What's the holiday season without some TL-events? Where other people sit around the fireplace, warming their hands on some hot choco, we nerds bask in the comforting glow of our monitors. Who needs carols when you can listen to Marines dying? Who needs eggnog when you can have cheese? Who needs sledding in the snow when you can play some SC with your TL buddies? Check out below what we have in store.
On the 3rd of January (22:00 CET, 16:00 EST, 13:00 PST) we'll be doing a TeamLiquid Arena Xmas Special! What's Special about it? We'll be playing in Team Melee style!
Christmas is a time of getting together with friends and family. The more the merrier right? So hook up with a friend in and post in this topic listing: the race you two (or three) will be playing and links to your accounts that ended C+ or lower in the last season with a minimium of 50 games.
The Hero of the evening is Aerials!
Maps will be picked by the hero from the ICC mappack (no repeats) and click the spoiler below for the list of handicaps:
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Units
- Gas Cap - Hero can have a maximum of 2 Refineries
- M-Shop Cap - Hero can have only 1 Machine Shop
- Prod fac. Cap - Hero can have only 4 of any production facility (Rax, Fact, Port)
- No Dropships - Hero isn't allowed to make Dropships
- Max 1 Vessel - Hero is allowed to have a maximum of 1 Vessel at any given time
Upgrades
- 1 Ebay / Armory - Hero can have 1 Engineering Bay and 1 Armory
- No Vult speed - Hero cannot research Vulture speed
- No Range - Hero cannot research Range Upgrades (Marine, Goliath, Ghost)
- No Vessel Spells - Hero cannot research any Vessel spells
- Impotency -Hero cannot research Siege Mode
Other
- Kill ini worker - Hero has to kill one of his initial 4 workers at the start of the game
- No Scan (Scan cap) - Hero cannot build Comsat Stations
- Give vision - Hero has to share vision with his opponent
- No Minimap - Hero cannot use minimap
- No Lift off - Hero may not Lift Off buildings
- Fail Placement - Expanding CCs must be built 1 hex off
First come first serve so be sure to enlist asap
I'll be going through the Small VOD thread to find the best, worst, funniest and most inventive cheeses of 2009. On New Year's Eve, they will be compiled into a nice orderly list for everyone to enjoy!
Of course Liquipedia is joining in with the festivities as well.
First of all - check out our new logo!
Secondly, Slugbreath wrote an article on The 12 Days of Starcraft. I bet most of you thought it was just a song. Think again - it's actually a Blizzard-made UMS map (download here!) that should be a nice addition to your holiday activities
And last but not least, Liquipedia is keeping up with everything going on in TSL2, most recently updating the page for the Round of 48. Sadly enough though, most of these top players don't have a page yet (most notably so Brat_ok). We're always looking for people to join us in the effort of getting these up and going. If you're up for it, visit us on IRC sometime - we're a jolly bunch
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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