[TheGentleman]

SC2SEA Wrap Up Issue #5 (JUMBO EDITION)

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SECURITY UPDATE:

If you have not read the blizzard security update posted ten or so days ago... do it now! CLICK HERE!

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+ [SC2SEA Updates] +

Who's Who Returns:
Thread: http://www.sc2sea.com/showthread.php?t=5665

It's back. SC2SEA's Who's Who Database, a comprehensive listing of the names and faces that make our little community what it is. The SEAlebrities, if you will. From Australia to South Korea to France, they're all here in an attempt to make the people you read about seem just that little bit more human. A huge thanks to Cute, paperclip and nirvAnA for the new up to date who's who! I should also mention everyone featured in our Who's Who is entitled to their own smiley on SC2SEA!

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Thread mouse-overs:

Thanks to Tazerenix for coming up with a slick hover effect and paperclip for implementing it. Now when you mouseover threads on the tabs at the sides it should display the title and text of the thread much more easily.

+ [Latest News] +

New Section:

Latest news is a new section added the the SC2SEA Wrap Up from this issue onwards. This section will provide a quick summary of all news topics posted between the last wrap up and this one. So without any further ado, here we go:

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Winner: WCS Australia & Oceania Live Report
Source: http://www.sc2sea.com/showthread.php?t=5576

Easily the most exciting tournament this month with Tasteless and Artosis (Tastetosis), and HD and PainUser for casters, our very own Maynarde as MC, world class players and need I mention an amazing cake to top it all off. Read more about it here!

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Other News:

(25/08/2012) Gaming News - The International 2 begins tomorrow
(25/08/2012) Gaming News - Guild Wars 2 Launching this weekend!
(24/08/2012) ACL - EB Expo Australia Qualifiers
(24/08/2012) MLG - MLG Summer Championship - KnighTLighT
(24/08/2012) IPL - Dates announced for IPL5
(24/08/2012) xGTL - Playoffs - Gamecom NV vs Gama Bears
(24/08/2012) MLG - MLG Raleigh this weekend!
(23/08/2012) World News - KT_Violet Passes away
(22/08/2012) IEM - Interview - Progamer Q&A @ IEM featuring PiG and mOOnGLaDe
(22/08/2012) World News - Stephano leaves Millenium. EG next?
(21/08/2012) xGTL - Playoffs - Gamecom Nv vs Wayi Spider
(21/08/2012) SEA News - Nz eSports Happenings #2
(21/08/2012) Blizzard - Minor Patch 1.5.2 (21st August 2012)
(20/08/2012) xGTL - Playoffs - Xeria Gaming vs Gama Bears
(20/08/2012) World News - IEM Recap
(20/08/2012) TGS - Petraeus to Japan; pulls huge upsets vs Jazbas & Stellar
(19/08/2012) sc2sea - The return of Who's Who!
(17/08/2012) SEA News - NASL - SEA @ NASL Season 4 Qualifier #2http://www.sc2sea.com/showthread.php?t=5626
(16/08/2012) SEA News - Team Nv welcomes JazBas & GTR
(16/08/2012) TGS - AEC Cup PH-NZ Qualifiers This Weekend!
(15/08/2012) SEA News - Roster Review 2
(10/08/2012) Blizzard - Important Account Security Update
(10/08/2012) WCS - WCS Australia & Oceania Live Report
(09/08/2012) SEA News - Mindfreak expands SC2 roster with Iaguz
(09/08/2012) WCS - WCS Preview Part 4 of 5
(08/08/2012) WCS - WCS Australia Player Spotlight
(08/08/2012) WCS - WCS Preview Part 3 of 5
(07/08/2012) WCS - SC2SEA Preview: Part 2 of 5
(07/08/2012) WCS - SC2SEA Preview: Part 1 of 5
(07/08/2012) WCS - WCS Australia Brackets
(07/08/2012) SEA News - NZ eSports Happenings
(07/08/2012) Barcraft - Round Up - WCS Editions
(07/08/2012) World News - Jinro Retires from SC2
(05/08/2012) Tournament - Taeja Crowned Assembly Summer Champion
(03/08/2012) World News - Real Talk Episode 09 - Naniwa
(02/08/2012) Tournament - SEA @ IEM VII - Cologne (Gamescom)
(02/08/2012) TGM - Introducing New TGM Coach - IrisAnother
(01/08/2012) ACL - ACL Melbourne: The Journey of a Piglet
(30/07/2012) SEA News - SEA Stars @FXOpen Invitational Series #6!
(27/07/2012) WCS - Singapore Nationals / SEA Finals Live Update Thread
(27/07/2012) Blizzard - Patch v1.5.0 LIVE! (31 JUL)
(26/07/2012) World News - eSports Management LLC

+ [Member Achievements] +

Hero of the Day Award:

A new achievement added recently to fill a now obvious void in the list of community achievements. Hero of the Day is awarded to everyday members who end up in a singular instance doing something extraordinary.

The first member to receive this achievement will be Intoccabile19 for organising accommodation for 28 members for the WCS. This is no easy feat and we all appreciate the time and effort you have put in. Thank you for being the hero of the day for these 28 members of the SC2SEA community (Thread).

The second member to receive this achievement will be none other than our very own dot89 who arranged an extra special tasty cake for none other than tasteless at the WCS. Thank you for being the hero of the day (Thread).

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Quality Member Award:

One of the most active members in the community since her inception here at sc2sea (late 2011) even before her current position on the SC2SEA News Team is none other than our very own Rogue. Always willing to lend a hand to the community she is partly responsible for for the successful Plunder Down Under tournament (here), many interviews and now barcrafts in New Zealand. Thanks for being such a quality member.

P.S. I am happy to accept (through private message) nominations for the quality member and new member awards, after all I cannot be everywhere at once.

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New Member Award:

Due to it being almost a month since the last recap and the number of great guys that started posting after WCS, we have not 1 but 4 New Members of the Month in this edition!

Inumbris - Jesse from Wollongong just joined his first BSG SC2SEA tournament. He likes metal music, loves eSports and has been quite active in community events and tournaments - talk to him at the CH SCII ROCCAT Cup which he is attending!

Mattyb21 - Matt from Launceston is a diamond zerg who likes to stream somteimes for funzies. He will be casting ThePandarines's Brone Silver Open coming up soon so check him out there! He also wrote a good post on how to solve problems in the strategy forum which can be read here.

A3Mercury - Meet Alan, a new starcraft 2 terran player who is currently in silver league. He used to be a MLG halo player in the past. He is from Texas and our first international new member of the month!

LaughingMan - QuanticLM from Adelaide was previously a lurker who never participated in our community until nirvAnA met him in a chance encounter on ladder recently. He casts for Quantic gaming and already produces some good strategy content on the forums and his youtube channel. It would be cool to see him casting some SC2SEA tournaments soon, and being a GM on random is quite a respectable feat too.

What do these guys all have in common? From their posts they are all new warm and helpful members who contribute to the welcoming and friendly environment we have here on SC2SEA. Some of them even go beyond and help with casting / organising to make the community a better place. We hope you guys stick around

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Mafia 8 Winners:

The mafia battle was a long and mostly homicidal fight but in the end there was peace to be had... or perhaps tyranny?

Congratulations to Rogue the professional who on the first night consulted with lady luck and managed to get a lucky break using up both of her votes early in the game taking out the joker and resulting in her winning the game. It was very fortunate that she decided to use up all her votes that round as Ozliam, Revenant and I (from now on referred to as the ToRentinos) decided that her time in the Mafia Wars was up!

It was a grueling fight but in the end (for me) worth it as the ToRentinos ended up dominating the lovely SEAside village in the country of SCaletti. Unfortunately Revenant could not share in the victory, nevertheless congratulations to Ozliam and TheGentleman.

+ [Scene Coverage and Videos] +

New NERD ALERT Video:

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TL Progamer Q&A at IEM Cologne:

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SEA News Podcast - Episode 7 feat. iMLight:

+ [Hottest Threads] +

Winner: Dot's SC2 photos
Source: http://www.sc2sea.com/showthread.php?t=5304
Source: http://www.sc2sea.com/showthread.php?t=5599
(yes both of them)

Clearly the hottest thread if not for all the awesome pictures for her awesome PiG..... ON FIRE!!

With many great pictures from the WCS held from the 10th of August to the 12th of August as well as many other collections and a promise to continually update with more pictures... if you haven't checked it out definitely go and do so!

Other Threads:

(25/08/2012) LAN - Respawn LAN v.25 Melbourne SC2 Tournament!
(24/08/2012) LAN - Melbourne LAN
(20/08/2012) Tournament - ThePandarine Bronze Silver Open
(19/08/2012) Discussion - eSports at the Olympics
(19/08/2012) Other - New(ish) channel! - noobschool
(16/08/2012) HotS - Beta Invites Almost Here
(16/08/2012) Discussion - WCS Stream Highlights
(15/08/2012) HotS - HoTS Widow Mine Units
(15/08/2012) Other - Mineral Boosting Trick
(10/08/2012) Barcraft - Barcraft NZ #7 MLG Summer Championship
(26/07/2012) Competition - Tt eSPORTS Knucker Keyboard Giveaway & Community Feedback
(24/07/2012) Tournament - Tasteless Cake Gathering.
(23/07/2012) Competition - Carnage eSports Jersey design competition
(15/07/2012) Pics - Dot's SC2 photos

+ [Tournament News] +

Major Tournaments

Tokyo Game Show Qualifiers: The eight champions are: GamaniaSen , MiTHRedArchon , ThuoClao , raZiel , (Finals on 9th Sep @ TGX Singapore), IrisPetraeus , TypePSIArc (more here)

IESF Australia Qualifiers: GM1: iM MaFia, GM2: evetechtron, GM3: cRNinja, GM4: iM Light, PD1: toasti0, PD2: DronesInJail, BSG: HalaMadrid (more here)

WCS Australia Nationals: 1st: PiG, 2nd: mOOnGLaDe, 3rd: MaFia and 4th: Light

WCS Oceanian Championship: 1st: mOOnGLaDe, 2nd: MaFia, 3rd: tgun and 4th: Light

xGTL: Up to the finals with Gama Bears Vs. Gamecom Nv in the winners bracket and Xeria Gaming Vs. Wayi Spider in the lower bracket. More info here (liquidpedia or xGTL Website)

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SC2SEA Tournaments

wT Weekly #25: KwonYuRi (results)

wT Weekly #26: KwonYuRi (results)

wT Weekly #27: TigerSPR (results)

BSG Open #60: fazler (results)

BSG Open #61 (IESF Qualifier): HalaMadrid (results)

GPD Open #58: HowAreYa (results)

GPD Open #59: Monkeyman (results)

GPD Open #60: Honeybadger (results)

Quick Comments

	x5_dot:	<3
	Mayo:	Good work!

[VoxMSI.Rogue]

I love these wrap ups! tyvm for my achievement!

[ToRSpartaz]

Originally Posted by TheGentleman

Tokyo Game Show Qualifiers: The eight champions are: GamaniaSen , MiTHRedArchon , ThuoClao , raZiel

Oh wow didnt realise Raziel qualifed Nickunj fiiighting!

[Mox]

TheGentleman being a baller like usual! Keep up the good work man!

Quick Comments

nirvAnA:

+1!!!

[inFeZa]

What about nom!? She was also part of the epic cake idea!

[AxSGRiM]

Good job once again TheGentlemen although I'd like to add that wT Weekly winner 25/26 are both KwonYuRi and that he plays Z. Grats to Rogue for winning everything TT

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nirvAnA:

imba rogue

[Inumbris]

Oh awesome I got a mention, totally unexpected! Thanks for the introduction I love it here already, you guys rock Unfortunately I won't be able to make it to the ROCCAT cup tomorrow anymore due to a fair whack of Uni work chaining me to my home at the moment But I'll be sure to stay as active on the site as I can and hopefully make it to the next one!

[Blysk]

so troll... TGS winner for singapore pre-assumed to be zerg already.....

Originally Posted by TheGentleman

(Finals on 9th Sep @ TGX Singapore),

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nirvAnA:

LOL!

[TheGentleman]

Originally Posted by FlashBlitZ

so troll... TGS winner for singapore pre-assumed to be zerg already.....

CTRL+C, CTRL+V straight from this thread: http://www.sc2sea.com/showthread.php?t=5097

[ProAnnn]

Nirvana wrote that LOL ~

Quick Comments

nirvAnA:

Indeed I did!!!!!

[x5.Revenant]

I didn't get the Mafia8 Achievement too. This makes me sad.

Quick Comments

	nirvAnA:	So close T_T
	TheGentleman:	<3 :(

[x5_dot]

Thanks Nirvana! Like Infeza mentioned the cake was not just by me. Many other people contributed. I just spent a lot of money and ensured there was cake on the day!

I think the entire community should get mad props for whatever contribution they made to the cake; whether it be donating money (some very generous folks in this community), making the thread that got the ball rolling (nom), making suggestions as to cake design, making suggestions for presents, making the pylon candles (Zepph), distributing cake (asrath, baldies, akky)... And so much more. As you can see it was definitely not a 1 person job. Tasteless will never forget this, that's for sure!

Also, don't think I deserve the hottest thread title but thanks for the exposure

The site is looking better every single day. Kudos to everyone who helps make it so awesome!

[TheGentleman]

From now on I'm going to have the sc2sea wrap up stickied for 3 or so days after it was originally posted, then bump it once and watch it fall. Here's the shameless bump.