Exciting news people! Starting this weekend at McVeigh’s is an all new Starcraft tournament.

Why start this? Because I love Starcraft!! And I want to see more people play the ‘beautiful game’. There’s a decent amount of prize money to entice and excite you further. I hope to see lots of people sign up.

Let me get some stuff out of the way:

• Here are the tournament rules.
• Sign up here.
• Download the official and only maps that will be used here.
• Time of matches? Sometime on Saturday during the LAN party when the COD junkies give us space.
• Special thanks to Like Chapaa, Softie, Psyko Fero, McVeigh, and all the nice people over at Game Over.

SO it won’t be a knockout type of tournament, rather it will be a league. Why? To give everyone a fighting chance. Currently the Starcraft skills amongst the people I know are not evenly distributed. A league gives one the realistic chance to challenge the more experienced players. Ama? Also, a league runs longer. 🙂

Prizes and stuff:
1st – Kshs 5,000/-
2nd – Kshs 1,000/-
3rd – A big huge hug from Psyko Fero

The first round of matches shall be played over this coming weekend at the upcoming LAN bash that will take place at McVeigh’s, Old Racecourse Estate, near Kariokor Market (in Nairobi). More information on this here.

The map that shall be used for ALL the first round one-on-one games is Heartbreak Ridge.

Prepare well. Good luck. Any questions? Comments? Andika hapa chini.

Over the weekend I took part in the WCG Starcraft tournament for Kenya. I made it to the finals! 😀

In case you’re interested, here are the replays for the three games of the finals:

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To view the replay, you must have Starcraft: Brood War installed and patched to the latest version. What do you think of the game?

Well, I lost in the finals. I’m not sure why. Psyko is a good player though and he played in a way that forced me to change my strategy a whole lot. Good for him. I need more ‘match’ practice. I cannot wait for the next time I play him.

Speaking of which, the WCG event was very well organised and I was impressed by the numbers of people who showed up. I’m sure that all gamers out there would agree that we need more events of that sort.

In particular, I’d like to see more Starcraft tournaments in this country. AND better players – honestly, apart from Psyko the other players need to pull up their socks. No offence intended.

Would a well organised Starcraft league with a decent amount of prize money (Kshs 10,000 or some PC hardware) work in Kenya?