The great and powerful StardustNA has seen fit to deliver unto thee a series of awesome improvements to his already addictive custom creation, Sc2 Micro tournament!
Improvement the first: The existing matchups have been extensively rebalanced and the superfluous and generally un-fun matchups have been removed or replaced. There are no longer any glaringly unbalanced matchups, and many have been finely tuned so that the map now offers a high consistency of balance and of fairness.
Second improvement: Many new matchups have been added with a particular interest in utilizing the changes and new units from the Heart of the Swarm expansion. While they may not be perfect initially, they are being constantly reassessed as people get better at them and figure things out, along with the same ongoing effort to have the existing matchups even more finely tuned and the slightly unbalanced or unfair ones weeded out.
Third improvement: Side micro games have been added for your enjoyment and microducation! (yea I said it ) Now, when you are not microing, if you want to you can split marines against banelings or practice blink micro in a series of stages with increasing difficulty! You can do this in between head to head micro battles, or challenge yourself and micro them throughout, keeping you entertained AND improving your micro and multi-tasking!
Oh yea, there are also now observer slots, the allies chat default has been fixed, and the attacker/defender scenarios are now more clearly labeled!
Since the updates have begun a few months ago there has been a dramatic increase in the number of people playing and re-playing this game. The feedback about the balance and the updates are great, and I am happy to say that there is a new wave of talented microers emerging as regulars!
Lastly, to any of you who are in fact regulars, it would be really great if people would create their own matchups and PM them to me for testing and addition into to the map! There are currently 117 unique matchups that you might be forced to play, and there is not likely any realistic upper limit of how many there could be!
TL;DR : SC2 Micro Tournament on the north american server is now more balanced than ever before, with the bad matchups all but destroyed and everything improved significantly. HOTS compositions were added and are continuously being added. If you stink at splitting marines or blinking you can now practice them at neat side games when you are not microing. PM me your ideas for matchup scenarios and they will be seriously tested and considered for addition (the more fun and balanced they are the more likely they will be added).
UPDATE: TOURNAMENTS!
Every Thursday there will be a micro tournament TOURNAMENT held on the North American server at 00:00 GMT (+00:00)
Join the SC2 GROUP (NOT CHANNEL, GROUP!!!!!!) "SC2 Micro Tournament" to participate! There parties will be formed by the group leader and games initiated.
Rules: + Show Spoiler +
GAME MODE: Shuffle (all players must use random)
GAME LOBBY MUST BE FULL AT TIME OF GAME START
IF YOU LEAVE THE GAME YOU ARE IN YOU MAY NOT JOIN A SECOND GAME
PLAYERS WHO COME IN FIRST AND SECOND PLACE IN EACH FIRST ROUND GAME WILL BE INVITED TO A PRIVATE CHAT FOR THE SECOND ROUND
Prizes will include in game goodies such as lighting control (sounds cool right?) your name written on the minimap and the loading screen, and the eternal pride that of course comes along knowing you're the greatest!