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June 'Lyn' Park remains coy after his 3-1 thrashing of WeMade FOX player Jae Ho 'Moon' Jang in the semi-finals of Avalon Online Warcraft III Masters.
The SK Gaming player suffered a 0-1 setback at the start of the match when he was caught off guard by Moon’s Ancient Protectors push at Twisted Meadows, albeit having checked that spot before his counterpart manipulated the trick, but insisted he wasn’t distracted by that scoreline.
“No I wasn’t worried at all when I was 0-1 down.” he told SK-Gaming.com, “he just successfully towered me with Ancient Protectors in the first game. It wouldn’t have been difficult if I found his protectors before they went up.”
While the result may indicate a one-sided match, it isn’t straightforward to play against a Night elf player for Lyn, no matter what tactic his opponent opt for. He said, “It doesn’t make that much of a difference (whether he goes for bears or talons). Both of them are hard to deal with.”
However it is a rare accomplishment for any Orc player to defeat Moon in a best of five match, Lyn isn’t exactly overjoyed, and will begin working on his upper bracket final meeting with Check next Monday instead of resting on his laurels. “I feel just fine right now, but I will get myself ready to play Check as always.”
SKLyn [3-1] FOXMoon
Game 1: SKLyn <>Replay
Game 2: SKLyn > FOXMoon Replay
Game 3: SKLyn > FOXMoon Replay
Game 4: SKLyn > FOXMoon Replay
ESL has announced that both Counter-Strike and Warcraft 3 Scandinavian EPS finals will take place in Inferno Online on April 25.
Electronic Sports League will be hosting the one day offline finals during April 25th (Saturday) in Inferno Online which is located in Stockholm, Sweden.Amongst the participants are the current Extreme Masters Global champions fnatic and the European champions mTw for Counter-Strike and the Danish René 'Ciara' Krag against some newer faces like Samu 'BriNGeR' Riihelä. It is uncertain if Giants will attend the event as they have lost most of their players.
All tournament games will be played in single elimination with best of three (BO3) for Counter-Strike and best of five (BO5) for Warcraft 3. Additional matches for third places will be played. The results of Scandinavian EPS season 1 can be found here.
Participants:
Counter-Strike
Giants
fnatic Mirror.ATS dkmTw Warcraft 3
Daniel 'LiiLD.C' ClaessonSamu 'BriNGeR' RiiheläHjalmar 'DowaQ' HögbergRené 'Ciara' KragPrize Money Distribution:
Counter-Strike
1. 7.500 euros
2. 5.000 euros
3. 2.500 euros
4. 1.000 euros
Warcraft III
1. 1.000 euros
2. 750 euros
3. 500 euros
4. 250 euros
Jeffrey Kaplan, Former World of Warcraft lead designer revealed that since the released of Wrath of the Lich King, World of Warcraft is using a system that was originally made for Warcraft 3.
Jeffrey Kaplan who left the World of Warcraft project to become the Director for Blizzards next-gen MMO, revealed (link via kotaku) the wider public that since the released of World of Warcraft's newest expansion, the original quest item drop rate of around 35% has been changed with a brand new old system from Warcraft 3.
The system which is called "progressive percentages" is used for critical hits in Warcraft 3 and now the more creatures you kill in WoW the higher the percentage grows and can eventually become a 100% drop.
Jeffrey Kaplan about the old and new drop rate system: "We found that this had a lot of problems where players would run into streaks, and they only remembered the shitty streaks," said Kaplan. "So what we decided to do was we took a page out of Warcraft 3, which had a very elegant design which they referred to as 'progressive percentages.
So what we did recently with Wrath of the Lich King, and it's something we've never really talked about before, but in Lich King, every creature that is part of the collection quest has the item 100% of the time," continued Kaplan. "But we do a progressive system where we up the chance the player [gets the item] each time he kills it.
The problem was, when we put it live in the beta--and we didn't tell anybody this--we found that while it was great that it got rid of the bad streaks, it also got rid of all the good streaks. And overall we needed to raise the base drop percentage to around 45%."
June 'Lyn' Park will be playing against former SK Gaming player Daniel 'XlorD' Spenst and Yuri 'Sting' Sheremetov of WICKED eSports this week as he pushes for the top of the NGL ONE Solo League.Winning three games out of four in the past two match days, June 'Lyn' Park is currently tied at the fourth place with Mousesports latest recruit Dae Hui 'FoV' Cho and former Meet Your Makers player Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen, three points adrift of undefeated Seo Woo 'ReiGn' Kang at the summit, but with two games in hand.
This is the second time Lyn plays an Undead player in NGL ONE this season so far, but unlike Hjalmar 'DowaQ' Högberg, the two-time EPS Germany champion is likely to opt for Human in this Sunday’s meeting in a bid to register his first win in the star league.
Lyn acknowledged XlorD’s strength in this match-up, before signalling his intention in this Friday’s meeting with Yuri 'Sting' Sheremetov. “XlorD is good at playing Human. I barely beat him in WC3L recently.” he told SK-Gaming.com, “while I lost to Sting in the following match day in WC3L so I must win this time.”
Criticism of his lack of attention in WC3L arose in SK forum when he lost to Sting a fortnight ago, but Lyn denied the claim, stating he was exhausted that day after continuous practice, and official matches that lasted from 11:00 p.m. in Korea till almost 6:00 a.m. the next day.
“No, it is not true (that I don't care about WC3L). That day I was very tired. I always practice a lot, and I played almost 15 matches. I played against infi and DowaQ in NGL, and then two solo games and 2on2 with MichaeL against WICKED in WC3L.”
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June 'Lyn' Park will be running for the master of Avalon Online Warcraft III Masters as he locks horn with Jae Ho 'Moon' Jang this Friday.
As what WeMade FOX undertook when they unveiled their first WC3 player in Jae Ho 'Moon' Jang during the press conference, they will gradually start organizing WC3 tournaments to fill the void in domestic scene with their first step in co-operating with NiceGameTV to host Avalon Online Warcraft III Masters.
The special event will not only feature June 'Lyn' Park, Moon, but also veterans Hyeong Ju 'Check' Lee and Sung Yeon 'Myth' Kim. They will compete through a double elimination playoffs with each match to be played on a five-set basis. While Check and Myth will duke it out for a place in the upper bracket final today, Lyn will face a tricky game against Moon that could go either way.
The SK Gaming player has not lost a single match against Night elf players since entering February, but Moon is a little bit special. He told SK Gaming.com, “I don’t know if I can beat him this time. He is almost the same as the other Night elf players, but he has much better micro. I will try my best.”
Daniel "miou" Holthuis' match against Stefan "dArk" Lehmann will feature on tonight's German EPS broadcast by ESLTV.
Daniel 'miou' Holthuis and Stefan 'dArk' Lehmann are tied with nine points going into the sixth playday, along with three other players. Howeverm due to the Miou's round difference he leads the pack and sits at a comfortable fourth place in the overall rankings.
DArk from Team Alternate will be playing live from the ESLTV studio in Cologne, whereas Miou has opted to play from home because he believes he can perform better by doing so. Going through the events of the game along with the usual suspects of Dennis "TaKe" Gehlen and Phil "FiLLy" Klockow as the casters, Daniel 'XlorD' Spenst will also be in the studio to give his opinion after each map.
The show will commence at 7pm CET with games kick off at 7:30pm CET, catch the broadcast via the freestream.
The technical team of Blizzard has set the new Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne patch 1.23 live.
The patch details were already known on March 3, when we reported that Blizzard have applied the patch to their Westfall server.
Patch 1.23:
FEATURES
- Battle.net now uses a new banner ad system.
FIXES
- Fixed an exploit where an altered custom map would be seen identical tothe original custom map.
- Fixed an issue where some patches could not apply on Intel Macs.
As always new patch means a lot of people will have trouble updating it. If you are having problems with Registry errors where the system can’t find the Warcraft III\InstallPath, reinstalling the game might be the best solution:
If you want to save your character profiles or saved games, copy the "Save" folder from your Warcraft III folder to another folder on your hard drive for safe keeping. When the game is reinstalled you can copy the folder back to the Warcraft III folder. To uninstall the game use the Warcraft III Uninstaller (click on "Start", "Programs", "Warcraft III", "Warcraft III Uninstall").
Now you can uninstall the game using the Warcraft III uninstaller by clicking on "Start", "Programs", "Warcraft III", and then the uninstall option. Next, go into the directory where Warcraft III was previously installed and see if the "Warcraft III" folder is still listed. If it is still listed, right-click on it and delete it.
Then run a thorough scandisk and defrag of your hard drive(s). You will probably find it helpful to disable your screen saver and power management features before you scandisk or defrag. Sometimes Windows will restart the defragmentation and/or scandisk if your screen saver or power management kicks in. The following webpage has instructions on how to complete this: http://us.blizzard.com/support/article/21144.
Empty your "Recycle Bin" if it contains files and restart your computer.
If you are using Windows XP/2000/Vista or Mac OSX please make sure you are logged on as an administrator account. If the game is not installed on an administrator account, computer permissions can prevent the installation from completing. We cannot support the game on a non-administrator account. To find out which user accounts are marked as Administrator accounts, please see the instructions below:
-Click Start > Control Panel and look for an icon called User Accounts.
-Double click this and it should bring up a list of users on your computer.
-Find the user account that matches your user name and have a look in the group column, it may say administrator, power user or user. This is what type of account you are logged on with. If it says administrator you should be ok.
(by Lucytr from Blizzard).
The patch can also be found here.
The ESL have apparently decided to take action against rumours circulating that the CEI - who organise PGL - could go bankrupt because of ESL not providing financial support of late.
"We have already taken legal action against these wrongful accusations"
"We have noticed a number of false and fabricated rumors surrounding PGL and CEI," said David Hiltscher of ESL to SK Gaming, "These rumours were wrongly reported and have not gotten any kind of confirmation from us. We have already taken legal action against these wrongful accusations."
According to ESL they have been "creating and shaping eSports in China for more than 3 years now," and "will continue to deliver high standard eSports events to the industry".The Professional Gamer League (PGL) is one of the flagship products of China E-sports Interactive and due to the global recession as we informed you last week has allegedly hit the stop button on all running operations, laid off the majority of its staff, and is struggling to maintain its existence according to one Chinese website.
"The rumours about CEI which are currently circulating, show that the young eSports industry still has to mature," said ESL, who call for the industry to stick together in these difficult times. "We should work together within the industry and try to build a healthy eSports market."
ESL believes there should be firm repercussions for those who wish to damage the reputation of a competitor within the scene. "Any actions of trying to create negative and false rumors in order to hurt a competitor within the industry should be penalized by the law and the eSports community as a whole."
In order to run eSports leagues China an organisation must obtain one of two licenses, one of which the ESL currently holds. The ESL believes the culprit who seeks to damage their reputation regarding the CEI and PGL is doing it with the premise to secure the aforementioned license for themselves.
"The rumours about CEI which are currently circulating, show that the young eSports industry still has to mature"
This statement from the ESL comes after further rumours were published on a Chinese website recently regarding the status of the CEI and PGL.
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