Sorry for the lack of updates. I've been busy with a few projects which you will hear about shortly. In the mean time... here are the last 4 replays packs from the KOTH.
12.16.11koth
12.23.11koth
1.6.12koth
1.13.12koth
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Patch notes and predictions
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=279316
Balance
PROTOSS
Forge
The cost of Upgrade Shields Level 1 has been decreased to 150/150, down from 200/200.
The cost of Upgrade Shields Level 2 has been decreased to 225/225, down from 300/300.
The cost of Upgrade Shields Level 3 has been decreased to 300/300, down from 400/400.
The cost of Upgrade Ground Weapons Level 2 has been decreased to 150/150, down from 175/175.
The cost of Upgrade Ground Weapons Level 3 has been decreased to 200/200, down from 250/250.
The cost of Upgrade Ground Armor Level 2 has been decreased to 150/150, down from 175/175.
The cost of Upgrade Ground Armor Level 3 has been decreased to 200/200, down from 250/250.
TERRAN
Ghost
EMP radius has been decreased from 2 to 1.5
+ Metalopolis back with no close spawns for it or shattered temple!
Some of Thunder's predictions (old and new):
- players will learn to not reach 100 chronoboost at 10 minutes
- a protoss will learn how to use hallucination properly to metagame zerg
- zergs will learn to take cross map bases (as 3rds/ 4ths) like bw
- P and T will also learn to do the same in certain match ups
- Zerg will figure out how to harass with lings late game (targeting production)
- we will see a bisu build for sc2 (probably blink stalkers + dt)
- we will see a shield upgrade variation / follow up to the above:
will probably be blink harass off 2 base into a dt expo to 3rd or zealot archon expand (to soak up shield dmg on blink stalkers and archons)
- protoss will learn to place pylons
- zergs will use their overlords in ZvZ (bread crumbed from their natural to their opponents natural as they should be) to actively turn on (and off) creepy highways when they want to be aggressive
- terran will learn to do more interesting add-on swaps
- terrans will use nukes to push back tank lines
- terrans will learn to use seeker missile vs tank lines much like they occasionally use banshees/sky terran
- zergs will start using burrow until terran is forced to make a raven (like bw with science vessels)
- zergs will use nydus (maybe even with hyrdas!) for mobility and not just for in-your-base all ins
- there will be more baneling drops and occasionally raven harass late game
Balance
PROTOSS
Forge
The cost of Upgrade Shields Level 1 has been decreased to 150/150, down from 200/200.
The cost of Upgrade Shields Level 2 has been decreased to 225/225, down from 300/300.
The cost of Upgrade Shields Level 3 has been decreased to 300/300, down from 400/400.
The cost of Upgrade Ground Weapons Level 2 has been decreased to 150/150, down from 175/175.
The cost of Upgrade Ground Weapons Level 3 has been decreased to 200/200, down from 250/250.
The cost of Upgrade Ground Armor Level 2 has been decreased to 150/150, down from 175/175.
The cost of Upgrade Ground Armor Level 3 has been decreased to 200/200, down from 250/250.
TERRAN
Ghost
EMP radius has been decreased from 2 to 1.5
+ Metalopolis back with no close spawns for it or shattered temple!
Some of Thunder's predictions (old and new):
- players will learn to not reach 100 chronoboost at 10 minutes
- a protoss will learn how to use hallucination properly to metagame zerg
- zergs will learn to take cross map bases (as 3rds/ 4ths) like bw
- P and T will also learn to do the same in certain match ups
- Zerg will figure out how to harass with lings late game (targeting production)
- we will see a bisu build for sc2 (probably blink stalkers + dt)
- we will see a shield upgrade variation / follow up to the above:
will probably be blink harass off 2 base into a dt expo to 3rd or zealot archon expand (to soak up shield dmg on blink stalkers and archons)
- protoss will learn to place pylons
- zergs will use their overlords in ZvZ (bread crumbed from their natural to their opponents natural as they should be) to actively turn on (and off) creepy highways when they want to be aggressive
- terran will learn to do more interesting add-on swaps
- terrans will use nukes to push back tank lines
- terrans will learn to use seeker missile vs tank lines much like they occasionally use banshees/sky terran
- zergs will start using burrow until terran is forced to make a raven (like bw with science vessels)
- zergs will use nydus (maybe even with hyrdas!) for mobility and not just for in-your-base all ins
- there will be more baneling drops and occasionally raven harass late game
Saturday, October 1, 2011
a MUST WATCH game: RGN artist (T) vs (P) master
One of the most impressive games I have ever seen. This was game 5 (the $ match) for RGN Artist, one of the top Terrans in North America. He recently laddered his two NA accounts to rank 1 and 2 GM and is practicing with the likes of RGN Kiwikaki and Perfect, meaning his TvP is pretty beastly. However, Master, despite playing with latency from Korea plays an absolutely BEAUTIFUL game here on Terminus SE (new revised version for GSL Oct). Master was formerly on Fou but currently team-less. Check out this crazy back and forth game for some true starcraft 2 enjoyment.
FULL VOD (no youtube parts): http://www.twitch.tv/thundertoss/b/296402605
Some should pick this kid up ASAP. He's got a great attitude and after you watch you'll see it's simply icing on the cake. A beautiful, delicious, twelve layer, macro monster, micro master, multitasking wizard, decision making machine, map controlling, properly expanding, chocolate cake...
Not to take anything away from Artist's performance either, I was just blown away by watching protoss played so well. Artist did an AMAZING job for a brilliant comeback and had me on the edge of my seat. I love having such high caliber players wanting to play in my event and it is near indescribably how rewarding watching this game was for me.
Replay link (not vod): Master-vs-RGNArtist(PvT)terminusSE.SC2Replay
study up all you gosu's!
FULL VOD (no youtube parts): http://www.twitch.tv/thundertoss/b/296402605
Some should pick this kid up ASAP. He's got a great attitude and after you watch you'll see it's simply icing on the cake. A beautiful, delicious, twelve layer, macro monster, micro master, multitasking wizard, decision making machine, map controlling, properly expanding, chocolate cake...
Not to take anything away from Artist's performance either, I was just blown away by watching protoss played so well. Artist did an AMAZING job for a brilliant comeback and had me on the edge of my seat. I love having such high caliber players wanting to play in my event and it is near indescribably how rewarding watching this game was for me.
Replay link (not vod): Master-vs-RGNArtist(PvT)terminusSE.SC2Replay
study up all you gosu's!
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Community Love
So this post is just a big thank you and a few paragraphs of brag about how awesome our ESPORTS community is (the starcraft community in particular).
So as many of you are aware, Destiny and Sheth did a 24-hour stream/charity drive yesterday. Thousands and thousands of you tuned in to help generate ad revenue (being matched by justintv/twitchtv!), participate, donate, and have a good time.
From Destiny's paypal alone, the SC community raised over $20,000!
With Sheth's paypal donations and the ad revenue being matched by twitch.tv the total is close to $30,000!
It's so incredibly amazing to be a part of such a generous and charitable community and I hope you all are proud of yourselves (because I'm certainly proud of you).
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Story #1:
So as many of you are aware, Destiny and Sheth did a 24-hour stream/charity drive yesterday. Thousands and thousands of you tuned in to help generate ad revenue (being matched by justintv/twitchtv!), participate, donate, and have a good time.
From Destiny's paypal alone, the SC community raised over $20,000!
With Sheth's paypal donations and the ad revenue being matched by twitch.tv the total is close to $30,000!
It's so incredibly amazing to be a part of such a generous and charitable community and I hope you all are proud of yourselves (because I'm certainly proud of you).
Check out www.doctorswithoutborders.org/ so see some of the causes this helps support.
And for community story #2:
It had been brought up before, but with some invigoration and organization from every one's favorite korean/english and english/english translator Orange Milkis, it looks like reddit (aka r/starcraft) will be banding together to bring MKP to the next MLG event in Orlando. According to the post over on milkis's tumblr MKP will be allowed to represent r/starcraft with a reddit patch while competing. http://whitecosmos.tumblr.com/post/10204196871/update-on-mkp-to-mlg
Make sure you all check his blog and of course http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft
to stay up to date on the situation and help bring him to the states!
GG GL HR!
Make sure you all check his blog and of course http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft
to stay up to date on the situation and help bring him to the states!
GG GL HR!
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Lastly, Story #3
In less global news, a few dedicated fans have come forward and approached Destiny, Minigun, and myself in hopes of putting on a 2v2 show match series centered around team GaB! Thanks to their initial donation, we are happy to announce season 1 of the GaB show matches. The first 5 events are covered and will be brought to you every other Sunday. After that we will gauge if the demand (and the prize $$) is there for a season 2.
You can find the TL event thread here: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=265362#1
Week 1: Sunday Sept. 18 @ 5pm EST (2pm pst)
VS Axslav + Strifecro X Destiny + Minigun
Main stream with commentary from Thundertoss + Ascend will be available at:
We are also trying to figure out the best way to bring you team audio from GaB and the opposing team each week. Follow us on twitter for updates and to hear when we are going live: @ascendsc2 + @thundertoss
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