Hello and welcome everyone! As some of you may know, I am Madals (@MadalsSC2) and I do quite a lot of the casting for the ESET UK Masters along with JoRoSaR (JShark) and Lyrlian.

For those of you that don't know about the ESET UK Masters let me give you a quick low down:

£10,000 prize pool - 24 finalists - 4 online qualifiers - 1 BYOC qualifier at the LAN

The 4 online qualifiers have already taken place (2 invitational and 2 open) so we already have our first 12 finalists through. With players from all over the world, representing teams such as Liquid, Axiom, Mouz, Fnatic, Dignitas & more the qualifiers have been INTENSE!

Even though all the events have been streamed live (and also uploaded to www.youtube.com/esetukmasters ) I have put together a quick highlight cast of each of the finalists so YOU can get to know how they have been doing in the Heart of the Swarm beta and a few fun facts about each of them.

Below you will find casts I have done for each of the finalists, all the replays were provided by the players themselves from their HotS beta games and all are insanely fun to watch. There is a good combo of macro, micro, long, short and plain awesome games in the mix so there should be something for everyone!

The videos will be released DAILY in the lead up to Insomnia 48 where the finals will be taking place - that means new games will be up every day from the 13th - 20th March!

Just in case you miss any games, I will keep this thread updated with all the latest games and I have even put them all into a playlist where you can find them easy - if you want to be the first to watch, make sure you subscribe!

Lets go to the action!

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Crank
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G1:

G2:

KrasS
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G1:

G2:

Sting
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G1:

G2:

Minato
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G1:

G2:

BlinG
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G1:

Nerchio
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G1:

ForGG
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G1:

G2:

NightEnD
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G1:

G2:

Ret
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G1:

G2:

HeroMaRinE
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G1:

G2:

Verdi
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G1:

HasuObs
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G1:

Snute
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G1:

Tefel
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G1:

G2:

BabkyKnight
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G1:

Further information about the event can be found at the following places:
www.esetukmasters.com
http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/ESET_UK_Masters_2013/Season_1
www.twitter.com/ESETUKMasters
www.youtube.com/ESETUKMasters
www.twitch.tv/ESETUKMasters

Bagration

United States18282 Posts

March 13 2013 01:22 GMT

Gogo Crank!

StarVe

Germany13591 Posts

March 13 2013 01:31 GMT

I thought Verdi had his visa application denied, is he still attending?

madals

United Kingdom624 Posts

March 13 2013 18:38 GMT

The first two players games are live NOW!

Crank, from team Axiom is no doubt going to be a fan favourite. He has solid play and a great personality!

Meanwhile, KrasS should be well known to anyway who saw ESET UK Masters 2012 where he came second to BlinG in the final!

Both players games are in the spoiler tags:

Crank
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G1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_ehcMNoW70

G2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUFpmnsimNE

KrasS
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G1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwyj5SepjUc

G2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtNUoDi--l8

VTJRaen

United Kingdom238 Posts

March 13 2013 19:51 GMT

Love the games (and casting) coming out of the ESET UK Masters. For me they're one of the best things to happen to this country in a long time. So hyped for i48 and the finals.

asendent88

United Kingdom63 Posts

March 13 2013 22:23 GMT

Can't wait to cover this with Definitive eSports ... WOOOOPPPPP!!! HYYPPPEE!!

Marathi

298 Posts

March 13 2013 22:26 GMT

Lets go ForGG

))))))))))))))))))))

bakor

United Kingdom290 Posts

March 14 2013 10:51 GMT

Don't disagree that CranK will be the fan favorite, Hes been showing some impressive play.

shid0x

Korea (South)5014 Posts

March 14 2013 14:25 GMT

4weezy got this.

Csong

Canada396 Posts

March 14 2013 15:23 GMT

#10

forggs winning this

emrextreme

14 Posts

March 14 2013 15:36 GMT

#11

Yeah, probably forGG will win. Still it will be a fun tournament to watch

purakushi

United States3310 Posts

March 14 2013 15:39 GMT

#12

Interesting, would never have known ESET is an antivirus without that logo. >_<
Made me look it up. Pretty cool :D

I think ForGG's got this!

Boucot

France15997 Posts

March 14 2013 15:41 GMT

#13

ForGG !

Sabre

United Kingdom1086 Posts

March 14 2013 16:11 GMT

#14

forgg so gosu

madals

United Kingdom624 Posts

March 14 2013 22:47 GMT

#15

Hey everyone!

Glad to see you all seem to be enjoying this so far. Day 2 is now up and running with Sting and Minato playing! Remember to check out @ESETUKMasters on twitter for all the latest info. Also, with so much talent stacked make sure you let people who may be interested know about all of this

But now, onto the finalists of the day!

Sting
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G1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNeK9zcfL6c

G2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jegG-687H4

Minato
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G1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkFWqWE0hw0

G2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpLot3JWzaI

madals

United Kingdom624 Posts

March 15 2013 18:25 GMT

#16

Day 3 is up featuring BlinG and Nerchio!

BlinG is currently the ONLY UK player with a seed into the grand finals after winning the 2012 season of the UK Masters. He has been on an absolute steam roll with HotS (going 5:0 vs DIMAGA in a BO9 last night). He has a wide array of builds and solid skills.

Nerchio qualified through the first open qualifier and will be coming to telford fighting!

BlinG

G1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9o6NnUPlDk

Nerchio

G1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS0r0JYHSG0

madals

United Kingdom624 Posts

March 16 2013 19:44 GMT

#17

Day 4: ForGG and NightEnD!

Probably one of the favourite (at least in this thread!) ForGG has some super skills and is one of the Koreans making the trip over! NightEnD though has put up some impressive games vs IdrA and ShoWTimE!

ForGG

G1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lTo39Jdz0Y

G2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUtySsb0aXA

NightEnD

G1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn3ypSV62_Y

G2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_qV0xGCy7g