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Sydney SC2 Festival ($5000) - Page 5
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MaReK
Australia446 Posts
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Chris_CityHunter
Australia310 Posts
you can thank your luck stars that youll have to wait until the Semi Finals to get smashed by him lol | ||
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BEARDiaguz
Australia2362 Posts
Well, at least I didn't get matched up against my good friend Schiznak. See you tomorrow | ||
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TheFinalWord
Australia790 Posts
On September 14 2010 14:26 Chris_CityHunter wrote: you can always come spectate? :D Tommorow is the finals? Just rock up and you can watch? I might just do that. | ||
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BEARDiaguz
Australia2362 Posts
This is of course assuming I actually win. I dunno. might happen. Thumbs crossed for blizzard NOT patching the game before tomrrow and making the game fair for all them zergs. | ||
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BEARDiaguz
Australia2362 Posts
3rd was Kommunist, (T) 2nd was myself (T) 1st was Glade (Z, best Z in SEA, oh my fucking god. I kill like every ladder zerg ezpz then I get my dick ripped off and raped to death by Moonglade. Pretty cool guy) 2v2 and CSS to be concluded later. Also, is it ok if Schiznak and ImSkepical receive my prize in my stead tomorrow? I won't be able to make it on account of family shit going down that day. Thanks. | ||
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Chris_CityHunter
Australia310 Posts
1st. Fei Z & Jack M 2nd. Karl X & Jimmy W 3rd. Cameron L & Mike R Thanks to everyone that made this event a success, we hope to do another 1 vs 1 LAN in the Summer | ||
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goobahman
Australia8 Posts
Here's a basic overview of how the finals went down: with 4 Groups of 5 (and a couple of holes here and there) we saw many exciting games go down, from professional cheeses, to drawn out macro-fests, there was variety and excitement across the board. The stand out player was GlaDe (a.k.a MoonGlade), a member of Team Immunity who placed 4th in the SEA Blizzard invitational, who flew down from QLD to show us that a race currently undertuned could still take us all to school. He played a solid Zerg strat utilizing a lot of mutas and lings, that ensured victory after victory, not losing a single match in the whole 1v1 tournament. A good sport, and a nice guy, no one can say he didn't deserve first place. Arguably the best player in Australia at the moment, and with Zerg at that. That's not to say the other players weren't excellent performers. Iaguz, who lost to GlaDe for 1st place, ensured he had to earn it, with a strong Terran play, utilizing a lot of creativity in drops, and taking advantage of Lost temple's terrain, however GlaDe's excellent creeping, and map control, meant that any strong push by Iaguz was drowned in a swarm of zerg. GlaDe sealed the deal in the 3rd match on Steppes of War, utilizing Iaguz's strat against him with Overlord drops. Iaguz strong defensive capabilities helped him survive well into each match, but he couldn't stem the overwhelming flood of zerg. Iaguz took it in stride though, gracious in defeat. He's a great sport who has already helped my TvT from sucking so much ass. Sanchez (4th) and Kommunist (3rd) were the other two finalists, both players with a lot of potential, but not quite the polish that gave Iaguz and Glade their deserved victories. Expect a difficult game if you ever encounter these guys on the ladder. All round the 1v1 tournament was a truly enjoyable experience. For me the most enjoyable part was seeing the meta-game manifest. The problem with the Ladder is that your up against a random opponent everytime. Being able to see and hear about people's play styles before entering a game allowed for a lot more outside-the-game thinking, particular in the finals wherein it was best of 3, and best of 5, so the games had a lot more personality and flavour then you would see in ladder games. Even being able to recognize names that you had been playing over the past 2-3 weeks was quite something, putting a face to a previously ambigous internet opponent. Same for the 2v2 tourny, which I couldn't stay to watch the finals for, but that was great fun for the same reasons. Stand-out game was to see PiG and his brother (who I can't remember the name of. Sorry I'm terrible with names) top their group with a win against Glade's. Fantastic utility of inf drops into enemies bases, taking out their economies, whilst putting just enough of a defense together to resist Glade's Tank/inf army from stealing the win in what could of easily turned into a base race. Again, scoping out the other teams in your group and trying to get an idea of their strats etc added another enjoyable aspect to the game, and actually helped people win games. It's enjoyable to partake in the meta-game, something we usually only get to watch in the upper tiers, and something tournament play will always have that over ladder play. If anyone can share how the 2v2 finals went down I'd love to hear it. Best of all though was seeing Australian SC2 community come together, from across different states enjoying a truly fantastic game. Kudos to Cityhunter and the tourny organizer, chris, for putting it all together. We all eagerly await future competitions, and will no doubt be helping each other sharpen our games in preparation. Anyone else there please share what you most enjoyed about the experience. P.S Player of the comp: Anh. By far the most entertaining player to watch, shoutcasting as he played. Next tournament that guy needs to be employed as a commentator. Stand out strat was massing High Templar, with everyone watching but him seeing that he hadn't tech'd storm. | ||
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This would have been fun to sign up for. 
