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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 Winners Round 3 match of the IGN Pro League Tournament of Champions!
When: Saturday, Mar 31 12:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) (we will also have a European re-broadcast as usual at Saturday, Mar 31 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 Winners Round 3. The winning player will move on to the Winners Final, and the loser will drop into the lower bracket! Keep in mind that the top 8 spots receive prize money!
![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/players/222.jpg)   Liquid`HerO vs Creator.Prime ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/players/2838.jpg) Poll: Who Will Win?!HerO (51) 67% Creator (25) 33% 76 total votes Your vote: Who Will Win?! (Vote): HerO
(Vote): Creator
Results+ Show Spoiler [HerO vs Creator] +HerO < Daybreak > Creator
HerO < Antiga Shipyard > Creator
HerO < Cloud Kingdom > Creator
Congratulations to Creator, winning 3-0! He moves on to the Winners Final, while HerO drops to LR4!
![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/players/1979.jpg)  NSH.Jjakji vs  mouz.ThorZaIN ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/players/1795.jpg) Poll: Who Will Win?!Jjakji (39) 51% ThorZaIN (37) 49% 76 total votes Your vote: Who Will Win?! (Vote): Jjakji
(Vote): ThorZaIN
Results+ Show Spoiler [Jjakji vs ThorZaIN] +Jjakji < Daybreak > ThorZaIN
Jjakji < Shattered Temple > ThorZaIN
Jjakji < Shakuras Plateau > ThorZaIN
Jjakji < Tal'Darim Altar > ThorZaIN
Congratulations to Jjakji, winning 3-1! He moves on to the Winners Final, while ThorZaIN falls to LR4!
The First Game for this match of IPL Tournament of Champions is on Saturday, Mar 31 12:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) (we will also have a European re-broadcast as usual at Saturday, Mar 31 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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Just a quick follow-up post!
We have altered the schedule a bit since the tournament started, so we want to make sure that nobody misses any important ToC matches!
Saturday, March 31st: Losers Round 4!
Sunday, April 1st: Losers Round 5 AND Winners Final!
Monday, April 2nd: Losers Final AND Grand Final!
Tuesday, April 3rd: Fight Club! Empire.viOLet vs SK.MC! (Thread coming soon)
We will not be broadcasting anything on Wednesday or Thursday evening, because we will be prepping the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas for IPL4! That event begins streaming at 10 a.m. PDT on Friday, April 6th. =)
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Wow these games look amazing! Hats off to IPL for yet another great day of broadcasts! =D
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Creator>Hero
Jjakji>Thorzain
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Gogo jjakji, we need you at IPL to redeem yourself from the gsl loss :<
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jjakji's tvt is amazing. Sorry thorzain but you need to get out of the way or this guy is going to streamroll you.
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Gogo Thorzain! Last foreigner hope, and my favourite spoon terran.
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Amazing matches! But really sad that it is on a friday night. Rebroadcast gogogo! And ThorZaIN of course!
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Both of these matches are going to be insane! Jjaki has one of the strongest tvt in the world and Hero has some of the best protoss play out there!
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Both matches can go either way I almost feel!
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opterown
Australia54784 Posts
gogo creator/thorzain! :D
and wow, mc vs violet haha
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Oh man, I should have looked. That makes me laugh.
At this point though I think that there will be a protoss in third or higher no matter what.
I'm rooting for all the non-terran players and Thorzain. So far my hopes are high.
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Gogogogo Creator!
We need you alive to kill those evil terran.
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Go HerO. I know he has the force to lin it.
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Is HerO a pvp master? o.o
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United Kingdom14464 Posts
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Hmm, those forcefields by Hero didn't do anything, no units trapped.
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I don't get why so many people are favoring HerO over Creator.
I mean, it's Creator.
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On March 31 2012 09:16 catplanetcatplanet wrote:
I don't get why so many people are favoring HerO over Creator.
I mean, it's Creator.
To be fair, Hero is in Code S, Creator isn't. Being on Liquid helps too.
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On March 31 2012 09:16 catplanetcatplanet wrote:
I don't get why so many people are favoring HerO over Creator.
I mean, it's Creator.
Maybe it's because he belongs to team liquid.
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opterown
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Creator just needs to learn to hold of early aggression from Terrans who try to cheese him, then he'd be Code S ezpz. This guy is nuts
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On March 31 2012 09:21 opterown wrote:
Creator just needs to learn to hold of early aggression from Terrans who try to cheese him, then he'd be Code S ezpz. This guy is nuts
His style is vulnerable to early aggression thats why people do it. Once you allow upgrades to past you as terran you are really behin in tha area with no wayto catch up
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also, blink stalkers > -two immortals
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If Hero had those 2 immortals he lost in the drop, I wonder if he could have tipped the battle into his favor...ah hindsight
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Creator's unit control is so bad.
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Wow Hero playing surprisingly poor.
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hero, in the future, just make blink stalkers
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Hero 3-0'd
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opterown
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Congrats on advancing Creator!
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Was to be expected, I think.
TZ vs Jjakji? Jjakji 3-1 I am guessing
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United States23455 Posts
So what if Creator wins, but Prime goes to the GSTL finals? Everyone on his team would be going anyway, so who would get the trip? I think only seven Prime members are allowed to go, so would he be able to give it to one of the lesser known Prime teammates?
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On March 31 2012 10:02 Fionn wrote:
So what if Creator wins, but Prime goes to the GSTL finals? Everyone on his team would be going anyway, so who would get the trip? I think only seven Prime members are allowed to go, so would he be able to give it to one of the lesser known Prime teammates?
There is still the 5k prize to the 1st place winner.
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United States15275 Posts
I imagine this was played during Hero's preparation for Code S. He didn't look ready for anything Creator threw at him.
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Jjakji's build orders are just so much tighter than thorzain's, and he knows it.
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On March 31 2012 10:12 CosmicSpiral wrote:
I imagine this was played during Hero's preparation for Code S. He didn't look ready for anything Creator threw at him.
Or he was just not feeling it that day.
Hero winning would be pointless outside the money. All of TL is going to ipl anyways
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On March 31 2012 10:17 GreyKnight wrote:Show nested quote +On March 31 2012 10:12 CosmicSpiral wrote:
I imagine this was played during Hero's preparation for Code S. He didn't look ready for anything Creator threw at him. Or he was just not feeling it that day. Hero winning would be pointless outside the money. All of TL is going to ipl anyways
Still it isn't like he doesn't want to win.
Jjakji has looked really dominant. I hope Thorzain can bring this back and do something though, I'll be sad to see him fall.
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United Kingdom14464 Posts
Thorzain, just kill him please.
EDIT:
WOoohhhhh YEAAAH!!!
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On March 31 2012 10:17 GreyKnight wrote:Show nested quote +On March 31 2012 10:12 CosmicSpiral wrote:
I imagine this was played during Hero's preparation for Code S. He didn't look ready for anything Creator threw at him. Or he was just not feeling it that day. Hero winning would be pointless outside the money. All of TL is going to ipl anyways
The goal of every progamer: Win games, get money 
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opterown
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hot damn creator vs jjakji will be good
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Just listening to the start of the rebroadcast for a second there, Hero is going to IPL4 whether he wins this tournament or not Doa. =P
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On March 31 2012 10:17 GreyKnight wrote:Show nested quote +On March 31 2012 10:12 CosmicSpiral wrote:
I imagine this was played during Hero's preparation for Code S. He didn't look ready for anything Creator threw at him. Or he was just not feeling it that day. Hero winning would be pointless outside the money. All of TL is going to ipl anyways
$5000 is nothing to sneeze at. But winning Code S > $5000.
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creater will take jjakji!
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On March 31 2012 10:17 GreyKnight wrote:Show nested quote +On March 31 2012 10:12 CosmicSpiral wrote:
I imagine this was played during Hero's preparation for Code S. He didn't look ready for anything Creator threw at him. Or he was just not feeling it that day. Hero winning would be pointless outside the money. All of TL is going to ipl anyways
Or maybe Creator is just better than Hero.
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On March 31 2012 11:31 RUS RO DAH!!! wrote:Show nested quote +On March 31 2012 10:17 GreyKnight wrote:On March 31 2012 10:12 CosmicSpiral wrote:
I imagine this was played during Hero's preparation for Code S. He didn't look ready for anything Creator threw at him. Or he was just not feeling it that day. Hero winning would be pointless outside the money. All of TL is going to ipl anyways Or maybe Creator is just better than Hero.
If you actually watched the games you could see that Hero did not play his best. Creator is good but Hero has really good PvP usually.
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opterown
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On March 31 2012 11:53 Hall0wed wrote:Show nested quote +On March 31 2012 11:31 RUS RO DAH!!! wrote:On March 31 2012 10:17 GreyKnight wrote:On March 31 2012 10:12 CosmicSpiral wrote:
I imagine this was played during Hero's preparation for Code S. He didn't look ready for anything Creator threw at him. Or he was just not feeling it that day. Hero winning would be pointless outside the money. All of TL is going to ipl anyways Or maybe Creator is just better than Hero. If you actually watched the games you could see that Hero did not play his best. Creator is good but Hero has really good PvP usually.
Creator's taken out people like Oz and Inca before, so he's not exactly bad
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this probably means HerO looses to Life in the LR too?
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On March 31 2012 12:13 ninjamyst wrote:
this probably means HerO looses to Life in the LR too?
What do you mean?
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On March 31 2012 12:11 opterown wrote:Show nested quote +On March 31 2012 11:53 Hall0wed wrote:On March 31 2012 11:31 RUS RO DAH!!! wrote:On March 31 2012 10:17 GreyKnight wrote:On March 31 2012 10:12 CosmicSpiral wrote:
I imagine this was played during Hero's preparation for Code S. He didn't look ready for anything Creator threw at him. Or he was just not feeling it that day. Hero winning would be pointless outside the money. All of TL is going to ipl anyways Or maybe Creator is just better than Hero. If you actually watched the games you could see that Hero did not play his best. Creator is good but Hero has really good PvP usually. Creator's taken out people like Oz and Inca before, so he's not exactly bad
Its almost as if you didn't read my post. -_-;;;;;;;
Hero has some of the best PvP around and he didn't show that in these games. As I said before, Creator is good, but him (or any player) 3-0ing Hero in PvP just shouldn't happen.
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On March 31 2012 12:13 ninjamyst wrote:
this probably means HerO looses to Life in the LR too?
I don't think the results are out, unless I missed something.
Hero's a great guy and great player, but I'm actually going to root for Life to take this tournament because he needs it more. Zenex could use some representation at IPL 4, and guys like Life rarely get opportunities to attend foreign tournaments, while Hero is going to IPL 4 anyways.
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wow didn't expect creator to 3-0
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Are there any words from ipl about what happens if creator wins? startale qualified via gstl and apparently their whole team is going (7 via IPL and rest via sponsor, according to bomber). does the 2nd place get the spot then or what?
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