compLexity Gaming is proud to announce WEEK 6 of its biggest initiative in the StarCraft 2 community, The V! The best test of skill in SC2 is of course the 1 v 1, and we're going to showcase it every week with a best of 7 series between two invited players. The winner will receive $100, and the loser will just have to hang his head in shame as he types "gg." Whoever wins The V will be expected to play the very next week at the same time, Friday at 7 p.m. EST!
Cast by AskJoshy and potentially a compLexity Staff or Player co-caster. Stream can be seen on the front page of compLexityGaming.com
Format: Best of 7 series, first map will be played on Xel'Naga Caverns. Loser of each map will choose the next map from the Battle.net 1v1 ladder map pool. There will be no map vetoes. Maps may not be repeated. In the event of a disconnect, the game replay will be reviewed by a player panel to determine if a re-game is necessary. If one player disconnects three times in a single night, he will forfeit the series and the non-disconnecting player will be asked back to the next V.
Prizes: The winner of the best of 7 series will receive $100 via Paypal and be invited to play again the following week. The loser will receive nothing. Every week we have a different giveaway for our viewers, so be sure to tune in for instructions on how to win! This week's giveaway is a compLexity Gaming professional-quality mousepad! I use one myself, it's awesome. =D
So come join us for the sixth ever edition of "The V" and see if EG.Axslav can defend his Week 4 and 5 title against our newest challenger, Dignitas SjoW! Axslav has been our FIRST back-to-back champion so far, with impressive displays of dominance against Sixjax-NrG.dde and ROOT.Slush, but can he hold up to the Terran might of the European Champion SjoW? Please feel free to vote in the poll and leave a comment with your series score prediction!
On February 24 2011 06:08 p4NDemik wrote: SjoW's been slumping a bit lately, lost to some questionable toss players, I think Axslav is gonna take his third showmatch in a row.
Well there was that little incident with Sein at Assembly... don't think that will ever happen again. =P
On February 24 2011 06:08 p4NDemik wrote: SjoW's been slumping a bit lately, lost to some questionable toss players, I think Axslav is gonna take his third showmatch in a row.
Well there was that little incident with Sain at Assembly... don't think that will ever happen again. =P
On February 24 2011 06:08 p4NDemik wrote: SjoW's been slumping a bit lately, lost to some questionable toss players, I think Axslav is gonna take his third showmatch in a row.
Still, Sjow is leagues above most players. I don't think you could count him out because he lost a few questionable games lately.
On February 24 2011 06:08 p4NDemik wrote: SjoW's been slumping a bit lately, lost to some questionable toss players, I think Axslav is gonna take his third showmatch in a row.
Agreed. Axslavs PvT is so good that Sjow will have to play at the top of his game
On February 24 2011 11:47 FinestHour wrote: So I might have to play Axslav on saturday for the Berkeley open! I will have to study the stream carefully...
Sounds like a pretty tough opponent for a smaller tournament. Bad luck!
Axslav has some great PvT, while I still maintain Sjow's hasn't been convincing since he took down WhiteRa at IEM. Think I'll go for 4-2 in Axslav's favour.
Awesome showmatch! I Love that you're doing this Josh! I can't really tell who's gonna win, i like both but if I'd have to choose, I'd go with good ol' Ax.
I found Axslav's PvT pretty impressive the first few times I saw him play, but it's starting to feel like he relies a bit too heavily on the 3 gate fast expand into a big 2 base push.
Sjow certainly seems to have settled down against it and sort of knows what he's expecting to see.
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Axslav ties back up after Sjow's early pressure fails on Blistering
yeah, axslav's wins aren't really impressive, always a 2 base push. I think steppes will favor his style, but let's wait and see (edit: ok, maybe not).
(Sjow should defend against this 2base pushes better, though)
Yeah, Steppes always makes for such great games lol >_>
Axslav going 3gate expand (4gate? didn't catch when the fourth went down), Sjow pushes with a handful of marines, marauders, hellions, and an scv for bunkers. Axslav has 1 stalker and 1 sentry out, loses a ton of probes, doesn't cancel his nexus which is in range of the bunkers, Can't break the bunker contain, GG's out.
Gg's! Both played really well but I gotta wonder how well axslav has those expands figured out. The 2gate > expo > 4gate looked like it could be abused pretty hard.
great series ruined by terrible map pool. Steppes... what a joke. terrible reasoning by josh for not changing...steppes....steppes...c'mon. congrats to sjow deserved his wins sucks it was determined by steppes..
On February 26 2011 11:09 vdale wrote: yeah, axslav's wins aren't really impressive, always a 2 base push. I think steppes will favor his style, but let's wait and see (edit: ok, maybe not).
(Sjow should defend against this 2base pushes better, though)
can't rly do anything else with the map pool cept on cross map metal and cross map shakuras, and xel naga. On metal I would have played different but he fell so far behind on the opening I just decided to go collosus and finish it quick and on xel naga he tried to do too much at once and put his units in a bad position without bunkers so i added 2 more gates and killed him instead of teching and taking a third. I'm far stronger playing 3-4-5 base play than the 2 base mid-game but it's just not applicable with most of the blizzard maps.
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