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//: StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm |OT| Like Riding a Bike
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lol thats ridiculous
SmartWaffles
Member
The Showtime in WC3 is Korean so no.
I'm curious to go back and watch the games to see how many times Nerchio gg'd.
WCS America Day 1 Challenger: http://www.twitch.tv/wcs_america
qxc vs Kane up first. Two of the Top 5 NA players, imo. Shame only one can make it into Premier. qxc will take an indefinite break from SC2 if he doesn't make it.
Edit: Kane 3-0. His ZvT is SCARY fucking good. He event 2-1'd Polt to make Challenger. Great late game macro along with ability to defend against early game timings.
qxc definitely felt the heat.
He said "gg and goodbye" in the last game. Hopefully he'll be back when LotV is released.
Sucks to see him taking a break just when Blizzard made it possible for foreign players to have a solid chance in WCS. I mean look at the country and race representation for premier league right now, think there's only one Korean so far and near perfect race balance.
Come quickly LotV beta!
Come quickly LotV beta!
Damn, expected Semper to take at least one map. Never heard about him until now but he did 2-0 Drunkenboi, a solid NA Terran, to qualify for Challenger.
I think Astrea could give Scarlett some real trouble. A very talented up and coming Protoss player. He also 2-1'd Scarlett in the second qualifier to make it to Challenger.
Edit: Also, just watched the NaNiwa vs Nerchio VOD. Seriously surprised that Nerchio gg'd every game and even typed "gg gl" in the last game. NaNiwa showed more ragequit with just a "G" in the first game that Nerchio took. lol
I think Astrea could give Scarlett some real trouble. A very talented up and coming Protoss player. He also 2-1'd Scarlett in the second qualifier to make it to Challenger.
Edit: Also, just watched the NaNiwa vs Nerchio VOD. Seriously surprised that Nerchio gg'd every game and even typed "gg gl" in the last game. NaNiwa showed more ragequit with just a "G" in the first game that Nerchio took. lol
He looked to be in prime position to take this 3-1 before he donated all those Tempests just now. lol
And then he realized "yo, fuck Swarm Hosts" and kills Scarlett before she gets to a critical mass in Game 5. Shame that Scarlett won't be in Premier but we already have enough Swarm Host whores in there with Snute and FireCake so that's kinda ok with me.
Huge congrats to Astrea.
And like you said, great race distribution so far. Looking at the last day of Challenger matches tomorrow, Zerg will most likely have the greatest representation in Premier this season. MaSa and Xenocider could definitely give Hydra and viOLet a run for their money though.
I wonder if anybody will be able to put a stop to an inevitable Polt vs ForGG grand final. lol
She's looked really out of practice in the last half of 2014. Passion dead. ;_;
Based on her Twitter hints she's going to give Dota 2 a go now.
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At least it's not LoL, I guess.
Final day of MAL: The Beginning starts now!
http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/MAL_presents:_The_Beginning
http://www.twitch.tv/iammal
3rd place match: Soulkey vs Oz
Grand final: PartinG vs DRG
Hm? What makes you say that?
Last day of challenger league starting up: http://www.twitch.tv/wcs_america
No he played last night. Won though so he'll play in premier league.
Full premier league season 1 groups just drawn:
unknownstranger
Member
No he played last night. Won though so he'll play in premier league.
Full premier league season 1 groups just drawn:
Damn ForGG and Polt in the same group and lol at one all Zerg group.
This year the players are separated more by region because Blizzard made it a requirement to be a legal resident of the region you're entering in. Basically WCS is separated into three main leagues: premier league, GSL and Starleague. GSL and Starleague are based in Korea and that's where you'll find most of the top players. Premier league is for the rest of the world and takes qualified players from 6 different regions. Each of those three leagues awards WCS points. Players can also earn WCS points from separate tournaments throughout the year like IEM and Dreamhack. At the end of the year, the 16 players with the most points earn a spot at the global finals at BlizzCon.
And they don't have a set start date for premier league yet. Think they just said sometime in February.
Here's the standings page too: http://wcs.battle.net/sc2/en/standings
HellBlazer
Member
As for those specific players, both MMA and Bomber have qualified for GSL Code S. They're both playing this week in fact, MMA on Wednesday and Bomber on Friday.
Jaedong didn't even try to qualify for any league this season, I don't know what he's doing.
unknownstranger
Member
Terran need to 5 Rax Protoss way more often. Almost every TvP game I've seen lately has been Protoss going 2 base double Forge.
Yeah, not sure when Factory plays in TvP started getting more popular than good old bio production. It's nice to have variety but also sad to see Terran throw away a winnable game because they couldn't get any damage done with Hellions or Banshees and then didn't have enough bio to defend against the counter push.
Dota is just a different beast
Plus i doubt she can get into a good team that compliments ger style
Yeah different game but from what I'm reading she was a good player in WC3 DotA, and she seemed to make a good impression when she was invited for some Dota 2 games last week. She's very talented mechanically. Once she learns Dota 2 I don't really see what would hold her back as an individual. Maybe Acer will put some money into starting a decent team.
SmartWaffles
Member
The WCS groups are being redrawn due to mistakes by ESL NA.
This is a relief. Jaedong retirement rumors aren't true and he's gonna play in season 2.
https://twitter.com/kenzi131/status/560103983595786240
https://twitter.com/kenzi131/status/560103983595786240
mistakes?
They mistakenly classified NaNiwa as being part of WCS NA or something.
Anyway, live redraw happening now: http://www.twitch.tv/wcs
Edit: Redraw complete.
WCS Premier begins February 14th.
All groups look much more balanced overall so cool with me. Not really a legit group of death to speak of.
HellBlazer
Member
Man, Prime seems to be finally waking up at the end of the round.
No need to do it against my boys Jin Air though. 
Brackets are stacked as fuck, yo.
http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/IEM_Season_IX_-_Taipei#Stage_1
http://www.twitch.tv/esltv_sc2
http://www.twitch.tv/esltv_sc2b
Also, loving that they brought the open bracket competitors out on the show floor:
unknownstranger
Member
Not sure why Zerg keep going Muta's in ZvZ. It's only good if it's unscouted and you can get a bunch of Drone kills before Spores are up.
Stupid of DRG to try that build twice.
Stupid of DRG to try that build twice.
HellBlazer
Member
Oh, I forgot IEM was starting already. Nice to see a new map pool. Man, it's so time-consuming to keep up with Starcraft these days though.
Damn, Leenock.
MarineKing is with MVP now.
Damn, Leenock.
MarineKing is with MVP now.