Cliff's Esport Corner SITREP

As many of you have noticed, I haven't had many posts lately.

IRL stuff, my significant other had some surgery, and needed help 24/7 for some time afterwards.

Very happy to say that everything went very well for her, and that she is recovering quickly, though not quickly enough to make her happy ^_^

Things are to the point where I can start posting regular again, though it will probably start slowly and build back up to normal pace.

I didn't get to follow CES 2014 news very closely, so I would welcome anything of interest or comment about that, either in comment section or on Twitter @CliffsEsport or link https://twitter.com/CliffsEsport

I have been following the Target Credit Card Hack with great interest though, working on blog post about it, but can strongly reccomend Brian Krebs articles on it http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/01/a-first-look-at-the-target-intrusion-malware/

IIRC Brian was the one that broke the story originally, http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/12/sources-target-investigating-data-breach/, I remember seeing his Tweet about his Mom being interviewed about it at Target, while my girlfriend was still in the hospital.

Thanks to all my readers!

And a special thanks to everyone who offered good wishes, support, & prayers for my girlfriend's surgery & recovery, it was greatly appreciated by both of us!

SITREP [Update] from Cliff

Lot of IRL things interfering with normal pace of Blogging, wanted to apologize for that, and assure my regular readers that all is well.

This time of year is usually crazy for me, hoping by next year to have some guest articles to make up for that.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, one of the IRL items is several bits of new hardware, one of those hardware items I plan to Blog about at least a couple of times.

I don't want to say more at the moment, but I'm sure gamers will be interested in it.  [How was that for a teaser?]

Also looking forward to SC2 HOTS release!

GL HF,

Cliff

HSM Easter 2012: Boyo vs Zinger

Holiday Show Match (HSM) Easter 2012: Boyo (P) vs Zinger (Z) in a Bo7

The HSM is a new series of SC2 Showmatches sponsored by Cliff's Esports Corner & NanMan, we plan to have HSM for the holidays every year, we have at least three more planned this year.

Prize Pool for the first HSM is $75, we are following Totalbicuit's model, so the winner will receive $50 and the loser will receive $25

Since HSM is a holiday event, the show will be cast from replays, we would would prefer a live event, just like you do.

But this way the players are free to spend the holidays with family and friends, and everyone can still enjoy the HSM over the holiday, when there are not many Starcraft 2 events.

NanMan will cast live (ie he will not have seen games ahead of time) Friday, and we plan to have the VOD's up by the next day.

I will blog more about the players, both are strong GM players, they are not as well know as they should be, yet!


Stream:  http://www.twitch.tv/therealnanman/

Caster:  NanMan

Date:  April 6, 2012

Time:  20:00 [8:00 pm] EDT

VOD's:  http://www.youtube.com/user/NanMan/

More Information:

• http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=322312 
• HSM Easter 2012:  Boyostarcraft