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My Watson project was to travel Europe and Asia, train Starcraft 2 with the goal of someday reaching a professional level of play, and to seek out disabled gamers around the world to see how gaming and technology are changing their lives. I've searched lan centers, live events, and even schools accross at least 9 different countries and three different continents for disabled gamers and I made a TON of great and lifelong friends along the way.

This trip was only possible because of the continued efforts of the community in helping me plan my trip, make the connections I needed to make it a memorable and complete experience, and giving me the encouragement I needed to follow this crazy dream of mine. Ultimately, that's what watson is all about: having an adventure. And boy was it an adventure.

The tournament was filled with zergs and star power. Originally we had a commitment from IMMVP and IMNestea to come play, which was really exciting, but due to GSTL-related issues, they had to back out. Luckily, at the last-second , we got TSLInori, TSLRevival and TSLSymbol to fill in the bottom half of our bracket. Not only did we get 3 Code S level players, but because they all went to the bottom half of the bracket, the tournament essentially had a European bracket and a Korean bracket. In the first round, Kas showcased a dominant 1 rax 3 orbital TvZ build against Slivko which became an omen of games to come, as he won the series 2-1. White-Ra advanced in a surprisingly close match against open bracket winner Suppy, TLO beat Bly in a ZvZ, and to round out the top half of the bracket, Slavik beat open bracket runner-up vVvRuff 2-1 in a set that featured a 3-rax all-in, a blue flame hellion rush, and in the final deciding game, a ridiculous 3-starport banshee build that nearly let Ruff upset the favored zerg Slavik's solid playstyle. In the second round, we again saw Kas showcase his TvZ against TLO, winning 2-0, while Slavik earned an unfortunate walkover over White-Ra due to travel issues related to White-Ra's participation in the Lone Star clash in Texas. This set up another TvZ showdown for Kas against Slavik in the semis. The exciting games featured Kas' heavy terran macro style against Slavik's big-battle micro style. In outstanding clashes, we repeatedly saw Slavik miraculously save big-money units like infestors and brood lords in engagement after engagement, but never with quite enough advantage to push into terran territory, and in 4 games, Kas' amazing macro helped him prevail 3-1.
In the "Korean" half of the bracket, GSL finalist FXO.Leenock took on EG.LzGamer in the first of a series of clashes that would see Koreans dominate American opponents. TSL.Inori dispatched of open bracket winner vVv.SeoHyeon, Symbol took out open bracket runner-up swilson, and Revival defeated Machine in a series of one-sided matches, setting up an all-Korean round of 8. Inori pulled off the upset against Leenock with very strong 2 base timings, and in a teamkill, Revival managed to out-ZvZ Symbol to set up a PvZ showdown in the semis between teammates Inori and Revival. Inori wasn't able to duplicate the magic against Revival, and Revival was the Korean champion, advancing 3-1. In the underwhelming third-place match, Slavik beat Inori 2-0 in a lag-plagued pair of rush matches; Slavik held off Inori's blink timing in game 1, while a missed force field cost Inori game 2 against Slavik's early roach speedling attack.
The finals match between Revival and Kas, on the other hand, was everything we hoped the finals would be, pitting the aggressive 2-base style of Revival against Kas' massive macro attack. Moletrap casted beautifully as we saw Revival show us how strong infestor ultralisk late-game compositions are against Terran, and Kas showed us his trademark multi-pronged midgame aggression off 3 bases. Ultimately, in an series of iconic TvZ clashes, Revival took the series in 6 games. Our only disappointment was that Kas couldn't quite take the series to the full 7 games, so we could see another game in this amazing series. Congrats to all our players, but especially our two finalists for dominating all tournament!