[Dox]

With so many strong contenders arriving to take a swing at the 3 Grand Finals seats up for grabs, WCG Melbourne is shaping up to be an extremely competitive event!

Qualified National Finalists
Deth
tgun
Pinder

Replays
Upper Bracket
Lower Bracket

+ [Finalists poll] +

Among the big names attending, these guys are slated to be some of the hottest picks:

TargA
Deth
tgun
PiG

Who do you think will take the podium positions tomorrow? Pick your top 3 on the poll and let us know!

In less than 12 hours the event will be kicking off, and this thread will be your #1 source for match reports, results, photos and replays live from the venue. Be sure to keep that F5 key busy!

+ [Miscellaneous Details] +

BRACKETS

STREAM 1 (Meatex)
STREAM 2 (LoSt)

+ [Live Report] +

10:00am: Quite a lot of players have arrived and are setting up already! tgun and I are here.
10:10am: 2bh-Azure and Deth have also registered.
10:30am: Just finalising the sign ups now, brackets going live in 15 minutes.
10:40am: tgun failed to type in his password so many times that the entire venue has been IP banned lol!!!
11:00am: I've just seeded the players and brackets are being generated as we speak!
11:05am: Brackets are up and games are underway!
11:45am: TargA 2-0's his way to the next round, Deth and tgun are about to play their first games.
11:50am: Meatex's stream is up!
11:55am: PiG and Pinder have both 2-0'd their first round opponents.
12:10pm: PiG and tgun win their first games in the round of 16.
12:15pm: deth 2-0's his way into the Ro8!
12:20pm: PiG also 2-0's his Ro16 match. Him and deth may face eachother in the Ro4!
12:25pm: tgun takes a stressful 2-0 over fur to move onto the Ro8.
12:35pm: 2bh-Azure has chosen to rematch his round 1 opponent (WeryNg) after winning the deciding battle during a video lag spike.
12:45pm: Is that HuK? No it's tgun!
12:55pm: Pinder moves on to the Ro8 with a 2-0, he'll be playing tgun next on the stream!
1:10pm: Deth is waiting in the Ro4 now, and the winner bracket is taking a lunch break. We'll resume at 2:00PM while the lower bracket catches up!
2:20pm: We're back from lunch and the first game of tgun vs Pinder is live on stream!
2:30pm: tgun takes game 1 against Pinder. Techtron vs PiG just kicked off on Metalopolis, ZvZ.
2:40pm: Techtron takes game 1 from PiG with constant Ling pressure.
2:45pm: tgun knocks Pinder down to the lower bracket with a 2-0. He's in the Ro4!
2:55pm: PiG is knocked into the lower bracket by techtron, losing the ZvZ 0-2.
3:00pm: The winner bracket (Ro4) is on hold for now as we wait for the lower bracket to catch up!
3:15pm: TargA eventually loses his first game against 2bh-Azure after a 20 minute +1 Zergling all-in!
3:25pm: TargA brings it back to 1-1 with more aggressive Zergling play on Metalopolis!
3:35pm: TargA takes down Azure 2-1, and will play tgun in the Ro4!
4:00pm: Pinder moves on to the next round, eliminating MiRage 2-0 in the lower bracket.
4:10pm: tgun vs TargA going live on Stream 1 now!
4:10pm: deth and techtron will be going live on Stream 2 in 5 minutes!
4:30pm: deth takes game 1 against techtron with excellent Marine/Hellion micro.
4:30pm: tgun makes a strong comeback against TargA to win game 1!
4:45pm: TargA brings it back 1-1 against tgun!
4:50pm: deth secures himself a spot in the winner bracket finals after defeating techtron 2-0.
4:50pm: tgun brings back a 2-1 victory over TargA, matching him against deth in the winner bracket final.
5:10pm: Pinder eliminates 2bh-Azure, 2-0.
5:05pm: deth takes game 1 against tgun in the Winner Bracket Grand Final.
5:20pm: deth wins the Winner Bracket grand final 2-0 over tgun.
5:20pm: PiG is being cannon rushed by a guy named CheeseKing! Priceless!
5:35pm: PiG makes an amazing comeback to defeat THE CheeseKing 2-0!
5:40pm: PiG vs TargA on Stream 2! Pinder vs techtron on Stream 1!
5:45pm: Pinder 2-0's techtron. He's only one game away from a national grand finals seat!
6:15pm: TargA eliminates PiG 2-0, he'll go on to play Pinder for the final spot at the Gold Coast.
6:30pm: TargA takes the first game from Pinder on Metalopolis with a HUGE +2 Speedling base trade!
6:55pm: Pinder takes TargA down on Shakuras Plateau to bring the series back to 1-1. 2 Archons with combined kill counts of 100+!
7:00PM: Pinder defeats TargA 2-1 to secure himself the 3rd and final seat from WCG Melbourne!

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