[Benji]

Sydney, clearly the place to be for SC2 Tourneys had yet another tourney on Sunday the 30th hosted by City Hunter out in Chinatown (CBD).

Different format this time, we had 8 brackets of 3, with a Bo3 round robin. The top player from each bracket progressed to the championship bracket which was a Double elim Bo3 (Bo5 for Upper Finals and Grand Final).

I'll get to the results later, but firstly, a massive shoutout to TA for coming in full force, i've been talking alot of smack on my stream, but it was a pleasure meeting each and everyone one of you. Also met nGenLight for the first time who made me worry he was late, when actually he was hiding on a smurf in the corner.

Brackets were completely random, we all picked a piece of paper and it had our group on it. The randomness was fine, but almost too random with Bracket 3 Being TAriiChard, TAScarecrow and TAsomatic (Epic Teamkill!).

Results from the Brackets are below:

Group 1
TARossi - 2
Zulio - 1
Tsui - 0

Group 2
nGenBenji - 2
Myth - 1
Berimbau - 0

Group 3
TAriiChard - 2
TAScarecrow - 1
TAsomatic - 0

Group 4
HotS - 2
wish - 1
Genesis - 0

Group 5
Chopper - 1
Lzs - 0

Group 6
TASanchez - 2
Spiritlynn - 1
Scm - 0

Group 7
nGenLight - 2
Foulogre - 1
Kulla - 0

Group 8
CJC - 2
Snowpanda - 1
Chone - 0

Things to note:

- wish is a very young player, yet more mature than most of us there, seriously was 100% shocked when meeting him, what a legend
- HotS is a beast, someone should clan this guy, pretty legit terran. Plays BW style macro too, was quite fun to watch
- TAriiChard teamkills 2 TA players (lol)
- Myth continues his unluckiness in brackets, facing PiG in eastwood and then myself here, good player
- Light expanded twice all tourney (Something like 15 games?), he either 5 gate allins or gets allin'd

Which brings us with a top 8 of:
nGenBenji
nGenLight
TAriiChard
TARossi
TASanchez
HotS
CJC
Chopper
(Note, 7 master players and 1 Diamond, Go me! :P)

Finals brackets are:
http://challonge.com/cityhunter

Some pretty good games in there, i've got a bunch of replays and I will do some casts. Also to note, Finals was an extended series, which gave Light a 1 game advantage in the Bo5. It was a better option than forcing Rossi to beat 2x Bo5's, but everyone there agreed, Light was proberbly the best player there today.

Final Standings:
1st: nGenLight (P)
2nd: TARossi (T)
3rd: TAriiChard (T)
4th: HotS (T)
5th/6th: nGenBenji (Z)
5th/6th: Chopper (T)
7th/8th: TASanchez (Z)
7th/8th: CJC (P)

Thanks City Hunter for an awesome event!

Photos!

TAriiChard as hes playing against...
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/8310/photo15ti.jpg

TASanchez! (Sitting opposite)
http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/7113/photo14xj.jpg

The winners (LtR TAriiChard, nGenLight, TARossi)
http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/7162/photo13u.jpg

Group photo! (Sorry about quality)
Top Row (LtR): SCM, HotS, TAriiChard, nGenLight, nGenBenji, TAScarecrow, TASanchez
Bottom Row (LtR): Our TO (Sorry, didn't catch your name ), TARossi
http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/1913/photo12f.jpg