Hello friends and fellow gamers! It's been a couple of months since I've updated the old gaming blog here, but I have stumbled on to something that I think most of us can have some appreciation for or at least get some amusement from.
As you may or may not know, StarCraft II had its long-awaited worldwide release last Tuesday, July 27th. There is already a camp being run by three members of Team Evil Geniuses, pros from StarCraft: Brood War, and they are teaching newbs, novices, and even gaming veterans everything they know about the RTS (real time strategy) game and how to be more efficient at scouting, spending, and creating army compositions that will be perfect for steamrolling their unwitting opponents.
There are three coaches, Geoff "iNcontroL" Robinson seeming to be the head counselor so to speak. Here's a short video of their orientation, embedded from their Gosu Camp YouTube channel:
In all there are 3 coaches, two of which play Protoss (iNkA and iNcontroL), and one Zerg (Machine). The coaches all have extensive Brood War experience as well as having great records throughout the StarCraft II beta. They each currently offer their tutoring services online for $15 to $30 an hour. There are 8 attendees of the three-day camp in Queen Creek, Arizona that have driven in or flown in from all around the country. The campers came in from Georgia, Illinois, West Virginia, and California, and their ages range from 17 to 34. All of the campers paid $250 for this three-day training regimen to learn from some of the best, most renowned StarCraft II players in North America. The attendees will have one-on-one sessions with each of the coaches and compete against each other daily. Housing and groceries are covered by the $250, but the attendees may choose to play against each other to see who gets to sleep on the couch instead of the floor.
Even Kevin "qxc" Riley has joined in on the camp to train with Machine, iNkA, and iNcontrol before he participates in a large LAN event at Green Forest Cafe in Ventura, California on August 14th and 15th. Riley gained a lot of notoriety by the end of the beta phase of StarCraft II and was one of only eight invitees for the Razer King of the Beta tournament, with a prize pool of $3,000. He made it to the semi-finals, but was upended by Greg "IdrA" Fields, an American living in South Korea with the professional Brood War team CJ Entus.
So, if this coming together of pros and newbs alike intrigues you, be sure to check out all of their various social media efforts, including their:
Website: http://www.gosucoaching.com
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/gosucoach
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/gosucoaching
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/gosucoaching
But here is the real icing on the cake! Brent "Psyonic_Reaver" Shultz is in charge of providing multimedia from the event, which runs from today, August 5th, all the way until Sunday, August 8th. As such, he will be constantly uploading videos from the camp and interviews with both coaches and players to their YouTube page, but he is also streaming the entirety of the camp LIVE right here: http://www.justin.tv/iccup
Gosucoaching has already announced that they will be running boot camps and more gosu camps in the future, so stay tuned to their website for more information!
-Josh Sutherland
iNkA vs. Slurgi - Commentated by orb and Rhavanna!
Hey folks! Today we've got a game played between iNkA of team Evil Geniuses and Slurgi in a nice PvT played on Steppes of War for the Lickitung Monthly Team Tournament!
And as a special treat, this game was not cast by me, but instead by the amazing duo of orb and Rhavanna! Check out the YouTube videos here, and click on the picture at the bottom of the post for the replay!
Part 1:
Part 2:
Just click the picture here to get the replay and view it on your own:
Enjoy!
-Josh "JoshSuth" Sutherland
And as a special treat, this game was not cast by me, but instead by the amazing duo of orb and Rhavanna! Check out the YouTube videos here, and click on the picture at the bottom of the post for the replay!
Part 1:
Part 2:
Just click the picture here to get the replay and view it on your own:
Enjoy!
-Josh "JoshSuth" Sutherland
Machine vs. qxc iCCup TV League 8 Replays
It seems that the replays from last Thursday night's epic battles between qxc and Machine have still not surfaced, so I went ahead and rectified that. Check out some completely awesome replays between Machine of Evil Geniuses and qxc of Root Gaming right here!
Game One - Duration: 30:54 - Map: Steppes of War
Game Two - Duration: 40:53 - Map: Lost Temple
Game Three - Duration: 52:31 - Map: Kulas Ravine
Game Four - Duration: 45:44 - Map: Metalopolis
Enjoy!
-Josh "JoshSuth" Sutherland
Game One - Duration: 30:54 - Map: Steppes of War
Game Two - Duration: 40:53 - Map: Lost Temple
Game Three - Duration: 52:31 - Map: Kulas Ravine
Game Four - Duration: 45:44 - Map: Metalopolis
Enjoy!
-Josh "JoshSuth" Sutherland
2v2 between Evil Geniuses and Fnatic!
Hey everybody! Yesterday I was lucky enough to get into a game played for the Lickitung Monthly Team Tournament that was being played between LzGaMeR and iNcontroL of Team Evil Geniuses against Fnatic MSI members Fenix and TT1. Their series of 1v1's was tied 2-2, so they played a 2v2 to determine which team would advance to the semi-finals! Check out my commentary here, and click the picture at the bottom of the post to get the replay for yourself! Enjoy.
Part 1:
Part 2:
Just click here to download the replay directly:
-Josh "JoshSuth" Sutherland
Part 1:
Part 2:
Just click here to download the replay directly:
-Josh "JoshSuth" Sutherland
200 Probes
What can 200 probes possibly do to a mighty Zerg opponent? Check out this short YouTube clip to find out exactly what they're capable of...
Hope you enjoyed it. =P
-Josh "JoshSuth" Sutherland
Hope you enjoyed it. =P
-Josh "JoshSuth" Sutherland
Epic replay from StarCraft II Beta between Machine and qxc!
Hi everyone! Last night I had the privilege of being able to stay up late and watch a showmatch series for the iCCup TV League. The main event for ITL 8 was a best of 5 between qxc of Root Gaming and Machine from Evil Geniuses.
Since I was actually able to observe the game, I got the replay and have uploaded it to gamereplays.org for everyone to see. This seriously may be the most epic TvZ I've ever seen in StarCraft II and I highly recommend it for anyone who is a big fan of variety. (Hint: There are ultralisks and mass ravens) Just click the picture below to get the replay!
Happy replay watching!
-Josh "JoshSuth" Sutherland
Since I was actually able to observe the game, I got the replay and have uploaded it to gamereplays.org for everyone to see. This seriously may be the most epic TvZ I've ever seen in StarCraft II and I highly recommend it for anyone who is a big fan of variety. (Hint: There are ultralisks and mass ravens) Just click the picture below to get the replay!
Happy replay watching!
-Josh "JoshSuth" Sutherland
Gaming History
Hey everybody! This blog is pretty much going to be a chronicle of my exploits in StarCraft 2, but for now let me just give you some back story on my history with gaming...
At age 3, I was playing Final Fantasy on the NES in my living room about once a day. I would beat up on imps and kill Garland and think that I had beaten the game.
Not long after, I got a SEGA Genesis and played classic games like the Sonic series, the Vectorman series, and one of the most unknown and underrated games of all time: Gunstar Heroes. I played it with my sister and we got so good at it we started doing speed runs and stuff. Eventually we began playing Columns against each other, and I was beating my 13 year-old sister constantly when I was 8. I have to thank her though for being so willing to play games with her much younger brother, because she more or less got me started on my path to gaming. My parents obviously had a hand in it too, for actually buying us a Nintendo and a Genesis to play with.
Later on, when I was 10 years old, I got my Playstation. The first games I got were Crash Bandicoot, Gran Turismo, and Final Fantasy VII. It took me a month to beat FFVII but I loooooved the game. It was after I beat it that I started turning to the internet for tips and hidden secrets and things. I joined a community called Eyes on Final Fantasy, where I am still (sort of) loved and revered. I joined in the fall of 2000 and still pop in every once in a while to say hi.
Around winter break of 2001, I began playing Unreal Tournament for like 5 hours a day, pwning newbs online for the first time. I eventually got really good at low gravity, 135% speed, instagib capture the flag. So good in fact, that for a week in February 2002 I was ranked #1 in the world on Epic's online ladder. My clan, {HiT} or High Impact Terror, was undefeated on two different leagues, the IGL and the OGL. We actually did not drop a single series on either ladder for the entire time that we were together. Those were some great times, and I know that my clanmates and I will be friends for life. Unreal Tournament started losing its popularity as the graphics and gameplay became outdated, but I will always remember it fondly.
After UT basically bit the dust, I turned into a Blizzard fanatic. I beta tested for Diablo II's expansion, as well as both WarCraft III and WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne. I played competitively on WC3 for a while in the 2v2 AT ladder, but got bored with grinding games and basically lost interest when it was time to go back to school.
World of Warcraft hit store shelves in November 2004, and I was right there at the midnight release party, waiting for my copy. I played on and off between 2004-2009, amassing something like 12 top-level characters. I sold one of my accounts for $700, and I still have an account with a level 80 death knight, hunter, rogue, and priest. I thought about selling it but I wanted to keep my options open in case I wanted to play Cataclysm in 2010. Right now I am about 7 months WoW-sober, but I could turn back at any time if I get bored enough.
The main reason I have been able to resist the allure of grinding arena, killing the lich king, and leveling my jewelcrafting is of course the StarCraft II beta. Back in 2008, my friend from WoW sold me his Blizzcon beta key for 2,000 in-game gold. Basically, he sold it to me for about an $8 value. But we were friends, and he knew I would play the Hell out of it, so it was all good. Day 1 of the beta, I was in and already playing. I decided at the outset that I wanted to be part of the SC2 community, because StarCraft Brood War has been running strong for 10 years now, and if SC2 stuck around for even half that, I knew it'd be worth making a name for myself.
So, I started right away by making a Youtube channel dedicated to showing off some of StarCraft II's more interesting units and fight scenes and stuff like that. You can check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/AskJoshy Now nearly 3 months later, my channel's got over 2,100 subscribers and 685,000 views. I tried a couple of replay commentaries, but my webcam's mic quality wasn't cutting it. I went out and got a really good value $30 Microsoft headset that sounds great, and geared up for cranking out some excellent VODs. (Videos on demand) However, my path changed slightly and I ended up casting a Chinese SC2 match between Team China and Team USA with a couple of established folks on the SC2 scene: TheGunRun from GLHF.tv, HuK from vT gaming, and NonY of Team Liquid fame. The very next day, I offered to help out well-known SC2 commentator Rise with his coverage of the Triple Strike Cup hosted by Warturtle of Root Gaming. It was a pretty good success, and people liked my voice, so I decided to start bugging all the commentators I could find to co-cast with them.
About four weeks ago I got in touch with iCCup.Diamond, who is the head of iCCup's TV League. He liked my enthusiasm, and now I'm casting everything I can over on iCCup's Livestream channel. I've done the last three iCCup TV Challenges in a row, so I think I might be the 'regular' for that event now. It's every Monday night on that stream and starts at 9 p.m. EST. Check me out if you've got the time!
And that about does it for the big parts of my gaming history. I am very competitive and will want to beat you at any game that happens to be available. One of my favorite offline games is Mario Kart Double Dash for the Nintendo Gamecube, and of course I love, love, love a live game of poker. That's why I've got another blog in the same vein as this one: Josh Does Poker.
Thanks for reading, everyone, and check back here for some great SC2 replays, VODs, and stream and tournament announcements! I may also start keeping records of ITC and ITL events here in the future. =)
-Josh "JoshSuth" Sutherland
At age 3, I was playing Final Fantasy on the NES in my living room about once a day. I would beat up on imps and kill Garland and think that I had beaten the game.
Not long after, I got a SEGA Genesis and played classic games like the Sonic series, the Vectorman series, and one of the most unknown and underrated games of all time: Gunstar Heroes. I played it with my sister and we got so good at it we started doing speed runs and stuff. Eventually we began playing Columns against each other, and I was beating my 13 year-old sister constantly when I was 8. I have to thank her though for being so willing to play games with her much younger brother, because she more or less got me started on my path to gaming. My parents obviously had a hand in it too, for actually buying us a Nintendo and a Genesis to play with.Later on, when I was 10 years old, I got my Playstation. The first games I got were Crash Bandicoot, Gran Turismo, and Final Fantasy VII. It took me a month to beat FFVII but I loooooved the game. It was after I beat it that I started turning to the internet for tips and hidden secrets and things. I joined a community called Eyes on Final Fantasy, where I am still (sort of) loved and revered. I joined in the fall of 2000 and still pop in every once in a while to say hi.
Around winter break of 2001, I began playing Unreal Tournament for like 5 hours a day, pwning newbs online for the first time. I eventually got really good at low gravity, 135% speed, instagib capture the flag. So good in fact, that for a week in February 2002 I was ranked #1 in the world on Epic's online ladder. My clan, {HiT} or High Impact Terror, was undefeated on two different leagues, the IGL and the OGL. We actually did not drop a single series on either ladder for the entire time that we were together. Those were some great times, and I know that my clanmates and I will be friends for life. Unreal Tournament started losing its popularity as the graphics and gameplay became outdated, but I will always remember it fondly.
After UT basically bit the dust, I turned into a Blizzard fanatic. I beta tested for Diablo II's expansion, as well as both WarCraft III and WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne. I played competitively on WC3 for a while in the 2v2 AT ladder, but got bored with grinding games and basically lost interest when it was time to go back to school.
World of Warcraft hit store shelves in November 2004, and I was right there at the midnight release party, waiting for my copy. I played on and off between 2004-2009, amassing something like 12 top-level characters. I sold one of my accounts for $700, and I still have an account with a level 80 death knight, hunter, rogue, and priest. I thought about selling it but I wanted to keep my options open in case I wanted to play Cataclysm in 2010. Right now I am about 7 months WoW-sober, but I could turn back at any time if I get bored enough.
The main reason I have been able to resist the allure of grinding arena, killing the lich king, and leveling my jewelcrafting is of course the StarCraft II beta. Back in 2008, my friend from WoW sold me his Blizzcon beta key for 2,000 in-game gold. Basically, he sold it to me for about an $8 value. But we were friends, and he knew I would play the Hell out of it, so it was all good. Day 1 of the beta, I was in and already playing. I decided at the outset that I wanted to be part of the SC2 community, because StarCraft Brood War has been running strong for 10 years now, and if SC2 stuck around for even half that, I knew it'd be worth making a name for myself.
So, I started right away by making a Youtube channel dedicated to showing off some of StarCraft II's more interesting units and fight scenes and stuff like that. You can check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/AskJoshy Now nearly 3 months later, my channel's got over 2,100 subscribers and 685,000 views. I tried a couple of replay commentaries, but my webcam's mic quality wasn't cutting it. I went out and got a really good value $30 Microsoft headset that sounds great, and geared up for cranking out some excellent VODs. (Videos on demand) However, my path changed slightly and I ended up casting a Chinese SC2 match between Team China and Team USA with a couple of established folks on the SC2 scene: TheGunRun from GLHF.tv, HuK from vT gaming, and NonY of Team Liquid fame. The very next day, I offered to help out well-known SC2 commentator Rise with his coverage of the Triple Strike Cup hosted by Warturtle of Root Gaming. It was a pretty good success, and people liked my voice, so I decided to start bugging all the commentators I could find to co-cast with them.
About four weeks ago I got in touch with iCCup.Diamond, who is the head of iCCup's TV League. He liked my enthusiasm, and now I'm casting everything I can over on iCCup's Livestream channel. I've done the last three iCCup TV Challenges in a row, so I think I might be the 'regular' for that event now. It's every Monday night on that stream and starts at 9 p.m. EST. Check me out if you've got the time!
And that about does it for the big parts of my gaming history. I am very competitive and will want to beat you at any game that happens to be available. One of my favorite offline games is Mario Kart Double Dash for the Nintendo Gamecube, and of course I love, love, love a live game of poker. That's why I've got another blog in the same vein as this one: Josh Does Poker.
Thanks for reading, everyone, and check back here for some great SC2 replays, VODs, and stream and tournament announcements! I may also start keeping records of ITC and ITL events here in the future. =)
-Josh "JoshSuth" Sutherland
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