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Final Results

TGX Regional

1. MskiEnder
2. MiTHRedArchon
3. pRoCobo
4. ThuocLao

MskiEnder wins $600 cash, Razer products and helps the Philippines become the TGX nation champion across all the games.

WCG Singapore

1. aLtnirvAnA /
2. aLtEscapist
3. FlashRevz
4. proAnn

aLtnirvAnA wins Razer products and an all expense paid trip to Busan, Korea to represent Singapore in the WCG world finals.

And our Head Article Writer crAzerk gets a quick interview with the winner, aLtnirvAnA, to talk to him about his WCG experience and his reasons for using Random.

+ [nirvAnA Interview] +

crAzerk: Congrats on the win! How does it feel to have won yet another WCG? (nirvAnA won the SC1 WCG in 2000&2001, as well as Warcraft 3 in 2004)
nirvAnA: It feels really good! I'm really happy because winning the first WCG for a "new" game is always a big thing and also because I did not expect to win it at all.
crAzerk: Yea sorry for asking such a redundant question, I mean, obviously you feel good, who feels bad after winning. ANYWAY, on to my next question.

C: I saw pictures of you playing - on a tiny 15" laptop! How did that affect your gameplay! I've tried playing on a laptop and failed terribly.
N: The screen was way too small, for me anyway! What made it worse is i'm used to playing on a 24 inch monitor back at home and my eyesight is terrible.

nirvAnA squinting at the small screen

N: I recall the game vs muse i spent like 1 min looking on screen to find my observer and then when I found it and moved it back to my base, spent quite awhile locating it again. yea and basically i couldn't see anything on the minimap either

C: We saw a wide variety of tactics from you this entire tournament (from IESF too) - from solid standard play to kooky proxy Stargates. Which do you prefer doing, orthodox or unorthodox builds?
N: I like doing my own builds i come up with, dislike playing ABC.(this means standard play) Sometimes theres no choice and the only way to play is ABC. hmm the void thing was a risky BO, that is just the nature of it and Muse countered it perfectly. I had prepared a really strong strategy vs 1/1/1 but the 2 free depots at the ramp are always so tempting thats why I went voids.

C: How did you feel when you found out you were going to go up against Escapist? Confident? Nervous? Worried because mirrors reflect (see what i did there) micro-intensive games when every unit counts?
N: I was actually extremely relieved when i found out I would play escapist rather then rev, as well as souj rather then muse. Although they are my friends and team mates, and i feel quite bad for beating them. I did stop SouJ from telling me his strategies he beat muse with though... he was so excited like "Yes I beat muse ! I did..." "Don't tell me man I'm playing you next!"

The thing is I'm originally a protoss player myself so I have a very good understanding of the race and what its strong/weak against. I'm really confident vs protoss players, I think my ladder TvP win ratio is close to 80% over 50 games and I have a winning ratio against every top protoss on SEA ladder in that matchup.

C: What is it about Random that is so appealing to you? Doesn't it mean you'll need to have a much more vast AND accessible bank of knowledge at your fingertips once the game starts?

(Fun fact : nirvAnA has an impressive 16-0 record using Random in the entire tournaments (IESF + WCG). He started picking a race from Ro8/Ro32 onwards for IESF/WCG respectively)

N: Actually i started randoming so i could help with the other sections / replay analysis more in TGM. I played about 500 ladder games this season with random, the most i ever played in a season, and currently in the top 16. I've always loved random, even in Starcraft 1 because of the variety and its fun.

C: Yes, but why do you still pick Random in a tournament? Is the element of surprise for 1-2 minutes worth getting a race you're inferior in?
N: I pick random because i feel my random is still strong and yes, random has big advantages in some matchups for e.g on ESL metalopolis if its PvP and he scouts you last. This is ESL version so only 2 spawn locations you can proxy 2 gates right in the center of the map which he won't scout and its extremely hard to stop.

C: I see. So what are your plans for WCG Korea? I suppose you'll be training even harder to do Singapore proud?
N: Yea i will definitely practise for it, not sure if I'm gonna stick to random but I'll like to do my best and aim to get into the top 8 again lol!

C: Well we hope to see more of your creative builds! Any final shout outs?
N: shout outs to escapist, my new clan mate for being such a boss - getting #2 and #3 in both competitions with no practice, ninja and other clan mates who helped me practise, mezza/jaczie/frogmite the cool casters, everyone I met at WCG (SORRY DERPY) and for anyone with kind words and well wishes!!

(Escapist / Ninja have recently just joined clan aLt, in case you were wondering)
C: Alright, thank you for your time!

IeSF Singapore

1. FlashRevz
2. FlashMuse
3. aLtEscapist
4. GGFiery

FlashRevz wins Razer products and an all expense paid trip to Andong, Korea to represent Singapore in the IESF world finals.

Congratulations to all the winners!

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LIVE Updates

MskiEnder takes the 2nd game and is CHAMPION of TGX Regional!
Ender wins the first game against RedArchon after 37 minutes of NON STOP ACTION!
TGX REGIONAL FINALS redarchon vs ender is now LIVE!
ender beats thuoclao to reach the finals!
Ender is now 1-0 up against ThuocLao and the second game on Shakuras Plateau has just started!
RedArchon takes down Cobo 2-0 to reach the finals of TGX Regional!
TGX Regional Semifinals Ender vs Thuoclao, RedArchon vs Cobo
nirvana has only one 1 out of 3 games in group A and thuoclao leaps ahead of him to take 2nd place in the group to reach the semifinals
Waiting on the final score tabulation of scores for Group B to see who faces Ender
RedArchon has started his semifinals games vs Cobo from MY
Nirvana vs Thuoclao from VN now for the runner up spot of group A to decide who's the last spot to advance to the semifinals for the TGX Regionals!
Redarchon tops group A of the TGX Regionals 3-0
Ender from Philippines tops group B 3-0
Cobo from Malaysia is 2nd position in group B with a score of 2-1
Redarchon from thailand beats raziel from india 2-0
nirvana beats Raziel 2-1
nirvana 0-1 down against India's Raziel
ender beats escapist 2-1!
rlsescapist pulls one back for SG, 1-1 vs ender!
mskiender 1-0 up against singapore's rLsEscapist
redarchon 2-0 nirvana for TGX regionals
nirvana will now face redarchon on the main stage at expo for the TGX regionals group stage
aLtnirvAnA beats rLsEscapist in the WCG Singapore Finals 2-0
revz beats proann to take 3rd place for the WCG
aLtnirvAnA will face rLsEscapist in the Finals of WCG!
rLsEscapist beats FlashRevz in the other semifinals for WCG
nirvana beats proann in the semifinals of WCG
ThuocLao from VN wins 2-0 against Raziel from India for the TGX regional invitationals
We're live for day 2 of Starcraft, we've got ThuocLao from Vietnam going 1-0 up against Raziel from India
11th Sept 2011

WCG RO32 Updates

GGFiery, eveJaff, ProAnn, GGBinu, Pumking, aLtnirvAnA, GGmera, fantasyblade and eveParachute have won their RO32 games and have reached the RO16
Revz takes down Muse on Shattered Temple and books his flight to Korea for IeSF.
Muse takes game two on Xel Naga Caverns.
Revz takes game one on Metalopolis against Muse in IeSF qualifier finals.
Escapist beats Fiery to clinch third place.
Finals will be between Revz and Muse and will be cast both online and on the main stage at Expo Hall 5A!
Revz beats Escapist 2-1 and advances to the finals
Its now 1-1 in the other semifinal between Escapist and Revz
Muse takes the game 2-1 and advances to the final
Fiery and muse 1-1, deciding match on TDA
Revz, muse, fiery and escapist is the semis
flashmuse is now facing off against nirvana in the RO16!
nirvana goes 2-0 against evejaff and goes on to RO16
ice skips IeSF for DOTA
Nirvana, Muse, Revenant, SouJ through to RO32 for IeSF, Muse gets a bye to RO16
Enderr takes down Cobo 2-1 for the TGX Regionals group stage

10th Sept 2011 OFFICIAL TGX2011 STREAM LINK
www.thegamesxpo.com/tv
The stream of the LIVE main stage games including SC2, DOTA, HON, CS, etc.
Main stage SC2 games will be cast by JacziE and Mezza
Refer to daily schedule for timings of SC2 games marked in bold

COMMUNITY STREAM LINK
www.twitch.tv/tgx2011
A purely SC2 only stream featuring games from all stages of all competitions
Casts by Frogmite, RailGuN, JacziE and Mezza
Refer to daily schedule for full timings

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Saturday 10th September

1000-1300 hrs - IeSF Group Stage
1200-1300 hrs - TGX Regional SC2 Group matches (Main stage)
1300-1400 hrs - IeSF Top 32
1400-1500 hrs - IeSF Top 16
1500-1600 hrs - IeSF Quarterfinals
1600-1700 hrs - IeSF Semifinals
1600-1900 hrs - WCG Group Stage
1700-1800 hrs - IeSF Finals (Main stage)
1900-2000 hrs - WCG Top 32

Sunday 11th September
1000-1100 hrs - WCG Top 16
1100-1200 hrs - WCG Quarterfinals
1100-1200 hrs - TGX Regional SC2 Group matches (Main stage)
1200-1300 hrs - WCG Semifinals
1330-1400 hrs - WCG Finals (Main stage)
1400-1500 hrs - TGX Regional SC2 Semi Finals
1830-1900 hrs - TGX Regional SC2 Finals (Main stage)

Refer to this thread here for the full details of the tournament.

Quick Comments

Frogmite:

thanks for updating!

[Frogmite]

Just a small precision, Ender won $600 not 800$

Quick Comments

nirvAnA:

ty, fixed!

[reixros]

it was a sweep. ph were the sc2, dota and hon champs in the tgx in sg.