There was a sneaky MLG invitational I only just heard about – it was played online, and there’s some big names in the roster. Reckoning’s very own elite RMP (Jordons!) even makes an appearance with a nail-biting series versus Billian.
The VODs are already up on Gotfrag.com if you want to have a look.”
Blizzard EU has a page up about the regionals, complete with videos (I think they’re adding more over time) and an image gallery. Even though it’s an EU page it seems to have NA vids as well.
If you didn’t catch the games at MLG Columbus they also have a VOD section uploaded now with all the games included.
Also I just noticed this Q&A from the faction change thread:
Q. Will we be able to switch between the races on our own faction? A. No. Players will only be able to switch to a race of the opposite faction. Q. Will I be able to choose the race on the opposite faction that I want to change to? A. Yes, but you will only be able to switch to a race that has your class type available to it. So if you play a human paladin, you’d only be able to change to a blood elf paladin. Q. Will I be able to switch back to my original faction but a different race? A. No. You will only be able to switch back to your originally chosen race.
Sigh. So unless everyone wants to mass-reroll horde with me I guess I’m stuck with a Night Elf for now.
Another MLG event played out over the weekend. By all accounts a fantastic tournament and huge grats to Realz’ SK-US team for pulling off a win. I caught a few of the Saturday matches (including the RLS mirror1 between EG and fnatic, pretty interesting even if both teams played kinda flat) but I’m eagerly awaiting the VoDs being posted so I can see the whole thing. Vhell is still an awesome commentator.
There’s coverage of the various days all over the place including Gameriot (Friday, Saturday, Sunday), Gotfrag (Saturday, Sunday) and WowInsider (Saturday). As usual, Radikal has some entertaining opinions.
I’m not sure you can take anything meaningful from the results regarding class balance since it’s a really tiny sample size. Still: buff paladins. Payce is a total beast and their team did do pretty well, but I don’t want to have to play some horrible PHD team to be successful. It’s worse than cleave, really.
Unrelated: is Paladin/DK supposed to beat Shaman/Ret? That matchup makes me rage more than Rogue/Shaman vs Warrior/Druid.
1 I’ve decided my favourite RLS mirror strat is go on the rogue, because then instead of the game being decided based on which rogue can kill a warlock faster, it’s mostly decided by how well your shaman can lock down (see what I did there) an opposing warlock and avoid CC as well as how quick your bloodlusted warlock can backdraft chaos bolt somebody into oblivion. And my shaman/warlock will crap all over yours :]
Azael has written a really comprehensive overview of the upcoming MLG Columbus event which is on this weekend. There’s a lot of big NA names there as well as everyone’s favourite Euro RMP. Should be a hell of a show.