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1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
It was a good day for Millenium as  Mill.VortiX and  Mill.ForGG were the first two players to advance to the quarterfinals of WCS EU Season 2.
Vortix lived up to his reputation as one of the best foreigners in the world right now by claiming first place in his group on his Millenium debut. He opened the evening by soundly defeating Harstem 2-0 with a roach/ling/infestor composition in game 1 and an unexpectedly strong roach pressure in game 2. In the winner's match, Vortix dropped the first game to ForGG's banshee/hellion/Thor play on Alterzim, but took game two with another roach based attack. While he did take damage from ForGG's cloaked banshees, he did more than enough in return and was able to close out the game. On the final map, Vortix managed to hold off ForGG's parade style push for long enough to win a big fight and carried that momentum to win the game and advance early with a 4-1 map score. ForGG was unfazed by his loss and went on to defeat Harstem 2-1 to reach the Ro16 in second place.
Despite his strong results as of late, Liquid`Snute unfortunately didn't appear to be at his best as he fell out of the group in last place. Although group winner Vortix called him the best foreigner in his pre-match interview, the evening saw the Norwegian wonder's claim to the foreigner throne dented with his early exit. His inability to properly withstand ForGG's 2 rax in games 1 and 3 forced him into the loser's match, where  Fnatic.Harstem's immortal/sentry push in three straight games proved too much to handle. Notably, Harstem used two warp prisms in game 3 with one dropping zealots in the main while the other was used to reinforce his push. In his post match interview, Harstem confessed that he didn't intend to build two, but that he would continue to do so given the success he had with it. Harstem would go on to lose to ForGG in the final match ending his run through WCS EU.
Next game day -
Group B: Welmu, MC, ToD, YoDa
Players Qualified for the Ro8:
VortiX
ForGG
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ForGG showed some really well prepared and adaptive play today, so I'm glad he made it. However he'll need to step up his game for the next round. Sad that Snute didn't make it, he just wasn't able to withstand the new Hellbat pushes.
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United States97276 Posts
ForGG played much better than I was expecting today. Not surprised to see Vortix come out in first though. He's definitely been playing well lately.
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The third and fourth rows of the results table are screwed up. The winner's match was Vortix:ForGG, and the losers's match was Harstem:Snute, right?
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United States97276 Posts
yeah. it's probably listed like that because ESL started playing WCS AM and EU in the order of
Initial Match 1
Initial Match 2
Losers' Match
Winners' Match
Final Match
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On June 10 2014 15:06 Random_0 wrote:
The third and fourth rows of the results table are screwed up. The winner's match was Vortix:ForGG, and the losers's match was Harstem:Snute, right?
esl is doing this for wcs eu and america to be "different" from gsl. it wouldnt be any more entertaining watching which loser gets to play the winner vs loser match, AFTER the winners match. i much prefer gsls order
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disaster for snute, how the hell could he lose to harstem lol!
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I like the new match order. It gives the winners of the first matches a bit more time to rest before the winners game.
OT - GG to Vortix, even though it was a little weird to see him wearing the Millenium shirt
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I wonder why title has no something like "Millenium prevails"
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WCS group right after HSC is harsh for Snute and Harstem ahaha
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On June 10 2014 14:43 ZigguratOfUr wrote:
ForGG showed some really well prepared and adaptive play today, so I'm glad he made it. However he'll need to step up his game for the next round. Sad that Snute didn't make it, he just wasn't able to withstand the new Hellbat pushes.
Seems like a bit of a cop out. He played very greedy vs both ForGG and Harstem, and the hellbat push only accounted for one loss. He saw the same build 3x from Harstem but didn't change his playstyle. He was just outplayed today.
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On June 10 2014 16:54 SWEETL0U wrote:Show nested quote +On June 10 2014 14:43 ZigguratOfUr wrote:
ForGG showed some really well prepared and adaptive play today, so I'm glad he made it. However he'll need to step up his game for the next round. Sad that Snute didn't make it, he just wasn't able to withstand the new Hellbat pushes. Seems like a bit of a cop out. He played very greedy vs both ForGG and Harstem, and the hellbat push only accounted for one loss. He saw the same build 3x from Harstem but didn't change his playstyle. He was just outplayed today.
Idk, something must have made him very insecure, cause choo choo defense is like basic knowledge when playing zerg. For instance in game 3 when he build random zerglings instead of droning up.
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United Kingdom31935 Posts
Thank gos ForGG went through if no terran had made it I probaly wouldnt go to the finals
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On June 10 2014 17:28 GumBa wrote:
Thank gos ForGG went through if no terran had made it I probaly wouldnt go to the finals
Aren't you a protoss player?
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Russian Federation604 Posts
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I wonder if Home Story Cup took it out of Snute and Harstem. Oh well. This was a tough group I suppose.
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Man, I feel so bad for snute..
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Good day for Millenium, solid June results for them.
Snute though ;;
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Norway839 Posts
On June 10 2014 15:52 jeri wrote:
disaster for snute, how the hell could he lose to harstem lol!
harstem is pretty good and as to why i didn't play very well i could elaborate on that if you were my close friend.
i will try to show better games in the future and not create 'disasters'
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1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
We just expect so much from you man, it's a compliment :p
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