Good news for those that were interested in seeing the VOD of the Blizzcon StarCraft Invitational tournament between the Zerg player Ma “sAviOr” Jae Yoon and the Protoss player Kang “Nal_rA” Min. Even if you are not into StarCraft, you should watch this game anyway, just to understand why tens of thousands come to watch live SC matches. The commentary by Nick “Tasteless” Plott and Kim “bunny” Phan definitely makes it worth it.
sAviOr is the world’s scariest StarCraft player, ranked number one among the Korean professionals. His opponent Nal_rA is said to be one of the sneakiest and most creative players in the game, next to the legendary Lim “BoxeR” Yo Hwan. Now get comfortable, turn up the volume and start watching.
Gamevideos has made a video of a StarCraft 2 Terran multiplayer gameplay presentation from Blizzcon. It probably looks than any CAM movie you have downloaded, but it is very interesting and revealing nonetheless.
The video shows new buildings, units and new capabilities in a context where they are exceptionally efficient. To the extent that they may even seem very overpowered sometimes. In reality, those units are just likely to be highly-specialized. Continued…
This week, GGL’s Michal “Carmac” Blicharz gives his take on the Championship Gaming Series mediocrity… on the Quad-Damage randomness… on Blizzcon’s results…
The White Dudes in Ahaheim saw some sexy StarCraft games last weekend while the rest of the world envied them. It was the rare occasion that the scariest gamers on the planet, the South Korean SC pros, played their matches outside of their home country.
Six out of the eight players invited to Blizzcon 2007 were Korean professionals, including last Starleague’s finalist Byun “IriS” Hyung Tae and the world’s number one player, Ma “sAviOr” Jae Yoon. Continued…
Olav “Creolophus” Undheim winning Blizzcon 2007 was painful news for Warcraft 3 fans. It was not in the winner’s name that people found disappointment but in the fact that the new champion will never be seen playing like that again.
The Four Kings Night Elf player had made up his mind some time ago that he would stop playing Warcraft 3 professionally. At the time, he was considered good, but not up there with the very best.
In an unusual turn of events, clan mates ToD and Grubby are playing very early in the tournament, in the losers bracket. These two usually make it very deep, but after this match one of them will be eliminated. The other will move on to play Shy. Continued…
In the other upper bracket semifinal is Moon playing against Creo. They last faced off at the Warcraft 3 Champions League Finals where Moon won 2-1. Creo has been on the top of his game lately with a second place finish at Electronic Sports World Cup making this a very exciting match. Continued…
ToD last played ReMinD at the Blizzard World Wide Invitational. In that match ToD won and went on to win the tournament. ReMinD wants his revenge in the upper bracket semifinals. Continued…
ToD faced off against Shy in the upper bracket quarter finals. ToD is coming off a disappointing loss in the semifinals at the Pro Gamer League. Remind is also coming off a loss, for him it came in the Warcraft World War where he lost to Sweet. The winner of this match will advance to face Remind in the semifinals. Continued…
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The White Dudes in Ahaheim saw some sexy StarCraft games last weekend while the rest of the world envied them. It was the rare occasion that the scariest gamers on the planet, the South Korean SC pros, played their matches outside of their home country.
Olav “Creolophus” Undheim winning Blizzcon 2007 was painful news for Warcraft 3 fans. It was not in the winner’s name that people found disappointment but in the fact that the new champion will never be seen playing like that again.
