Alpha turns into Beta

National Champions

Congratulations to the Ohio State football team for winning the inaugural College Football championship tournament. They were pretty dominant last night overcoming a number of turnovers with great defense and an offense that ground down the Oregon Ducks’ defenders. They certainly proved that they deserve the Number 1 ranking and the championship. I of course was pulling for the Ducks, but then, they had a great season, only to meet a better Buckeye team. They both were deserving of being in the finals and it was good to see that the NCAA has finally decided to have a tournament to determine number 1.

Alpha turns into Beta

I wanted to get online today and watch some of my replays to learn more about the Blackheart’s Bay map and it’s inhabitants. Unfortunately, with the transition to beta status, the previous games are unwatchable – at least as far as I can tell. I suppose this is to be expected considering this was an alpha release, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there are future breaks like this when big patches are released. In any case, I’ll have to hold off on my study of Blackheart’s Bay, instead, I’ll just do a quick rundown of the current crop of free heroes.

The only hero in the current rotation that I have played is Raynor, and that was during the 2 tutorials. I think it is a nice ‘coincidence’ that he is availbe for the first week of the closed beta so that the new players can stick with him after the tutorial. He’s a fun champ, and I’ll have to play him again this week as it has been a while and I’ve been focusing on Valla and Li Li.

Free Heroes this week

• Warriors
• Muradin
• Tyrael
• Assassins
• Raynor
• Illidan
• Support
• Rehgar
• Tassadar
• Specialists
• Zagara

Based on these heroes, I think I will give Raynor and either Tassadar or Rehgar a shot this week. I’ll have to take a deeper look at the two supports to see what their mechanics are before I decide. I am kinda sad about Li Li not being available since I was enjoying her healing and I had not even made it to level 4 to open all her abilities.

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