2nd L19 Starcraft II Tournament (US/NA)

[Aphelion]

I have a good friend who also wants to join. He's only played a few games of Go but he's heard me talk quite a bit about the game. He is Yarhj.179 Platinum. Since we only have a few players this should be no problem, right?

[Aphelion]

I have another friend, Dbrrr.579 in Platinum who also wishes to join. Also, my friend yarhj just made diamond.

[MountainGo]

Just to let everyone know, I may be ~10 minutes late (not at home right now), but I'll try to make it on time.

[yoyoma]

Congratulations to Araban aka Junshin on SC2! He won the tournament with a cleen sweep 4-0.

Unfortunately I messed up the recordings and they were not saved. I did get an extra game going after the tournament and managed to get that one recorded, so you can see Abydos v NeoNemesis on http://www.livestream.com/killerducky.

I'll probably do another of these next month, I had a good time casting the games, and sounds like the players had a good time as well. Please leave any feedback you have about the format.

Maps -- How did people feel about using the GSL candidates? I was thinking maybe next time we could just have 1 non-ladder map instead of 4 to make it easier to adjust to.

Pairing format -- I was thinking of switching to groups into stratified brackets. It would be like top 2 of each pool go into a top bracket, next 2 into another bracket, and bottom into a consolation bracket. This would keep the spirit of many games for players of all levels. The advantages are easier schedule -- only have to redo all the pairings once between pool play and bracket play. And also sets up a clear finals.

[Solomon]

Congratulations to Araban aka Junshin on SC2! He won the tournament with a cleen sweep 4-0.

. I wish I could have played more macro games though, which is something I still (and always will) need to work on. And next time I try to 1 base mothership I'll try to do it properly.

Maps -- How did people feel about using the GSL candidates? I was thinking maybe next time we could just have 1 non-ladder map instead of 4 to make it easier to adjust to.

Yeah 1 or 2 sounds good, it felt a bit weird playing on some of those maps which I think comes from playing so many ladder games on the smaller official maps. I think when the GSL and other tourneys start using those maps so spectators can get more familiar with them, then maybe we can go back to 4.

[MountainGo]

Congrats again to Araban. I really enjoyed our games, especially the moment I saw your Mothership-building Nexus with my Observer.

I agree with the idea to cut down on new maps for the next time. I vote to include Crossfire and Aiur Garden.