Today the first two rounds of the Acer TeamStory CupEU Qualifier starts at 17.00 o'clock CET. The two finalists of this cup will be qualified for the team league.
These teams are in the EU Qualifier for the TeamStory Cup Season I:
ESC Gaming MeetYourMakers Western Wolves Starcraft Freaks FXO.Europe RoX.KIS Team Empire Team Property NewRoSoft Fnatic Karont3 Cascade mYinsanity Team LDLC aAa Millenium
On March 20 2013 23:44 Shellshock1122 wrote: Cool stuff! Hope to see some awesome games. I think WW will be really strong now with the addition of Arthur along their other good players.
Even with Arthur, I don't think they will have a hard time getting past the Lucifron/Vortix double punch of Karont3.
My support this time will go to Millenium and Fnatic,they are both awesome team with a good spirit. And since they are both at 2 corners of the bracket it can be done !
On March 20 2013 23:44 Shellshock1122 wrote: Cool stuff! Hope to see some awesome games. I think WW will be really strong now with the addition of Arthur along their other good players.
Even with Arthur, I don't think they will have a hard time getting past the Lucifron/Vortix double punch of Karont3.
LucifroN et VortiX are not very strong on HotS so far. I'd bet on WW.
Let's hope Millenium doesn't fail like in CCSL ... That loss against WW was embarassing ><
Also the brackets isn't ideal : While Millenium, Empire, FXO, Karont3, Fnatic and Western Wolves are rightfully top seeds, I don't understand how MYM or mYinsanity could. NewRoSoft could have been place in their stead, these guys are low key but they represent a good organization.
On March 20 2013 23:44 Shellshock1122 wrote: Cool stuff! Hope to see some awesome games. I think WW will be really strong now with the addition of Arthur along their other good players.
Please don't expect too much, the lag from KR -> in almost unplayable, and we were not allowed to play on the NA server, Sting is on a plane and so is SortOf... luck is never on our side for clan wars.
On March 20 2013 23:44 Shellshock1122 wrote: Cool stuff! Hope to see some awesome games. I think WW will be really strong now with the addition of Arthur along their other good players.
Please don't expect too much, the lag from KR -> in almost unplayable, and we were not allowed to play on the NA server, Sting is on a plane and so is SortOf... luck is never on our side for clan wars.
Ouch, hope you guys can surmount the bad luck though!
On March 20 2013 23:44 Shellshock1122 wrote: Cool stuff! Hope to see some awesome games. I think WW will be really strong now with the addition of Arthur along their other good players.
Please don't expect too much, the lag from KR -> in almost unplayable, and we were not allowed to play on the NA server, Sting is on a plane and so is SortOf... luck is never on our side for clan wars.
Well I'm still cheering for you guys. I think you'll be a team to look out for in the near future with your roster getting pretty strong
On March 21 2013 00:45 Otolia wrote: Let's hope Millenium doesn't fail like in CCSL ... That loss against WW was embarassing ><
Also the brackets isn't ideal : While Millenium, Empire, FXO, Karont3, Fnatic and Western Wolves are rightfully top seeds, I don't understand how MYM or mYinsanity could. NewRoSoft could have been place in their stead, these guys are low key but they represent a good organization.
I doubt any seeding went into the tournament bracket, since the two eSF teams in the NA/KOR qualifiers are all in the same side of the bracket.
On March 21 2013 00:45 Otolia wrote: Let's hope Millenium doesn't fail like in CCSL ... That loss against WW was embarassing ><
Also the brackets isn't ideal : While Millenium, Empire, FXO, Karont3, Fnatic and Western Wolves are rightfully top seeds, I don't understand how MYM or mYinsanity could. NewRoSoft could have been place in their stead, these guys are low key but they represent a good organization.
I doubt any seeding went into the tournament bracket, since the two eSF teams in the NA/KOR qualifiers are all in the same side of the bracket.
Look at the EU bracket, it's obvious that there was seeding, apart from the matches Otolia mentioned, there's always one perceived weaker team playing a top team, you don't get that with no seeding at all.
Thank you, Dgotto, Ambassador of the East! Saving the day once again. :D
On March 20 2013 23:44 Shellshock1122 wrote: Cool stuff! Hope to see some awesome games. I think WW will be really strong now with the addition of Arthur along their other good players.
Please don't expect too much, the lag from KR -> in almost unplayable, and we were not allowed to play on the NA server, Sting is on a plane and so is SortOf... luck is never on our side for clan wars.
Is it strictly forbidden? Or does the opposing team just have a veto in this? SaSe vs UStar is currently being played on NA because of SaSe (and Monchi mentioned that UStar didn't have to, if he doesn't want to).
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On March 21 2013 01:09 Xoronius wrote: Streams: Nrs vs Fnatic on Take mYi vs MYM on Zedd Mill vs ESC on cR4sh nothing on The Agrie yet
If this is any like the Go4SC2 casts of Take, he'll be in two series at the same time and jump from series to series depending on downtime.
On March 20 2013 23:44 Shellshock1122 wrote: Cool stuff! Hope to see some awesome games. I think WW will be really strong now with the addition of Arthur along their other good players.
Please don't expect too much, the lag from KR -> in almost unplayable, and we were not allowed to play on the NA server, Sting is on a plane and so is SortOf... luck is never on our side for clan wars.
Is it strictly forbidden? Or does the opposing team just have a veto in this? SaSe vs UStar is currently being played on NA because of SaSe (and Monchi mentioned that UStar didn't have to, if he doesn't want to).
On March 21 2013 01:09 Xoronius wrote: Streams: Nrs vs Fnatic on Take mYi vs MYM on Zedd Mill vs ESC on cR4sh nothing on The Agrie yet
If this is any like the Go4SC2 casts of Take, he'll be in two series at the same time and jump from series to series depending on downtime.
Probably. I just wanted to give a short overview, what is currently going on, but yes, now that monchi has joined Take, there is a high possibility of dual games on that stream.
Every team has a "joker", a player, that can be used although not being on the team. Since aTn is´nt really in shape to compete in teamleagues atm., Socke is playing for K3 as joker.
On March 21 2013 02:09 StarVe wrote: @Xoronius: Yeah, I know. Still, didn't expect him to suddenly turn up for Karont3, maybe more on a team like mouz or something.
Ok i'll stop trying to edit LP for today, Shellshock juste went beast mode today, good job so far. (and props to LinaiL to managed to do some edits ^^)
On March 21 2013 02:09 StarVe wrote: @Xoronius: Yeah, I know. Still, didn't expect him to suddenly turn up for Karont3, maybe more on a team like mouz or something.
Mouz is already pretty P-heavy, I would guess they use a Z as joker. I have noone certain in mind though.
The game showtime showed (lol) was pretty cheesy this time,but well heh,you can't really do that against the man who's N#1 on worldwide ladder i guess :p
On March 21 2013 02:11 Flaele wrote: Ok i'll stop trying to edit LP for today, Shellshock juste went beast mode today, good job so far. (and props to LinaiL to managed to do some edits ^^)
You could list all the players for the matches if you really want to do something. :D
On March 21 2013 02:11 Stolat wrote: Tarson doing all-kill !
On March 21 2013 02:19 Tidus Mino wrote: As I said, don't expect anything, we got all-kill by some pretty suspect play. but ah well, win some you lose some
All killed in one and a half hour ? That's seems quick.
On March 21 2013 02:19 Tidus Mino wrote: As I said, don't expect anything, we got all-kill by some pretty suspect play. but ah well, win some you lose some
On March 21 2013 02:19 Tidus Mino wrote: As I said, don't expect anything, we got all-kill by some pretty suspect play. but ah well, win some you lose some
On March 21 2013 02:19 Tidus Mino wrote: As I said, don't expect anything, we got all-kill by some pretty suspect play. but ah well, win some you lose some
Im sorry for you... 5-0 that is? asking for liquipedia..
i think fraer will not playing today, at this weekend he will play techlabs cup in Moskow vs Kas,Slivko,Happy and he does not want to show their strategy
Wait... is Take more or less asking its audience whether he should accept a sponsorship by Raidcall...? o.o (to be more precise, depending on how his community accepts it or not)
take and his crew need to do a better job having livescores up. use one of production crew to make liquipedia entry and this will be followed so much more
On March 21 2013 03:21 robih wrote: i cant find the results anywhere on taketv.net :/
take and his crew need to do a better job having livescores up. use one of production crew to make liquipedia entry and this will be followed so much more
That was kind of BM for minimath not to leave the game though.
yes... so BM when he write "gg", "wp", "gl"...
He didn't leave the game until he had 0 supply. 0 APM, and Socke had to go and kill the last building and force a victory, rather than him tapping out.
It's not a big deal, but it's somewhat annoying for Socke having to go around and go kill every last building
That was kind of BM for minimath not to leave the game though.
yes... so BM when he write "gg", "wp", "gl"...
He didn't leave the game until he had 0 supply. 0 APM, and Socke had to go and kill the last building and force a victory, rather than him tapping out.
It's not a big deal, but it's somewhat annoying for Socke having to go around and go kill every last building
I don't know where you watched the game but he left the game just after typing GG. And MiNiMaTh is probably one of the most mannered player.
Looks like none of them is really that good in HotS yet, sadly. The Zergs don't really know how to deal with Protoss and with fraer not playing, the Protoss lineup wasn't all that great either.
No Russians in Germany (shame there is only one qualifier^^).
On March 21 2013 04:18 StarVe wrote: Aw fuck. Runa wins game nine, RoX.KIS out. T_T
Looks like none of them is really that good in HotS yet, sadly. The Zergs don't really know how to deal with Protoss and with fraer not playing, the Protoss lineup wasn't all that great either.
No Russians in Germany (shame there is only one qualifier^^).
Ah well, go KaraTn3 eSports Club, I guess.
Do you know the winners and maps of games 7, 8, and 9 by any chance?
On March 21 2013 04:18 StarVe wrote: Aw fuck. Runa wins game nine, RoX.KIS out. T_T
Looks like none of them is really that good in HotS yet, sadly. The Zergs don't really know how to deal with Protoss and with fraer not playing, the Protoss lineup wasn't all that great either.
No Russians in Germany (shame there is only one qualifier^^).
Ah well, go KaraTn3 eSports Club, I guess.
Do you know the winners and maps of games 7, 8, and 9 by any chance?
Who did Lucifron just beat? I'm trying to fill in the individual results. Who has Babyknight beaten as well if anyone remembers? someone and then Tarson?
On March 21 2013 05:16 Yhamm wrote: all kill for Babyknight, Dana was the 5th player
FXO EU looking strong, 2 all kills and not a single map dropped if I'm not mistaken
Admittedly against two of the weakest teams in the tournament, but definitely a good result. But Empire or Millenium won't be so easy to defeat, I think.
On March 21 2013 06:02 tianGO wrote: forGG is a fucking beast. He has sick tvt, I'd love to watch him play against top notch players like Flash or Innovation.
During the summer of TaeJa he went head to head against him only losing in a very memorable final game (DH Valencia) I'd argue that Summer TaeJa is on the same level as those guys are now.
Well he'll be at ESET UK which is like 1 or 2 days ago,so we'll be able to see some lan performance. His actual stats are terrifying it will be very interesting to see him at future major event. After all he is the guy who defeated Flash and Jaedong at that famous MSL.
On March 21 2013 06:02 tianGO wrote: forGG is a fucking beast. He has sick tvt, I'd love to watch him play against top notch players like Flash or Innovation.
During the summer of TaeJa he went head to head against him only losing in a very memorable final game (DH Valencia) I'd argue that Summer TaeJa is on the same level as those guys are now.
And so began the Millenium curse.
Edit : Damn sorry for this double post, wanted to merge the posts and I failed. T_T
RunA has been destroying face in all team leagues with three kills and more in each match; no offence to Team Property, but I wonder why none of the big teams have tried to recruit him at least as a talent.
(Sorry, I don't know the financial situation of Team Property, so I don't know whether he's paid a salary, and what tournaments he is sent to)
These qualifiers are pulling in some great viewership numbers. 10K+ across all streams, and these are just qualifiers. IPTL rarely could get those numbers, and they had major Korean teams playing. Great to see
These qualifiers are pulling in some great viewership numbers. 10K+ across all streams, and these are just qualifiers. IPTL rarely could get those numbers, and they had major Korean teams playing. Great to see
IPTL was almost unwatchable for european viewers, beginning at 1AM. And not live matches.
These qualifiers are pulling in some great viewership numbers. 10K+ across all streams, and these are just qualifiers. IPTL rarely could get those numbers, and they had major Korean teams playing. Great to see
IPTL was almost unwatchable for european viewers, beginning at 1AM. And not live matches.
Yeah, you basically hit the nail on the head there
These qualifiers are pulling in some great viewership numbers. 10K+ across all streams, and these are just qualifiers. IPTL rarely could get those numbers, and they had major Korean teams playing. Great to see
IPTL was almost unwatchable for european viewers, beginning at 1AM. And not live matches.
Yeah, you basically hit the nail on the head there
Plus terrible companion website, you never know what is going on and extremely drawn out tournaments/qualifiers.
Team Property wins both against RoXKiS and Starcraft Freaks! Tomorrow we face Karont3! 17.00 CET! A win and we qualify !
Edit: Really sad thou that we were denied to stream our matches to the Swedish audience, No streamed matches even against Starcraft Freaks. Lost a lot of viewers based on that and our fans . Great qualifier overall though.
On March 21 2013 07:30 Teodice wrote: Team Property wins both against RoXKiS and Starcraft Freaks! Tomorrow we face Karont3! 17.00 CET! A win and we qualify !
Edit: Really sad thou that we were denied to stream our matches to the Swedish audience, No streamed matches even against Starcraft Freaks. Lost a lot of viewers based on that and our fans . Great qualifier overall though.
TakeTV showed some of your games, don't know which exactly but the ace match vs Starcraft Freaks for sure. And I'm pretty sure tomorrow they will show both matches completely.
HOW COULD WESTERN WOLVES LOSE OMG!!! There were my #1 pick to make it through! I guess I'll just hope that karont3 and millenium make it through. poor WW
On March 21 2013 08:13 KaiserKieran wrote: HOW COULD WESTERN WOLVES LOSE OMG!!! There were my #1 pick to make it through! I guess I'll just hope that karont3 and millenium make it through. poor WW
More importatly, did they really throw the final game? And, if yes, why?
edit: anyways I think Millenium and Karont3 are the favourites tomorrow. I just hope to see a long, exciting series.
edit2: on second thought, where was Arthur flying to, that he couldn't step in for WW? Just noticed that according to the welcome announcement he should've played today.
edit2: on second thought, where was Arthur flying to, that he couldn't step in for WW? Just noticed that according to the welcome announcement he should've played today.
On March 21 2013 08:13 KaiserKieran wrote: HOW COULD WESTERN WOLVES LOSE OMG!!! There were my #1 pick to make it through! I guess I'll just hope that karont3 and millenium make it through. poor WW
More importatly, did they really throw the final game? And, if yes, why?
edit: anyways I think Millenium and Karont3 are the favourites tomorrow. I just hope to see a long, exciting series.
edit2: on second thought, where was Arthur flying to, that he couldn't step in for WW? Just noticed that according to the welcome announcement he should've played today.
The rest of the team might have been unavailable. I'm really impressed by hOpe all killing, though.
On March 21 2013 08:39 Shellshock1122 wrote: So we have the unbeatable forces of 10-0 FXO EU vs 9-0 ForGG. Should be pretty sick
I'd say Mill takes it. Given how the tournament works with the revive system, FXO will have to snipe ForGG twice, and I'm not sure if they have the big guns to do that task.
On March 21 2013 07:30 Teodice wrote: Team Property wins both against RoXKiS and Starcraft Freaks! Tomorrow we face Karont3! 17.00 CET! A win and we qualify !
Edit: Really sad thou that we were denied to stream our matches to the Swedish audience, No streamed matches even against Starcraft Freaks. Lost a lot of viewers based on that and our fans . Great qualifier overall though.
Pomi streamed all of your games against RoX.KIS on goodgame.ru, don't know about the match against the Freaks.
As you know it, the Team-LDLC Starcraft 2 section had decided to get involved in TeamStory Cup. This cup, organised by TakeTV, was our first event as a team, and we were really glad to participate in qualification stage. Especially since we got the right to broadcast the cup on our WebTV. We waited with impatience for our first match, and we had learnt some days ago across the site of TakeTV that it would be against Team Empire. But, inopportunely, we had no detail concerning the organisation of this match.
Today, we learnt a bit before 5PM CET that we had to play this first match at… 5PM CET. Through lack of time (the one to gather our players) we could not play it, and we were finally ready only at 5:15PM. Admins therefore declared us forfeited. We are currently very disappointed of this decision, because it follows a very fortuitous misfortune. We discovered only then, by discussing with admins, that their informative mail had been sent to us on March 13th, but that it had landed in our spam box ! Besides, by accident, we were forgotten by admins: we had not been included in the oraganisation’s skype conference of this cup… This disastrous misfortune left us a bitter taste, but we wanted nevertheless to apologise. First to TakeTV, to Dennis and to all his team, who always gives a tremendous job, but also to Team Empire, which had news of us only at 5:15PM, 15 minutes after the supposed beginning of match. A delay which is for us unpardonable.
Nevertheless, everything is not lost, and we will look the rest of the tournament on our couch, the whole tournament being streamed on our WebTV by Pouilleux !
On March 21 2013 07:30 Teodice wrote: Team Property wins both against RoXKiS and Starcraft Freaks! Tomorrow we face Karont3! 17.00 CET! A win and we qualify !
Edit: Really sad thou that we were denied to stream our matches to the Swedish audience, No streamed matches even against Starcraft Freaks. Lost a lot of viewers based on that and our fans . Great qualifier overall though.
Pomi streamed all of your games against RoX.KIS on goodgame.ru, don't know about the match against the Freaks.
Yeah but for our fans it was really sad since they wanted some more in deep knowledge, info about the games etc and they could not understand a word. We thank goodgame.ru but just can't see why we were not allowed to help spread the word and offer a swedish or English stream.
Note. I may sound a bit whiny and I'm sorry. We are glad to be a part of this team competition and we are looking forward to tomorrows matches!
On March 21 2013 07:30 Teodice wrote: Team Property wins both against RoXKiS and Starcraft Freaks! Tomorrow we face Karont3! 17.00 CET! A win and we qualify !
Edit: Really sad thou that we were denied to stream our matches to the Swedish audience, No streamed matches even against Starcraft Freaks. Lost a lot of viewers based on that and our fans . Great qualifier overall though.
Pomi streamed all of your games against RoX.KIS on goodgame.ru, don't know about the match against the Freaks.
Yeah but for our fans it was really sad since they wanted some more in deep knowledge, info about the games etc and they could not understand a word. We thank goodgame.ru but just can't see why we were not allowed to help spread the word and offer a swedish or English stream.
Note. I may sound a bit whiny and I'm sorry. We are glad to be a part of this team competition and we are looking forward to tomorrows matches!
Correct me if I am wrong, but you could've (and still can) stream everything in FPOV, couldn't you? At least I remember seeing ForGG streaming his games through his regular stream.
On March 22 2013 02:43 Greendotz wrote: I'm just completely dumbfouded over that Western Wolves loss. I can't make head or tail of it.
The manager said the lag from KR to EU was too much for them in some games and that Sting and Sortof were on a plane on the first page so I guess that has something to do with it
I think you guys are seriously underestimating sfc. All of our players who played yesterday are grandmaster players, I don't think Ptak even needs introductions to anyone who followed starcraft, and the simple fact that our team got invited to this tournament means something. I'm really sorry if WW had issues but nevertheles they fielded an impressive lineup and got all-killed. And the cw vs prop was very close, it could have easily went either way. Just because you "don't know about this team or its players" doesn't mean it's a bad team as we proved very much yesterday.
I think you will hear more about us in the future, and maybe then we will get some credit among the "hardcore" players who started watching sc2 2 weeks ago.
On March 22 2013 02:52 marconi wrote: I think you will hear more about us in the future, and maybe then we will get some credit among the "hardcore" players who started watching sc2 2 weeks ago.
That one was really unnecessary and is also mostly nonsense.
I wonder if someone has thought about having a dedicated observer that streams the video to a private server. Then, every caster can rebroadcast from the feed.
1) It stops the observer lags 2) Allows the caster to focus on his casting 3) Fail-safe if an external caster drops
On March 22 2013 04:33 SinCitta wrote: I wonder if someone has thought about having a dedicated observer that streams the video to a private server. Then, every caster can rebroadcast from the feed.
1) It stops the observer lags 2) Allows the caster to focus on his casting 3) Fail-safe if an external caster drops
On March 22 2013 04:33 SinCitta wrote: I wonder if someone has thought about having a dedicated observer that streams the video to a private server. Then, every caster can rebroadcast from the feed.
1) It stops the observer lags 2) Allows the caster to focus on his casting 3) Fail-safe if an external caster drops
And what if the observer drops ?
You can make a rule that if the observer drops you remake the game or you add some kind of redundancy.
Edit: And obviously, the observer should have a better connection. For example in Dreamhack, the observer would be on-site.