SC2: MLG Pro Circuit Columbus

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It's time again for North America's biggest offline tournament! From June 03 till June 05 the players will be battling for MLG's $14.000 Dollar pricepool at the Greater Columbus Convention Center located in Columbus, Ohio. Last MLG had some very exciting three days of Starcraft 2 and Major League Gaming's CEO United States of America Sundance promised an even better tournament for this weekend. There will be an improved stream, new player booths and an epic line up of United States of America Americans, Europe Europeans and even some top notch Korea, Republic of Koreans.

Will image: protoss-big Sweden Naniwa be able to repeat his outstanding performance of a streak of 25 wins and only 2 losses and come off as the winner of MLG's second tournament this year? Or will Koreans like image: protoss-big Korea, Republic of MC prove to be too strong or the Swedish power house? We will see soon!

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MLG's new booth and its handsome thropy


The Groups

Pool A:
image: protoss-big Sweden d.Naniwa
image: zerg-big Canada ROOTSlush
image: terran-big United States of America ROOTDrewbie
image: terran-big United States of America fnatic.Gretorp
image: zerg-big Korea, Republic of WeMadeFoxMoon
- First Seed from Open Bracket

Pool B:
image: protoss-big Canada ROOTKiWiKaKi
image: terran-big United States of America FXOmOoNan
image: terran-big Sweden d.SjoW
image: zerg-big United States of America FXOSheth
image: terran-big Korea, Republic of SlayerS`MMA
- Second Seed from Open Bracket

Pool C:
image: terran-big United States of America d.SeleCT
image: zerg-big United States of America EGIdrA
image: zerg-big Netherlands LiquidRet
image: protoss-big United States of America LiquidTyler
image: protoss-big Korea, Republic of oGsMCReplaces Korea, Republic of STBomber who missed his flight

- Third Seed from Open Bracket

Pool D:
image: protoss-big United States of America EGiNcontroL
image: terran-big Germany LiquidTLO
image: zerg-big Sweden LiquidHayprO
image: zerg-big United States of America EGMachine
image: zerg-big Korea, Republic of IMLosirA
- Fourth Seed from Open Bracket



Open Bracket

The Open Bracket, which first four spots guarantee placement in the last available places in the groups, is also stacked with big names like:

image: terran-big United Kingdom EGDeMusliM
image: terran-big Sweden mouz.ThorZaiN
image: terran-big Mexico Sixjax.MajOr
image: zerg-big Korea, Republic of STJuly
image: zerg-big Sweden mouz.morrow
image: zerg-big United States of America ROOTDestiny
image: protoss-big Canada fnatic.TT1
image: protoss-big Canada fnatic.IefNaij

So make sure to also check out that Open Bracket tournament as its loaded with very good players fighting for those last four spots!

Casting Crew

United States of America JP
United States of America Day[9]
United States of America DJWheat
United States of America Artosis
United States of America Tasteless

Schedule & Stream
Stream 1

Friday

5:00 PM - 5:15 PM All-stream Pregame Show
5:15 PM - 5:30 PM Pregame Show with DJ Wheat and Day[9]
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Pool Play - Idra vs. MC
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Pool Play - Naniwa vs. Moon
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Pool Play - Ret vs. Bomber
8:30 PM - 9:30 PM Pool Play – InControL vs. Losira (on both streams)
9:30 PM - 10:30 PM Pool Play – Idra vs. Ret (on both streams)
10:30 PM - 11:30 PM Pool Play - Haypro vs. Losira
11:30 PM - 12:30 AM Pool Play - InControl vs. Machine
12:30 AM - 12:45 AM Day Wrap with DJ Wheat and Day[9]

Saturday

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open Winners Round 5 Pt 1 (on both streams)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Open Winners Round 5 Pt 2
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Open Winners Round 6 (on both streams)
2:00 PM - 10:00 PM Pool Play
10:00 PM - 11:00 PM Championship Losers Round 2
11:00 PM - 11:15 PM Day Wrap with DJ Wheat and Day[9]

Sunday

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Championship Losers Round 3
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Championship Losers Round 4
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Championship Winners Semifinals A (on both streams)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Championship Winners Semifinals B (on both streams)
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Championship Losers Round 7
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Championship Losers Round 8
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Championship Winners Finals
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Championship Losers Finals (on both streams)
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Championship Finals (on both streams)
8:30 PM - 8:45 PM Awards Ceremony (on both streams)

Stream 2

Friday

5:00 PM - 5:15 PM All-stream Pregame Show
5:15 PM - 5:30 PM Pregame Show with Tasteless and Artosis
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Pool Play - Community's Choice – Kiwikaki vs. MMA
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Pool Play - Community's Choice Match – TLO vs. Losira
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Pool Play - Community's Choice Match – Select vs. Idra
8:30 PM - 9:30 PM Pool Play- InControl vs. Losira (on both streams)
9:30 PM - 10:30 PM Pool Play - Idra vs. Ret
10:30 PM - 11:30 PM Starcraft 2 Blue Stream Update with Julie and Shibby
11:30 PM - 12:30 AM Pool Play - SeleCT- vs. Ret
12:30 AM - 12:45 AM Day Wrap with Tasteless and Artosis

Saturday

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open Winners Round 5 (on both streams)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Open Winners Round 5 Pt 3
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Open Winners Round 6 (on both streams)
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Starcraft 2 Blue Stream Update with Julie and Shibby
3:00 PM - 10:00 PM Pool Play
10:00 PM - 11:00 PM Championship Losers Round 2
11:00 PM - 11:15 PM Day Wrap with Tasteless and Artosis

Sunday

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Championship Losers Round 3
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Championship Losers Round 4
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Championship Winners Semifinals A (on both streams)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Championship Winners Semifinals B (on both streams)
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Starcraft 2 Blue Stream Update with Julie and Shibby
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Championship Losers Round 8
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Championship Losers Round 9
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Championship Losers Finals (on both streams)
7:00 PM - 8:45 PM Championship Finals (on both streams)
8:30 PM - 8: 45 PM Awards Ceremony (on both streams)

Stream: http://www.teamliquid.net/video/streams/MLG_Columbus_Red
Results: Link
Be prepared for a weekend of amazing Starcraft 2 games!

Comments
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So excited
Bit of a shame with the last minute MC switch-a-roo. Still will be good to see him/idra, and the rest..
Please have baby's with me Wim
here we go
Holy shit, the tournament just started with one of the sickest matches ive seen, mc vs idra!
GRAAAAAAAACKEEEEEEEEEEEEN
How are you guys finding the stream?
Didnt mean that, I mean how is it for you - feedback on performance etc

(my company is doing this stream)
Parent
looks good, one of the better HQ streams i seen so far :)
Parent
it is great
Parent
its HORRIBLE
Parent
quality wise in fullscreen i have seen sharper, but it is still very good. and as i barely watch in full screen, and seeing t here is no lag, im very very happy with the streams (besides the ridicolous amount of commercials :D)
Parent
gotta say today it suffers quite alot of lags and even freezes :(
Parent
Today wasnt the best day
Parent
yeah but i read there were problems cause of a thunderstorm or something... can happen...
Parent
Can honestly say the stream is pretty damn good.. I would say there appears to be an issue with the VoDs though:

Firstly, I don't know if it's just me, but it doesn't seem obvious they are there.
Secondly, the VoDs seem to stop loading for me at arbitrary times, although I've not experienced many issues with the stream. I realise this could be the nature of streaming as opposed to pre-loading though, as I do get occasional packet loss on this connection..
Parent
1) You're not alone, we've got A LOT of feedback saying they didnt know there were vods

2) The VODS need time to propogate, thats somewhat out of our hands just the nature of the way they're delivered.

3) lol at not switching to HQ :P (Yes baggiez told me)
Parent
Yeh he said he was going to post you that :$! Thing is I'm pretty sure Wheat said yesterday that the HD was still paid-only, so I didn't even bother trying, especially with the 'premium' button in the bottom right. I had random freezes with the VoDs at completely random times, some took a while to start, some where fine until the 57minute mark, although I imagine that's more my end than yours.


Either way, congratulations. As I said to Baggiez you are no doubt doing alright for yourself!
Parent
Thanks was a long but good weekend :)
Parent
I know the event is over, but as a feedback, I would absolutely love some non-flash version of the stream, that is, a proper video stream that can be played back in my favourite media player. Yes, I knew they existed, and I used them, but I guess they weren't exactly official..

On a side note, HOLY FUCKING AWESOMENESS, had an exam today but I stayed up to watch the games. Gonna get a shit grade, but it was totally worth it.

Quality was good though, and you were fast on fixing the power outages etc. Well done, you seem to be doing well for yourself!
Parent
the ammount of commercials is a joke while they turn boring so fast cause its always the same
Parent
We dont control the volume of ads, however...would you rather low quality or enforced payment than no ads? You dont get more than you do on TV.

Just a thought!
Parent
On TV i have a bigger variety of ads. Ive been looking this stream for at least 15 hours now and if i ever see this weird women playing on her xperie phone thingie again i might aswell kil myself.
You cant forget that most people have been watching this all day so you actually need a bigger variety of adds than you do on TV to keep people interested. I can savely say ill never buy any form of dr.pepper again.

And i got no problem with paying a small ammount of money. If the hd stream wouldnt be free id have payed for that too.

Edit: And the fact that you cant mute it after the ads started is a huge joke imo.
Parent
FYI you saw those ads like 500 times this weekend? I saw them 50000 times and I was bug testing on the player - literally ripping my hair out!
Parent
I like it a lot, especially with these two AMAZING sets of casters.
Parent
watching !

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very nice news btw dezire <3
where is azuki?
dezire for president!
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