"Newcomer-2011. Summer"

kalababa (red, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) def RomarioGrom (blue, Stronghold, Gundula, Gunnar) 127 2cm4d3

7.06.2011 shpil (red, Stronghold, Kreg, Kreg) def StickyFingaz (blue, Dungeon, Shahti, Shahti) 2sm4d(3) 144

some decent newbies showed up

Tanya, you're not participating, so don't embarrass people, or they'll be scared.

My deep opinion is that ANY World of Warcraft newbie can participate in the newbie tournament, and only once; skill is secondary here. I think Slonik's level is at least comparable to Ayman's. So, why were they so upset with Shpilenger, who won't be stronger than either of them (I hope I didn't offend him again), and, as far as I know, hasn't participated in other tournaments, or on any of the resources, unlike Slonik, who is a regular on HP. I doubt Cash, who brilliantly organized the previous newbie tournaments, would have acted like that. On the contrary, the others should be more motivated by the fact that these are not complete beginners. The tournament that FireToSky won and kalababa organized is, UNDOUBTEDLY, on average, weaker than ALL newbie tournaments on HW. Because during the tournament, some players demonstrated mature gameplay and a strong desire to compete, while the players from sc2tv are 90% Capitol builders, taking Utopias no earlier than 141, and so on. Therefore, R55Max shouldn't confuse the local players again.

I sincerely suggest that the organizer doesn't turn the NEWBIE tournament into a NOOB tournament - summer autumn 2011.