| The MMC "Can You Beat Us Challenge" 2010-07-26 at 9:33 PM - bischoffshof |
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 Blizzard Entertainment's greatly anticipated RTS sequel "Starcraft 2" will be releasing tonight at 12:01 A.M. in North America and Europe. In celebration of the release of Starcraft 2 MMC is hosting the "Can You Beat Us Challenge" Try to beat the members of MMC to 1000 wins with a single race in Starcraft 2. If you are the first to do it and an MMC member hasn't done it before you, you will recieve 25 USD.  The rules, sign-ups and more information are here.
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| Beta goes into hibernation 2010-07-19 at 5:13 PM - bischoffshof |
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Today the Starcraft 2 Beta will be closing down for final changes before the game’s release next week. Additionally, a new patch has been released. Patch 19 makes no balance changes, however; it does fix a few bugs. The changes are listed below. General
-The Mac StarCraft II Editor is now available! Bug Fixes - Burrowed Ultralisks now have the correct 500 hit points while burrowed. - Fixed an issue where custom maps utilizing custom loading screens could cause players to lag or be dropped from Battle.net. - Fixed an issue during replays when rewinding could cause the replay to desync. - Fixed an issue with in-game menus causing performance issues. |
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| Blizzard unveils new SC2 community Site… 2010-07-18 at 6:54 PM - bischoffshof |
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Blizzard has released a beta for their new SC2 community site (the beta link can be found below). The new site will feature player profiles, ladders, a new forum with new features, and even a place for E-Sports within the community. You can currently check your beta profile stats on the beta community site. http://beta-us.battle.net/sc2/en/ (If American) http://beta-eu.battle.net/sc2/de/ (If European in German) |
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| Return of the Beta 2010-07-08 at 2:14 AM - n0el |
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While the beta hasn't officially returned as of this posting, all signs are pointing to its imminent return, which means good news for MMC and StarCraft 2 players worldwide. Today, the beta client was updated with a new install and patch notes for Patch #16 were released. The patch addresses some Battle.net features such as adding a character code for friend list searching, updated achievements and portraits, as well as unlocking all of the quick match modes (1v1,2v2,3v3,4v4, and FFA). On the balance side, all the changes were aimed at  Zerg, with the frenzy spell being removed and the Ultralisk receiving immunity to stuns. Additionally, rally points now move units in the move command instead of in the attack move command. You can see the full patch notes below.Rally points now behave as a move command, instead of an attack move command.
Enabled the ability to manually add a StarCraft II character friend using the player's character code. Character code is a server-assigned numerical code that is displayed within the Add Friend panel. Battle.net Achievements & Rewards have been updated. All Quick Match modes are now available: 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, 4v4, and Free For All. All A.I. difficulties are now available for play. Cooperative matchmaking versus A.I. players is now available as a play mode. Enabled cross-game social features between World of Warcraft and StarCraft II. Balance Changes ZERG Infestor Frenzy spell removed. Infested Terran spell added. Overseer Infested Terran spell removed. Ultralisk Now immune to stuns and mind control. |
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| Closed Beta starts in early July 2010-06-25 at 7:00 PM - RevaN |
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Blizzard announced the final closed beta is going to be for around 2 weeks starting in early July. During the first phase of the closed beta Blizzard received a lot of feedback. Asked for the areas of the game that did people want changed the most the blizzard guys answered: We really received a lot of feedback. Balance, features, ladder, chatting, etc... The interesting thing about this beta was we held it in three different areas simultaneously. Because of this, the balance feedback differed from region to region.
Korean gamers wanted zerg to be nerfed, while NA/Europe users kept asking for zerg buffs. This was because Korean gamers are very tactically astute, and those tactics spread to Europe and NA eventually. So the feedback from Korean gamers was very important. |
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| As the End of the Beta Nears... 2010-05-31 at 5:17 PM - n0el |
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 Many days ago, Blizzard announced that the first round of the beta testing period for StarCraft 2 would end today, May 31. However, due to the large response from the community, Blizzard has decided to extend this round one week until June 7, this is great news for everyone including MMC as we are active in many clan-leagues and individual tournaments. SC2CL One of the most competitive clan-leagues active in the StarCraft 2 community is SC2CL, hosted by EIZO. The group stage has just been completed and we are proud to announce that MMC has qualified for the next round by finishing second in group 14 with 6 points. The final division standings are as follows: 1. RoX.KIS.SC2 - Qualified 2. MMC.eSports - Qualified 3. AESIR.sc2 4. Ye Olde Rabbits You can see the results for group 14 here. uPro Nova Clickmasters League The next clan-league which MMC is currently participating is the Nova Clickmasters League hosted by uPro. In this league MMC has been relegated to the loser's bracket and awaits the winner between BRu and DD. The winner of that match will take on iF to see which team will qualify. The brackets and other tournament news can be seen here. And for our individual players...   Joshua 'MMC|Jdanzi' Danzig is currently awaiting a match-up with powerhouse MYM.DeMusliM in the first British and Irish Open. Jdanzi qualified in the first week by defeating Ourk 3-2. The other qualified players and Star and rANDY. The tournament prize pool consists of £80, a place in the iCCup TV league, and a UK/Ireland national team spot. Best of luck Jdanzi!UPDATE Jdanzi finishes in third place after defeating Star 3-1. Also competing for national team spots are  Bernhard 'MMC|Dragonfood' Kainhofer and  Marcel 'MMC|InsOp' Michelfelder. Dragonfood has locked his spot up for the Austrian team by winning the qualifying bracket on ESL.. InsOp is currently beginning his ladder activity and sits in division 2 on the German ladder. Congrats to Dragonfood and best of luck InsOp. |
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| Community Update 2010-05-21 at 11:01 PM - n0el |
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Community Update Today we bring you a brief update of the recent news in Starcraft 2 aswell as some community sites that you maybe interested in visiting... Patch 13 As I write, Battle.net is being updated with the most recent patch 13, which features a few changes for each of the races and several changes to Battle.net itself. Among some of the balance changes to note are a decrease in cost to both stim packs as well as combat shields for Terran, a void ray range nerf for Protoss, and the addition of a frenzy spell for Zerg infestors. Blizzard has also changed many battle.net features with the most notable being the addition of the Diamond division, replacing Platinum as the top level league. You can see the full list of changes as well as discuss them here in the forums. Community Sites of Interest SC2Win Head over to SC2Win.com to check out some replays from some of the game's best players, updated daily with tournament replays from across the globe, SC2Win is a site to check out. SCForAll Headlined with updates from well known Starcraft player  Artosis, SCForAll brings video updates straight from Korea. Recent videos include an interview with GOM TV gamecaster Tasteless in which he discusses all things SC2 and an interview with  Tester, one of the top players in the game. If you are interested in hearing what these guys have to say, or just have an interest in SC2, head over to SCForAll.
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| Upcoming events for MMC 2010-05-10 at 11:06 AM - RevaN |
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In the following days we will see MMC.eSports compete in both clan and 1v1 competitions. First lets mention the qualification for the uPro's NOVA Clickmasters League, the first clan based league in SC2. The first opponent MMC faced is a mix up team Not War, but still Craft consisted of well-known WarCraft III players like LucifroN. Our team was able to win the clanwar 3-2. The other league we are participating is the SC2CL Clanleague. There we have to face RoX.KIS on thursday. This exciting matchup will be casted. StarCraft II: Wings Of Liberty Beta ends Bad news - the first phase of the beta test will be coming to an end in all regions on Monday, May 31. The beta test will be unavailable for several weeks. |
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