Fine I take that back, though you claimed your animosity towards complexity had little to do with naniwa. I just found it funny you went out of your way to find an example of someone else forfeiting a game and just posting it for our viewing
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//: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty |OT4| Everyone Else Would Beat Catspajamas
- Thread starter Corran Horn
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Ye, I remember you accusing me of being biased, and I'm fine with that, but don't say that I ever claimed that I was unbiased
(the complexity thing had a lot to do with CS too)
And actually, I didn't go out of my way to find it, someone on some other forum (maybe TL or reddit, not sure) said that ToD had forfeited a warcraft 3 game for it being too hot so I just youtubed it to see what the circumstances were.
(and if you have read threads for tourneys that ToD play in you should know that I'm a pretty big ToD fan too...)
http://www.majorleaguegaming.com/news/the-first-details-about-the-mlg-2012-pro-circuit
MLG 2012 details
Sounds bad and there isnt enough prize money still.
MLG 2012 details
Sounds bad and there isnt enough prize money still.
Those details sounds pretty solid to me.
Glad MLG is coming back to Columbus since I wasn't able to go last year.
If they are giving a 10,000 top prize for what is essentially a qualification tournament I imagine the "Championship" prize will be pretty hefty.
Glad MLG is coming back to Columbus since I wasn't able to go last year.
If they are giving a 10,000 top prize for what is essentially a qualification tournament I imagine the "Championship" prize will be pretty hefty.
TheThunder
Member
I hope they just fixed the seed system so it's much easier to drop out of pool play and much easier to qualify from the open bracket.
Hope Columbus is as hype as last year.
Hope Columbus is as hype as last year.
TheThunder
Member
Assembly is a 2nd tier event anyway, IEM is getting there.
GOM, Dreamhack, MLG and IPL are the major players this year, OGN will easily be there if they switch this year as well.
GOM, Dreamhack, MLG and IPL are the major players this year, OGN will easily be there if they switch this year as well.
You have to remember that the IEM event is also a qualifier for the IEM WC which has a $75K prize pool.
mlg open bracket in general makes it so competitive.
we don't usually see eu pro's there but its understandable seeing that eu have dreamhack and other tournament like hsc.
TheThunder
Member
I'm talking from a spectator's point of view. People will always flock to whomever provides the highest level of competition + great production values and I believe those 2 are lacking in both.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
Maybe 7 probe rush will come. Entertaining!
TheThunder
Member
LoL has 100k on stream and it's only day 1 ? goddamn !!
Won't be a surprise if it pulls an SC2 and kicks Starcraft out of the center stage in MLG the same way starcraft did to Halo.
Won't be a surprise if it pulls an SC2 and kicks Starcraft out of the center stage in MLG the same way starcraft did to Halo.
But LoL crowds have been, to my understanding, much smaller. Does LoL still have those embedded streams in the client
Destiny is ahead of the curve.
Speaking of destiny he is on state of the game tonight instead of artosis.
I don't even remember seeing League of Legends at Orlando. Was it on the circuit then? If it was I didn't see a large crowd.
no way to know for sure, best scouting is to poke with stalker to see the number of the marines and decide from there.
perryfarrell
Member
IEM Kiev is a pretty terrible event so far, as far as SC2 is concerned. Lag issues, one game every three hours, lots of non-casters clogging up games, sjeez...
TheThunder
Member
It's probably hard to gauge really but in MLG as far as I know they've been giving the 2010 starcraft treatment so it will be very hard for the crowd to make a splash when they are put on the side, however it could be true that the game is not a LAN crowd favorite as much as on an online stream, I still expect them to get at least multiple streams and casters they way SC2 did when it blew up.
It wasn't a circuit game they way SC2 and Halo was, so I don't think it had a main stage with a big screen but then again I wasn't there so I wouldn't know.
You cant get together and play it without LAN?!
Sounds like a good plan. Reading the unit count is vital. Also, keep that thing alive as long as possible in his base.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
I feel the same way about fighting games. Love to play them, but when it comes to tournaments and streams, I can't watch it.
TheThunder
Member
I just can't get over how LoL looks, the art is just... not good, HoN is even worse with random crap cluttering the screen.
Dota 2 however looks great, the art is beautiful and the animations are superb. I guess that shows the difference between a world class developer like Valve and guys like riot/s2.
Now if only Gaben would stop ignoring me and send me a beta invite.
Dota 2 however looks great, the art is beautiful and the animations are superb. I guess that shows the difference between a world class developer like Valve and guys like riot/s2.
Now if only Gaben would stop ignoring me and send me a beta invite.
Coach Lee definitely is the problem with TSL. It seems that all those players bailing out are doing the right thing.
PhoenixDark
Banned
no, Koreans are always honorable and right, foreigners are always greedy and wrong
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=284741
Apparently some Swedish girl spends her days seducing stupid SC2 noobs, getting them to buy her stuff and give her money, then when she gets them to buy her a plane ticket to visit them, she steals their stuff in the middle of the night and bails out.
So mean, LOL.
Apparently some Swedish girl spends her days seducing stupid SC2 noobs, getting them to buy her stuff and give her money, then when she gets them to buy her a plane ticket to visit them, she steals their stuff in the middle of the night and bails out.
So mean, LOL.
Isnt this as old as the internet?
Let's see how I've progressed since last year
hmm all gold
O look I got placed into diamond!
Masters
awwwwww yeaaa
Forever plat!
With a total of 12 games won lol for 1v1
One important difference is that there are paying travel + accommodation costs for qualifying 32 players. It means a lot more Korean/European teams will be able to justify sending players, unlike the old system where you had to rank very high just to break even on the travel costs.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
state of the game starts soon. Sadly no artosis with all this tsl drama going on.
PhoenixDark
Banned
god dammit why am I still at work
Corran Horn
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AdventureRacing
Member
Yeah if the MOBA genre is going to become a massive esport i hope it's DOTA 2 that ends up leading the way.
Also i don't think it's surprising at all the popularity these games get. It's simply unbelievable how many people are playing this genre (it could be more than 30 million across all the games).
The release of DOTA 2 is going to be huge as well.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
Extended series remains in MLG 2012 llololololol
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
Thats because you were already beaten down.
AdventureRacing
Member
Yeah it's so awesome when extended series just completely ruin the grand final. Nothing to see here.
Edit: Seriously gunrun seems to be everywhere, is there anything he isn't helping out with lol.
Edit: Seriously gunrun seems to be everywhere, is there anything he isn't helping out with lol.