The third Pro Invitational in the Grubby Starcraft Series hosted by the European Game Series will take place Friday, October 28th. 64 players from Europe and North America will be competing for €800 euros in prizes.
Update
This month's prize pool will be €400 larger than normal thanks to the generosity of Twitch.tv and our special guest James '2GD' Harding, who will be in studio on the 28th. As you all know, wherever 2GD walks money, girls and alcohol spontaneously materialize around him and after we promised not to touch his girls or alcohol, he pledged to donate €400 to this month's prize pool - what a guy.
Thanks to Twitch.tv and 2GD for helping to make this month's Pro Invitational our best yet!
When:Friday, Oct 28 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) Prizes: 1st. €600 2nd. €300 3rd. €200 4th. €100 Format: Best of 3 until the finals which is Best of 5, Single Elimination, 64 players Bracket (EGS):Brackets Bracket (FollowGrubby):Brackets Bracket (GrubbyStarcraft):Brackets Bracket (Liquipedia):Brackets Links:FollowGrubbyEGS OnlineGrubbystarcraft.com Upcoming tournament dates: + Show Spoiler +
GSS Pro Invitationals: (monthly, Friday's) - invite only
The official stream provided by EGS.tv will be manned by Shaun "Apollo" Clark who will be on-site in the EGS studio during the event.
The GSS Pro Invite is open to anyone who wants to stream, the more languages available the better. Though only the official stream will be permitted to broadcast the semi-finals onwards. If you'd like to cover the Pro Invite then send an email to admin@egsinc.org.
We'll be accepting applications for invitations in the event that we're short a few players. If you'd like to be considered for an invitation then please send the following information to GSSApplication@hotmail.com
Name Link to Battle.net account Any prior accomplishments Skype contact information
Well I take care of the invites so I Know and yes last stream was 1 of the best visited of the night so exposure is no issue indeed. Exactly what we want to achieve, getting that gamer a quality tournament with quick brackets, smooth organisation and HQ coverage
On October 18 2011 21:50 Weiman wrote: Very, very interested in showing up. I take it all 16 players will be there as well as plenty of seating for spectators?
It's an online tournament, or should my sarcasm detector have gone off after the ?
2nd Batch of invites will go out on monday! I am very happy to announce we have a mystery-admirer, who as upgraded the prize-money for this 3rd pro-tournament to 1.200 euro's.
Didn't receive an e-mail yet :< Not within the invites? ow lol i mean as a viewer....Not really surprised I am not invited as a player...however I do think it will be Amusing too see me play...or pathetic just the way you want to call it
God damnitt Grubby! Can't a Starcraft 2 fan catch a break? I wanted just one weekend off to celebrate Halloween and you have to have a 64 player tournie with great invites... no respect man.
I am also very happy to see MorroW again. We need to fill up last 15 spots still, but I am confident we manage.
Will speak to White-Ra and SaSe tomorrow, both 1st minute GSS players and some others. Only 2 people not able are Stephano and qXc i believe. (Stephano deserves a break I reckon)
Questions for the stream friday: As we are expecting heavy traffic on the stream and system coming friday and all eyes need to be focussed on the Jobs at hand, we are already taking in potential stream questions.
So please if you have any good questions for both dApollo and 2GD please drop them to me any way possible.
First question I already received was for 2GD and I Lolled
Could you guys make the new invites each time bold when you add them? It is fun to search each time who are added, but would be easier when I could just see the new additions
You should totally try to get Idra to play in this tournament. He is probably staying in Europe between ESWC and RoG, so he might be interested in playing in an online event.
On October 26 2011 21:52 xtfftc wrote: You should totally try to get Idra to play in this tournament. He is probably staying in Europe between ESWC and RoG, so he might be interested in playing in an online event.
We've invited him to compete in all of them, he hasn't accepted yet. Maybe he'll play the next one.
In Almere, 10mins from the Studio with toogood, we will be going to breakfast and then over to the venue to prepare for the awesomeness of today! get ready!
Seems like someone took the "team usa!" joke seriously and put an american flag on Morrow in the bracket. :D
My predictions: Quarter finals: Mana vs Morrow, Strelok vs Dimaga, Kas vs Sheth, Nerchio vs Grubby Semi finals: Mana vs Strelok, Kas vs Nerchio Final: Mana vs Nerchio Winner: Nerchio
Oh shit Fenix is in this? Should be in good form, be interesting to see how he does. I'd be kinda surprised if Mana didn't make the finals, though maybe Fenix or Morrow could upset. Bracket looks sweet!
only bad thing here is that EGS is one of the worst tournaments sites so far
have to finish every round to start next for all, sign up for tournaments where you didnt sign up for no check in etc etc
i really hope they fix all this isues soon so it will be on the standard so many other tournament pages are alreay on hope in this invite its better then in the normal ones cause when everyone can only start 2nd round after 1st for all finished ... such things are not smooth !
but love it see new stuff coming just better be finish before starting
On October 28 2011 23:50 ThisGS wrote: My Bracket prediction!
Yeah its pretty crazy that even Nerchio while playing Stephano knew he would lose Steph won 3-0 vs nerchio last time; and Nerchio is good !
Sad Stephano isn't in, I'd like to see a rematch between those guys. If Nerchio analysed his mistakes, he could do better. In their games he seemed to be in slightly better position after the beginnings but later Stephano was making better strategy choices and gained significant advantages.
such an amazing playerfield, its really a shame that ony so few viewers actually watch. commentators are awesome too, apollo has the great knowledge and 2gd is just hilarious.
i really dislike 2gd casting. he is a cool and funny guy, but having nearly no clue about this game (he said on fuck slasher he does not play the game) you cannot cast it properly.
On October 29 2011 03:16 Swiv wrote: i really dislike 2gd casting. he is a cool and funny guy, but having nearly no clue about this game (he said on fuck slasher he does not play the game) you cannot cast it properly.
at least apollo is awesome
i totally agree
i hope grubby casts later on, although i would love to see him go far in the tournament aswell
When I see Goody play and hear the casters say how frustrating it is to play against him I think to myself " Now toss players know how we zergs feel when playing against a terran".
Sheth wins 35 minutes game in Daybreak with the clutchiest decision making against heavily air units focused Mech, series tied 1-1. Next map is Shattered Temple.
Sheth wins Shattered temple in a 37 minute game in which Merz turtled to one 200/200 push, all Brood Lords died to ghosts but clutch banelings finished the push while a ling runby killed all Merz bases. Sheth 2-1 wins the series.
On October 29 2011 04:24 Alpino wrote: Sheth wins Shattered temple in a 37 minute game in which Merz turtled to one 200/200 push, all Brood Lords died to ghosts but clutch banelings finished the push while a ling runby killed all Merz bases. Sheth 2-1 wins the series.
Sheth plays pretty good when he is not trying to entertain his stream. At times I was almost yelling "stop casting the game and focus on winning the game! Your stream wants you to win!"
On October 29 2011 04:45 TheMexican wrote: WOW incredible bad series by both actually. i think both will likely fall out of the tournament next round. talking about dimaga-gatored here.
Well Dimaga played A LOT better in game 3 than the 2 first games. Sick macro and good timings.
On October 29 2011 04:36 ssg wrote: Good to see the NA/SA players rolling through the Euros. Yet to drop a match yet( as long as they show up).
hmmm, only one i see still in is gatored?
major is 2-0, fenix is 2-0, gatored is 2-0. Sheth is 2-0. dde lost, but lost to major.
oh, apparently you beat fenix. LP not updated.
Check the draft page. Sadly there is nobody reviewing the edits constantly so there are like 40 edits unreviewed that you don't see on the "public" page.
On October 29 2011 04:36 ssg wrote: Good to see the NA/SA players rolling through the Euros. Yet to drop a match yet( as long as they show up).
hmmm, only one i see still in is gatored?
major is 2-0, fenix is 2-0, gatored is 2-0. Sheth is 2-0. dde lost, but lost to major.
oh, apparently you beat fenix. LP not updated.
Check the draft page. Sadly there is nobody reviewing the edits constantly so there are like 40 edits unreviewed that you don't see on the "public" page.
Oh lol never knew it worked like that xD Who can actually do the reviewing?
grubby has few phoenix and they are wondering why nerchio isnt making mutas. phoenix own mutas, whereas corruptors beat phoenix like tank beats a marine.
That's how you counter Mutas with Phoenixs (with actual micro). People complain protoss can't do shitz to mass mutas. Yet Grubby showing awesome micro plays.
On October 29 2011 05:47 Xkalibert wrote: That's how you counter Mutas with Phoenixs (with actual micro). People complain protoss can't do shitz to mass mutas. Yet Grubby showing awesome micro plays.
He had two stargates before the mutas even popped and kept their numbers low before they hit critical mass, that wasnt 'mass muta' at all.
On October 29 2011 06:26 Farone wrote: 2gd is such a funny commentator, and dAppolo is allways superb, I like it!!!
he`s just funny, he is only trolling the cast because he doesnt have a clue about the game I really hope he doesn't get to cast SC2 if he`s not willing to get involved into the game
On October 29 2011 06:26 Farone wrote: 2gd is such a funny commentator, and dAppolo is allways superb, I like it!!!
he`s just funny, he is only trolling the cast because he doesnt have a clue about the game I really hope he doesn't get to cast SC2 if he`s not willing to get involved into the game
I really hope he gets to cast SC2 as much as other casters and never plays SC2.
no it doesn't if you compare their games recently stephano is WAY stronger. dimaga's strength is his zvz and even there stephano is AT LEAST even if not better.
If the phoenixes and the two groups of stalkers had gotten to the fray at the same time it would have been beautiful, but it worked out anyways for Grubby.
Where are they casting from? I can hear clapping in the background when the game ends so I imagine they are surrounded by quite a few other spectators.
They are casting from Amsterdam. Grubby plays in the room next to them and they have some spectators. Also stop saying the casters are drunk they've been drinking water/tea and half a beer.
On October 29 2011 08:02 TranceStorm wrote: Where are they casting from? I can hear clapping in the background when the game ends so I imagine they are surrounded by quite a few other spectators.
They are at Grubby's house since it's his tournament. He is in the next room playing, probably has his friends over. His wife is there also, so I imagine they are clapping for him owning his own tourney
On October 29 2011 08:02 Mouzone wrote: Grubby is soooo good now. Definitely a contender for top3 European protoss.
Normally i would say, come on man.. easy now. But beating dimaga, straight up.. Damn. Wasn't expecting that.Still, Naniwa, Sase, Hasuobs, MaNa.. Some good protoss players from europe
On October 29 2011 06:44 MoooN1 wrote: who is the guy besides apollo ?
tbo he is really really unsympatic seems like hes a big a**
I see you're quite the german..
PS: Grubby fighting.
Nice one When theres no problem, just make one and throw in a little racism
On a more serious note: I saw in the brackets there were a lot of byes in the middle of the bracket.. whats up with that? (liquipedia brackets)
Sorry, I was trying to defend 2gd in a fun way.
You used humor on a german. It was not very effective.
See, you understand me :D. On the ongoing useless discussion I am still impressed by 2gd's ability to talk without knowing much and sounding confident.
On October 29 2011 08:05 ExNexu wrote: Please stop cheering/trolling for 2gd. He is the worst caster imaginable.
I disagree wholeheartedly.
Just tuned in now to this, but 2GD together with TLO has provided the most enjoyable casting I've ever seen, when casting WCG Sweden qualifiers. It's not even close. If I could choose between 2GD + TLO and any other casting duo in the world. 2GD + TLO every time.
It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that Grubby has been kicking ass of late. You don't become a champion of anything without great work ethic and talent. It was only a matter of time really....
I like how Grubby sends out so many hallucinated Phoenixes while making the real things. If he shows 2 real ones, Dimaga may not even consider them to be real.
Including DT's in lategame army is actually brilliant since zerg usually doesn't have detection with the army in ZvP, and even if they do you can target down the seer. They have so high dps.
Oh yeah, I recognize this multitasking. Blade Master following the enemy army, stealing creeps. Raiders in their base, destroying towers, meanwhile you creep with your TC and grunts on the other side of the map.
Holy shit, Grubby played sooo well in that final game. He was sooo behind from that Zealot Archon failure, yet he somehow came back, that was really impressive.
Huge props to Grubby for organising, to 2GD and dApollo for casting. And of course major congratulations for Grubby for taking it down. Really impressive play, really nice to see Protoss played that strongly when coming from behind vs Zerg.
Only tuned in for the finals and just realised this was an 64 players invitational and not a 16 player one, and quite a few bigger foreigner names... grats, Grubby and Dimaga.
On October 29 2011 09:02 AlternativeEgo wrote: From 1-8 and last with Artosis (who had worse map score) in his group in NASL season 1 to top tier foreigner. Not bad.
SO true Grubbys run impressed me so much! Beating top tier plays like Nerchio and just showcasing mindblowing play this. Grubby has turned me into a major fan his Micro and play is so beautiful sometimes It's insane. From someone I would consider E-sports legend to a mediocre SC2 player now to a a really high level foreigner so inspiring.
Grubby Fighting!
Edit: Everytime I thought 'Ohh Grubby might be in trouble, or Ohhh Grubby over extended himself here' He wins the battle with spectacular positioning and Micro, beautiful.
Had an awesome time at the studio watching Grubby paly in first person. He's become so much faster and better <3 I will put up a lot of awesome photos tomorrow.
the attention to details in Grubby's play is just so impressive, along with his map control, and really good unit control. Really, Grubby showing that he still owns!!!
Congratulations Grubby Had a blast last evening at the studio's. 2GD & Apollo did a great job casting. EGSMike and the guys organised it very well Was a great setting to watch the games there.
Was a shame I had to leave after the 1st semi final, was already 00:30 I had to drive home (which took me 1 hour and 15 minutes) =)
On October 29 2011 10:32 Weiman wrote: Had an awesome time at the studio watching Grubby paly in first person. He's become so much faster and better <3 I will put up a lot of awesome photos tomorrow.
Oh man, wish i could have been at studio! You lucky!
Let's not forget guys like LiveZerg (aka the "unknown" dude who beat Idra at ESWC) and Feast who made it to the semis and Welmu who 2-0'd MaNa and Fenix. Well done.
And of course Dimaga who got second place. Second place finishers always miss out on the love.
On October 29 2011 22:27 EGSmike wrote: These are 4: We will be trying to organize some of them (and edit) on Monday: Have not got to that point yet as i was home at 4 am last night.
Livestream re-cast of GSS #3 is on, full length show of the hilarious and experts 2GD and d.Apollo throughout sunday some great matches and great fun watching.
Should've gotten more traffic. watched the whole thing, was very enjoyable. Also would love it if 2GD took the time to learn sc2, even if his commenting style for games he doesn't know anything about is funny, his quake casting is pretty stellar.
last 35 minutes are on. mTwDimaga VS Grubby in the Finals twitch.tv/egslive
Hey Spuick:
On October 30 2011 23:19 Spuick wrote: Should've gotten more traffic. watched the whole thing, was very enjoyable. Also would love it if 2GD took the time to learn sc2, even if his commenting style for games he doesn't know anything about is funny, his quake casting is pretty stellar.
On friday we had about 14k concurrent on 5 streams. more then 3million minutes i believe. So we did OK. We offer foreign streamers the ops to grow via this it works. All in favor of growth.
On October 29 2011 09:02 AlternativeEgo wrote: From 1-8 and last with Artosis (who had worse map score) in his group in NASL season 1 to top tier foreigner. Not bad.
Just for the record, he went 1-7 at the eswc against the 3 top-tier players he met : stephano (0-2),MaNa (0-2) and MKP (1-3). Grubby will eventually reach the top but right now it's way too soon, he has to score results on a more consitant basis against the top players.
On October 29 2011 09:02 AlternativeEgo wrote: From 1-8 and last with Artosis (who had worse map score) in his group in NASL season 1 to top tier foreigner. Not bad.
Just for the record, he went 1-7 at the eswc against the 3 top-tier players he met : stephano (0-2),MaNa (0-2) and MKP (1-3). Grubby will eventually reach the top but right now it's way too soon, he has to score results on a more consitant basis against the top players.
Congratz for the win by the way.
Well, he might not be at the very top at the moment like you posted, but he beat Nerchio (online! nerchio is a fcking beast online), Dimaga (3-0), got 1 game against MKP (ok, mech, but still). He took down Harstem, Bischu, TLO and Morrow. He probably isnt at the very top with peopel like Mana and Stephano, but he is very close to reach it. And with his experience I am quite sure we will see him winning some major tournaments in the future (2nd IeSF, 4th ESCW, 3rd Copenhagen Games, 1st GSS 3, quite some accomplishments!).
On October 29 2011 09:02 AlternativeEgo wrote: From 1-8 and last with Artosis (who had worse map score) in his group in NASL season 1 to top tier foreigner. Not bad.
Just for the record, he went 1-7 at the eswc against the 3 top-tier players he met : stephano (0-2),MaNa (0-2) and MKP (1-3). Grubby will eventually reach the top but right now it's way too soon, he has to score results on a more consitant basis against the top players.
Congratz for the win by the way.
Stephano and MaNa are amazing and Korean Terran, that's unfair ): .
On October 29 2011 09:02 AlternativeEgo wrote: From 1-8 and last with Artosis (who had worse map score) in his group in NASL season 1 to top tier foreigner. Not bad.
Just for the record, he went 1-7 at the eswc against the 3 top-tier players he met : stephano (0-2),MaNa (0-2) and MKP (1-3). Grubby will eventually reach the top but right now it's way too soon, he has to score results on a more consitant basis against the top players.
Congratz for the win by the way.
Stephano and MaNa are amazing and Korean Terran, that's unfair ): .
That's his point, he's trying to say Grubby isn't as 'amazing' as Stephano and Mana. I think he will be very soon though ^^.
On October 29 2011 09:02 AlternativeEgo wrote: From 1-8 and last with Artosis (who had worse map score) in his group in NASL season 1 to top tier foreigner. Not bad.
Just for the record, he went 1-7 at the eswc against the 3 top-tier players he met : stephano (0-2),MaNa (0-2) and MKP (1-3). Grubby will eventually reach the top but right now it's way too soon, he has to score results on a more consitant basis against the top players.
Congratz for the win by the way.
Well, he might not be at the very top at the moment like you posted, but he beat Nerchio (online! nerchio is a fcking beast online), Dimaga (3-0), got 1 game against MKP (ok, mech, but still). He took down Harstem, Bischu, TLO and Morrow. He probably isnt at the very top with peopel like Mana and Stephano, but he is very close to reach it. And with his experience I am quite sure we will see him winning some major tournaments in the future (2nd IeSF, 4th ESCW, 3rd Copenhagen Games, 1st GSS 3, quite some accomplishments!).
Thanks Grubby for organizing all your Cups!
Is Harstem that good then? I know he is pretty good but not like topplayer good.
On October 29 2011 09:02 AlternativeEgo wrote: From 1-8 and last with Artosis (who had worse map score) in his group in NASL season 1 to top tier foreigner. Not bad.
Just for the record, he went 1-7 at the eswc against the 3 top-tier players he met : stephano (0-2),MaNa (0-2) and MKP (1-3). Grubby will eventually reach the top but right now it's way too soon, he has to score results on a more consitant basis against the top players.
Congratz for the win by the way.
The 1-8 was 9 bo3's and not map scores. But sure, maybe I exaggerated a tad with the "top tier". Maybe. His improvement is still huge tho. ^_^
Plz let me know if you want to see some of the replays from friday live. I have some off the earlier ones here and ready and can put them on Twitch within seconds.
matches available: mTwDIMAGA vs Swainz Tal'Darim Altar LE, The Shattered Temple, Antiga Shipyard(zvp) ESCGoOdy vs Swainzon MLG Daybreak, GSL Terminus, MLG Antiga Shipyard (tvp) mouzHasu vs imbaBratOk on Tal'darim (pvt)
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Official Stream: EGSLive with Apollo and 2GD![[image loading]](http://grubby.muppetshow.org/Images/Flags/ru.png)
Russian Stream: GoodGame.ru with Miker![[image loading]](http://grubby.muppetshow.org/Images/Flags/fr.png)
French Stream: OrigineTV with Karrigan & Co![[image loading]](http://grubby.muppetshow.org/Images/Flags/de.png)
German Stream: MoriCupStream with Mori![[image loading]](http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/4662/unled2vx.png)
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SaSe
TBA (600€)
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