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AX.CranK and 
Liquid`TaeJa survived one of the toughest groups in the WCS America Ro32, edging out aLive and MajOr to reach the live Ro16 stage.Crank was not particularly pleased when the group draw was announced back in early February, but his past complaints seemed silly in face of his 4-0 map score on the night. His initial series against aLive went relatively easily, with aLive gifting him one game with a poorly judged moveout against blink stalkers, while Crank took the second game with an unscouted proxy-gate. Though Crank faced some difficulty in dealing with MajOr's backdoor attacks in the winner's match, he was able to storm his way to victory nonetheless.
TaeJa came through in second place in the group, but he first had to get over a loss to MajOr in his initial match. The Mexican Terran had showed off his TvT prowess in the IEM Sao Paulo tournament where he beat CJ Entus' Bbyong, and showed that it was no fluke by defeating TaeJa 2-0.
It was not an unprecedented result. TaeJa had lost an initial series to MajOr once before in 2013's WCS America Season 3, only to fight his way up from the loser's match and take revenge on MajOr in the rematch. History would end up repeating itself as TaeJa shook off his first defeat and reeled off a string of four consecutive victories against aLive and MajOr to take second place.
Players Qualified for Ro16:
Protoss (5): Alicia, Oz, Arthur, HuK, Crank
Terran (3): Heart, Bomber, TaeJa
Zerg (4): TooDming, HyuN, Revival, XiGuaNext game day:
Ro32 Group G: Polt, Neeb, Minigun, Illusion
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