| 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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| StarCraft 2 Community Update (#5) 2010-04-26 at 10:45 PM - toblu |
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Rumors, ... In case you haven't read it already: rumor has it that StarCraft II will be released the 11th of June. The theory behind that particular date is based on an official artwork published by Blizzard, which can be seen for example on the front page of the April edition of the German magazine Gamestar and contains the numbers 02:16:06:11. As the beta has been released the 16th of February, the 11th of June seems to be a hot tip - considering that Blizzard developers seem to love giving hints about the things they are working on (remember how they announced Diablo 3 ?). Here is the part of the artwork which contains the alleged release date:  ... Restrictions ... Meanwhile, Blizzard themselves have to face much more serious problems: Being regularly at odds with the Korean e-Sports Players Association (KeSPA), they now seem to be in some conflict with Korea's Games Rating Board as well which qualified StarCraft II as Adult Only. Computer games being an important part of Korean (e-Sports) culture, this is probably be a massive setback for Blizzard, even if it might be of little importance for the European and American market. ... and some Racing Fantastic competitive RTS gaming is not the only thing the Beta version contains: There are also some amazing things which can be done with the map editor which seems to be at least as powerful as the editor for WarCraft III has been. We are just linking a rather funny video of a game which looks like Mario Kart but you can be pretty sure that there will be much more serious custom maps once the game is released. Who knows? Maybe, the next DotA-like success story is based on a SC 2 custom map - given that the idea of DotA is taken from a StarCraft map as well... |
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| Starcraft 2 Community Update 2010-04-19 at 11:01 PM - toblu |
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An overabundance of tournaments eSport-wise, StarCraft II is going to be the ultimate RTS Game... its predecessor is definitely the world's most important RTS game when it comes to e-Sports (to tell the truth, there is hardly any game of any genre which can keep up with StarCraft), Blizzard has an incredible number of fans, having hardly produced any game which has not become a worldwide success, and world class players from all other (RTS) games seem to prepare to enter the contest. Thus, it is no surprise how the beta version of the game is perceived by a coveting community: with more and more tournaments every week. To name just a few, the HDH Invitational has been announced by Team Liquid, starting on Wednesday with a prize pool of $ 2450, the so-called Razer StarCraft II Beta Domination, featuring the top European players and some 400 € in prizes, and the Qualification Cups for ESL EMS Season VI, having already started on Tuesday, 13th of April. Of course, the game has been as well added to the prestigious Starswar Reborn Festival (originally a WarCraft III tournament for $ 10,000 between Europe, China and Korea) which took place in  Shanghai over the weekend.Quo vadis, WCG? This makes it all the more surprising that StarCraft 2 will not be played at World Cyber Games 2010 in Los Angeles. Granted, a beta version of a game has never been played at WCG so far (and this is what could have happened if SC 2 had been chosen, given the fact that qualification tournaments will start soon and there is still no official release date for the game), but there have been lots of games at WCG which looked pretty much like an early beta version of a computer game – to say the least...Besides, who would not agree that SC 2 is – even in its beta version – much more of an e-Sport games than the billiard simulation Carom 3d or Asphalt 5, a game played on mobile phone. Not to mention the number of people these quality game will attract to the most important e-Sports festival in the world (what WCG has been considered to be so far...). (discuss this topic in ouf forums.) Talking about tournaments … … let's not forget all the small, local tournaments with few or no money prizes mushrooming as well as the bigger ones we normally present to you. They should be considered as further evidence of the important fan base SC 2 already has. One of these tournaments is the UF SC2 Beta Turnier, hosted by the most important German Command & Conquer community. This is just one example, chosen for no particular reason... let's just have a look at the winner... it's a guy called MMC|Dragonfood ;-)
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| Welcome uLysSeS 2010-04-15 at 8:35 AM - RevaN |
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Last week MMC|_H2O achieved a great result by finishing as 4th on the "Hello, goodbye" Tournament, hosted by the most respected Starcraft community, Teamliquid.net. This weekend MMC|Dragonfood finished in the Top16 of one of the most important weekly tournaments - the ZOTAC Cup. MMC.eSports continues to prove that even with no previous experience with Blizzard games, its players have the skill and experience to achieve great results in StarCraft II.Moreover, we are proud to introduce to you our newest member. He is a well known RTS player, with great success in games like CnC3, Paraworld, Dawn of War 2, now playing StarCraft II and reinforcing our StarCraft II squad. Please welcome Michael Ferber, aka MMC|uLysSeS!
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