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Please do not quote, copy, or distribute without written consent. ![]() WC3M November FinalsHello everyone and welcome to our monthly finals of the Warcraft 3 Masters tournament! Today holds a great tournament ahead of us as 32 of the top players in the world compete for the right to be called the champ (and a little cash too). With the brackets being up, we see some great matches coming together right from the starts. SK.FaTC takes on BoB_IsNice in a rematch of round 6 meeting last week in which Bob came out the victor. 4K.Zeus[19] and SK.Insomnia meet in round one as well which should prove to be a VERY interesting matchup. apm70 seems to come out of hiding and plays his first rounder against MYM]Bjarke, while one of the heavy favourites to win it all, SK.Zacard takes on it-Creolophus. The American lnclnerator clashes with Korean Undead powerhouse SK.Sweet, and two other Koreans in SK.SeleCT and MYM]GoStop face off. And who could forget the winner of last weeks tournament, 4K.Grubby who has his showdown with mouz.BenQ.vanx.
The whole grid can be found here. All in all, this looks to be one HELL of a tournament with tons of great matches to look forward too. And I'll be here to keep ya updated througout it all! Live coverage and casts: English Cast (bunny and KidArctica): http://www.gamesports.de/bunny.pls German Cast (Khaldor): http://www.gamesports.de/event1.pls German Video Stream by Shad & Reaper: mms://www.gamesports.tv/TVStream1 WaaaghTV will be up and running throughout the tournament as well :) Update #1: 11:30 EST The tourney hasn't even begun and we already have some news for you guys! As a few of the players were unable to show up, we have som replacments. SK.MaD]Q[FroG will be replacing SK.HeMaN, Rival.ShowTime will replace SK.SeleCT and Justice.WeRRa shall replace MYM]GoStop. Things will start to get underway in a bit, so I'll keep you guys posted on how things are coming along. Update #2: 1:15 EST Another replacement has happened as mouz.Benq.Short was unable to play, so mouz.Benq.Suboshi has taken his place. 4K.Grubby made short work of mouz.Benq.vank0r, while SK.Zacard took on it-Creolophus in an intense series in which Zacard won in 2 straight games. SK.May has defeated mTw-Ghostridah, while SK.Wizard took down mTw-DIDI8. SK.SuRviVoR lost to 64AMD.Cara, and in a surprise upset, ReX.Evenstar fell to jNg.Levin. In the second round, 4K.Grubby is now facing SK.Wizard and SK.May plays jNg.Levin, while many first round matches are still being completed. Update #3: 2:00 EST Just a quick update as we are just about completely done with round 1. 4K.Zeus[19] beat SK.Insomnia 2-1 and now faces MYM]Susuiria who beat mouz.Benq.FETA (aka PaniC_WasanO). After taking down MYM]Bjarke, apm70 is now forced to face off against SK.MaD]Q[FroG in an interesting rematch of a King Of The Hill match. SK.Sweet now plays mouz.Benq.Suboshi and Justice.WeRRa plays jNg.Skyward. That series is now 1-0 in favour of Justice. Over in the Loser Bracket, ReX.Evenstar has been given a freewin by mTw-Ghostridah,, lnclnerator has beaten out the Korean SK.WiNNerS, and SK.SuRviVoR has taken down it-Creolophus. And interestingly enough, Check[FrienZ] and Rival.ShowTime decided to play their loser-bracket match as a best-of-3 match, with Check coming out on top. Update #4: 3:00 EST Only 3 players have made it to round 3 as of yet, SK.May being the first, and they other two being 4K.Grubby and Justice.WeRRa. Grubby and Justice actually face each other in round 3, so that should be done soon enough. Back in round 2 however, I am currently watching 4K.Zeus[19] and MYM]Susiria, and the game is AMAZING. Both players have high level heros and have been beating each other to a pulp time and time again. Zeus looks to have this one won, but the way this game is going, who knows how it will turn out. EDIT: Zeus won the first game. Update #5: 6:00 EST I am EXTREMELY sorry folks, my internet connection went down for 3 hours today, hence the fact that there have been no updates. However, everything is back now, so I should be able to keep you guys posted from now on. Zeus was able to take down Susiria in that last series, and then went on to beat SK.FaTC 2-1. At the moment, Zeus is facing SK.Zacard who beat out 64AMD.Cara and then got a freewin from apm70. Zacard is now up 1-0, and the winner of the series will face 4K.Grubby in the winner bracket finals. Maybe we'll see a rematch of the WCG Gold medal round.... Down in the loser bracket, Check[FrienZ] has battled his way up to one of the final rounds after being taken out by jNg.Skyward in round 1. He is now playing against SK.Sweet in which is seems like Sweet will take the game. SK.May is playing King.Crimson in the loser bracket after taking a loss from 4K.Grubby. Update #6: 6:40 EST Oh boy ladies and gents, what an amazing tournament we've had today. With soe many great matches, you'd think that there wold be nothing we could do to improve it. But you thought wrong. Because over in the winners bracket we have none other then 4K.Grubby facing off against SK.Zacard in a WCG rematch which should prove to be amazing. Not only that, but in the loser bracket, we have 4K.Zeus[19] playing SK.Sweet, the winner plays SK.May, and the winner of that plays the winner of Grubby vs. Zacard. What a final! I will be watching Zeus vs. Sweet for the time being, and will continue to update with more results. Update #7: 7:45 EST In an interesting turn of events, SK.Zacard has beaten 4K.Grubby in the winner bracket finals. However, Grubby will still compete in the loser bracket finals to earn the right to face Zacard again. And down to the loser bracket, 4K.Zeus has been eliminated by SK.Sweet in a very...odd series in which Sweet won 2:0. The first game, Zeus went for a massive 5 Ancient Protector rush on Turtle Rock, but lost that one. In the next game on Twisted Meadows, Sweet went mass Gargoyles with Zeus going.....Druids of the Claw. Like I said, odd. In the other loser bracket semi-finals, SK.May has just taken down King.Crimson, meaning that SK.Sweet and SK.May will play each other, with the winner play 4K.Grubby in the loser bracket finals. Update #8: 8:20 EST Well, SK.May won the first game against SK.Sweet, and Sweet decided to give up the rest of the series, resulting in May advancing 2-0. This now means that SK.May and 4K.Grubby will face off in the loser bracket finals, with the winner playing Zacard in the Grand Finals. Unfortunately, this will be the last match of the day, as all of the players are extremely tired. We are not sure when the rest of the games will be played, but rest assured, when we find out, you guys will too. Until then, this is blaze, over and out. |
will be fun looking forward 2 teh grubbay
when i try to tune into the english cast it asks for a username and password.
Will Rex.EvenStar actually play!? and would someone please get a replay of him playing. I have never seen him play. One would assume it's quite impressive to watch him play since he's the riegning champion of the most prestigious league in Korea.
Eh.. Hope wizard wins. That would be sweet but prolly wont happen becuase he will be tired *sigh*.
gl lnclnerator
HAil Grubby ^^
waaaghtv or? gogo grubster
SWEET WILL WIN!
I bet zacard will win. When does it start? Is there a waaghtv?
zad gogogo. video stream will be interesting
spirit_moon isn't playing, boo...
Aren't both SeleCT and WiNNeRs inactive? I believe they'll bot leave defaults wins :/ ...
Unless some ne player can stop him, Grubby will win
did i mention that I want every f****ng single replay to be upped? Ah, I mean, I would appreciate that very much...
Top 5(not in any order): 64AMD.Apm70 Sk.Zacard 4K.Grubby SK.Sweet ReX.Evenstar
First round predictions: SK.FaTCBoB_IsNice mouz.BenQ.SpellNw_Caf 4K.Zeus[19]SK.Insomnia MYM]susiriamouz.BenQ.Feta apm70MYM]Bjarke SK.HemanKing.Crimson 64AMD.CaraSK.SuRviVoR SK.ZacardGoin4TheBigBugs silvernomalnclnerator Mouz.BenQ.ShortSK.WINNERS. mTw-GhostridahSK.May ReX.EvenstarjNg.Levin[ATI] CheckFrienzjNg.Skyward MYM]GostopSK.SeleCT RushWizardmTw-DIDI8 4K^Grubbymouz.BenQ.vanx
hmm my last post forgot the () Anyway first name is the winner.
every usa guy minus wizard plays a korean in the first round -_-;
Wow, so many good players :D GOGO FATC!
i'm looking forward to see FatC vs Mouz.Spell, and Zacard vs Apm70 !
by the way, where is ToD ??
Incinerator VS Sweet...GL HF with that.
yes, boooo no moon ^^
hopping to see grubby x zacard again
but a zacard x apm would be pretty ^^
Id like an American player to win but I think the finals will come down to sweet and zacard.
What is waaaghtv?
hoho wizard vs grubby @ round2 :P
Amazing art on the sig, lol! cute blademaster.. i cant wait for november finals, GOGOG ZACCC
nm i got waaaghtv
go zeus
I think Zeus will win because he knows everyone's true motives. "Everyone's hard."
can anyone tune in the the english cast?
PLz no more orcs :(
a lot of the players predicted said stuff like, "i think grubby or zaccard or check will win, or a NE". does that mean that they think NE is strongest right now?
lol am i crazy or the players in the grid keep changing?
Madfrog just entered the grid
why link to the pls if no one's actually shoutcasting
viva la usa!!~ -.-; nvm. Go frog :O!!~
blah heman decided to drop out...he was sure fire winner of this
i hope apm70 does something this time, grubbys quite unstoppable unless sweet comes in the picture. :). showtime, madfrog, fatc are lookin pretty strong off late. I just hope all the players show up this would be one heck of a tourney, props to wcr for hostin such an awesome one.
im sorry to double post, but i forgot this in the previous one. Please make it imperative for every player TO SUBMIT THE REPLAY AND THEN ONLY PROGRESS TO THE NEXT ROUND. we have had so many great tournies so far and many replays went missing. I know its a tough job, but please tell the players that its absolutely necessary!
Good Idea kage :p
The final will be Grubby vs zacard again?
why doesnt the grid work
gg bandwidth T.T
madfrog is here!!!11 omg gogo :D
Grubby is de koning en zal absoluut winnen!
w00t; 28th time is the charm when trying for Grid.
NOOOOOOOOOOOO HEMAN NOOOOOOOOOOO
grubby wint zeker at what time does shoutcast start?
Sooo many strong players. I want to see apm70 vs Zacard :)
what about pheonix_remind??!
hehe evenstar getting owned by jng.levin in first round
the grid isn't working for me :/
if the grid doesnt work just refresh the page (F5)
Wow...this tourny got better with the subs. Froggy, Justice, Showtime, OH MY =O
Evenstar didnt get owned. He didnt make it to the tournament... same with Check. Too sad :(( BTW why does Spell always have korean flag ?? He is from Vietnam and lives in Germany.
OOPS my bad, he did make it to the tournament... gotta watch reps. WTF
Um Evenstar did enter the tourney. His replays against Levin are up on the wcreplays front page. Don't post if you dont have a clue what you're talking about.
blademaster looks like gollum from lotr anyways either zacard or grubby will win but i want madfrog or sweet to win go madfrog and sweet!!!!
pansito thats what i said in my post above yours ? maybe u too shouldn't post anything before u check the facts ..
don't patronise me, I know how to refresh and I tried it six or seven times, all I got was code:/
4k zeus 4 president
waaaghtv isnt working x/
Orcishhuman: There was a disconnect in the jng.Levin/jng.Marcus game and bunny said KidA has been getting errors as well. They're probably working on it.
man this tourney is stacked
Lol, this tournament is actually a lot better than WCG.
k waaaghtv working again
SK.May and SK.Zacard will make it to the overall-Final imo ;) Go go go May, he can win cuz he already played amazingly well in PL V -.-
I hope wizard beats grubby ^_^
Why were all the replays of EvenStar vs Levin removed? :o
why isnt YoanM playing? He was obsing a game..
wrong replays all of same game
ToD is playing tommorrow in one of the korean leagues so for some reason cant enter :
yo guys where do i go in northern land for the games? to obsver?
always the same... no madfrog replays...
Hey dunno how many people are interested but in InCup MYM]GoStop beat Zacard in 10 min with a nice tier 1 fiend rush. Good game to watch.
BTW, your link to the grid should only be http://tournaments.wcreplays.com/?action=DisplayGrid&TID=131 not the long link that you make where sessionid is included. While this link that SK provided worked for me, the link here didn't work earlier.
muahahaha madfrog owned by apm70 (maphack or?)
sure... madfrog own3d by gargs bug again?
apm70 used a very effective strat vs ud... he picked orc.
Yeah, what lost is for teh Froggy? =(
Such an effective strat...the strat known as ORC :O!! Madfrog took out Zac's grunts with his ghouls in that bo3 ^_^
rofl, orc imba!!!
PLSSSSS SOME APM REPLAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
go gruBBBYYYY
EvenStar eliminates madfrog
so many korean flags in the bottom half of the brackets... at least they would be low lag games :)
OMG apm70/Cara craaaaaaaaaaaaazy game.
EDIT: Awww :(
apm had to leave
i wanted to see zacard vs apm :(
njaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Hah, KidA is in a jovial mood today :)
Grids still show apm70 up to play Zacard o.o we need updates :D~
where the hell are madfrog replays? do we have to pay to watch them?
Hehe Cara is until now the only one who could make Zacard lose ONE map ;( This Zac is imba, someone plz kick him out of da tourney ...
zacard v grubby final again! gogogo
It sucks that if both grubb and zad win all their games from now on they wnt meet up in the final, still i want to watch that match up again
why the update stopped after Update #4 for so long?
Grubby to win!!!!!11
what happens with the loser bracket?? no updates for like 2 hours..
dont understand that bracket.... what happened with incinerator & madfrog???
Grubby vs Zacard again -.-
Madfrog lost to evenstar so he is out. Understand?
Good job. The everyday common wc3 pro players make it again. I wanna see someone no one has ever heard of make it to the finals one day.
ZACARD FOR TEH WINZ0R!!!!!!ONE!11!!
gratz zac for the win!!!
Plz more reps -_-
Omg Zacrad made Grubby look like a noob even vs. his worst matchup...
zacard win?
Zacard win grubby sweet1-0 zeus
Dual MVP goes to bunny and KidA for casting despite lag/disconnects/sickness/tiredness/etc. Many thanks to you both. Probably to Khaldor too but I don't know cuz I don't speak German ;).
4k,Grubby
Maybe I made myself look like a noob, did that cross your mind? I just played so bad, I'm very tired -_-We're playing at 10 am now, we're so tired, zeus lost by doing so bad too ..... so ...... tired ..
yeah sad but true. f*ck. but you still have a chance to win the tourney, Grubby plz WIN ! PLEASE !
and i know you can do 100 times better i was yelling at my monitor when i saw the mistakes that you normally dont do
lets go grubby, u will face Zacard again and PWNZ his UD ego. :D
go zad?
I hope grubby wants revenge so we can see an exciting final
grubby and zad in finals.... what a surpise! =)
What a series, chance for Grubby vs. Zacard TWICE! This, if anything, is a treat for all the Orc players out there (of course, considering their skills, this is a treat for all the WC3 players out there).
Whoa! Zad Won The Incup Tourney Also
4K,Grubby ur so funny (notice , instead of .)
Well Finals will be played later which is good for grubby considering the time in Korea, but zad's also been playing all day with incup. So Finals will be played with both refreshed and ready T.T
looking forward to a Grubby vs Zacard final
I have a hard time accessing the website during the tournament. It only means good thing for wcr.
"Down in the loser bracket, Check[FrienZ] has battled his way up to one of the final rounds after being taken out by jNg.Levin in round 1" jNg.Skyward took down Check[Frienz], not Levin. :)
Oops xD
Edited in :P
too bad sweet gave up, I was really looking forward to sweet vs grubby/zacard
why did sweet give up? Any reason?
orc mirror for the finals :)
Sk.Zacard is a legend, yes Zacard vs apm would be a nice match ;] but Zeus vs Zacard would be cooler ;)
i think zacard will win, I haven't seen a game where he has lost
gj gj wish grubby would win though :(
what a surprise, zacard in the grand finals =O /end sarcasm
Zacard is best~!~~ i believe he will won the final game!
This one's for Zacard in my opinion but gogo grubby :-)
Spirit_Moon Grubby anyday..
notice aside from Fatc, all SKers lost 1st round :(
i hope zacard wins it all.
grubby says he played like a noob cuz he is tired. But zacard was playing two tourneys, the "in-cup" and wc masters toureny. So if fatigue was the factor for grubby's loss to zacard, that excuse dont make sense, since zacard is twice as tired due to playing 2 tourneys at same time. Which= more mental fatigue and stress
if thats what grubby said he is obviously arrogant.. its best to say gg well played to the instead of making up excuses as if the whole game depends solely on him, sometimes even grubby can be out-played i mean after all it is zacard
grubby lost 2 times with zacard and wizzard :P
shit man zacard pwned everyone
many Korean and Chinese think Grubby is No manner player ... I believe character is importance!
Where's the apm70 vs zacard replays???????? ;)
anyone interested in the banner... the pictures came from the fanart section from blizzard's site. you can go there to view the full sized images and the originasl. link to pg 4 where the BM is ... http://www.blizzard.com/inblizz/fanart/page4.shtml ... the NE is from the latest page.
Sweet, what a loser. Gave up ^^
My question is why there are so many subs, and who pics those subs? ShowTime was probably playing for Sweet anyway, did he really need another spot?
Apm70 gave a freewin ??
APM70 had to leave or something :
raven.icon and futilewar ... Zacard is presently in germany ... and Grubby in Korea ... are you stupid or what ? the Grubby excuse is a valid one !!!... have you an idea of the difference of hours ?
So who cares. Grubby lost due to being so tired. Somepeople have more energy through the day then others. More protien grubby ^^
hey why no King.Crimson replays? I saw that he beat apm70 and Wizard
Ok, just to clear some things up: apm70 gave Zacard a freewin as he had to leave, all subs were either chosen by admins, or the players subbing out had asked if they could play for them. 4K-ToD and 4K-FoV had asked to sub out, as they have MBC (or OGN, I don't remember) matches tomorrow and wanted to get a good night's sleep.
And if you look at times, it was 10:00 AM for Grubby and Zeus during the finals, meaning they had been up the entire night and well into the morning, so fatigue certainly comes into account.
They knew they were playing though, they could have taken a nap before it started.
gr8 coverage by blaze thnx alot man
he will only have to win one best-of-three match, whereas his opponent will have to beat him in two best-of-three matches to take the win. This means what? =p
Human players didn't do very good in this tournament. Tod didn't play but there might be imbalance or/and new strats to discover. Maybe using more t3 and a paladin.
It means that if either May or Grubby want to win this thing, they'll have to win a best of three against the other first, and then play a best of three against Zacard.
no , it means they have to win 2 bo3`s vs Zacard
please dont delay finals like the usual 3 weeks :o
I've never imagined May was THAT good. As a matter of fact, I haven't seen any of his rpelays.
fatigue my ass im sure he planned his day accordingly to play at these hours and if he didnt its his fault thus not a valid excuse and pure bad manners to even imply that he lost to fatigue and not zacard which on that given day was the better man... and btw zad played the incaup tourny replayers.com and won it which means he went all the way to finals and played b03 in his final game 2-1 so talking about fatigue whats ur counter to that boya 2 tourneys all the way to the final rounds thats intense on any player too
those two tounys were played on the same day for those of u that didnt know
Make a freaking replay pack plz...trying to download replays like this is annoying
ZaCaRD (KorEaN IMBA!!!) FoREvER ^_- '...
madfrog replays don't exist!!!!! wtf???????
oh my god just turned on the german shoutcast, KHALDOR HAS GONE CRAZY !!! AAAAAAAAAAARGHHH !!!
Excelent games between Zacard and apm70 O shit there not on this site T.T
@ futile war ... due to his level Zacard can take 2 tourney the same day despite the tension. As for Grub planning to take a nap b4 it's aquestion of rythm of sleep ... personnallly the fact of take a nap before is not sufficient enough to be really fresh. I am not able of that but maybe it's different for the others, I don't know. Many Korean players gave up because they were tired ... I don't remind exactly who, winners and sweet IIRC. Anyway the finals of the WC3M are ALWAYS played another day because it's late for the people in final ... if they were no problem of fatigue they will keep on playing up to the end of the tourney.
Grubby ownz all :D.......it was nice to obs the 2nd game in the first match of grubby :D i hope he will win the tour!
the blade master looks like garlic jr. from dragon ball z lol
Tourney was full of amazing players, but the games played weren't too amazing. Not really much entertaining, "top" material.
Zacard-protectors, I do really want to see you perform at maximum skill playing at 10 AM without any sleep that night..
Agreed with the person who said replay pack ^^
wow I think grubby will make a comeback and take the tourny from zacard again.
Go Zacard! go go go =)
grubby
grubby !
Omg i love the map dust