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Tournament Roundup #3
September 2nd, 2010 13:00 GMT
Welcome to this week's tournament recap! The GSL finally kicked off in Korea and narrowed the field down to 64. Major League Gaming hit Raleigh and some of the best players in North America and Europe played for thousands of dollars in prizes. Meanwhile, the reliably awesome parade of smaller tournaments marched on. Looking to get a grip on all of it? You're in the right place.
Each week we will bring you a link-heavy thread summarising the results from the minor tournaments from the past week - linking replays ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/olof/replay2.png) , 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) 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.
GSL Open Qualifiers (8/28) The qualifiers wittled down a large field to 64 players competing for the $170,000 prize pool. Notable foreigners who have qualified include: Idra, TheLittleOne, Artosis and Torch.
MLG Raleigh (8/27-8/29). Canadian superhero Protoss HuK won over his countryman, the ascendant KiwiKaki, in an exciting tournament down in North Carolina.
Open Wolf Cup #6 (8/29) The Terran MorroW took a 3-0 series against last week's champion KawaiiRice to win the sixth iteration of this tournament.
King of SEA Nation War Series (29/08) The South East Asian Nation wars kicked off last week with the heavyweights Australia taking a bye. Singapore defeated the New Zealand team 3-1 while Thailand took out Indonesia 3-2. Vietnam stomped the Philippines 4-0 and currently are placed first - but how long will that last?
Fisher Cup #2 (8/29) Murder took home the prize over an impressive 64 player field in this $100 tournament. Murder defeated Cheese in the final.
ESL Pro Series Germany (8/24-11/23) The Pro Series continues with big names such as DeMusliM, HasuObs and Naniwa competing for gold. Check the spoiler for the results of this weeks games
+ Show Spoiler +![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/Ticon_small.png) GoOdy 2-0 ClouD ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/Zicon_small.png) Xlord 0-2 ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/Picon_small.png) Socke inuh 2-1 Naruto DarK.FoRcE 2-0 miou rine 2-0 OgerTob HasuObs 2-1 iNSoLeNCE
SC2CL The SC2 Clan League finished up this week with Tera taking out ESC in the final. The score ended up 3-2, with chobo defeating GoOdy in the ace match, full results below (thanks freddergeier)! mouz. cleaned out afm in the 3rd/4th match with a clean 3-0 victory.
+ Show Spoiler +Tera-Gaming 3 - 2 ESC-Gaming
1vs1:
tera.MF|cHoBo 2 - 1 ESC.And3ad
tera.MF|EroX 0 - 2 ESC.Goody
tera.MF|Cola 2 - 0 ESC.DaBoo
2vs2:
tera.MF|11LooSeR1 & tera.MF|Flipstar 1 - 2 ESC.Tarry & ESC.SKyliner
Ace-match:
tera.MF|cHoBo 2 - 0 ESC.Goody
Weekly Events
ESL Viking Cup (Weekly: Thursday - Friday)
#9 1. Thorzain 2. Naama
ESL Go4SC2 (Weekly: Wednesday, Sunday)
#33 1. Naniwa 2. Satiini
#34 1. Morrow 2. Kas
CraftCup (Weekly: Friday)
#5 1. mTwNightEnD 2. mouzMaNa
US.CraftCup (Weekly: Friday)
#3 1. MurDer 2. Junny
Zotac Cup (Weekly: Sunday)
#20 1. Kas 2. LaLush
GosuCoaching Weekly Tournament (Weekly: Thursday)
#10 1. KawaiiRice 2. Perplexity
Podium Highlights
| Race | Player | ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/common/gold.png) | ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/common/silver.png) | Prize |
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| MorroW | 2 | 0 | $180 |
| MurDeR | 2 | 0 | $100 | | HuK | 1 | 0 | $2500 | | Kas | 1 | 1 | $120 | | Naniwa | 1 | 0 | $100 | | NightEnD | 1 | 0 | $100 | | KawaiiRice | 1 | 2 | $200 |
Description: + Show Spoiler +Two Korean heavyweights fight hard and fast for every mineral in a knockdown fight until the end.
The TeamLiquid Tournament Tracker is there for your convenience, check it out.
We're spoiled. As usual, many big tournaments are on the horizon. First and foremost, the GSL is beginning round of 64 play on September 4th. While drama surrounds many out-of-game decisions on the league's part, the expected astronomical quality of games has not changed one bit. The regular weekly tournaments will continue on giving us great StarCraft 2 action every day of the week.
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!
chobopeon is the creator of SC Center, the daily show for competitive StarCraft 2 news.
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TL has some of the best write-ups around. Great job, appreciate all the hard work that goes into these.
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KawaiiRice 0 2 $0
i feel sorry for him 
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Do anyone have any VODs of this vT gamer Torch?
edit: found one:+ Show Spoiler +vs CauthonLuck
edit2: spoliered it.
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On September 02 2010 22:22 Hirnfrost wrote:KawaiiRice 0 2 $0 i feel sorry for him
indeed lol
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Osaka27172 Posts
Really great work. This makes following what is happening so much easier.
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I love these round ups. Keep em up! :D
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Great article, looking forward to it every week!
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The result for the sc2cl-final in detail:
+ Show Spoiler +
Tera-Gaming 3 - 2 ESC-Gaming
1vs1:
tera.MF|cHoBo 2 - 1 ESC.And3ad
tera.MF|EroX 0 - 2 ESC.Goody
tera.MF|Cola 2 - 0 ESC.DaBoo
2vs2:
tera.MF|11LooSeR1 & tera.MF|Flipstar 1 - 2 ESC.Tarry & ESC.SKyliner
Ace-match:
tera.MF|cHoBo 2 - 0 ESC.Goody
maybe this helps to break the mystery 
EDIT: Also here u can find the replays!
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On September 02 2010 22:51 Manifesto7 wrote:
Really great work. This makes following what is happening so much easier.
This. Makes it so easy to keep up with all the events. Thanks!
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Man, this just makes the zerg's ability to preform glaringly obvoius. Anyone have any thoughts to why this is?
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MorroW actually was DQ'd against MurdeR in Fisher's $100 Open.
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Aotearoa39261 Posts
On September 02 2010 23:33 freddergeier wrote:The result for the sc2cl-final in detail: + Show Spoiler +
Tera-Gaming 3 - 2 ESC-Gaming
1vs1:
tera.MF|cHoBo 2 - 1 ESC.And3ad
tera.MF|EroX 0 - 2 ESC.Goody
tera.MF|Cola 2 - 0 ESC.DaBoo
2vs2:
tera.MF|11LooSeR1 & tera.MF|Flipstar 1 - 2 ESC.Tarry & ESC.SKyliner
Ace-match:
tera.MF|cHoBo 2 - 0 ESC.Goody
maybe this helps to break the mystery EDIT: Also here u can find the replays!
Many thanks! Will update into the OP
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Chobo i know this must be alot of work. TYTYTYTY. between this and SCcenter you supply more news to me than my local newspaper.
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Damn Maka vs Genius was so back and forth.
+ Show Spoiler +There was some times where Maka could have pushed forward and maybe taken the game but it feels like he sort of let Genius get back into the game somehow, and also seemed to be slipping on his macro quite a bit, also he forgot his armoy, so genius army was 1A/3W vs 1/1 from maka.
It is good to see that even the top koreans are playing "imperfect" games, forgetting upgrades and slipping on macromanagement. Shows that the game isn't as easy as people make it out to be, even at the top level.
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No mention on ESL Pro Series - Nordic T_T
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Thx for keeping us informed. There's such a tourney frenzy with the lauch of SC2, sometime it's tough to keep up with everything and making the difference between the small events and the big events.
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FuDDx
United States5015 Posts
What about Psyonics win in the first SCAR lan.
1st psyonic
2nd Philibird
3rd Doomer
4th strainx
Thanks for all these results it does make it easier to see whats going on or has gone on.
Artioc is doing a write up I think.
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Gogo Murder. Also congratulations to HuK for the MLG win. Thanks for all the news
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wow, these rounds up make following the scene so much easier, thank you very much for it.
one suggestion: maybe you can add recomended VODs for the hightlights of the tourneys?
or scratch that, let's create a thread for recomended sc2 games
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you forgot GosuCoaching weekly, which Kawaii won ($150) =p
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Calgary25996 Posts
On September 02 2010 22:51 Manifesto7 wrote:
Really great work. This makes following what is happening so much easier.
SERIOUSLY.
God there's just so much shit happening lately I can't keep up.
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Calgary25996 Posts
On September 03 2010 01:00 Xeris wrote:
you forgot GosuCoaching weekly, which Kawaii won ($150) =p
Fixed.
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iNcontroL
USA29055 Posts
love this feature
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On September 03 2010 01:00 Xeris wrote:
you forgot GosuCoaching weekly, which Kawaii won ($150) =p
oh wow i totally missed that. with everything that happened and the fact that he won the week before, i wasn't sure something happened. my fault.
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On September 02 2010 22:35 10or10 wrote:Do anyone have any VODs of this vT gamer Torch? edit: found one: + Show Spoiler +vs CauthonLuck edit2: spoliered it.
Offtopic, but this is the worst commentary ever the caster is so unenthusiastic it makes it seem like he hates what he's doing lol I couldnt watch more than 3 minutes.
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these reports are awesome
where is Kiwikaki on the podium?
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Murder's defeated Cheese in the final. hm.......
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I added the SCAR Arizona regional tourney to the tourney tracker and you guys didnt add it to this T_T
Psyonic_reaver took 1st - $180
Philibird took 2nd - $60
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Well done HuK!! Represent Canada!!
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There was also the i40 LAN tournament in the UK with £1,000 prize pool + Razer hardware
1st dignitas/PureBall - £600
2nd RAGE`rANDY - £250
3rd dignitas/Apollo - £150
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GREAT content as always, thanks a bunch guys!
I am not involved, but there has been quite the little treat here in Norway as well. Electronic retailer chain Lefdal and Steelseries is sponsoring three rounds of the Lefdal SC2 cup arranged by sc2.no this autumn, with a pot of about $1600 in each round (about $5000) total.
Url: http://sc2.no/lefdal/
Click for Google translate
1st round just completed, with the following three coming out on top:
1. Kare (Terran)
2. Chi (Protoss)
3. Skruf (Zerg)
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Whoa, I never realized that there were this many tourneys for SC2 happening. The fact that this post keeps track of all of them is extremely useful and helpful for people like me who can't keep track of them all. Thanks guys! =P
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pretty good writeup and useful, thanks
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Thanks again chobo! Great job as usual.
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On September 02 2010 22:51 Manifesto7 wrote:
Really great work. This makes following what is happening so much easier.
My thoughts exactly...great job on keeping track of all the tournaments for the community^^
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oo, awesome to have all the tourneys in 1 place.
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Kawaiis been doing so well in these tournaments. I want to see him break out and win a big one(a tournament where everyone says wow, I cant believe he won that)
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i really dont know why, but overseas game screen is much foggier than local korean screen.
they show korean game screen at the beginning of the game, which is much more vivid
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Great write-up as always! I like that even though I am at school and don't have a ton of time to read about all of the large and mini tournaments that are happening, I am still able to keep up with current events thanks to this concise article which I look forward to each week. Wonderful job, and I know that it is a lot of work, but please keep them coming!
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Please add Competo Starcraft 2 Cup to this weekly ones here 
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sucks how kawaii has the second most money ( 200 ) after getting 1 gold and two silvers compared to those that have 2 golds and got less. aha of course if im talkn about the standings of that i know theres different tournaments and thats the reasons just saying =D!
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Love to see all the tournaments gathered like this, really nice! GW
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