or irc or something. Stay tuned

- I will be challenging Dustin Browder on why he hasn't removed MBS yet. My evidence will be my BW skill level (negative 50) vs my sc2 skill level (i suspect to be much higher)

- Stay tuned!

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