Saturday, August 4, 2007

Blizzcon: Day II On the Run

Going to update this post in the comments like yesterday and then put it together at the end of the day.

Didn't sleep at all due to playing HORSE until 6AM, but I discovered that the gas station across the street does sell Red Bull. (THANK YOU JEBUS) There really won't be much "news" today, but today is where all the tourneys heat up, including CGS finals, SC finals, and the WoW 5v5 finals. Regardless of how cynical a bastard I may be concerning CGS and the WoW tournament, I'll be there having a good time. ^^

One small note because I saw it on mmo-champ and people are asking: The five man instance in WLK is definitely playable, but they just take like the front 5 of the line at a time when you set up to play which pretty much means you'll never have the right group composition. I saw Blizzcon staff running around the main area looking for people to run the new 5man, but honestly, there seemed to be very little interest. Even if Dep and Aesthyr transfered their characters (Dep quit during AQ, Aesthyr rerolled from Mano to Korean servers when he moved), that would still leave the three of us with three mages, not exactly optimal for grouping. Since I'd rather not spend hours pugging some buggy and boring 5man, I've decided to ignore that nonsense, but it isn't a "press only" thing. The lack of information is just due to it being difficult to find groups and people wanting to do other things instead of pug. (Though you do see plenty of LF Tank spam)

81 comments:

Raddy said...

I really don't get the jeans shorts plus black t shirt thing. It makes so many of these guys look sickeningly pale and overweight, whereas if they dressed as a normal human, they wouldn't stand out as weird at all. Like if you're going to wear that much black, at least do the lipstick, spiked choker, and cut yourself. I am not expecting cats to be blinged out in IRL epics, but you don't got to be baller to not dress like a total slimeball. What's worse is that the weird but somewhat cute but too pale bloodelf dressed girl is an object of derision to most everbody (perhaps myself included), but at the end of the day her costume comes off (heh) while a lot of these guys are stuck cosplaying weirdo forever. And I am really not trying to be condescending douchebag guy, as I bet a lot of these guys are only in 'geek mode' because its a video game convention, but games aren't really counter-culture as much as this scene plays them out to be. Then again, I walk around like it drags on the floor and give every motherfucker around me my tough guy scare 'cuz I know, I fucking know that I could kick every single one of their asses...in a duel.

Raddy said...

It REALLY isn't my style, but I am going to professions panel instead of waiting in sc2 line. I think I really don't have the patience to stand in line for shit as much as most people. Back when I used to PvE, this panel would have interested me, but that feels so long ago. Now I just view all this stuff bitterly as advantages will have over me or potential I'll never realize. That isn't to say I hate the idea of PvE in theory-- I miss playing with my friends, miss the late night strat discussions, the race for world firsts, and the damage meter epeen. The problem was that in PvE the ONLY progression became gear. I wasn't getting better. Maybe I understood game mechanics slightly better after Naxx, but for the most part, my individual skill never improved from those early days in MC where I was the first to wear full frozen wrath gear and chug deviates to get fast cast. As far as encounter complexity, nothing really felt as epic as twin emps.

Atashi said...

I'm going to be there in about an hour. What do you look like? OMG!

Raddy said...

"what makes pvp not fun?"

The audience screams "WARLOCKS" LOL

Uno said...

So Raddy, what are your plans? When reading your last few posts it clearly looks like you are leaning towards SC2 when it hits? :)

Raddy said...

"I played a hunter for a while, and I wanted to kill myself"

Guys behind me scream "you should have" so loud the moderator guy looks like he's about to come over to kick some ads. Dep, aesthyr and I are going to be as obnoxious as possible during sc finals.

I think that panel was on livestream so I don't really have much to add. Played a round of sc2 with dep against aesthyr and some guy they been playing with. Zealot rushed us and then went fast DK. Fucking cool bro; I was teching up banshees since M&Ms just rip through vespene too much to pump while teching.

Caught the end of a warrior/Druid vs rogue/priest match where the rogue team won by outdamaging the Druid's heals; I don't really understand the match that well but the Druid should really have cycloned the rogue instead of trying to HT spam. Rogue team was nothingspecial, the war/Druid was rapidflame.

SpanishMafia vs nothingspecial now

Raddy said...

uh, last post is backwards on the teams, I'm retarded

Raddy said...

god double healthstone every game is gay

Raddy said...

Rapidflame wins with lock/priest over SpanishMafia Druid/priest. Rapidflame priest is very good. SpanishMafia Druid made too many mistakes and his lock could not get UA out reliably. Rematch nothingspecial vs rapidflame in EU finals. Let's see who they run.

kale said...

i see youuuuuuuu

Anonymous said...

go to the tourney section and tell the 2 hosts to stfu

Raddy said...

When the WC3 was asked to cheer for their fav game, SC was exponentially louder than WC3 or WoW. The SC fever is HOT here. I'VE GOT A FEVER AND THE ONLY MEDICINE IS MORE COWBELL.. err SC.

For the EU finals, rapidflame decided to run war/Druid against spriest/rogue... and got their face melted round one in less than 30 seconds.

Raddy said...

And in round two, nothingspecial killed rapidflame druid in less than 10 seconds, but since rapidflame warrior DC'd, match is being replayed. Extremely bullshit, the game was over.

There are some valid compaints on how the big monitors are from the Druid's perspective negating his stealth. I agree, we should be in a non-stealth perspective. Nothingspecial will win this anyways...

Raddy said...

hey i like those 2 announcers. Girl has a sexy voice and loves micro-- wtf more do you want?

Raddy said...

Nothingspecial destroy Druid quickly again. No camera advantage as camera started on rogue and Druid.

Odd[FH] said...

Whats nothingspecials class comp?

Raddy said...

Dhaoss and co. vs CTs

Sweet pally/lock vs pally/lock

Hardest Out (Dhaoss) wins r1

Raddy said...

that was a great game actually

Props to dhaoss and his pally, that was awesome and crowd was actually into it

Sick ending where searing pain and a HOJ+HS bursted down the lock

Raddy said...

DnT vs Ensane is up but I'm off to watch SC

Raddy said...

Iris vs Nal_rA OMG

This shit is packed, Iris is huge 3====D

Raddy said...

I just realized this guy sounds exactly like Jason lee

Odd[FH] said...

im watchin the SC radi, get up and take your clothes off and start dancing so i know who you are

Raddy said...

DnT would have won r1

Tech problems again rematch

Raddy said...

I still won't bet against the lock/pally

Raddy said...

DnT wins an extremely close r1

Raddy said...

EnSane wins r2

Raddy said...

And in the third round:

DnT wins

Raddy said...

OMG sick micro

Raddy said...

seriously everyone at blizzcon is watching these sc matches

Raddy said...

seriously everyone at blizzcon is watching these sc matches LOL

Raddy said...

DnT vs Hardest Out inc

Go dhaoss!!!

Anonymous said...

keep us posted on US finals

Anonymous said...

how was the PvP panel?

Raddy said...

I didn't go to pvp panel. I really wish I could do a dev interview; people never ask about shit I care about.

US finals starting now

Raddy said...

DnT wins r1 easily

Raddy said...

pally gets too baller, DnT wins r2

Raddy said...

DnT wins overall
wasn't too close

kale said...

I heard you three screaming from all the way in the back left. I wonder if the cameras caught you guys.

Brian said...

starcraft tourney was siiiiiiiick!!

Odd[FH] said...

DID YOU DO THE WAVE RADI, DID YOU DO IT

Raddy said...

Yeah sc tourney was def high point of blizzcon

wc3 tourney now which means long sc2 lines =|

I cant find my friends and my phone is about to die, that "baby don't hurt me" song is blasting, and I'm surrounded by girls dressed as warlocks or blood elves. Hold me

Anonymous said...

is CGS over? What about US against EU?

Raddy said...

I think CGS is over

Anonymous said...

Oh Baby Don't Hurt Me
Baby Don't Hurt Me
No More

depredate said...

I just saw a cute girl in 7s, gucci bag, tiff watch, cute halter with this uber fat pale dandruff covered guy lol

Money in the bank, shorty what you drank

Raddy said...

girls are gross, I'd rather just drink red bull

Oh yeah, answer your phone or my texts dep, where are you? I went to get more red bull since wc3 is zzzz

Raddy said...

oh and I'll give 25:1 on that bet

depredate said...

On for 50$ rad

I'll just take an even 20:1 to keep it a round number. Aesthyr says that he'll donate 10:1 on top if I kick you from the suite and use your bed

Kyle|Gh0st said...

Were you the tall, white kid with striped shirt and shorts screaming "I love you Iris"?

Anonymous said...

Any update on WoW tournament or other WoW news?

kale said...

The other tournaments have run long beyond their time slots so it hasn't even started

Raddy said...

thank god wc3 is over

Raddy said...

haha the euro said he'd spend his 10k prize on alcohol

Baller

kale said...

I'd ask how you would spend your prize if you won an event but you're bad

Raddy said...

I caught the tail of the lore panel... Yeah I never played wc3, ground to 60, and couldn't possibly know less heh

Raddy said...

hukhukhuks gooooooo <3 tiz

Raddy said...

yeah hhh woot
r2 hhh

Anonymous said...

lol rad

Raddy said...

MoB vs Nashwan inc

Since I'm gay for Godfather, it should be clear who I'm pulling for

Anonymous said...

livestream down =(

Raddy said...

They're blasting Endtroducing at least

So bored zzzz

Zero7, dust bros, thievery corp, and now shadow. Nostalgia

Raddy said...

this reminds me of playing against yeah we lift last season. Hunter rips into mage; nashwan shaman needs to heal and stop bolting.

MoB takes r1 with ease

Raddy said...

mob wins r2

Raddy said...

people are asking which kid's father godfather is and why parents are allowed on stage

Metanoia said...

Why don't you approach them and between matches ask them to let you give your opinion on camera. Kind of like a round table discussion between matches?

Raddy said...

gg mob ftw

Raddy said...

HHH vs Nashwan inc
is this on stream?

Raddy said...

nashwan wins r1

Anonymous said...

who is the blonde?

Raddy said...

hhh wins r2
best round of the tourney so far
one of these games nashwan priest will die early

Raddy said...

nashwan leads 2-1
another sick game

Raddy said...

huks lose =(

Odd[FH] said...

ARE YOU THE SPECIAL GUEST RADI

Raddy said...

that cute blonde? She's bullet bullet clap

Raddy said...

I fucking wish rahv. This whole thing makes me emo that we aren't up there; I would be a sick special guest commentator though; I don't suck balls AND I have a dead sexy voice. Though that Jason lee sounding guy owns me; I just want to kiss him on the mouth.

Raddy said...

yeahhhhhh mob

Odd[FH] said...

thats me btw im retarded and cant spell my name

o said...

reminds me of games vs yea we lift

Raddy said...

gg mob ftw

Anonymous said...

Thx for the coverage raddy!

Atashi said...

bah I was there, and you didn't tell me how to find you. i hate you forever raddy!

/cry