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The Kings of the North is a new-old tournament run by ESChamp. We’ve invited some of the cream of the crop for North American talent to come face off in StarCraft 2 and more in Toronto, Ontario in March. We’ll be spending 3 days seeing some of the best competing, as well as hearing from them in all sorts of ways. We’ll be featuring: A Live Edition of StarCraft Jeopardy with Troy Pavlek himself!
A StarCraft 64 side tournament.
And whatever whacky stuff the players are interested in doing (that we can show on internet TV)!
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This sounds pretty awesome. Love the side tournaments. Add a Smash Melee side event and it'd be perfect. The amount of cool Starcraft shit that happens in Toronto really makes me wish I was from around there.
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On February 10 2016 11:27 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
This sounds pretty awesome. Love the side tournaments. Add a Smash Melee side event and it'd be perfect. The amount of cool Starcraft shit that happens in Toronto really makes me wish I was from around there.
There are many CRTs owned by one of the folks that has a hand in this. In fact one of the lounge-y rooms will have 2 CRTs for Melee/64's until I get my hands on one to put Melty Blood on, but still.
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On February 10 2016 11:33 Master of DalK wrote:Show nested quote +On February 10 2016 11:27 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
This sounds pretty awesome. Love the side tournaments. Add a Smash Melee side event and it'd be perfect. The amount of cool Starcraft shit that happens in Toronto really makes me wish I was from around there. There are many CRTs owned by one of the folks that has a hand in this. In fact one of the lounge-y rooms will have 2 CRTs for Melee/64's until I get my hands on one to put Melty Blood on, but still.
Stream that shit. I'd probably be really funny.
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On February 10 2016 11:42 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:Show nested quote +On February 10 2016 11:33 Master of DalK wrote:On February 10 2016 11:27 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
This sounds pretty awesome. Love the side tournaments. Add a Smash Melee side event and it'd be perfect. The amount of cool Starcraft shit that happens in Toronto really makes me wish I was from around there. There are many CRTs owned by one of the folks that has a hand in this. In fact one of the lounge-y rooms will have 2 CRTs for Melee/64's until I get my hands on one to put Melty Blood on, but still. Stream that shit. I'd probably be really funny.
The Melty Blood? I thought you'd never ask (really, no one does)!
Seriously though, we'll probably be getting a lot of shenanigans throughout the weekend. Lot of cool plans for it.
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Where dat snitch at?37023 Posts
Shouldn't this tournament be called "The King in the North"?
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A little upset you havn't invited ThorzaiN or NaNiwa because, they both went under the nickname king of the north during their respective primes.
None the less, Scarlett is the queen to rule them all.
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On February 10 2016 11:27 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
This sounds pretty awesome. Love the side tournaments. Add a Smash Melee side event and it'd be perfect. The amount of cool Starcraft shit that happens in Toronto really makes me wish I was from around there.
I am sure there will be some smash sessions happening
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Naniwa will qualify, I'm calling it.
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Tournament having "North" in the name without Scandinavian players? pff.... 
Well, joke aside, awesome idea. Will definitely watch! Go Scarlett!
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Tonight is the last night to sign up for the LAN qualifier
So if you're in the Toronto Area you need to register
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All canadians. Only one good player. Well, hoping Kelazhur or neeb qualify then. Also, where the fuck are naniwa and thorzain?
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Due to the Naniwa and Thorzain thing I've always considered the battle for best in NA to be the war for King/Queen Beyond the Wall and now some politicians apparently liked that idea enough to turn it into a full blown platform, which I personally think is a bit much.
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The NA Ladder Hero qualifier is  Neeb... good luck everyone else
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On February 28 2016 12:23 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:The NA Ladder Hero qualifier is Neeb... good luck everyone else
Scarlett too stronk SGTK The Great White North will Rise again!
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ICYMI: We've got all 8 players now. + Show Spoiler [Players] +
Stream schedule will be out along with the trailer soon. See you next weekend!
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Yesterday marked the completion of the writing of 4 episodes worth of Starcraft Jeopardy!
Tune in this weekend to catch them.
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MaSa's icon thingie haha :D
this should be fun 
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United States97276 Posts
hoping for Neeb vs Shura final
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desrow got invited but neeb had to qualify o_O
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On March 17 2016 04:17 SC2CTL wrote:
Desrow is Canadian.
Ya but he's French Canadian so does he really count?
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On March 17 2016 04:31 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:Ya but he's French Canadian so does he really count?
Not entirely. I'll give him 6/10.
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Aren't PucK and Scarlett supposed to be at WCS Shanghai this weekend as well?
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edit: n/m, question got answered
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Event is now live. Shaping up to be a fun event!
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Is there a bracket somewhere?
edit: nvm, they are doing round robin first :D
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United States97276 Posts
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MaSa is so good offline but never performs well in the booth.
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On March 19 2016 08:50 royalroadweed wrote:
MaSa is so good offline but never performs well in the booth.
GOGO MASA!
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Amm.... am I actually seeing a WoL-style TvT? ITS SO BEAUTIFUL
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Attempt made to fix Jeopardy audio, sorry that, that happened but I can only run with what I got.
We'll be making a lot of fixes tonight in attempt to get everything up to par for the rest of the weekend.
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On March 19 2016 10:24 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
Amm.... am I actually seeing a WoL-style TvT? ITS SO BEAUTIFUL
well I guess minus the flying siege tanks
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On March 19 2016 10:49 Shellshock wrote:Show nested quote +On March 19 2016 10:24 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
Amm.... am I actually seeing a WoL-style TvT? ITS SO BEAUTIFUL well I guess minus the flying siege tanks
That's why I said style, it was the closest we'll get
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Canada8157 Posts
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Top 3 mis-micro in the world.
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United States97276 Posts
they're not going to finish the round robin today?
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I actually really like the bo1 round-robin format to determine the seeding. I wouldn't mind seeing other tournaments do this as I think it could cut down on some of the complaints on bad seeding. Obviously it would be a lot more games with something like a 32-player tournament, but its something that could be done behind the scenes (online) the week or so leading up to the tournament.
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On March 19 2016 12:58 Shellshock wrote:
they're not going to finish the round robin today?
We finished the last couple games off-stream (since they were already going as we finished huk vs scarlett)
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No hatchery is safe from Semper.
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United States97276 Posts
good win for Shura. one step closer to the her vs Neeb final
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This game show is amazing.
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first i thought what a bull**** but yeah that was a nice little jeopardy
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they should make Jeopardy a regular thing
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Thats a shift-queu if I've ever seen one
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Semper totally deserved to win that game guys.
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On March 20 2016 03:59 RichardNPL wrote:
they should make Jeopardy a regular thing
It was, there has been at least 2 season. I don't know if they are going to do another one, I hope so!
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United States97276 Posts
what happened in desrow vs semper game 2? I walked out of the room to get a drink and like 30 sec later when i came back it was already over
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United States97276 Posts
wow Huk just got embarrassed.
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Well that was disappointing
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NoRegret is not to be underestimated.
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And we all just witnessed the state of PvZ folks.
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Is this tournament live? :o
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On March 20 2016 05:51 sharkie wrote:
Is this tournament live? :o
yes
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Scarlett vs Masa with it's usual result. It's incredible how consistent he is against her.
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Such a great event! Very cool stuff.
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On March 20 2016 06:20 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
Scarlett vs Masa with it's usual result. It's incredible how consistent he is against her.
online.
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Loved day 2, excited for tomorrow, go Semper!
Also, please do another one of these tournaments. We need more events like this.
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what was the decision behind a 3 day event compared with a 2 day event?
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Really feels like Scarlett just hasn't figured ZvT out yet.
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On March 21 2016 00:20 Vega62a wrote:
Really feels like Scarlett just hasn't figured ZvT out yet.
I really feel like she needs to ditch the muta/ling/bane. I get that it's what she's comfortable with and maybe it works on ladder but it tournaments its been pretty sketchy. Usually it's because of liberators but here those weren't even a factor and she still got rolled
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On March 21 2016 00:25 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:Show nested quote +On March 21 2016 00:20 Vega62a wrote:
Really feels like Scarlett just hasn't figured ZvT out yet. I really feel like she needs to ditch the muta/ling/bane. I get that it's what she's comfortable with and maybe it works on ladder but it tournaments its been pretty sketchy. Usually it's because of liberators but here those weren't even a factor and she still got rolled
I agree - oddly enough m/l/b is kinda bad at dealing with multipronged harass, and can't take convincing fights vs marine/medivac/lib at all, and doesn't transition from a place of strength into the typical fast hive that is making zerg so tough these days. Ravager styles just feel way stronger right now, and a few roaches left at a base can fend off a medivac full of marines.
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Starcraft with gamepad... urghh
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No idea how anyone thought you could play rts with a N64 controller.
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On March 21 2016 01:35 royalroadweed wrote:
No idea how anyone thought you could play rts with a N64 controller.
Man me and my buddies were ALL ABOUT THAT back in the day. Team melee against 6 bots on N64 on the TV was sooooooo good! (Basically photon cannons + tanks, turtle up and slowly push out on BGH).
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Seemed like Masa was playing a moba there while Neeb was still playing SC2, Masa was just going HAM with his ghosts maximizing their potential. Well done! Though I was a bit worried that that was a bit all-in.
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MaSa got some cute builds.
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Only way that could be more sexy is if he got the bunker upgrade.
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I'm very pleasantly surprised with the level of casting for this tournament. I've been watching all day and I really think Feardragon and Steadfast are doing a great job. One of the biggest issues I have with LANs of this nature are the poor commentating, but both of you did fantastic work and I'll definitely be tuning in for future events. Solid tournament, here's to hoping Semper can pull it off and finish with a First place trophy!
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This Starcraft Jeopardy is fantastic.
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if this wasnt cringy, it could actually be good
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On March 21 2016 05:53 xtorn wrote:
if this wasnt cringy, it could actually be good
Dude, Steadfast's Esportsmantaeu skills were LEGIT!
I was rooting for Scarlett, but Steadfast earned that epic comeback. Archonomatopoeia was fantastic.
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On March 19 2016 09:33 IntoTheheart wrote:Show nested quote +On March 19 2016 08:50 royalroadweed wrote:
MaSa is so good offline but never performs well in the booth. GOGO MASA!
MASA is in the finals. WOO!
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On March 21 2016 06:04 TheDougler wrote:Show nested quote +On March 21 2016 05:53 xtorn wrote:
if this wasnt cringy, it could actually be good Dude, Steadfast's Esportsmantaeu skills were LEGIT! I was rooting for Scarlett, but Steadfast earned that epic comeback. Archonomatopoeia was fantastic.
i found the questions a little too much at times
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I think this format favors the person coming out of the losers bracket.
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On March 21 2016 04:06 Shellshock wrote:
masa is so good
His Liberator micro is on another level.
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I think Neeb is gonna proxy?
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On March 21 2016 06:56 CheddarToss wrote:His Liberator micro is on another level.
It was. However, what really went up another level was Neeb's winrates when he switched to protoss.
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That random depot was fucking sick!
Trapped a Stalker in the middle of Ulrena.
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Now he's pulling da boyz.
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The boyz dont do much when they're stuck behind FFs and the marines
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SCV pulls vs any number of adepts doesn't seem really good despite tempests slow rate of fire.
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This is why you don't pull SCVs.
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On March 21 2016 06:59 royalroadweed wrote:Show nested quote +On March 21 2016 06:56 CheddarToss wrote:On March 21 2016 04:06 Shellshock wrote:
masa is so good His Liberator micro is on another level. It was. However, what really went up another level was Neeb's winrates when he switched to protoss.
Yeah, that's quite interesting. I heard the same thing happened to Byun. Getting knocked out in Ro32 and 64 consistently as Protoss and going deep once he switched to Terran.
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Today we learned. 
Either way, MaSa hopefully can still take this; although I wouldn't mind a Neeb victory.
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On March 21 2016 06:59 royalroadweed wrote:Show nested quote +On March 21 2016 06:56 CheddarToss wrote:On March 21 2016 04:06 Shellshock wrote:
masa is so good His Liberator micro is on another level. It was. However, what really went up another level was Neeb's winrates when he switched to protoss.
Neeb was already showing much promise as T (a lot of good WCS AM showings) and his switch to Protoss has nothing to do with his current results. He's just good.
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On March 21 2016 07:10 CheddarToss wrote:Show nested quote +On March 21 2016 06:59 royalroadweed wrote:On March 21 2016 06:56 CheddarToss wrote:On March 21 2016 04:06 Shellshock wrote:
masa is so good His Liberator micro is on another level. It was. However, what really went up another level was Neeb's winrates when he switched to protoss. Yeah, that's quite interesting. I heard the same thing happened to Byun. Getting knocked out in Ro32 and 64 consistently as Protoss and going deep once he switched to Terran.
Thats very impressive. Almost as impressive as going from a middling korean terran losing mirrors to foreigners then winning GSL.
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On March 21 2016 07:20 royalroadweed wrote:Show nested quote +On March 21 2016 07:10 CheddarToss wrote:On March 21 2016 06:59 royalroadweed wrote:On March 21 2016 06:56 CheddarToss wrote:On March 21 2016 04:06 Shellshock wrote:
masa is so good His Liberator micro is on another level. It was. However, what really went up another level was Neeb's winrates when he switched to protoss. Yeah, that's quite interesting. I heard the same thing happened to Byun. Getting knocked out in Ro32 and 64 consistently as Protoss and going deep once he switched to Terran. Thats very impressive. Almost as impressive as going from a middling korean terran losing mirrors to foreigners then winning GSL.
This conversation is very funny. Almost as funny as...
Wait a minute. This conversation is stupid, not funny. Got the two confused again.
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On March 21 2016 07:23 Elentos wrote:Show nested quote +On March 21 2016 07:20 royalroadweed wrote:On March 21 2016 07:10 CheddarToss wrote:On March 21 2016 06:59 royalroadweed wrote:On March 21 2016 06:56 CheddarToss wrote:On March 21 2016 04:06 Shellshock wrote:
masa is so good His Liberator micro is on another level. It was. However, what really went up another level was Neeb's winrates when he switched to protoss. Yeah, that's quite interesting. I heard the same thing happened to Byun. Getting knocked out in Ro32 and 64 consistently as Protoss and going deep once he switched to Terran. Thats very impressive. Almost as impressive as going from a middling korean terran losing mirrors to foreigners then winning GSL. This conversation is very funny. Almost as funny as... Wait a minute. This conversation is stupid, not funny. Got the two confused again.
You're in an LR thread, and disappointed by the wit.
It's almost like it's entirely your own fault.
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I wonder what it's like to be watching this tournament and think "What an opportune time to say something about how easy Neeb has it now that he's protoss!"
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These finals are fun y'all are being dumb
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THE KING IN THE NAAAARTH!!!!!
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On March 21 2016 07:10 CheddarToss wrote:Show nested quote +On March 21 2016 06:59 royalroadweed wrote:On March 21 2016 06:56 CheddarToss wrote:On March 21 2016 04:06 Shellshock wrote:
masa is so good His Liberator micro is on another level. It was. However, what really went up another level was Neeb's winrates when he switched to protoss. Yeah, that's quite interesting. I heard the same thing happened to Byun. Getting knocked out in Ro32 and 64 consistently as Protoss and going deep once he switched to Terran.
TBH tho It took Byun a long time before he even got decent results after switching.
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Wasn't MaSa being overly patient during the tempest transition ? Doesn't matter since he won even with a very messy engage in the end, but still...
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I heard neeb said terran is worthless :D
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He's technically korean but the more Canadian dude one which I'm happy with it. Neeb still did well.
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On March 21 2016 07:52 Elentos wrote:
A very meird wix indeed.
yeah, that was funny for germans
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Pretty fun tournament. Could see this becoming an NA HSC of sorts.
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