My personal apologies for the delay posting games in the tail end of this showmatch - I had a personal medical emergency that put me in the hospital for a few days. Everything is up on LUUUX.com now but the daily-links are below, rounds 4 and 5 will be posted here tomorrow, but are available on LUUUX by following the game-linkthroughs.

LUUUX.com is pleased to announce its entrance into the eSports world with its first sponsored showmatch between two great teams.

*Edited: Games 2 are now linked in this link below, games 3 will be posted by 6pm EST,

Team TLAF-Liquid and Team Mousesports
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The show-match is a mini-team tournament, consisting of 6 players from each team participating in a best of 5 match series. The Winning team will be awarded a 600$ prize.

The players participating are of course your favorites and we have from Team TLAF-Liquid

LiquidHayprO
LiquidHuK
LiquidJinro
LiquidRet
LiquidTLO
LiquidTyler

They will be competing against Team mousesports, consisting of

mouz.MorroW
mouz.Strelok
mouz.MaNa
mouz.HasuObs
mouz.Syck
mouz.Lomo

The Matchups which were aranged in a double blind manner - each team had to rank their players 1-6 based on how they thought their opponents would rank for pairings.

For game ones, check out the spoiler
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1: mouz.MorroW vs. TLAF-Liquid'TLO

2: mouz.Strelok vs. TLAF-Liquid'Huk

3: mouz.MaNa vs. TLAF-Liquid'Jinro

4: mouz.HasuObs vs. TLAF-Liquid'Hayder

5: mouz.Syck vs. TLAF-Liquid'Tyler

6: mouz.Lomo vs TLAF-Liquid'Ret

For games 2 in each respective series, here are the links

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1: mouz.MorroW vs TLAF-Liquid'TLO

2: mouz.Strelok vs TLAF-Liquid'Huk

3: mouz.MaNa vs TLAF-Liquid'Jinro

4: mouz.HasuObs vs TLAF-Liquid'Haypro ---This video will be reposted shortly.

5: mouz.Syck vs TLAF-Liquid'Tyler

6: mouz.Lomo vs TLAF-Liquid'Ret

For games three in each of the series please click below,

1: mouz.Morrow vs TLAF-Liquid'TLO

2: mouz.Strelok vsTLAF-Liquid'Huk

3: mouz.MaNa vs TLAF-Liquid'Jinro

4: mouz.HasuObs vs TLAF-Liquid'Haypro

5: mouz.Syck vs TLAF-Liquid'Tyler

6: mouz.Lomo vs TLAF-Liquid'Ret

All of the games and VODs will be posted onto the LUUUX site over the next week, so check back regularly to see the series being progressed.

We will also sit down with each of the players right after the matches to ask them how they felt about the game, to get a bio from the players, some feedback on their opponents and the state of eSports in their own words.

Bookmark this URL and you’re sure to catch all the action and all the gossip after the games.
http://www.luuux.com/tag/esports

We are also pleased to announce that we have Total Biscuit and Khaldor casting the games. Make sure you check out an epic 3v3 we have also sponsored between TFLA-Liquid and Mousesports on total biscuits youtube channel. http://www.youtube.com/user/TotalHalibut
*Edit, 3v3 is now available here

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We think that eSports has a fantastic future and at Luuux we want to give it more exposure and help it grow. We’ll be adding a lot of stories, announcements and blogs about eSports, but what will really kick it off is when you get involved and share your passions with us and all our other site visitors and members.

Give Luuux a spin and help us to build a great eSports community !
http://www.luuux.com/user/register

NB.
If anyone wants to know what happened about the 64 Player tournament we had planned, it got temporarily postponed due to time constraints waiting for the Blizzard tournament licence. We apologize any inconvenience but we are very excited to share the show-match with you and many other events in the future. This is definitely a show-match for the records!!

DarkRise

1644 Posts

March 30 2011 14:18 GMT

i haven't heard of syck or lomo before
Morrow vs TLO, strelok vs huk and jinro vs mana

aderum

Sweden1459 Posts

March 30 2011 14:20 GMT

Looks exciting!

nihlon

Sweden5581 Posts

March 30 2011 14:20 GMT

On March 30 2011 23:18 DarkRise wrote:
i haven't heard of syck or lomo before
Morrow vs TLO, strelok vs huk and jinro vs mana

Syck is a quite new zerg member. He streamed here on TL yesterday.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=206455

Lomo I've heard of but can't place him really.

Bod

32 Posts

March 30 2011 14:23 GMT

Syck and lomo are both quite talented, mouz did a talent scout and came across the pair about the same time, had to snatch them both up!! - Take a look at the games as they are all top of the line, bonus stars for finding hearts and stars way-points in a few of them!!

Dawn11

73 Posts

March 30 2011 14:23 GMT

really exciting showmatch ;-)
looking forward to this

garbanzo

United States4046 Posts

March 30 2011 14:36 GMT

On March 30 2011 23:12 Bod wrote:
We are also pleased to announce that we have Total Biscuit and Khaldor casting the games. Make sure you check out an epic 3v3 we have also sponsored between TFLA-Liquid and Mousesports on total biscuits youtube channel. http://www.youtube.com/user/TotalHalibut

Is this uploaded yet? If so is there a link? I can't seem to find it on Total Biscuit's channel.

Excited about the rest of the showmatches! This should be good.

00Visor

4337 Posts

March 30 2011 14:42 GMT

Wait what? 6 matches in a Best of 5?

Bod

32 Posts

March 30 2011 14:42 GMT

Sorry everyone, some of the links in the original post were broken, they have been fixed. TotalBiscuits 3v3 will be up in the next day or so, he was travelling

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In the mean time, Games one were posted last night, games two will be posted tonight, 3 tomorrow and so on, so check back daily to see how your favorite players are showing!

Jotoco

Brazil1342 Posts

March 30 2011 14:43 GMT

#10

I think Mouz will take this.

The matches favor then so much!

Asha

United Kingdom38257 Posts

March 30 2011 14:48 GMT

#11

MorroW might take down TLO if TLO is playing Terran, I'd definitely fancy him to take it late game at least.

Huk will probably beat Strelok if he's aggressive/cheesy, if Strelok gets going then it'll be an interesting series but I really don't think many Terrans are confident in TvP lately.

Mana vs Jinro will be fun given Jinro's problems vs Protoss levelling the playing field somewhat (Jinro being generally the better player). Still expect Jinro to win

Hasu vs HayPro is the most interesting on paper, Hayder plays some pretty interesting ZvP and I definitely think he can pull that off.

Syck vs Tyler will be one sided, Syck's not on the same level as the other players involved (yet)

Lomo vs Ret is the same as above, Mouz will pretty much be guaranteed the overall loss due to the lack of depth meaning their top guys have to somehow dominate 3/4 of the top liquid guys.

zev318

Canada4306 Posts

March 30 2011 14:55 GMT

#12

a little laggy for a bit there in g1 tlo v morrow, but otherwise great vod

GreEny K

Germany7312 Posts

March 30 2011 14:57 GMT

#13

On March 30 2011 23:20 nihlon wrote:

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Syck is a quite new zerg member. He streamed here on TL yesterday.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=206455

Lomo I've heard of but can't place him really.

Are you thinking of the Korean BW pro?

Syck and Lomo are the newest additions to Mousesports.

vectorix108

United States4633 Posts

March 30 2011 15:13 GMT

#14

Very cool! Hoping for exciting games

Darpa

Canada4413 Posts

March 30 2011 15:32 GMT

#15

SO whats the actually date? all I see is March 2011

edit. Nvm no stream, just vods

TotalBiscuit

United Kingdom5437 Posts

March 30 2011 15:42 GMT

#16

Great series of matches, the Mana vs Jinro series is a must see

I should point out that myself and Khaldor deliberated casted this in a very simplistic fashion, since Luuux is promoting this to their members, most of whom have no idea what Starcraft is. Heres to trying to spread eSports to a wider audience.

EchoZ

Japan5041 Posts

March 30 2011 15:57 GMT

#17

Yay for more team matches!

ttomelle

Sweden243 Posts

March 30 2011 16:05 GMT

#18

i say mouz

Asha

United Kingdom38257 Posts

March 30 2011 16:11 GMT

#19

Watched the first round of matches:

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TLO vs Morrow was decent, some nice early defence from MorroW but he didn't seem to really know how he wanted to deal with TLO's mech play. The Muta's just got shredded by all the Thors, and banelings aren't ever really cost effective vs Tanks even if they took out a few marines too.

Huk vs Strelok was meh, proxy gate into 3gate (4gate when proxy was reactivated) and after choosing to counter after holding the proxy pressure Strelok didn't have enough of anything (units or production) to ever hold the next push off

Mana vs Jinro was your average game, felt like so many TvPs lately where the Terran tries the kind of timing push that is supposed to be effective, but ends up getting routed by forcefields instead.

Hasu vs Hayder was the best game of the bunch, I really thought Haypro was going to have it after his muta harass pinned Hasu back on his side of the map and let Haypro get up a couple of extra bases. Hasu was very cost effective with his army though and once he killed off Haypro's fourth he was able to get into a position where he had both an eco and army lead, while Haypro didn't have the time to drone back up or anything and it was pretty much done from there.

The last 2 games were as one sided as expected

Bod

32 Posts

March 30 2011 16:12 GMT

#20

Thank you to TotalBiscuit, the 3v3 is now live, make sure you check him out and support him as well!,

you can follow it Here

also been edited it into the original post -