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The Western SC2 scene has become one of my favorite diversions.

There are a lot of features in Halo's replay thing that would be great for casting, but at the same time, there'd be no way to hide the fact that replays are being cast, as they do in most SC2 tournaments that aren't held on-location.

Maybe they should just make Quake 3 HD or something.

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Puma vs July coming up: http://www.teamliquid.net/video/streams/NASL.tv

I know nothing about Puma.

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Damn, I wish I hadn't been so tired that night. I fell asleep during most of July vs Puma and didn't even try to watch MC vs Sen.

I'm predicting Puma will beat MC because Terran.

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I heard otherwise in Korea, but I'll admit I haven't been paying as much attention lately.

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I thought MC might've held when that first EMP didn't hit any sentries, but the other two (I think?) that went off sort of sealed the deal. I wonder if warping in another DT could've of gotten Puma to waste them.

Either way, MC would've been better off if he hadn't done that counter attack.

...I wish I had $50,000 to spend on skin care :/

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Puma's shyness is kind of adorable.

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Terran*

real answer: even though he was sheepish in front of the audience, it was probably a lot easier to focus in that dark booth with noise cancelling headphones on.

*(I do sort of believe this, though. Not to say Puma isn't good; anyone who does what he just did is fucking awesome. I just don't see any real faults in Terran bio play, especially with ghosts becoming much more common.)

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I just wish EMP wasn't insta-hit 100% effective with amazing range. It really shouldn't be for what it does. Whenever I hear "perfect" or "money" EMP I just think to myself "when aren't they?"

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How'd that turn out? MC was obviously the favorite to win, but Huk's had some super morale lately.

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Has anyone else been watching the IGN Proleague?

Besides IGN's choice of weird steam-punk overlays and Deviant Art level player portraits, it seems to be a pretty well-orchestrated event. They have a lot of good casters on board, and none of the awful ones, so far.

It's still going on, but I stopped watching after 3 consecutive Terran wins. TerranCraft just rubs me the wrong way. It probably always will.

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I didn't even realize it was going on until earlier today. I didn't see any games with super huge names in them, but it was kind of cool to see Destiny doing alright in a tournament again. He lost 1-2 against Socke, but they were all decent games.

Vile.State almost took a game with a mothership, but was all finicky and stupid with his units after the recall.

I wish Nerchio hadn't gone ultras vs. Cloud; they just didn't do a whole lot overall and he could have used some of those minerals for defense he seriously needed.

Neggy, do you use HT or DTs to make your Archons? I guess HT is the favorite for your build since you can spend more minerals on zealots, but I feel like a lot of ladder people would be susceptible to that one DT discreetly killing their shit in big battles.

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I spent much of the night flipping between EVO and MLG Red; probab;ly spending more time on EVO because MLG can't keep their shit working and had insane amounts of filler. As Naniwa put it: "what a jpke."

That Makoto vs Fei Long game was sick, as were all the games with Daigo I saw, but I suppose that goes without saying. I find ridiculous Yun combos kind of hilarious.

Of the SC2 matches I watched, only the DongRaeGu ones were genuinely fun to watch. Idra's defense against Boxer in their second game was amazing, but the end of that pissed me off. Mutas weren't a great choice, and Idra should have had something further out on the field to see that Marine ball coming, but it'll always disgust me to see T loose all their units and half their workers and be aggressive with a sizable army minutes later because of Mules. Banelings wouldn't have done much against 25 Boxer marines. A few infestors would have been perfect, though.

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Why didn't boxer spread those vikings? ;_; Splash damage from Rain's thors and seeker missles really turned the tide there. Rain's switch to thor was pretty great, I must say.

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lawl, Boxer takes game 2 in 14 minutes.

Despite losing that 70-minute long game, Boxer's greater tourney experience is probably leaving him better off than Rain right now. I'm wondering if game 3 will be another sweep.

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The crowd sure went wild. So DongRaeGu and MVP haven't even fought yet? The bracket layout on TL made it look like they would have by now.

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Yeah, I should have just waited a bit before asking that. I want DRG to smash MVP so hard and go on to take the event, just cause. I'm genuinely excited for this!

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*sigh* oh well.

I like how the commentators were basically saying that ZvT relies on Terran making mistakes, because that's true.

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was anyone else watching mlg earlier?

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Yeah, the redundant streams pissed me off too.

Was DRG vs Nada streamed? I had to go out for awhile and it had gone past those games by the time I got back.

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Game needs LAN

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