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We've finally got a professionally employed English caster. GOMTV is currently running the GOMTV Star Invitational, with sixteen of the best or most influential Starcraft players. On top of that, they are broadcasting a separate ENGLISH stream online with the hopes of capitalizing on the foreign market. Tasteless (the commentator who has done Blizzcon, WWI, and WCG) will be doing solo commentary for the entire tournament, and is in the talks to begin commentating on further tournaments.
I'm posting this hear because GOM is gauging their future actions based on the response and traffic that this project generates from foreign sources. I know some people enjoy casually watching Starcraft, and this is fairly easy way to watch professional games with english commentary.
You can watch the recorded games here: http://gsi.gomtv.com/vod/
When the live games are up, you can watch by clicking the VIEW LIVE link here: http://gsi.gomtv.com/
To see the schedule for the game, you can refer to TeamLiquid's Calendar: http://teamliquid.net/calendar/month_details.php?calendar_year=2008&calendar_month=2#day_19
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I'm not sure if I agree that this micro/macro balance in SC was a fluke. I don't think it was calculated by Blizzard either. It was the players themselves who came up with these different viable strategies, within the set of rules created by Blizzard.
In SC games, the decision became micro vs macro. SC2 will have a different set of rules, UI, etc., and in time players will find strategies that work within the new set of rules. Games may no longer revolve around micro vs macro, and in that case players will focus on something else. With new units/rules, they will need to make other opportunity/cost decisions resulting from new game mechanics.
I think you're putting too much weight on Blizzard's design, and not actually trusting in the players to figure out how to play the game. I'm sure the game will be deep enough to allow for many different viable strategies, and Blizzard will tweak things as they see how people play the game... as they have always done.
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