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Zealo · Tue, 8th-Jan-2013, 9:57 PM

Zealo's round 4 preview:

ROUND 4

game 1: abyssal city

game 2: WCS tal darim altar

game 3: WCS cloud kingdom

The swiss continues to improve the matchups, i expect almost every match this week to be close (with a couple of glaring exceptions caused by walkovers in earlier rounds)

with abyssal and tal darim both in the list this week and next, i imagine most protosses won't be happy. fortunately for them they have CK as map 3. most of the protosses in contention for the finals have PvP this week anyway.

this week will also see the top ranked BSG player awarded the coaching session prize.
player who look to be in contention:
(name-score-tie break score)
AsGNabi-2-2
Khyron-1-2
sandhippo-1-2
InvaderZim-1-2
criven-1-2
Paulsgay-1-2
bigtwinkie-1-2

i don't know if it's mathematically possible for Nabi to fall behind, but i think it's possible kice may pass the prize on to 2nd place.

Match to watch: Scalaz vs MVP, both had solid performances last week and will be going into this week very confident.

CHoBo(kice) · Wed, 9th-Jan-2013, 5:03 PM

Zealo in regards to the coaching prize, Roze already gets coaching when ever she pleases haha however is too stubborn :P She loves dem banshee

Anyway I give you permission to pass on prize to second place. If it is tied I want to see a BO3 between top 2 to fight for prize

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Zealo:

that sounds best :)

Zealo · Fri, 11th-Jan-2013, 10:50 AM

Round 4 Review:

maps:
game 1: abyssal city
game 2: WCS tal darim altar
game 3: WCS cloud kingdom

players still in the running for the competitors prize: 23

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+ [RFlan#42 rematches:] +

- Some people weren't happy about playing on tal darim and/or abyssal city, i'm sure they'll be less happy playing on them a second week in a row in round 5

- Mvp vs Scalaz; Once again my most anticipated match was a walkover, it is clearly a curse.

- Match of the round: Nomad vs Paul - Yet again Nomad comes out on top in the most entertaining series this round.

- Upset of the round: dAXn vs Thor - dAXn has clearly been laddering hard since RFlan, it's good to see that hard work translating into results.

- We are left with only 3 players undefeated; Frustration and Nomad will be fighting it in round 5 for outright top place, while Scalaz sits half a win behind after his partying induced draw in round 1.

- The winner of the free coaching prize has been decided (the top placed bronze, silver or gold ranked player after 4 rounds receives a 1 hour coaching session from grandmaster AsGCHoBo)

Congratulations BigTwinkie!

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jayaiwhy · Fri, 11th-Jan-2013, 11:18 AM

- The winner of the free coaching prize has been decided (the top placed bronze, silver or gold ranked player after 4 rounds receives a 1 hour coaching session from grandmaster AsGCHoBo)

nice.

CHoBo(kice) · Fri, 11th-Jan-2013, 12:00 PM

Congrats bigtwinkie, send me a PM and we can organise a time

Zealo · Sun, 13th-Jan-2013, 6:33 AM

Zealo's round 5 preview:

ROUND 5
game 1: WCS shakuras plateau

game 2: abyssal city

game 3: WCS tal darim altar

HAHAHA look at those maps! Of course the 3 least popular maps in the pool would show up together in one of the rounds! Hahaha...

Hopefully we see a lot of 'unique' and 'classic style' games

Most of the people who regularly no-show are matched against others who do the same thing, which is nice.

Match to watch: Nomad vs Frustration - The match which will finally give us an outright leader. Undone vs MVP should also be a good match, but the top of the table PvP (on Tal darim!

) is what i'm excited about.

RFLan#42 rematches:
Goosejuice vs CHoBo (2-1 CHoBo @ RFLan)

Zealo · Thu, 17th-Jan-2013, 9:41 PM

this probably should have been posted earlier, but to avoid confusion we didn't want to release details until we confirmed them.

LIVE FINALS DETAILS

Location:
The Broadway Tavern
88 Broadway, Crawley-Nedlands, Western Australia

Date/Time:
23rd of February
12:15pm to 5:30pm
players to check in by 11:45, if any player has not arrived by this time their spot in the finals will be forfeit and every player seeded below them will be promoted 1 spot. It is suggested that players who just missed out on playing in the finals bring their peripherals in case of this.

Prizes:
as well as random give-a-ways for spectators, the prizes are as follows:

1st place - $150
2nd place - $100
3rd place** - $50
Competitor's Prize* - Powershield UPS

cash prizes were donated by AsGZealo and Moosable, the UPS was donated by Powershield. Horize have provided the laptops which will be used to run the matches.

* drawn randomly from players attending/spectating the finals who had 0 forfeits for the season

** In the event that the 1st or 2nd seed does not compete in the live finals, they will be awarded 3rd prize which will be transferred to them electronically. The players who show up will be competing for only the 1st and 2nd place prizes.

Format:
King of the Hill

I wanted to make sure the finals used a format that rewarded players for their performance in the swiss bracket, and gave them significant motivation to aim for even 1 slot higher on the ladder. I feel this format achieves that aim.

Players will be seeded based on their final standing in the regular season swiss bracket. Starting with 5th vs 6th, the winner will continue onto the next match while the loser will drop out, until after 5 matches we are left with the champion. The first two matches will be Bo3, the next two Bo5 and the grand final Bo7.

in ugly chart form:
http://i.imgur.com/3PF5d.jpg

For the Bo3s and Bo5s, each player will give the admins 1 veto (without knowing the other player's veto), the players will then take turns choosing maps, starting with the higher seeded player, until the required number of maps have been added to the list.

For the Grand Final, the #1 seed will get one veto, the remaining 7 maps will be played in alphabetical order (ignoring prefixes ie WCS).

Heady · Thu, 17th-Jan-2013, 10:22 PM

I love the format.

Gubna · Fri, 18th-Jan-2013, 11:12 AM

what if neither the first nor the second seed turn up to the live finals? I'm not sure I understand the 3rd place prize rules.

Heady · Fri, 18th-Jan-2013, 1:23 PM

My guess is that if a seed doesn't show up then the "king" just moves straight on to play the next highest seed.

Zealo · Fri, 18th-Jan-2013, 5:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gubna

what if neither the first nor the second seed turn up to the live finals? I'm not sure I understand the 3rd place prize rules.

in that unlikely event, then the $50 prize will be sent to the winner of the swiss bracket, and the 6 highest finishing players who do attend the live finals will compete for the 1st and 2nd prizes.

Zealo · Tue, 22nd-Jan-2013, 1:00 AM

Round 5 Review:

maps:
game 1: WCS shakuras plateau
game 2: abyssal city
game 3: WCS tal darim altar

players still in the running for the competitors prize: 20

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+ [RFlan#42 rematches:] +

- This was the most exciting round so far in terms of matches, even though it seems like half of them were PvP

- The results each week now have a new factor to watch for; i haven't done all the maths, but I'm expecting the cut off for the final 6 to be somewhere in the group of players on 5 wins from 8 games. So anyone who accumulates their 4th loss is pretty much out of contention, anyone racking up a 3rd loss is on shaky ground and needs a good TB score (wins earlier in the season help tie break score more than later wins)

- Nomad vs Frustration; For once my anticipated match actually got played, Nomad surprised everyone and came away as the last undefeated player, can he stay that way all season?

- Match of the round: dAXn vs Paul - All 3 games coming down to the wire. There were a few other good series this week, but this one was my favourite

- Upset of the round: SuperNova vs Zealo - well done supernova! Now win the next 3 weeks please to make my tie break score better.

Zealo · Tue, 22nd-Jan-2013, 8:45 PM

Zealo's round 6 preview:

ROUND 6
game 1: WCS ohana

game 2: WCS cloud kingdom

game 3: WCS daybreak

Some more popular maps as a refreshing change, also a ton of exciting matches this week

Match to watch: Armi vs Nomad - there are a ton i could pick this week, but it's hard to go past the top of the table clash.

Heady · Thu, 24th-Jan-2013, 11:05 PM

If I get Nadir I could plausibly walkover my way into finals!

Zealo · Mon, 28th-Jan-2013, 6:02 AM

Round 6 Review:

game 1: WCS ohana
game 2: WCS cloud kingdom
game 3: WCS daybreak

players still in the running for the competitors prize: 18

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- as a nice change, we got some matches at the top end which are not PvP

- several players have changed Bnet IDs, including:
Scalaz > ScalaToR
AsGCHoBo > AsGKiceK
FaDeUndoNe > RichocheT

- Last week i estimated the cut off for the final 6 would be somewhere in the 5 points range. looking at the table this week i can't see a way for anyone on less than 6 points to make the cut.

- over recent weeks; Nadir has withdrawn, while mvp and MrToast continue to be awol on match days. this creates a situation where players in the top half of the ladder are receiving byes (free wins), where they otherwise would have been huge underdogs, this jumbles the ladder greatly, which is unfortunate. more tragically, it leaves the top of the ladder protoss dominated.

- Nomad vs Armi: nomad crushes his way through another top of the table PvP in convincing fashion

- Match of the round: dAXn vs Goosejuice - some entertaining (if sloppy) super late game ZvPs and a mind game win in game 1's PvP.

- Upset of the round: All the matches went the way i expected, so wtchuwahmon taking a map off chobo is my pick.

CHoBo(kice) · Mon, 28th-Jan-2013, 11:10 PM

Should have just played standard! But I thought what silly build can I do to make zealo proud... So thought what would zealo do. Thought mass banshee, battle cruiser was in order but failed!

(((((

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Zealo:

BCs my favourite non cannon unit ♥

Zealo · Wed, 30th-Jan-2013, 5:45 PM

Zealo's round 7 preview:

ROUND 7
game 1: WCS entombed valley

game 2: WCS ohana

game 3: WCS antiga shipyard

the 2nd last week! there are 7 matches i'm looking forward to watching

I believe if Nomad wins this week his TB score is enough to guarantee him the 1st place finish even if he loses next week, but we will see.

Match to watch: Frustration vs Why - I pick this over Nomad's match because i get the impression that goosjuice hasn't been practicing much lately. Also Frustration's late game focussed PvZ is fun to watch.

Zealo · Thu, 7th-Feb-2013, 9:14 AM

Round 7 Review:

game 1: WCS entombed valley
game 2: WCS ohana
game 3: WCS antiga shipyard

players still in the running for the competitors prize: 18 (first week this number didn't go down i believe)

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- best matches so far, almost all the matches played were evenly matched and entertaining.

- still way too many PvPs

- kice, scalaz, daxn and paul drop out of the running for the top 6.

- Goosejuice and Frustration joined Nomad in securing a top 6 finish

- Frustration vs Why: Frustration showed his class and won easily, probably the least entertaining of the series i watched from this round.

- Match of the round: Nomad vs Goosejuice - The Goose managed to overcome some his sever lag issues and lack of practice (due to lag issues) to actually make the top of the table clash exciting.

- Upset of the round: Goose > Nomad - After his 6-0 start vs most of the best perth has to offer, Nomad's run is stopped by the 400 ping Goose. NovaD and Head also managed surprising victories to keep themselves in the running for the top 6.

for those interested, Moosable has uploaded some more casts of PBSL matches to youtube (featuring the awesome guest caster Temp0 for a few matches)
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...LzF6abMIy_Hc5d

Zealo · Thu, 7th-Feb-2013, 9:34 AM

Zealo's round 8 preview:

ROUND 8
game 1: WCS tal darim altar

game 2: WCS antiga shipyard

game 3: abyssal city

- The final week of regular season! seemed like way less than 2 months to me.

- The order of the finalists will be known after this week, with the koth format every position counts!

- Since Nomad's already crushed everyone at the top of the table, to secure 1st place he only has to beat NovaD, the dark horse who's only losses come from getting walked over while on vacation. Even if he loses Nomad still finishes 2nd.

- Goose and Frustration have also secured their top 4 finishes, they are playing for a top 2 finish, while the loser will get 3rd unless armi wins

- Armi, NovaD, Head, RichocheT, Why and Gubna are all on 5 wins so far. 3 will win this week and make the finals, 3 won't.

- Scalaz, Nabi and Apathetic are all sitting on 4.5 wins, and will be chasing victories to be the first reserves called upon if someone who does qualify can't attend the finals.

- I believe that if Scalaz defeats Gubna, and NovaD loses to Nomad; then Scalaz will scrape into 6th with 5.5 wins and tie break ahead of Apathetic (and Nabi if she defeats Kice)

Match to watch: Frustration vs Goose - If I was one to learn from history I would just pick Nomad's match, but RvP is my fravourite match up

While frustration is the clear favourite, protosses do complain about all 3 of the maps for this round AND vsing random makes choosing openings especially hard for protoss, that might be enough to give goose the edge even if he is still having lag issues

Frustration · Thu, 7th-Feb-2013, 10:35 AM

FUCKKKKKKKK i just saw the mapss kill me now aHHHHHHHHHHH

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