WCS Europe/America
Premier League

Brackets and standings:
Europe • America

VODs:
Europe • America

by Waxangel

The WCS Europe and America quarterfinals have concluded after two days of games, and we finally know who the final four contenders will be for each region.

In WCS Europe, the culling of the foreigners was completed as Acer.MMA and yoe.San eliminated Liquid`Snute and NrS.Welmu. Like VortiX the day before, the European players were unable to offer up much resistance and lost in one-sided matches.


Coming into his match with a career record of 3-8 against MMA, Snute was unable to buck his losing trend. The Norwegian Zerg took one map off MMA in a game where he gained an early lead with speedlings, but the other three games followed the familiar pattern where he was overrun by MMA's waves of marines, medivacs and mines.

Welmu surrendered a clean sweep to San in a series where he was clinically dissected by the yoe Flash Wolves player. After defeating Welmu in a late-game, deathball war to begin the series, San followed it up with two quick victories where he punished Welmu's expansion attempts with incisive one-base attacks.


Though the results from Europe were largely unsurprising, the American portion of the broadcast started off with an upset. CMStorm_Polt, reigning two-time WCS America champion, was eliminated with a 1-3 loss to new teammate CMStorm_Revival. Revival's ZvT had looked promising back at IEM Katowice when he took another formidable Terran in jjakji to five games, a series Revival would have won if not for a one-in-a-million widow mine barrage.

Going up against Polt, Revival was able to play to the best of his abilities without committing any critical errors. From mass speed roaches, to standard muta-ling-bane, to early roach-baneling bust timings, Revival showed off his prowess at a variety of strategies as he knocked out the champion.


On the other hand, the final quarterfinal match between Oz and ESC.Arthur couldn't have gone more predictably. Oz ended Arthur's underdog run with a clean 3-0 sweep, easily holding off the proxy and hidden building strategies Arthur employed in each game.

WCS Europe and America resume tomorrow with the semifinals. The grand finals for both regions will be played on Sunday.

Writers: Waxangel
Photos: ESL
Editor: Waxangel