Showing posts with label marineking. Show all posts
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Sunday, November 6, 2011

NewSCast for 5-Nov-11

Here we go again everyone.  I am TheAmazombie and this is your StarCraft 2 NewSCast for Saturday, November 5th.

Well, we start tonight with NASL action play from Division 4, Week 7.  The match ups for tonight were Sen over Inka 2-0, Select over Strelok 2-0, NightEnd over InControl 2-1, and finally we had Ret over MoonGlade 2-0.  The standings for this division after 7 weeks are play are:
Strelok 5-1, Sen 5-1, Ret 5-2, Select 4-3, MoonGlade 3-3,  NightEnd 2-4, Inka 1-5, and InControl bringing it in at 0-6.

We also had the finals in the ASUS ROG Invitational where Idra took the tournament from Select 4-2.

We also had Group D in the GomTV Arena of Legends tourney.  The group tonight consisted of Coca, Sage, Bomber, BboongBboong, and Oz.  The winners and players to advance tonight are Oz and BboongBboong.

Well, in other news we have the announcement that Mousesports has signed a 14-year old German player formally known as HeroMarine who will be playing for Mouz under the name Marine.  Also in the team side of things we have the announcement from the team eSahara that they have signed European players Naama and Satiini.  Naama was a very strong player about a year ago but has since dropped off the scene quite a bit.  Let's hope he can get back in form.

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.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

NewSCast for 2-Nov-11

Here we go again everyone.  It is a new month and I am TheAmazombie and this is your StarCraft 2 NewSCast for Wednesday, November 2nd.

Well, some good news and action over the weekend.  I will start with the NASL Division 5 from Sunday night.  We had HasuObs over QXC 2-0, Puma over TT1 2-0, and Dimaga over TLO 2-0.  Next we had Division 1, week 7 play tonight with Hero over Vibe 2-1, White-Ra over Cruncher 2-1, Sheth over Lowely 2-1, and finally DeMuslim got the walk-over from Fenix due to Fenix resigning from the NASL.

We also had the first few groups in the GSL November Code S matches.  In group A we had MMA and MC advancing with Ryung 3rd and YuGiHo 4th.  In group B play we had SC and NesTea advancing with Losira 3rd and asd 4th.  Next we had Group H play with MVP and aLive advancing, MarineKing 3rd and Curious 4th.  Finally we had Group D play with Ganzi and Leenock advancing, Polt 3rd and Ensnare 4th.  Remember, with the new format top 2 advance, 3rd goes to the ro32 Code A with 4th going o the ro48 Code A.

Well, in other news we had the announcement that FXOtgun has left FXO to pursue other options.  TT1 has also announced that he has left his team FnaticMSI.

We also had the news that YoutTube with partnering with IPL to start a new all-gaming channel called START.IGN.  This will feature shows and whatnot all centered around gaming.  They are reporting that the idea is to make TV-Quality shows and programming.  Good news and I hope it all works out.

Also announced is the GomTV Arena of Legends Ace Invitational.  The idea with this tourney will be to pit two members from each team in a big tourney to see who comes out on top and a chance to win around 10,000 bucks.  Speaking of this event, the first group played tonight.  Group A featured MC, Line, Curious, Polt, and MVP with MVP and Curious advancing.

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.

Sunday, October 2, 2011

NewSCast for 1-Oct-11

SORRY - My voice was weak as hell tonight, so after gain and noise removal, the quality is bad.

Here we go again everyone.  I am TheAmazombie and this is your StarCraft 2 NewS Cast for Saturday, October 1st.

We will start tonight with the NASL Division 4, Week 3 play.  The maps for today were Dual Sight, Bel'Shir Beach, and Shattered Temple.  The results were Sen over MoonGlade 2-1, Strelok over NightEnd 2-1, and Ret over Select 2-1.  The standings after 3 weeks are:
Ret 3-0, Strelok 3-0, Sen 2-1, Inka 1-1, Select 1-2, Moonglade 0-2, NightEnd 0-2, and Incontrol 0-2.

We also had Day 2 in IEM China.  The groups today were groups C and D with the top 2 from each group advancing.  In group C we had Elfi take it 3-0, Idra second at 1-2, Jim 1-2 and Jinro 1-2.  In group D we had Revival 3-0, Strelok 2-1, Way 1-2, and iaguz at 0-3.

One of the most exciting pieces of news though was the finals in the GSL Arena of Legends with MarineKIng taking on DRG in a bo7 series.  In the end the Kong himself, MKP, finally took a huge victory over DRG 4-1.  Congrats to MKP!

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.

Friday, September 23, 2011

StarCraft 2 NewSCast for Thursday, September 22nd - NO CAST

NO PODCAST THIS WEEK
Here we go again everyone.  I am TheAmazombie and this is your StarCraft 2 NewS Cast for Thursday, September 22nd.

Well, first off we had the playoffs in the GSTL last night.  The match was Prime taking on StarTale and here is the rundown:
Creator over July, Creator over Ace, then Curious over Creator.  Next we had Annyung taking out Curious and Squirtle.  This led to the closer Bomber as he took down Annyung.  The rematch was then set between Bomber and MarineKing.  This time though, MarineKing took the very strong win over Bomber taking the series for Prime 5-2.
In the GSL we also had the Code A ro16 day 2 play.  The results were JYP over FruitDealer 2-0.  Next we had FXOz over SUPERSTAR 2-0.  To follow that up was Lucky over Dream 2-0, and the final match was Sage 2-0 over Check.

Also today we had the NASL Division 2, Week 2 play.  The maps for today were Terminus, Dual Sight, and Bel'Shir Beach.  First off we had Cloud taking out Rain 2-0.  Next was DarkForce over Haypro 2-1.  Following that up was Huk over Axslav 2-0, and the final match was Man over BratOK 2-1.

Also played today were a few more matches in the MLG Global Invitational.  In the winner's bracket we had Idra over Sheth 2-1 and Major over Tyler 2-0.  In the lower bracket we had Destiny over InControl 2-0 and Kiwikaki over Slush 2-0.

In team and player news, Polt formally of Prime has joined TSL over in Korea.  Also announced today is 2 players formally of Sixjax, Vibe and DDE have signed with It's Gosu eSports.

Friday, September 9, 2011

StarCraft 2 NewSCast for Thursday, September 8th

Hello again everyone.  I am TheAmazombie and this is your StarCraft 2 NewS Cast for Thursday, September 8th.

Well, not a ton of action, but there was some amazing match ups over in the GSL Up and Down Matches early Thursday morning.  Here is the complete rundown:
Violet over Tester, Taeja over MarineKing, JYP over Violet, Tester over MarineKing, Taeja over JYP, MarineKing over Violet, Tester over Taeja, MarineKing over JYP, Taeja over Violet, and JYP over Tester.  This set up a playoff round where JYP went over Tester, MarineKing over JYP, and finally MarineKing over Tester.  This means that our Code S spots went to Taeja and MareinKing with the other 3 players all heading back to Code A.
So now the final Code S spots have been seeded.  The winners are SuperNova, Losira, Taeja, Leenock, Jjakji, MarineKing, Ganzi, and DRG.  Now let's see who wins Code S this season and how everyone does in the placement matches.

In other news, it has been a bit of a story the last few days where NBA player Gordon Hayward has signed up for the Open brackets at IPL season 3 in Atlantic City.  He has stated that he has been playing quite a bit more considering the NBA lock out as well as wanting to help promote ESPORTS in general.  Gordon is a Mid-level Terran user who also plays a bit of the other races.  Good luck to him and the future of competitive ESPORTS.

Also today we had the final day in Week 4 of the EG Masters Cup.  The results from this week are:
Empire over Sixjax 3-1, EG over Complexity 3-2, FnaticMSI over Gosu 3-1, and finally we had Dignitas handing it to Mouz with a quick 4-0 victory.

In game-related news, it appears the the PTR server for Europe is active.  There are still some issues it seems and some users having problems getting to it, but there are confirmed reports of players on it.  Finally, our European friends can play with the new patches.

In player news, it was just announced is that FXOsC, the very strong Korean player, has moved on to another Korean team, MVP.  Also, Elfi has announced that he has left his team Virus over issues with management and communication.  Let's see who nabs him up.  And the last little bit is that the European ToD has left Millennium Gaming and has said that he is heading over to Korea for a few months.  Good luck to all these players!

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

Thursday, August 4, 2011

StarCraft 2 NewSCast for Wednesday, August 3rd - No Audio Today, back Tomorrow!

Hey there everyone, I am TheAmazombie and this is your StarCraft 2 NewS Cast for Wednesday, August 3rd.

First of all, I know there has not been audio with the exception of the Weekly Edit, but the daily podcast will return very shortly. I believe Friday night, Saturday morning we will have everything back to normal. Thanks for your patience.

Okay, onto the events of the day. Will MLG Anaheim behind us, GSL Code S finals behind us, we are now gearing up for MLG Raleigh and GSL Code A with 5 foreigners in the brackets this time.  The matches will be over at gomtv.net starting next week, August 8th.  A quick run down of the brackets:
Day 1:
Fruitdealer vs. Maru
Banbanssu vs. Ganzi
Yoda vs. TheBest
Luvsic vs. Jjakji
sC vs. Extreme
Tails vs. Taeja
DongRaeGu vs. Inca
and anypro vs. JYP.
Day 2:
Tassadar vs. FnaticFenix
MarineKing vs. Hack
Boxer vs. Leenock
and Dream vs. Maka
Day 3:
Jinro vs. Lucky
YuGiHo vs. Thorzain
Sase vs. Sniper
and Check vs. Naniwa.

Also yesterday we had the IPL Team Arena featuring Team Reign against EG in a bo9.  Here is the run down:
Idra over Perfect, Spades over Idra, Spades over Axslav, Machine over Spades, Future over Machine, StrifeCro over Future, and Kiwikaki over StrifeCro and DeMuslim to take the series for Reign 5-3.

In other news, we do have the announcement of 2 of the Koreans that will be at MLG Raleigh, ST.Bomber and IM.MVP who will be returning to defend his championship.  Also, there is a breaking story about some accusations of embezzlement coming out of the Korean team TSL, including not paying players their salaries or something along those lines, which is part of why the players Fruitdealer and Trickster left the team last month.  This is just coming out, so not all of the information is available as of yet.

Also announced from starcraftmecca.net, they are finally selling shirts from the Slayer's clan.  The shirts are 100% polyester with the Slayer's Clan logo, the Korean flag, and a couple other emblems.  If you are interested, be careful,, it comes at a hefty price of 60 bucks plus tax and the orders have to be in by the 10th of August.  It is about time to see some more team shirts for sale.

Well, that is about all the 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.