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"When I was a teenager, I spent 4-5h per day playing Broodwar and got placements in some local tournaments. I was respected as a great Broodwar player, but my parents regarded me as a “lost teenager”. Later in life, after a degree in psychology and three years in a Danish Reconnaissance unit, I found myself building a business in the online space of selling images for websites, designs etc. The decision making I had trained so much in my Broodwar days suddenly became useful again, and as my business grew, and market positioning, timing and when to invest became important, I definitively had an upper hand. Starcraft, over any other game, trains your mind to think logically, and make decisions fast that are decisive and potent. Useful stuff! Now its about giving back to my beloved Starcraft, which this tournament is about. I hope you enjoy, and if you meet me online in the high diamond/low masters ranked games…. Don’t snow mercy. I need the training!  "
- Yuri Arcurs, Founder, PeopleImages.com
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🇨🇦 English https://www.twitch.tv/basetradetv
🇩🇪 German https://www.twitch.tv/taketv
🇰🇷 Korean https://www.twitch.tv/tvcrank
🇫🇷 French https://www.twitch.tv/ogamingsc2
🇵🇱 Polish https://www.twitch.tv/emstarcraft
Schedule
(please note that dates or casters are subject to change)
Korean Group 4:00 AM PST // 1:00 PM CET // 9:00 PM KST
Dec 7 with Zepph, Kaelaris & Rifkin
Europe Group #1 7:00 AM PST // 4:00 PM CET // 11:59 PM KST
Dec 8 with Rotterdam & Rifkin
Europe Group #2 7:00 AM PST // 4:00 PM CET // 11:59 PM KST
Dec 16 with Feardragon, Kaelaris & Rifkin
North America Group 4:00 PM PST // (Dec 18) 1:00 AM CET // (Dec 18) 10:00 AM KST
Dec 17 with Zombiegrub, Pig & Rifkin
Format
4x (region based) King of the Hill micro tournaments, all Bo1, where two players from each group will advance to the Ro8. The two players qualified will be A) The King & B) The player with the largest win streak (In the event of a tie breaker, players will play a 1v1, or if multiple ties, a mini bracket to determine the qualified player. All Bo1) Each group will feature no fewer than 10x Bo1's
Ro8 (BO5's) and onward will be standard single elimination, with the semi-finals being BO7 and the Grand Finals being a BO9.
Note: There will be a small fan vote to resurrect up to 3 European players to compete again in Group 2
Prizing
https://matcherino.com/tournaments/9117
Use coupon code, "peopleimages" to add $1 to the prize pool!
Each player competing in the King of the Hill will be awarded $25 USD, win or lose, after that the remaining prize pool will be broken down as such:
1st - 50%
2nd - 23%
3/4 - 6.5%
5-8th - 3.5%
Players
All players are being kept confidential and secret until their reveal, live, on stream. However, we promise you that we've invited some of the best players from each region!
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Korea Group Results
+ Show Spoiler +
Cure < Keen
Keen < Impact
Bunny > Impact
Bunny > TY
Bunny < herO
herO > True
herO > Trap
herO > Solar
herO > Zest
herO > Stats
herO > Gumiho
herO and Bunny advance
Europe Group #1 Results
+ Show Spoiler + Bly > Heromarine
Bly > Zanster
Bly > Harstem
Bly < Denver
Denver < DNS
DNS > sortof
DNS > mana
DNS > beastyqt
DNS > uthermal
DNS > Lambo
Bly and DNS advance
Europe Group #2 Results
+ Show Spoiler +
Lambo > Stephano
Serral > Lambo
Serral > Clem
Serral > TLO
Serral > Elazer
Serral > Ptitdrogo
Serral > Showtime
Serrral > Harstem
Serral > Optimus
Serral > Mana
Serral > Soul
Serral > Snute
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that format is ... confusing
excited to see how it will play out tho
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How many games is the KotH segment? I don't see it listed in the OP. Looking forward to the tournament though, looks exciting!
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On December 01 2017 19:29 mLtySC wrote:
How many games is the KotH segment? I don't see it listed in the OP. Looking forward to the tournament though, looks exciting!
Added it in, thank you for pointing it out
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We will add our price pool to the matcherino page shortly. We are waiting for a few smaller details to fall in place.
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Seems awesome, thanks for this tournament! Will be fun to see a new format.
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interesting, looking forward. has it been decided how you determine the order of the koth?
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December will be a great month 
Thanks Yuri Arcurs !
The best players for some region ? So Cure is in ?
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Great!!! this will fill the void till next year
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I read that as EARDRAGON
ffs rifkin
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On December 02 2017 04:33 Argonauta wrote:
Great!!! this will fill the void till next year
Thats the plan! 
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Excited to see how this pans out, thanks for hosting these as always!
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Super stoked for the PeopleImages KOTH this week!
12 players, all Bo1, and NOBODY knows who they are fighting against except the starting 2 players
 Cure vs  Zest
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Thank so much, Yuri Arcurs!
That's just great to do such an unusual and exiting tournament format.
Really hyped to watch 
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Great games so far.
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Has it already been announced who the first players will be today?
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Can someome link to the results?
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EDIT: Wrong names entered, fixing shortly
Updated: Here's the straw poll http://www.strawpoll.me/14598476
You are able to vote for more than 1 person, and you should!
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I was ready to bitch about how bullshit all the late game Protoss warping army stuff is, but then Serral just slaughtered it out of nowhere so now I don't know what to think
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Man I wanted to play some games myself, but I just can't stop watching.
Serral is so fucking good.
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I like how Lambo will probably advance for winning a map before Serral was sent out.
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no Nerchio so nobody to stop serral 
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Serral brutalizing his opponents. If only he played like this offline.
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I don't know what to say, how did he win this :/.
GG WP Serral!
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Games are much more exciting when Serral starts out by losing 20 workers.
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Italy3652 Posts
wow, Serral! 
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Why not Reynor?
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Wow puCK losing to the 3-rax reaper despite knowing exactly what was coming.
edit: An Neeb losing with a cross-map gold base shield battery/tempest rush... Why are all the meme builds coming out today.
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I mean, I like Scarlett, but I don't think she's that favored over the weaker bottom half. Serral is playing pretty good lately, you never know.
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I guess Terrans just need to play like Bunny from now on
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That was a hard last game to watch.
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Luckily, Scarlett couldn't ZERG her way to a win.
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DnS can 1a his deathball to a win though
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That wasn't 1a. Also, expensive, slow, unsplittable armies should be strong.
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1a plus storms, sorry. And while it should be strong protoss deathballs often feel too powerful.
I'm not going to try to claim Scarlett played that game out super well though, I'm just being kinda salty
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On December 23 2017 02:22 Boggyb wrote:
That wasn't 1a. Also, expensive, slow, unsplittable armies should be strong.
like lurker viper broodlord and stuff?
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Quite the rollercoaster of a fourth game there.
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On December 23 2017 02:28 Scarlett` wrote:
translation: fuck toss with a rake
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I haven't yet seen a convincing argument that skytoss with storms is any way fair. The new recall just doubles the fun incase you do catch the army out of position or start what looks to be a working basetrade. Terran and Zerg armies of that strength require usage of multiple casters and siege units all which move differently and a lot of which can just be feedbacked. Protoss has one ball and needs to press T. Maybe spread it a bit vs parasitic bomb.
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Hydra/viper just seems like an awful late game zvt comp
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Manner muling Serral while about to take a series 4-0.
weow
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I m just a dia noob, so maybe I didn t get it right.
Was there any reason beside being nervous for serral to go hydras/banes(plus lategame viper) against mech?
How could this work against mass tanks, hellbats etc...? My zergheart was bleeding, it looked like 4 times terran campaign, where you get your siege tank for the first time and by massing them, you win with no problems...
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EPT
PeopleImages Starcraft League/Europe Group 1
