Wall Street Journal wrote:SAN FRANCISCO—One Sunday afternoon last month, a hundred boisterous patrons crowded into Mad Dog in the Fog, a British sports bar here, to watch a live broadcast.
Half the flat-screen TVs were tuned to a blood-filled match between two Korean competitors, "MC" and "Puma." The crowd erupted in chants of "M-C! M-C!" when the favorite started a comeback.
The pub is known for showing European soccer and other sports, but Puma and MC aren't athletes. They are 20-year-old professional videogame players who were leading computerized armies of humans and aliens in a science-fiction war game called "Starcraft II" from a Los Angeles convention center. The Koreans were fighting over a tournament prize of $50,000.
This summer, "Starcraft II" has become the newest barroom spectator sport. Fans organize so-called Barcraft events, taking over pubs and bistros from Honolulu to Florida and switching big-screen TV sets to Internet broadcasts of professional game matches happening often thousands of miles away.
I would get killed off in under a minute I am seriously slow...
Sounds like fun though....
/Wonder how many PCF people still play SC2? Who would be interested for gaming sessions on a Saturday night?
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The one thing games has going for it is age difference is irrelavant. So you might order a beer that is not suitable for the kid that just kicked your bottom... actually would be a perfect stratagy. You and him get to the finals, then you give him a beer and call the cops on him. Instant win thru disqualification
Anakha56 wrote:
/Wonder how many PCF people still play SC2? Who would be interested for gaming sessions on a Saturday night?
Myself, my brother, my buddy from univ, and from the forums: kenny, cap (but rarely). I have one or two german friends and kenny knows some serbs. Or perhaps they're from bosnia.
We're regularly looking for people to join in a game.
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I still play, but on the South East Asia servers - although if you are keen to have a session on a Saturday or whatever let me know, I'll log back into the EU servers - bear in mind I'm 7 hours ahead of you
jamin_za wrote:I still play, but on the South East Asia servers - although if you are keen to have a session on a Saturday or whatever let me know, I'll log back into the EU servers - bear in mind I'm 7 hours ahead of you
Stupid question probably, but how do you switch servers?
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jamin_za wrote:You have two have two separate game installs - oh, and two separate keys, one for each region
Thought I could get a break from the Germans and the Russians. Apparently not. (Communication with the team is normally hampered by my flaky German and my Russian consists of a few greetings and soviet propaganda slogans.)
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I would get killed off in under a minute I am seriously slow...
Apparently not. (Communication with the team is normally hampered by my flaky German and my Russian consists of a few greetings and soviet propaganda slogans.)