Q: First off, big congratulations all around for decisively beating 281 other people for the top prize! There are no ties for first place! Would you mind telling all of us reading a bit about yourself? Have you been following along with the contest or is this win news to you?

A:Thanks and hi TL . I've been following professional StarCraft for two years and I've been a super-low-post-count TL member for just over a year (slowly improving my Liquibet skills). I was following my score until JF's win in Ro8, after that I figured he'd make it to the finals and my score would be screwed. Looking at it now I'm really surprised at how accurate my bracket was.

Q: When you were placing your predictions at the time, did you have a clear strategy or were you just guessing randomly?

A: My first instinct was that we were going to see mirrors everywhere, and there turned out to be more than I first predicted. Because I haven't followed foreign StarCraft that much I relied a lot on the Ret/Artosis predictions in their SCForAll video. Looking back the only real "random" thing I did was put XiaOxi over Idra.

Q: As you can probably guess- many, many, MANY, people placed IdrA to win it all (187 people to be precise). Why did you decide to go ahead and not pick the favorite? Was it because so many other people were picking him to win? Is he your favorite player?
-In my head, Idra was either going to take it all or lose to something stupid early on. I went with the latter, half because I knew it would be the less popular choice and half because of how crazy it would be if he so early Ret is actually my favorite player of the top 16, but I was (sadly) confident that his ZvZ wouldn't be able to take him to the finals.

Q: Just out of curiosity, are you as good as you in Liquibet as you are in TSL?

A:I don't recall how long I've been active in Liquibet, but think I have been in the top 100 or so each season I've been in.

Q: Your net worth just went up by about $95. Do you plan on celebrating this small, but notable, victory?

A: I actually just bought a new processor for $150 so I'm still down for the week. Hopefully when I go out for poker with friends in the next few days my luck will continue and I'll be able to break even overall :D

Thanks for playing and I wish you the best of luck in the future!
-Thank you, and thanks to TL and all the amazing staff for the TSL!

Winner of the 8 RO16 games = 1 pt each for 8 total
Winner of the 4 RO8 games = 2 pts each for 8 total
Winner of the 2 RO4 games = 4 pts each for 8 total
Winner of Grand Final = 8 pts

Total = 32 pts

In the event of ties, I'll examine your 1-4 picks, and whoever is closest will win.

So if say, 2 people get 28 points. Whoever had the closest order of 1-4 will win, the other will be 2nd place.