Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney.

With me tonight, for the first time ever, I believe, is my buddy from Gamer's with Jobs, Sean Sands. Sean, welcome to the show. Yeah, this is my first time. I'm excited. Go gentle. We also welcome back our old friend, freelance writer, Andrew Gruen. Andrew, welcome back. Hey, Rob.

So obviously, you know, you're a couple guys I love talking StarCraft 2 with, competitive and just the multiplayer mode.

Life being what it is, we don't get a chance to play as much as I would like, but, you know,

that's the story of all our lives, I um but you know we've had some time to spend

with heart of the swarm uh since it came out and seeing how that's sort of affected multiplayer uh get a feel

for the new units uh the new flow of the game and also see kind of how the competitive landscape

has changed really dramatic really, really dramatically, actually,

in the last few months.

But, you know, to kick us off, I kind of just wanted to see, you know, I heard a lot of talk

leading in the heart of the swarm about how the stakes were really high because there was like

wings of liberty burnout, that StarCraft 2 had kind of gotten moribund. People were kind of over it.

And I guess I'd like to take your guys temperature, like heading in the heart of the swarm,

where were you guys with StarCraft 2?

Well, I'll just kind of kick it off here and say, as far as playing it,

done in a lot of ways.

It had been a good six, eight months between when I had last dove into

any kind of, you know, whether it was just redoing the single player or going back and

playing the computer or playing online in the latter. I hadn't done any of that in for a while,

but I really was not burned out on

watching Starcraft as a spectator event. Like I was still very interested in watching the MLGs and the

NASLs and the IGM Pro League back when that was around you, you know, it was, I wasn't fanatical about it.

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