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The tournament has come to a close after two days of hard fought battles!
1st Place - ROOTKiwikaki - $200
2nd Place - ROOTMinigun - $100
3rd Place - ROOTqxc - $50
Thanks everyone for tuning in and making this event a success, both Justin.tv and ROOT Gaming hope to continue to provide quality tournaments for the starcraft 2 community! Another thanks goes out to our excellent casters, Raelcun and Ic3d, they did a great job, and finally to all of the players who contributed to making this tournament a success.
Replay pack will be up tomorrow and VODs will be up by the end of the week or so on our youtube channel!
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Replay pack is up for every game except I forgot to get the Kiwikaki vs Gretorp games, if either of you awesome dudes have them still shoot me an email with them please!
Go here to download the replays! http://www.root-gaming.com/news/root-challenge-north-american-invitational-final-results
Please do not rehost so we can get an accurate download count! Again thanks to all the players, casters and spectators that made this event a success!
ROOT Gaming, partnered with Justin.tv, is excited to announce a new invitational tournament! Overall 16 players will be participating in this tournament but the twist is 8 of them are from ROOT Gaming. The other 8 are top level, well known players from North America coming from multiple clans and backgrounds. Each of these players will be facing off against a ROOT player in round one of the bracket and have to start strong out of the gate to advance in the bracket. Thus, the name, the ROOT Challenge!
Where: Raelcun and ic3d on http://www.justin.tv/rootgaming
When: Tuesday, Dec 14 1:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) and Wednesday, Dec 15 1:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)
Type: 16 Player Single Elimination - Best of 3 up until Finals/3rd Place, then Best of 5
Prizes: 1st Place - $200, 2nd Place - $100, 3rd Place - $50
We will be revealing the match-ups slowly over the course of the coming days until Saturday. On Sunday we will open a vote to allow YOU the viewer to pick which matchups our fantastic commentating crew will be casting that day!
VOTING IS OPEN!
Poll: Which matchup do you want to see cast in the upper RO16?
InflowMini vs EGInka (345)
47%
ROOTqxc vs VTSpades (277)
38%
ROOTSlush vs Painuser (91)
12%
ROOTFayth vs Ryze (16)
2%
729 total votes
ROOTqxc vs VTSpades (277)
ROOTSlush vs Painuser (91)
ROOTFayth vs Ryze (16)
729 total votes
Your vote: Which matchup do you want to see cast in the upper RO16?
(Vote): ROOTqxc vs VTSpades
(Vote): ROOTFayth vs Ryze
(Vote): ROOTSlush vs Painuser
(Vote): InflowMini vs EGInka
Unfortunately EGIncontrol had a conflict with the start time so while he is still in the tournament, he will not be able to play ROOTCatz during the casting window, so that matchup is unavailable to vote for.
Poll: Which matchup do you want to see cast in the lower RO16?
ROOTKiwikaki vs Gretorp (191)
69%
ROOTDrewbie vs ROOTSheth (66)
24%
ROOTDdoro vs TTOne (18)
7%
275 total votes
ROOTDrewbie vs ROOTSheth (66)
ROOTDdoro vs TTOne (18)
275 total votes
Your vote: Which matchup do you want to see cast in the lower RO16?
(Vote): ROOTKiwikaki vs Gretorp
(Vote): ROOTDrewbie vs ROOTSheth
(Vote): ROOTDdoro vs TTOne
Upper Bracket Tuesday Match-Up Reveal!
ROOTSheth vs 
EGInka+ Show Spoiler +
A reclusive zerg master goes up against a powerful and skilled protoss in what looks to be a fantastic round 1 matchup. As with most of the players in our tournament, neither of these players really needs introduction, but for those who don't know, both of these players were skilled StarCraft 1 players who are now great StarCraft 2 players representing two of the best teams in the foreigner scene right now. ROOTSheth's accomplishments include winning 2 GosuCoaching weeklies and several ITL championships and might at some point include actually making it to a LAN event! EGInka is probably most recently known for his absolutely epic and amazing 4-3 series against the great terran player Fenix at MLG Dallas, after starting down 2-0. Good luck to both players!
Lower Bracket Tuesday Match-Up Reveal!
ROOTKiwikaki vs 
Gretorp+ Show Spoiler +
ROOTKiwikaki finished the MLG circuit second overall in points and came within a tiny margin of placing into the round of 64 for the GSL. Gretorp is a known innovator and practitioner of extremely solid Terran play who did consistently well in the MLG circuit. How he finds time to play so much in between bopping clowns I'll never know but it is clear he is an inspiration to many Terrans both back in the beta and now. Good luck to both players!
How the bracket looks so far:
RO16:
UPPER BRACKET:
ROOTqxc 2-0 VTSpades --- Representing VT Gaming ROOTSuggy 2-1 Ryze --- Representing Stratyk Gaming ROOTSlush 2-1 Painuser --- Representing Lazerus Gaming ROOTMinigun 2-1 EGInka --- Representing Evil GeniusesLOWER BRACKET:
ROOTKiwikaki 2-1 Gretorp --- Representing Fnatic ROOTCatz 1-2 EGIncontrol --- Representing Evil Geniuses ROOTDrewbie 2-0 FXOSheth --- Representing FX Gaming ROOTDdoro 0-2 TTOne --- Representing FnaticQUARTER-FINALS
ROOTqxc 2-0 ROOTSuggy ROOTMinigun 2-0 ROOTSlush ROOTKiwikaki 2-0 EGIncontrol TTOne 2-0 ROOTdrewbieSEMI-FINALS
ROOTqxc vs ROOTMinigun ROOTKiwikaki vs TTOneBracket Link: http://challonge.com/rootnachallenge
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We will have three matches streamed on Monday, starting with a match from the upper bracket for the round of 16, then a match from the lower bracket for the round of 16 and finally a match from the quarter-finals. On Tuesday Dec 14 we will be casting all matches - the semi-finals, championship match and 3rd place match. For the matches we do not stream there will be a replay pack available.
A big thank you goes out to our sponsor, http://www.justin.tv, please visit them and check out their great stream selection! ROOT Gaming and Justin.tv looks forward to providing you all with some great quality matches and an exciting tournament. We hope you all tune in next Monday and Tuesday to catch the action!
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Spoil sport. Would have been fun to speculate. Oh well should be a fun event to watch
