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

Schedule/VODS
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Parting vs FanTaSy - Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Game 5
RorO vs herO - Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Game 5
Innovation vs TY - Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Game 5
Soulkey vs Last - Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Game 5
Rain vs Flying - Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Game 5
Sase vs Snute - Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Game 5
Nerchio vs BabyKnight - Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Game 5
Stephano vs Titan - Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Game 5
Mana vs Bly - Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Game 5
Socke vs Thorzain - Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Game 5
Ret vs Feast - Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Game 5
Creator vs Nestea - Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Game 5
Mvp vs Curious - Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Game 5
Wednesday, Feb 20 10:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) Sniper vs Seed
Thursday, Feb 21 10:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) MKP vs Gumiho
Friday, Feb 22 10:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) DRG vs Jjakji
Sunday, Feb 24 10:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) MC vs Alive
Monday, Feb 25 10:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) Taeja vs Violet
Tuesday, Feb 26 10:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) Hero vs Polt
Wednesday, Feb 27 10:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) Sen vs Moonglade
Thursday, Feb 28 10:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) Grubby vs. Dimaga

Tonight's match:
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Sniper vs

Seed

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Results
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Game 1
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Map: Neo Bifrost
Winner: Seed

Game 2
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Map: Daybreak
Winner: Sniper

Game 3
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Map: Korhal City
Winner: Seed

Game 4 (if necessary)
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Map: Whirlwind
Winner: Seed

Game 5 (if necessary)
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Map: Not Needed Seed won 3-1
Winner:

Recommended Games
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Poll: Recommend Sniper vs Seed Game 1?

No (5)

56%

Yes (4)

44%

9 total votes

Your vote: Recommend Sniper vs Seed Game 1?

(Vote): Yes
(Vote): No

Poll: Recommend Sniper vs Seed Game 2?

Yes (12)

92%

No (1)

8%

13 total votes

Your vote: Recommend Sniper vs Seed Game 2?

(Vote): Yes
(Vote): No

Poll: Recommend Sniper vs Seed Game 3?

No (10)

91%

Yes (1)

9%

11 total votes

Your vote: Recommend Sniper vs Seed Game 3?

(Vote): Yes
(Vote): No

Poll: Recommend Sniper vs Seed Game 4?

Yes (5)

50%

No (5)

50%

10 total votes

Your vote: Recommend Sniper vs Seed Game 4?

(Vote): Yes
(Vote): No

Poll: Recommend Sniper vs Seed Game 5?

Yes (4)

50%

No (4)

50%

8 total votes

Your vote: Recommend Sniper vs Seed Game 5?

(Vote): Yes
(Vote): No

Rules of Engagement
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Sniper vs Seed will be analyzed following the MKP vs Gumiho match on Thursday, Feb 21 10:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

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
PartinG - Defeated (T)

FanTaSy
herO[jOin] - Defeated (Z)

RorO
INnoVation - Defeated (T)

TY
Last - Defeated (Z)

Soulkey
Rain - Defeated (P)

Flying
SaSe - Defeated (Z)

Snute
BabyKnight - Defeated (Z)

Nerchio
Stephano - Defeated (P)

TitaN
Bly - Defeated (P)

MaNa
ThorZaIN - Defeated (P)

Socke
Ret - Defeated (P)

Feast
Creator - Defeated (Z)

NesTea
Mvp - Defeated (Z)

Curious

JOJOsc2news

3000 Posts

February 20 2013 18:11 GMT

Go Seed!

Dodgin

Canada39254 Posts

February 20 2013 18:12 GMT

Seedu fighting

deblimp

United States20 Posts

February 20 2013 19:23 GMT

Lets go sniper! Some more zergs definitely need to qualify.

Zealously

East Gorteau22261 Posts

February 20 2013 20:07 GMT

On one hand, I want more Zergs at MLG

on the other hand, Life only ever (except that one time -.-) gets eliminated by Zergs, so it'd be great if MLG was all T/P. I guess I'll cheer for Seed - he's a pretty cool guy anyway.

ClairvoyanceSC2

United States758 Posts

February 20 2013 20:12 GMT

Sniper probably didn't practice much HotS. I can see Seed winning this convincingly.

lykkekage

Denmark107 Posts

February 20 2013 20:49 GMT

Seed has played a lot of HOTS, while Sniper is still in the GSL. I think Seed is a big favorite here. Unless Sniper is suddenly superman

Kasaraki

Denmark7115 Posts

February 20 2013 21:09 GMT

Seeeedu. He should have this, playing exclusively HotS as he has been.

Shellshock

United States97277 Posts

February 20 2013 21:57 GMT

Seed should have this since he's been full time HoTS for a while right? Isn't he supposed to be one of the best HoTS players on the ladder?

Deleted User 137586

7859 Posts

February 20 2013 22:05 GMT

#10

Seed isn't popular enough for Sniper to win.

Lukeeze[zR]

Switzerland6838 Posts

February 20 2013 22:11 GMT

#11

On February 21 2013 07:05 Ghanburighan wrote:
Seed isn't popular enough for Sniper to win.

Seed plays with the SKMC clan tag, should be enough for sniper

Deleted User 137586

7859 Posts

February 20 2013 22:11 GMT

#12

Wut Sniper. Why didn't you scout. Why didn't you pull away your drones?

JOJOsc2news

3000 Posts

February 20 2013 22:17 GMT

#13

GG. Game 1 went as expected.

Lukeeze[zR]

Switzerland6838 Posts

February 20 2013 22:17 GMT

#14

Well that was terrible

Zelniq

United States7166 Posts

February 20 2013 22:18 GMT

#15

sniper looked like he didn't even know what the oracle did..just seems like another invited player who hasn't been playing hots almost at all. i'm sure there are good reasons, probably because he's still practicing for GSL and just doesn't see this tourney as a priority. I just feel like MLG dropped the ball on the invites, it seems like a substantial percentage of their invites haven't been playing HotS much, many of which could likely have been foreseen to be too busy for HotS beta practice.

Shellshock

United States97277 Posts

February 20 2013 22:22 GMT

#16

On February 21 2013 07:18 Zelniq wrote:
sniper looked like he didn't even know what the oracle did..just seems like another invited player who hasn't been playing hots almost at all. i'm sure there are good reasons, probably because he's still practicing for GSL and just doesn't see this tourney as a priority. I just feel like MLG dropped the ball on the invites, it seems like a substantial percentage of their invites haven't been playing HotS much, many of which could likely have been foreseen to be too busy for HotS beta practice.

I believe Sniper vs Seed was the same day as Creator vs NesTea which was on Feb 13, the same day Sniper played Maru in Code A. If it was on the same day as Mvp vs Curious then it was on Feb 12. All the esf Korean games were on those 2 days I'm pretty sure.

The problem was they did their invites based off WoL results without taking into account who would still be playing in WoL tournaments. It makes sense to send Sniper an invite as a GSL champion and a high finish at IPL5 if you just look at that, but since he's still playing in the GSL it will obviously take away from his ability to practice HoTS leading to a lower quality of games.

Ace Frehley

2030 Posts

February 20 2013 22:32 GMT

#17

dem storms

Deleted User 137586

7859 Posts

February 20 2013 22:33 GMT

#18

Worst FF this year. Didn't matter though, the nexus cannon is pretty good...

Seed attempts to throw the game away again by attacking with stalker +4 templar+1 archon down a lot of supply against an equal base zerg. WHYYYYYYy

Undead1993

Germany17651 Posts

February 20 2013 22:38 GMT

#19

"Decent splitting by sniper" WHERE WHERE o.o

WigglingSquid

5194 Posts

February 20 2013 22:38 GMT

#20

I must say, with a few exceptions I am quite impressed with HotS so far. Perhaps it's just the hype of novelty, but games seem to be more exciting on average.
Now I'm just hoping they'll fix the few truly wonky things (hellbats and zerg early game defense), and perhaps improve the distribution of spells among new protoss units (I don't like the focus on the MC).

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