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The time has come for our next Winners Round 1 match of the IGN Pro League Team Arena Challenge 3!
When: Thursday, May 17 10:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) (we will also have a European re-broadcast as usual at Friday, May 18 5:30pm GMT (GMT+00:00))
Format
This double-elimination tournament features 24 teams from around the world and is an All-Kill team format. This match is being played for Winners Round 1. The first team to defeat everyone on the opposing team's roster (5 wins, or a best of 9), will move on in the Winners Bracket, while the loser will drop down into the Losers Bracket. Keep in mind that this has a $20,000 prize pool, and only six teams will make it to the money!
FXO.CIS Brat_OK Strelok  HappyZerg LoWeLy Snake  Max Elbegast ![[image loading]](http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/9668/coliconnew.png) compLexity GanZi Heart NaDa qxc TriMaster goswser Ryze Minigun Killer Ryan
The First Game of the IPL Team Arena Challenge 3 is on Thursday, May 17 10:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) (we will also have a European re-broadcast as usual at Friday, May 18 5:30pm GMT (GMT+00:00))
Poll: Who Will Win?!compLexity (21) 51% FXO.CIS (20) 49% 41 total votes Your vote: Who Will Win?! (Vote): FXO.CIS
(Vote): compLexity
Results!+ Show Spoiler [FXO.CIS vs compLexity Results] +HappyZerg < Daybreak > GanZi
HappyZerg < Antiga Shipyard > NaDa
HappyZerg < Entombed Valley > Killer
Elbegast < Sanshorn Mist AE > Killer
LoWeLy < Ohana > Killer
Brat_OK < Metropolis > Killer
Brat_OK < Cloud Kingdom > Heart
Brat_OK < Atlantis Spaceship > CatZ
Strelok < Tal'Darim Altar > CatZ
Congratulations to FXO.CIS, winning 5-4! They move on to WR2 and compLexity falls to LR1!
Map List
IPLMap Sanshorn Mists AE
IPLMap Atlantis Spaceship
IPLMap Antiga Shipyard
IPLMap Daybreak
IPLMap Tal'Darim Altar LE
IPLMap Cloud Kingdom
IPLMap Metropolis
IPLMap Ohana
IPLMap Entombed Valley
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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No one can defeat Lowely's one base, slow baneling bust.
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5-2 complexity
NADA FIGHTING
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I want to see LoWely play, it makes no sense to me but he wins. Fun style.
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Complexity has this I think, but FXO.CIS won't make it easy for them.
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Brat, Strelok and Lowely are all really good, but Col's Koreans should be too much.
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The Koreans are what makes me think coL will win. If FXO can snipe them, then it should be theirs for the taking.
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FXO.CIS reads too much like ROX.KIS
Way too confusing for me...
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Oh wow, GanZi coming out first.
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Philadelphia, PA10406 Posts
Dunno who I'm cheering for here, but it should be a great series either way!
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United Kingdom3482 Posts
Well that was a weird attack by Ganzi.
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United States1050 Posts
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Hmm Ganzi is better than Nada though. This might get dangerous for coL
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On May 18 2012 07:20 Dexington wrote:
Hmm Ganzi is better than Nada though. This might get dangerous for coL
GanZi tried some weird stuff, so if NaDa plays standard he'll probably take him down.
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T aint nothin' for smileyfacezerg..
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Can you please update results in OP?
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The fuck? NaDa playing worse than Code B.
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Russian Federation131 Posts
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So sad, that BitterDaM aren´t casting this. Would be awesome, given their spiecial relationship to Happyzerg.
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Elbegast losing that was astonishing.
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LoWeLy will clean up from here, calling it.
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On May 18 2012 07:57 Dexington wrote:
Elbegast losing that was astonishing.
What happened? I was taking a shower during the game.
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On May 18 2012 08:07 Xoronius wrote:What happened? I was taking a shower during the game.
Killer did 2 proxy gates in Elbegasts main, Elbegast scouted it before the 2nd was even placed but was unable to hold it off.
Couldn't he have pulled a few probes to kill that pylon?
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i don't get how zergs can still fall for that, i really don't
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See mothership -> clump up a million GGlords even more? x.x
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...wow, lowely, clumping all those broods, zero broodlord spread was just asking for that vortex
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On May 18 2012 08:13 ssg wrote:
lol lowely on 213 supply
Managing to get 130 supply into one vortex must be some kind of record
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Hmm I wonder how that would've gone if Lowely had thrown his banelings into the toilet.
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And its that easy. Im not going to mention balance or no balance but just as a spectator, vortex is terrible.
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Solid PvZ from coL.Killer, scouting perfectly and reacting accordingly. Of course, the vortex battle made the win easier, but he was in great shape even if lowely engaged correctly.
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On May 18 2012 08:15 takingbackoj wrote:
And its that easy. Im not going to mention balance or no balance but just as a spectator, vortex is terrible.
The game is punishing. Miss a forcefield early game, GG. Let a runby in, GG. Accidentally have your army on move command, GG, mess up a rally point, GG, forget an upgrade, GG, etc etc etc etc etc. Clumping up all your units like that is the exact same thing. It's a crucial mistake that's game ending, but it's definitely not the only one that exists. Buuuut the mothership's gone in HotS anyway.
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brat_ok just made it a lot more interesting
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Dang, as I said FXO.CIS not letting complexity have it easy.
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If Heart loses, I don't think anyone else on Complexity can beat Bratok and Strelok.
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So who do they use if god forbid they actually have to use a non korean?
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On May 18 2012 08:37 ssg wrote:
So who do they use if god forbid they actually have to use a non korean?
Probably qxc
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On May 18 2012 08:37 ssg wrote:
So who do they use if god forbid they actually have to use a non korean?
Minigun and qxc are probably the next best.
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So many Koreans in compLecity, but this FXO CIS team has a great lineup.
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On May 18 2012 08:37 ssg wrote:
So who do they use if god forbid they actually have to use a non korean?
qxc or Minigun, I'd say.
I'd field Minigun, but I don't really know, Brat_OK or Strelok are favored against both.
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I wonder how bad the cross-server lag is. Brat_OK wasn't even microing his bio force against Killer.
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The point where complexity never wanted to be: outside of their good roster.
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Well I certainly didn't see this coming.
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It looks quite bad for both parts - perhaps played on the night of the D3-release?
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Korean mercenaries: 3 and 4
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On May 18 2012 08:43 Battousai13 wrote:
I wonder how bad the cross-server lag is. Brat_OK wasn't even microing his bio force against Killer.
Either way, Russia/Ukraine to NA and Korea to NA are notoriously comparable.
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Oh, lol, didn't take that into account, so it's CatZ.
FXO should have this then, unless something incredible happens.
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Oh I thought coL wanted to win. Well guess not.
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Standard 2 hatch before pool.
Lol at comment above me.
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Anyone else getting stream-lags and sound falling out?
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Is there some weird glitch, the announcers rejogged my memory, but in every replay I've watched ever, the lower EPM guy had higher APM. Could it possibly be switched?
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On May 18 2012 08:43 Battousai13 wrote:
I wonder how bad the cross-server lag is. Brat_OK wasn't even microing his bio force against Killer.
I don´t know, where exactly Bart_OK is living, but the possibility is there, that it is worse than NA-KR. At least NightEnD says, he gets less lag on KR than normally and I think Russia (without Moscow) and Romania are quite comparable in their lag situation.
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meh, looks like brat_ok's gonna lose... He shoulda just gone macro T_T;
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WE WIN!
Really nice build from CatZ :D
On May 18 2012 08:58 Instigata wrote:
Is there some weird glitch, the announcers rejogged my memory, but in every replay I've watched ever, the lower EPM guy had higher APM. Could it possibly be switched?
Yes, blizzard bungled the EAPM and APM charts up so APM is really EAPM and the EAPM is really APM T.T
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On May 18 2012 08:55 Serinox wrote:
Oh I thought coL wanted to win. Well guess not.
Oh I guess you were wrong.
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Wow CatZ won a game. That's something I haven't seen in a long long long time.
On May 18 2012 09:05 Megatronn wrote:Show nested quote +On May 18 2012 08:55 Serinox wrote:
Oh I thought coL wanted to win. Well guess not. Oh I guess you were wrong.
There is still one game left, they have not won yet.
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Fuck yeah CatZ, such a baller
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ROFL catz is making me hard
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lol cats getting hard on catz
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Dat Catz, huh Kevin? Hahahaaha.
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Best quote of the night.
Much love for Paulo, eh Kevin?
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So catz did more than heart, nada and ganzi combined.
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On May 18 2012 09:05 Serinox wrote:Wow CatZ won a game. That's something I haven't seen in a long long long time. Show nested quote +On May 18 2012 09:05 Megatronn wrote:On May 18 2012 08:55 Serinox wrote:
Oh I thought coL wanted to win. Well guess not. Oh I guess you were wrong. There is still one game left, they have not won yet.
But to be fair, Catz winning against Brat_OK makes him a legit choice, as you couldn´t really expect QXC/Minigun/Drewbie get that win either.
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On May 18 2012 09:05 Serinox wrote:Wow CatZ won a game. That's something I haven't seen in a long long long time. Show nested quote +On May 18 2012 09:05 Megatronn wrote:On May 18 2012 08:55 Serinox wrote:
Oh I thought coL wanted to win. Well guess not. Oh I guess you were wrong. There is still one game left, they have not won yet.
He did what Nada, Heart and Ganzi couldn't do. He was a legit choice to win.
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Wow, happy to be wrong, great series FXO.CIS
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On May 18 2012 09:19 Hulavuta wrote:
What does CIS stand for?
Commonwealth of Independent States
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Woah, congrats FXO, impressive win against a basically Korean team.
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my body is not ready for how amazing FXO.CIS vs NHSH will be
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Russian Federation131 Posts
was fun to watch! 4 mother CIS!
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Aww yeah Brat_OK and Strelok!
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Ambitious Terran is clutch.
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Wow... I did not expect that.
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Brat_OK mega gosu baller bear-devil-man :3
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Honestly I feel that the decision to play CatZ was the best one they could make given the circumstances.
They were up against BratOK and a 99% chance of Strelok after that so they needed to win two XvT's in a row.
Honestly none of the remaining players (qxc/Trimaster/Minigum/Ryan/Ryze/Goswser/CatZ) are of the caliber to defeat those two in standard games so you need someone who is good with doing weird shit and then win the scrappy game that follows. Also you'll want to do different weird shit in both games in the likely event that BratOK tells Strelok "yo, this dude has a good proxy hatch followed by a baneling bust".
So really you want a player that stars in doing a lot of different weird shit. How is this not a job for CatZ? 
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