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The Highlander Begins

Text byiNcontroL
July 19th, 2009 05:07 GMT
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The Highlander

THE PRELIMS

The prelim tourney is over, 4 have qualified from an extremely tough field.

1. Shauni
2. yayba
3. Enivid
4. Tarson

Congrats to them. But honestly, this tourney was made great by everyone who participated. I have been involved in the scene for many years now and it feels great to see a tourney ran so smoothly and with so much great manner! You guys did great and the games that were produced will be revered and observed by many. Thanks! You can find all the games played today in the rep pack posted at the bottom of this news post.

THE FINALS

With the Final Four found we now have our draw. Ladies and gentlemen, I reveal to you perhaps the most savage tourney and skull crushing lineup to date:





You can also view the bracket here
The round of 32 and 16 will be played THIS SATURDAY July 25th @ 21 CET in channel highlander1.

We will not be allowing random observers so please do not flood the channel, you will be asked to leave then kicked. But ALL these games will be brought to you in a multitude of ways. We are unclear as to what exactly we will settle on but at the very least you will have the reps, at the very best we will have commented vods/streaming, so just wait and see!

Some concepts/rules that must be mentioned:
1. Each round in 32 and 16 is bo3 with no LB
2. Each first map is pre-selected. Loser picks from map pool and no map can be replayed unless both players agree.
3. No observers unless both players agree.
4. All disputes, disconnects, bm or other issues will be handled by Plexa or I.
5. SAVE ALL REPS. No score will be legit without ALL reps being emailed to Plexa immediately following the round.

If there are any questions or concerns please notify me immediately!

Community Prize / vote on best play(s)

The Bracket competition with a prize of $100 will be detailed and explained in the coming days. Take a close look at this bracket and decide what you want to do, it could earn you a lump of cash if you get it mostly right!

The best plays community vote will follow the closing of the tourney. We will select a handful of what we (the admins) consider to be the best plays.. this can also be recommended by you guys.. the two best plays performed by our competitors will earn them $100 respectively. This means if someone is completely outgunned in the first round they can still earn more money than at least 30 other people in the tourney by doing something pimp!

PRELIM REPPACK:
http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/Plexa/The_Highlander/Highlander_Prelim.rar
Download now for some great games!

Hope you guys enjoy~


Huge thanks to BinaryBeast for the awesome brackets as usual!!
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GHOSTCLAW
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States17042 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-19 05:26:08
July 19 2009 05:19 GMT
#2
great work. I'm excited to see the games, that bracket looks like the TSL bracket ^^
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Coulthard
Profile Joined September 2005
Greece3359 Posts
July 19 2009 05:23 GMT
#3
Damn I predicted 3 of them right 4th would be oystein tt Gonna be a great tourney, thanks for the reppack
motbob
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States12546 Posts
July 19 2009 05:38 GMT
#4
I'm excited to see Deska play.... will his A-level-iccup all-games-under-15 minutes style win him the tournament? Let's see!
ModeratorGood content always wins.
IdrA
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States11541 Posts
July 19 2009 05:40 GMT
#5
On July 19 2009 14:38 motbob wrote:
I'm excited to see Deska play.... will his A-level-iccup all-games-under-15 minutes style win him the tournament? Let's see!

lol
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FirstBorn
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
Romania3955 Posts
July 19 2009 05:43 GMT
#6
Wow the prelims went prett fast.

The final bracket looks nice, there's bound to be nice games there.
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Kennigit *
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Canada19447 Posts
July 19 2009 05:44 GMT
#7
omg Aerials and Machine GLGLGL!
Scaramanga
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Australia8092 Posts
July 19 2009 06:45 GMT
#8
Wow this bracket looks amazing
ret, idra or brat_ok to take this
Loda talked about the fun counter, it's AdmiralBulldog on his natures prophet
Torenhire
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States11681 Posts
July 19 2009 06:45 GMT
#9
Man, my two favorite folks to watch are starting in the same bracket (ret and LZ)


... I'm so torn. Go ret or Go LZ.

Either way, this is an insane tournament, there will for sure be some games of epic magnitude in here.
SirJolt: Well maybe if you weren't so big and stupid, it wouldn't have hit you.
Manifesto7
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Osaka27166 Posts
July 19 2009 07:15 GMT
#10
Congrats on everyone who organized and played. I talked to inc afterwards and he said everyone was super manner and there were no problems at all. Now Im gonna go devour this rep pack!
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Chill
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Calgary25993 Posts
July 19 2009 07:28 GMT
#11
Some beefy matches round 1. Looking forward to coverage!
Moderator
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
July 19 2009 07:28 GMT
#12
om nom nom rep pack.

its so hard to find time for them but ill try!

the brackets look really promising
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JWD
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States12607 Posts
July 19 2009 07:37 GMT
#13
So pumped for this. Go IdrA!
✌
dataXploit
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Canada81 Posts
July 19 2009 07:43 GMT
#14
OMG Awesome Bracket. Hope that JF can raise to the top and win it for Canada.

Poor Stalife has to play Mondragon right away.
Frieder
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Italy231 Posts
July 19 2009 07:46 GMT
#15
Oh man. Mondragon for the win.
OneOther
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States10774 Posts
July 19 2009 08:39 GMT
#16
awesome thanks so much inc
deL
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Australia5540 Posts
July 19 2009 08:53 GMT
#17
Carn DinOt, CastrO and the Russians and Ukrainians n_n
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Postaljester
Profile Joined December 2002
United States128 Posts
July 19 2009 08:57 GMT
#18
No one can stop idra
If you cant do something well, learn to enjoy doing it poorly
GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51552 Posts
July 19 2009 09:16 GMT
#19
RWT is so awesome, I love the random flaming between Tarson and Gotunk.
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Pads
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
England3228 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-19 09:40:27
July 19 2009 09:39 GMT
#20
Really hope Enivid pull's even more suprises in this tournament. He deserves a little recognition
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