Anyone watch competitive Starcraft?

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Does anyone else here watch competitive Starcraft or eSports? I've been recently getting really into watching the pros play at various offline tournaments and it's extremely addictive. Just finished watching MLG Orlando over the weekend, and I'm excited for Blizzcon this next weekend. Any other e-Sports fans here?

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drebo

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Hell yes. I watched MLG Orlando and IEM last weekend. Towards the end, MLG Orlando was really, really good...though I was a bit sad when Idra was knocked out.

www.teamliquid.net for lots of good SC2 streams, etc.

Blizzcon's tournament is not a free stream, unfortunately, and I don't feel so strongly about it that I'll be paying $40 to watch it. So I'll just have to play more this weekend.

I didn't get a damn thing done last weekend because of MLG Orlando.
 

Skurge

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I love watching it, but my connection is all over the place so I can't always stream it. Is there anywhere I can download some of the MLG matches. I missed the MLG orlando semis and final.
 

JTsyo

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I watched a lot from the nVdia sponsored one and some others that were on Husky's site. I never watched the live stream though.
 

Ichigo

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I watched a lot from the nVdia sponsored one and some others that were on Husky's site. I never watched the live stream though.

If you get a chance to, IEM/GSL/MLG and the like casted live is IMO 100x better than watching youtube VOD's.
 

TridenT

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I watch some stuff Husky puts on youtube and then usually just watch Psy's stream that's been recorded. Psy's stream is so much more fun than watching him commentate on games.
 
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prefer sc1 personally. SC2 was designed to cater to people who were going to Micro. IE there's no possible way you can win against a Microer if you don't micro. That's when I left and never looked back.
 

Fenixgoon

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prefer sc1 personally. SC2 was designed to cater to people who were going to Micro. IE there's no possible way you can win against a Microer if you don't micro. That's when I left and never looked back.

how does SC2 favor micro, exactly?
 

TecHNooB

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prefer sc1 personally. SC2 was designed to cater to people who were going to Micro. IE there's no possible way you can win against a Microer if you don't micro. That's when I left and never looked back.

there's both micro and macro styles. this has been the case since the original starcraft.
 

mmntech

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Gaming is like golf, bowling, darts, billiards, poker, et al. Fun to play, dull as dirt to watch.
 

Destiny

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Behind those competitive gaming screens are people doing this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbpCLqryN-Q

Their APM is INSANE!!! D:
There is no way I can compete in SC and SC2 against these guys... I can see a generation of SC/SC2 gamers eventually become a market for arthritis treatment in Korea...


NOTE: Does anyone noticed the OP only had one post and was banned? o_O
 

MustangSVT

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for a long time, but once i moved onto sc2, i never looked back.

and in sc2, there is new added bonus.

When u watch IDRA QQ and rage, its just hilarious!
 

imaheadcase

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SC2 is best game to watch, i don't play it because its to competitive, but i watch the hell out of it.

Husky/HDstarcraft/Day9 are very good commentators. Intel extreme sc2 match was prob better than MLG inho.

If you want entertainment, watch ROOTdestiny live stream on justin.tv, he sometimes gets drunk playing it and here him saying stuff like "Let me show you how i beat you, scrub" . lol
 

PrayForDeath

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I used to watch the hell out of Honcast. Must've seen over 60 matches (they go anywhere from 20 to 80 mins). You actually learn a lot in that game from watching the pros, and the commentators are hilarious.

I also watched the International (1$ million valve tournament), and that's about it.