What another amazing week of nation wars for the SEA/AZNZ region!!
The proceedings began at 2PM SG time when
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New Zealand squared off against
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Indonesia. With three games going 2-1, and one going 2-0, the games were actually alot closer then the 4-0 scoreline reflected. However, with
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NZ manager Stroggos crucially stepping in to take down Indonesian star Kottbullar, NZ managed to gain the 3 ladder points and that vital +1 bonus point for their 4-0 victory, which could come in real handly in the final tallying of points.
At 3pm, both the
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Singapore vs
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Vietnam and
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Australia vs
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Phillipines matches began. The Singapore manager decided to let some new Singapore talents showoff their skills, but would it be enough to overcome Vietnam? Vietnam were the current top leaders of the table, having beat Phillpines 4-0 impressively the week before. After some great games,
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Singapore emerged victorious winning with wins from Revenant, TenderSteak, and up and coming talents Progrezzion and Sweet. Vietnam manager Fantasio stepped in and took a map for Vietnam with some impressive collosus play against progrezzion. Another close match was TenderSteak vs Vietnam star Rambolicious on Lost Temple, with lots of early aggression which really could have gone either way. Singapore get +3 points and that vital +1 bonus point for the 4-0 Victory.
The Australia vs Phillipines matches had an astounding 517+ viewers at its peak! ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tsld/images/flags/au.png)
Australia, which was rated as the #1 team to take this compeition by every manager in the pre-match interviews last week, did not disappoint. They showed off what amazing depth they have in their team. Kjh started the match off with a 2-0 victory, then Glade showed off that hes amazing with terran too by 2-0ing dav, and finally the 2 Aussie random players Guc and Semu winning 2-1 and 2-0 respectively.
Shoutouts this week go to of course the fantastic casters. For Mezza.445, an up and coming Singaporean caster, it was his first time doing live casting and he did a great job casting the NZ vs IND matches. You can see his stream here
http://www.livestream.com/mezzastarcraft. Mezza is currently looking for a co-caster for next week!
For the Singapore vs Vietnam match, Singapore casters Kelly and HDPhoenixx did a great job too, and it was their first time casting together. HDPhoenixx has a really nice style, hes like Singapores own Husky ^^ And kelly says im a meanie so im gonna say Kelly please stop talking about how Xel Naga towers and everything else looks like xxxxxes. Check out their casts here.
http://www.livestream.com/kellymilkies http://www.youtube.com/user/HDPhoenixxLastly to Unstable and co who did a great Job as usual keeping the 500+ viewers throughly entertained. View archives of their stream here.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/unstable-tv1Replays will be out soon as will the archived VODs at the respective streams listed above for those who want to watch that

Be prepared for a very exciting series of matches next week as 16 of the top players in SEA might have to sit out to play in the Blizzcon invite tourney. But its going to be business as usual and its going to be really exiciting to see how these "Top" nations do against the other countries without their star players being available - glade, redarchon, leggionaire, indy, etc.