Due to the popularity of the last preview here’s my quick review of the City Hunter Starcraft II Kingston Comp #3!
FOR THE SWARM!
City Hunter's last event was inflicted by the infestation that is Zerg, taking the top 6 places, this time around 3 of Kerrigan's finest return: xGKingMaFia, GoSutgun and TtPiG. Add to that the up and coming talents of xGKingpokerface, SQLTtNinja, xGKingMyuu and cruxEldrid it looked likely SEA will be subjected to many ZvZs once we hit the business end of the tournament.
Fear not my fellow Terrans (or even Brotoss) hope still remains with a few good men (technically 1 is a Dwarf). The three best Terrans (xGKingiaguz, TARossi and aLtYoonYJ) in Australia all took the long march to City Hunter Chatswood in the hope to stomp some nasty bugs along the way! (YoonYJ was a late withdrawal).
Once again we find ourselves in a SEA tournament with very few Protoss and even fewer of them @ GM level, PorkToT and clan mate oGrNsCo effectively stood alone to defend the honor of a noble Alien race.
As with all City Hunter Kingston Comps registration was restricted to 32 people and as always, the competition was quickly filled, people where then split into 8 evenly weighted Groups.
For those of you who are up to date with the scene youll notice a massive 14 GMs took part! As such the 16 players to emerge from the group stage and advance to the Double elimination stage did not come to much of a surprise.
Group 1- xGKingMaFia, alwaysdryToT
Group 2- xGKingIaguz, EveTigey
Group 3- GoSutgun, xGKingMyuu
Group 4- xGKingpokerface, Echoes
Group 5- TARossi, SQLTtHuT
Group 6- TtPiG, PorkToT
Group 7- SQLTtNinja, cruxEldrid
Group 8- Danmate, oGrNsCo
The Bracket stage of the competition so full of surprises, In the very first Round Danmate defeated xGKingMafia 2-0 and SQLTtNinja defeaedt xGKingIaguz 2-1 in the 1st round of the Winners Bracket, while favorites TtPiG and GoSutgun as battled it out in the 1st round with PiG emerging victorious 2-0.
In the Winners Bracket is saw TARossi carve up the competition defeating xGKingpokerface, Danmate and TtPiG without dropping a single map while in the losers bracket xGKingpokerface went on a team killing spree taking out Myuu (2-1) and MaFia (2-1) but it wasnt all bad taking down Ninja 2-1 thus defending Iaguz's Honor (fyi Honor is important to Dwarves).
However Iaguz wasnt so grateful after exterminating the parasitic powerhouses of tgun and Danmate, Iaguz was in a bug killing mood and pokerface was the next bug to taste the Gimili Terran's Axe.
The Lower Bracket Final was one of the closest series of the day with PiG emerging victorious 2-1. fulled by the confidence of taking out one of the strongest Terrans in SEA, PiG did did what all admins hate, he won the first best of 3 (2-0) thus extending the competition to another best of 3 . With victory in sight PiG dug deep and a tired and sick Rossi (no joke he puked an hour or two after arriving) could not compete, PiG won the series (2-0) and with that the Tournament .
A BIG thanks to Kingston Technology, V Energy Drink, Republic of Gaming and N.Y Saleh for sponsoring the event a big shout out to xGKingBenji and Zepph for casting the event
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