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Welcome to this week's tournament recap! In the West, this week was dominated by the IEM Global Challenge at Gamescom. In Korea, Star2Gether Siege grabbed headlines. While these two majors played out, several minor competitions went down. This is the news post that should help you get a grips with what is going on!
Each week we will bring you a link-heavy thread summarising the results from the minor tournaments from the past week - linking replays
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, vods ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/Plexa/SC2_Coverage/vodaz1.gif)
, Liquipedia articles ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/images/forum/wiki_icon.png){kind=icon}
and threads ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/olof/questionmarkicon.png)
where possible. This should be the only stop necessary to get a glimpse at how the competitive scene is shaping up! Note that this post won't be covering the results from the major tournaments, those will be covered by separate news posts.![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/olof/sc2/sc2weekly_header_recent_resu.jpg)
Star2Gether Siege (8/21) This long Korean tournament saw the best in the country face off against a myraid of opponents. In the end, the familiar Protoss Tester came out on top, undefeated and unquestionably one of the best in the world.
IEM Gamescom (8/18-8/22). MorroW took arguably the most difficult path to the grand prize and put on an impressive show each step of the way. Idra and Dimaga grabbed second and third place to round out StarCraft 2's biggest event thus far.
IEM American Qualifier #4 (8/22-8/23) Suggy, PainUser, CauthonLuck and Machine grabbed the final four spots for the IEM American Championship's group stage.
Open Wolf Cup #5 (8/22) The Terran KawaiiRice took a 3-0 series against the Zerg Suppy and won over a field of 64.
GosuCup Qualifiers Sjow and Select grabbed the American spots in the next stage while Adelscott and InSoLeNcE moved on from Europe.
Minerva Invictus Tournament (8/21) Silver came out on top of hundreds of players to claim the prize in this American server tournament.
Weekly Events
GosuCoaching Weekly Tournament (Weekly: Thursday)
#9 1. KawaiiRice 2. SLush
ESL Viking Cup (Weekly: Thursday - Friday)
#8 1. Sjow 2. Naama
ESL Go4SC2 (Weekly: Wednesday, Sunday)
#30 1. Socke 2. MoMaN 3. Mardow 4. Naruto
#31 1. Naama 2. cHoBo
#32 1. MorroW 2. Naruto
CraftCup (Weekly: Friday)
#4 1. mTwNightEnD 2. merz
Zotac Cup (Weekly: Sunday)
#19 1. Sjow 2. jimpo
| Race | Player | ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/common/gold.png) | ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/common/silver.png) | ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/Ticon_small.png) | Sjow | 3 | 0 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MorroW | 2 | 0 |
| KawaiiRice | 2 | 0 |
| Naama | 1 | 1 |
![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/Picon_small.png) | Tester | 1 | 0 |
| Socke | 1 | 0 |
| PainUser | 1 | 0 |
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Description: + Show Spoiler +
Morrow opens in his traditional style, heavy heavy macro. While Nightend opens with standard PvT play, until he switched to building a lot of Phoenix. Morrow's insane macro allows his to play a Brood War-esque Terran push style which puts Nightend way behind. Nightend miraculously holds on and gives Morrow everything he's got. Does he have enough to pull back the game? Watch the rep and find out.
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The TeamLiquid Tournament Tracker is there for your convenience, check it out.
We have several big tournaments coming up. The MLG stop in Raleigh will begin on Friday the 27th. If you can believe it, the GSL finally kicks off the next day on the 28th. It will be interesting to see what happens to minor tournaments while two of the largest competitions in all the land kick off. It's going to be a big week for StarCraft 2 and I could not be more excited. Oh, and don't forget about all the regular weekly tournaments that are going on!
If you are a tournament organiser and want to know how you can cooperate with TeamLiquid to promote your tournament, get into this weekly report and any queries in general - please contact Plexa who is in charge of TL's SC2 content. TL is always happy to help out grass roots tournaments and those who genuinely care about the community - so please contact Plexa to see what we can work out for you!
Until next week!
