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You should ping HDStarcraft to see if he wants to cast. He lives in the bay area. So does Trump, if you want to do a showmatch vs a progamer. He is ranked 159

by asdf333 16y ago

You should ping HDStarcraft to see if he wants to cast. He lives in the bay area. So does Trump, if you want to do a showmatch vs a progamer. He is ranked 159 or so in the world right now....and lives near Cupertino I think What is novice? Silver league and below?

gort 16y ago
Trump is awesome. His stream is live right now at http://www.trumpsclive.com/ http://www.trumpsclive.com/ if you want to get a sense of him... (when it ceases being live it will no longer have a big red rectangle saying "live")
Mongoose 16y ago
Definitely a good idea. We've gotten him to agree to cast the finals of an internal Google SC2 tourney that's going on right now. (I'm an intern)
- justin 16y ago
  You should consider playing at Startupcraft :)
  - Zev 16y ago
    If Mongoose is playing, we could have an intern-only round! I could use an excuse to fly back to San Francisco for a weekend.. :-D
    - Zev 16y ago
      Or perhaps an intern team would be more appropriate. Either way.
- Mongoose 16y ago
  Sounds good. I'm in Seattle, but I'll be making a weekend trip to SF in a couple weeks.
xenophanes 16y ago
Realistically, novice is more like platinum and below. Blizzard went to a lot of trouble to name everyone's ranks in a way to make them feel good even if they're bad. Unlike iCCup which ranked tons of people with grades like "D-"
- JeremyChase 16y ago
  Blizzard did try to make everyone feel good about their ranking. However, the flaw in your argument is that hardly anyone ranked D- in ICCup was actually a novice at Broodwar.
- gort 16y ago
  Agreed. I'm a Platinum 1v1 player, and completely terrible.
- Charuru 16y ago
  Well iCCup bills itself as a gosu server, so it's understandable. D on iCCup must be about the top 4% of the SC population or something. C would be 1%.
- asdf333 16y ago
  I would recommend getting 'novice' defined for this tourney... reading through this thread it is apparent that people have wildly differing views on what novice is. Would hate to enter as real novice (beat cpu on normal) and be up against gold players.

by asdf333 16y ago

gort 16y ago

Trump is awesome. His stream is live right now at http://www.trumpsclive.com/ http://www.trumpsclive.com/ if you want to get a sense of him... (when it ceases being live it will no longer have a big red rectangle saying "live")

Mongoose 16y ago

Definitely a good idea. We've gotten him to agree to cast the finals of an internal Google SC2 tourney that's going on right now. (I'm an intern)

justin 16y ago
You should consider playing at Startupcraft :)
- Zev 16y ago
  If Mongoose is playing, we could have an intern-only round! I could use an excuse to fly back to San Francisco for a weekend.. :-D
  - Zev 16y ago
    Or perhaps an intern team would be more appropriate. Either way.
Mongoose 16y ago
Sounds good. I'm in Seattle, but I'll be making a weekend trip to SF in a couple weeks.

xenophanes 16y ago

Realistically, novice is more like platinum and below. Blizzard went to a lot of trouble to name everyone's ranks in a way to make them feel good even if they're bad. Unlike iCCup which ranked tons of people with grades like "D-"

JeremyChase 16y ago
Blizzard did try to make everyone feel good about their ranking. However, the flaw in your argument is that hardly anyone ranked D- in ICCup was actually a novice at Broodwar.
gort 16y ago
Agreed. I'm a Platinum 1v1 player, and completely terrible.
Charuru 16y ago
Well iCCup bills itself as a gosu server, so it's understandable. D on iCCup must be about the top 4% of the SC population or something. C would be 1%.
asdf333 16y ago
I would recommend getting 'novice' defined for this tourney... reading through this thread it is apparent that people have wildly differing views on what novice is. Would hate to enter as real novice (beat cpu on normal) and be up against gold players.