Overall, 21 players came out to play for the first ever SC For Life LAN! Although the tournament was held in Virginia, we had players come from all over the United States! People flew from California, Ohio, New Jersey, as well as attracting local players from Maryland, Virginia, and the D.C Area.
On November 09 2009 03:43 LuckyFool wrote: Herro TL!
Yesterday the SC For Life LAN took place at Seoul PC in the Washington D.C area. this blog entry is all of my media and replays that I got from the event. Unfortunately this LAN hit a major setback when the original LAN center basically out of the blue told Xeris a week before the LAN they were shutting down their LAN center.
"Ummm u could have liek told us this a bit earlier. thx 4 pretty much focking us over... -_-"
SeoulPC isn't the kind of location for the high magnitude type of event that Xeris envisioned when first planning for this event but with travel plans for some people in place already, pretty much damage control shifted the event to Seoul PC which has been host of 3 previous DC area LAN's.
It was VERY fun having some really great players there like Nyoken, Machine, Semih, Gretorp... There were some really amazing games played. I'm really glad I got games with both Nyoken and Machine in tournament play.
I played alright, after getting crushed horribly by Nyoken right off the bat I managed to turn it around making it out of my group and into the quarterfinals vs Machine where I lost in 3 games. All in all I only dropped games to Nyoken and Machine all day. I played Machine pretty well.
As far as some of the other games I haz no clue other than some of the epic second stage games which are talked about later.
enough talking, onto the videos:
Little walk around before the group stage games started. Not everyone was there yet.
Princeton Team totally awsum coming to another DC LAN.
JoeKim playing with 6 inch monitor size.
Semih vs Gretorp group stage.
tossim vs nyoken quarter finals game one.
looking at second stage bracket and tossim vs nyoken game 2
Gretorp and Semih semifinals
Nyoken Machine semifinals
Interviews with HatchetWound, CaucasianAsian, valtyr and LordWeird
Interviews with JoeKim njoylife
Sadly my camera battery died so no finals footage or post tournament interviews. (FAIL)
tossim vs Nyoken both games were pretty sick. Nyoken vs Semih game 2 LF vs Machine games 2 and 3. and haven't watched anything else I'm sure there are other gg's in here.
Didn't get Machines rep pack sadly but there are 6 Machine games, he played nyoken 3 games and me 3 games.
How about THAT for some media coverage...
Big props to Machine, JoeKim, Semih, n.joy_life, the princeton gosus, Never, valtyr and whoever else traveled from afar to attend this event. Also great play Nyoken u rock yo.
While this LAN didn't quite formulate into what was originally hoped for I hope everyone had fun yesterday I know I did.
Until next time! -LF[osu!]
Starcraft For Life !
Last edit: 2009-11-10 13:32:35
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LordWeird   United States. October 06 2009 06:26. Posts 2064
On October 06 2009 06:58 CTStalker wrote: why not just have the $500 prize, and make the entry free. who the fuck would pay 25 bucks to enter a tourney lmao
Ya, Xeris is really experienced in this. Especially since all the Washington D.C. people are all really into SC :D. Just wondering if the $25 was part of the LAN fee too. Can't believe I missed that LAN center when I was there, is it cheaper or more expensive? Certainly looks a bit more gamer friendly though hehe.
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KingV   United States. October 06 2009 07:51. Posts 22
Anybody already been in this Netolic place? What's it like? Hope it's got better ventilation/air conditioning than the other place. Took a look at the site and it looks pretty awesome, but I was hoping someone could possibly give us a different perspective.
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CaucasianAsian   United States. October 06 2009 08:03. Posts 5322
it's really nice, 2934082390x better than that garb Seoul PC place, plus it's non smoking. $25 includes the cost for playing, so it's a $25 flat fee - some goes to the LAN center, and left over goes to prize pool.
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KingV   United States. October 06 2009 08:51. Posts 22