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MLG Columbus 2011 - Best Matches Not Seen

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Axeltoss United States283 Posts June 10 2011 01:34 GMT #1 Being a relatively new caster to the Starcraft 2 scene presents a lot of problems. How do you get the best, exclusive replays? How do you get your name out there? How do you get noticed? I didn't want to cast any old ladder game. I didn't want to cast games between mediocre masters players. Who would watch those? I wanted to cast games that had meaning, excitement, controversy. I wanted to be able to feel what professional players feel and share it with an audience... that scenario where you find yourself weightless, hands independent of your body, knowing you've clenched a game after overcoming near impossible odds. Your worst map and matchup, but surviving to the next round of a prestigious tournament. You can't find that in ladder games. When MLG Columbus came around I knew my chance had come. On Monday, June 6th, the day after MLG Columbus, I plugged in my mic, loaded up FRAPS, and opened mlgpro.com in search of the best replays not seen from all of the brackets. So began my quest to bring great games to the Starcraft 2 community. June 6th: Subscriber Count: 14 First replay? It has to be Destiny. Days before the tournament, calling his play the best it has ever been. Confident in every match up. His chance to prove he belongs in the discussion with the top North American players. Loses in the first round to eMgDarkCell. On Saturday? DESTROYS the losers bracket. Goes 10-0 leading up to a matchup against xiSlurgi in Losers round 8. If he wins two more matches he gets a rematch against the player who defeated him in WB round 1. Thousands spam the refresh button on the losers bracket page on Saturday, wondering how long his streak will last. ROOTDestiny (Z) vs xiSlurgi (P) Game 1 + Show Spoiler + Part 1 - Part 2 - Game 2 + Show Spoiler + Part 1 - Part 2 - Game 3 (if necessary) + Show Spoiler + June 7th: Subscriber Count: 14 What other player turns heads? Who had the potential to come out of no where and take the tournament by storm? Who wowed everyone with immaculate multitasking and impressive drop play? sixjaxMajor. Started his 2011 MLG Columbus tournament run 4-0 in the Winners Bracket, finds himself matched against ONEostojiy a top 10 NA Grandmaster and also 4-0. Enter one of the best if not the best Terran vs Zerg series I have ever seen. sixjaxMajor (T) vs ONEostojiy (Z) Game 1 + Show Spoiler + Part 1 - Part 2 - Game 2 + Show Spoiler + Game 3 (if necessary) + Show Spoiler + Part 1 - Part 2 - June 8th: Subscriber Count: 16 Every tournament MLG finds a way to match EG players with each other early. Team kills between mainly Machine and Incontrol in previous MLG's, the setting is changed a little. EGDeMusliM, making his competitive play debut after a broken hand limited his play time, meets teammate EGStrifecro in winners bracket round 2. That's right, round 2. I knew I could not ignore a series that pitted these two ferocious players against each other so early, a series that concluded with a keyboard broken to pieces and a player storming from the venue. EGStrifecro (Z) vs EGDemuslim (T) Game 1 + Show Spoiler + Game 2 + Show Spoiler + Game 3 (if necessary) + Show Spoiler + Part 1 - Part 2 - June 9th: Subscriber Count: 20 Who thought a 15 year old player could become one of the most mentioned Terrans in the North American scene? I knew I had to cast a replay from VT's Pokebunny. Making a ferocious run through the winners bracket only to DNS in round 5, Pokebunny had revenge on his mind upon dropping to the losers bracket; meeting a player from ROOT who refused to be eliminated from Columbus after losing early in the winners bracket. ROOTFayth and VTPokebunny meet in Round 8 in the losers bracket, a combined 21-1 record thus far in MLG Columbus. VTPokebunny (T) vs ROOTFayth (P) Game 1 + Show Spoiler + Game 2 + Show Spoiler + Game 3 (if necessary) + Show Spoiler + Ladies and gentlemen, we are not done. The quality matches produced at MLG Columbus 2011 are impossible to absorb over a simple weekend. Join me over the next few weeks as I cast the best matches not seen from MLG Columbus 2011. -Axel

Megaliskuu United States5123 Posts June 10 2011 01:37 GMT #2 Its ridiculous how stacked the open bracket was this time around, def lots of good games to be seen.

GenoZStriker United States2914 Posts June 10 2011 01:39 GMT #3 Basically if you exclude July, who cruised through the open bracket with no problem, the open-bracket could pretty much be considered a tournament of its own. Lot's of players who were expected to go through just fell early or were sent to loser's.

TylerThaCreator United States906 Posts June 10 2011 01:41 GMT #4 Great eye for some good games man, props

Zlasher United States9129 Posts June 10 2011 01:59 GMT #5 Pokebunny vs Fayth games were good to see from behind Poke's shoulder. The Strifecro vs DeMuslim game should have a qualifier or asterisk on it. Game 1 DeMuslim had to play without sound due to a weird bug with the sound boxes that Astro's equipment is known to have from time to time ever since their first event. He was extremely frustrated and tilted throughout the series and it sucks that it had to be a teammate to knock him into losers in just round 2.

MrLlama United States454 Posts June 10 2011 04:16 GMT #6 Great casting man, a lot of these games were epic

BestFriends Canada133 Posts June 11 2011 04:04 GMT #7 gj casting really enjoyed them. Hope to see you doing bigger stuff in the future.

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