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 Losers Round 5 and Winners Final matches of the IGN Pro League Tournament of Champions!
When: Monday, Apr 02 12:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) (we will also have a European re-broadcast as usual at Monday, Apr 02 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. Today's first match is from Losers Round 5. The winning player will move on to the Losers Final, and the loser will be eliminated entirely! Our second match is the Winners Final. The winner will go to the Grand Final and the loser will go to the Winners Final. Keep in mind that the top 8 spots receive prize money!
HerO < Tal'Darim Altar > GuMiho HerO < Cloud Kingdom > GuMiho HerO < Metropolis > GuMiho Congratulations to HerO, winning 3-0! He moves on to Losers Final, and GuMiho has been eliminated!
Jjakji < Sanshorn Mist AE > Creator Jjakji < Metropolis > Creator Jjakji < Antiga Shipyard > Creator Jjakji < Daybreak > Creator Congratulations to Jjakji, winning 3-1! He moves on to the Grand Finals, and Creator falls to the Losers Final!
The First Game for this match of IPL Tournament of Champions is on Monday, Apr 02 12:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) (we will also have a European re-broadcast as usual at Monday, Apr 02 4:30pm GMT (GMT+00:00))
HerO and all of Liquid is going anyway and so is Creator and about everyone notable from Prime, only Gumiho has a chance to earn a ticket and frankly, I'd much rather see Jjakji tearing shit up in Vegas than the Towel Terran.
Hmm - should be some exciting games! For both sets I could see either of them winning.
Gumiho has great TvP, but Hero's ain't the worst either - especially lately. I could definitely see HerO taking him out, but I'm voting for Gumiho.
I'm especialy excited for Creator vs. Jjakji because vT and vP are both are reallllly good at their respective matchup. I'm gonna give the edge to Jjakji here just cause Creator's already got a spot to IPL4, so i'd rather see more Code S class players like Jjakji!
On April 02 2012 06:12 Canucklehead wrote: What happens if creator wins. Does the spot go to 2nd place or does prime just get another flight paid for instead of the 7 given by IPL?
Wouldn't it just go to one of the team members that are not included in the 7 for GSTL? Plus - IPL has paid for a good percentage of the flight costs for the teams according to David Ting on the executives, so they wouldn't benefit from that so much =p
On April 02 2012 09:37 IgnE wrote: Terrible opening by Gumiho considering the map. Don't know how he expected to win that game.
He did this build vs Creator I think? I forgot what tourney but it worked alright.
Don't think it is a bad build per se, but definitely very reliant on the follow up being spot on. Seemed like Gumiho continued tank production past its welcome and never got anything out of it except to make every Protoss player quite nervous as one always is against a 1-1-1. I have to say that I like seeing experimentation being done with actual follow ups from a non-all in 1-1-1 too, it often puts Terran in quite advantageous but not game winning positions; the mid to end game transitions are so unexplored though.
On April 02 2012 09:43 Porcelina wrote: Love how the casters realize that it is a Warp Prism 4 Gate a minute and a half after it was clear that it would be the case.
IPL casts are usually pretty light on Protoss insight. I watch them for the games more than anything. Even if the casters are very good at their race, they sometimes miss obvious stuff from the other races just due to their lacking familiarity.
On April 02 2012 09:43 Porcelina wrote: Love how the casters realize that it is a Warp Prism 4 Gate a minute and a half after it was clear that it would be the case.
IPL casts are usually pretty light on Protoss insight. I watch them for the games more than anything. Even if the casters are very good at their race, they sometimes miss obvious stuff from the other races just due to their lacking familiarity.
Yeah it was not a slight on them. I usually enjoy Cats and Doa, just for the pleasant banter that occurs when they cast together. It is simply rather amusing when this happens, as they quite frequently have little to say about the early game at all. But as long as the observing is decent and they show a production tab, I can just watch the game and treat whatever they say as an easy to listen to background and feel the excitement whenever they decide to go for it.
No bashing at all. In fact, they are extremely hard working and I really appreciate IPL and their casters for providing me so much content in general.
And of course it is very easy to be happy about everything when your favorite player is winning.
I don't think DoA follows GSL anymore (assuming this is a live cast), he said that there is still a chance of Gumiho going to IPL4 if FXO goes to the GSTL finals. They lost last night. T_T
On April 02 2012 09:55 Hall0wed wrote: I don't think DoA follows GSL anymore (assuming this is a live cast), he said that there is still a chance of Gumiho going to IPL4 if FXO goes to the GSTL finals. They lost last night. T_T
It's a pre-recorded cast.
What the hell is up with jjakji in online tournaments recently....so many all-ins.
On April 02 2012 09:55 Hall0wed wrote: I don't think DoA follows GSL anymore (assuming this is a live cast), he said that there is still a chance of Gumiho going to IPL4 if FXO goes to the GSTL finals. They lost last night. T_T
It's a pre-recorded cast.
What the hell is up with jjakji in online tournaments recently....so many all-ins.
Maybe he just doesn't care about them much and wants to get them over with? It seems weird, I agree, though they have been working pretty well for him.
I wouldn't want to go to the lategame against Creator anyway, tbqh
So many Immortals made. Even started one before the first Observer, so very greedy by Creator.
Easy to smile when you do not really care about the outcome of the match, if I had been a die hard Protoss or Creator fan that game would not have been easy to watch however.
Like...Jjakji is kind of scary playing standard. Though to be fair he had a fine advantage after that failed 4 Gate off Creator.
Also, CP, no need to excuse yourself from knowing LoL teams. I don't know many at all, but it is not as if the knowledge is something to be ashamed of! Gogo LoL teams!
On April 02 2012 10:29 Porcelina wrote: Like...Jjakji is kind of scary playing standard. Though to be fair he had a fine advantage after that failed 4 Gate off Creator.
I feel like Creator should have been better off, dont know how he lost that many units when jjakji had mostly helions.
On April 02 2012 10:29 Porcelina wrote: Like...Jjakji is kind of scary playing standard. Though to be fair he had a fine advantage after that failed 4 Gate off Creator.
I feel like Creator should have been better off, dont know how he lost that many units when jjakji had mostly helions.
The observing was kind of off. The Hellions went in to Creator's natural when Jjakji did the first drop that was met with four Stalkers in the main. Was hard to follow what actually happened, but two out of the four Hellions made it out with five kills between them. They never showed SCV/Probe counts past that, but I would imagine they killed off at least ten Probes?
And to the poster above. No, none of the openings were standard. But the early midgame with two-pronged aggression with MMM (and a few Hellions) versus Gateway is not unknown in the TvP matchup. -.-
On April 02 2012 10:36 bkrow wrote: I missed the first couple games - but i thought Creator had unbeatable PvT; kind of like he was the master of it, the anti-cheese?
Creator's a late game player. He folds to cheese pretty easily (see: his up/down groups where he got bunkered lol)
On April 02 2012 10:36 bkrow wrote: I missed the first couple games - but i thought Creator had unbeatable PvT; kind of like he was the master of it, the anti-cheese?
He's fairly good at holding early aggression, but far from unbeatable. He has proven to be almost unbeatable if you let him transition into his lategame of choice, though.
On April 02 2012 10:36 bkrow wrote: I missed the first couple games - but i thought Creator had unbeatable PvT; kind of like he was the master of it, the anti-cheese?
First game Jjakji went double Starport Banshee without Cloak. Creator read it as a 1-1-1, overbuilt by far on Immortals and had no real defense against five Banshees with SCVs repairing them. Second game was a 1-1-1 proper with a very late siege mode by Jjakji, Creator countered easily with a Nexus first and heavy chrono on what turned into many Immortals. Third game was a Hellion build by Jjakji, Creator went 4 Gate. Jjakji came out ahead after meeting the first Creator units in the middle with Hellions and Marauders. They both expanded behind it, Jjakji went into a drop in the main with four Marauders while sending four Hellions into the natural, killed a lot of Probes and just extended the advantage further with small drops and threatening Hellions into the natural again until a doom drop into the main sealed the game.
The awkward moment when you realize that your four colossi are tripoding their way into a concave of vikings, unsupported. Happy that Jjakji went through though.
On April 02 2012 10:48 WigglingSquid wrote: The awkward moment when you realize that your four colossi are tripoding their way into a concave of vikings, unsupported. Happy that Jjakji went through though.
Yeah that pretty much turned what looked to be a fairly even encounter into a pure Protoss slaughter.
Edit: To Bagration: Do not see him on any list and has not qualified in any way, so I assume that the answer is no. Which is a shame, though to be fair with the amount of playing and travelling he has undertaken some time off would probably benefit him a lot long term.
Whoa Gumiho 0-3 to Hero? He's having an oGsTOP-esque fall from grace. In the span of only a few weeks he's gone from being on the cusp of glory to getting waxed at every encounter.
On April 02 2012 11:07 VirgilSC2 wrote: Tournament of Terrans:
PvP in the Losers Final.
There were only 4 code A/S caliber terrans who actually ended up playing so it's not all that surprising. Creator had an easy bracket, but Hero has definitely impressed with his PvT.
On April 02 2012 23:18 Proseat wrote: So when will be the Losers Final rematch of HerO vs Creator? Later tonight?
Thats what it says on the IPL schedule, though im quite certain on the broadcast they said tuesday, but i might be wrong. eighter way its apparently tonight.
On April 02 2012 23:18 Proseat wrote: So when will be the Losers Final rematch of HerO vs Creator? Later tonight?
On April 02 2012 03:17 IGNProLeague wrote: Reminder: The Losers Final and Grand Final of Tournament of Champions will be at Tuesday, Apr 03 12:00am GMT (GMT+00:00), so don't miss them!
EPT
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