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StarCraft 2 Scene News - with BlitZ

As another huge week in eSports wraps up with yet another major international event, it looks like StarCraft in 2011 isn’t going quietly! There have been some huge matches both locally and internationally and there are still plenty of big events to come before 2012 swings around!


Highlights of the week

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1) Team GosuGamers is no more
GosuGamers has shut down the pro teams for StarCraft 2 and DotA with immediate effect. Not much more was said, but it’s speculated that marginal success and limited representation were factors in the decision. Read more on GosuGamers.net

2) Quantic Gaming and Incredible Miracle partnership dissolution
The brief partnership, established October 21 (BlizzCon Saturday), was called to an end. The parting seems to be a mutual arrangement with both teams stressing it is not the result of ill-will, and wish the other great success. Read more on TeamLiquid

3) Doa leaves Korea for USA
This week, it was announced that GSL’s Code A caster Doa (a mainstay at the spot since March) will move back to the United States to cast for the IPL. He joins CatsPajamas, PainUser and HDStarCraft in a casting quartet that could be a great boost for the IPL. Read more on TeamLiquid

Tournament Results

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GSL Code S Finals
2nd December

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The semi finals took place on Monday featuring IM_MVP looking for revenge for his Providence ousting at the hands of FXOLeenock, while NSHoSeo’s Jjakji took on FXO_z.

This finals series was touted by Tastosis (and the Twittersphere) as the greatest ever, and definitely one I recommend checking out for an example of some solid play, perhaps the way this matchup should be played.

Semi Finals

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FXO_z 0 - 4 NSHoSeo_Jjakji
FXOLeenock 4 - 2 IM_MVP

Championship

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Champion: NSHoSeo_Jjakji
Runner up: FXOLeenock
Jjakji took the series 4-2!! The win was the first for the scene minnows Team NSHoSeo, who were without any major sponsors. No doubt Jjakji’s victory will attract some attention.

With that, GSL wraps up for 2011, but still to come from Korea are the Code A up and down matches, and the Blizzard Cup from 12th-17th December.

eSportsNZ Lan #1
3rd December

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Results
Winner: xGKingJazbas
Runner Up: Fresco

Dox Cup #2
3rd & 4th December

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The Dox Cup returned this week, building on the success of the first Dox Cup. The event was well attended by some great talent, and provided a host of entertaining matches. The VoDs and Replays are available on the Dox Cup #2 Liquipedia Page.

The Players:

8 Qualifiers from Dox Cup #1 (top eight finishers):
mOOnGLaDe, iaguz, JazBas, RedArchon, PiG, Jump, Rossi, EnDerr

8 International Invites:
StarTale_Ace, violet, Grubby, GuineaPig, EGiNcontroL, LiquidJinro, coLqxc, ToD

16 Qualifiers from Open Bracket:
ArcMSIEdgE, Myuu , Yekke , xGKingMafia, TARiiChard, SQLTtyang, Pox, Jerry, aLtnirvana,
CubeBy, AZKMalice, aLtJimdiddy, Eldrid, ChadMann, aLtShortizz, MskiJaBiTo

Results:

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Prize Takers
Champion: StarTale_Ace ($1250) Runner Up: Grubby ($600) 3rd: xGKingJazBas ($300) 4th: Msk ($150) 5th place tie: xGKingMafia, xGKingiaguz ($100 each)
A noteworthy showing by Team Xeria Gaming, who had three players take home cash at the end of the tournament.
Also worth noting is that champion Ace did not drop a single map throughout.Rounding out the top 8, in equal 7th position were*
7th place tie: EGiNcontrol, ArcMSIRossi

The complete bracket results for Sunday can be viewed at http://challonge.com/doxcup2.

Congratulations Dox on yet another successful Dox Cup! Thanks to all involved who made it a highly entertaining weekend of viewing.

Australian Pro League

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The first Australian Pro League open bracket took place on the 27th and 28th of November, with the delayed stream airing over the weekend. The top eight players will join eight invitees in a 16-player championship bracket.

The eight qualifiers:
Penguin, UpperCut, Won, Cbass, Jabito, Sensei, delete, Beast

The bracket placement is
Group A – Mafia, YoonYJ, Penguin, UpperCut
Group B – Iaguz, Rossi, Won, Cbass
Group C – JazBas, Light, JaBiTo, Sensei
Group D – Tgun, PiG, delete, Beast

The tournament continues on December 10th/11th, with a delayed stream to air December 17th/18th.

Mid City SC II 1v1 Competition #3
4th December

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Winner: xGKingJazbas
Runner Up: ArchMSIdeth

Bielsko vs The World - SEA Fight #2, #3, #4!
4th December

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After a series of exchanges and some stirring by nirvAnA, 3 epic showmatches were arranged for Sunday evening.
Bielsko would take on three top-level SEA players in Revenant, Roz, and Azz in Bo5 series!

For more details and how it all started, you can check out this thread.
For results, links to replays/streams, check out this thread.

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Revenant beats Bielsko 3-2
Bielsko beats Azz 3-2
Roz beats Bielsko 3-2

Quick Comments

	:	Nice work on your first try! :)
	neon:
	TAhackdZ:	Excellent
	TCPLemminks:
	nirvAnA:	really great first weekly!

[ToR.Arnor]

Results for you

Auckland LAN @ iPlay (ended up being played at Mid City on Saturday) so the name of the event is now eSportsNZ LAN #1 (eSportsNZ was the society which ran the event)

Winner- xGKingJazbas
Runner Up- Fresco

There was also the Mid City SC II 1v1 Competition #3 (held on the 4th at Mid City's Auckland, Perth and Melbourne stores)

Winner- xGKingJazbas
Runner Up- ArchMSIdeth

[crAzerk]

Edit it in blitz! I can't edit your post now that it's on the front page
Thanks arnor!

[breadfan]

Cheers, added the details

[cruxBsK]

Awesome work man good to see some new staff making a name for themselves top effort and some awesome results in there.

[TAhackdZ]

Nice write-up dude, Was just about to edit and post when I saw it had been done already.

Good job, and I look forward to reading more of your work in the future.

[nirvAnA]

liking the clean and succinct style of this weekly a lot! This is how weeklies should be!

[breadfan]

Thanks for the kind words all, means a lot from this crowd

[ToRSpartaz]

Originally Posted by breadfan

Thanks for the kind words all, means a lot from this crowd

Seriously man well done, definately there for next weeks update. Nicely done ^^