Our guests for the week include dsox, Azazael from Team EG and Venruki of Complexity. I also want to remind people that next week we will be doing a live show.

I will post the specifics of the live show sometime throughout the week (Wednesday-ish, after finals) but it will most definitely take place on Saturday, just not sure what time. Thanks for listening!

DOWNLOAD SHOW HERE (or where it says “Download” below. Right click, Save as)

Don’t be alarmed, the podcast isn’t up yet (and won’t be up till about 10ish Wednesday night). I just wanted to inform everyone that usually listens to the show live that this week we’re going to try going back to recording the show, kicking it old school. This will allow for more edits, more segments (without downtime) and technical errors should be lowered a lot as well.

We’re going to try to improve the show a lot in the upcoming weeks so just be prepared for some cool, new segments, as well as some awful segments which we will never go back to ever again. I’m not going to spoil much for tomorrow’s episode however so you’ll just have to wait for it tomorrow night.

I can however tell you who’s going to be on the show: Forteh and Roguemonkey. If you would like to ask questions to either of these two gentleman send them to questions@arenacast.net. Also any other questions you have for the cast feel free to send them there.

So once again, there will be no live show tomorrow April 8, 2009. Talk to you guys tomorrow via a downloadable podcast!

In the show we discuss the the ArenaCast Graphic Contest, Tournament Realm, the ever popular WPD comp, the latest on the Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus, and also the new PTR build that was posted during the show.

Next week on the show we have Minor from eMg (OMG A GURL WOT) and the rest of the cast should return. If you guys haven’t checked out LiveOn3 yet please do so if you are at all interested in e-sports. They’re website can be found HERE along with past shows. Thanks and see you guys next week.

I had planned to cut these up and put them on youtube over the ESL videos but recording them in real time with a what-u-hear codec was too taxing on my computer due to the audio files in audacity being over 8gb. If anyone wants to cut them up etc then feel free — my PC cant edit 8gb audio files with a quickness. Embeds after the jump. Enjoy!

3/6 First Night

3/7 Second night

There is also some great talk about the ESL tournament, Patch 3.1, and of course user questions! Yay! That reminds me: all questions can be sent to questions@arenacast.net and we will get them next week. So thanks for listening, lets go for a record download again. Share this to all your friends, etc.

Sorry for the late upload, technical (idiocy) problems delayed it. See you all next week.

Temporary Alt Download Link, only up for a little bit: HERE

On a side note the past two weeks we’ve been really close to hitting a landmark number of downloads. Lets try for it this week. If we hit it, we might be able to give something away to our listeners! Spread the love!

(05:12:33) (Ragequit) it doesnt sound like t-pain is using a mega phone inside megatron in truck form anymore

The top three teams from each six team group will earn berths to the finals right away while the 4th ranked squads will battle each other in a relegation match with everything on the line.

Nihilum Plasma
Paperkat
Inflame
Sonny

Millenium
Ocelote
Kae
Tharkum

Mouseports
Alec
philDryzen
Sanchez

iNNERFiRE
Desis
Phenomenon
c00ld

aAa
Anelit
Hiss
Phoenix

SKY
Texi
Sharci
Shimmy

x6tence.AMD
Siler
Souler
Falcon

Tera-Gaming
Yunisha
Instance
Flashay

SK Gaming
Xom
Orly
Another

Mousesports Cake
Reliza
Lykke
Redhot

Team ROCCAT
Henkel
History
Zibbit

lockdown
lauryn
hogaZ
Chrille

This list of classes looks to be quite outdated as it’s safe to assume there will at least be one Death Knight at the tournament considering Kill E A recently dropped out of the EM Finals recently because that class is so overpowered!

The compositions are a relic of the qualifying round at the end of last year and start of this year, so expect things to be a lot different in Germany. X6tence has practiced extensively with Hunter, Paladin, Death Knight and other teams like SK are known to have played with the new class, so don’t think the tournament will play like a relic from the past. In fact, Jay “2GD” Harding of ESL TV stated on today’s ArenaCast that the class list is “what the team’s want others to think they’re running” and not what we’ll actually see at the event.

As for who to expect on top, it’s always a safe bet to go with experience, so Nihilum Plasma, x6tence.AMD, and SK Gaming seem like locks to advance. Even so, this will be the first LAN tournament ever for Wrath of the Lich King, so anything can and probably will happen in such a volatile metagame.

Expect more updates on ArenaCast.net as information becomes available leading up to the Extreme Masters final!

We also talk with the Phuox about his new nickname. Make sure not to miss that as some great lines that most assuredly will be up on our soundboard (once I get a couple minutes of free time for once). Show’s below. Oh and remember, questions@arenacast.net, #arenacast on irc.gamesurge.net, and next week a huge announcement that you wont want to miss. Thanks for listening!

On the ESL tournament page Sang-Yeol ‘miracle’ Lee of Kill E A had this to say on the topic:

“Upon consultation with my teammates, we have regretfully decided that we will have to withdraw our participation from the tournament.
Due to recent balance changes resulting from the 3.0.9 patch, we believe that it is no longer possible for the Mage and Rogue character classes to remain competitive in a high-level PvP setting.

In addition, our testing has shown that it is now impossible for other classes to compete effectively with the Death Knight. As the Mage and Rogue remain integral to our teams’ strategy, and because we do not have a member prepared for competitive play with the Death Knight class, we have decided to withdraw our participation from all competitions for the time being until these imbalance issues are rectified.

Please accept our sincerest apologies.”

Min-Sik ‘reis’ Ko of Sk-Gaming added:

“We are really happy about this opportunity. This event is going to be awesome because SK got all three WoW teams there and the Korean guys are really excited about going to Germany. They are well prepared right now so I think we will see some really exciting matches in Hannover!

My prediction is 1st – 3rd place – all SK! ;)”

I find it a little hard to believe a team like Kill E A would just bow out of a tournament finals. I think that Rogue / Mage are still viable — look at CompLexity. What do you guys think?

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Sorry for the short show notes but it has been a really long day. I might change this tomorrow but lets be honest, you guys don’t read this. And if you do. You wont post it about how bad the text in the post was. Called. Period. Also, remember the play thing in the podcast thing below wont work. So you have to download it. Sorry. Changes coming, I promise!

Man, this sounds like an awful plug. But the real reason to watch the show (duh) is because they’re calling me about 1:30 p.m. CST to discuss the three new American WoW teams and also some things about ArenaCast. I’m just afraid that I’m going to be charged a billion dollars on my phone. Here’s hoping I’m not!

Link to ESL.tv (no embed, sorry)