The Weekly Edit - we talk practice hopes, Haypro in Korea, MC leaving oGs. BONUS: I try my hand at casting once more with Haypro vs. Happy!
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Saturday, January 14, 2012
NewSCast for 13-Jan-11
Here we go again everyone. I am TheAmazombie and this is your StarCraft 2 NewSCast for Friday, January 13th.
Sorry about skipping the cast last night, but there was not much to speak of. While there is still not a ton of news for today, there were a couple of significant moves to talk about.
First of all, the new brackets and tournament style for the upcoming GSTL season have been released. The tournament style is set up some what differently from previous seasons. There will be playoff rounds to determine double elimination brackets seeding. Those seeds then will advance teams into finals playoffs and start seeds for the next season.
Another great bit of information to be announced because of this is that Quantic Gaming featuring players such as Naniwa and Sase have joined forces with StarTale full time in a player and league exchange program which will cover SC2 as well as other games. Hopefully their partnership will last longer then the short-lived one between Quantic and IM. Good luck to all the teams on the upcoming GSTL season which is set to start on January 27th.
In other rather big news, 2-time GSL champion MC has officially left his long-time team oGs and joined SK Gaming full time. The two teams had a limited partnership with the players MC and Nada, but that partnership has dissolved. MC signed with SK Gaming who may look to expand their SC2 roster in the process.
JP and State of the Game have dissolved their partnership with MLG citing the spirit of independent ESPORTS journalism. This means that SOTG will return testing a new date and time slot. The show will air on Thursdays at 4PM PST. They say this is to attempt to cater to the European audiences as well, but that if it does not go as planned, they are willing to test various other dates and times as well. The new season will start on January 19th over at twitch.tv/stateofthegame.
The last thing to talk about today is that ESV.tv has teamed up with ASUS ROG for their invitational tournament. The winner of the ESV.tv Grand Prix will receive one of the 32 invite spots to the upcoming ASUS ROG Invitational in Finland during the last weekend in February.
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.
Sorry about skipping the cast last night, but there was not much to speak of. While there is still not a ton of news for today, there were a couple of significant moves to talk about.
First of all, the new brackets and tournament style for the upcoming GSTL season have been released. The tournament style is set up some what differently from previous seasons. There will be playoff rounds to determine double elimination brackets seeding. Those seeds then will advance teams into finals playoffs and start seeds for the next season.
Another great bit of information to be announced because of this is that Quantic Gaming featuring players such as Naniwa and Sase have joined forces with StarTale full time in a player and league exchange program which will cover SC2 as well as other games. Hopefully their partnership will last longer then the short-lived one between Quantic and IM. Good luck to all the teams on the upcoming GSTL season which is set to start on January 27th.
In other rather big news, 2-time GSL champion MC has officially left his long-time team oGs and joined SK Gaming full time. The two teams had a limited partnership with the players MC and Nada, but that partnership has dissolved. MC signed with SK Gaming who may look to expand their SC2 roster in the process.
JP and State of the Game have dissolved their partnership with MLG citing the spirit of independent ESPORTS journalism. This means that SOTG will return testing a new date and time slot. The show will air on Thursdays at 4PM PST. They say this is to attempt to cater to the European audiences as well, but that if it does not go as planned, they are willing to test various other dates and times as well. The new season will start on January 19th over at twitch.tv/stateofthegame.
The last thing to talk about today is that ESV.tv has teamed up with ASUS ROG for their invitational tournament. The winner of the ESV.tv Grand Prix will receive one of the 32 invite spots to the upcoming ASUS ROG Invitational in Finland during the last weekend in February.
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, January 12, 2012
NewSCast for 11-Jan-12
Here we go again everyone. I am back after a long holiday season and so is the GSL. I am TheAmazombie and this is your StarCraft 2 NewSCast for Wednesday, January 11th.
Well, we will start with the group play over in the GSL. We had the first couple of days in Code S play and so far our foreign hopes have all been dropped back down into Code A. On Monday we had Ganzi and Jjakji advancing, with Boxer taking 3rd, and Sen 4th. On Tuesday we had SuperNova and MC advancing, Leenock 3rd, and Fin 4th. Then on Wednesday we had NesTea and MVp advancing, Lucky 3rd, and Idra taking 4th.
For those that might have missed HomeStory Cup 4 over the past weekend, the finals bracket ro8 was Sound over Real 3-2, Violet over MarineKing 3-2, MC over Nerchio 3-0, and JYP over Dimaga 3-1. In the round of 4 we had Sound over Violet 3-2 and MC over JYP 3-2. This set up a finals where MC took the championship 4-0 over JYP. Good job everyone.
We are still awaiting word on the new Season of State of the Game. The rumor mill is running and it sounds as if MLG will be making their announcements on the first show of the year. JP has promised some kind of announcement tomorrow, so tune in then for more information.
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.
Well, we will start with the group play over in the GSL. We had the first couple of days in Code S play and so far our foreign hopes have all been dropped back down into Code A. On Monday we had Ganzi and Jjakji advancing, with Boxer taking 3rd, and Sen 4th. On Tuesday we had SuperNova and MC advancing, Leenock 3rd, and Fin 4th. Then on Wednesday we had NesTea and MVp advancing, Lucky 3rd, and Idra taking 4th.
For those that might have missed HomeStory Cup 4 over the past weekend, the finals bracket ro8 was Sound over Real 3-2, Violet over MarineKing 3-2, MC over Nerchio 3-0, and JYP over Dimaga 3-1. In the round of 4 we had Sound over Violet 3-2 and MC over JYP 3-2. This set up a finals where MC took the championship 4-0 over JYP. Good job everyone.
We are still awaiting word on the new Season of State of the Game. The rumor mill is running and it sounds as if MLG will be making their announcements on the first show of the year. JP has promised some kind of announcement tomorrow, so tune in then for more information.
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, November 20, 2011
NewSCast for 19-Nov-11
Here we go again. I am TheAmazombie and this is your StarCraft 2 NewSCast for Saturday, November 19th, the second day of action over at the MLG National Championships.
Well, before we get into MLG, let's run down the overshadowed games in the NASL Semi-Open. In the Winner's Bracket we had Gatored over Lost 2-1 and Thorzain over Catz 2-1. In the lower bracket we had CrazyMoving over Major 2-0 and then CrazyMoving over Catz 2-0.
Now onto the big action over at MLG Providence. Wow, some amazing matches today which was all shadowed by the rematch series of Naniwa and NesTea from the day before. With trash-talking and BM, Naniwa took down NesTea in 2-1 convincing fashion. Other matches from the winner's bracket include Huk over Hero 2-0, MC over Idra 2-0, and DRG over MMA 2-0.
The match ups for tomorrow, championship Sunday include Huk vs. Naniwa and MC vs. DRG in the upper bracket. Down in the lower bracket we will have Rain vs. MarineKing, Haypro vs. Illusion, Boxer vs. Artist, and Puma vs. Losira.
Other players still alive in the lower bracket are Sjow, Select, Leenock, Bomber, MVP, Kiwikaki, Slush, Ret, Hero, NesTea, MMA, and Idra.
Well, that wraps up all the news for tonight. Don't miss any of the action, but if you do you can find it here the next morning at SC2NewSCast.com.
Well, before we get into MLG, let's run down the overshadowed games in the NASL Semi-Open. In the Winner's Bracket we had Gatored over Lost 2-1 and Thorzain over Catz 2-1. In the lower bracket we had CrazyMoving over Major 2-0 and then CrazyMoving over Catz 2-0.
Now onto the big action over at MLG Providence. Wow, some amazing matches today which was all shadowed by the rematch series of Naniwa and NesTea from the day before. With trash-talking and BM, Naniwa took down NesTea in 2-1 convincing fashion. Other matches from the winner's bracket include Huk over Hero 2-0, MC over Idra 2-0, and DRG over MMA 2-0.
The match ups for tomorrow, championship Sunday include Huk vs. Naniwa and MC vs. DRG in the upper bracket. Down in the lower bracket we will have Rain vs. MarineKing, Haypro vs. Illusion, Boxer vs. Artist, and Puma vs. Losira.
Other players still alive in the lower bracket are Sjow, Select, Leenock, Bomber, MVP, Kiwikaki, Slush, Ret, Hero, NesTea, MMA, and Idra.
Well, that wraps up all the news for tonight. Don't miss any of the action, but if you do you can find it here the next morning at SC2NewSCast.com.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
StarCraft 2 NewSCast for Wednesday, September 21st - NO CAST
NO PODCAST THIS WEEK
Here we go again everyone. I am TheAmazombie and this is your StarCraft 2 NewS Cast for Wednesday, September 21st.
Well, there was a ton of Code A and Code S action over the last few days leading up to tonight. We will go over the matches quickly:
Code A ro32: sC over Revival, Select over Alicia, Monster over MC, GuMiHo over Kyrix, YuGiHo over ShinyStar, Smart over JookTo, Curious over Sniper, Sjow over Maka, FruitDealer over Sase, Hero over Violet, Oz over Byun, SuperStar over Tassadar, Dream over Tester, Lucky over Naniwa, Check over Weekend, and finally Sage over Yoda.
In Code S we have had MVP, Clide, Ryung, Bomber, NesTea, MMA, asd, and Virus advancing. Ensnare, MarineKing, Huk, and Nada all retain, and Puzzle, Noblesse, Keen, and Zenio all fall to the Up and Down matches.
We also just tonight started the Code A ro16. The foreign hope Select was first up and he fell 2-0 to the might of sC. Next we had GuMiHo taking out Monster 2-0. To follow that up we had YuGiHo over Hero 2-1, and the final match was Sjow falling to Curious 2-0. This means that all foreigners has been eliminated from Code A.
Over in the NASL we had division 1, week 2 play. The results were Cruncher over Vibe 2-0, Hero over Fenix 2-0, Lowely over White-Ra 2-0, and DeMuslim over Sheth 2-0.
In other news, there was a contract snaffu between Millennium, Complexity, and the player Stephano. It appears that the end results of everything is that Stephano will remain with Millennium but have to pay a fine for breaking his newly signed contract with Complexity. All sides appear to have reached an agreement on this with Alex from EG as a negotiator. Good luck to all of them.
Speaking of Complexity though, they have announced their new player. It appears that they have reached an agreement with Naniwa, the very strong European Protoss fighting in Korea currently.
Also announced today is the merger of VpGamers and CheckSix gaming. VPs player roster has been acquired to form another up and coming North American team.
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.
Here we go again everyone. I am TheAmazombie and this is your StarCraft 2 NewS Cast for Wednesday, September 21st.
Well, there was a ton of Code A and Code S action over the last few days leading up to tonight. We will go over the matches quickly:
Code A ro32: sC over Revival, Select over Alicia, Monster over MC, GuMiHo over Kyrix, YuGiHo over ShinyStar, Smart over JookTo, Curious over Sniper, Sjow over Maka, FruitDealer over Sase, Hero over Violet, Oz over Byun, SuperStar over Tassadar, Dream over Tester, Lucky over Naniwa, Check over Weekend, and finally Sage over Yoda.
In Code S we have had MVP, Clide, Ryung, Bomber, NesTea, MMA, asd, and Virus advancing. Ensnare, MarineKing, Huk, and Nada all retain, and Puzzle, Noblesse, Keen, and Zenio all fall to the Up and Down matches.
We also just tonight started the Code A ro16. The foreign hope Select was first up and he fell 2-0 to the might of sC. Next we had GuMiHo taking out Monster 2-0. To follow that up we had YuGiHo over Hero 2-1, and the final match was Sjow falling to Curious 2-0. This means that all foreigners has been eliminated from Code A.
Over in the NASL we had division 1, week 2 play. The results were Cruncher over Vibe 2-0, Hero over Fenix 2-0, Lowely over White-Ra 2-0, and DeMuslim over Sheth 2-0.
In other news, there was a contract snaffu between Millennium, Complexity, and the player Stephano. It appears that the end results of everything is that Stephano will remain with Millennium but have to pay a fine for breaking his newly signed contract with Complexity. All sides appear to have reached an agreement on this with Alex from EG as a negotiator. Good luck to all of them.
Speaking of Complexity though, they have announced their new player. It appears that they have reached an agreement with Naniwa, the very strong European Protoss fighting in Korea currently.
Also announced today is the merger of VpGamers and CheckSix gaming. VPs player roster has been acquired to form another up and coming North American team.
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, September 8, 2011
StarCraft 2 NewSCast for Wednesday, September 7th
Alright everyone, here we go again. I am TheAmazombie and this is your StarCraft 2 NewS Cast for Wednesday, September 7th.
Well over the weekend we had some great action over in Korea for the Up and Down matches to decide the final Code S and Code A spots for the next season. Here are the results from Day 1:
SuperNova over Alicia, Leenock over Byun, SuperNova over Yoda, Alicia over Byun, Leenock over Yoda, SuperNova over Byun, and Leenock over Alicia. This means that Code S goes to SuperNova and Leenock, with Alicia, Yoda, and Byun all going to Code A.
From Day 2 play we had a ton of matches to decide this group: Losira over MC, Check over Kyrix, Jjakji over Losira, MC over Kyrix, Check over Jjakji, Losira over Kyrix, Check over MC, Jjakji over Kyrix, Losira over Check, and Jjakji over MC. These results set up playoff rounds where we had Check over Losira, Losira over Jjakji, Jjakji over Check, Losira over Check, and finally Jjakji over Check. In the end, the results are Jjakji and Losira to Code S, Check, Kyrix, and the great MC all going to Code A.
In other news, the final invites to DreamHack Valencia have been announced. For the complete list we have Lucifron, Rain, Hero, Thorzain, DRG, Idra, Huk, and finally Naniwa.
Also announced is the TL TeamSpeak Open #23. This time it is a 4v4 format. That should be fun and excited to see what kind of teams appear from this. Tune into Team Liquid this weekend for those matches.
Another announcement today is from ESV.tv, who used to be iCCup. It seems that they have reached a partnership deal with GomTV and the GSL. It appears that the winner of it's Korean Weekly finals at the end of the series will be automatically awarded a Code A spot. This is great news for ESV and Gom and it signals another step into GSL.
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.
Well over the weekend we had some great action over in Korea for the Up and Down matches to decide the final Code S and Code A spots for the next season. Here are the results from Day 1:
SuperNova over Alicia, Leenock over Byun, SuperNova over Yoda, Alicia over Byun, Leenock over Yoda, SuperNova over Byun, and Leenock over Alicia. This means that Code S goes to SuperNova and Leenock, with Alicia, Yoda, and Byun all going to Code A.
From Day 2 play we had a ton of matches to decide this group: Losira over MC, Check over Kyrix, Jjakji over Losira, MC over Kyrix, Check over Jjakji, Losira over Kyrix, Check over MC, Jjakji over Kyrix, Losira over Check, and Jjakji over MC. These results set up playoff rounds where we had Check over Losira, Losira over Jjakji, Jjakji over Check, Losira over Check, and finally Jjakji over Check. In the end, the results are Jjakji and Losira to Code S, Check, Kyrix, and the great MC all going to Code A.
In other news, the final invites to DreamHack Valencia have been announced. For the complete list we have Lucifron, Rain, Hero, Thorzain, DRG, Idra, Huk, and finally Naniwa.
Also announced is the TL TeamSpeak Open #23. This time it is a 4v4 format. That should be fun and excited to see what kind of teams appear from this. Tune into Team Liquid this weekend for those matches.
Another announcement today is from ESV.tv, who used to be iCCup. It seems that they have reached a partnership deal with GomTV and the GSL. It appears that the winner of it's Korean Weekly finals at the end of the series will be automatically awarded a Code A spot. This is great news for ESV and Gom and it signals another step into GSL.
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, August 21, 2011
StarCraft 2 NewSCast for Sunday, August 21st
Welcome everyone. I am TheAmazombie and this is your StarCraft 2 NewSCast for Sunday, August 21st.
Well, not a ton of action today overall, but we did have the finals in the IEM GamesCon Cologne. This was a bo5 series rematch between oGs.MC and EG.Puma. Last time these two met Puma took the series and $50,000 in the NASL finals 4-3. Many people predicted that MC would get his revenge this time, but that did not happen as Puma just slaughtered MC 3-0. There were moments where MC was ahead, but every time Puma showed why he is probably the best decision-maker in the game.
In other news, it has finally been officially announced that the Korean BW/SC2/WC3 team WeMadeFOX is disbanding. This has been rumored for some time but they are saying now that as of August 31st they will not longer exist. We will see what happens to the players in the near future.
Also coming up we have the GSL Code A semifinals early Monday morning at Gomtv.net. The matches are Ganzi taking on Taeja as well as Leenock vs. MarineKing to see who will move on for a chance at Code S status.
Well, that's about all the news that we have for you tonight. We are taking our weekend now, but tune in Tuesday for the Weekly Edit this week where I will be previewing MLG Raleigh as well as talking about some projects coming down the pipe. Don't miss any of the action, but if you do you can find it here the next morning at SC2NewSCast.com
Well, not a ton of action today overall, but we did have the finals in the IEM GamesCon Cologne. This was a bo5 series rematch between oGs.MC and EG.Puma. Last time these two met Puma took the series and $50,000 in the NASL finals 4-3. Many people predicted that MC would get his revenge this time, but that did not happen as Puma just slaughtered MC 3-0. There were moments where MC was ahead, but every time Puma showed why he is probably the best decision-maker in the game.
In other news, it has finally been officially announced that the Korean BW/SC2/WC3 team WeMadeFOX is disbanding. This has been rumored for some time but they are saying now that as of August 31st they will not longer exist. We will see what happens to the players in the near future.
Also coming up we have the GSL Code A semifinals early Monday morning at Gomtv.net. The matches are Ganzi taking on Taeja as well as Leenock vs. MarineKing to see who will move on for a chance at Code S status.
Well, that's about all the news that we have for you tonight. We are taking our weekend now, but tune in Tuesday for the Weekly Edit this week where I will be previewing MLG Raleigh as well as talking about some projects coming down the pipe. 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, August 20th
Here we go again everyone. I am TheAmazombie and this is your StarCraft 2 NewS Cast for Saturday, August 20th.
Well, some good action coming down the pipe today. First we will start with the semifinals matchups over at IEM GamesCon in Germany. The first match was MC vs. Mana PvP. Mana, who has been very strong in the last few weeks ended up being owned by the legendary PvP of MC 3-0. In the other match, we had Puma, the strong Terran that we have not seen much of since his win over MC at NASL, taking on Socke in a TvP. Puma, known as one of the strongest Terrans in the world showed why as he handled Socke 3-0. This sets up a finals that is a rematch of those NASL finals between Puma and MC. Last time Puma took the series 4-3, so let's see tomorrow who wants this win more.
Also today we had TL TeamSpeak Open #21. The finals this week were TSL.Heart taking on EG.Idra and in the end Idra fell 3-2. 3rd and fourth place went to two kind of surprising players in FXOtgun and Desrow. Congrats to all of the players.
In other news, the gaming team WinFakt, a very strong Call of Duty and Counter Strike gaming team, has announced their first signing of a StarCraft 2 player. That player is Fuzer and it marks another gaming team transitioning into having an SC2 roster. Congrats and good luck to them.
Well, that's about all the news that we have for you today. Please, feel free to add us on twitter, on facebook, and all those other mediums. There are links on the side of the page. Don't miss any of the action, but if you do you can find it here the next morning at SC2NewSCast.com.
Well, some good action coming down the pipe today. First we will start with the semifinals matchups over at IEM GamesCon in Germany. The first match was MC vs. Mana PvP. Mana, who has been very strong in the last few weeks ended up being owned by the legendary PvP of MC 3-0. In the other match, we had Puma, the strong Terran that we have not seen much of since his win over MC at NASL, taking on Socke in a TvP. Puma, known as one of the strongest Terrans in the world showed why as he handled Socke 3-0. This sets up a finals that is a rematch of those NASL finals between Puma and MC. Last time Puma took the series 4-3, so let's see tomorrow who wants this win more.
Also today we had TL TeamSpeak Open #21. The finals this week were TSL.Heart taking on EG.Idra and in the end Idra fell 3-2. 3rd and fourth place went to two kind of surprising players in FXOtgun and Desrow. Congrats to all of the players.
In other news, the gaming team WinFakt, a very strong Call of Duty and Counter Strike gaming team, has announced their first signing of a StarCraft 2 player. That player is Fuzer and it marks another gaming team transitioning into having an SC2 roster. Congrats and good luck to them.
Well, that's about all the news that we have for you today. Please, feel free to add us on twitter, on facebook, and all those other mediums. There are links on the side of the page. Don't miss any of the action, but if you do you can find it here the next morning at SC2NewSCast.com.
Friday, July 22, 2011
StarCraft 2 NewSCast for Thursday, July 21st
Welcome everyone, I am TheAmazombie and this is your StarCraft 2 NewS Cast for Thursday, July 21st.
First of all, the huge news out of Korea today - the GSTL which is going on right now as I am recording this - just had an amazing moment. The first match was FXOpen taking on IM. Here are the results:
QXC over Horror on Bel'Shir Beach
QXC over BBi on Xel'naga Caverns
QXC over dreamtt on Metalopolis
and then...
QXC over MVP on Tal'darim Alter to take the first foreign all-kill in Korea for SC2 as well as the first win for FXO in the GSTL. Congrats to QXC and his team and this was a huge moment for them, the community, and StarCraft 2 History.
Well, we have some more news coming out of the Puma/EG/TSL news that broke last night. Today Coach Lee spoke more to explain his stance and Alex from EG also stated their point. According to Alex, Puma has not actually been signed by EG as of yet. It sounds more and more like a lot is being made out of some cultural difference and misunderstanding. Check out tonight's episode of Weapon of Choice for more information.
Well, we had Week 5 play in the GSTL. The match from Thursday morning was oGs/TL taking on Prime. In game 1 MC took out Hannibal. Game 2 was MC falling to BBoongBBoong, who continued to take out TOP in game 3. For game 4 Nada took him out. Game 5 was Check taking out Nada. For game 6 oGs fielded the Canadian hero Huk who took out Check and then took out MarineKing in the final match. oGs wins the series 4-3.
We also had day 5 play in IPL season 2. Today's matches were the first round in the Loser's Bracket. The first match was DieStar falling to Drewbie 2-1. Next we had Tarson taking out Fury 2-0. The following match was Destiny falling to Axslav 2-1, and the final match of the night was DarkForce dominating DDE 2-0.
After 3 weeks of play in the AHGL here are the current standings: Microsoft on top with 7 points. Amazon following that up also undefeated in matches but with only 6 points. Google in third at 2-1, 2 points. Facebook coming in fourth at 1-2, -1 points. Next is Zynga with the same score. Dropbox and Twitter are both at 1-2, -2 points, and coming in last is Yelp with -8 points at 0-3.
With MLG Anaheim coming up just around the corner we have the full player list released today. Some of the top players that are going to be in the open bracket for this event are:
Tyler, QXC, Vibe, Major, Fenix, Destiny, DeMuslim, Jinro, Merz, Sonkie, White-Ra, HD, and KawaiiRice.
This is looking to be rather exciting. Go to majorleaguegaming.com for the complete list.
In other news, FXO has announced that they have parted ways with the strong Zerg player Sheth. They left on mutual terms and I hope for the best for both the team and for Sheth.
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.
First of all, the huge news out of Korea today - the GSTL which is going on right now as I am recording this - just had an amazing moment. The first match was FXOpen taking on IM. Here are the results:
QXC over Horror on Bel'Shir Beach
QXC over BBi on Xel'naga Caverns
QXC over dreamtt on Metalopolis
and then...
QXC over MVP on Tal'darim Alter to take the first foreign all-kill in Korea for SC2 as well as the first win for FXO in the GSTL. Congrats to QXC and his team and this was a huge moment for them, the community, and StarCraft 2 History.
Well, we have some more news coming out of the Puma/EG/TSL news that broke last night. Today Coach Lee spoke more to explain his stance and Alex from EG also stated their point. According to Alex, Puma has not actually been signed by EG as of yet. It sounds more and more like a lot is being made out of some cultural difference and misunderstanding. Check out tonight's episode of Weapon of Choice for more information.
Well, we had Week 5 play in the GSTL. The match from Thursday morning was oGs/TL taking on Prime. In game 1 MC took out Hannibal. Game 2 was MC falling to BBoongBBoong, who continued to take out TOP in game 3. For game 4 Nada took him out. Game 5 was Check taking out Nada. For game 6 oGs fielded the Canadian hero Huk who took out Check and then took out MarineKing in the final match. oGs wins the series 4-3.
We also had day 5 play in IPL season 2. Today's matches were the first round in the Loser's Bracket. The first match was DieStar falling to Drewbie 2-1. Next we had Tarson taking out Fury 2-0. The following match was Destiny falling to Axslav 2-1, and the final match of the night was DarkForce dominating DDE 2-0.
After 3 weeks of play in the AHGL here are the current standings: Microsoft on top with 7 points. Amazon following that up also undefeated in matches but with only 6 points. Google in third at 2-1, 2 points. Facebook coming in fourth at 1-2, -1 points. Next is Zynga with the same score. Dropbox and Twitter are both at 1-2, -2 points, and coming in last is Yelp with -8 points at 0-3.
With MLG Anaheim coming up just around the corner we have the full player list released today. Some of the top players that are going to be in the open bracket for this event are:
Tyler, QXC, Vibe, Major, Fenix, Destiny, DeMuslim, Jinro, Merz, Sonkie, White-Ra, HD, and KawaiiRice.
This is looking to be rather exciting. Go to majorleaguegaming.com for the complete list.
In other news, FXO has announced that they have parted ways with the strong Zerg player Sheth. They left on mutual terms and I hope for the best for both the team and for Sheth.
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, July 7, 2011
StarCraft 2 NewSCast for Wednesday, July 6th
Alright everyone, here we go again. I am TheAmazombie and this is your StarCraft 2 News Cast for Wednesday, July 6th.
Well, a lot of news over my weekend here, so we will start with the GSL Code S play. First we had ro32 Day 3 action with group E consisting of SC, MVP, Zenio, and Byun. The winners were Zenio and Byun advancing with SC falling. The next match was group F with Nada, Keen, HongUn, and SuperNova. The winners were Nada and HongUn and Keen falls to the Up and Down Matches. The next day we had Group G with SangHo, Polt, Huk, and aLive. The winners were Polt and the foreign hero Huk with aLive dropping. Next we had group H with Inca, Kyrix, Bomber, and MC. The winners of this match were Bomber and MC with Inca falling.
In other tourney play we had the iCCup Korean weekly. This weeks winner was TSL.JYP taking the finals over ZeNEX.Life 4-2. Third and fourth place were ZenEX.Hack and Classic.PRIME.WE. Tune in to iCCup.tv on Mondays and Tuesdays for more Korean action.
In other news, we had the announcement by Day9 of the "After Hours Gaming League" which features 8 top tech companies like Amazon, Google, and Zynga fighting it out for charity and eSports promotion. Check out VODs and team information over at afterhoursgaming.tv. This week we also had the return of JP's State of the Game featuring the co-hosts Day9, Tyler, and Artosis. Be sure to check that out!
In team news we have the announcement that Trickster has joined StarTale and It's Gosu has signed the strong player HwangSin from Korea. Also the player ChoyaFou is being sent to MLG Anaheim by way of FXOpen. FXOBoss has said that Choya will be sporting an FXO jersey, but this is as a favor of respect, Choya has not left his team Fou.
Coming up this weekend we have the NASL Season 1 championships and we just got the first glance at some picture of the site. It is looking amazing as this should be a huge event. Be sure to tune into nasl.tv for those matches starting on Friday.
I do have a couple of updates for this week in that we have a new twitter finally. You can follow us there @sc2newscast. Also, due to previous engagements I will be out of town for a few days this weekend. I will try to do posts and if I have the equipment I will do podcasts. If I miss a day or two this weekend though, do not worry. I will be back.
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.
Well, a lot of news over my weekend here, so we will start with the GSL Code S play. First we had ro32 Day 3 action with group E consisting of SC, MVP, Zenio, and Byun. The winners were Zenio and Byun advancing with SC falling. The next match was group F with Nada, Keen, HongUn, and SuperNova. The winners were Nada and HongUn and Keen falls to the Up and Down Matches. The next day we had Group G with SangHo, Polt, Huk, and aLive. The winners were Polt and the foreign hero Huk with aLive dropping. Next we had group H with Inca, Kyrix, Bomber, and MC. The winners of this match were Bomber and MC with Inca falling.
In other tourney play we had the iCCup Korean weekly. This weeks winner was TSL.JYP taking the finals over ZeNEX.Life 4-2. Third and fourth place were ZenEX.Hack and Classic.PRIME.WE. Tune in to iCCup.tv on Mondays and Tuesdays for more Korean action.
In other news, we had the announcement by Day9 of the "After Hours Gaming League" which features 8 top tech companies like Amazon, Google, and Zynga fighting it out for charity and eSports promotion. Check out VODs and team information over at afterhoursgaming.tv. This week we also had the return of JP's State of the Game featuring the co-hosts Day9, Tyler, and Artosis. Be sure to check that out!
In team news we have the announcement that Trickster has joined StarTale and It's Gosu has signed the strong player HwangSin from Korea. Also the player ChoyaFou is being sent to MLG Anaheim by way of FXOpen. FXOBoss has said that Choya will be sporting an FXO jersey, but this is as a favor of respect, Choya has not left his team Fou.
Coming up this weekend we have the NASL Season 1 championships and we just got the first glance at some picture of the site. It is looking amazing as this should be a huge event. Be sure to tune into nasl.tv for those matches starting on Friday.
I do have a couple of updates for this week in that we have a new twitter finally. You can follow us there @sc2newscast. Also, due to previous engagements I will be out of town for a few days this weekend. I will try to do posts and if I have the equipment I will do podcasts. If I miss a day or two this weekend though, do not worry. I will be back.
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, June 26, 2011
StarCraft 2 NewS Cast for Saturday, June 25th
Here we go again everyone. I am TheAmazombie and this is your StarCraft 2 NewSCast for Saturday, June 25th.
The big action today was the main bracket rounds for the HomeStory Cup tournament. This was double-elim brackets (Sorry, I think the other day I said single-elim) so here are the results from the main bracket:
In round 1, XLord took out Sase 2-1, Huk beat ToD 2-0, Idra beat Tarson 2-0, Socke beat Goody 2-1, Adel beat White-Ra 2-0, Naniwa rained on Cloud 2-0, Thorzain took out Stephano 2-0, and MC tore through Jinro 2-0. In round 2, Huk beat Xlord 2-0, Idra beat Socke 2-0, Naniwa beat Adel 2-0, and MC beat Thorzain 2-0. For round 3 we had Huk advancing over Idra 2-1, and Naniwa took out MC this time 2-1. So the upper bracket finals will be Huk vs. Naniwa. The winner will face the lower bracket finalist, which I will go over those results now, all losers are eliminated:
In round 1, Tarson beat Goody 2-1, Sase beat ToD 2-1, White-Ra took out Cloud 2-0, and Stephano eliminated Jinro 2-0. In round 2, Tarson beat Adel 2-0, Thorzain took out Sase 2-1, White-Ra beat Socke 2-0, and Stephano beat Xlord 2-0. In round 3 Tarson beat Thorzain 2-0 and Stephano beat White-Ra 2-1. For round 4, we had Idra falling to Tarson 2-1, looking very strong right now and MC taking out Stephano 2-0. This sets up a lower bracket finals between Tarson and MC, the winner advancing to the overall finals against Huk or Naniwa which will be tomorrow.
Also today we have the ro8 play from the NASL Open. In the end we have only Korean's advancing as in the ro8 Clide took out Lowei, Puma took out NightEnd, aLive took out Rain, and Revival took out Thorzain. The schedule says that the ro4 was supposed to have been today, but I could not find those results if they did happen.
In the TL Open #17 we had some dominating performances from the Zenex clan out of Korea. The winner was ZenexIceCream taking out his team mate ZenexHack to win the open. Third and fourth place were Mill.DieStar and ZenexLine with fifth through eighth going to the last winner HwangSin, ZenexPuzzle, ZenexYong, and the former WC3 champion Grubby.
Well, that's about all the news we have for you today. Don't miss any of the action, but if you do you can find it here the next morning at SC2NewSCast.com.
The big action today was the main bracket rounds for the HomeStory Cup tournament. This was double-elim brackets (Sorry, I think the other day I said single-elim) so here are the results from the main bracket:
In round 1, XLord took out Sase 2-1, Huk beat ToD 2-0, Idra beat Tarson 2-0, Socke beat Goody 2-1, Adel beat White-Ra 2-0, Naniwa rained on Cloud 2-0, Thorzain took out Stephano 2-0, and MC tore through Jinro 2-0. In round 2, Huk beat Xlord 2-0, Idra beat Socke 2-0, Naniwa beat Adel 2-0, and MC beat Thorzain 2-0. For round 3 we had Huk advancing over Idra 2-1, and Naniwa took out MC this time 2-1. So the upper bracket finals will be Huk vs. Naniwa. The winner will face the lower bracket finalist, which I will go over those results now, all losers are eliminated:
In round 1, Tarson beat Goody 2-1, Sase beat ToD 2-1, White-Ra took out Cloud 2-0, and Stephano eliminated Jinro 2-0. In round 2, Tarson beat Adel 2-0, Thorzain took out Sase 2-1, White-Ra beat Socke 2-0, and Stephano beat Xlord 2-0. In round 3 Tarson beat Thorzain 2-0 and Stephano beat White-Ra 2-1. For round 4, we had Idra falling to Tarson 2-1, looking very strong right now and MC taking out Stephano 2-0. This sets up a lower bracket finals between Tarson and MC, the winner advancing to the overall finals against Huk or Naniwa which will be tomorrow.
Also today we have the ro8 play from the NASL Open. In the end we have only Korean's advancing as in the ro8 Clide took out Lowei, Puma took out NightEnd, aLive took out Rain, and Revival took out Thorzain. The schedule says that the ro4 was supposed to have been today, but I could not find those results if they did happen.
In the TL Open #17 we had some dominating performances from the Zenex clan out of Korea. The winner was ZenexIceCream taking out his team mate ZenexHack to win the open. Third and fourth place were Mill.DieStar and ZenexLine with fifth through eighth going to the last winner HwangSin, ZenexPuzzle, ZenexYong, and the former WC3 champion Grubby.
Well, that's about all the news we have for you today. Don't miss any of the action, but if you do you can find it here the next morning at SC2NewSCast.com.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
StarCraft 2 NewSCast for Saturday, June 11th
Here we go again, I am TheAmazombie and this is your StarCraft 2 NewSCast for Saturday, June 11th.
Well, there was not a ton of action today, but what action there was sure was fun. I will just go over the NASL Division 4 Week 9 games.
The opening match was dignitas.Select facing oGs.MC it was a match that really did not mean anything to Select as he has secured one of the very top seeds in the Championships already by being the highest pointed player in the NASL right now. That being said, Select secured game 1 in a straight up battle, but once we got into game 2, the match turned into Battlecruiser vs. Carrier for that game and nuke rushing in game 3. MC did take the series and we had a blast watching it. The next match was BratOK taking on Steak. First, who is Steak you ask? Well, that is col.Stalife's new name apparently. Stalife appears to be no more, he is now Steak. Anyway, this series turned some strange twists as well, but in the end they were not much more than 2 uninspiring TvT games won by BratOK. Following that up we had Catz taking on Machine in a ZvZ. Catz took game 1 with his double-roach warren build, but drops games 2 and 3 to Machine. Following that game up we had the premier match up as HasuObs took on Liquid'Ret in a PvZ with Ret continuing to roll over everyone 2-0. In the last match of the night we had the general Goody taking on Startale.Ace. With tanks and carriers abound, Ace takes the series 2-1. Here are the final standings for division 4:
Ret: 8-1
Select: 7-2
Ace: 7-2
MC: 7-2
HasuObs: 5-4
BratOK: 4-5
Steak: 3-6
Goody: 2-7
Machine: 2-7
and finally Catz at 1-8
Ret takes the top spot in the division and Select comes in second. both players move on to the championships brackets. Congratulations for them!
Also today we had the TL TeamSpeak open #16. Notable players included Agh, Cruncher, Flashback, Destiny, Steak, PokeBunny, Catz, Cocoa, Inka, and Fenix. After a ton of matchups, the results are MVP.HwangSin taking 1st place, SixJax.Major taking 2nd, and InKa and Moonan took 3rd/4th place. The top winners receive invites to the next level tourney for $1000.
Also tonight we had the finals of the Gigabyte StarsWar 6 with around 6000 bucks for first place. The finals match was oGs.MC taking on the Chinese player LoveCD in a bo7 matchup with English casting hosted by iCCup.tv. After some more strange goings-on during the event, the winner is, well, you guessed it, oGs.MC. Good job MC taking that series.
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 it here the next morning at SC2NewSCast.com.
Well, there was not a ton of action today, but what action there was sure was fun. I will just go over the NASL Division 4 Week 9 games.
The opening match was dignitas.Select facing oGs.MC it was a match that really did not mean anything to Select as he has secured one of the very top seeds in the Championships already by being the highest pointed player in the NASL right now. That being said, Select secured game 1 in a straight up battle, but once we got into game 2, the match turned into Battlecruiser vs. Carrier for that game and nuke rushing in game 3. MC did take the series and we had a blast watching it. The next match was BratOK taking on Steak. First, who is Steak you ask? Well, that is col.Stalife's new name apparently. Stalife appears to be no more, he is now Steak. Anyway, this series turned some strange twists as well, but in the end they were not much more than 2 uninspiring TvT games won by BratOK. Following that up we had Catz taking on Machine in a ZvZ. Catz took game 1 with his double-roach warren build, but drops games 2 and 3 to Machine. Following that game up we had the premier match up as HasuObs took on Liquid'Ret in a PvZ with Ret continuing to roll over everyone 2-0. In the last match of the night we had the general Goody taking on Startale.Ace. With tanks and carriers abound, Ace takes the series 2-1. Here are the final standings for division 4:
Ret: 8-1
Select: 7-2
Ace: 7-2
MC: 7-2
HasuObs: 5-4
BratOK: 4-5
Steak: 3-6
Goody: 2-7
Machine: 2-7
and finally Catz at 1-8
Ret takes the top spot in the division and Select comes in second. both players move on to the championships brackets. Congratulations for them!
Also today we had the TL TeamSpeak open #16. Notable players included Agh, Cruncher, Flashback, Destiny, Steak, PokeBunny, Catz, Cocoa, Inka, and Fenix. After a ton of matchups, the results are MVP.HwangSin taking 1st place, SixJax.Major taking 2nd, and InKa and Moonan took 3rd/4th place. The top winners receive invites to the next level tourney for $1000.
Also tonight we had the finals of the Gigabyte StarsWar 6 with around 6000 bucks for first place. The finals match was oGs.MC taking on the Chinese player LoveCD in a bo7 matchup with English casting hosted by iCCup.tv. After some more strange goings-on during the event, the winner is, well, you guessed it, oGs.MC. Good job MC taking that series.
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 it here the next morning at SC2NewSCast.com.
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