Hklan conclusion,

I where at a lan last weekend and it was as always quite fun I ended up in what I would describe as the worst group in the group stage but still diden’t manage to get though ended up getting 8 and 6 pooled and my responses to it where all wrong (at least I figured out how to handle it afterwards!

Anyways getting 3’rd place in my group meant I ended up in the B Tournament, in the quarter finals of the B Tournament I ended up playing a guy called Euph and I took those games 2-0 without any real problems.

The semifinals where BO5 and I meet the Guy: Snovski he was in probably the toughest group and Ia master player so I ended up getting demolished 3-0. did some timings but it all ended really bad. he went on to take 1'st place in a 4-0 final.

In the 3’rd-4’th Place match I ended playing errorTayler a Diamond protoss player as I am a protoss player it would be a BO7 PvP and really I coulden’t be bothered with that so decided to Change race to Z so we had ZvP.


(playing the 3'rd/4'th Place match)

I Ended up getting behind 0-2 and felt like this would be a quick 4-0 loss. But I managed to get back into the game and with some crazy mind games / all’ins / other stuff from both of us it ended up being 3-3 and we were ready for the final game.

It was set on Tal’darim alter and it pretty much started out as a standrd game Zerg fast expand vs Forge fastexpand, I ended up going for an ninja expansion in another starting location rather than destroying the rocks / taking the 4’th as my 3’rd and it ended working out pretty well. My opponent prepared for an 2 base zerg all'in and while I secured my 3’rd I send in a nydus worm to his main and while a bunch of lings went for his mineral line I tried pushing his expansion, but the expansion were locked down pretty tight, my lings however got quite a few probe kills, but more importantly it gave me time to drone up at my third and get an economical advantage i went for raoches with burrow as i dident see an robotic facility adn infestors as well this completely smashed his army that hit a few minutes later.
After that attack where demolished i had complete map control i took down his third adn teched for broods to close out the game and i won 3'rd with a 4-3 win!

i Ended up winningthe Razer "sc2" Mouse nothing big but always fun to win something.

Sc2 - Lan Tournament

I Am going to A Sc2 Lan tournament this weekend and i think it is going to be quite fun (those kind of things usually are), I don't have any expectation of doing good both since i haven't played alot and the other competetors are really mostly high master so that is going to be a bit trouble some trying to compete with them.

I Might (if the internet conn alllows it try to stream some, but lets see.

I Am looking forward to seeing everyone and have some fun and hopefully learn a thing or 3.

Aftermath

Well after a really late night it’s time to reflect a bid 

The brackets for the tournaments can be found: Here

I will be uploading a replay package soon including but not limited to the 3 games I played in this tournament.

Overall I am both surprised and very pleased with the amount of players both signing up and showing up to the tournament and I really hope we can keep this up, but it does pose some ogistical problems both with concerns to administration and time the tournament started at ~20:00 and ended 01:00 So that’s a 5 Hour long tournament and this is not going to work in the long run, im sure there could be cut down on some of the time if people where a bid more efficient with playing their games but that won’t cut the tournament down by 1 Hour and in my opinion it should be cut to around 2 Hours so ending at around 23:00 at least on a normal workday.

I Would suggest starting the tournament at around 19:30 and make a max number of partisipants of 32 this along with some improvements in the players attitude towards getting the games played would go along way.

Another way to go would be to split the tournament in 2 workdays but that would pose issues with some people not being able to participate on both those exact days this by my experience doesent work.

A final solution could be to make 2 separate tournaments one for gold  plat players and one for cooper  silver either on the same night or 2 different nights. (the split is of cause up for discussion especially as the leagues doesn’t seem to reflect skill correctly at the moment but this will change in the retail version of the game when they are a bid more strict with the AMM searches)

The thing I like about the last idea is that the lower league players can compete a bid more with someone on their own level and get some good games in without being completely slaughtered and discouraged from participating in a later event.

All in all a great tournament and big probs for Fafner for the hard work and for taking the time to host it :-) /cheers