NewSCast for 18-Jan-12

Here we go again everyone.  I am TheAmazombie and this is your StarCraft 2 NewSCast for Wednesday, January 18th.

Well, some action, but mostly drama over the last few days.  First though, the GSL.  The matches for Monday were MMA and Gumiho advancing with Zenio taking 3rd and YuGiHo taking 4th.  On Tuesday we had Genius and DRG advancing with SC taking 3rd and JYP 4th.  Then on Wednesday we had MKP and aLive advancing with Happy 3rd and Brown 4th.
In the ESVtv Korean Weekly we had Leenock taking the win over TheSTC 4-2 with SuperNova and Jjakji taking the next two spots.

Now, onto the moves and other drama.  We had the announcement from Fnatic.MSI that they have signed WarCraft 3 legend Moon to their roster.  Then we had word that Heart has left TSL citing issues with living in the TSL house.  This announcement comes on the heels of alleged misconduct in recruiting between Fnatic and TSL.  Coach Lee claimed that Fnatic were in talks with the player aLive behind their backs.  Fnatic argues that there was no conversations other than off-handed comments between their translator and the team.  aLive has left TSL for reasons he claims were unrelated to the team situation.  Fnatic and TSL were in the process of discussing a team partnership when all of this went down.

aLive has come forward since and said that there was fault on all sides, including his own, and hopes to have it resolved soon.  He claims that there was also some misconduct on Coach Lee's side and has said that if they cannot resolve the situation he will seek legal channels.

If that wasn't enough, later we had the bomb dropped by Rekrul, a well-respected ESPORTS insider and former progamer about other misconduct on the part of Coach Lee from back when the TSL team was started.  He states that Lee stole FruitDealer and Tester from oGs to start his new team.  Then when Spunky, the founder of oGs went to talk with Lee about it Lee tried to egg him into a fight while secretly taping the incident in order to use as blackmail.  This sheds even more light into the problems with TSL and Coach Lee that might explain the player retention problem the team seems to have.

In other player news, Golden and Dragon have left Slayers to pursue foreign team options and Spades has left his team, Reign, to pursue other options as well.  Finally, GuineaPig has confirmed that he has left MVP.

Well, that's about all the news that we have for you tonight.  Don't miss any of the action, but if you do you can find it here the next morning at SC2NewSCast.com.

StarCraft 2 NewSCast for Thursday, July 28th

Here we go everyone.  I am TheAmazombie and this is your StarCraft 2 NewS Cast for Thursday, July 28th.

We are going to start off with big news coming out of Team Liquid.  If you have not heard, the recently released Sheth, formally of FXOpen has a new home with Team Liquid.  It has been awhile since TL has announced a new member and the ubermannered Sheth with his skill and attitude is a perfect fit.  Congrats to Sheth on the new team.  Just for reference, here is the complete roster of Team Liquid:
Nazgul, TLO, Haypro, Tyler, Jinro, Ret, Huk, and now Sheth.

On to tourney play with the up and down matches in the GSL from early this morning.  I will run through the single game results, then overall afterward:  First we had aLive over Inca, Leenock over Keen, aLive over Banbanssu, Keen over Inca, aLive over Leenock, Keen over Banbanssu, Keen over aLive, and Inca over Leenock.  This means that Keen and aLive will retain Code S, Inca, Leenock, and Banbanssu all Code A status.

We also had some loser's bracket play in the IPL season 2.  Today we had Drewbie taking out Cloud 2-0.  The next match was Tarson taking down NightEnd 2-1.  The third match was Lalush taking down Axslav 2-1, and the final match of the night was Darkforce falling 2-1 to BratOK.  All losers are eliminated from the tourney.

In other news, last night we announced the showmatch between SlayersBoxer and Yellow.  More details have come forward and this will actually be a best of 3, not best of 5 which is what we originally thought.  That match can be found over at gomtv.net on August 5th at 6AM PST.  This is the show match event of the year, so be there.

Also, another announcement from FXOpen.  They have signed a new player from South East Asia name proTimber, Julian Ho.  Good luck to him and his new team.

Well, that's about all of the news that we have for you tonight.  Don't miss any of the action, but if you do you can find it here the next morning at SC2NewSCast.com.

StarCraft 2 NewSCast for Saturday, July 2nd

Here we go everyone, I am TheAmazombie and this is your StarCraft 2 NewS Cast for Saturday, July 2nd.

In tournament news, we had the first day of playoffs in the EGs Master League with Mouz taking down Complexity, Fnatic falling to Dignitas, and in the loser's bracket Fnatic falls to Complexity and are eliminated.  Tomorrow we will have Mouz taking on Dignitas, Fnatic facing the loser of that series, and then the grand finals between the winners.

We also had the TL Open #18 and winner this week was, well the winner of week 16 HwangSin.  ZenexHack came in 2nd, 3rd-4th were Polt and Nerchio, 5th-8th were Lalush, Shadow, Mystic, and Phantasm.  Congrats to HwangSin who has been very strong as of late.

We also had NASL Season 2 Qualifiers today.  In the ro8 sc took down allaboutyou 2-0, MarineKing beat Polt 2-1, Hero took down Vines and Top took down CheckPooh.  In the ro4 we had Sc took out MarineKing 2-1, and the results for Hero and Top were not posted or played yet.  One of them will move on to the finals against SCFou tomorrow.

Well, in player news Strelok has announced that due to Visa issues he will not be able to attend the NASL championships coming up.  It is sad news as Strelok played very well throughout the tournament and earned his spot.  He will receive a Visa for 5 year, but not until after the championships start so he will be prepared for future events as well as MLG Anaheim.  His spot will be replaced by the NASL Open runner-up who was TSL.Alive.  That is correct, more Koreans in the championship rounds.

Well, that's about all the news that we have for you tonight.  Don't miss any of the action, but if you do you can find it here the next morning at SC2NewSCast.com.