when he purposefully maxes out on all his idiosyncrasies, i find him really annoying. like when he exaggerates every player's name every single time. sometimes it feels like he's being a caricature of himself. maybe the teenage crowd likes his jokes more, i just enjoy the analysis, and yeah he does seem like a good guy, so i hope he does well.

I like Day9 but I was ready to punch him in the face after the 10th time he screamed "ALLEN!!@!" last night.

I couldn't have summed it up better myself. Ty sir

Not exactly new news at all, but NaDa is now officially retired from SC1. So hello GSL2

What's all this stim and 1a to victory talk. Clearly you need to 1a; 2a because you'll have MM and want the to attack in the right order :P

Just a completely random topic. If one were to expect the esports scene to grow really big in the next few years, where could one invest money in to take advatage? Activision Blizzard (ATVI) or somewhere else.

blizzard has a choke hold on esports imo =/ [at least sc2]

This is an interesting question. In my mind I can't think of too many investment opportunities. But who stands to gain from a bigger e-sports scene centered around say SC2? Intel? Razer? GomTV? It couldn't hurt to keep an eye on.

Thinking about something unrelated though, if Blizz/Activision is able to monetize games in new ways we haven't seen, I think their value will definitely go up.

Take for example the one account per cd key. When I was younger I played custom games with my brother on WC3 with one cd key. We also shared a Diablo 2 cd key for a long time. Now, on SC2, I wouldn't want anyone else laddering on my account. I don't have a choice but to buy my own copy. Little things like this increase game sales tremendously.

Or consider CoD. If they start to charge monthly, which some suspect they will, that will be something that hasn't been introduced before outside of paying for XBL. There is certainly an untapped market there. Sure, you could argue that they will lose customers. But, Activision is smart and they will find that magic number that will cause them to keep just enough customers to make considerably more than they would have with this old system.

I think things like this will increase their profitability so much and as long as they keep putting out quality products like they have been for so long, I see no reason to suspect they will fall off.

EDIT: Also the reason they are able to get away with some of this stuff is because of how wildly popular their products are. I think this is worth mentioning. They have the ability to maximize their revenue in ways that other companies cannot. Charging monthly for a lesser game will obviously have much worse of an effect than it would for a game like Call of Duty.

I just signed up for the Collegiate Starcraft League.

I wish I could... I looked up my school's team, I'm higher ranked than all but a few of them.

Of course that shows how bad the team is.

I'm trying to get mine in, but I think we're missing the deadline. I'd sadly be the highest rank, but there's a couple other diamond players around here it appears. Be nice to talk RL about strategy and stuff anyway.

Why is that sad? You are, at least imo, really good.

I dunno, I've been losing a bunch lately. When I sit back and look at my play objectively it just looks so horrific. I hotkey nothing but my hatcheries. I underdrone pretty often. I'm late to tier 3, if I even remember to get there. I play zerg, so my micro consists of getting decent surrounds and magic boxing my mutas. If I get forced off of mutaling I'm in pretty deep ****. I just feel like there's so many holes that there's gotta be someone better at a university of ~25k people. Oh, and queens. Missing injections, not spreading creep etc.

Your level of objectivity, while objective to you, is not the same as everyone else's. That's built in to being a good caliber player though. I'm sure my play to you is pretty bad. I'm like 0-2 against you I think in not close games. Again, the fact that you are a decent player allows you to see things a lot more clearly than others.

Call me crazy, but I don't think there's too much to microing zerg in battles. I mean you don't have to stim or ff or anything. You're job is to out macro and get surrounds. And I don't mean that in a demeaning way, just compared to other races. So that's not that big of a deal.

As far as missing injections/spreading queens, the fact that you know about it is all that matters. You can definitely work to fix that/get better with it.

Everyone hits a point in laddering where it gets tough to win consistently. That's how it supposed to work. All you can do is try to learn from mistakes. Don't be results oriented.

As far as the 25k people thing, there were 45k at my school lol and the team still sucks.

I was going to play for the school here but forgot about tryouts. Everyone here that plays is extremely weird too :-P.

If you play, let's hope that Jond transfers to my school.

Just watch the Day9 Funday Monday no Queens.
Benny Hill during base race = awesome

boxer v TLO
game 1
game 2
game 3
game 4
game 5

the name is in korean, but it says TLO on in link. and if you've seen TLO's TvT from GOMTV, it definitely seems like him. Manofoneway is 100% boxer (godfather of starcraft).

not sure how to view it other than putting in your starcraft replays folder, and starting up starcraft and viewing it. it's prepatch

fyp

wow jalapeno thanks. Watching now.

Had my first dream bout one yall last night. I dreamed that kirby and myself were in a publix. It wasn't a human kirby though it was his ninja turtle. Anyhow we are in the produce section near a side exit fixing to leave and he decides to steal a red onion. Problem is there are three random sheriffs hanging out in that section. One looks our way as we exit and asks if we paid for that. Kirby tosses me the onion I say yeah and I toss it back to him. I walk out and the cop slowly follow. Once out of the door we run to the car and gas it.

Stake good players ldo

that 4th game of the boxer replay pack is unbelievable, such sick metagame after their first 3 games and they both respond really really well.

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/view...opic_id=157292

omg this is amazing