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Rumble in the Bronze - Starcraft 2 Charity Grudgematch
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Don't forget DMR, Sceptre, Stilts, HugeInJapan, PlatinumPlus, Effeh, zerg rush, SkyGheNe, Dhal, MNC Dover, and everyone else who helped with videos, art work, bumping threads, and organizing the event.
Thanks to the many thankless heroes who spammed the donation link in chat throughout the event, too, I know that helped a lot with bringing donations in.
we had an amazing turnout, and raised a surprisingly high amount of money.
thanks for everyone that helped, participated and donated. we really did something fun and beneficial for charity.
Joe's Stream.
Great job guys, and I wish I could've donated more, but life has a funny way of putting obstacles in the way sometimes
Anyways, success ++!
My gf rang the doorbell when she got home from lunch; kinda threw me off my game and I harvested waaaay too much gas.
And dam your mass stalkers!!!
lol.
we gotta get the dojo running again.
Joe's Stream.
Yeah I underestimated the strength of what I was drinking, got totally fucked and dived into bed at the start of the 4th game in the Bo5, looking forward to vods of what I missed.
Didn't get that draft of my essay done either.
do you guys want the replays before trus can get the VODs up?
Although, iNcontrol is more than half the show, and you won't get that without the VODs
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Seriously,wait for the VODs.
SO WORTH IT.
Besides, like I said, essay to be done.
- Pick players in advance rather than trying to find suitable viewers to play
- Let's not oversaturate this and make it like some sort of bi-monthly event. An annual or bi-annual event would keep it from fizzling out with the fans.
- Next time, we should try to get some celebrity pros to play for charity. that'd be awesome. we could even have both a amateur diamond exhibition as well as a pro exhibition.
- For the love of God, Joe, we love you to death but don't try to commentate. In the future let's leave that for the hired casters.
it was a helluva lot of fun though. that macro/micro games should have been a Bo3 too. People seemed to love that idea and it's a shame we didn't get to see more of it.
Agreed on all counts. Plus, no offense to everyone else in involved, but EGinControl positively made the event. Everything else would not have been nearly as entertaining without his comments.
Think of it as the only selfish thing that i've done in the last two weeks. Please. The adrenaline pumping from the successful event was a crazy rush.
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Either way, great show and good job to everyone involved. Maybe next time Joystiq and Kotaku will think this event is newsworthy...
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We can still do the big "around christmas time" charity event starring *insert awesome progamer here* too!
[who] came here from cuba's door where boxin aint allowed no more
The best parts of the event were related to two things. Incontrol being awesome, and our bronze players being AWFUL ( <3 ).
While obviously, if there was a next time we'd want to focus way more on shitty bronze players, something we also might want to consider would be show matches between pros. Something like a QxC vs Machine, or Liquid`Tyler vs Painuser or some such.
Ex. Since Inc seemed to handle two Bronzes pretty handily, maybe one pro could bet against the other on how many Bronzies they can take on in a match. Haven't thought out how it'd work exactly, but the goal of it would be to try to raise money for the pro's hospital of choice, with each pro betting against each other and raising the stakes to try to raise as much as possible for their own hospital.
Or, could also have one pro live coaching a Bronze player and another coaching his own Bronze player and see who wins
We have been listed under the "events" section on the official Child's Play website.
No word from PA though.
I'll ask again for a shout out. CP was very happy to list us on their page, and I'm sure that they'll be happy to see the donation amount.
Let me submit something to Kotaku and Joystiq, although, it would be nice to have VODs or something to point to. And I know that Trus is busy with school.
Maybe I'll try a press release... who knows, can't hurt.
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CP, yes.
I may have to kick mr. tube again, this should be recognized. I've tried gabe and tycho before, I'll try again.
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Keep up the awesome work, 25 bucks for the kids
Turner Justin
You need to get the VODs up for this with the links to donate. You'll get more views than you did during the stream. Promise.
Maximilian Gallagher
Our donation is in memory of Alexander Cuddy a friend and gamer who died of a brain tumour at 15 on July 14, 2009. - Ekajarmstro (gamer) and Heather Armstrong (gamer mom)
Heather Armstrong
This is a really meaningful cause for me. Thank you so much for putting this together. 3-Anna (Mrs. controL)
-Anna Prosser
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the most i've done is ask for a giant comedy check to give to the hospital
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Live coaching would also be interesting, but it'd be hard to get the logistics worked out--who are we listening to, for instance? There'd be way too much chatter if both teams were broadcast. It might work if we had a third person to comment on the match.
StarCraft II User Name: DeadMenRise
Probably in a week or two. Trus needs to manually upload them which is taxing on his connection. He also has a ton of work to do as his semester is wrapping up.
My classes wrap up (or at least me going to them) on Monday so my current plan is to get the editing done on Monday after I go Christmas shopping. The editing should be fairly quick and easy since I just need to cut the different games apart and maybe throw in some of the transitions that I didn't get to show during the stream.
Once that is done I should be able to upload them over night and hopefully be completely done on Tuesday so that I can start studying for my finals
I missed the show but I'm stoked for the VODs! Congratulations on your victory Joe! I had absolutely no faith in you whatsoever and you're making those poor kids cry in Iowa.
3clipse: The key to any successful marriage is a good mid-game transition.
Iowa CHOP still gets 30%.
and, hlprmnky gets the blame. it should have been pushed to 5 games.
Joe's Stream.
This is awesome. I hadn't seen that you guys had decided on a split, but it makes a lot of sense. I heard about the hydralisks, but hey, it's bronze =).
3clipse: The key to any successful marriage is a good mid-game transition.
So basically you've got bronzers trying to "help" their pro partner. I'm hoping for situations like the bronzer placing bunkers that block their partner, or putting forcefields that mess them up. Or rushing for mothership and vortexing their partners entire army.
And doig a BO3 for micro/macro would be fun so we could show more. Just the one game didn't take too long, I think we coulda had a lot more fun with it ;p
Donations still open, please contribute to charity if you enjoy the VODs!
Revenge is a dish best served silver.
Now get to it.