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Challenger League play began today in WCS America. The region was as usual a bit of a melting pot with a solid mix of Korean, American, and Chinese players duking it out to claim four spots in this season's Premier League.
viOLet, 
ROOTIllusion, 
iG.Jim, and ZOO.Courage, advanced from the Challenger matches to make Season 2 of WCS America Premier League. WCS America Challenger League - Day 1 Results
desRow 1 - 3 viOLet
Illusion 3 - 0 JYP
SeleCT 1 - 3 Jim
TheStC 0 - 3 Courage
desRow 1 - 3 viOLetIllusion 3 - 0 JYPSeleCT 1 - 3 JimTheStC 0 - 3 CouragedesRow put up a decent fight against Violet, playing a close macro game in Game one on Overgrowth and taking Game three with strong DT play. However, Violet looked superior in longer matches, winning easily on King Sejong Station and utilizing a swarm host/static defense style to outlast desRow on Frost in the final game. Illusion stomped JYP in a slight upset, winning all three games quickly with early bio pushes and drops. JYP looked utterly lost against the aggressive play of Illusion and dropped out of Challenger for Season 2.
Jim was able to convincingly defeat SeleCT 3-1. His phoenix colossus composition took SeleCT off guard in game 1, a fake blink attack into DTs demolished SeleCT in game 3, and a double-oracle 4-gate build managed to seal the deal for the Chinese Protoss. SeleCT can take solace in the fact that he did win the longest game of the series, a macro game on Frost against Jim's trademark phoenix/colossus style. Finally, Courage dominated TheStC 3-0 to secure his first ever trip into Premier League using a mix of roach and ling/baneling play.
WCS AM Challenger Continues on Wednesday, Wednesday, Apr 30 10:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) with the following matches:
aLive vs Suppy
Ian vs Check
MaSa vs Slam
MajOr vs KingKong
aLive vs SuppyIan vs CheckMaSa vs SlamMajOr vs KingKongWCS America Premier League Players
Seeded from Season 1 (16)
Alicia, Arthur, CranK, HuK, MacSed, Oz, puCKBomber, Heart, Neeb, Polt, TaeJaHyuN, Revival, TooDming, XiGuaChallenger League Winners
viOLet, Illusion, Jim, Courage, 12 TBD
