Starcraft 2 Channels

[Myst]

With the latest patch, Starcraft 2 now has channels.  We'll see how it develops from this.  What do you guys think of the chat system?  Anyone know how they made the private channels work, i.e is it like bnet1.0 or more like IRC channel services.
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[Myst]

Channels go Live in new patch and with private channels now.
Post your channels here!

[hs width=300 height=300]http://darkblizz.org/images/sc2chan.PNG[/hs]