GIGABYTE and NVIDIA eagerly announce the GIGABYTE NVIDIA Invitational #6 by myStarCraft.de with some of the finest gamers of StarCraft II. Within two days, eight top-notch professionals will compete in a Best-of-Five Single Elimination bracket for 1,000 EUR in total prize money. Cheer for your favorite player and enjoy the action packed and thrilling battles this weekend on Saturday and Sunday!

Hearth of the Swarm edition

Tournament website
http://gigabyte.mystarcraft.de

Livestreams

TitaN

ToD

Bly

HyuN (replaces Sleep)
(Z)

DIMAGA

Satiini

Beastyqt (replaces GoOdy)
(T)

SjoW

Quick Facts

1000 Euro prize money pool
- 1st place: 500 Euro
- 2nd place: 300 Euro
- 3rd place: 200 Euro
8 invited players
Single Elimination bracket
2 days of competition
all games Bo5 (HotS Beta Server)

Mappool

Akilon Wastes
Fractured Glacier
Howling Peaks
Korhal City
Star Station

Schedule
Saturday, September 29th 2012

11:00 GMT (+00:00) Ro8 #1: HyuN vs. Beastyqt
12:15 GMT (+00:00) Ro8 #3: Satiini vs. Bly
14:30 GMT (+00:00) Ro8 #4: ToD vs. SjoW
15:30 GMT (+00:00) Ro8 #2: TitaN vs. DIMAGA

Sunday, September 30th 2012

11:00 GMT (+00:00) Ro4 #1: HyuN vs. DIMAGA
12:15 GMT (+00:00) Ro4 #2: Bly vs. ToD
13:30 GMT (+00:00) bronze final: loser Ro4 #1 vs. loser Ro4 #2
14:45 GMT (+00:00) grand final: winner Ro4 #1 vs. winner Ro4 #2

Quarter finals
(Z)

HyuN vs.

Beastyqt
+ Show Spoiler +

3:1
< Akilon Wastes >
< Howling Peaks >
< Star Station >
< Fractured Glacier >

Satiini vs. (Z)

Bly
+ Show Spoiler +

0:3
< Star Station >
< Korhal City >
< Akilon Wastes >

ToD vs.

SjoW
+ Show Spoiler +

3:0
< Fractured Glacier >
< Korhal City >
< Star Station >

TitaN vs.

DIMAGA
+ Show Spoiler +

3:0
< defwin >

Semi finals
(Z)

HyuN vs.

DIMAGA
+ Show Spoiler +

3:1
< Akilon Wastes >
< Howling Peaks >
< Korhal City >
< Fractured Glacier >

Bly vs.

ToD
+ Show Spoiler +

3:1
< Howling Peaks >
< Fractured Glacier >
< Korhal City >
< Akilon Wastes >

Bronze final
(Z)

DIMAGA vs. (P)

ToD
+ Show Spoiler +

3:1
< Howling Peaks >
< Fractured Glacier >
< Akilon Wastes >
< Korhal City >

Final

HyuN vs.

Bly
+ Show Spoiler +

3:2
< Akilon Wastes >
< Star Station >
< Korhal City >
< Howling Peaks >
< Fractured Glacier >

Usefull Links:

RandomPlayer

Russian Federation393 Posts

September 29 2012 04:15 GMT

titan is not zerg!

See.Blue

United States2673 Posts

September 29 2012 08:02 GMT

Woo epic. Can't wait

fnaticNoname

India858 Posts

September 29 2012 08:18 GMT

go satiini!

Donathan

Germany194 Posts

September 29 2012 11:51 GMT

Murphy's law stroke again! Khaldor cannot stream today because he must have eaten something bad last night, but he is trying to stream tomorrow at least

Also Sleep and GoOdy didnt show up to play, so we replaced them with HyuN and Beastyqt.

pmp10

3321 Posts

September 29 2012 11:58 GMT

Didn't think that locust could melt thors like that :|

AlternativeEgo

Sweden17309 Posts

September 29 2012 13:52 GMT

Did Bly beat Satiini 3-0? Missed the third game and now he plays in the other hots tourney.

Satiinifi

Finland192 Posts

September 29 2012 13:54 GMT

yeah he did, the current state of the beta is just disgustingly bad, released even close to being this way it would most likely ruin the game completely

AlternativeEgo

Sweden17309 Posts

September 29 2012 14:04 GMT

On September 29 2012 22:54 Satiinifi wrote:
yeah he did, the current state of the beta is just disgustingly bad, released even close to being this way it would most likely ruin the game completely

I don't know about balance and such things, but I'm a bit disappointed that terran is basically the same. Perhaps it was the most complete race going in to this expansion but new units are always interesting and brings some fresh blood to the game.

What are your thoughts about the beta so far, if you don't mind?

red4ce

United States7313 Posts

September 29 2012 15:31 GMT

#10

The most recent patch was to intended to limit the MSC's offensive capabilities, no? ToD was still using it quite effectively to break down Sjow's base in their series.

Rabiator

Germany3948 Posts

September 29 2012 15:54 GMT

#11

Wrong tournament ... oops

FeyFey

Germany10114 Posts

September 29 2012 17:48 GMT

#12

On September 30 2012 00:31 red4ce wrote:
The most recent patch was to intended to limit the MSC's offensive capabilities, no? ToD was still using it quite effectively to break down Sjow's base in their series.

well it is a beta. But it was pretty obvious that an air unit out that fast is a bad idea combined with stalkers who have a huge range for the early game.
Terran defends with bunkers and high ground and the MsC denies this. You basically harass the worker line in the main if they send marines, you break the front and the energy sentries to contain them on one base. It is really easy to fix this problem in multiple ways. But right now its really funny to outright kill your opponent as toss. Reminds me of a move roaches, or 60 hp workers.

IPLeague

Belarus57 Posts

September 30 2012 10:23 GMT

#13

15:00 MSK (+04:00) Ro4 #1: HyuN vs. Bly
16:15 MSK (+04:00) Ro4 #2: DIMAGA vs. ToD

this is true?
liqupedia says that pairs is: hyun-dimaga, bly-tod

Khaldor

Germany861 Posts

September 30 2012 10:45 GMT

#14

What might be correct... The thread the admin himself updates or TLPD? :D

Too_MuchZerg

Finland2818 Posts

September 30 2012 11:04 GMT

#15

On September 30 2012 19:45 Khaldor wrote:
What might be correct... The thread the admin himself updates or TLPD? :D

Liquipedia?

Khaldor

Germany861 Posts

September 30 2012 11:07 GMT

#16

Haha, last 2 times TLPD was wrong, today they are right though. Admin made a mistake yesterday because of all the problems that happened during the tournament

Too_MuchZerg

Finland2818 Posts

September 30 2012 11:19 GMT

#17

Still confused, are you referring TLPD as Liquipedia?

WigglingSquid

5194 Posts

September 30 2012 12:23 GMT

#18

I am a bit sad that recall will now be restricted to a defensive ability. While rare, offensive recalls have always been very nice to see. I would prefer if it were moved to, say, the Oracle and limited in the amount of units it can move with a single cast.

RageBot

Israel1530 Posts

September 30 2012 12:45 GMT

#19

Entombed is a really boring ability.

Too_MuchZerg

Finland2818 Posts

September 30 2012 12:49 GMT

#20

I'm really sad if Oracle stays in game. Feels pointless unit to SC universe.

Swarm Host seems decent unit and more enjoyable to watch.