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ESL Writeup - by crAzerk

The ESL Go4SC2 SEA Cup #1 was the first of hopefully a looong series of tournaments and with a prize pool of $75, you can bet it attracted the top players from SEA!

Anyway, I spotted mOOnGLaDe in the brackets so I dropped him a PM to follow him through his games until he got knocked out (or wins it), but I'll only do a full write-up (with fancy pictures) for the semifinals/finals! Let's go.

OH wait wait, before we start,



I must say Glade is a pretty good mannered... [Read More]

I finally got my Steelseries 7G, and decided to review it on the day I got it, after deciding I had enough information on it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h2cS6S7Dvgf

What do you guys think? ;P

Road to Masters (5)

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http://www.justin.tv/vtazz for those interested.

Hi fellow crafters!

i believe some of you guys have been "bugged".. no worries.. according to this post that is..

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/2580698045


Your MMR will continue to change accordingly.. upon the next fix, they will ranked you accordingly upon the following game...

GL HF to all and may this help those who panicked like me.. xD

Love~
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Hey guys,

Once again, I am asking another question about "Commentators" for SC2 as it is an AWESOME hobby to have/do!

So today's question/blog thing would be about a Long-term co-caster/partner that makes a casting team together. (eg. Benji/Xeen or Phoenix/Kelly or Artosis/Tasteless)

So how do casters work together long-term? What makes a dual-cast strong? How do you improve in casting with a long-term partner? Just some tips and pointers will help as I am starting to cast with my... [Read More]

SO! My last blog was about me whinging how my ZvZ is so bad. So first I'll begin with a little update on that.
My issue is micro. I am a Gold level player through above-average macro and mechanics, but my micro and decision making is horrible. Of course, ZvZ for the first 6 - 10 minutes (all opinion, feel free to post yours) is intense micro if there's any sort of rush. I kept failing miserably since I would attempt 15 hatch, and then could not hold any rushes whatsoever. I eventually knuckled... [Read More]

EDIT: Looks like tinypic decided to delete my images from their database (for no apparent reason) and i cannot be bothered re-uploading, so i guess GG thread.
Heeeey
Basically my own personal blog which i will be (hopefully) constantly updating. Feel free to comment on anything, and if its a question, ill get straight to it!

Background
I first got into the whole 'editing' kind of thing back when i was like 10. I am self-taught and am able to do everything you see here. Im still in... [Read More]

Hello .. its me again. I just started streaming my ladder games via Justin.TV and since this is my 1st time experience on streaming, i have to say, it's pretty cool.

My stream is at http://www.justin.tv/ndlsizematters. I see so many pro players streaming and i ask myself, why not i also start streaming my ladder 1v1 games as well. I not a pro player or am i a high rank league player. My streaming is basically, just to stream and perhaps get constructive feedback on my 1v1 games if able. My... [Read More]

Road to Masters (4)


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As inspired by TeamLiquid Records.

I will use this space to share some of my works. You may have probably seen it before on the Team Liquid thread.
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Hi guys, as some of you may know, I am doing tournament write-ups and stuff for SC2SEA.

At the moment, I am only going to be covering the Finals of whatever tournaments I'm asked to cover. However I would like to 'add value' to the write-up with some 'best match of tournament' or 'random news' or something.

Thus, if you all actually know of any REALLY interesting game/series that occurred during the tournament (like maybe a pro getting knocked out by cheese twice in a row, 40 minute epic... [Read More]

(Time to get some serious blogging done)

Starcraft 2 is one of the best games of the decade.

I dont know anyone on these forums who would want to say otherwise when reading the above statement. Not only because of the actual gameplay, but because of the communities that starcraft 2 has cause to bring together, the scale of which I see as insane for an individual game. Although other games have achieved this, some of those communities will not last for a huge amount of time. These... [Read More]

Hi guys!

This is an update on my situation with keyboard/mouse/mousepad, which I made a thread about ages ago while trying to make a decision on what I'd buy. I just ordered my gear last night with the intentions of getting the best gaming gear I while ignoring the price. I know Im going to make great use out of the gear, but I also selected the gear based off of:

- What will last for a long time
- What functions brilliantly
- What doesn't look like a dogs turd
- What is as close as... [Read More]

EDIT: Btw, I am atqhteo haha. Just got a namechange.

Ah, just finished my write-up for the BSG tonight.. damn it took bloody long. Like from observing the games up till I finished the write-up and all the uploading of pics and migrating it here - about 3-4 hours? Gonna have to reduce my coverage to just finals next time!

Submitted it to the admins, hope it gets published soon heh.

So anyway, I'm offering my services, so to speak, to any tournament organizers who want some sort of... [Read More]

Road to Masters (3)


Hey hey it's the 3rd post in this series... and I'm sucking so bad I should rename it 'Life of a Diamond Noob' or something.

Anyway Blogger is being a bitch by being down for like eternity so I can't post the games I played yesterday, so I'll just do the blog entry of the one I did TODAY, and post it tomorrow. Confusing? Nvm it's not important.

Yup so I'm using Photobucket for my photos and I can't resize them! So sorry if they're all BIG and IN YOUR FACE.
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Road to Masters (2)


Day 2 of my push to Masters league!
And this was when Patch 1.3 just came out! With the infestor speed nerf bleah. And the Warp Gate nerf, which means more 2 gate shenanigans as you'll see later on.

1) vs Sidoney (Terran) on Typhon Peaks
This game epitomizes what Benji was complaining about in his blog post.
I opened my usual Spanishiwa style, and he walled off before I could get my drone into his base. (it's a big map -_- )
Tried to fly my OL in at 5min+ to get... [Read More]

Wassup guys,

Just got my new toy last weekend. I bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab and im a noob to this sort off tablet thingy. So many apps to download. And the 1st thing i did was to find an awesome Protoss wallpaper, i did found some but was either to blur or not awesome to become a wallpaper for my tabber. Then i decided to download my next apps which is Justin TV apps, its fantastic, now i can watch SC2 live on the go. How wonderful life is

If any of u guys got any awesome SC2 wallpaper,... [Read More]

Road to Masters!!



Exams are over and so I'm making a push to Masters (I'm in Diamond at about 60% win rate) and I thought it'd be fun to document the process. If you're bored or something you can just have a read through for fun, and see(read?) some of my thoughts on ZvX matchups.

This series of blog entries will follow my journey from May 9th 2011 until I hit Masters or until I die from playing lol. I will give the summaries and my thoughts on the games

1) vs FrOstar (Terran) on... [Read More]

THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS SINCE ITS 2AM!

This blog, is going to be my experiences from being a lowely Gold newbie who taught cutting probes was a good thing. to where i am today. and where I am is, On the 8th of June, I am getting on a plane to Malaysia to start my FULLTIME job in e-sports as a Content producer/team manager and lead caster for fxopen e-sports!


About ME!

So for anyone who hasnt had the pleasure of working with me or playing games with me before, My name is Daniel... [Read More]

Question to you guys!
Because I want to get better at casting

Wassup guys ...

Just started SC2 back again after 4-5 months break due to work. Well for me, work always comes 1st no matter what, it kinda my bread and butter, staying at my own place does changes everything.

But without SC2, i will surely be bored to death, so suggested to pick-up SC2 recently, did not really do well on ladder, to me ... laddering is always a practice match, ranking does not mean much to me at this moment but i do wanna get up the ranks as fast as possible. My target is... [Read More]

Just finished watching thor with a bunch of aLts (also a farewell to cure who goes into army in 5 days!) and wow was it fantastic! Hands down my favourite show of the year. Loved that aussie leads charismatic presence and the story was engaging and well written. director was an oscar nominated "serious film" guy or smth and it really showed what you can do with some serious talent and a big budget behind u. he brought the fantastic storyline that made marvel comics so loved out into cinematic... [Read More]

hey guys,

Just a quick blog post to say I need to expand my skype contacts list and sc2 mates so please add bordz128 if you are interested.

BordZ

Yo dudes and chicks.

Recently I have been really really struggling in TvP. I usually open with ghosts to either put some pressure early on with EMP or just use the EMP's defensively. Lately it hasn't really been going to plan and I think that I am losing due to my poor control.

Once the toss gets colossus and even if I have vikings, my army will still get obliterated. Any terrans out there, can you please give some advice on how to control your army when engaging. Cheers.

Also any TvP... [Read More]