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**nirvAnA** · Fri, 21st-Jun-2013, 2:56 AM

Finalist Profiles

After 5 grueling qualifiers, twelve of the very best players in Singapore have emerged. Come this 29th of June, they will be competing for over $4,000 in cash prizes at the finals at Alienware Arena. Here's a look at all the qualified players. Note: The Favourites were determined purely by the players themselves predicting their top 3.

---------- The Favourites ----------

draKe, Blysk, Yekke & ProAnnn

FlashDrake
Real Name: Bryan Sum
Date Of Birth: 15/12/92
Clan/Team: Team – Flash eSports, Clan – Imperial
Occupation: Student at NUS
Hobbies: SC2, music, electric guitar
Life and Career Goals: Too early to say right now.

Most Notable SC2 Achievements:
Alienware Arena champ
NUS CGF SC2 champ
Vengeance Cup quali #3 champ (LAN)

How do you find HotS?
HotS is great, much better than WoL balance-wise and gameplay-wise. Terran isn't bad against zerg anymore, and the game has become more strategically diverse and less passive which makes it more interesting for players and viewers. My only complaint would be hellbat drops in tvt, they are way too strong right now and makes biotank very much less viable.

Most feared opponent in the vengeance cup finals?
None. I believe that I can beat everyone in this tournament if I'm playing to standard.

Predict the top 3 finishers in order
All Flash ofc, myself, Blysk, Rev in that order. If there's an unfortunate teamkill, I expect one of Yekke/ProAnnn to get a podium finish - the 5 of us are the best players in this tournament.

FlashBlysk
Real Name: Kopankiewicz Thomas
Date of Birth: 23/11/1995
Clan/Team: Flash eSports, SPR
Occupation: Student
Hobbies: Sports and Gaming
Life and Career Goals: Hmmm I've always wanted to be an actor :P

Notable SC2/Gaming Achievements:
Tokyo Game Show Singapore/Indo qualifier Champion
WCS Singapore RO8

How do you find HotS?
Hots is really engaging, i really love the game, it has made the game much more interesting so many new options to the game its really fun to learn and play. But i do feel there are a few units that Are, not imbalanced, but too easy to use for certain races in respect to their production costs.

Most feared opponent in the vengeance cup finals?
Fear is a choice, I do not fear any opponent in vengeance cup.My aim is to win the finals without dropping a single map.

Predict the top 3 finishers in order
My prediction for top 3 is Me 1st , Drake 2nd, and probably proannn 3rd. Wouldve had Yekke or revenant at 3rd but them playing at NUS qualifier was rather shocking, hope they can show better games in the finals

EveYekke
Real Name: Jason Chan
Date Of Birth: February 3, 1995
Clan/Team: Team Eve
Occupation: Student
Hobbies: Playing SC2
Life and Career Goals: No clue atm

Notable SC2/Gaming Achievements:
WCS Singapore 2nd
IeSF Singapore Qualifier 1st
IeSF World Championship ro16

How do you find HotS?
HotS has been a lot more fun and exciting than WoL, especially ZvT with the addition of the Widow Mines and the absence of 30 minute turtle games all the time.

Most feared opponent in the vengeance cup finals?
drakE is probably going to be the hardest opponent. My ZvT isn't very good at the moment and he's been practicing hard for a while now. I'm not sure if I can catch up.

Predict the top 3 finishers in order
drakE, Yekke, ProAnnn

DM.ProAnnn
Real Name: Wang Poh Ann
Date Of Birth: 10/06/1994
Akas: eehanProAnnn
Clan/Team: Clan: iRL, Team: eehan
Occupation: Student
Hobbies: Playing sc2, Chess, watching Drama
Life and Career Goals: Programmer and Progamer

Notable SC2/Gaming Achievements:
4th in WCG Singapore 2011
5th-6th WCS Singapore
IEM Singapore Qualifier Champion

How do you find HotS?
Fun. Mothership Core makes the game more fun and more versatile

Most feared opponent in the vengeance cup finals?
Drake.

Predict the top 3 finishers in order
1. ProAnnn 2. Yekke 3. Shondy

---------- The Contenders ----------

Manly, Revenant & Lobo

[iSg]aLtManly
Real Name: Hugh Ng Wei Jie
Date Of Birth: 17th july 1993
Clan/Team: [iSg], aLt
Occupation: poly student
Hobbies: playing games and outings
Life and Career Goals: Do well in the things i'm intrested in

How do you find HotS?
i find HotS really fun unlike WoL, there is so much more build and i really enjoy the game now.

Most feared opponent in the vengeance cup finals?
Of course it's gonna be drake.

Predict the top 3 finishers in order
drake, Manly, Blysk

FlashRevenant
Real Name: Marcus Tan Sin Yik
Date Of Birth:27/05/1992
Clan/Team: Flash
Occupation: National Service
Hobbies: reading, Going out with friends, Badminton
Life and Career Goals: To make people around me happy. =)

Notable SC2/Gaming Achievements:
EPIC eSports convention champion
NVIDIA 2011 Malaysia SC2 tournament champion
E-Sports Thailand Championship 2011 Champion
World Championship Series Singapore Champion

How do you find HotS?
HotS has been a new start for me, as well as every other Singaporeans. It's a strategy and partial experience reset for most players. I'm enjoying it but to be honest I wish they gave Zerg a unit to utilize more in the early game(e.g. Hellbat/Widowmines for Terran, or Mothership/Oracle for Protoss) That being said, the game is still new so I'm still trying to adapt to it admist being in Army.

Most feared opponent in the vengeance cup finals?
I'd say I don't have a most feared opponent, but Drake cuts it close. Generally, I'm not as confident against anyone as opposed to Wings of Liberty times.

Predict the top 3 finishers in order
Drake, Blitz, Kyzer ^_^

Lobo
Real Name: Alvin Toh
Date Of Birth: 16/10/1993
Clan/Team: Currently NIL
Occupation: National Service (NSF)

Hobbies: Reading, Eating, Movies, Gaming
Life and Career Goals: My dream is to be able to travel the world! As for career still haven't really decided yet.

Notable SC2/Gaming Achievements:
#2 in Vengeance Cup Qualifier #1

How do you find HotS?
I find that HotS has opened up more ways to play as Protoss which makes it really interesting. Units like the mothership core and oracle open up new timings which I really like given my wacky/cheesy tendencies.

Most feared opponent in the vengeance cup finals?
I generally don't like to play against any protoss as I personally feel it depends quite a bit on luck and the game can easily go either way but most feared opponent I would have to say is Drake since I've always struggled in PvT and he seems to be in really good form recently.

Predict the top 3 finishers in order
If everything goes well I would say me, drake, blysk in that order

---------- The Dark Horses ----------

Venosaur, River & Sweet

FlashVeno
Real Name: Samuel Sng
Date Of Birth: March 30th
Clan/Team: Flash
Occupation: Student

How do you find HotS?
I find hots very fun and interesting with many new units and abilities like the swarm hosts and nexus cannon. makes all the matchups more fun to play compared to WoL

Most feared opponent in the vengeance cup finals?
drake. hes looking very strong recently

Predict the top 3 finishers in order:
drake revs me

DM.Binu
Real Name: Yun Gi Chul
Date Of Birth: 11 Jan 1988
Clan/Team: Desperation Move
Occupation: Student
Hobbies: Starcraft II
Life and Career Goals: Code S

How do you find HotS?
Widow mine and swarm host OP!

Most feared opponent in the vengeance cup finals?
Yekke

Predict the top 3 finishers in order:
1st Yekke 2nd BlackStar 3rd Proann

Sweet
Real Name: Zhang Pin Qian
Date Of Birth: 17/04/1990
Clan/Team: NIL
Occupation: Just finish serving NS.
Hobbies: Gaming and TCSS with friends.
Life and Career Goals: Current one - WIN Vengeance cup!! =)

How do you find HotS?
Window mine and helllbats are really strong vs zerg now. If you don't pay attention to minimap, your whole mineral line will be gone.

Most feared opponent in the vengeance cup finals?
Any terran.

Predict the top 3 finishers in order
draKe yekke blysk

Other Finalists
EveLoire
DM.Blackstar

---------- A Quick Recap ----------