The CEVO-Pro Starcraft 2 playoffs have reached the finals! The season started over 2 months ago with 12 of the top StarCraft 2 teams in North America. After 16 matches in regular season and a double elimination playoff bracket there are 2 teams left to claim the title of CEVO-Pro StarCraft 2 Season 1 Champions!

The first place team will receive (5) Zowie Hammer USB Headsets, while the second and third place teams will receive (5) SpawN P-TF Mousepads.

You can view the complete playoff bracket here: http://www.cevo.com/playoffs/bracket.php?id=1218

The match:

Map: Metalopolis

Team sixjax.NrG(Home) vs Team VT Gaming(Away)

When: Wednesday (3/9) at 9pm EST

The streams:
The match will be streamed live by both www.l2sc.tv and www.e-rev.tv (CAST IS OVER)

Format:
Four players from each team will play 1v1's against the other team in a best of 3 series. Winning a series gives the players team a point, if the match is tied 2-2 after the first 4 series then an Ace game is played between the teams.

The teams:

sixjax.NrG has had a very impressive season in the CEVO-Professional division. In the regular season they went 15-1 with their one loss to team EG in a very close 2-3 match. They were seeded first going into the playoffs and have beaten everyone in their path on the way to the finals. sixjax.NrG beat team rS in a very close 3-2 match in the upper bracket finals. They will be considered the favorites going into this match, but will have a hard match to secure the first SC2 CEVO-Professional title.

VT gaming has had a rocky season compared to sixjax.NrG. In the regular season VT gaming went 9-7 and out of the 10 teams making playoffs were seeded 6th. VT gaming then lost their first playoff match to rS in a very close 2-3 score. After that match however VT has been on an impressive winning streak. They have won 5 matches in a row to come out of the lower bracket for the grand finals. The last two matches they beat team EG 4-0 then team rS 3-1. VT gaming should be in top shape for this finals match after beating the team that knocked them into the lower bracket!

The Matchups:
sixjax.NrG v VT Gaming

dde v Azz

Vibe v Future

ostojiy v Pokebunny

Mihai v giX

+ Show Spoiler [Results + replays:] +

dde [2-1] Azz

1. http://www.sc2replayed.com/replays/148578-1v1-terran-protoss-metalopolis
2. http://www.sc2replayed.com/replays/148579-1v1-terran-protoss-xelnaga-caverns
3. http://www.sc2replayed.com/replays/148580-1v1-terran-protoss-delta-quadrant

Vibe [2-0] Future

1. http://www.sc2replayed.com/replays/148571-1v1-protoss-zerg-metalopolis
2. http://www.sc2replayed.com/replays/148569-1v1-protoss-zerg-delta-quadrant

ostojiy [2-1] Pokebunny

1. http://www.sc2replayed.com/replays/148582-1v1-terran-zerg-metalopolis
2. http://www.sc2replayed.com/replays/148583-1v1-terran-zerg-delta-quadrant
3. http://www.sc2replayed.com/replays/148584-1v1-terran-zerg-scrap-station

Mihai [2-0] giX

1. http://www.sc2replayed.com/replays/148573-1v1-terran-zerg-metalopolis
2. http://www.sc2replayed.com/replays/148574-1v1-terran-zerg-shakuras-plateau

Overall:
sixjax.NrG [4-0] VT Gaming

Arcanne

United States1519 Posts

March 09 2011 17:56 GMT

edit: nvm

Pokebunny

United States10654 Posts

March 09 2011 18:29 GMT

We have to beat them twice, ya?

NoHrt

Canada236 Posts

March 09 2011 19:45 GMT

awesome!

NrG.NeverExpo

Canada2114 Posts

March 09 2011 21:26 GMT

On March 10 2011 03:29 Pokebunny wrote:
We have to beat them twice, ya?

Apparently not, it was double elimination to get to the grand finals xD we get 0 1ups, everyone get got one

Either way I'm very excited for tonight, this league has been running for a really long time and it's gunna be great to finally crown a champion.

NrG.YuY

47 Posts

March 09 2011 21:30 GMT

On March 10 2011 03:29 Pokebunny wrote:
We have to beat them twice, ya?

u wish, ya?

Pokebunny

United States10654 Posts

March 09 2011 22:26 GMT

On March 10 2011 06:26 NrG.NeverExpo wrote:

Show nested quote +

Apparently not, it was double elimination to get to the grand finals xD we get 0 1ups, everyone get got one

Either way I'm very excited for tonight, this league has been running for a really long time and it's gunna be great to finally crown a champion.

Waaait so you have no advantage?

:\

Sounds dumb, but I'm not gonna complain heh

NrG.NeverExpo

Canada2114 Posts

March 09 2011 22:32 GMT

On March 10 2011 07:26 Pokebunny wrote:

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Waaait so you have no advantage?

:\

Sounds dumb, but I'm not gonna complain heh

Our advantage is being us. xD

nah jk but I think we get to veto maps and you don't. huzzah~

byobong7

United States207 Posts

March 09 2011 22:41 GMT

On March 10 2011 03:29 Pokebunny wrote:
We have to beat them twice, ya?

No.

If a sixjax.NrG player wins a game vs. a VT Gaming player they are then allowed to down vote 1 map from the pool. Being that the loser picks the next map this will give the advantage to the sixjax.NrG player assuming they do win a game.

Example: sixjax.NrG player wins game 1 in bo3 vs VT Gaming player. sixjax.NrG player is Terran playing a Zerg and down votes Scrap Station. The VT Gaming player will need to pick the 2nd map from the pool minus Scrap Station.

If the VT Gaming player wins a game he/she is not allowed to down vote a map from the pool.

This is how we've decided to work the advantage to the Upper Bracket Winner instead of forcing VT Gaming to have to win twice because that would take a very long time. This way the advantage to the Upper Bracket Winner is still very obvious and substantial yet matches will take roughly the same amount of time.

t3tsubo

Canada682 Posts

March 09 2011 22:50 GMT

#10

gogo ostojiy!

Achilles

Canada385 Posts

March 09 2011 22:51 GMT

#11

On March 10 2011 06:30 NrG.YuY wrote:

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u wish, ya?

uhhh what?

ThE_OsToJiY

Canada1167 Posts

March 09 2011 22:56 GMT

#12

this should be a good match, I predict 4-0 for NrG though based off of personal bias.

tl;dr

GOGOGO NRG FIGHTING!!!

Noxie

United States2227 Posts

March 09 2011 23:08 GMT

#13

Think NrG will take this one handily.

ntvarify

United States331 Posts

March 09 2011 23:17 GMT

#14

On March 10 2011 08:08 Noxie wrote:
Think NrG will take this one handily.

I would have to disagree there, VT has been quite strong as of late. Also, VT Gaming is one of my favorite teams, so that might have something to do with it. Anyways, heres to a VT 4-0!

grats

United States184 Posts

March 09 2011 23:23 GMT

#15

WAR V.T.! :O~~

NrG.NeverExpo

Canada2114 Posts

March 09 2011 23:30 GMT

#16

I kinda hate double elimination in general, since things like this happen. But it really sucks that we made it through the whole bracket without losing once, and VT is coming up from the losers bracket after losing once, and yet we are both on equal terms going into it. That being said, it would make for a pretty uneventful finals if we had 2 play 2 cws, but it would technically be fair and the most logical thing to do.

But since we are on the upper bracket we get to chose each individual lineup, and we also get to veto 1 map per game since we didnt drop a game in the bracket yet. If we can't win tonight we probably don't deserve 1st place :D

Kvz

United States463 Posts

March 09 2011 23:39 GMT

#17

gogo nrg. take it home ~!

soulcrusher

United States143 Posts

March 09 2011 23:41 GMT

#18

Good luck to both teams. We'll be releasing a post about Open finals as well in a few days. So stay tuned for that as well! This first season has been a blast to run and Season 2 will only get better!

NrG.NeverExpo

Canada2114 Posts

March 10 2011 01:41 GMT

#19

On March 10 2011 06:30 NrG.YuY wrote:

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u wish, ya?

dont mind him, he read things wrong, and hes slightly retarded.

NrG.NeverExpo

Canada2114 Posts

March 10 2011 02:06 GMT

#20

Lineups up! ostojiy vs pokebunny on l2sc stream, and vibe vs future on e-rev stream! 2 games running at the same time, dde vs azz and mihai vs gix will commence afterwards!