The PiG Fan Club!

Jared "PiG" Krensel is an Australian Zerg player living in Sydney. His first memories of hearing about Starcraft was when he flew Korean Airlines and watched a Starcraft channel on TV. Seeing a computer game being televised opened his eyes to another world of competitive sports - eSports!
He played WarCraft II casually before preordering Starcraft 2. Realising he was pretty good at the game and was pouring more and more time into getting better at it, PiG made the tough decision to put his university studies on hold to pursue a Starcraft career. And boy did it not pay off!

Since playing full time from mid-2011 PiG has shot to the top of the Australian/SEA scene with the likes of players such as mOOnGLade and tgun. He was picked up by Tt eSports a few months later and is their sole player. He also coaches to support his Starcraft career and is recognised as the most successful and popular coach in SEA.

PiG considers his breakout tournament to be his third place finish in the Australian WCG National Finals in October 2011. Since then he has gone on to qualify for IEM Guangzhou (2011), IEM Cologne (Aug 2012) and IEM Singapore (Nov 2012), as well as IeSF (Oct 2012). He finally broke his third place curse to take the ACL Melbourne crown in July 2012. He was also crowned the WCS Australian champion in August 2012.

In February 2013 PiG announced through a series of entertaining announcement videos that he had joined Team Exile5. x5 is notable for their Battlefield, COD and LOL teams and had just started taking steps into the Starcraft 2 scene. A few months later, PiG flew half way across the globe to participate at DreamHack Summer 2013 where he turned a couple headsd for progressing further than many people expected. PiG made it to the third group stage and was one game away from making it to the top 16.

SHOUTCraft: Clan WHO vs MVP
PiG was sent out against none other than DRG! Check out who wins this intense ZvZ: LINK

PiG is going to Europe!
Check out PiG's awesome HYPE Series leading to an announcement of him going to Europe to attend 4 DreamHacks. LINK
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WCS AM Season 2 Challenger Qualifiers!
Unfortunately, PiG did not make it through this season, coming 5/6th in the Oceania/SEA qualifiers. He will have to try again next season.

WCS SEA Qualifiers: PiG's Take on the Healthy Mindset
Check out what PiG thinks about mindsets and playing. LINK

"Swarm-hosts are imba vs bio" - new blog
PiG's controversial blog thinks sh are imba against bio. Do you agree? LINK

SHOUTCraft: PiG vs Stardust on Rising Lava
PiG and Stardust played a very entertaining game on this unique map, and was casted by both TotalBiscuit and Husky.
TotalBiscuit VoD
Husky VoD

How to set up at a LAN
In this detailed blog, PiG shows all PC gamers how to set themselves up at a LAN for optimal playing. LINK

PiG wins the SYF Summer LAN
PiG travelled to Melbourne to play in the SYF Summer LAN. He easily cleaned up the bracket to take home the trophy and cash prize.
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PiG versus Axiom Crank for a Premier League spot
PiG was 2-0 up against he famous player from Team Axiom, but a spirited fightback, and some timely mistakes, allowed Crank to take the next 3 games to win the set 3-2.

PiG qualifiers for WCS AM Challenger League Season 1!
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Interview:- Introducing Your New Challenger: x5 PiG

Defeat
PiG shows off his writing credentials with his latest blog: LINK

PiG's pre-IEM Singapore Vlog

PiG wins the SEA Championship Series
PiG wins the SEA Championship Series, defeating players such as MacSed, KingKong, Tefel and Arthur along the way! See the full bracket HERE

Interview with Maru from the Sydney Collegiate Society
PiG just conducted an interview where he speaks in depth about his progaming career, his approach to training and his thoughts on WCS and Oceania's Starcraft scene.

See the in-depth interview HERE

PiG is going to IEM Singapore
PiG has been accepted to play in the IEM Singapore Open Bracket. He will be travelling to Singapore with his teammates MegaFonzie and Dot, who'll both lend their support and work on content.

ACL Sydney 2013
PiG topped his Group Stage to move directly to the round of 8. There, he defeated moonglade 2-0, and iaguz 3-2, before meeting his arch-nemesis, KingKong! It was to be an ACL Brisbane rematch. Unfortunately it was also a one-sided affair just like Brisbane was. KK too stronk!

Check out the photos HERE

Also make sure you check out PiG's vlog, explaining his ACL event and that game against Iaguz: Crazy ZvT Vlog

EB Expo Sydney 2013
PiG visited EB Expo to check out the latest in games and gaming technology. See the photos HERE

Asrock MVP Gaming Party
MVP visited our shores to put on a series of showmatches with our local heroes. PiG was the only one to take a win!

Check out the photos from the event HERE

Also check out the VODs: Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3

All-Aussie appearance on Meta
PiG was once again featured on Meta alongside Iaguz and Rossi!

PiG takes third at ACL Melbourne
PiG continues his ACL streak of always getting top three!

PiG finally hits GM on Korea!
This milestone has been a long time coming for PiG, who first set his sights on KR GM 18 months ago! Read PiG's blog about what it means to him HERE

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PiG goes to ASUS ROG!

See his first impressions here

See PiG's happy snaps #1 | #2

Interview with Team Property here

Read the post-event blog: PiG's Asus Rog & ACL Experiences

Khaldor Video: About the skillgap between Koreans and Foreigners, eSports Infrastructures and more

Following on from the topic of his blog, PiG spoke to Khaldor in depth about various issues regarding the mentality of the skillgap between Koreans and Foreigners.

Link to Blog: Being a foreigner right now

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New Frying the Bacon Videos

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PAX Melbourne

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PiG will be heading to PAX along with his team, Exile 5, to support his sponsors Nvidia, Western Digital, CM Storm and Cooler Master. He will also be doing demonstrations for his personal sponsor, Gigabyte Notebooks.

Photos: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3

AVCon

PiG has qualified to compete in AVCon's SC2 tournament on 13th-14th July. The $5000 prize pool will be Australia's largest prize pool this year for StarCraft.

DreamHack Summer 2013!

PiG's DHS announcement video

DreamHack is known for being one of the biggest LANs in the world. PiG flew over with hopes of making it far. He came scarily close to making the top 16 bracket and the final day of DreamHack. The game three against ToD went back and forth. At one point PiG looked a certainty to win but failing to react properly to DTs cost him the game. His last chance to make top 16 was to win against Life. Although PiG tried his heart out, he could only manage to win one game.

PiG came 17th to 24th overall, which makes it his most successful international outing to date.

PiG comes 2nd at ACL Brisbane!
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ACL Brisbane was ACL's first stop in their 2013 circuit. PiG entered the tournament in high spirits and good practice. He finished first in his group, despite an upset 0-2 loss to NXZ (who would then go on to become his teammate). In the top 8 bracket he bounced back by defeating a slew of players to reach the grand final where his run ended with the mighty play of xGKingKong.

PiG joins Exile 5!
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Frying the Bacon Episode 4: Avermedia Live Gamer HD Unboxing!
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Frying the Bacon Episode 3: ZvT Ambush Style!
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Frying the Bacon Episode 2: Gigabyte P2532N Notebook Review!
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Frying the Bacon Episode 1: Pig's Year in 2012!
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PiG's performance at IEM Singapore!
PiG started off his IEM group stage by playing compatriot Mafia, going down 1-2. His next opponent, Vortix, seemed even more formidable but PiG made a comeback, taking Vortix down 2-1. At 1-1 in group stages PiG had already outperformed his other IEM appearances! His next series was against MC, the favourite to win the tournament. Although PiG could not manage to win he did take 1 game off him, the only player to do so in Group A. When PiG took down Yekke 2-0 he needed only one more set to go through to the Playoffs the next day. In his way stood HasuObs, who was originally at IEM to cast but eventually replaced dKiller when he pulled out. Unfortunately PiG could not match the Protoss pro and went down to him 0-2.

PiG finished 2-3 with a map score of 6-7. Had we won 2-0 over Hasu he would have finished second in Group A. Had it been 2-1 he would have edged Hasu out to take third. So close yet still so far. Bad luck, PiG. Good luck next time!

PiG Going To IEM Singapore!
PiG earned his spot by racing through the Stage 3 qualifiers for Australia, knocking aside mOOnGLade and Ninja before clinching the finals from KingKong. IEM Singapore will be his third IEM event and fourth international event. Having now completed his stint in the Prime House in Korea will this be his breakthrough event?

PiG Competes in the Code A Preliminaries!
After showing considerable improvement during his time in the Prime House, PiG decided to extend his stay in Korea by a few days to allow him to compete in the Code A qualifiers. He defeated his first round opponent 2-0 before falling to Skyhigh (BW terran) in a close 2-1 series.

PiG staying in the Prime House!
The fun didn't end at IeSF though! From there, PiG went to the Prime House to stay with the likes of MKP and Creator for a month and pick up their training regime. Whilst there he visited the GOM studio and watched the Code S finals to see Life become the first royal roader. He also had the opportunity to play soccer with the Prime team against MVP.

PiG Going To Korea for IeSF!
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PiG is going to Korea after going undefeated through the IeSF Australia Finals. He managed to 2-0 some of SEA's best in iMMafia and NvRossi, as well as having to take out mOOnGLaDe to qualify for the finals. Unfortunately PiG went 1-2 in the best of 1 group stage of IeSF, beating Dayshi but losing to Socke and Masterok. And so ended his run.

NASL's SEA Update featuring PiG
NASL's new segment is called the SEA Update and is hosted by Clutch.
PiG's Korean adventures features in the first two episodes.
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PiG Going To IEM Cologne!
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PiG with a host of other pros discussing the future of HoTS at IEM Cologne
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PiG has recently earned a spot into the IEM Cologne Global Challenge through the online qualifiers, coming first place! He will be joining fellow SEA player and second place mOOnGLaDe. Goodluck PiG!!! Do us proud!

PiG wins WCS Australia!
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PiG with his family celebrating his WCS Australia win
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The biggest SC2 event Down Under saw the most stacked tournament Australia had ever witnessed. PiG took the WCS Australia title by defeating mOOnGLade in the second best of 3 series in the Grand Final (having come from the winner's bracket). It has been his biggest title to date and has earned him his biggest paycheck by far.
The next day, the top 6 competitors of WCS Australia along with the top 2 of WCS New Zealand competed in WCS Oceania. Same venue. Same crowd. This time, however, 2 spots for the Battlenet Championship Series was at stake. Despite his impressive performance only a day before, PiG was knocked out due to back to back losses to mOOnGLaDe then Light in the loser's bracket. Empty handed. From the highest highs to the lowest lows.

http://youtu.be/vho0QgCb_hc

Old interviews
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Coaching | Facebook | Twitter | Liquipedia | Twitch

PiG's Grooveshark Playlists: Grooveshark Main Grooveshark Dubstep Grooveshark Clean Dubstep
PiG's SC2Ranks: Sea Ladder SC2Ranks || Tw/Kr Ladder SC2Ranks || NA Ladder SC2Ranks

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