StarCraft 2 NewSCast for Wednesday, August 24th

Here we go again everyone.  I am TheAmazombie and this is your StarCraft 2 NewS Cast for Wednesday, August 24th.

Well, welcome back to everyone from the weekend.  We are in the "Calm before the Storm" that is MLG Raleigh coming up this weekend so there has not been a ton of action, but we did have some epic match ups early Wednesday morning in the GSL Code S ro16.  The first match to open up the night was the challenge of champions as team mates MVP and NesTea squared off.  The results could have gone either way, but in the we will not see a 3-peat as NesTea was eliminated by MVP 2-0.  The second match of the night was EG.Huk, the foreign hope, taking on his old team mate oGs.Nada, a Korean fan favorite.  In some exciting games, Nada fell to the might of the Canadian Huk 2-1.  The third match of the night pitted Slayers.Ryung against ZeNEX.Puzzle and Ryung showed why he is one of the best up-and-coming Terran players in the world as he dominated Puzzle 2-0.  The final match was ST.July taking on HongUn and with some ultra-aggression from July, HongUn could not keep up falling 2-0.

We have also finished the second week of play in the EG Master's Cup series.  Here are the results from week 2: Mouz over Sixjax 4-0, FnaticMSI over Dignitas 3-1, EG over Empire 3-1, and Gosu over Complexity 3-2.

In other news, the NASL has announced the Season 2 start date of September 14th and has been releasing some of the players over the last few days.  Here is the complete released list as of Wednesday:
Huk, Jinro, qxc, Lowely, NightEnd, Softball, Sen, Inka, Fenix, KiwiKaki, White-Ra, Strelok, DiMaga, Tyler, and Mana.  The will be releasing another 5 players each day until all names are announced.  Once that is done, I assume that they will release the groups as well.

In other news, it appears that the European team Alternate Attax has signed the player Cloud, a strong European player formally of MyM.  Good luck to them.

Also released today was a new patch on the PTR server.  This patch makes a number of balance changes as well as bug fixes.  As this is on the PTR, we will not know what changes they decide to make permanent and what they decide to change back, but quite often it is a good indication of things to come down the line.  Head over to battle.net for a complete list.

Well, that's about all the news that we have for you today.  Please take the time to like us on Facebook, follow us on twitter, and all that other jazz.  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 Sunday, July 17th

Hello again everyone.  I am TheAmazombie and this is you StarCraft 2 NewS Cast for Sunday, July 17th.

First of all, we will start off with the IPL Season 2 Day 4 play.  The first match was Select looking very strong in his 2-0 victory over Ret.  Next we had Lalush taking down Ranged 2-0.  Following that up we had BratOK tenderizing Steak 2-1, and the final match was White-Ra showing the young whippersnapper Cocoa who's boss 2-0.

In player news, we have the announcement that team MYM and Mondragon have parted ways.  There was not anomosity.  His 6-month contract ran out and they could not come to an agreement for the future.  Let's see if Mondragon can find a new team and finally put it all together.

Well, be sure to tune int gomtv,net  early Monday morning as they will be hosting the Code A finals between Tassadar and Puzzle.  It is a bo7 series for the chance to get into Code S play.  Tune into that.

Well, that's about all 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.