During the MLG Winter Season Showdowns, 56 of the world's best StarCraft II players will compete in Heart of the Swarm. Each player will compete in 1 best-of-5 Showdown Match, with each winner receiving a paid trip to compete in the MLG Winter Championship. Tune in and watch every match in FREE 1080p HD at www.majorleaguegaming.com and on Twitch.TV.

2013 MLG Winter Championship/Showdowns

Week 1 Schedule/VODS
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Monday, Feb 04 10:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) - Parting vs FanTaSy
Tuesday, Feb 05 10:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) - RorO vs herO
Wednesday, Feb 06 10:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) - Innovation vs TY
Thursday, Feb 07 10:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) - Soulkey vs Last
Friday, Feb 08 10:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) - Rain vs Flying

Tonight's match:
(P)

PartinG vs (T)

FanTaSy

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Results
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Game 1
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Map: MLG Entombed Valley
Winner: PartinG

Game 2
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Map: MLG Ohana
Winner: PartinG

Game 3
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Map: Cloud Kingdom
Winner: PartinG

Game 4 (if necessary)
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not needed

Game 5 (if necessary)
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not needed

Map Pool
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Akilon Wastes
Bifrost
Cloud Kingdom
Daybreak
Entombed Valley
Korhal City
Newkirk City
Ohana
Planet S
Star Station
Whirlwind

Note: In each Winter Season Showdown match, both Players will veto three Maps.

Format
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Invite-Only online matches; Winner takes all, Best of five games

Prize
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The 28 winners will receive placement at the Winter Championship in Dallas from March 15-17 where they will compete with Life, Leenock, Flash and Bomber.

Currently Qualified
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Flash - Top 4 2012 MLG Fall Championship
Leenock - Top 4 2012 MLG Fall Championship
Life - Top 4 2012 MLG Fall Championship
Bomber - Top 4 2012 MLG Fall Championship

Axeltoss

United States283 Posts

February 04 2013 20:39 GMT

going to be EPIC

JOJOsc2news

3000 Posts

February 04 2013 20:39 GMT

Cheering for PartinG because I'm a sucker for Protoss.

Nachor

Germany83 Posts

February 04 2013 20:40 GMT

I'm really looking forward to seeing what these guys will bring up!

prabhbhambra13

United Kingdom424 Posts

February 04 2013 20:41 GMT

Hyped, but sad about the SKT T1 teamkill. Cheering for Fantasy.

Emzeeshady

Canada4203 Posts

February 04 2013 20:45 GMT

--- Nuked ---

Fuell

Netherlands3111 Posts

February 04 2013 20:45 GMT

GOGO! First HotS match in HotS tourney!

Zealously

East Gorteau22261 Posts

February 04 2013 20:48 GMT

Parting hwaitinguu

DaweedG

Norway41 Posts

February 04 2013 20:48 GMT

gogo Fantasy!

DiMano

Korea (South)2066 Posts

February 04 2013 20:55 GMT

#10

Jung Myung Hoon writes his ID as FanTaSy not Fantasy.
Also why you did not add wiki page? It is here http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/2013_MLG_Winter_Championship/Showdowns

Zealously

East Gorteau22261 Posts

February 04 2013 20:59 GMT

#11

I'm really, really looking forward to this match. I hope both of them bring their A-games; could be a really sick series if they do.

sitromit

7051 Posts

February 04 2013 21:00 GMT

#12

I'm finding it hard to get excited about these games, given the state of the beta. It still seems like there's A LOT of balancing that needs to be done. I don't know how these guys will play a serious tournament under these conditions.

Arevall

Sweden1133 Posts

February 04 2013 21:00 GMT

#13

Really nice matchup :=

iS.Axslav

United States248 Posts

February 04 2013 21:04 GMT

#14

On February 05 2013 05:55 DiMano wrote:
Jung Myung Hoon writes his ID as FanTaSy not Fantasy.
Also why you did not add wiki page? It is here http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/2013_MLG_Winter_Championship/Showdowns

Thanks, edited feel free to make more suggestions

althaz

Australia1001 Posts

February 04 2013 21:06 GMT

#15

On February 05 2013 06:00 sitromit wrote:
I'm finding it hard to get excited about these games, given the state of the beta. It still seems like there's A LOT of balancing that needs to be done. I don't know how these guys will play a serious tournament under these conditions.

Well, Parting played SC2 back when it was a lot less balanced than HotS is. HotS balance seems ok to me, although to a man everybody playing ilhas no idea what they are doing.

Negius

Netherlands290 Posts

February 04 2013 21:08 GMT

#16

I'm watching this for sure! Let's see which interesting tactics HotS brings to the table. Doens't matter much who wins to me by the matchup, but if the winner is at MLG, I'd like to see PartinG advance. I want to see if Immortal-Sentry all in still can be done in HotS.

Necro)Phagist(

Canada6660 Posts

February 04 2013 21:11 GMT

#17

I don't think Balance is THAT far off.. Get rid of the bio tag on Hell bats maybe a slight nerf to Voidrays and things look pretty decent imo. Plus how can you really find out what is and isn't balanced without the best of the best going toe to toe and testing these things out? These matches could be a very useful tool for blizzard before release!

I'm not exactly a balance expert or anything but that's just my 2 cents.

Either way I'm pumped for these matches, I really can't wait to see what these guys can do with HotS! Though I do fear both players will just end up using standard WoL builds/compositions because it's a pretty big match and a bad time to experiment with something with so much on the line