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IGN Pro League is thrilled to be able to bring you another unique StarCraft II tournament! This one is called Tournament of Champions, and is a 16-man, double elimination tournament for a $12,000 prize pool! Each team from the IPL Team Arena Challenge was asked to pick one player from their roster to represent them in this global tournament, that will span the month of March. The WINNER of the Tournament of Champions will receive a spot in our live, open qualifier at IPL4 at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Official Home of the IPL as well as an all expenses paid flight and hotel stay for the event!
The time has come for our first Losers Round 1 match of the IGN Pro League Tournament of Champions!
When: Wednesday, Mar 21 12:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) (we will also have a European re-broadcast as usual at Wednesday, Mar 21 4:30pm GMT (GMT+00:00))
Format
This double-elimination tournament features 16 players from around the world and is an best of 5 format. This match is being played for Losers Round 1. The winning player will move on in the Losers Bracket, and the loser will be eliminated entirely! Keep in mind that the top 8 spots receive prize money!
![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/players/2747.jpg)   ZeNEX.Life vs  Artist ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/players/2744.jpg) Poll: Who Will Win?!Life (17) 65% Artist (9) 35% 26 total votes Your vote: Who Will Win?! (Vote): Life
(Vote): Artist
Results+ Show Spoiler [Life vs Artist] +Life < Cloud Kingdom > Artist
Life < Metropolis > Artist
Life < Antiga Shipyard > Artist
Congratulations to Life, winning 3-0 and moving on to LR2! Artist has been eliminated!
![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/players/969.jpg)  ST.Squirtle vs  Empire.Kas ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/players/1693.jpg) Poll: Who Will Win?!Squirtle (22) 59% Kas (15) 41% 37 total votes Your vote: Who Will Win?! (Vote): Squirtle
(Vote): Kas
Results+ Show Spoiler [Squirtle vs Kas] +Squirtle < Cloud Kingdom > Kas
Squirtle < Antiga Shipyard > Kas
Squirtle < Daybreak > Kas
Squirtle < Tal'Darim Altar > Kas
Squirtle < Sanshorn Mist AE > Kas
Congratulations to Kas, winning 3-2 and moving on to LR2! Squirtle has been eliminated.
The First Game for this match of IPL Tournament of Champions is on Wednesday, Mar 21 12:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) (we will also have a European re-broadcast as usual at Wednesday, Mar 21 4:30pm GMT (GMT+00:00))
Map List
IPLMap Sanshorn Mists AE
IPLMap Atlantis Spaceship
IPLMap Antiga Shipyard
IPLMap Daybreak
IPLMap Tal'Darim Altar LE
IPLMap Cloud Kingdom
IPLMap Metropolis
All the maps can be found on NA, EU, or KR by searching for IPLMap!
The first map will be on a set rotation, and then it is loser's pick.
Casters
This week's games will be commentated by CatsPajamas and Doa!
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Artist and Squirtle win I think, but I hope I'm wrong on both counts.
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Life and Squirtle should win this
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Squirtle ftw. He's got this.
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Kas will get stomped. He plays so bad lately, even getting raped 0:3 by TLO...
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Should be awesome, just wish there wasnt so much terran in this tourney x.x
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Life and Squirtle, easy calls.
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Yes, cheeser got owned! 
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Infestors are out, come on Life!!
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What a back and forth game.
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Life's pretty good with this style
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Congrats Life! I was cheering for him for the sake of racial diversity and Zenex, but I also feel a bit bad that Artist, who I believe is still teamless, getting knocked out. Hopefully Artist finds a team soon.
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Wow Life vs Artist already finished O_o That one sided? Time in the OP is wrong again. It says it starts at 9 pm EDT and it's 8:53 EDT
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Sorry, since Daylight Savings kicked in I've been getting slightly discombobulated. x.x
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It's all good. Daylight Savings is so stupid >.> It's messing up my life
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On March 21 2012 09:58 Shellshock1122 wrote:
It's all good. Daylight Savings is so stupid >.> It's messing up my life
>_>.... hi there. What is your prediction? I think Kas is very good, but even though he's good and Squirtle's statistically worst match up is PvT I think Squirtle is going to take it 3-1.
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On March 21 2012 09:59 Type|NarutO wrote:Show nested quote +On March 21 2012 09:58 Shellshock1122 wrote:
It's all good. Daylight Savings is so stupid >.> It's messing up my life >_>.... hi there. What is your prediction? I think Kas is very good, but even though he's good and Squirtle's statistically worst match up is PvT I think Squirtle is going to take it 3-1.
3-1 sounds reasonable especially since Kas seems to be in a bit of a slump. Squirtle is also starting to heat up lately in individual leagues although his only PvT in GSL recently was against Taeja who is really good. Startale obviously thinks he can beat Terrans because they sent him out against people like Marineking in team league when they still had other options left.
How did the Life vs Artist games go? Were they completely one sided, close, or a mix?
Also, I've noticed that Squirtle seems to struggle more against really aggressive terrans like Marineking and Taeja while he can hold his own against more passive terrans. I don't know a ton about the EU scene but from what I've seen from Kas he's not exactly the most aggressive player. I think the play style also favors squirtle in this case
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On March 21 2012 10:02 Shellshock1122 wrote:Show nested quote +On March 21 2012 09:59 Type|NarutO wrote:On March 21 2012 09:58 Shellshock1122 wrote:
It's all good. Daylight Savings is so stupid >.> It's messing up my life >_>.... hi there. What is your prediction? I think Kas is very good, but even though he's good and Squirtle's statistically worst match up is PvT I think Squirtle is going to take it 3-1. 3-1 sounds reasonable especially since Kas seems to be in a bit of a slump. Squirtle is also starting to heat up lately in individual leagues although his only PvT in GSL recently was against Taeja who is really good. Startale obviously thinks he can beat Terrans because they sent him out against people like Marineking in team league when they still had other options left. How did the Life vs Artist games go? Were they completely one sided, close, or a mix?
Couldn't be more of a rape >_> Life is now arrested for murder;
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On March 21 2012 10:06 Type|NarutO wrote:Show nested quote +On March 21 2012 10:02 Shellshock1122 wrote:On March 21 2012 09:59 Type|NarutO wrote:On March 21 2012 09:58 Shellshock1122 wrote:
It's all good. Daylight Savings is so stupid >.> It's messing up my life >_>.... hi there. What is your prediction? I think Kas is very good, but even though he's good and Squirtle's statistically worst match up is PvT I think Squirtle is going to take it 3-1. 3-1 sounds reasonable especially since Kas seems to be in a bit of a slump. Squirtle is also starting to heat up lately in individual leagues although his only PvT in GSL recently was against Taeja who is really good. Startale obviously thinks he can beat Terrans because they sent him out against people like Marineking in team league when they still had other options left. How did the Life vs Artist games go? Were they completely one sided, close, or a mix? Couldn't be more of a rape >_> Life is now arrested for murder;
Damn. Yea when I saw it was over that quick I was like either someone tried some cheese and failed/succeeded or it was just an absolute beat down. Too bad for Artist. TvZ is supposed to be his strongest matchup, too, I believe. Life is pretty good though. Can't believe he's having so much trouble qualifying for GSL (well i guess I can since code B is hard as shit but this kid has talent).
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Squirtle got quite greedy and risky there: Going collosus, twilight tech, double forge and third?
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Well, he lost, but Squirtle's forcefields are pretty damn awesome
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On March 21 2012 10:19 Bagration wrote:
Squirtle got quite greedy and risky there: Going collosus, twilight tech, double forge and third?
Yeah... Kas literally had a 4+ minute window to kill Squirtle there, really weird build.
When Kas finally did show up, Squirtle handled the engagement a little bit weirdly as well.
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On March 21 2012 10:21 Mordiford wrote:Show nested quote +On March 21 2012 10:19 Bagration wrote:
Squirtle got quite greedy and risky there: Going collosus, twilight tech, double forge and third? Yeah... Kas literally had a 4+ minute window to kill Squirtle there, really weird build. When Kas finally did show up, Squirtle handled the engagement a little bit weirdly as well.
I'm not really sure what Squirtle was expecting. I guess he was hoping Kas would just turtle forever and squirtle could just chrono up to like 3-3 vs 1-1 with all his gateway upgrades or something.
I hope Squirtle uses the PartinG build on this map. I want to see how Kas stands up against it. Squirtle tried it against Polt and it didn't go too well.
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The upgrade disparity is going to be huge soon. 3-3 with colossus and storm vs 1-1 soon
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I hate to say it but... Kas didn't even try to micro there T.T
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I think he landed his Vikings trying to siege his tanks or something.. that was weird
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wow...
im glad Kas is trying out some new stuff for TvP but that was brutal.
Supply lead while denying the toss's 3rd and taking his own, and he gets completely rolled and comes out 50 supply down.
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Terrible engagement by Kas, and his army was already behind in upgrades.
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On March 21 2012 10:37 xrapture wrote:
wow...
im glad Kas is trying out some new stuff for TvP but that was brutal.
Supply lead while denying the toss's 3rd and taking his own, and he gets completely rolled and comes out 50 supply down.
That's one of the issues of mech: You can't retreat. You pick a bad engagement, and you lose the game.
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On March 21 2012 10:37 Type|NarutO wrote:
I hate to say it but... Kas didn't even try to micro there T.T
his army had no chance anyway..
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On March 21 2012 10:37 xrapture wrote:
wow...
im glad Kas is trying out some new stuff for TvP but that was brutal.
Supply lead while denying the toss's 3rd and taking his own, and he gets completely rolled and comes out 50 supply down.
Squirtle's upgrades were too great. Kas had a better chance if he would have taken his advantage and sat on it instead of continuing to walk around the map.
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If Kas loses this game I'll be sad
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Squirtle likes to kill himself some games, really annoying. If he would just play his standard game everytime here against Kas it would have been a 3-0. -_-;;;
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no FF in this type of macro style means kas wins every engagement
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On March 21 2012 10:51 Hall0wed wrote:
Squirtle likes to kill himself some games, really annoying. If he would just play his standard game everytime here against Kas it would have been a 3-0. -_-;;;
TDA is a pretty good 4 gate map, and it has worked before against Terrans.
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Squirtle is floating a ton of resources
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I think we can safely say that it's about to get heavy.
So many marauders.
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Wow Squirtle playing like complete shit. I don't remember the last time I saw him play so horribly. T_T I've seen him control his army 10x better in the past. >_<
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Fuck yeah Kas !!!!!! gogo I'm so happy right now <3
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Hahaha well I guess we were wrong Naruto. Grats to Kas
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gj kas.. haha.. so many marauders.
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All in more squirtle... idiotic decisions
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Well played by Kas. I can't say I do like that mass marauder style but it did work out for him. GGs! Thanks IGN for bringing those games to us once again.
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6 Marauders per production cycle. Mad, mad world.
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Finally Kas winning some games again! So happy!
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I don't understand why Squirtle plays so poorly in PvT, especially these days.
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