Format

This double-elimination tournament features 16 teams from around the world and is an All-Kill team format. This match is being played for Losers Round 4. 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 losing team will be eliminated from the tournament entirely. Keep in mind that this has a $20,000 prize pool, and only six teams will make it to the money!

StarTale

RainBOw

Sound

Bomber

Virus

Hack

aphrodite

Troumen

MisS

July

Curious

SUPERSTAR

FruitDealer

KingKong

Squirtle

Ace

Trickster

Parting

Tiger

Ssoja

New Star HoSeo

Jjakji

Hoon

Sculp

Shuttle

Seal

Flower

Fake

Freaky (RealMaker)

Fairy

Sage

BanBans

Tassadar

San

Carmel

ggod

The First Game for this match of IPL Team Arena Challenge 2 is on Monday, Mar 05 1:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) (we will also have a European re-broadcast as usual at Monday, Mar 05 5:30pm GMT (GMT+00:00))

Poll: Who Will Win?!

StarTale (23)

52%

NSHoSeo (21)

48%

44 total votes

Your vote: Who Will Win?!

(Vote): StarTale
(Vote): NSHoSeo

Results!

+ Show Spoiler [StarTale vs NSHoSeo Results] +

Hack < Tal'Darim Altar > Sage
KingKong < Daybreak > Sage
Tiger < Calm Before the Storm > Sage
July < Antiga Shipyard > Sage
Bomber < Atlantis Spaceship > Sage
Congratulations to NSHoSeo and Sage on the all-kill! They move on to LR5 and StarTale is eliminated, taking 5th/6th place!

Map List

Terminus SE
Darkness Falls
Sanshorn Mist
Atlantis Spaceship
Shakuras Plateau
Calm Before the Storm
Shattered Temple
Antiga Shipyard (Cross Only)
Daybreak
Tal’Darim Altar

All the maps can be found on NA, EU, or KR by searching for IPLMap!

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

Casters

This week's games will be commentated by CatsPajamas, Doa, HDStarCraft, PainUser, and/or AskJoshy!

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Shinta)

United States1716 Posts

March 04 2012 09:38 GMT

Hope to see 1 female player from Startale! ;D lol....
But actually, hope ST wins. ST Fighting~!

IGNProLeague

1184 Posts

March 04 2012 22:03 GMT

Just three hours until this series begins!

Bagration

United States18282 Posts

March 04 2012 22:18 GMT

On March 05 2012 07:03 IGNProLeague wrote:
Just three hours until this series begins!

This match just snuck up on me. Totally forgot about it. Go Startale!

JiYan

United States3668 Posts

March 05 2012 00:31 GMT

startale needs this!

Sumahi

Guam5609 Posts

March 05 2012 00:42 GMT

Startale fighting! I was so saddened by them losing to Prime last week. MKP has been such a terror lately in the team leagues.

Battousai13

United States638 Posts

March 05 2012 00:51 GMT

Startale fighting! I think they should be able to secure this. Their player depth is better that NS HoSeo. They also have two aces that are very versatile against all races. Then there's ST_July as well...

GTPGlitch

5061 Posts

March 05 2012 00:59 GMT

San>Virus
San<Hack
Sculp<Hack
Hoon>Hack
Hoon<Parting
Seal>Parting
Seal<Rainbow
Jjakji>Rainbow
Jjakji>Bomber

gogogogogogoo Hoseo Fighting!

Ruscour

5233 Posts

March 05 2012 00:59 GMT

The TL article says HoSeo 5-4. I believe the TL article shall be very wrong.

StarTale 5-2.

NarutO

Germany18839 Posts

March 05 2012 01:04 GMT

#10

Hack vs Sage ... statistics would give Hack the edge, but I'm not too sure about this match. Anyways looking forward to the team match. Hopefully we can get Jjakji vs Parting / Bomber vs Seal

IGNProLeague

1184 Posts

March 05 2012 01:04 GMT

#11

Stream is live now! http://www.ign.com/ipl

WigglingSquid

5194 Posts

March 05 2012 01:06 GMT

#12

Rooting for the underdog NSHS, but I think that Prime should be able to win comfortably unless Jjakji really pulls his weight for a good streak.

Edit: just noticed that they are opening with Sage. He seems to suffer pressure quite a lot, I wonder if he'll do better than usual today.

dAPhREAk

Nauru12397 Posts

March 05 2012 01:07 GMT

#13

woh, wtf is up with the stream. its all blocky.

NarutO

Germany18839 Posts

March 05 2012 01:08 GMT

#14

2 gas on Tal'Darim where you basically have no reason to go a two gas build and where Terran really likes to play gasless fast expand really makes me think blinkstalker allin, either 4 gate blink with hallucination or 4 gate blink with robo.

Obviously could be a DT build or 4 gate robo.. etc Could also be a 3 gate pressure / poke into expansion

NarutO

Germany18839 Posts

March 05 2012 01:09 GMT

#15

Yes, this looks like 3 gate pressure. He could either do it very 'hardcore' with chrono on his gateways or the more economic style and chrono his nexus still as he lacks probe/worker production.

NarutO

Germany18839 Posts

March 05 2012 01:12 GMT

#16

Sage already making the transition, he will not commit any further to it, but only stay there and threaten Terran. Its really frustrating as Terran since you actually need to have scvs there or keep your attention there, because if he commits and you called it out as fake, you die.

Other than that... Protoss obviously can't fuck it up either. 2 or 4 medivac timing will be extremely good and stressful to hold off as Sage, but I guess he will have charge done if he starts it first. If he goes for blink, he might die to it...

STORM? .. Wow! Wondering if Hack hits the timing!

NarutO

Germany18839 Posts

March 05 2012 01:12 GMT

#17

On March 05 2012 10:07 dAPhREAk wrote:
woh, wtf is up with the stream. its all blocky.

Switching from 720p to any other resolution (720p+ for example) did work for me.

NarutO

Germany18839 Posts

March 05 2012 01:13 GMT

#18

Combat shields not done yet.... =.=; ... raped by storm.

Black Gun

Germany4482 Posts

March 05 2012 01:13 GMT

#19

it might not fit into this match-specific thread, but I would like to thank IGN for this awesome teamleague. really entertaining and I tune in almost every night. sooo much better than the NASL..

keep up the good work!

oh, and gogo Startale^^