CheckSix Gaming's MLG weekend was a blast and we had a great time meeting fans. Our team had a total of TEN players competing, and many of them were able to pull off extraordinary results. A total of four players were in the WCS bracket, three of whom made the round of 16 and will be receiving a paid trip to MLG Raleigh. Since coverage of open bracket and WCS performances is somewhat limited, we at CheckSix decided to help showcase some of our player's performances at the event with this graphic below. Additionally, we have included interviews with several of our players discussing their thoughts on their MLG performance. Hope you enjoy!
How did you prepare for MLG? My semester at UC Berkeley finished about a month before MLG Anaheim began so I told myself I would dedicate as much time as possible to training for the event. I had already been playing slightly more than normal, with a LAN and my efforts to qualify for WCS during my dead week before finals! (Thought I really was gonna die on my finals, but I ended up doing well on them thank goodness) I had trouble motivating myself since I started dabbling a bit into DotA 2, but about two weeks before Anaheim I told myself to quit it and prepare solely for Anaheim. I did not opt to get Diablo 3 since I wanted to be able to focus on Starcraft. It was difficult as I am not a type of mass ladder kind of player, but I was able to churn out generally around 15-20 games a day which is a lot for me. I still could have been even more efficient though and played more though, which is something I need to work on.
How do you feel about your results at MLG? It is quite obvious that I am really happy with my results at MLG - I really did not expect it at all and it is such a great feeling now. I am thankful for all this attention I'm getting but know that I need to continue performing well in order to merit a lot of this praise that I've been receiving (thank you guys so much!). Hopefully I can continue to play solidly and get some more results for you guys.
What did you like most / least about MLG? What was the most fun part of MLG? This MLG was just amazing because of all the people that were there. I was given the opportunity to meet so many of the people I regularly hit on ladder or interact with in the community in general, and it was great seeing old friends and meeting new friends alike.
What are your plans and goals in the future? I plan to continue being involved in eSports and with summer classes coming up soon I may have less playing time, however I will be able to stream starting sometime in this next week and hope you guys decide to tune in and watch (I try to commentate as much as possible but sometimes it's disheartening when there's only 3 or 4 viewers!). I will try my best to prepare for MLG Raleigh and do well there as well! Thanks for your support.
How did you prepare for MLG? In the past my poor mindset about the game caused me to take constant breaks which stifled my ability to reach the next level of progaming. the 30K prize pool for WCS and trip to this event and possible trip the Raleigh gave me a reason to keep playing as well as all the work I have been doing to improve my mindset to not fall into the trap of last year.
How do you feel about your results at MLG? I used to be a majority online player, despite winning over 1k in online events I only went to two major Lan events and did not have the experience required to perform. This event I was much more well prepared for the Lan environment as well as having had put in more effort than i had in the past. That said I'm very disappointed in my results for this event because I promised the USA a champion level player and merely only qualified for WCS NA. Alot of the more successful players simply put in alot more work than I did and it didn't become apparent until I actually played them in the Lan event.
What did you like most / least about MLG? What was the most fun part of MLG? This MLG was just amazing because of all the people that were there. I was given the opportunity to meet so many of the people I regularly hit on ladder or interact with in the community in general, and it was great seeing old friends and meeting new friends alike.
What are your plans and goals in the future? Now that I see how hard other US players are working to become championship level players I know I must step up my level of effort for Raleigh. My goal for Raleigh is to be able to say that I actually tried my best and took home a championship or fell to an extremely talented player, and not because they played ten times more games, I will not be outworked again.
I had around three weeks to prepare for mlg as the semester just ended, but much of that time was spent recovering lost skill from a two month relative inactivity beforehand. Overall I entered MLG with minimal expectations, mostly due to a lack of practice, and from having to travel to the CSL finals in Orlando the weekend before (which we won!), and the Queen buff. TvZ had went from by far my strongest matchup to clearly my weakest in the span of two weeks, dropping from somewhere around 70-75% winrate in practice to maybe 15% at best.
Despite my low expectations, my results were still rather depressing. Being knocked out in silly series in the first rounds of WCS, and then losing in the second winners round of MLG, was about the worst start to the weekend I could have gotten. I didn't feel I played particularly poor games, but a lot of little things just went wrong: scvs repairing a bunker half a second late, turrets and thors somehow not starting when I thought they did, armies getting caught slightly out of position, etc. This showed that I really lacked the fundamentals drilled into me instinctively through excessive practice.
In the second day I beat Daisuki, won against players I should win against, and had a very close series with Sheth, both of whom did well during the weekend. However, one thing I've learned is that players who truly want to compete with the best cannot be satisfied whatsoever with such results. About the only positive I was able to take away was that I was mentally strong enough to rebound from the first day disaster and play reasonably solid games the second day.
The event itself was very fun as always. The atmosphere during the early Kespa matches was probably the most exciting live event moment I've experienced. The one downside was the very unfair treatment by the referees. The MLG officiating system seemed too inflexible, as refs had no leeway of their own to make judgment calls, but the head officials didn't appear to be on the floor and seemed unaware of the overall situation, as the decisions made little sense.
During three matches on the second day the korean players were sitting behind me chatting very loudly and moving around frequently while observing various games (the Kespa players were very respectful to all the players in contrast) despite having asked an official to get them to move further away. The inability to play music at mlg made it impossible to block out the noise. Then after I was eliminated and was coaching Sheth against Illusion with Ret, the refs hunted us down despite several minutes of intense arguing and kicked us out. Sheth's manager wasn't there initially, so we were all he had, but that apparently didn't matter all because we didn't have the magical badge badge. The worst part of all of this was it was happening during the first game. Not surprisingly Sheth played very poorly and meekly folded.
Fortunately we went back in after the next game and didn't get kicked out somehow, and thankfully Sheth recovered and took the series. The worst part about it though was the clear discrimination: the Koreans were completely ignored. When asked if the rules applied them too, the officials said they would get removed once we left, but as soon as we left they went back to sit down and did nothing to the Koreans. The exact same situation occurred later that night when I was coaching Suppy against Select and Thorzain, with the Koreans being ignored despite constantly talking and filling up the entire aisle, and us prevented from supporting him. Overall, while being very frustrating to deal with, the incidents didn't seem malicious or deliberate, but simply a problem resulting from out of touch directives and no possibility for lower level initiative.
Despite yet another poor MLG, I still retain great hope for the future. With no grad school to worry about for the next few months, I am excited to see how different my play will be with far more practice than a a dozen or two hours a week. Lastly, stay tuned for God of the Battlefield part 2! It has been written and is just awaiting graphics.
How did you prepare for MLG? I laddered a little and played in the Alienware final 32 tournament. Playing in tournaments is the best practice for me. When I am laddering/streaming I am usually more focused on having a fun time then actually learning anything .
How do you feel about your results at MLG? How do you feel about your results at MLG? My results were about what I expected for the amount I played prior to the tournament. I was disappointed to lose to ColMVPTails so quickly though. Both games ended early due to poor defense/control on my part.
What did you like most / least about MLG? What was the most fun part of MLG? The games and the crowd were pretty awesome. I really enjoyed meeting a lot of people/fans. My least favorite part of MLG was the admins that kept booting everyone out while we were trying to watch Suppy as he owned his way to the championship bracket. It was impossible to watch him if you were not inside the player area.
What are your plans and goals in the future? I just want to get better/faster and learn more builds. Play in tournaments when I can. I just have fun with the game and I am going to win something eventually!
Anything else interesting that you'd like to talk about or discuss? Congrats to my teammate xSixSuppy who was the Flex4 Breakout player of MLG! And, watch #CommentaryFriday on my stream at http://www.twitch.tv/thisisjimmy. Its good, I promise.
We would like to thank everyone for their continued support of CheckSix Gaming and we hope this thread has given you some additional insight on our players. They have been working very hard and look very much forward to continue putting out strong results, so keep on the lookout for them!
Thanks, CheckSix
ChanmanV United States. June 15 2012 05:27. Posts 1061
It really was a great weekend for CheckSix I look forward hanging out and watching you guys dominate in Raleigh!
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