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Weekly Cup Competitions
Week of September 22-28
by Wax
The arrival of the 5.0.15 PTR patch shook up cup competitions, with both live-version and PTR tournaments being played. While this didn't change up the list of winners a great deal—MaxPax, Classic, and Clem were all victorious on the week—we also got a rare Zerg winner in Solar (who won the live-version PiGosaur Cup).
*Partial brackets may be shown.
September 22: WardiTV Mondays #52
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WardiTV Mondays was played on the live version of SC2, but it still ended up being one of the more surprising tournaments of the week. herO was upset in the early going by ByuN, who defied an ocean of balance complaints to win in two fairly straight-up macro games. However, whatever was proved or disproved in that series was soon upended in the semifinals, where Shameless scored a 2-0 upset of his own over ByuN.
Elsewhere in the bracket, Rogue took down another top Protoss in Classic, leaving MaxPax as the sole surviving warlord of the weekly cups. In the end,
MaxPax had no problem sweeping up the pieces, as he took down both upset-makers in Rogue and Shameless to win the weekly title (VOD). *****
September 22: Monday Night Weeklies #24
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In contrast to WardiTV Mondays, Monday Night Weeklies dived straight into the new PTR. Amusingly enough, the update to the PTR dropped midway through the tournament, introducing the key tweak of upgrading Storm from unusably terrible to 'maybe-kinda-okay-ionno.'
The lack of Zergs made this mostly a testing ground for PvT, where we saw many Protosses not bother with Storm at all. That included MaxPax, who must have triggered a wave of balance hot takes following his 1-2 winners' final loss at the hands of ByuN. However,
MaxPax soon reminded us that Protoss had done fine with Robo-centric play during the early days of the 5.0.14 patch, as he bounded back from the lower bracket to crush ByuN 3-0 and then 2-1 to clinch the weekly championship (VOD). *****
September 23: WardiTV PTR Tournament
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Wardi wasn't one to miss out on PTR action, following up his regular Monday cup with a PTR event on Tuesday. While the tournament featured more Zerg representation than MNW, most of the Zergs were eliminated early and left the later rounds to become another TvP testing bed.
The TvP trends from MNW persisted for the most part, with most players abandoning the optimized Storm builds from the live version of SC2 and trying out a variety of openers. However, no one could find an answer against
Clem, who defeated Rex, Harstem, MaxPax, and herO to take first place. With Clem already having recovered his TvP mojo in the live version of SC2 (defeating Classic and herO in Maestros of Game), he may end up becoming one of the biggest beneficiaries of the new patch (VOD). *****
September 23: PiGosaur Cup #50
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Ironically, it didn't take any PTR changes to produce a rare Zerg cup win, as
Solar went the distance in the live version PiGosaur Cup. The highlight of Solar's run was a five-game brawl against ByuN in the semifinals, with the two macro-favoring players slugging it out in a series of bloody games (ByuN did throw in one cheese for good measure). After that, Solar's 3-0 upset of MaxPax was somewhat anticlimactic, as he managed to hit his mark with consecutive Hydralisk and Roach-Queen timings (VOD). *****
September 24: LiuLi Cup September #3 / Weekly #7
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The week in cup play finished with
Classic winning the LiuLi Cup, besting MaxPax 3-2 in the finals. The first four games centered around cheese and proxies, resulting in the two top PvP tying 2-2. The final game was decided in the skies, with Classic winning the Phoenix war to take the weekly title (VOD).
