Following some teething problems with the most recent update to CS:S there has been another update from Hidden Path. It is hoped that the update will resolve most of the issues around firing guns now, not least of which was the phantom extra bullet that would arrive with single taps.

- Many in the competitive community felt that the last update had rendered the game unplayable with the firing bug but Hidden Path have moved quickly to fix it. Clearly though the CS:S overhaul still has a long road ahead of it.

• Fixed new weapon firing integration causing some guns to over-fire on single taps
• Fixed a couple of cases where machine guns could skip slightly with enough lag
• Fixed c4 explosion pre-caching
• Added precise audio timing fixes for client-side prediction
• Increased the tolerance for skip detection in client side audio to prevent sound dropping out due to client clock drift
• Completed work on clan tag strings validation

The match ended with Notic beating caLamity, by 2-0 on de_tuscan and de_inferno_pro. Maximum Precision ZA (mpzA), showed that they are an upcoming team that spectators should keep an eye on, when they walked over Ventus on de_dust2. Ventus tried to pull things back on de_inferno_pro, but mpzA proved too strong and took the game 2-0.




Match-Ups
BOTC is heating up, as round 2 sees some really good teams coming up against each other.



Mint Gaming was seeded first for the competition as they managed to win Leg 3 of the Do Gaming league, the team will be up against mpzA - which Mint should take with relative ease. Mint has been playing really well of late, but much of their success depends on one or two of their players kicking up their game a gear and dominating the opposition. If this doesn't happen Mint could struggle against mpzA, a team that wins rounds and eventually games due to good teamwork and communication.

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Pantheon and Caucasian Persuasion (cP) who both failed to perform during the Do Gaming League are set to face each other. Both teams have had lineup changes, with Pantheon bringing in former Vintage player - ex-EC teammate Jaun “Zeo” Nieuwoudt, to replace Graeme "korupt" Blackburn who left Pantheon to join Notic. This change should see the team chemistry improve, as 4 (including Niewoudt) of the Pantheon players all belonged to the well accomplished eC. CP has also made a change bringing in Warrick "fr0st" Noble to replace Ricardo "wink-E" Rebolo, hopefully this sees the team fill the void left by the departure of Johan "Las" van Eck.



MTheory will have their first chance to try Ryan "ACh3" Macquet out in an 'official' match since his inception into the squad. They will be pitted against the new Bravado squad, while Bravado had a poor run the league, their changes during the transfer period late into the leg clearly improved their gameplay, as the team managed to win their last 2 games against Vintage and Pantheon.



The fourth game to lookout for is between Notic and Memento Mori. Memento Mori who had a bye the first round, will be out to prove that they have what it takes to be considered as one of the top teams. They are always seen as the underdogs, yet are always capable of causing an upset or two. While Notic, a team made up of the merger of many top players, has the potential to win the cup, but may lack in teamwork and communication. If they see their game come together in time, this could be a walk in a park for them.



Check the site for more updates, and for game times as well as spectator server ip's for all the matches!

Avokodo's first match saw him take on Ferris_Wheel, where he won with relative ease. He then progressed to the next round taking on Numb in what was a fairly long game, after coming out on top yet again Avokodo progressed to the semi-finals taking on Smiley and winning 2-0.

He then marched onto the finals, where Bravado's Shase was waiting, the finals saw a best-of-5 matchup featuring two of South Africa's players who proved to be amongst the top during the Beta stages of the game. Avokodo's strong run in the tournament didn't stop, as he used his trademark harass strategy throughout the maps played and this proved to be too much for Shase to stop. Avokodo was able to take the finals, with an uncontested 3-0 win.



When asked about being the first competition winner since the release of the actual game Avokodo had the following to say:



A big thanks and congratulations goes out to Mitarn's Sven ‘shadowthief’ Paulsen for hosting and running the first official StarCraft II tournament in South Africa, as well as Jonathan 'ZeeOne' Atwell from 4pooled.co.za for the shoutcasting.

Replay: link

The competition will provide great practice as Trent will be attending the MEGAROM StarCraft II exhibition tournament this weekend. Quevauvilliers however will be looking at getting back into the swing of things after his short break from competitive StarCraft II.

With the likes of Ventus's ANGRY.AFRICAN and Bravado's Shase our boys will have to bring their A game if they want to place well. 16 Players have entered the best-of-3 tournament which will run single elimination. Below are the brackets for the tournament.



Details:
- Live audio casting can be found here: link
- Further details on the tournament can be found here: link

Map List:
• Blistering Sands
• Desert Oasis
• Scrap Station
• Steppes of War
• Xel’Naga Caverns
• Kulas Ravine
• Lost Temple
• Metalopolis
• Delta Quadtrant

The inaugural Honcast Invitational tournament has now come to an end and it is team Loaded - back from the dead - who have secured first place and a $600 cheque. When it was announced that team Loaded would be losing chu` - arguably the best HoN player on the planet - a few months ago many people felt they would never been the same, claiming it was chu` who made the team what they were. The Americans have refuted those claims with a spectacular win over fan favourites fnatic.MSI.


It didn't look like it was going to happen that way after the first map as fnatic were rampant, amassing 27 kills to Loaded's 1 kill before the fifteen minute mark. With moral low and well behind on both gold and levels the inevitable happened as the Americans called for the 15 minute concede, handing the early lead to fnatic. When the picking stage for map number two got underway fnatic went with perhaps the strangest picks ever seen in top level play, deciding to go with 4 carries. The team attributed the strange picks to a mis-click but from a spectators point of view it looked like they underestimated their opponents following such a dominant display on the first map, deciding to mess around for the second.

As it turned out the 4 carry set-up didn't go according to plan and Loaded took the second map before fnatic could get a foothold in the match. That set up a deciding map with everything on the line, and it was in the third map that both teams showed their potential with some fantastic play on each side. Team Loaded kept the edge throughout but fnatic constantly pipped them back to keep it close, in the end it was one fight which won the game for Loaded and lost it for fnatic as the Americans took out all three barracks before fnatic called for the concede.




This means team Loaded are the $1,000 Honcast Invitational champions, bouncing back with their new look lineup to the top of the pile once again. For anyone that missed the action the VOD's are available to watch on the Honcast website Here.