Laoshou cup (老受杯) is a Warcraft III Cup sponsored by Laoshou's fans, Rumei (如媚), and organized by the famous referee from War3station, Xiaotian (小天). The tournament will start on 2nd June, with a total prize of 2,500 yuan.
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Schedule:
2nd June - 3rd June, 2019, starting at 19:00 every day, we will hit the top 4 on the first day, and decide the champion on the next day.
Format:
BO3, single elimination, Grand Final will be BO5.
Notice:
1. The game mode is Archon mode (we will explain at the bottom), participants have to sign up with 2 players.
2. Players have to use the maps provided by the organizer to play the game.
3. After submitting the registration information, please join the QQ group (807423172) and keep QQ online.
The Archon Mode:
Two players control the same "troop or camp" to fight against the opponents. In the game, two of them will be "sharing" the micro, and the units, and making the effect that is not easy to achieve by a single player.
1. WCG Chinese Qualifier: TH000, TeD, Infi advanced to the Regional Final.
2. H&W: Results of Semi Finals.
3. H&W: Games today. (No spoiler)
4. Sam Cup#8 is coming!
5. WGL European will be continued today, Foggy drops to the Lower Bracket!
WCG Chinese Qualifier: TH000, TeD, Infi advanced to the Regional Final.
After a few weekends, finally we have the Top 8 of WCG Chinese qualifier, the winners advanced to the Regional Final and they will play with Round Robin, (Bo1)Best of one. The Top 2 players will advance to the WCG main event in Xi’an.
Sorry I changed my strategy again. The first semi-final was unfolded between Lawliet and Lyn. While the Orcs are constantly developing new strategies, like Shadow Hunter and Pit Lord combo, the Night Elves is constantly improving at the same time. In this series, Lawliet chose to play with double Ancients of War and Huntresses. He slowed down his expansion but he kept suppressing on Lyn, and this let Lyn suffering in the game.
In the first set of LR, Lawliet hid from the Blade Master in the early stage, and then, the Keeper of the Grove stole the Creep Camp beside the Gold Mine near the Orc and he reached level 3 very soon. After Lawliet upgraded Tier 2 tech, his troops were everywhere. Meanwhile, the troops made the Shadow Hunter did not dare to go out to leveling before the Shaman army was formed. Lyn also scouted for the Lawliet’s expansion all the time. However, Lawliet built the base at a very strange position, and he cleverly fooled his opponent’s eyes and ears.
In the mid game, Lawliet sense that Lyn’s creeping and he went for a creep jack. Lyn was completely surround by the Huntresses. And Lawliet even grabbed the Zeppelin. After the Shadow Hunter was killed, Lawliet was having a very huge advantage, and he even had a Zeppelin show. What a terrible game for Lyn. And the last two sets…
In the second set on TR, Lyn finally recovered got back this familiar timing. The Far Seer and TC combo was unstoppable. Lawliet didn’t have any mistake in his micro, he even once surrounded the TC and saw the hope of victory. Unfortunately, the Night Elf without the expansion was still unable to withstand attrition battle. Finally, Lyn struggled to regain a set.
In the last match on CH, Lyn used SH and Pit Lord combo again, but he still did not solve the survival problem of the SH in the early stage. The SH was being chased by KotG all the way, wasting a TP and he also delayed the leveling time. When the Orcs reached 50 supply, the Night Elf was already mining with 2 Gold Mines, and 70 supply. At last, Lyn had no choice and he typed out GG.
"I must win this time!"
When eer0 said "I must win this time," The audiences clapped their hands. We’ve never seen that eer0 so serious, seems that he really wanted to take down Moon and fight for his fans.
Unfortunately, who err0 was facing in this time, is the most terrible Moon. In the first set on EI, Moon still used the Huntresses to start the game for his opponent. 120 was afraid to the opponent’s Wisps, so he could only choose to upgrade his tech to tier 3. However, Moon’s leveling with a really good plan. In the final battle, he had trained his Alchemist to level 3, and the level 2 Acid Bomb made eer0 so suffering. When eer0 was facing the mass Faerie Dragons, there was no space to let him to micro his Crypt Fiends. 120 was being chasing all the way back to home, and lost the game at last.
In the second set of LR, it’s the same story as the first one. Even worse, eer0 missed a few Death Coil in the fight. This mistake directly led to the loss. After Moon’s clever and good fight, eer0 lost the series. Since the patch 1.30, eer0 still hasn’t win a single series on Moon.
H&W: Games today. (No spoiler)
The games were started at 12:00pm (UTC+8) today. It’s same as yesterday, considering some of the people haven’t watch the game yet, we keep the result first and share the video for you right here.
Sam Cup #8 will be held at 8th June, and here are the information to register the game.
If you want to sign up tha game, leave a comment(Netease nickname, Race) on discord(https://discord.gg/4k482Vk).
or, you may direct message to the organizer on Twitch(kimchoonsam) or Netease(Iamanoob).
Players must add accounts(Iamanoob) to get guided on Netease.
Deadline is Saturday, 8 June 19:30 KST (UTC + 09:00).
Additionally, we will have SAM CUP #10, the prizes of #10 will be higher than the previous SAM CUPs! If you want to know more information, please click this Link to the website. Link: https://war3.kr/free/41957
WGL European will be continued today, Foggy drops to the Lower Bracket!
Yesterday night, we had the WGL European Qualifier, and Happy finally played in WGL again. Meanwhile, Foggy was defeated in the first round and dropped into the Lower Bracket.
Actually, even if Foggy doesn’t qualify in this qualifier, he can also try to get points to win the quota with a different way. According to the news from War3station, Foggy is ranking 11th with 25 points at the current standings of WGL points system. Apart from the first 4 Korean players and the first 6 Chinese players, Foggy is only two points behind Sok, and 7 points behind Lawliet. Let us mention again that, there are 2 open quotas (unlimited nationality) after the National and Regional quotas. As long as he has good results in the last monthly qualifier, it is possible for him to land on the Offline event.
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.
1. Double losses for Team RW, Infi is out from H&W.
2. The result of North and South Region Final of CSL.
3. The model of Gold Mine in Reforged edition released! But why is it disappeared?
4. Lego version of the Undead Base.
5. The last day of Ro8 of H&W Masters.
Double losses for Team RW, Infi is out from H&W.
In the games yesterday, the two players from Team RW, Infi and Life were defeated by their opponents separately. Yesterday, Infi was playing against eer0, and we might say eer0 was controlling the whole series. From Infi's opening, we could see that Infi was trying to stop eer0 expanding, however, eer0 knew it and changed his plan. After the changing of eer0, Infi was having bad opening in these two games, and eer0 got an easy win against Infi with 2-0.
We had Life vs Moon for the second match yesterday, and this series was telling us that how important the experiences are in Warcraft III. In the first game on Amazonia, Life was having advantage on technology in the mid-game, he was leading on the upgrades of Attack and Armor. However, Life was too eager to attack, and he went to Moon's base to fight many times! And these attacks costed him so much for the Town Portal. After TP again and again, Moon followed up the Tech upgrades, with the advantage of the Inventory, Moon won the first match.
At last, Moon defeated Life with 2-0 and advanced to the Offline. Meanwhile, Life was dropped into Lower Bracket Final, he will face the winner between Lawliet and Sok.
The result of North and South Region Final of CSL. On the last Saturday, the South Region Final of CSL had been completed. Therefore, the winner from both Region was born and these two players will represent their Region to play in the Grand Final. The winner from North Region Huang Jia Jian(黄嘉健, Undead), who studying in Tianjin Chengjian University. At 11th May, he won his opponent with 2-0, Zhuang Xing Yu(庄兴雨, Undead) from Lianyungang Technical College.
On the other side, we had the winner, Wang Chang Peng(ice_orc, 王昌鹏, Orc) from Wuhan Technology Vocational College, and his opponent in the Regional Final, Qing Xin (青鑫, Undead) from Southwest Jiaotong University. And the final result is also 2-0 as well.
CSL is a Blizzard Games tournament which organized by NetEase and Blizzard, it is an e-sports event for college students. It aims to cultivate the teamwork spirit of young players and also provides a competitive platform for college students with e-sports dreams.
The model of Gold Mine in Reforged edition released! But why is it disappeared?
This model and picture was on the website and here is the Link: https://www.artstation.com/orb. The page is fulled of the works by a Senior 3D Environment Artist at Blizzard Entertainment, and most of the works are the Heroes of the Storm.
It's so happy to see the model from Reforged edition. However, when we went to see the website again, this picture was disappeared! Seems Blizzard wants to keep it mysterious and release the Reforged edition at once. We hope we can get the Reforged edition in this year, so please Blizzard, don't tell us "soon"...
Lego version of the Undead Base.
Did you see the Lego version of Warcraft III? In China, there is a Lego Player called Qin Zhao Guo (秦曌虢) made a Undead Base with Lego, let's take a look.
Tonight, we will have the last day of Ro8 of H&W Masters, the first match is Lawliet vs Sok in the Lower Bracket Semi Final, and the winner of them will play against Life for the last ticket to the Offline event.
The game will start at 7pm (UTC+8), you wouldn't want to miss it!
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Contents
1. Life will continue to play for RW.
2. Lyn stopped Infi's winning streak against him.
3. Infi vs eer0 for the H&W offline!
Life will continue to play for RW.
At 23:59 yesterday, Team RW response about Life officially on Weibo. Here is their statement and translations.
Team RW's Weibo
(Translated by GLH)
"Description of RW Club Warcraft Division Player"
On 20th May , our Warcraft III Player, Life chose to abstain after winning the chance of NeXT Warcraft III offline. During this period, Life was impulsive because of public opinion pressure, and this made him reveal the idea of retirement and termination of the contact in the social platform.
On 21st May, after many communications, both sides hasa confirmed that Life will continue to represent RW Club to play in the Warcraft III pro-scene. For the adverse impact of the incident to the club, we will deduct the salary of Life of this month to show disciplinary action. We hope that Life can withstand the pressure to play its due strength in the following tournaments.
Lyn stopped Infi's winning streak against him.
Yesterday evening, we had the Winner Bracket Final and Loser Bracket Semi Final of H&W Masters, Group Stage 2, Group A. Before this game, Infi's Night Elf was having 100% win rate against Orcs!
We can see that Lyn tried many different strategies in the game, especially in the second set, he even played with SH first and Pit Lord second!
In the second set, Lyn let his SH learned Serpent Ward and Hex before level 4. This could let your DPS became higher, but at the same time, this also made him no healing in the fight. However, the Most Valuable Item was gotten by Lyn, the Healing Ward. Without this item, Lyn might have lost the second round probably.
Infi made a huge mistake
In the third game, Infi had a small advantage in the early game actually. However, if the Night Elves want to win the Orcs in the big fight, the Night Elves should have higher supply in the fight. In the last fight of the game, Infi was supply stuck! In the 50-50 supply fight, Infi's Night Elf couldn't hold for long, and he typed out GG at last.
Infi vs eer0 for the H&W offline!
Tonight(22nd May, GMT+8), we will continue H&W Masters! Since Infi was defeated by Lyn yesterday, he have to face eer0 in the game tonight, the winner will advance to the offline, and the loser will get dropped from H&W.
For the second game, we will have Life vs Moon, one of them is a rising star of Night Elf, and Moon is the Legendary Night Elf. Can Life stand and hold the game after all of the incidents? Or Moon will keep his winning streak in Night Elf Mirror? Let's wait and watch the game!
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Contents Today
1. Life forfeited the qualification of NeXT Spring, Lyn will replace him to play in the offline event.
2. H&W’s Result: Moon vs Lawliet, and Life vs Sok.
3. Announcement of the games today!
Life forfeited the qualification of NeXT Spring, Lyn will replace him to play in the offline event.
On the last Saturday(18th May), Life said he wanted to give up before the game versus eer0. Luckily, after he got the advice from Infi’s wife, eer0 and other friends, Life came back to the game and won the chance to the offline tournament.
One day after, the last Sunday(19th May), Life was late to the NeXT Online Qualifier, but he was in the Top 6, so he still could be in the offline event. Somehow, when the official staff was discussing with him for buying the ticket of the venue, he refused to play once again.
Lyn won the additional game and replace Life to play in the offline event.
After all, NetEase made a decision, they let eer0 and Lyn to play an additional game, and the winner can get the chance to the offline event. The Game was started at yesterday 04:00pm (20th May, GMT+8), and Lyn won eer0 with 2:1. At last, Lyn will replace Life to play in the offline event.
Life wants to terminate the contract with Team RW.
Actually, this is not the first time that Life refused to play in the game. In 2016, the offline of Boss of Warcraft (aka 老板杯), Life was trying to leave the venue after he lost the previous game. In these few years, he also gave up the games in Douyu Cup, XiaoY Cup unreasonably a few times.
Moreover, after the case yesterday, Life said he wants to terminate the contract with Team RW (Rogue Warrior). Until now, we haven’t seen any response from Team RW, we will keep paying attention and following to this case.
H&W: Moon vs Lawliet, and Life vs Sok.
Yesterday, we had H&W China vs Korea Masters Group stage 2, Group B.
Besides the games against Human, Moon was still unbeatable in this month, and it’s still happening yesterday. Especially in the second set on TM (Twisted Meadows), Moon was scouting very good, he also built up his expansion and the Ancient of Wind in the right timing. The whole games was very desperate for Lawliet.
Although Life was having so much problems yesterday, but he still held the game and won the game against Sok. It is worth mentioning that, when TH000 and Infi were casting about this game, they were surprised that Sok chose Amazonia as his loser map. In their opinion, Amazonia is the worst map for Human when the Human playing against Night Elf in this patch.
Announcement of the games today!
We will continue H&W China vs Korea Masters, the Group Stage 2 today! Lyn vs Infi for the first ticket of Offline; and Focus vs eer0, the loser will be out from H&W.
