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NvPinder · Wed, 31st-Aug-2011, 10:09 AM

After seeing Sensai's topic, it occurred to me I don't think there's a Melbourne thread yet.

Melbourne's Mana Bar is hosting BarCraft for the blizzard invitational too! Which is a great chance to come down and cheer on our own Melbournian TAdeth as he tries to earn one of the two spots at Blizzcon and competes for the huge cash prize on the line!

Some info on the actual event: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...type=1&theater

Some info on Mana Bar in Melbourne: http://melbourne.manabar.com.au/

Is anyone interested in attending? Post here if you're keen on going. I'll be keen to go and have a few drinks/watch the games as long as a few others from sc2sea are going along

TargA · Wed, 31st-Aug-2011, 11:34 AM

maybe, would be better to go and watch gsl finals or something like that tho : <

souljah · Wed, 31st-Aug-2011, 11:36 AM

Will be available, but depends on who's going

**SkyBreaker** · Wed, 31st-Aug-2011, 1:33 PM

I'd be keen

fur · Wed, 31st-Aug-2011, 2:36 PM

I reckon I could attend, depending on the dates?

Cute · Wed, 31st-Aug-2011, 2:51 PM

Will more than likely be heading over with some roomates. Should be good! Let's go deth!

**SkyBreaker** · Wed, 31st-Aug-2011, 3:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Cute

Will more than likely be heading over with some roomates. Should be good! Let's go deth!

More like Light figggghhhttiinnngggg imo!!

Disadvantage · Wed, 31st-Aug-2011, 5:11 PM

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Originally Posted by fur

I reckon I could attend, depending on the dates?

Check the links in OP

fur · Wed, 31st-Aug-2011, 7:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Disadvantage

Check the links in OP

Haha I was at work. It's even on a weekend, should be awesome.

**inFeZa** · Mon, 19th-Sep-2011, 11:04 PM

Did anyone else go to this? Was a pretty good day, GSL was better than the SEA inv.

TAEdarus · Wed, 21st-Sep-2011, 12:19 PM

Myself and a mate went, I found it to be very much a let down to be honest.

Russ311j · Wed, 21st-Sep-2011, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by TAEdarus

Myself and a mate went, I found it to be very much a let down to be honest.

care to elaborate?

akbal · Wed, 21st-Sep-2011, 1:34 PM

I tried to go to Mana Bar Melbourne a couple of times. The fact that it has a capacity of 20~ people just kills it imo.

SilentNoodle · Wed, 21st-Sep-2011, 7:28 PM

aww i was hoping this would be good so they'd continue doing it

hope they keep doing it anyway LOL

SuperHero · Thu, 22nd-Sep-2011, 1:16 AM

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Originally Posted by akbal

I tried to go to Mana Bar Melbourne a couple of times. The fact that it has a capacity of 20~ people just kills it imo.

Wow seriously? only 20 people? surely thats an exaggeration but if it isnt then that sounds really lame.

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Originally Posted by TAEdarus

Myself and a mate went, I found it to be very much a let down to be honest.

yes please elaborate on this. i am interested in what happened.

TAEdarus · Thu, 22nd-Sep-2011, 11:33 AM

Hokay, so...
We rocked up, the event was supposed to start @ 1pm, but the doors opened at about 20 past and they didn't have the event up on any screen until 1:45pm.

There's a bar about 2 meters in width which is slightly too tall for your average heighted person so it was awkward to lean on and feel prosauce.

As was stated a bit earlier the places capacity is terribly small, i'd say comfortably 15-20 people TOPS before you're rubbing shoulder to shoulder just standing / walking around anywhere.

For a BarCraft there was minimal "bar" and minimal barstools or seating etc so of the few people who were there not everyone got a seat (i'm guessing from memory there were 8-10 people?)

Good airconditioning, poor atmosphere due to venue size and layout, and of the multiple screens they had, only one of them had the event on and it wasn't even a decent size (30inch tops?).

More or less, after our second beer, my mate and I both said we couldn't see ourselves staying for another and would have preferred to hook my laptop up to my TV @ home and sit on the couch drinking. It just simply was not the event I was expecting, I went into it picturing a bustling bar with a decent atmosphere and a capacity of 50+ people minimum. I walked away from an 8 person expensive beer drinking outing.

TAEdarus · Thu, 22nd-Sep-2011, 11:58 AM

On that note, would there be any interest from people here for a BarCraft type event in the Ballarat area for the next GSL or something to that effect?

A mate of mine and myself believe we can do it a lot better in my garage.
Ie. we buy a slab of beer, and sell it at non-profit price so it would be like $1.60 per stubby or something... a lot better than bar prices!
Obviously we'd buy more than just one slab haha

emart · Sun, 2nd-Oct-2011, 12:11 PM

Seattle does some stuff like this. It's just for fun though. We let whoever feels they can cast goof off and pretend. It's fun. I wouldn't want the leagues to feel that we were cutting out their casters though. Is there some different PA system to use? Why would local casters be heard better than the league ones?