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NEXGenius Wins Blizzcon 2010!![[image loading]](http://www.thegameover.eu/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/blizzcon-logo-large.jpg)
Min-Soo “NEXGenius” Jung, the Protoss player from Korea earlier today won the Blizzcon 2010 finals, winning $25,000. After breezing through the winners bracket, NEXGenius faced Loner in the winners finals.
Loner, arguably the best player from China, was undefeated through the winners bracket. Playing as Terran, he flew over
NEXGenius wins game 1 on Xel’Naga Caverns after Loner got trapped in his base by a large Collosus/Warpgate army. With Loner’s army trapped in a corner, NEXGenius’ Collosi tore through it for an easy GG.
Loner took game 2 on Metalopolis, tying up the series. After opening with Void Rays, NEXGenius switched to a collosus/warpgate army, but the pre-existance of vikings made it very easy for Loner to take out the collosi, and then roll over the rest of the army after a lot of tension, to win the game.
Game 3 took place on Lost Temple in close ground positions, NEXGenius opened with a fast expansion, and denied Loner scouting for a long time. However, Loner, with no vision, pushed forward with his 2-rax marine/maruader army and built a bunker while battling NEXGenius’ army. With the bunker, Loner was able to destroy NEXGenius’ expansion. With no expansion, the protoss player was set far behind, and delayed as much as possible with force fields before gg’ing out.
Off-stream, NEXGenius battled against Oleksiy ‘White-Ra’ Krupnykin the Lowers Finals. White-Ra, known for his string of first place finishes in numerous online tournaments, is one of the older Starcraft 2 players and so also, an experienced veteran.
In the Protoss vs Protoss matchup, NEXGenius came out on top, winning the series 2-1, and going on to the championship finals where he would once again face Loner.
In this matchup, NEXGenius would have to win 2 best-of-3 series in order to win, while Loner would only have to win one, to reflect his earlier win in the winners finals.
Game 1 took place on Scrap Station. NEXGenius opened playing very safe, with a 2 gate-robo, to allow for early scouting. Both players expand, with Loner starting to build more vikings to counter NEXGenius’ mass collosus play. In order to survive, Loner would need to keep picking off collosi in order to keep their numbers down. After two big conflicts at the bottom Xel’Naga, both players expand a second time, and NEXGenius transitions into High Templar to help deal with the large bio-force forming. Unknown to Loner, NEXGenius expanded to the gold minerals also, and bounced forward in terms of income. After more exchanges in the middle, NEXGenius overpowered terran to take the first game.
Xel’Naga Caverns was the map for Game 2. Loner opened up with a 1-1-1 build for a fast Banshee followed up with aggressive tank and marine play with bunkers. With great warp prism/immortal play, NEXGenius was able to push out of the contain and counter attack, which was held off by Loner’s turtling siege tanks. Following almost continuous sparring, and with his army being destroyed, NEXGenius was forced to fall back and defend his third expansion. Loner gave up his air advantage by landing his vikings and NEXGenius was able to defend to once more bounce back. Following several more army trades, NEXGenius edged a 25 food advantage. Loner attacked an empty expansion and was flanked by the superior Protoss army. With psi-storms added in, NexGenius was able to barely take Game 2 and took the first of two series for the Championship finals 2-0.
Game 1 of the second series took place on Lost Temple, previously won by Loner. Spawning in close positions, both players expanded relatively quickly. After a relatively somewhat game, with both armies dancing around the middle of the map, Loner pushed forward with unsieged tanks, which were quickly taken out. This allowed for the rest of his army to be easily cleaned up by collosus and warpgate units, and allowing NEXGenius to take his 3rd win in a row. Loner appeared visably uncomfortable at this point, having given up his series lead, and lost the first game of the deciding series. He would have to win 2 games to come back and win the championship at this point.
Game 2 of the series took place on Metalopolis in close ground positions. Early agression from Loner took out alot of NEXGenius’ probes, but he was able to defend, barely saving his natural expo-nexus. Dropship play from Loner looked to keep up some harrassment on NEXGenius, however some mis-micro from Loner allowed stalkers to shoot down the full dropship, and so allow Genius to bring himself back into the game. Loner moving over to a marauder-viking army, became very fragile to heavy zealot play, and Genius’ was able to overwhelm his army with a large count of the melee unit. Loner desperately began pulling SCVs off mining, which were easily destroyed by Genius’ army, and the remaining marauders were completely overwhelmed. Loner typed out 'GG' to end the game.
NEXGenius takes the second game to win the Championship Finals, as well as pocketing a smooth $25,000. Later interviewed, Min-soo 'NEXGenius' Jung goes on to say "It was really hard, but I thought first place was definitely possible." [Corrected Translation]
Loner goes home with $10,000 and second place. Loner was not the favourite to win the tournament, or even widely predicted to place highly, but no doubt his fans are happy with his somewhat 'surprise' second place finish. Both players will be returning to Korea to continue competing in the GSL Tournament, where the prize fund stands at $170,000, and both players are still in the round of 32.
Final Standings for Blizzcon 2010:
1st. Min-Soo ‘Genius’ Jung
2nd. Yi ‘Loner’ Dai
3rd. Oleksiy ‘White-Ra’ Krupnyk
4th. Dmytro ‘Dimaga’ Filipchuk
You can download ALL of the tournament replays here.
Written by Tim ‘Arcanewinds’ Seabrook
Written for Team Adversity (To be posted)
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On October 24 2010 12:22 Arcanewinds wrote:
NEXGenius takes game 2 to win the Championship Finals, and take home $25,000.
Later interviewed, Min-soo “NEXGenius” Jung goes on to say that he found the tournament tough at times, but overall it wasn’t too difficult to win it.
This was a significant mistranslation, according to the translators on TL he really said "It was really hard, but I thought first place was definitely possible."
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Those 4 pictures down there don't seem to be working (at least for me)
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You have WhiteRa's name backwards, and you misspelled Dimaga's first name.
Oleksiy Krupnyk
Dmytro Filipchuk
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Might want to edit that out of the title, although replays/vods aren't going to be available until ever/you play $$$, so it's not THAT big a deal.
Anyway, I'm taking freaking notes man. NexGenius is the Fruitdealer of Protoss: teaching us to do stuff we didn't think we could.
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On October 24 2010 12:25 supersoft wrote:
epic spoiler
Actually yeah, you're right.. A mod might want to change title..
On October 24 2010 12:25 FliedLice wrote:
Those 4 pictures down there don't seem to be working (at least for me)
Fixing those now...
You have WhiteRa's name backwards, and you misspelled Dimaga's first name.
Oleksiy Krupnyk
Dmytro Filipchuk
Thanks.. XD
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Two in the top 4, Ukraine is the new Korea in Star2.
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On October 24 2010 12:30 Arcanewinds wrote:Actually yeah, you're right.. A mod might want to change title.. Show nested quote +On October 24 2010 12:25 FliedLice wrote:
Those 4 pictures down there don't seem to be working (at least for me) Fixing those now... Show nested quote +You have WhiteRa's name backwards, and you misspelled Dimaga's first name.
Oleksiy Krupnyk
Dmytro Filipchuk Thanks.. XD
one second too late for me. fml
well, congratulations.. i'm sure he deserved it....... T____T
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On October 24 2010 12:31 Cadgers wrote:
Two in the top 4, Ukraine is the new Korea in Star2.
I fear Korea is still Korea in SC2 :D
Those 2 are about everything Ukraine has in SC2 I think :/
But DAMN! they're cool guys!
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On October 24 2010 12:32 megagoten wrote:
one second too late for me. fml
well, congratulations.. i'm sure he deserved it....... T____T
I'm sorry  didn't think it through.. <3
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Isn't BratOK also from Ukraine? Maybe he will make it next time 
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On October 24 2010 12:35 theqat wrote:Isn't BratOK also from Ukraine? Maybe he will make it next time
He's Russian.
Was kinda weird to see 2 Ukrainian guys listed under "Russia" on the invited-player-list of Blizzcon and not see Brat_OK there
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On October 24 2010 12:37 FliedLice wrote:Show nested quote +On October 24 2010 12:35 theqat wrote:Isn't BratOK also from Ukraine? Maybe he will make it next time He's Russian. Was kinda weird to see 2 Ukrainian guys listed under "Russia" on the invited-player-list of Blizzcon and not see Brat_OK there
They weren't invited exactly, They took the top people from ladder and had them play in a tourney to determine who went to blizzcon I do believe, so Dimaga and WhiteRa won the Russian server tourney
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I really hope the performance of Loner boosts the popularity of sc2 in china. Once china jumps on the sc2 wagon, the e-sports side of the game will be taken to a whole new level.
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On October 24 2010 12:40 aike wrote:Show nested quote +On October 24 2010 12:37 FliedLice wrote:On October 24 2010 12:35 theqat wrote:Isn't BratOK also from Ukraine? Maybe he will make it next time He's Russian. Was kinda weird to see 2 Ukrainian guys listed under "Russia" on the invited-player-list of Blizzcon and not see Brat_OK there They weren't invited exactly, They took the top people from ladder and had them play in a tourney to determine who went to blizzcon I do believe, so Dimaga and WhiteRa won the Russian server tourney
Oh they had an event for this?
Didn't know that...
And is there an actual Russian server?
Because all of them are playing on the EU server if i'm not wrong.
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I've smoothed out the article a little bit, there were a few wording bumps still in there, since I hadn't read over it ;D.
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It's so awesome to see White-Ra playing well :D... taking out Maka Prime, and other good players, good finish for him imo
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On October 24 2010 12:25 Pfhor wrote:Show nested quote +On October 24 2010 12:22 Arcanewinds wrote:
NEXGenius takes game 2 to win the Championship Finals, and take home $25,000.
Later interviewed, Min-soo “NEXGenius” Jung goes on to say that he found the tournament tough at times, but overall it wasn’t too difficult to win it.
This was a significant mistranslation, according to the translators on TL he really said "It was really hard, but I thought first place was definitely possible."
This is correct, several people noticed this in the Live Report thread.
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WhiteRa's name is still backwards.
Oleksiy is the first name, Krupnyk is the last name.
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On October 24 2010 13:07 kojinshugi wrote:
WhiteRa's name is still backwards.
Oleksiy is the first name, Krupnyk is the last name.
Okay, I've sorted that out, I'd changed one of the mentions, but not the final four haha .
I've also changed NEXGenius' winning quote.
I can't wait to watch him at GSL again, I hope this win gives him the push to go really far.
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How much White-Ra got from 3rd place anyone know?
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White-ra getting 3rd is the biggest surprise of tournament for me. Well done.
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On October 24 2010 20:33 Piski wrote:
How much White-Ra got from 3rd place anyone know?
When I looked last night there wasn't any info on this, still can't find any.. Which is a bit of a pain.
However, You can download ALL of the tournament replays here, which is nice .
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Duckload-Ra is back. He beat everyone, just lost 2 times to The tournament winner. Maybe, because he didnt go void ray every game. Congrats!
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On October 24 2010 12:33 FliedLice wrote:Show nested quote +On October 24 2010 12:31 Cadgers wrote:
Two in the top 4, Ukraine is the new Korea in Star2. I fear Korea is still Korea in SC2 :D Those 2 are about everything Ukraine has in SC2 I think :/ But DAMN! they're cool guys!
Probably my two favorite players. It was great to see them play and Day9, Artosis and Tasteless casting.
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Wow... great news about Dimaga and White-Ra coming 3rd and 4th... I wonder what their prize haul was. I recall 45K as being the prize pool.. and since 35K is already accounted for, makes me wonder if the remaining 10K is split between White-Ra and Dimaga alone or with others as well.
In any case they did the Ukraine proud. Congrats to both of them.
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White-Ra silenced all his critics as I said in another thread. Where are his doubters now?
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On October 24 2010 23:50 hdkhang wrote:
Wow... great news about Dimaga and White-Ra coming 3rd and 4th... I wonder what their prize haul was. I recall 45K as being the prize pool.. and since 35K is already accounted for, makes me wonder if the remaining 10K is split between White-Ra and Dimaga alone or with others as well.
In any case they did the Ukraine proud. Congrats to both of them.
if youre correct that they pool is 45k and taking into account that there was no 3rd / 4th place match as far as i recall its pobably a split for white-ra and dimaga = 5k for each of them.
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On October 25 2010 01:19 rextyrann wrote:Show nested quote +On October 24 2010 23:50 hdkhang wrote:
Wow... great news about Dimaga and White-Ra coming 3rd and 4th... I wonder what their prize haul was. I recall 45K as being the prize pool.. and since 35K is already accounted for, makes me wonder if the remaining 10K is split between White-Ra and Dimaga alone or with others as well.
In any case they did the Ukraine proud. Congrats to both of them. if youre correct that they pool is 45k and taking into account that there was no 3rd / 4th place match as far as i recall its pobably a split for white-ra and dimaga = 5k for each of them.
That's not how double elimination works. White-Ra placed 3d, Dimage 4th.
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On October 25 2010 01:19 rextyrann wrote:Show nested quote +On October 24 2010 23:50 hdkhang wrote:
Wow... great news about Dimaga and White-Ra coming 3rd and 4th... I wonder what their prize haul was. I recall 45K as being the prize pool.. and since 35K is already accounted for, makes me wonder if the remaining 10K is split between White-Ra and Dimaga alone or with others as well.
In any case they did the Ukraine proud. Congrats to both of them. if youre correct that they pool is 45k and taking into account that there was no 3rd / 4th place match as far as i recall its pobably a split for white-ra and dimaga = 5k for each of them.
No White-Ra took 3rd place. he beat dimaga in the lower brackets which placed him higher in final standings. So my guess would be that Ra got about 5 k and the rest 5 k was shared between the 13 other players.
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