As you may know I left ecko earlier this month and I had been thinking about my future for a while. Overall while I have not been doing terrible in tournaments, I always want to win, and yes, do get angry at myself when I can't achieve that. Sorry for the (enjoyable??) tweets.
If you have been following my twitter I had started a daily puzzle, slowing adding clues about what will happen to me. Today I uploaded the final one (Although doesn't that large space in the middle look... [Read More]
For this blog I'll just be looking at the goals I set at the start of 2015 and whether I achieved them, as well as the major events (ACL, WCS qualifiers etc) that took place in the year that left a big impression on me.
** In typical Rize fashion this is terribly formatted, not proofread aaaaand probably mostly rambling... and I've most likely missed a lot of things - enjoy! **
Before jumping into events, lets talk about my goals for 2015 ~
Over the weekend of ACL, I recorded a bunch of clips of different days. It's mostly just some fun but especially for those who don't make it out to ACL it might give you an idea of what we get up to. I would have liked to get a bit more, especially from Sunday but I was mostly focused on playing.
Do you love esports so much you would go for a 27 hour train ride just to get to an event? Well I made this awful mistake, I made the same mistake as anyone else thinking that a couple of books and my 3DS would keep me entertained..... NOPE about 3 hours in it occurred to me that I had made the worst mistake of my life. I think I will harbor a fear of trains till the day I die, but still the fact that my boy miles came to pick me up from the train station made things... [Read More]
When I was at ACL Melbourne, I thought of many different ways to describe my experience and the people I met there.
The experience actually begun on Friday evening at MC Internet Cafe where I met some of the guys and they got to meet the rest of the family too. My kids immediately bonded with Redemption *ahem*. I will say the expert coaching advice *ahem* from Andy definitely contributed to Ed's success to make it to the groups *ahem*
After seeing ACL on twitch the past few years I decided to finally commit to going and besides getting rekt, would 11/10 go again (and still get rekt)
It began on Friday flying in from Auckland after lunchtime, meeting up with some VB clan guys; Boony and Coffeejoe (yes VB still exists) it was awesome to see these guys and was even better to finally be able to have a pint with them.
Saturday morning had 0 clue what to expect. My first impression of turning up was I was amazed at how... [Read More]
ACL Melbourne 2015
A Dragons Tale
By Jamie "Ice" Beresford
Hey guys just wanna share a little tale from this weekends endeavours
First off this adventure started on Friday and me picking both Osiris and Rize up before we made the long drive to Melbourne. Now usually a drive to Melbourne from Adelaide will take 8-9 hours this drive however took closer to 11.. Coming from Adelaide i have no sense in the word traffic. The traffic we faced as we came into Melbourne made me rage more than
My housemates are looking at moving out at the end of this year/maybe start of next. I am possibly looking for some new housemates.
OII(okay I'm interested):
I live out in the Footscray area. Roughly 15min to the city by train (of which there are THREE stations within easy walking distance), along with standard cool-stuff nearby. The total rent for my quaint little place is about $1700 per month, give or take, I can't remember right now.
[4:37:47 PM] x5Namakaye: i come back and he refuses to resume from replay
[4:38:02 PM] x5Namakaye: admin comes in and we show him the replay stuff and all that
[4:38:09 PM] x5Namakaye: admin sides with me on the time of dc
[4:38:19 PM] x5Namakaye: azz keeps pressuring the admin to give him the win
[4:38:24 PM] x5Namakaye: my pc crashes
[4:38:28 PM] x5Namakaye: suddenly 2-1 azz
**Disclaimer - this will be a literal wall of text split into what happened on each day... so if you're looking for a novel with perfect formatting, look away!**
Today started with le flight, it was around mid-day so no dramas there... the only interesting parts of this day were when I landed in Sydney.
The Sydney airport was bigger than the
Arriving into sydney at 6am was a death sentence as the flight takes 4 hours but its also at midnight so you pretty much get no sleep, anyways after i arrived i had to wait 4 hours for Jamie (Ice) to get into the airport so we can catch a cab to Mikeys house (Psycho) as thats where we were staying for the weekend. Once Jamie arrived we went to Mikeys house and started the practicing of Sc2, On no sleep i decided to stay up for as long as i could and just push through and... [Read More]
Making this post because I know a lot of people will be asking about Noodle Cup and Friday Fun Night, so I'm just putting it here so everyone knows and can help me answer if I'm not around.
Hello, for the month of June, I'll be mostly busy with volunteer work (painting and cleaning houses of the less fortunate). So, because I'm also a human bean like everyone here, I have to rest and recuperate. I'm busy 4 days of the week (Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday), so Friday Fun Nights are... [Read More]
Been a little while, thought I'd just give a small rundown of what has been going on. Bit rushed and not really edited (sorry about that), but yeah enjoy! Will hopefully take more time in editing the next one.
Hello all!
So I wanted to start off saying how encouraging the responses were on my first post. I expected maybe one but to get ten including some fantastic advice was really awesome so thank you!
With that taken care of I'm sure you are all wondering how I've been going. It has really been mixed. Running at about 50% win rate I'm winning as much as I'm losing on the ladder. TvZ I'm sitting at 60%, TvP 40%, and TvT a lowly 35%. Still these aren't what I'm after at the moment.
So today I played a game on ladder (crazy right?) well it was no ordinary game. It was a ZERG VS RANDOM GAME
My opponent was a very nice chap and very kindly proceeded to tell me which race he had spawned as. But by a small stroke of misfortune, he had actually missread his own race and had actually spawned as protoss!
Honourably, he began to make do with the card RNGsus had dealt him. But though he had told me his race, I did not trust the fiend... [Read More]
It's Christmas, so I'm going to celebrate the hobby which has brough so much fun to my year, and practice reminiscing like a rambling old man on a porch trying to kill children through the unindictable weapon of inflicted boredom.
A year ago, after stumbling across Day[9] on youtube and having my Starcraft Nostalgia poked with a whopping huge stick, I bought Starcraft 2 HoTS. Naturally, I was terrible, but I was having fun with the campaign. I practiced for multiplayer in customs but was... [Read More]
Hey guys just a blog about how i've done this year and what i plan to do next year!
Well this year started off very slow as i didnt play starcraft 2 for 1/4 of it? But yeah anyways i got back into starcraft 2 and played quite a few tournaments and did well in some and didn't do well in others, I think this year has been the best year for starcraft 2 for me personally but i think alot of improvement can be done for the coming year.
This year i also flew to ACL Sydney my first ACL event and... [Read More]
So I decided just to do a quick blog on our recently held Ecko Esports Winter LAN 2014. This one is not as in-depth as the original blog but just gives an account on what it was like for me to organise and host, hope you all enjoy
Hey everyone, I felt like writing this today as I was in a really depressed and sad mood because of the bad things happening to my people in the Middle-East, I just want you guys to know something that not many people know about.
My name is Gevergiz(George) Shlimon(Simon) Moghaddas(Holy/Blessed) Babeleh(of Babylon). I was born in Melbourne, Australia. My parents are immigrants from a place called Urmia, Iran. I know a lot of you guys probably think now that I'm a Persian Muslim, but in fact im... [Read More]
I tend to get bored rather easily, and decided to create a blog where I can just post my thoughts, feelings, etc
The initial blog is about Ecko Esports, in particular how we began, financial difficulties, and much more. So if you get really bored and want to read an essay (you have been warned) feel free to do so.
TL;DR Preface: This will be a recap of my experience at ACL Sydney 2014. If you watched the event or know the results, the only thing you're going to learn is my mentality
going into the games / coming out of the games and what I did before / after them. You're not going to find crazy drama here, sorry. That's saved for Mates of Starcraft.
For me, the event started on the Friday (day before the event) as I had to get into the apartment to check in for the team (as it was... [Read More]
so i was talking to chaddman earlier about he is the best player on frantic aray and then i accidentally created some content
thankyou everyone for supporting me in my effort to become a content creator for the starcraft communititties. i would have 1000000 viewers but because i am a content creator i can't submit things to reddit to show everyone how good my content is. pls like and subscribe and upvote and follow my content creation so taht i can continue to creat... [Read More]
The Thursday before ACL was also my birthday, so to be flying out that night was going to be really hectic as I was really busy! 11.55pm came along out of no where and I was on a plane to sydney for ACL! I arrived in Sydney at 6am with no sleep, then waited for Josh (aka Runamok) to get into the airport so we can both catch the train to our hotel.
As we got to the hotel we settled in for a bit then we went and headed of to City Hunter to go practice some games, I only practiced for a hour or... [Read More]
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