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Well, it's finally here, the last day of frantic tense laddering. The last three weeks have merely been a warm up for these vital few hours. As some of you may have noticed in the past updates, you can compare them to the ladder just one hour after they're posted and they'll look completely different. That volatility only intensifies when a potential $2500 prize is thrown into the mix. The final fight between the chasers is going to be brutal, people placed in the mid range will have to make the difficult decision to decide whether to play more and potentially lose points, or to call it a day and hope they don't get over taken. There'll be epic games, there'll be base trades, and there'll definitely be dirty filthy cheese. Leading a marathon for 26 miles is impressive, but it's all for nothing if you can't make the last 385 yard sprint.
So with the hype out of the way here's the list. I'll try to update it in the style of a LR, and obviously pay more attention to it closer to the end. Also a big thanks to Gofarman for compiling the lists in my absence and keeping the hype train well fed.
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Okay, so now we pretty much know all the players in the top 16 that are eligible and which ones aren't (there's just that barcode Zerg who's unknown). The list now shows a players rank to qualify for SHOUTCraft America 2. NOT their actual ladder rank.
Hour 12
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Media Here's where you can find ways to follow the main contenders. I'm not sure if any would want to stream during the last few hours for fear of stream cheating but if they are streaming I'll put their twitch link in green text. Even if they're not streaming now subscribe and check them out another time, also in the last dying hours cheer them on through their twitter. Also give a shout out to TotalBiscuit and Ting Mobile. I've never used twitter so I'll leave it to you guys to come up with clever #Hashtags. + Show Spoiler +______________________________________________________________________________________
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Scarlett right where she belongs, on top.
Edit: That did not sound quite right.
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Can't wait to see what allins hitman will use and rage after they don't work.
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As an FYI to players. I will need you to get in touch with me ASAP after the qualification closes. We had to extend the qualification so we have very little preparation time. We need you to contact us so we can verify your information and account through Blizzard before the tournament begins.
Contacting me via PM on Teamliquid is probably the best way to handle things.
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On December 05 2013 02:08 TylerThaCreator wrote:
Can't wait to see what allins hitman will use and rage after they don't work.
He's the most abusive protoss player I've ever seen. Many pros could learn a thing or two from watching his ladder replays :x
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Hitman is kind of like a hybrid of Combatex and sOs, he makes cheese into an art form. It's actually unreal how many variations of cannon rush one can squeeze out.
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So it's not any info on Hitman at all? Have ever been in any other tours etc?
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I'm very much looking forward to seeing him in the tournament then, we need a villain :D
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On December 05 2013 02:20 Quakie wrote:
So it's not any info on Hitman at all? Have ever been in any other tours etc?
He must have a stream or twitter but since he doesn't have a liquipedia page it's very difficult to find it. "Hitman" is a very generic handle so googling "hitman twitter" is no good. Couple that with the fact that there's another Hitman in SC2 (Kespa player). I've sent a message to SYF's manager so hopefully he see's it and can send me more info. It would be nice since he's pretty much the only "unknown" in the list and promoting new talent is one of the goals for this tournament series (I'd never heard of  BlinG or  dde before shoutcraft)
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gogo avilofanboy rank 17 right now and he eligible to play if he gets high enough of course :D
i thought hitman is from australia?
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It begins...
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On December 05 2013 02:40 coldscars wrote:
gogo avilofanboy rank 17 right now and he eligible to play if he gets high enough of course :D
i thought hitman is from australia?
SYF is an Australian E-Sports team, but apparently Hitman is from Oregon. I'll keep an eye on Avilofanboy
*edit* on a side note is there a more efficient way to post tweets? At the moment I'm just screenshoting.
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On December 05 2013 02:44 Greendotz wrote:It begins... Show nested quote +On December 05 2013 02:40 coldscars wrote:
gogo avilofanboy rank 17 right now and he eligible to play if he gets high enough of course :D
i thought hitman is from australia? SYF is an Australian E-Sports team, but apparently Hitman is from Oregon. I'll keep an eye on Avilofanboy *edit* on a side note is there a more efficient way to post tweets? At the moment I'm just screenshoting.
About the embedding, see: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=435044
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I'm the manager of SYF Gaming, since Hitman never really played in tournaments before joining SYF Gaming he doesn't have a twitter or a twitch. Before joining us he used to play for the American team Eternal Dreamers and played in most of their team league matches.
We will get him a twitter before this tournament starts  What i do have for you is a liquipedia page http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Hitman
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Sick TB! your work for this community is always appriciated!
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On December 05 2013 06:43 AceHigh. wrote:
So is he 17 or 21?
17, the person who made the page must have done a mistake.
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On December 05 2013 06:13 pXtRoy wrote:I'm the manager of SYF Gaming, since Hitman never really played in tournaments before joining SYF Gaming he doesn't have a twitter or a twitch. Before joining us he used to play for the American team Eternal Dreamers and played in most of their team league matches. We will get him a twitter before this tournament starts What i do have for you is a liquipedia page http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Hitman
Thanks !
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Pretty awesome, planning on watching some streamers tonight as the deadline nears. Should be an awesome tourney
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Thanks for updating this Greendotz. Can you put their ladder points in the table also?
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Okay, so now we pretty much know all the players in the top 16 that are eligible and which ones aren't (there's just that barcode Zerg who's unknown). The list now shows a players rank to qualify for SHOUTCraft America 2. NOT their actual ladder rank.
Hour 7
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Media Here's where you can find ways to follow the main contenders. I'm not sure if any would want to stream during the last few hours for fear of stream cheating but if they are streaming I'll put their twitch link in green text. Even if they're not streaming now subscribe and check them out another time, also in the last dying hours cheer them on through their twitter. Also give a shout out to TotalBiscuit and Ting Mobile. I've never used twitter so I'll leave it to you guys to come up with clever #Hashtags. + Show Spoiler +______________________________________________________________________________________
Update
Not a lot going on at the moment. The top 5 remain unchanged and haven't laddered in the last 5 hours, whether that's tactical or not I'm unsure but Huk definitely appears to be playing it safe and sitting it out.
Masa just started laddering and DeMuslim, qxc and Xeno have been laddering for a while (DeMuslim and qxc are streaming). DeMuslims win ratio this session is >50% while qxc is absolutly killing it. I wonder if these guys are all going to ladder until the deadline.
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Scarlett 
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Hitman 
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TotalBiscuit and 
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