SC2 Pro Tournament Discussion

Thin_J wrote:

They did start balancing it out a bit. I think they need to go just a little farther though.

It's better now. IPL has been having all kinds of little problems, but overall it seams to be going smoothly enough. Some great games (at the least the few I have been able to check out between working :()

Oh man, that was a terrible place for a game to hang - Parting vs MKP was a lot of fun, huge back and forth slugfest, and then there was an equipment failure, or something. Ugh.

Entire crowd chanting We Want LAN with Mike Morhaime and Chris Sigaty sitting in the audience. Awesome.

Jesus.

Yeah....awesome game so far. The commentators are slightly delusional in MK's favor. 'He saves ALL his marines and and none are getting hit!' lol or stuff like that.
Meanwhile he had to retreat every time. Of course a good strategy as they did point out, trading off while you have a better economy going.
Hope they get it back, I am afraid it will end in a restart.

And yes...surely LAN should be an option. Such a lame thing Blizzard decided there.

I don't see how they can justify not having LAN support anymore

When the camera guy zoomed in on the dude with the tablet with the Dustin Browder right here get your pitchforks bit on it I almost choked on my drink.

Whoever you are audience guy, you're my hero.

That was priceless indeed.

update... Internet connection problem

Dustin Browder (sp?!?) must be getting a TON of sh*t about LAN support right now.

Wolf should have tried to give a vehicle of esports speech.

2 years and no LAN, nothing for offline events like this, it's like blizzard is going out of their way to embarrass themselves.

Yeah, it being an internet connection problem really hammers the point home.

Apparently taken the moment it happened:

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I love the expression on Morhaime's face. You're the CEO. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

Re-game: Thank god. I think MKP could have pulled it out, and having him lose without having that opportunity would have sucked.

Well this is unfair. Win the game, drop out, re-game. Damn it!
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I mean unless Parting died at this moment, there is no way he loses that.

Note that MKP had 20 supply in production at that moment (look at the food). I'm not sure what he was building or how long until it was going to pop out, but Parting wasn't parked on all of his production yet, and hadn't touched his economy yet. I imagine that if it didn't look like he had a fighting chance, the judges would have called Parting the winner.

Still would be behind on food and instant reinforcements from Parting with the warp prism. And what he could be making is marines and marauders, without medivacs.
The only reason this is re-game is because it's Foxer and not some that isn't fan favourite. If I were Parting I'd be so pissed right now.

Re-match and game on again. Good decision

Game so far is an almost perfect mirror of the previous.

Well, the whole result is kind of tainted from here on out.

That went fairly quick.
Bomber vs MKB ...interesting as well

liquid wrote:

Still would be behind on food and instant reinforcements from Parting with the warp prism. And what he could be making is marines and marauders, without medivacs.
The only reason this is re-game is because it's Foxer and not some that isn't fan favourite. If I were Parting I'd be so pissed right now.

I think I am with you. It required execution, but it should have been a slam dunk. But still, there could have been a weird mistake.

I don't think you should call the game unless there is absolutely no doubt who's going to win.
MKP was behind by a lot, but he and many others have come back from situations just as bad and even worse. It doesn't happen often, but it happens.

That was a frickin incredible hold by Bomber.

*And he turns the tables with a drop. Bombers TvT is looking amazing so far this weekend.

And of course it turns into a ridiculous base trade. You know, those things that Marineking always wins.

I admire your optimism. But 20 food marine-marauder army with no medivacs and scattered around the map coming from different raxes against an army that's in the middle of your bases that is twice the food, has storm/archon... W/e, fans won him the game.

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They will never include LAN. This has happened dozens of times at major tournaments (including their own!) and nothing has changed. It's just not going to happen.

Bomber was doing great...MKP was just better again. Had good hopes for Bomber. Too bad for him.

I think MKP is warmed up now....

Man my streaming is just shuddering bad right now!

Well done by MKP. Awesome job really. Skipping the rest of the ceremonial stuff. Bed time here