In post 1798, Knight of Cydonia wrote:My first RTS games were AoE2, Starcraft, and Shogun Total War. I love Brood War to pieces, but it is a game where unless you're at OSL/PL level, or near that, skill is defined as much by your ability to make up for the engine's shortcomings as anything else.
Seeing as the thread is seeing an uplift in posting, would anyone be interested in one last WoL tournament before HotS drops?
Very much so. I didn't realize you guys did tournaments, that's pretty freaking cool
edit: Actually, it shou'd be a mafia themed game, where two people are brought up to be lynched. and the have to do a Best of 3/5 to see who is actually lynched =D
^ This idea is amazing. I like how Uber and I semi-revitalized the thread... *fistbump*
I'd be down for a tourney but I am seriously rusty - when I say "I'm rusty" I mean I'm solid dehydrated iron hydroxide.
Problem with BC's idea is that lower league players will get shit on by higher league players, so the town would end up picking a Masters champion (do we even have any Masters players?) and having him lynched every day to kill off the scum; or vice versa. In fact, a competent scum team would be nigh-impossible to lynch.
In post 1804, Knight of Cydonia wrote:Problem with BC's idea is that lower league players will get shit on by higher league players, so the town would end up picking a Masters champion (do we even have any Masters players?) and having him lynched every day to kill off the scum; or vice versa. In fact, a competent scum team would be nigh-impossible to lynch.
Yeah, i thought about that pretty soon after i posted. It could get really boring watching the same person stomp someone else as well.
Cool concept, but it would make for poor mafia scum games. Say some scum that was high league played like a jester and just won every single match.
I'd be available to organize a tournament (prior experience, neutral party yadda yadda) although I will say previous attempts suffered from pretty severe apathy in actually scheduling the matches.
Ski mask? Check! Sawed off? Check! Guilty conscience, fear of death? Check! Check! Check!
I'd be down for a tournament, I haven't played a serious 1v1 in SC2 in about 8-9 months due to real life obligations so the playing field should probably be a lot more equalized.
Also for those who haven't seen it the latest EG announcement video was hilarious.
Routine day with a dirt cheap brush
Then a week goes by and it goes untouched
Then two, then three, then a month
Then the rest of your life, you beat yourself up
In post 1809, TheButtonmen wrote:I'd be down for a tournament, I haven't played a serious 1v1 in SC2 in about 8-9 months due to real life obligations so the playing field should probably be a lot more equalized.
Also for those who haven't seen it the latest EG announcement video was hilarious.
Hahaha yeah, that was really good.
At MLG raleigh, i was talking to a friend while watching an EG player near one of the computers, talking about Crank doing well in the tournament. And my friend is writing a tweet to sir scoots i think, saying some bullshit about how EG should pick up Crank or whatever. As i read the tweet aloud i say something along the lines of "well, we don't want to kill his career." while InControl was standing right next to my friend. I immediately i turned pale and left the venue.
To be fair, you really can't fault EG too much. They pick up players performing near the top of their field, some drop off might be expected. Yet, at the same time, EG makes its players celebrities more so than almost any team.
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In post 1811, Kinetic wrote:To be fair, you really can't fault EG too much. They pick up players performing near the top of their field, some drop off might be expected. Yet, at the same time, EG makes its players celebrities more so than almost any team.
True. and to be fair, a player like Thorzain that was picked up after winning dreamhack wasn't really that successful. He won TSL3 almost a year before his dreamhack win. Before dreamhack he wasn't really doing very much.
In post 1808, AGar wrote:I'd be available to organize a tournament (prior experience, neutral party yadda yadda) although I will say previous attempts suffered from pretty severe apathy in actually scheduling the matches.
I'm just saying, look at how quickly they've already swarmed that. It'll be a climb, but it's not going to be a long one, I don't think. We'll see how they fare in Code A, some of them are top-line players who should probably do fairly well (EffOrt, FlaSh, Jaedong should all make at least Up and Down matches).
Ski mask? Check! Sawed off? Check! Guilty conscience, fear of death? Check! Check! Check!
In post 1818, AGar wrote:I'm just saying, look at how quickly they've already swarmed that. It'll be a climb, but it's not going to be a long one, I don't think. We'll see how they fare in Code A, some of them are top-line players who should probably do fairly well (EffOrt, FlaSh, Jaedong should all make at least Up and Down matches).
But at the same time we've been seeing a lot of stagnation in Preliminaries and Code A. We still have Cella and TheWind nearly making it into Code A. The way I see it, I certainly expect Kespa players to break in, and maybe eventually make up 20-30% of all Code A/S caliber players within the next 2-3 months. But I don't see them breaking much further than that, or reaching the height of Code S, for a bit more time. Will they eventually completely overtake ESF? Maybe, that is yet to be seen, but I don't think anyone is going down without a fight. And I don't think the sky is falling quite as you're predicting it.
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. It is myyyyy preeccious.