Welcome to this week's tournament recap! The GSL finally kicked off in Korea and narrowed the field down to 64. Major League Gaming hit Raleigh and some of the best players in North America and Europe played for thousands of dollars in prizes. Meanwhile, the reliably awesome parade of smaller tournaments marched on. Looking to get a grip on all of it? You're in the right place.
Each week we will bring you a link-heavy thread summarising the results from the minor tournaments from the past week - linking replays , vods , Liquipedia articles and threads where possible. This should be the only stop necessary to get a glimpse at how the competitive scene is shaping up! Note that this post won't be covering the results from the major tournaments, those will be covered by separate news posts.
GSL Open Qualifiers (8/28) The qualifiers wittled down a large field to 64 players competing for the $170,000 prize pool. Notable foreigners who have qualified include: Idra, TheLittleOne, Artosis and Torch.
MLG Raleigh (8/27-8/29). Canadian superhero Protoss HuK won over his countryman, the ascendant KiwiKaki, in an exciting tournament down in North Carolina.
Open Wolf Cup #6 (8/29) The Terran MorroW took a 3-0 series against last week's champion KawaiiRice to win the sixth iteration of this tournament.
King of SEA Nation War Series (29/08) The South East Asian Nation wars kicked off last week with the heavyweights Australia taking a bye. Singapore defeated the New Zealand team 3-1 while Thailand took out Indonesia 3-2. Vietnam stomped the Philippines 4-0 and currently are placed first - but how long will that last?
Fisher Cup #2 (8/29) Murder took home the prize over an impressive 64 player field in this $100 tournament. Murder defeated Cheese in the final.
ESL Pro Series Germany (8/24-11/23) The Pro Series continues with big names such as DeMusliM, HasuObs and Naniwa competing for gold. Check the spoiler for the results of this weeks games
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GoOdy 2-0 ClouD
Xlord 0-2 Socke
inuh 2-1 Naruto
DarK.FoRcE 2-0 miou
rine 2-0 OgerTob
HasuObs 2-1 iNSoLeNCE
Xlord 0-2 Socke
inuh 2-1 Naruto
DarK.FoRcE 2-0 miou
rine 2-0 OgerTob
HasuObs 2-1 iNSoLeNCE
SC2CL The SC2 Clan League finished up this week with Tera taking out ESC in the final. The score ended up 3-2, with chobo defeating GoOdy in the ace match, full results below (thanks freddergeier)! mouz. cleaned out afm in the 3rd/4th match with a clean 3-0 victory.
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Tera-Gaming 3 - 2 ESC-Gaming
1vs1:
tera.MF|cHoBo 2 - 1 ESC.And3ad
tera.MF|EroX 0 - 2 ESC.Goody
tera.MF|Cola 2 - 0 ESC.DaBoo
2vs2:
tera.MF|11LooSeR1 & tera.MF|Flipstar 1 - 2 ESC.Tarry & ESC.SKyliner
Ace-match:
tera.MF|cHoBo 2 - 0 ESC.Goody
1vs1:
tera.MF|cHoBo 2 - 1 ESC.And3ad
tera.MF|EroX 0 - 2 ESC.Goody
tera.MF|Cola 2 - 0 ESC.DaBoo
2vs2:
tera.MF|11LooSeR1 & tera.MF|Flipstar 1 - 2 ESC.Tarry & ESC.SKyliner
Ace-match:
tera.MF|cHoBo 2 - 0 ESC.Goody
Weekly Events
ESL Viking Cup (Weekly: Thursday - Friday)
#9 1. Thorzain 2. Naama
ESL Go4SC2 (Weekly: Wednesday, Sunday)
#33 1. Naniwa 2. Satiini
#34 1. Morrow 2. Kas
CraftCup (Weekly: Friday)
#5 1. mTwNightEnD 2. mouzMaNa
US.CraftCup (Weekly: Friday)
#3 1. MurDer 2. Junny
Zotac Cup (Weekly: Sunday)
#20 1. Kas 2. LaLush
GosuCoaching Weekly Tournament (Weekly: Thursday)
#10 1. KawaiiRice 2. Perplexity
Race | Player | Prize | MorroW | 2 | 0 | $180 |
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MurDeR | 2 | 0 | $100 | |
HuK | 1 | 0 | $2500 | |
Kas | 1 | 1 | $120 | |
Naniwa | 1 | 0 | $100 | |
NightEnD | 1 | 0 | $100 | |
KawaiiRice | 1 | 2 | $200 |
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Two Korean heavyweights fight hard and fast for every mineral in a knockdown fight until the end.
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We're spoiled. As usual, many big tournaments are on the horizon. First and foremost, the GSL is beginning round of 64 play on September 4th. While drama surrounds many out-of-game decisions on the league's part, the expected astronomical quality of games has not changed one bit. The regular weekly tournaments will continue on giving us great StarCraft 2 action every day of the week.
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Until next week!
chobopeon is the creator of SC Center, the daily show for competitive StarCraft 2 news.