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You should ping HDStarcraft to see if he wants to cast. He lives in the bay area.

So does Trump, if you want to do a showmatch vs a progamer. He is ranked 159 or so in the world right now....and lives near Cupertino I think

What is novice? Silver league and below?

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Trump is awesome. His stream is live right now at http://www.trumpsclive.com/ if you want to get a sense of him... (when it ceases being live it will no longer have a big red rectangle saying "live")

Definitely a good idea. We've gotten him to agree to cast the finals of an internal Google SC2 tourney that's going on right now. (I'm an intern)

You should consider playing at Startupcraft :)

If Mongoose is playing, we could have an intern-only round! I could use an excuse to fly back to San Francisco for a weekend.. :-D

Or perhaps an intern team would be more appropriate. Either way.

Sounds good. I'm in Seattle, but I'll be making a weekend trip to SF in a couple weeks.

Realistically, novice is more like platinum and below. Blizzard went to a lot of trouble to name everyone's ranks in a way to make them feel good even if they're bad. Unlike iCCup which ranked tons of people with grades like "D-"

Agreed. I'm a Platinum 1v1 player, and completely terrible.

Well iCCup bills itself as a gosu server, so it's understandable. D on iCCup must be about the top 4% of the SC population or something. C would be 1%.

Blizzard did try to make everyone feel good about their ranking. However, the flaw in your argument is that hardly anyone ranked D- in ICCup was actually a novice at Broodwar.

I would recommend getting 'novice' defined for this tourney... reading through this thread it is apparent that people have wildly differing views on what novice is.

Would hate to enter as real novice (beat cpu on normal) and be up against gold players.

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