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The History of Starcraft II @ CH Part 1
 

Hey Guys

for a while theres been some confusion over the Naming, order and winners of previous City Hunter LANs, Here I will try and rectify the issue by summarizing the results of the last 16 months or so CH has been involved in SCII

The Beginning - City Hunter's Starcraft II Festival


Something we're extremely proud of is that we held the 1st LAN Tournament for Starcraft II in Australia (as far as I know im yet to be told otherwise)

Something that extremely annoyed me was that the one we held in January 2011 was dubbed CityHunter LAN#1 despite it being our 2nd!

The competition started on the 28th of August 2010 roughly 1 month after the games release, DeL made a Liquipedia page about on the 5th of August 2010 the same day I posted to event online (9 days after the games release!)
http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft...r_SC2_Festival

There were 3 events for this competition

Starcraft II 1v1
Starcraft II 2v2
CS 1.6 3v3 (yeah I still dont know why)

Attendance was massive with 96 people (that was full rego, could have been more) signing up for the 1v1 Comp and 37 teams for the 2v2 Comp (maximum was for 48 teams) the 1v1 tournament held the record for the highest participation for a SC II LAN event in Australia for an astonishing 11 months

Notable players whom attended

Unfortunately for this event the sign ups were taken using people IRL names so I can release a full list of attendance I do recognize names that still attend City Hunter LANs but as for people from the SC2SEA Community

Iaguz- The first person to sign up lol
TAScarecrow- also another early sign up, signing up 3rd
Moonglade- Back when he played for Team Immunity
HerBz- Moonglades team mate at the time dont think he continued playing much longer
Sanchez- the one and only ^_^
Rampager- Hasnt aged a day
PiG- Signed up with his brother Anthony, famously destroyed a cheesie Glade in the 2v2 group stages (I was sitting next to Glade when this happened!)

The community

The community back then all congregated in CG here's the forum link to my original
http://www.cybergamer.com.au/forums/thread/159277/29Aug-19Sep:-City-Hunters-StarCraft-II-Festival-$5000-cash-and-prizes/
It includes Pinder asking whether he has to drive up from Melbourne 4 weekends, DeL being helpful and Glade being a boss

Qualifier 1
1v1 Players

2v2 Players


More Photos
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...2880257&type=1

Qualifier 2

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https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...2880257&type=1

Qualifier 3

More Photos
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...2880257&type=1

FINALS 1v1
Finalists


Best Zerg + Best Cyber Cafe FTW lol


Top 3

More Photos
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...2880257&type=1

2v2 FINALS

Top Teams


Wai Wai Cover Girls


More Photos
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...2880257&type=1

The Results

Starcraft II 1v1

1st mOOnGLaDe
2nd Iaguz
3rd Kommunist

Starcraft II 2v2

1st Fei zheng & Jack Ma
2nd Kommunist & Jimmy Wu
3rd Cameron Lai & Mike Rose


Final thoughts
Even in these early days I could tell just how mature the Starcraft II community was compared to the ones I had worked with up until this point, I early awaiting the time when I could run one myself (Dave mostly ran this event)


Coming Soon (Part 2)- The Summer of Love

Re: The History of Starcraft II @ CH Part 1
 

HerBz is never a notable signup lol

Re: The History of Starcraft II @ CH Part 1
 

he was on iM makes him a notable sign up at the time :P

Re: The History of Starcraft II @ CH Part 1
 

Glade cheesed us! They were doing a spine + bunker rush every game so I 9 pooled and held off the double-rush on my own while my brother did a standard opener and got a sick lead .

They then did a steady tank push with marinetank and lingbane (glade was playing terran i think) and I slowed it down with ling bane threatening to engage so it took them a good while to kill my base while my bro doomdropped both their bases and destroyed all their eco and production. They went to trade with my bro but his seige mode finished just as they started up his ramp and his 3-4 tanks seiged up massacring their whole army :P. Felt so epic!

Re: The History of Starcraft II @ CH Part 1
 

HAHA my bad Ill add this story to the OP

Re: The History of Starcraft II @ CH Part 1
 

Nice writeup, I think Sanchez got 4th 1v1 and the only 2v2 we lost was the one where we decided not to worker rush

Re: The History of Starcraft II @ CH Part 1
 

Awesome, I love hearing all these stories emerge from the past