Format

This double-elimination tournament features 8 teams from around the world and is an All-Kill team format. This match is being played for the Losers Round 1. The first team to defeat everyone on the opposing team's roster (5 wins, or a best of 9), will move on in the Losers Bracket, while the loser will drop out of the tournament completely. Keep in mind that this has a $10,000 prize pool, and only three teams will make it to the money!

ReIGN had a surprising run against coLMVP, going up 3-1 before inevitably losing 4 players in a row to coLMVP.Keen. After showing some great games in WR1, Liquid should be prepared for a real battle. Team Liquid fell into LR1 at the hands of a Swedish Protoss player that goes by the name of QxG.SaSe! They will be looking for a shot at redemption this time against ReIGN. Here are there full rosters:

ReIGN

Artist

Spades

KiWiKaKi

Future

Inori

SLush

giX

Team Liquid

Jinro

HerO

Tyler

HayprO

TLO

Ret

Sheth

Zenio

The First Game of the IPL Team Arena Challenge is on Tuesday, Dec 13 1:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) (we will also have a European re-broadcast as usual at Tuesday, Dec 13 5:30pm GMT (GMT+00:00))

Poll: Who Will Win?!

Team Liquid (79)

61%

Team ReIGN (51)

39%

130 total votes

Your vote: Who Will Win?!

(Vote): Team ReIGN
(Vote): Team Liquid

Results!

+ Show Spoiler [ReIGN vs. Liquid Results] +

Inori < Tal'Darim Altar > HerO
Inori < Shattered Temple > TLO
Inori < Metalopolis > Ret
Inori < Antiga Shipyard > Sheth
Artist < Shakuras Plateau > Sheth
Artist < Daybreak > Jinro
Congratulations to Team ReIGN for winning 5-1 and advancing to LR2! Liquid has been eliminated from the tournament.

Map List

Xel'Naga Caverns
Metalopolis
Shakuras Plateau
Crevasse
Tal Darim Altar
Dual Sight
Xel'Naga Fortress
Terminus
Shattered Temple
Daybreak
Antiga Shipyard

The first map will be on a set rotation, and then it is loser's pick.

Casters

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tQDanTe

United States270 Posts

December 12 2011 08:38 GMT

team liquid ftw, i predict a clean sweep without a game dropped

Frankon

3054 Posts

December 12 2011 08:44 GMT

Based on the last showing in this tournament ReIGN might take it. But it will be rather close (if TL could use both Hero and Zenio now)

monkeii

United States56 Posts

December 12 2011 08:51 GMT

Jinro fighting. nuff said.

red4ce

United States7313 Posts

December 12 2011 08:54 GMT

Liquid's foreigners are better than ReIGN's foreigners. Liquid's Koreans are better than ReIGN's Koreans. Liquid should take this comfortably. Then again they should have been able to beat Sase, and that didn't happen.

Kompicek

Czech Republic245 Posts

December 12 2011 13:55 GMT

Wont be easy , but liquid should take this. I also hope zenio will already be able to play, wanna see him

pPingu

Switzerland2892 Posts

December 12 2011 14:02 GMT

TL should win it, they have for each rgn players a good sniper imo

tDKyou

United States202 Posts

December 12 2011 14:06 GMT

Heh, I think ReIGN's too strong to get swept.. Nevertheless, they're probably the underdogs here. They're definitely capable of pulling off an upset so it should make for an interesting match.

rewired

Canada630 Posts

December 12 2011 14:15 GMT

I hope Liquid wins I really do. I wanna see them win a Team League title would be so banana grin worthy :D

Tommylew

Wales2717 Posts

December 12 2011 14:17 GMT

#10

liquid will win they should anyway far better players!!!

nooboon

2602 Posts

December 12 2011 14:28 GMT

#11

Considering that these matches were played a while ago, i'd give a slight edge to reign. Once again it comes to if reIGN could be Hero.

RyanRushia

United States2748 Posts

December 12 2011 14:34 GMT

#12

i think liquid will take it but not easily

with players like artist, inori, kiwikaki, slush, and any of the others as a 5th, that's a formidable lineup for sure

but i have to give it to liquid because it's SO hard to ever say a lineup with sheth, hero, zenio, jinro +5th will lose

Catatonic

United States699 Posts

December 12 2011 14:38 GMT

#13

only way I can see Reign winning games is with Kiwikaki though Liquid across the board is far too strong for Reign to even come close to handling.

magicallypuzzled

United States588 Posts

December 12 2011 17:56 GMT

#14

only problem i can see for reign and it's a pretty big one is the sheer amount of zergs liquid have reign has a whole lot of options for taking out great terran's and protross. they are much more limited in options against great zergs. Inori was weak against zergs in the past. slush feels zvz is his worst match up. i hear artist is pretty good against them but unless he sweeps all the zergs at once i fear they'll have trouble. kiwikaki can snipe any of the zergs but he can also lose to any of them so this will be difficult as i have no idea how well spades/gix/future would handle any of liquids zergs.

i hope they send out hero/tyler/jinro as long as we only have to face 2 zergs i think we have this easily.

Dexington

Canada7276 Posts

December 12 2011 18:02 GMT

#15

Reign

Inori to snipe Hero, then it's a pretty much even matchup from there.

Bagration

United States18282 Posts

December 12 2011 18:02 GMT

#16

This might be close. Inori is an incredibly strong PvP sniper, which could limit Hero's ability to take multiple kills. Artist is a very strong TvZ player, could definitely take down TLO, maybe Haypro and Ret, though probably not Sheth. Slush played very well against colMVP, taking 2 kills and putting up a good fight on the third before he decided to make 30 roaches and not push and various other questionable decisions. Even Spades might take a game.

I still think Liquid comes out on top in the end though.