Live On Three returns to normal after last week's special Silent Gamers Cup broadcast, where Tim "DaHanG" Fogarty took out Shane "rapha" Hendrixson from the lower bracket. The event saw over 100,000 unique viewers, 250,000 total visits, an average of 4,000 concurrent viewers, and astonishing 2400 days (not hours) of watching time. We thank everyone for tuning in, and are pleased to say that the VOD's for the event should be released on Monday.
This week we will be covering the TeamLiquid StarLeague 2 Finals and previewing the Intel Extreme Masters Season 5 championships this week. The TSL S2 finals will be between Protoss hero Tyler "NonY" Wasieleski and Zerg mastermind Christoph "Mondragon" Semke, vying for the $10,000 grand prize in a grandiose best of 7. The final starts at 2 PM EST, and at the conclusion of the event, the winner (NonY or Mondragon) will be coming on Live On Three for a post-game interview. Commentators Blake "Chill" Muzar and Sean "Day[9]" Plott may also show up. The IEM S5 championships start this Tuesday at CeBIT in Germany, with the best players and teams across North America, Europe and Asia come together to compete for $170,000 in Quake Live, Counter-Strike 1.6 and WoW PvP. The aforementioned Silent Gamers Cup winner DaHanG will be joining the show to go over his win last week, his bootcamp in Germany thus far, and how he feels going into the finals. Prominent journalists in each of their respective game's will be coming on to preview all the action this week, with HLTV.org's Marc "Nix0n" Winther (CS 1.6), Major League Gaming and BlizzCon broadcaster Jared "vhell" Coulston (WoW) and TeK-9.org's Liam "crow" Crowley (Quake Live).
- ESL announces new partnership with Dell and Intel, keeping Intel on as head sponsor among speculation they would be dropped
- H2k releases their CS team and SpawN's comeback is over quite soon, retiring once again. He will now serve as the team's coach, who just raided the entire Begrip squad
- Frag eXecutors gain entry to the IEM finals due to Asian team UMX not being able to attend. Now placed in Group A, may have created the biggest group of death in Counter-Strike history
- Team Pandemic ceases operations for good, cites economic issues
- Stracraft 2 patched twice, more impressions
Edited by Slasher at 12:33 CST, 28 February 2010 - 7384 Hits