GornLan Harbor Warcraft III

On October 31, 2018
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WGL official has published TON of information yesterday, it seems to be full of three pages, but don't be scared, let me(Anthor) to help you to have a summary.

Q: When is the WGL Winter offline tournament?
A: There will be two parts,
For group stage: Nov 28th to Dec 1st
For playoffs: Dec 5th to Dec 8th
(Wednesday to Saturday)

Q: Does this tournament open for the audiences? If yes, how much is the ticket?
A: Yes, it does, and it's free! At Nov 20th, NetEase will open the application, and you are able to enter the hall with the SMS, so please notice War3station on Weibo and Wechat official account, we will post it LINK for you at the first second!

Address for the tournament:
D1-104 / D1-105 VSPN Studio, No. 221 Huangxing Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai

Q: How much are the prizes?
A:

Champion: 40,000 RMB

Runner-up: 20,000 RMB

Third place: 10,000 RMB

Fourth place: 8,000 RMB

5-8th place: 5,000 RMB

9-24th: 1000RMB

So the player will get at least 1000RMB even though they lose in the first round, and you can use them for your travel in Shanghai.

Q: What is the format for the 6 player group stage? What is the format for the whole tournament?
A: For group stage, we will have round robin games with BO3, and the top two players will advance to the playoffs. If some players are having the same scores, this is the order for decide who will be the winner.
[1] Total wins.
[2] If [1] is same, compare the games between them.
[3] If some players are having cyclical win-loss relationship, compare their net win (Win-Loss).
[4] If [3] is same, play a tie-breaker games with BO3.

In the Playoffs, there are single elimination and BO5, and Finals will be BO7.

Q: So you are having 15 BO3 in a day? You have to start playing from the morning until the night?
A: We are having official stage and streamer, official stage will play for the important games, the others will be played by other streamer and caster, and they are chosen by the official. So the games will be played at the same time, we may not watch until the midnight.

My life is for War3!

Q: Is the patch is same as Oct race?
A: Yes, the games will play in patch 1.30, and there are no AI and TR, but we are having NI and CH.

Q: Can the players change their race in the tournament?
A: Well, this is a sensitive question.
The answer is YES! The players are allowed to change their races, but they have to choose the race before the map banning stage, and they are allowed to use only one race in each BO3.

Q: I am not able to be in WGL, where should I watch the games?
A: Here are the room number for WGL winter
Douyu: 525207;
Huya: 1584989003;
Bilibili: 3683436;
Panda: 1616331;
Zhanqi: 16301;
CC: 163001;

Q: Will War3station organize for the audiences?
A: Of course, we will give the audiences that souvenirs, cute avatar!

Q: How about the man we are really concerned, will he show up?
A: Yes! He is a hero, and he will come as a Superman, you may get the beginning, but you may not know what will happen afterwards.

Q: Player will get reimbursement for the flight and accommodation?
A: Sure, including the players from Peru, and not only the players, we also provide these to the caster from Europe, staffs from Americas, NetEase will provide flight, transportation fee in the city, accommodation, and foods at the days of tournaments.

Q: Will they provide for the audiences?
A:

Very well, let's play something big, @War3station (@魔坛情报局) on Weibo, at Nov 1st, we will draw a lucky man, and we will provide him the transportation fee from other cities, whether Flight or Railway, but this bonus is for the audiences in China without Shanghai and for the tournament days only.

Is Keke very sad for her money? But it's cool right?

Source:

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Jf6Z8qS0MpLHOwDs6SyrIA?fbclid=IwAR0pc9Iq4ZlQBGWF1kSsaFFv5Sbxugw2YVgqrwo6YgZBu287Eu27aTvJIUQ

On October 29, 2018
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Author: War3station.Tolkien
Translator: Gornlan Harbor

2018 isn't a peaceful year for War3.

The effect of "Infi GG" in Master's Coliseum is just going disappearance, however, 120 made a big news. In WGL Oct race, 8 to 4, 120 was having advantage when played against Colorful (Double Gold Mine vs Double Gold Mine, Dread Lord really close to level 6, a team of Gargoyles, Colorful has no Tier 2 buildings), but he typed out GG afterwards, in the third round, 120 summoned Naga as first hero and typed out GG in short time.

Furthermore, after the games, 120 said:"I don't want to play this game, I am having a squad, but I am not professional player, I do whatever I want, no one can care about me. "
Feel speechless right? Yes, this is the true story in that day, it should be passive play.

However, the situation turned around in the second day, 120 fought back from the lower bracket, and he get the champion at last. If you said he is having passive play, but he get the champion at last, can we say "passive play"?

This is a complicated case, and I am having personal opinion here.

A prohibition that players have to avoid.

A prohibition for sports, we can't turn to "play for lose" from "play for win".
The main of sports is that we play for win, if you were playing for lose, you're going against the rules. Use Unholy Frenzy on opponent's BM in the large advantage situation, sell the great items to the shop, we did this in the situation that we had defined we can win this game, this is a suitable showing off, if you're showing off in a great situation, this is allowed by audiences for sure, but it has a big differences from "play for lose".
What 120 has done was not included by show off, even closer to "play for lose", even worse, he said he didn't want to win after the games.

In our country, we trend man rules more than laws, when something happens, we don't read about laws first, but see who is the man, there is no rule be with "Super Star", this is an unspoken rules that accepted by most of us. However, "play for lose" and "get champion" are different kind of cases, we may not say 120 has no fault even though he get the champion at last. In this case, 120 wasn't doing the right choice, he is disrespecting the audiences, his opponents, the tournaments. If this is just the game on platform, of course we will not have any comment, but it's an official game, we may not allow this happen.

"Passive play" is a skill.

If we read the rules of War3 clearly, we won't see any rules relate how player should do, like which hero we should summon as first hero, what units we should use, when we can type GG(In LOL, they can only type GG after 15 minutes.)
Especially the minor tournament, a lot of player choose to play for practicing, like using other races, trying some new strategies, so they are not playing with strong desire, but this may be bad for the audiences.

In fact, no matter what sport, like basketball, football, even eSports, we may see a lot of times that the player were hiding the real skills in the not crucial games. For example in War3, you may summon other hero first but no DK, expand in Tier 1, no Raider Run, MG with out Hardened Skin, we may say this is practicing with heavy burden, and you lose to someone you never lose in offline tournament, many players are doing these.

Some audiences love to see some different strategies, allow some mistakes from players is requirement.
However, 120's action in this time, is bad in skills, he may keep learning from the seniors.

We shouldn't stand on the moral ground.

However, this doesn't mean we are able to hate the player on internet, especially speak loud with no reason, we should think about the reason behind the case.

ESports is a challenging sport, it's challenging your body limit, mental limit. I believe that 120 should have the momentum to play in games, he participant this month race, defeated many opponents, played a lot of BO5 and BO7 series, from 7pm to 12am, this momentum will not be provided by the prizes only, and I believe this momentum is his love for this game.

A lot of players may retired if they wanted, they can earn enough as a streamer, however they are still playing in tournament, they are giving a lot of interesting game, what 120 has done may be criticized, but we may admire he because of the games.

We always criticize others on moral ground, this is not a good view for us. We hope the players keep playing for us, and said "we will support you, please keep playing in tournament", but we hate the players when they lose the game at the same time, we are pushing the players to a really hard situation.

Finally, this is my opinion, will you still punish on 120?

Source:
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/i6fSYkp2O-8OAUNe5SMosg?fbclid=IwAR2sSxJyQDbluTVMqn9oJyp-snChm2cB7gOYHQqVQFxxFCbt4gOSwpl8twE

On October 27, 2018
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(Trick or subscribe!)

Halloween is coming soon, I wish everyone are able to get candies/

In the second half of year, WGL is the most exciting tournaments. Official add the slots to 24, and GSC have registered the official trademark, and changed their name to WGL, which means World Golden League. We can see that NetEase are very hardworking on his brand reputation.

After the games last night, there 17 players are qualified to the offline tournament, let's see who they are.

Ranking currently| ID |Score currently| Oct race score| Expected points | Expected ranking

I have done a table for you and you may see Sini is in the best 8, so he can get at least 3 points, so he passed Free and Xiaokk, get the ticket to Shanghai!

Some Tips:

I found some interesting tips here.

Linguagua and WFZ are having the same score, 16 points, theoretically, they have to play tie-breaker game to decide who will be the 18th and be able to Shanghai, but, will WFZ play? This is a question.

After we see the ranking, we may see the most of the players in the first half are Korean, especially FoCuS and Lawliet, they are really hardworking, they always practice on platform and treat the month race seriously.

Since WCG stopped hosting, we rarely saw player's region is balance in a tournament. In this time, WGL set a points system, and open for European and American to play in the month race, we can see a interesting result:

9 Chinese, 8 Korean and 7 Western, this result just like the best time of Warcraft III!

For Asian, Pcg and Sini are the first time for offline tournament, and Western, we have a lot of new face, Cash, Sonik, Neytpoh, Walter, however they are from only three country, Russia, Ukraine, Peru.

Since 2016 Spring, Lucifer back to our offline tournament again, respect to this senior player!

If we count Linguagua and WFZ on the list, there will be:

6 Orcs, 4 Undead,

5 Human(maybe three of them will betray),

9 Night Elves(may be we need to add three).

(I have nothing to say)

AM Anthony: You guys look honest, how dare you betray us?!

Anyway, no matter how many NE there are, the champion is always be_____.(Fill in yourself)

WGL winter offline tournament players:

China (9): RW.Infi, GK.TH000, Fly, Newbee.eer0, Colorful, Zhouxixi, Pcg123, Sini, Linguagua (or WFZ)

Korea (8): Lyn, Moon, FoCuS, Lucifer, Lawliet, Soin, Chaemiko, Sok

Europe (5): Hawk, Sonik, Foggy, Cash, Neytpoh

Americas (2): Hunter, Walter

It is reported that WGL winter offline tournament will host between the end of November and the beginning of December, 24 players will be in Shanghai at that time, it will be the brand new spot(Look at the image!), and you will see a guy at there who you fully want so see.

Let's wait and look forward to the Warcraft III(NE) party!!!

Happy Halloween!

END

Source:

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/MEXroMewy2OzS21dL_i8oQ?fbclid=IwAR0zNxFLzVYIZin6QhLby5ATp88AFRJuNB18A9yDKL7nkBi5oP9syvKc5oI

On October 26, 2018
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TeD isn't a professional player in War3 2v2, and his skills are hard to play in 1v1, however, TeD and Hainiu are one of the best team in War3 2v2, recently, they got a first place and a second place in TKOM.

TeD is a optimistic guy and he keep smiling on his face. TeD was a professional player, he might experience a lot of difficulties, maybe this is the reason make TeD is able to keep hopefulness always.

Q: Hi Ted, thank you for accepting our interview, please introduce yourself to the audiences first.

TeD: Hi, I am TeD, the War3 streamer who always be chasing by Yuwan[1]

Q: Before TKOM(The King of Map), the last 2v2 game you played was more than half year ago, and you get the champion in your first 2v2 tournament in these few months, what is the reason for your success? What qualities does 2v2 test for players?

TeD: It's BO1, luck is the biggest reason, and this is the first 2v2 tournament in patch 1.30, all of us are still trying to adapt it, and my partner is Hainiu, he plays very good, what I need to do is just shouting 666 to him[2].
2v2 has differences with 1v1, some players are good in 1v1, but they aren't able to adapt 2v2. Communication and trust are really important, if you face a problem and you have to decide solution immediately, one of them have to listen to another player, if two player are having different opinion, this will make they lose easily.

Q: Talk about your partner, Hainiu, we heard that he is good in 1v1 too, and he is the first 50 in NetEase platform, so Hainiu and you, who is the better player?

TeD: 2v2 great player also good in 1v1, in our bet party, Hainiu is the best 1v1 player. From an objective perspective, 2v2 is a game for 2 players, I have great chemistry with Hainiu, so we are improving together, so we are good when we play together.

Q: You lost to Infi and Colorful on TR, what is the reason? How many Zhouxixi between Colorful and TH000[3]?

TeD: I don't think this is an accident for us, Infi is a very good commander and he has a lot of strategies and experiences, we would be trapped by them, and Colorful didn't perform his "acrobatics". For conclusion, I think the biggest problem is we didn't do well on scouting in the opening, we guessed that Infi would go to Headhunter directly before the game, but Infi didn't and he use Wyverns, they were acting and very good, so they trapped successfully and made us have no idea about what they were playing. In the late game, TC was level 3 and they had a team of Wyverns, this situation is really hard for UN (Undead+Night Elf).

For the second question, come on man, I can't say that, Zhouxixi is Colorful's master.

Q: In patch 1.30, which combination will be the best? And why?

TeD: We have only two 2v2 tournaments, but I feel all the combination are slightly stronger than previous patch, I am sure that is no best combination, because the strength is depending on the player, there will be different answer for every 2v2 tournament.

Q: Do you think TKOM's format is good? In your career, which map is your favorite map?

TeD: I think the format is quick cool, BO1 for the first place is really stimulating, and amateur player can defeat professional player easier in BO1.
TR is my most favorite map, this is the map to let me didn't get 0 point when I played with Sky, and I have the highest win rate on TR in my career.

Q: In patch 1.30, Undead are easier to play against Human, if you play 1v1 against Sky, who will be the winner?

TeD: I will win for sure, Sky didn't play War3 for more than half year, and I feel he didn't play patch 1.30 too, I will keep teasing him and let him use Riflemen, and I will win the game.

Q: In this year, Colorful played a lot of good games, and he has become famous, as a senior, what will you say these young players?

TeD: War3 is a interesting game, but it will make suffering to us too, if young players want to become better than the senior, they have to hold for the games for long times. Although these seniors are having a lot of experiences and strategies, but young players are having better momentum, and these young players are much better than last year, like Pcg, Sini, Fast, basically, they can reach to 16 strong in WGL, maybe even better, good luck! Hope they will be better!

Q: You have retired for a few years, and you are streamer, caster, player, organizer too, in your opinion, what does War3 means to you? With all the thing you have done, what you want to give War3 fans?

TeD: War3 is a part of my life, I can't leave this game, what I have right now are depend on this game. I feel happy when I am doing these, streamer, organizer, caster, I feel blessed when the fans and audiences feel happy.
For example, When I am streaming, audiences may be praising, and I am casting clearly, for every points in the game......? And......?[4]
I feel happy for this too, hahaha

Q: What your comment about "DUNAI"[5], do you feel confident that you can step over Huang Xu Dong, and become the best "DUNAI" in eSport?

TeD: I am a professional caster, ok? Huang Xu Dong is a real DUNAI, TeDTV audiences know that, I won't get over your Yuwan, I am the professional!(This is true, trust me, I am talking honestly)
P/s: I have to run now

Q: Hainiu and You are the formal winner on TKOM feat LT, and Infi+Colorful are the formal winner on TR, we will have two more tournaments for each map, may you predict which team are the winner next time?

TeD: We will try over best on LT, at least we don't want to lose with bad, on TR, I think Infi+Colorful will be the winner again, and 120+Fly will be the biggest challenger.

Q: Do you have any words for the bankrupter of Yuwan and War3 fans?

TeD: Thank you, come to TeDTV always and get relax together!

Remarks:

[1]Yuwan: A fake money on Douyu TV, and they can use these to play Douyu Gambling.

[2]666: When somebody shout 666 to you, means you did very well.

[3] They use Zhouxixi to quantify strength of players, just a joke. For example, how many GLH between B2W and War3info, usually this means GLH is really weak.

[4] TeD always DUNAI, for example: https://gornlanharbor.blogspot.com/2018/10/funvideo-master-of-dunai-see-how-ted.html

[5] DUNAI: There is a situation when someone is confident and proclaim someone definitely win the game, but after his announcement, the situation reversed, the situation is considered as DUNAI in china.

Source:
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/WuWX7N3sgZoqjSkOBL-N0Q?fbclid=IwAR11fKwL3bhmeomENIslIbDKzoWUtQc94gG-yBje1-_eursvdr7KbsQlGnw