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MNC Dover

The SC2 thread proudly presents!




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG_3R9BoVvg

Rumble in the Bronze II sign-ups!

Do you think you got what it takes to be humiliated in front of thousands of viewers? Does your ego need to be completed flattened by InControl? If so, you've got what it takes to be a player in the second Rumble in the Bronze tournament going down this December. More details to come!

For now, send a PM to @joek and @mncdover if you think you've got what it takes!


Curvy Star League - Organized by Dhal

A recurring tournament organized and cast by and for the PA community. Compete or cast or merely look on impassively as your peers bludgeon each other's armies to death!

Replay(s) of the day! - Organized by thread creator.

A noteworthy replay of the day donated by our forum-goers. Make sure to upload your replay submissions to gamereplays.org. And be a pal - mark your replay as ROTD material in your post.

MNC Dover

But how I craft stars?

The SC2 thread goes a million miles per hour and will leave you in the dust if you aren't prepared. All things are open to discussion here from build orders, practice partners, race match-ups, tournament talk, and general bizarre Korean stuff. In order to keep up, I highly recommend you check out the following resources:

• General
  • Team Liquid. Team Liquid is the biggest Starcraft related fan site out on the Internet today. They follow everything Starcraft related including the pro scene. Many great articles, forums, and information can be found here. A must bookmark for any Starcraft fan.
  • Wellplayed.org. Starcraft 2 aggregation site from the SCReddit group.
• Talk shows
  • State of the Game podcast. The pillars of the starcraft 2 community --- JP, EGIncontrol, Liquid`Tyler, and Day[9] --- talk (mostly) about current events in the starcraft community every Tuesday.
• Educational
  • Help guides for new players painstakingly created by fellow forum goers. Please read these first before asking questions.
  • The PA location for our ever growing list of guides. Bookmark and contribute today!
  • The Day[9] Daily Live Stream. Sean "Day9" Plott is an 11 year Starcraft veteran, so he knows his shit. He does a live stream Sunday through Thursday that airs 7pm PST/10pm EST. If you miss a stream, you can watch it, and every other streams he's ever done, in his archives. BOOKMARK HIS SITES! You will not be disappointed.
  • Starcraft II Liquipedia. Team Liquid has created a wikipedia site for everything SC2 related. This will be updated as time goes on and all information found here should be legit as possible.
  • Learn from the Pros with Mr. B Mr. Bitter aka Flabulous gets lessons from pros about how to play Starcraft and streams the whole thing for our learnings. He started with 12 weeks of zerg goodness and is now moving onto terran and protoss.
  • Common timings and when they hit. Exactly what it sounds like.
  • CecilSunkure's guide to improving efficiently at 1v1. A very good read if you find yourself in a rut with your improvement in 1v1 or if you don't know where to begin improving your game.

OK that's all cool, but I want to play with some PA people.

1) Log into Battle.net and join channel PA (on the NA realm). We all hang out there. Chat, 1v1 lobbies, and team shenanigans are always going on!

2) Sign up for a replay site such as gamereplays.org or drop.sc. This is a site where you can upload your replays. The perfect way to share your replays with the thread and get advice on how to get better. Gamereplays lets you post the cool banner that you frequently see on the internets and drop.sc lets you upload replays without having to create a new account.

3) Register with the PA SC2 1v1 Ranking site. Sign up for this awesome site to see where you stand amongst fellow PA members. Remember, this is important in the nurturing and expanding of your e-peen. Add yourself by clicking on [Manage Characters] on the top right side.

4) Sign up for the PA mumble page. Sign up if you want to chat with fellow PA users during games or watching tournaments. Thanks to Exoplasm for hosting the service and providing the step-by-step process for installing mumble.

JK. I like watching Starcraft instead. Where can I watch some good games?

Major tournaments. Starcraft is e-sports. Follow these major tournaments and you will not be disappoint.

• The GSL. The premiere korean starcraft 2 league. Where the best go to play. Casted by Tastosis, the casting archon.
• The TSL. Team Liquid's major tournament where foreigners stomp koreans and everyone attributes it to lag.
• Major League Gaming. North American e-sports powerhouse now features Starcraft 2 (as long as their stream is online). "tahts halo dont worry".
• North American Star League. The upstart league headed by fan-favorites Incontrol and Gretorp. $400k up for grabs in the first season alone.
• IGN Pro League. Everyone's getting into e-sports, even IGN! 16 of the top players from North America duking it out for fabulous prizes.
  

And those are only the major ones! Follow the Team Liquid Tournament Tracker for more competitive goodness.

Streams. Perhaps you prefer something more intimate. Maybe watching starcraft 2 like it's Being John Malkovich? Thanks to the power of the Internet, there are infinity streams available for your voyeuristic pleasure. Here are our favorites.

• General commentary
  • Seguer. Aussie protoss currently casting the Taiwan Clan League.
  • The Wood League Allstars. A bunch of PA people streaming for your enjoyment.
  • The Day[9] Daily Live Stream.
  • HD Starcraft.
  • HuskyStarcraft.
  • TotalBiscuit.
• Terran
  • Liquid`TLO
  • Trump
  • Hashe
  • ROOTDrewbie
  • Liquid`Jinro
• Protoss
  • Lemming
  • Hill (Zombie Monkey)
  • EGIncontrol
  • Grubby
  • Liquid`Tyler
  • Liquid`HuK
  • TtWhiteRa
• Zerg
  • EGIdra
  • ROOTDestiny
  • MrBitter
  • Spanishiwa
  • Sheth

Want more streams? Check out Teamliquid's live video stream page for more goodness.

And last but certainly not least!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUvQBTP1inE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4NsiMGWgGU

Lepwave

Yay for none-time traveling threads, also did anyone watch game three of Boxer vs. TLO? Best sky-terran battles.

MNC Dover

I only caught the end of it. Awesome stuff though. HSM speed increase really changing the air to air battle a lot.

Ratsult2

Splitting off the targeted viking looked a lot like splitting off a muta that had been irradiated. This is a good thing.

Lemming

I bet if we post enough to get to the next page it might fix itself.

Edit: Nope still fucked

Lemming

Tyler vs July on blue watch it now!!

Invictus

Lots of good games on tonight.

Sceptre

Oh thank God. I had resorted to reading the Team Liquid live thread.... and goodness that was a mistake.

Topia

11:00 PM - 12:00 PM Pools: Idra vs Boxer

Where is this game? It's supposed to be on Red.

JAEF

Boxer always ends up with ridiculous sky Terran battles. Fucking Protoss all stuck in one group. Most of the good P matches aren't going to happen until groups are done.

Edit: As I say this 3 different protoss games are on stream.

>.>

PantsB

Boxer TLO was pretty great

MLG pretty much always delivers.

What

Watching Tyler play is depressing.

JAEF

What wrote:

Watching Tyler play is depressing.

Now you can see why he has chronic depression. Every time he plays he has to watch himself.

:? Whitera lost game 1 to Artist.

redraptor

I thought of that joke too, but then I looked deep down, realized I'm not an arsehole, and decided not to share.

What

"Wow. I'm really bad." - Tyler

Melkster

Someone should add DeMuslim's stream to the OP. It's one of the best SC2 streams out there, IMO. He plays Terran.

http://www.twitch.tv/demuslim/videos

Hoz

Holy shit, Husky and Artosis. I'm giggling.

Invictus

This excellent, in-form Boxer had a shot at winning this game against the IdrA of a few weeks ago, when he was down and making some bad decisions in game, but against this IdrA, a straight up macro game is not a good idea for even a Boxer playing as well as this one is.

Dhalphir

That is a lot of fucking mutalisks.

mysticjuicer

So many mutalisks?

tuxkamen

Anyone else getting stutter on red/blue? (Well, hell, everything...)

EDIT: White-Ra vs. Stephano on white (beta1), supposedly...

PantsB

WhiteRa Stephano gogogogo

JAEF

Not yet Tux, it's coming up though.

Invictus

Boxer cannot possibly want to play that game again. That was not a game about which Boxer could have said to himself "oh, that was close; if only I had done these few things better, I would have won." What does he have planned?

What

Invictus wrote:

Boxer cannot possibly want to play that game again. That was not a game about which Boxer could have said to himself "oh, that was close; if only I had done these few things better, I would have won." What does he have planned?

There were several moments in the previous game where Boxer could've micro'd better and would've come out on top.

They all involved dodging a-moved banelings. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

JAEF

Unstoppable nerd muscles

Invictus

I think he could've come out better, I didn't think he could've come out on top. But your judgment on these things may be better than mine.

Ex: the big fight right outside IdrA natural where a ton of marines just got banelinged out of existence could've been handled better. But the mutas would've done a ton of damage while they were fleeing banelings.

What

Lmao, same push

holy SHIT balls y'all. That owned.

Dhalphir

IdrA is so good.

redraptor

You can't play the same game versus Idra who always plays the same game, nothing will change.

Someone should have told Boxer how boring Idra is damnit.

Salvation122

IDRA FIGHTIIIING

JAEF

Daaamn. Idra wins, rips off his EG hoodie to reveal a Release the Gracken shirt, comes out of his booth and fist pumps.

Maratastik

JAEF wrote:

Unstoppable nerd muscles

God, I love those two.

Euphemon

Zerg from another world!...called france.

MKP/wbc on black, Stephano/W-ra on white. Get the beta streams, totally worth it. Casters are kind of bad, but not intolerable.

Caveman Paws

So is that it for MLG tonight? Naww.

Nice to see Idra doing well. Not sure why, I just like rooting for dicks.

Invictus

Have people seen much of Stephano's ZvP?

His hydra switch there was something like two production cycles late.

PantsB

Approximately

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GateForge coming from WhiteRa?

Hoz

MarineKing placed into plat with his new NA account...

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/3180627/1/MarineKing/

JAEF

Hoz wrote:

I think MarineKing placed into plat with his new NA account...

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/3180627/1/MarineKing/

Pretty sure you can only place into plat/diamond from placement matches. It usually gives you 1-2 bronze, 1-2 silver, 1-2 gold and a plat to play against doesn't it?

It won't league him up until his MMR settles or he tops out.

Hoz

Meeks placed diamond a few weeks ago.

But it's possible he won all five and still placed into plat, or maybe he had to quit a game prematurely because he had to do an MLG match.