MLG Dallas This Weekend

Starcraft 2 fanboys :)... MLG Dallas is this weekend. Awesome lineup of players you guys should definitely tune in. It's all this weekend, free streaming with Day[9] commentating the games. Not sure who his co-commentator is.

http://www.mlgpro.com

Players include TLO, HuK, IdrA, KiWiKaKi, qxc, Fenix, to name a few.

Visit the site for coverage and the stream. :) its going to be sick! Idra won the last MLG held in D.C. with crazy crazy crazy Zerg macro: it was just amazing. Let's see how he does this time

Yeah, I always get excited about the MLG Pro Circuit and then I remember they use Octoshape :(

I wish they spread the tournament out over time. I like watching SC2 matches, but I don't want to watch them for freaking 12 hours straight! Couple of hours a day is more than enough, guys!

I've heard about Octoshape. Is it really that bad? whats the history behind it?

Maar, watch Game 1 and Game 3 of Nazgul vs Idra. =).

It basically holds your machine hostage and uses it as a streaming agent for crap you're not even watching, or even when you're watching nothing at all -_-;

Watching a re-stream on livestream :D ooh yeah

Wow @ nony vs painuser

Yeah that was a great game. So far the best games of today were, imo, Game 1 and 3 of Nazgul vs Idra and Game 2 of Jinro vs Socke. Just amazing.

On your broadcast on sc2 u said to get replay pack from tlnet but I can't find it :(


link? ^^

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=166588

=). Towards bottom of the post.

Anyone else watching what's happening with this Battle.net fail bullshit?

Fucking disgraceful.

Do you REALLY want LAN mode?

Haha, what a joke. Blizzard had better see now that their futile attempts to thwart piracy just hurts the legitimate consumer in the long run. Now the poor MLG folks have a room full of SC fans and no games happening.

Nice work Blizzard. Excellent job.

Yeah. Not much we can do. I mean if we really hate Blizzard we would boycott their games but I sure as hell am not boycotting SC2 haha.

Bobotastic wrote:

Yeah. Not much we can do. I mean if we really hate Blizzard we would boycott their games but I sure as hell am not boycotting SC2 haha.

Obviously that's not an option :)

However, Blizzard needs to realise that their anti-piracy measures:
1) Fail to prevent piracy
2) Hurt legitimate consumers

This is not acceptable. Not for an ESPORT.

Agreed. We can just hope for the best that they listen to us. Its a dictatorship I tell ya.

But MLG officials did announce that it was actually a fiber cable that was ripped(or cut, something along those lines), that it wasn't the server, but regardless of fiber cable or not, if you want a game to be an eSport, you need LAN ffs.

Bobotastic wrote:

Agreed. We can just hope for the best that they listen to us. Its a dictatorship I tell ya.

But MLG officials did announce that it was actually a fiber cable that was ripped(or cut, something along those lines), that it wasn't the server, but regardless of fiber cable or not, if you want a game to be an eSport, you need LAN ffs.

Oh what, really? I remember on the stream day[9] and djwheat, saying that the MLG officials announced that it was really a server problem :S

oh really? I heard otherwise. Haha your probably right.

OK - so it turns out the problem was with the public (AT&T) internet (ISP level).

Regardless, this is a problem which would've been mitigated by LAN mode.

FROM TLNET:

On November 08 2010 11:55 MLG_Lee wrote:

On November 08 2010 10:52 Hikko wrote:

It was their own Ethernet cords that were messed up, even if it was lan they wouldn't have been able to play. Battle.net was not involved at all, as stated by Wheat.

You misunderstood. The issue was NOT the local network or our upstream network or Battle.net/Blizzard. The issue was the PUBLIC internet on the way to Battle.net. There was a major outtage at ATT/Level3.

Thanks for tuning in. Will check for more feedback later.

Yeah and watching the stream yesterday of the MLG post party and DJWheat being super drunk hahaha, they were saying how Blizzcon and GSL runs on a LAN. I guess it seems that Blizzard does have the LAN implementation and uses but only gives it to those who buy the LAN software from them, and God knows how much they charge for that.

The full replay pack for dallas MLG:

http://www.mediafire.com/?gd00m9sgmw2f0k1