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zendex · Mon, 20th-Aug-2012, 6:23 PM

Mack 'Petraeus' Smith of team Iris has pulled off one of the greatest upsets in StarCraft II history as he steals the spotlight from two Zerg superstars, Sung Thomas 'Jazbas' Cho of team Gamecom-Nv and Caviar 'Stellar' Acampado of team BenQ-Mineski, in the Philippines-New Zealand joint qualifier tournament of Asian E-Sports Cup (AEC).

At the start, many saw him enter the tournament as a dark horse to win the whole thing, fans were favoring Jazbas or Stellar in taking the championship prize of taking a trip to Japan for the AEC grand finals. The qualifier tournament held last Saturday, August 18, was a double elimination tournament with each match being best-of-three. At the winners bracket semifinals, Petraeus was dropped into the losers bracket by Jazbas.

Jazbas and Stellar then faced off in the winners bracket finals ending up with Jazbas taking the series with a 2-1 score. Petraeus in the losers bracket then eliminated his next oppopent, Cenon 'Xenos' Mayor Jr. from team Pacific, to retrack his path into the finals where Jazbas was already waiting. In the losers bracket finals, Stellar stood before Petraeus and both were hungering for a rematch against the New Zealand Zerg king.

To the disappointment of many Filipino fans rooting for Stellar, Petraeus blazed through the Pinoy bonjwa with a clean 2-0 score and stepped into the grand final ring for the final battle. In the final match, Petraeus needed to grab two consecutive best-of-three match wins.

In the first best-of-three set, Petraeus pulled another 2-0 sweep for Jazbas.

In the last and final set, Jazbas took away the winning momentum of Petraeus and grabbed the victory on the first map.

However, Petraeus didn't want the championship gold to slip away from his clutches and finally wiped Jazbas off the final match with a 2-1 score.

Results:

1st Place: Mack 'Iris.Petraeus' Smith (trip to Japan + accomodation)
2nd Place: Sung Thomas 'GAMECOM-Nv.Jazbas' Cho
3rd Place: Caviar 'BenQ-Mski.Stellar' Acampado

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Source - http://www.mineski.net/news/1401/pet...jazbas-stellar