 LuckyFool United States. October 04 2009 22:54. Posts 1585 | Profile Blog |
Hey Teamliquid.
Yesterday yet another LAN took place in the DC/BALTIMORE area. It's really great we've now had 4 events in the DC area in the past few months. (3 LANS and a proleague finals viewing) This event was by far the most competitive event in the DC area in some time, (soon to be topped next month though kekekeke O_o) those who attended yesterday (to the best of my recollection):
Torenhire
Louder
Xeris
LastShadow
Nyoken
Tossim
Slog
LuckyFool
Valtyr
Zeppelin
Purpos3
Krackling
Boardin
LordWeird
StorrZerg
HatchetWound
Sadistx
CPeter123
PedoCows
Haemonculus
AuHsoj
Sentient66
Orb
CaucasianAsian
Duckett + princeton gosus
d3_crescentia
All in all we had a 24 man tournament and around 28 or so total people. (counting the princeton gosus and a couple others that I might have missed)
Really awesome that some great gamers were able to make it yesterday, slog, Nyoken, Louder, some really well known names were there which was good fun and made for some really great games.
The tournament was good fun, big thanks to Xeris for saving the day bracket wise. In typical Xeris fashion we ninja'd a pretty sweet bracket together after some problems and started games, a tad later than intended but nevertheless things got underway. Personally I feel I played pretty shitty but I haven't been practicing hard against good opponents (tons of D games on iccup doesn't count as legit practice) and it costs me. I won my first match 2-1 against zepplin (who I had to play in the first LAN back in July) and then lost to Tossim 0-2 in 2 pretty decent games. The first game on Tau Cross I went for a push but kinda just got content when I took control of the two middle bridges. This proved to not be wise as he was able to flank around and eventually break it, also got a nice recall off in my main. In game 2 I lost on colo2, my 200/200 push worked more or less but like usual my lategame macro sucked and I have no clue wtf to attack on colo2 when protoss is making like 3 different mains around the map. I always like start splitting up my army and just get raped. I then won a match against orb in the losers finals, he went carriers but I pushed pretty fast and he only had 2 when he had to use them to try and stop the push. I then faced slog in the losers bracket and should have had the game, my push succeeded but since my macro is so shitty I couldn't follow it up really and had to gg I think the difference maker was when I lost 3 tanks to a mine, boy was I raging over that ohman. Overall I didn't play horrible yesterday but I can play better fo sure. I played only TvP yesterday in all 4 rounds that I played in.
What I learned yesterday is to fucking stop getting supply blocked at 52 in TvP (happened probably 5 times in at least 7 games.) and that it's time to start incorporating a more harass style TvP. Vs shitty people you can just macro and rape with the first push, doesn't work vs somebody who knows what their doing.
lastshadow played pretty well, for some reason I have no replays of any games he won, just the ones he lost, (hmm what an interesting coincidence) I wonder if he saved ALL his replays on the pc he was on in the cafe...
Last time I was pissed I forgot to upload some of my games vs Superior and later at the next LAN I checked the same PC and got them all over a month after we had played them. (EZ!) Maybe I'll ninja lastshadow's replays too if I'm ever back there at some point in the future.
I got most of Louders replays, for some reason I missed the first bo3 of the grand finals, where lastshadow 2-0'd louder. Probably the best game of the tournament (that I saw) was Louder vs LS on destination where Louder had a 30 kill reaver. That shit was pretty intense at differnet points in the game it looks totally over for the other player and they both manage to fight back until Louder takes out like 10 scvs with a scarab that glitches THROUGH minerals. High level shit like that is awesome and it's great when we have players of that caliber in LAN situations. Shit like this needs to happen more often yo.
The other most epic game I heard about (didn't see it) was CaucasianAsian vs Hatchetwound on Destination in losers bracket, some 40 minute PvZ with like everything mined out and coming down to 200/200 armies with maelstorms and shit and eventually 6 ults ending it. That game will be forever a memory though because both players forgot to save the replay... FAIL!
Dinner was pretty sweet (even though they screwed up some shit and thought they were missing a bill when it was really them just fucking up) Korean buffet was good but in my opinion slightly overpriced for the value. I would go back there again sometime though (not every night though or I'd be totally broke after 2 trips)
Overall I'm pretty pleased with how things turned out yesterday and I hope everyone had a great time. I hope to continue keeping Starcraft alive in the DC area as there's a pretty kickass group of guys now that have gone to all 4 events (or even 2 or 3 of the 4) and knowing who people are is a blast. Around a 30 person turnout was amazing. CaucasianAsian finished the night with epic PvZ's against StorrZerg. I dunno why but I was so into those games... Those guys are a pretty good match but CaucasianAsian ultimately raped like 3-1 only losing in a ZvZ at the very end.
YepYep good times, LAN's are so much fun.
By on the lookout for quite an exciting event on November 7th in the DC area, Xeris will be hosting and coordinating and I would expect to hear more news on it shortly.
until next time,
-LF 
edit: sadly this LAN was seriously void of cameras, I think maybe 1 person brought a camera and took like 3 pictures. That was fail. 
Last edit: 2009-10-05 03:57:14
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 RaGe Belgium. October 04 2009 23:47. Posts 7607 | Profile Blog |
why the caps lock
do you really consider your blog the most important |
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 Lz United States. October 04 2009 23:47. Posts 873 | Profile Blog |
| sounds like a blast |
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 imweakless October 04 2009 23:52. Posts 87 | Profile |
wooo LS participating and make it to the finals...
impressive! when i click the bracket louder 2-0 LSLast edit: 2009-10-04 23:54:01 |
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 LordWeird United States. October 05 2009 00:56. Posts 2077 | Profile Blog |
Yeah. I was the only one in the whole place with a camera. Unfortunately I didn't want to snap pictures in the center because it was so dark and I didnt want the flash to distract people while they are playing. I got like 5 pictures, and it was just the people I sat next to at dinner, basically. CaucasianAsian, Sentient, Torenhire, Zepplin, HatchetWound, and StorrZerg. lol...
All of them were cool guys, and I'm just mad that I didn't get more/better pictures.
The only picture worth sharing is this one!
![[image loading]](http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/1586/picture005v.jpg)
(Zeppelin in his Bisu signed T1 shirt, Torenhire with his virgin T1 shirt)
ok, and maybe this one of HatchetWound and CaucasianAsian (who played an epic PvZ)
![[image loading]](http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/7094/picture002r.jpg)
(in the background is Duckett's back and half of -orb-'s face)Last edit: 2009-10-05 01:15:58 |
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 heyoka United States. October 05 2009 03:16. Posts 1722 | Profile Blog |
| I heard there was a stove Confirm/Deny |
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| Sadistx Zimbabwe. October 05 2009 03:24. Posts 2153 | Profile Blog |
On October 05 2009 03:16 heyoka wrote:
I heard there was a stove Confirm/Deny
There's a replay of Caucasian going proxy stove in the main thread vs some terrible (F-) zerg. |
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 zeppelin United States. October 05 2009 03:29. Posts 309 | Profile |
On October 05 2009 03:16 heyoka wrote:
I heard there was a stove Confirm/Deny
confirm
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| heyoka United States. October 05 2009 03:29. Posts 1722 | Profile Blog |
WE HAVE CONFIRMATION
Notice there are not one but TWO separate battles in which the protoss enters combat with less psi than terran and is able to come out ahead thanks to THE STOVE getting early arbitersLast edit: 2009-10-05 03:46:22 |
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 StorrZerg United States. October 05 2009 03:32. Posts 3837 | Profile Blog |
On October 05 2009 03:24 Sadistx wrote:
Show nested quote +On October 05 2009 03:16 heyoka wrote:
I heard there was a stove Confirm/Deny
There's a replay of Caucasian going proxy stove in the main thread vs some terrible (F-) zerg.
Man the bm in that game was great lol
Fuck imma go try and do the stove nowLast edit: 2009-10-05 03:32:34 |
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 Torenhire United States. October 05 2009 03:54. Posts 550 | Profile |
| You forgot me on the list. |
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| LuckyFool United States. October 05 2009 03:56. Posts 1585 | Profile Blog |
On October 05 2009 03:29 heyoka wrote:
WE HAVE CONFIRMATION
Notice there are not one but TWO separate battles in which the protoss enters combat with less psi than terran and is able to come out ahead thanks to THE STOVE getting early arbiters
Haha I know right. We actually talked about that game later and it was so funny, my random rage outbursts when I see scout+dt's and then my army continuing to get stomped. rofl.
On October 05 2009 03:54 Torenhire wrote:You forgot me on the list.
O shit I tried to remember whoever wasn't in the tournament and just cut and paste all the names from the tournament. LOL how could I forget the co-planner! Last edit: 2009-10-05 04:00:32 |
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 theobsessed1 United States. October 05 2009 04:16. Posts 452 | Profile Blog |
On October 04 2009 22:54 LuckyFool wrote:
What I learned yesterday is to fucking stop getting supply blocked at 52 in TvP (happened probably 5 times in at least 7 games.) and that it's time to start incorporating a more harass style TvP. Vs shitty people you can just macro and rape with the first push, doesn't work vs somebody who knows what their doing.
Rofl I remember you saying this on iCCup the night before |
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 DoctorHelvetica United States. October 05 2009 04:19. Posts 3632 | Profile Blog |
| I'd like to see a progamer like Stork or JangBi stove a lesser terran. With progamer execution who knows what this build is capable of. |
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| Torenhire United States. October 05 2009 04:43. Posts 550 | Profile |
Oh and also
soft cooked bacon.
oh my god the most delicious meat in the world |
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| zeppelin United States. October 05 2009 04:50. Posts 309 | Profile |
| the sushi was awesome too except for the one that randomly had apples in it |
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| zeppelin United States. October 05 2009 04:50. Posts 309 | Profile |
| and even that was awesome, just a different kind of awesome |
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| StorrZerg United States. October 05 2009 05:49. Posts 3837 | Profile Blog |
| yeah food was good, and wtf to the people that left and still wanted to eat food... its a buffet ffs that means stuff your fucken face |
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| Haemonculus United States. October 05 2009 06:49. Posts 2220 | Profile Blog |
So it turns out that the problem with my computer connecting was a fault on my end! Oh noes! Apparently my ethernet port has decided to stop working since the last lan. Very bad manner on its part. I'll have this fixed by the next lan, I swear!
Ack, Weird, you caught a fraction of me in one of those pictures. And here I thought I had dodged the camera all night, lol.
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| Torenhire United States. October 05 2009 06:51. Posts 550 | Profile |
On October 05 2009 06:49 Haemonculus wrote:
So it turns out that the problem with my computer connecting was a fault on my end! Oh noes! Apparently my ethernet port has decided to stop working since the last lan. Very bad manner on its part. I'll have this fixed by the next lan, I swear!
Ack, Weird, you caught a fraction of me in one of those pictures. And here I thought I had dodged the camera all night, lol.
We caught your left ear, muahahha. |
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