EPT
ShinHan2 OSL Week 3.2
Group A: Anytime vs July on Tau Cross
Definately the game of the night, Liquibet had July as a comfortable favorite. Unfortunately for the majority, Anytime abused July by fast expanding and defending well against mutas and guards. Some stealthy ninjas repeatedly emptied July's expansions of drones, and SumoZerg could not match the 3 expo armies of Anytime.
Group A status:
Anytime 2-0 will advance to the round of 16
Midas 2-0 will advance to the round of 16
July 0-2 will play Casy for a wildcard spot
Casy 0-2 will play July for a wildcard spot. The loser goes to the Dual round.
Group B: Bisu vs ChoJJa on Peaks
The second protoss gamer of the night, and another protoss win. Bisu embarassed ChoJJa with graceful but forceful play. ChoJJa's lurker/ling/defiler tactics may be strong against terran, but vs a protoss of Bisu's current stature, it was nothing. I am becoming a believer, keeps your eyes on this kid.
Group B status:
Bisu 2-0 will move to the round of 16
FireBatHero 1-1
JiHyun 1-1 both 1-1 players can finish as high as first or be out completely.
ChoJJa 0-2 win or die.
Group C: Ever vs GoodFriend on Arcadia II
GoodFriend sucks. The only player worse than GoodFriend is Ever. Clash of the friggin titans eh? Ever raped GF early on with a constant stream of proxy dt's. After forcing back the terran expansion and seeing GF turtle, Ever decided to make no troops and double expand himself. After retaking his expansion 15 minutes later, GF found Ever still had no troops, and promptly steamrolled him.
Group C status:
Ever 1-1
YellOw 1-1
Shine[name] 1-1
BadFriend 1-1
Two people will advance after this week, while the two losers will have a tie-break for the wildcard spot.
Group D: Jju vs Canata on Arkanoid
Jju owned Canata fast on this supposed island map. With those two tempting expansions, Canata assumed he would be safe for a bit. However, early two hatch muta's from Jju crushed an initial MM force, and then capitalized on shoddy building placement by Canata. It was fast and ugly.
Group D status:
Sea[sheild] 2-0 will advance to the round of 16
Jju 2-0 will advance to the round of 16
Canata 0-2 will fight Rock for the wild card
Rock 0-2 will fight Canata for the wild card
Group E: Jy vs Light[name] on Arkanoid
Jy played like a whirling dervish this game. As seems to be the early trend, he pinned Light in his base with early mutalisks. As Light spent all his time defending, Jy was free to double expand in his own base and climb the tech tree to defilers, guardians, and ultralisks. By the time Light was able to leave with any sizable force, Jy was already super-sayan, and ran over everything.
Group E status:
NaDa 2-0 will move to the round of 16
Jy 1-1
ZergMan 1-1
Light 0-2
This one starts to get complicated. If Light beats Zergman, and NaDa beats Jy, then there is a three way tie for 2nd and the world will collapse.
Group F: Iris vs GoRush on Tau Cross
Iris tried to spark up GoRush's sunken line, but failed with one remaining. GoRush teched to lurker drops and ended it a while later, with Iris being on the defensive after his initial attack.
Group F status:
GoRush 1-1
Iris 1-1
GGPlay 1-1
Cloud 1-1
As with group C, two winner will move on from the final week, while the two losers will fight for the wildcard.
For more information, take a look at jkillersharks's great summary posts where I get lots of my info.
Pringles MSL
Last week the losers fought it out, with the winners of the games staying alive and the two time losers going down to the Survivor League, which is also running right now.
Group A:
Bifrost (pretend Casy) is waiting for the loser of Yellow[name] and IPX on Blitz. Terato is already out and down to Survivor.
Group B:
rA is waiting for the loser of Boxer and Silver on Longinus. So, rA will play Silver. Pusan is already out.
Group C:
ChoJJa is waiting for the winner of Jju and DaezanG on Arcadia. Midas and his sour face is in survivor.
Group D:
Kingdom is going to rape the bejesus out of the Xellos/Nada game on Peaks. Shark is done already.
This thursday, the winners games will be played. There are some good ones coming up so dont miss out. Take a look at jkillersharks's great summary posts where I get lots of my info.
MSL Survivor
The first stage of the Survivor League has finished. This is a complex system, so I suggest you take a look at Live2Win's great summary post here. Read through it a bit to find different explinations of how the league works, written by Live and myself. The extended results can be found there, but for now, here are the players moving on:
Group winners playing for a direct MSL seed:
Group A winner Jaedong vs Group B Free[gm]
Group C oDin vs Group D Canata
Group E Bisu[Shield] (Believe) vs Group F Tosky[S.G]
Group G Junwi (old school ^^) vs Group H Light[Alive]
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Group second place players, who will play MSL 0-2 players and group winners who do not get the seed:
Group A Much[gm], who will play Terato bo3.
Group B Hwasin
Group C Oversky, who will play Pusan
Group D Cool[fou]
Group E Ever)Z(aQua who will play Midas
Group F Iris
Group G BadFriend whil will play Shark
Group H MinGu
ProLeague
For an overview of the league, take a look at hasuprotoss's summary thread here. It is a little out of date, but hopefully he can get back at it in between all the great uploading he does for the tracker.
Here are some recent results:
September 2:
SK1 > Pantech
MBC > Lecaf
September 3:
Soul > eNature
Samsung > Sparkyz
September 4:
Lecaf > Hanbit
September 9:
Samsung > KTF
CJ > MBC
September 10:
Sparkyz > SK1
eNature > Pantech
September 12:
Lecaf > Soul
I know this was a lot of numbers, but hopefully it gave you a big picture sense of what is going on. Progaming is busier than ever these days, and it is a chore to stay on top of it all. Remember, you can always use the teamliquid tracker to watch any of these games, as it is maintained by very cool guys such as hasuprotoss and live2win. Dont forget to say thank-you, as they spend their time and energy for you.
