Brackets are now live! Check the Liquipedia Page to see them! Note that areas marked with SPACE are exactly what they sound like. We still have some spaces left and sign-ups will remain open until an hour before the event starts!

A look at the brackets
So once again I'll do a little bit of hyping here with a quick glance at the brackets. This week's featured game for Round 1 will be between StarCraft 2 superstar DeMusliM and high ranked Protoss Cuppatea who made it quite far into last weeks before being stopped by Star. This will be a good TvP and I think Cuppatea can put up a decent fight if he goes in confident. Like last week, TotalBiscuit will be kicking off the stream with this corker.

rANDY and Ourk are at opposite ends of the bracket. Will they both make it through to the final and will last week's 2nd place winner Ourk make his way to finals and claim his place in the grand finals? Ireland's top player tSlayer has a good shot after showing strong results in other events: the Zerg beat last weeks winner Jdanzi in the last EU (Wiki)

CraftCup to be the last UK/Irish player standing that event. 3rd place Kwark returns with more practice time under his belt and strong runners Star and Jelly are back to see if they can go that bit further. Can other strong players like TarQeS, Poetic, Jelly and Apollo (nerdKILLER) rise to the challenge and claim their spot in the Grand Finals? Tune in tomorrow to TotalBiscuit's Live cast to find out!

So check out the brackets, find a partner on the list to practice with and prepare!

A Statistical View:
The Stats are back, with the racial balance looking pretty good once again but also, the countries stats not looking so good again. It's up to our Welsh, Irish and Scottish players to kick some English guys out and bring their friend's next week. What is interesting, is that the percents of English players is about equal to the percentage that England takes up in the population of the UK.

Race:
56/64 Signups
30.5% - 17 - Protoss
32% - 18 - Terran
28.5% - 16 - Zerg
9% - 6 - Random

Country:
82% - 46 - England
7.5% - 4 - Scotland
3.5% 2 - Wales
3.5% 2 - Ireland
3.5% 2 - Northern Ireland

Slayer91

Ireland23335 Posts

May 13 2010 00:25 GMT

#329

On May 13 2010 03:24 DeMusliM wrote:
can i take part in the next?
MYMDeMusliM.mym
Terran
Platinum
Nottinghamshire

Considering you've won most of the first prizes already... why not i guess! =p

miganto

United Kingdom16 Posts

May 13 2010 00:25 GMT

#330

Hey, i don't believe i've been put into the ladder?

Flicky

England2673 Posts

May 13 2010 00:27 GMT

#331

On May 13 2010 09:25 miganto wrote:
Hey, i don't believe i've been put into the ladder?

There's something about you, I'm sorry, I messed up the second bracket. Lemme fix that ><

miganto

United Kingdom16 Posts

May 13 2010 00:34 GMT

#332

I'm against Ourk in the first round again?

You really do have something against me i think! ;D

(It's a 1 in 3402 chance of having it happen, i believe

)

Flicky

England2673 Posts

May 13 2010 00:40 GMT

#333

On May 13 2010 09:34 miganto wrote:
I'm against Ourk in the first round again?

You really do have something against me i think! ;D

(It's a 1 in 3402 chance of having it happen, i believe

)

Haha, I checked for repeat matches, but you changed your ID ><. You'll get him this time!

Kerotan89

United Kingdom51 Posts

May 13 2010 01:00 GMT

#334

Ive switched my main race to Protoss btw not random. If it is allowed cross-events anyway

I did put it in my signup post for the event this week

arthur

United Kingdom488 Posts

May 13 2010 01:27 GMT

#335

Hey forgot to mention im Terran now not Protoss, based protoss on my BW race, but after playing some Randoms T is def my strongest race in SC2...

Jeliy.zerg

TotalBiscuit

United Kingdom5437 Posts

May 13 2010 08:12 GMT

#336

Ok ladies and gents, we're all set for tonight's show. After some research, it appears that the Livestream disconnection issues were not a result of low bandwidth as Procaster claimed, but of a caching bug within the latest version of Procaster, which caused the framerate to gradually drop until a point that it got so low, it would disconnect the stream. I have downgraded to a supposedly 'stable' version of Procaster and upped the resolution a bit, here's hoping for smooth sailing this evening.

Matches begin at 7pm BST/8pm CEST/2pm EST.

TarQeS

United Kingdom90 Posts

May 13 2010 11:10 GMT

#337

Ah man ive got dm if i get to the 3rd round. Going to be an early night for me :D

WGT-Baal

France3502 Posts

May 13 2010 13:07 GMT

#338

Hey lads,

although i m happy to represent Ireland today I m not totally sure i can make it on time.

I have a lot of work today and i may not be home before 8 pm