Archive for December, 2007

Play WC3Manager like never before!

Friday, December 21st, 2007

Do you like WC3Manager? Do you want to use cool features and become a cool WC3Manager member? Now you can do it!

Since now and until the end of the current season all of you will be Hero members and you can enjoy the latest features like change your player’s nicknames, change your team’s name, choose different line ups for different competitions, play tournaments with who you want, get cash for your team, etc…

With this Hero membership you also got 10 gold coins. You can use these gold coins to use special features what cost coins. Other dont have any gold cost and you can use them just for be a Warrior/Hero member.

Like I said, all of you are since now Hero members. But there are 3 different kind of memberships. You can be a Peon user, Warrior user or Hero user. Depending on which membership do you get, you have access to more and more features.
The Peon users just have the same options like always.

If you want to make your membership longer or to get more gold coins, you just have to follow the instructions in your profile. You can’t use gold coins if you are not higher than Peon member.

More cool features will appear soon and during these weeks the current features will be improved using your suggestions and opinions.
If you have any doubts you can ask here, in our forum, and in our IRC channel #wc3manager @ Qnet.

Interview with Vitastjaerna

Friday, December 14th, 2007

Q : Hi Thorzain, first at all, congratulations for win the last Champions Series tournament. Please, tell us something about you .
R : My name is Marcus Eklöf, I’m 16 years old and i come from Sweden. My team is Vitastjaerna and I’ve played wc3manager before it was rebuilt and bought by regroup e-sport (back then my team was called Nysande Råtta).

Q : How do you feel after winning Champions? We can say that your team is the best team in the whole wc3manager. Many eyes are looking at you atm :P

R : Of course it felt really great, and I also won prizes so it felt even greater. I am not really sure if my team is the best team in the game since some of the top contenders for the title didn’t play champions series last season. I guess we’ll have to see who wins this season:).

Q : Who do you think is your biggest oponent this season?

R : Liquid Gaming and TRuE are the thoughest opponents this season, I believe.

Q : What about Swedish league? Someone is able to fight with you at the moment? What do you think?

R : The last season I only came in second place in my league, but it was because I underestimated an opponent and one war i forgot to change lineups. I don’t think that the Swedish league is very hard tbh. And I am pretty sure that if everything works out as it should, I should win this season

Q : Do you think you have advantages for dont play in a top country like Germany or Russia?

R : Yes, definitely. I don’t have to put my best lineup very often so i save a lot of EF. And I don’t have to worry about not getting in to the next champions series since I definitely will get top 3. Tho I sometimes would like to be in one of the hard leagues to have a harder go for the win.
Q : Are you looking forward to get more competitions like bnet ladder or 1on1 tournament? Or you just prefer to focus on league/Champions ?

R : I’ll have one player try to win a 1v1 tour and mb bnet ladder, and the rest will focus on CS more I think. And there one strength of not being in the best leagues comes in. I’ll have more chances to win 1v1 tour since my best players wont have to play as much league games as the other teams best players
Q : so what do you think could be the best solution to “balance” that issue?

R : I don’t think that it’s really balanceable if the leagues doesn’t get international, and I don’t really know if that’s such a good idea seeing as it would take some fun away from champions series and other now international competitions
Q : Can you give us some advices for new users?

R : Upgrade the web very much in the beginning (mb level 10) is the biggest advice i can give. I think that it depends on how hard the league is. If it’s the last division and last group web is more important but if it’s very high but still there’s some chance to win i think you’d have to mix web and players in the first season.

Q : So do you think to buy very good players is needed to reach 3rd or 2nd division? Can you just make a good management of starting players?

R : 2nd or 3rd division in league? :S It totally depends on what league you’re in and what players you started with. If you get into a league, where the others started way before you then you should probably aim more on web and economy stuff and come back next season with better players.
Q : Which is the worst thing in wc3manager atm ? The thing that you dislike more.

R : I don’t know I’m too tired to think right now (which is positive because then there’s nothing really obvious).

Q : xD

Q : What about your favourite thing in the game?

R : this’ll be easier to answer:)

Q : I hope so

Q : :D

R :
My favorite thing in the game is the community and the excitement of thrilling champions series matches. It’s also nice when you make a really good buy, then you get happy:)

Q : Ok, finals questions. Personal top5?

R : 1. Liquid Gaming. 2. My team. 3. TRuE. 4. European Light Knights. 5. Pure Pwnage.
R : I don’t know about w. His average stats aren’t rly that good but I’m pretty sure that his experience levels are sky high. So I cannot place him in the top5

Q : What about countries?

R : Rus, Ger, Spain are the best.

Q : Do you think that rus > ger ?¿

R : Yes

Q : Can Sweden reach these countries some day?

R : Maybe in 2-3 seasons. There are some promising teams in div 2 which has been making fast progress, so i don’t see this as an impossibility.
Q : And the final, and most important question : What are you gonna do with your new Sennheiser headset and Qpad mousepad?

R : Use them, of course. I’m not gonna eat them, don’t worry. It’s good because my current headset broke just this week and I’ve actually taped it to my head so that I can use it :)

Q : haha nice timing
Q : Thank you for the interview =)

R : Thanks for having me interviewed.

Natural Selection by GrobiUnfug

Friday, December 7th, 2007

In every interview you read Germany is one of the top Countries and there is always at least one German team when the top teams should mentioned, last season champion series semifinalist W. As one of the Top teams W should dominate its league easily, but if you look at the 5th season table of the German league you will see it was very close.

 

So why didn’t dominate such a top team like W the League?

If you take a closer look you see the answer easily. There are lots of good teams in the Top German league. Like the “veteran” Teams werzBacheR or German Destroyer Clan, or the new Team Playmore. However every Team in German Division 1 is a real great team with a good manager, else they shouldn`t proceed to the Top German League, and this is the Problem for the 2 Teams that should dominate the League: W and Pure Pwnage. To win the League. They can’t let their best players play every match, sometimes the must seed “EF Savers” (and this Season this is the Problem of PP), if they want to score well in League and Champions Series.

Therefore it is kind of easy too see why Germany is one of the Top 3 Countries beside Spain and Russia. Everywhere there is a lot of competition not only in Division 1, also in the lower Divisions. It is a hard way to the top and only the best will reach the top. Though this is the advantage(not a disadvantage like many people think) Germany has compared to other small countries. On the way the to the top they can build their teams slow and steady (thus they can invest more money in web) and getting much experience facing better teams every season, so the Teams will go from strength to strength.

Some of those upcoming Teams from lower Divisions are I porn you, New Generation Gamin, 75E, Who`s your Daddy? and last season league cup winner hut.wc3, but there are even many more Teams.

But even if you reach the Top Division it is very hard to remain there. In about 6 Seasons more than thirty Teams played in the first Division and we had 4 unique Champions, too :

#mockass, 2 times Pure Pwnage, werzBacheR and W.

But it isn’t only the competition that causes many great Teams, the other reason is that most of the top managers discuss about the game and sharing their experience to help each other, for example at the chat (IRC and League chat) and the wc3manger forum.

All in all you will see that even in German Leagues there won’t be boredom in the future. Even though we have such top Teams like W or Pure Pwnage, because there will be always new strong upcoming teams which will be the reason that the Top teams won’t rest on there laurels. If you want to belong to top you must continual improve.

 

It is like in wilderness, only the strongest will survive.