The 52nd episode of the eSports bulletin has been uploaded and covers August 14th, 2012. Within you’ll find information about team FNATIC’s Korean Cup for StarCraft 2, details about the 2nd Topanga A League, updates regarding The Gunnar Challenge Cup, news of Check Six shutting down, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive news (VAC ban list).
Tag: eSports news
The eSports Bulletin News Broadcast #51
Here is the 51st eSports bulletin, all ready and waiting for your luscious eyes to watch it. :D This episode covers Monday, August 13, 2012 and recaps: Gamescom Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 news, DreamHack Winter and TheKGL adding Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournaments, the Trench Warfare tournament for Heroes of Newerth, the next AbsoluteLegends Dota 2 KotH match, a MLG Summer Championship caster update, roster changes from Dirtnap Gaming and Copenhagen Wolves, the Complexity Academy entering the IGN Pro Team League Amateur Division for StarCraft 2, Moscow 5 dropping their Counter-Strike 1.6 division, a release date change for PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, and HuK’s new commercial.
Reddit: “CBSi just signed every tournament out there”
The news part of this post is “old” now, but in a recent State of the Game, JP “itmeJP” McDaniel recommended reading the comments posted by “huskystarcraft”, a professional StarCraft 2 commentator.
Other Tags: SotG, StarCraft II, SC2
Sexual Harassment on Cross Assault
I just wanted to share the various articles and video relating to this issue since it’s being brought up here and there.
On EventHubs they published this short blurb with lots of comments to read. You should get a general idea how the FG community is reacting.
There’s a much lengthier article on shoryuken about it. Again, many comments to read. And another article from SRK.
ESFI’s article. Level | Up has published a statement.
Penny Arcade, Giant Bomb and Kotaku have articles. Ars Technica added an article.
Videos: Day 1: Sexual Harassment on Cross Assault, CROSS ASSAULT – DAY 5 – BBS HQ (1:45:00 is the argument), Cross Counter Live 120 Part 2, The Fighting Game Community takes sexual harassment very seriously UltraChenTV – Women in Competitive Gaming
It was mentioned on today’s episode of The Executives by Complexity Gaming.
I’ll update if I find more sources of info.
Other Tags: FGC
The Weekly eSports Forecast: April 11-17, 2011
Here is the weekly eSports Forecast for the week of April 11th, 2011. Updates will be added as I find them.
North American Star League (SC2) – It’s finally here! This Tuesday begins the exciting new North American Star League! Remember to check out the season pass which gives you access to 1080p coverage, 24/7 VODs, and zero-commercial interruption. Let the games begin!
Dreamhack Stockholm Invitational (SC2) – This Tuesday, the 12th of April, the team at Dreamhack will have the 8 invited Starcraft 2 players beat it out for a 100k SEK prize pool and wildcards for the Dreamhack event this summer. Additional information here and some sweet photos here.
The Gadget Show Live (SC2) – This year the “ultimate” consumer electronics event in the UK is hosting a Starcraft 2 tournament. Doors open on Wednesday, but the tournament itself seems to have already begun with the finals being aired live in front of an audience on Saturday and Sunday! Tournament information here.
QQ ninja Reddit HoN Open – A week long tournament for HoN players under 1850 MMR and PSR on ALL of their accounts, will take place from April 11th-17th. Don’t forget to check out the results later this week.
Nation Voice ET Challenge – Tonight, the 11th, we’ll see an exciting Enemy Territory tournament hosted by Nation Voice and Team Decerto.
NEW: Crossfire 3-on-3 Nations Cup Grand Final – Tonight, April 12th, two teams battle it out for the Nations Cup Grand Final in Enemy Territory.
NEW: Official Launch of the RGC Asian DotA League – This Friday, the 15th, a new asian DotA league is set to launch. Note, the official site doesn’t specify a date, but GosuGamer’s apparently has the inside scoop.
NEW: ClanBase Spring 2011 Cup Season contiues – The Spring Season continues on with the first matches of the EuroCup.
NEW:Â Meo XLPARTY Festival – Starting Friday and running through the weekend, Portugal will be the host of a large technology conference featuring a ton of different tournaments. Looks like the games covered will be Counter-Strike 1.6, Call of Duty 4, Starcraft 2, Halo: Reach, Forza, Trackmania, Counter-Strike: Source, Call of Duty: Black Ops, League of Legends, PES 2011, Guitar Hero 5, Tekken 6, and Bomberman. What a mouthful, should be an interesting weekend. Additional information here. Twitter here.
NEW: CEVO Counter-Strike: Source Season 12 Professional Placement Tournament – This week begins the Counter-Strike: Source professional placement tournament.
Other Tags: DH, ET, HoN, NASL, StarCraft II, SC2
Super Smash Bros. Brawl Tier List #5
A new tier list for the video game Super Smash Bros. Brawl has been finalized just recently. This would make up the fifth version of the tier list for the game. The tier list is as follows:
S: Meta Knight
A: Snake, Diddy Kong, Falco, Wario, Marth, Ice Climbers
B: Olimar, Pikachu, King Dedede, Mr. Game & Watch, Lucario, Zero Suit Samus
C: Toon Link, Kirby, Fox, R.O.B., Pit, Peach, Donkey Kong
D: Luigi, Wolf, (Zelda/Sheik), Sonic, Ike, Sheik, Ness, Pokémon Trainer
E: Yoshi, Lucas, Mario, Bowser
F: Captain Falcon, Samus, Jigglypuff, Link, Zelda
G: Ganondorf
(Information found on smashboards and brawlfriendcodes.com).
For those of you who do not know what a “Tier List” for gaming is, it refers to a list that rates each character in order of their potential to win in tournament settings for gaming. The conditions of this list are also based on a characters “metagame.” Metagame refers to the strategies that are predominant in the current competitive community.
It should be noted that a tier list is not a “Best character to worst character” list. This mean that if you fight the kid down the street who has played the game twice but mains metaknight, the results will be based off of your skill. A really great captain falcon player would most likely win against an extremely cruddy pikachu player.
The tier list hasn’t changed much in terms of metaknight’s placement (since he’ll most likely always be top) but I’m going to give Falco some credit and say that he definitely has potential to take Snake’s place. Some of them Falco players are doing some tight things.
On another note, Olimar (my “main”… i.e. the dude I play as) has jumped two spots since the last version. Olimars are representing. There need to be more Yoshi players, though.
Otherwise, I think this is a pretty solid tier list. I think it will be interesting to see what the next one will look like. I’m thinking only minor differences… kind of like this one (not like the one where Olimar jumped 8 spots).
L8a.
Other Tags: SSBB, FGC