Happy's fans donated USD 3,000 to Happy to participate in WGL.
Colorful gets the last Chinese spot for WGL offline stage!
XiaoY Cup #15 registration has started.
War3station buff?
Happy's fans donated USD 3,000 to Happy to participate in WGL.
According to this table(click here to the LINK), Happy's Russian fans have gathered 201,800 Russian Ruble (above USD 3,000) to Happy to participate in WGL.
This donating organisation is organized by a Happy's big fans, Cacxa. According to Cacxa's post on VK, he would donate more, if there's no enough donates.
Сразу отвечу сомневающимся, что сумма не соберётся. Соберётся! Папочка (cacxa26) догонит до 200к.
"If someone say that donaters can't make it, It's gathering! Daddy (cacxa26) will make it to 200k."
Before it happens, we still don't know what will be going on, stay with us and we will give you the latest news in the future!
Colorful gets the last Chinese spot for WGL offline stage!
After the WGL May qualifier Open Division Semi Finals on yesterday, Colorful wins the last spot in WGL offline stage!
Before this Semi Finals, Colorful and Linguagua were having 30 points, and there was only a remaining chance to get points, the WGL May Qualifier. However, in the Semi Finals yesterday, Colorful was on Fire, playing with Moon-style and defeated Check and HawK without a single losing map, he wins the May qualifier and gets 4 more points. At the same time, Linguagua was defeated by HawK, and gets "only" the third place and 2 points.
The complete participants list.
Since Colorful got the last spot, we have the complete participants list! Thanks to Liquipedia for sending us the table, and here is the table.
The offline event of WGL will start from 22nd June, and the last day will be on 30th June, and that's on Sunday! Are you ready for the Finals? Remember to stay with your favourite casters!
XiaoY Cup #15 registration has started.
The XiaoY Cup #15 has opened for registration, and here are the information for you.
Format: Single Elimination and Bo3, Grand Final will be BO5.
Map pool: EI, CH, TM, LR, AZ, TS, NI
The Prizes Pool has been doubled!
Originally, XiaoY Cup would want to sponsor 20 tours, but there are too many tournaments in the coming days. So the organizers merge the last six sessions into three sessions, and the prizes pool of these three sessions have been doubled.
On 1st June 1st (Beijing time), War3station and CNwar3 officially became the sponsor of the Team LP. They are sponsoring Team LP's Hearthstone, StarCraft 2 and Warcraft Department. War3station has always been big media in Chinese Warcraft III field, and they are also the a professional and authoritative media. They believe the teamwork with Team LP will get them the great benefits for both parties.
On the day of the official announcement, Team LP is also won all the games in Hearthstone, StarCraft II and Warcraft III.
The first is the game in Warcraft III, LP.Colorful to withstand the pressure, with two 3-0 victories over Check and Hawk won the WGL May qualifier, and got the last Chinese spot!
And then, there was the Hearthstone's game. Team LP swept team SN with 3-0 and locked the seat of the playoffs. Even the players themselves have acknowledged the sponsor's buff.
In the Starcraft II, team LP won their strong opponent, team OG with 4-3 and won a valuable victory. Team LP is currently ranked 5th in the regular season.
After the official announcement, team LP won these three hard battles! What a BUFF!
15sui and Romantic will play for LP in the future!
HuG's out from the offline! Colorful and Linguagua for the last spot.
15sui and Romantic will play for LP in the future!
After the announcement on Weibo today, 15sui and Romantic officially started to play for Team LP. 15sui, also known as 14sui and 生者 on Liquipedia and in China, he is a very young player from China. Since he is always called as "生者", so let us explain for you the meaning of these words.
生 means living, pronouns as "sheng". And 者 is a suffix right here, like '-er', '-ist', pronouns as "zhe". However, according to the Official Announcement by Team LP, they set his ID as 15sui. I guess we may change our habit and call him as 15sui in the future.
Official Announcement by Team LP
Here is the official announcement from Team LP that they published on Weibo.
On 1st June (Beijing time), 北京老炮儿电子竞技俱乐部 (LaoPao e-sport club) is here to announce that the two 浪漫 (ID: Romantic) and 生者 (ID: 15sui) officially joined the Team LP Warcraft Division.
The Human player, Romantic has gotten the end of his punishment and officially joined team LP Warcraft III division today. Romantic has always been one of the top Human players in China, therefore, his participation is also an important addition to the strength of our Warcraft III division.
On the other hand, our another player, the 17-year-old genius player "15sui" also officially joined team LP Warcraft III division. In the following time, 15sui will be studying and representing to play Warcraft III for team LP simultaneously.
At this point, we wish our new players can achieve good results. Keep moving, Team LP!
HuG's out from the offline! Colorful and Linguagua for the last spot.
After the games yesterday, we have the top 4 for the Pro division and Open division in the WGL May qualifier. And today, we are going to have the Finals of the Open division
Since HuG was defeated and dropped from the May qualifier, he became completely no chance for the offline stage. At the same time, Colorful and Linguagua are both qualified as the second place from their group.
According to WGL the points system, Colorful and Linguagua are tied with same points. Both of them are having 30 points (including May Ladder). Which means the games today will decide that who will get the last Chinese spot of WGL offline stage. According to the points system, the first place will get 4 points, and the second place will get 3 points, but the third and fourth place will get 2 points (there are no match for third in monthly qualifier).
Yesterday, while TH000 was streaming, he predicted that both of them will lose to their opponent in Semi Finals, and we will have an additional game for the last spot.
Was TH000 DUNAI-ing? Or it is a good prediction? Let's stay with your favourite casters and watch the game later!
The CSL Grand Finals' viewing appointment has been opened.
WGL: Colorful, Linguagua and HuG for the last Chinese spot!
In June we have 3 major offline tournaments.
From the Calendar, we can see there are NeXT Spring, WCG Chinese, and WGL Summer, and all of them happen in June!
In the past few months, we have gotten so many big tournaments, WCG APAC Finals, W league Playoffs, Yule Cup, etc. When you look at the list or calendar of these events, we believe you will feel so blessed. Let's stay with us and see what will happen after the Reforged Edition Releases!
College Star League Spring 2019, which hosted by NetEase and Blizzard, is about to enter the most exciting offline finals stage. 10 college teams that have been advanced to the national finals will play on 9th June, 2019. By the time in the Shanghai Blizzard e-sport stadium (D1-104/D1-105), these players will play for their 4 years tuition fees and the title of Hearthstone, OverWatch, Heroes of the Storm, Warcraft III and StarCraft II. Currently, the website of the event is online, you can see more event information and watch the event with live through the page.
At the same time, in order to satisfy the audiences, the event has opened for the fans to make a free viewing appointment. The appointment opening time is from 29th May 12:00 pm to 4th June, 10:00 am (UTC+8). The audiences who have made the appointment will have the chance to win the e-sports card and the exclusive virtual rewards of the CSL. There will be more lucky draws in the event! The audiences who have made the appointment can enter the event at 12:00 pm on 9th June, with an official SMS or a valid personal ID. At the same time, the audiences who have not successfully made the appointment can also watch the game according to the seat situation.
From these two table, we know that Fly100% is confirm to be in offline stage. At the same time, the last Chinese spot will most likely be the winner of Colorful and Linguagua, depends on which players can get more points in this qualifier.
Meanwhile, HuG has only a little chance. When if Colorful and Linguagua lose in Group Stage 2 and fail to be in Semi Final, and HuG could win this qualifier, which means three of them will tie with 31 points in this situation. I guess there will have an additional games for three of them.
What will happen in the last few days? Let's stay with our favourite casters and watch the games!
1. H&W: Life lost the chance to go to Beijing.
2. H&W: The schedule of this Saturday!
3. Chinese WCG qualifier: The Top 32 player will play in the coming Weekend.
4. Colorful showed his pre-wedding photo on his stream.
5. Was Blizzard patching?
H&W: Life lost the chance to go to Beijing. (This news reported by War3station and translated by GLH. Click here to Source)
From the Mass Dryads and Bear Mirror, Mass Talos Mirror, and Mass Glaive Throwers Mirror, and now we have Mass Archers Mirror currently. When many people say that the Night Elves Mirror is boring, Life and Lawliet would have shouted "Hey, friends, look at here!" A comeback game is always so appealing, but, very unfortunately, Life once again became the background. Life got turned over with a huge advantage, and where didn't he do well?
Let's look at how Life had gained an advantage first. If you know Life's style very well, you should know that Life is playing so "rash". He is playing like Remind, he always go to attack his opponent like a coming huge wave. It's why Life often let his opponents catch off guard. Sure, it is so simple but very effective at the same time.
The games yesterday were also the same. In the first set on TM, with the advantage of Spawn Positions, Life creep the Mercenary Camp and he kept the suppression on Lawliet. After the surround and kill of Alchemist, Life has completely seen the victory. Then, as the game he played against Moon that before yesterday, he went to attack his opponent's main base, and he got so much benefit with every wave-like attack. So many times, Life finally broke Lawliet's defense.
The loss of Naga changed the game.
When we came to the second set on EI, Life started with DH first. In the mid-game, he caught the weak timing of his opponent, when his opponent was expanding. Life was going with all in, after that, Lawliet almost lost the game directly because he was behind of supply and he couldn't recover by that time.
Meanwhile, Life was leading on economy, the hero levels, and the Inventory. After Life knocked down Lawliet's expansion, Life's advantage was very enormous. After the "forfeit" incident, the 22 years old teenager was about to rise!
However, Life made the mistakes that the Night Elf players would make: he lost his heroes! Originally, he should have gone for expansion and upgrade to Tier 3, and use the tech advantages to crush his opponent. However, Life chose to go for an all in. At the time, their supply were the same and Life was even behind 2 upgrades of Attack. The situation was not good for him, and the formation was so messy when they just started the fight. Of course, these were nothing when compared to the loss of Naga with a TP.
Life lost his Archers again and again when he was escaping. At the same time, Lawliet took the opportunity to knock down Life's second Gold Mine. Life was forced into a desperate situation, he could go for an all in again. After he failed to kill Lawliet's, he couldn't help to typed out GG.
Life lost the game with advantaged starting again.
Life lost the game with a big advantage in the early game, it was reasonable to say that Life's mentality was already exploding. However, Life still maintains a high degree of concentration on the decision match. What is even more commendable is that Life was no longer reckless and no longer clings to the offensive. Instead, he succeeded to expand at the Gold Mine on the high ground and middle of the map.
In fact, in the Mass Archers Mirror, the player who transforms their army first will get the advantage. When Life was still training Archers, Lawliet had planted countless Ancients of War in his base. The number of trees in Life's expansion was obviously not enough. What is even more terrifying is that Life hadn't upgraded the Nature Blessing. Such huge mistakes made Life paid and he lost the game finally.
Keep attacking, death of the heroes, late transformation of army, and forgot to upgrade the Nature Blessing, those mistakes led to the loss of Life.
Although Life have faced such a terrible defeat, he needn't to be discouraged. There are so much ups and downs in our life. The demise of a flower couldn't withered the spring, and a setback will not ruin the whole life. It is just a way of growing up.
Remember the insistence of Lawliet.
Many people were puzzled by Lawliet's insistence in the first, but they all realized after seeing the two big comebacks.
Lawliet is not a player who often completes the comeback. The comeback game of the 37-80 supply game is one of his few turnovers. In the games yesterday, the thing that really impressive was not just Lawliet's insistence, but he was still calmly thinking and still actively adjusting although the game was hopeless to win.
For example, in the second set, when he lost his expansion, he continued to go for base running. At the same time, he went for expansion secretly. Finally, he took the right timing at the right place, he seized the opponent’s only mistake and completed the reversal. On the other hand, under the inferior situation in the third set, he also calmly analyzed the situation and transformed his army at the right timingthe tree to get the victory.
Of course, Life's mistakes are a necessary condition for Lawliet to win, but without his own efforts and persistence, he wouldn't have completed the reversal even with the opponent's mistakes. Lawliet may not win the championship, but he showed braveness in the game. Please remember Lawliet's insistence!
H&W: The schedule of this Saturday!
Remember the time is written with UTC+8!
Chinese WCG qualifier: The Top 32 player will play in the coming Weekend.
Let's take a look at the situation of each group. For Group A, TH000 has basically gotten a quota after defeating tbc_bm and Fly100%. Group B, although there are amateur but good players such as 无道 and 鬼木青, but if 120 plays it safely, he will get the quota probably. In Group C is relatively confusing, Fast, 14sui, SuperBT, and ice_orc all have the opportunity to break through, but the situation is relatively better for 14sui. And Group D, Xiaokai and Mango are close to each other, I believe the winner between them will advance to the offline.
Group E, Xiaokk is slightly stronger, but he also was defeated by other weaker players often, and he might get knocked down again in this time. And Group F is a most exciting group, especially the game between TeD vs CooLXian. So far, TeD has not been able to compete with a powerful player, but this time, he has to play against CooLXian who just defeated Colorful. Can he adapt to this high-intensity confrontation? On the other hand, the game that BO vs Rumei, BO is the video author of us, and Rumei is a staff of us. The civil war of War3station is also very interesting.
In Group G, I guess Xun and Linguagua will fight for a ticket of Top8 and offline stage. For Group H, basically it were a practice room of Infi, and other people were just here to practice with Infi.
The drums of the War have already sounded, who can stand until the end? Stay tuned!
Colorful showed his pre-wedding photo on his stream.
Was Blizzard patching?
(This news reported by Reforged.pl and translated by GLH& the admin of Reforged.pl. Click here to Source) As most of you, who logged in to Warcraft III yesterday, you might see the B.net was scheduled to restart for maintenance work. Usually, this means Blizzard want to publish new patch. Recently, we heard that Blizzard was about to update new patch on B.net. However, changes on PTR are quite controversial and for some of the players are bad and should not take place. As we could see, the patch did not appear on the servers yet and the game still works officially in version 1.30.4.
Unofficially, Reforged.pl found what was the reason of it. the biggest impact of this was the WGL European qualifier, as we know, will take place this weekend.
Of course, it's a good news for those eight players who are taking part in the fight for a travel to China for the offline finals. Such large changes will certainly change the present meta game. Players certainly would not have time to adopt right strategies, and this turn could distort the results themselves.
It is possible, however, the regional WCG finals will already be played on a newer patch.
Colorful did it again! "Great" acrobatics and performance by colorful! What a "steady" play!
Remarks:
[1]Lai Yong Yun,赖永云 is Colorful's real name, and赖"Lai" is his family name (for Chinese, we put family name at the first ),meanwhile, single word 赖 is a verb, means we chicane and blame on someone else.
Due to acrobatics[1] and IQ offline sometimes[2], he was having fun by others always, however, in the NeXT clan war'18, Colorful is the biggest topic, and resulting 3-0 in KOF, saving Team China on the second day of NeXT, he is worth to be praised. After the tournament, we were going to have interview with him, let's see what Colorful said about this tournament.
Q: Hi, Colorful, the games just now is so interesting, and you defeated Lyn in KOF, resulting 3-0 and lead Team China to the victory in KOF, how your feel after the games?
Colorful: Excited, happy, cheerful
Q: Do you feel you are manly today? What if compare with your master Zhouxixi.
Colorful: Not bad, more manly than Zhouxixi a bit. (Zhouxixi you're the points free giver)
Q: On the first day, you lost the game to Lawliet, and Team China lost the series on first day, don't you feel much burden on you?
Colorful: I don't feel much pressure, not the most, I think I am not the main character in this tournament, I feel lucky if I win a round.
Q: After the games on first day, what are yours conclusion?
Colorful: The main problem is our arrangement is too bad, and we were not playing well too, so we focused adjusting our mindset.
Q: Before the tournament, you said you could play with Lyn, how did you prepare for this?
Colorful: I didn't have much time to prepare, but I had a conversation with Infi before the game, and this help me a lot.
Q: In the KOF on second day, 120 and TH000 lose the game against Lyn, and that moment all of us memorize the domination of Lyn two years ago, what's the main reason that you can win against Lyn?
Colorful: I think Lyn didn't adapt patch 1.30 completely, Huntresses buffed a lot in this patch, Lyn hasn't adapt the timing when playing against NE.
Q: Can you give some comment for these three games that you played today?
Colorful: In the first game, Lyn didn't train Walkers and his SH didn't learn Serpent Wards, I think these are the biggest mistake, it's too hard for Orc play against NE without Spirit Link and Dispel.
Second game, Soin wasn't playing good in early game, his hero was killed by me, and I kept continuing the Domino Effect, in the late game, Glaive Throwers are really useful.
For third game, I feel Lawliet was playing too cautious, his micro was orderless, and he made a lot of mistakes too, different man with the first day.
Q: In patch 1.30, NE are so strong, a lot of NE killer like 120, Lyn, defeated by NE, how you comment to this patch?
Colorful: I feel better when play against HU and UD, however, I think it's hard if Orc find the right way and timing to play.
Q: At last, we lose the game to Moon, what is the standing for Moon in your mind?
Colorful: I am a big fans of Moon, I love NE because of Moon, in my mind, Moon is the king of NE forever.
Q: You start your career with little player, and now you win the game as a country representative player, who do you most want to thank?
Colorful: I have too much people to thank, thank Rus (E sport squad) for brought me into this circle, thank my master Zhouxixi, thank RN.laofen and all the staff of Warcraft III, they help me a lot, thank Infi and TH that giving a lot of advices, thank the friends always practice with me, thank my fans, and of course, thank my love for staying with me always.
Q: Now, you're so famous, will you keep streaming after you go back to home? Your fans are angry with you that you didn't on streaming.
Colorful: I have not plan yet, I will keep focusing on my skills first, then talk about streaming.
Q:At last, talk something to your fans.
Colorful: Thank for your support, I will keep practicing hard.
Remarks:
[1] Sometimes. NE hero will die with unnecessary, some players and audiences will say, this is acrobatics.
[2] Colorful played so weird or made mistakes sometimes, when he did that, the audiences would say, Oh Colorful's IQ is offline again.
Chinajoy is a game exhibition in China every year, after many years, Warcraft III come back to the stage of Blizzard again, as a old War3er, this moment let me feel touched. The RPG game "Dragon and shadow III" have a high picture quality, seems like this game wasn't from the Warcraft III; And the big change version 1.30 is subverting the tactics before, both of them are the representative of the Blizzard in this event.
Look, this game is still updating, and it is still a popular game! The guest in this match, are Fly100% who live in Shanghai and Colorful who live in Nanjing where near Shanghai. In this 1.30 PTR BO3, both of them play with the tactics with interesting and amazing, with the game commentary Xun, all of them did a good job and gave a good ending for this event.
Alone二龙 Fly100% Colorful JiaoJiao
As a professional gamer, I am focusing to the change of this version, and the balance in this game. In this exhibition match, we can see players is researching and trying to develop interesting and creative tactics, let this event become more attractive, however there are a few bugs in the new patch. The Bears HP MP become 810 and 200, we can't adjust the mouse sensitivity in the game, the Watch Tower is without Reinforced Defense after the upgrade.
Back on those tactics, in version 1.30, the Orc and NE was having the largest change in this game, especially tech tree of the Orc and balance of NE. According to Fly100%, the butterfly effect by the reduced of the agility on BM, is no less than the change of Reinforced Defense, you may image, Blade Master the highest DPS unit in Warcraft III, can't creep the level 5 Ogre Magi at the shop in Turtle Rock, and Fly100% showed us that in the game. However, Fly100% was using the buffed of Headhunter in this version to get two games winning streak and win in this event.
After the lost of the game, Colorful wasn't sad, his experiences let him has a strong mentality. "The version nerf the late game, so let focus on the early game," said Colorful. What colorful has seen is the part become more powerful, not only the nerfed part, there are more tactics in the early was creating in the mind of Colorful. Warden, Beast Master, POM(Princess of the Moon) were being tried as first hero by Colorful, I feel so happy when I was listening to those new tactics from him.
Furthermore, Colorful said NE aren't that bad in version 1.30, but we have to using the advantage in tech of one, maybe we can see the tactic like Sase in the future and version 1.30, the Huntresses was running through whole map. In the past few years, we always said Warcraft need the new version for the balance, but we found that we were wrong, what we need are the young players like Colorful.
Finally, I got the mouse that had been used by Fly100% from the Q&A in Chinajoy. Why I won the game when both team got the same point ? Because we are ixxxxxxxe( means muted ). This mouse may give as present in the first day of W league, keep paying attention on our page(war3station). Thank for your reading, war3station will keep giving you the information of Warcraft III.
