[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!

Quick Comments

Eddie:

[nGenLight]

I'm not coming last minute flights cost too much =(

[Dox]

Ohhh, lame!

We'll see you in Brisbane?

[cRSenSei]

Rossi, Targa, Deth. tgun upset gogo

[pRoTimber]

glhf!!!!!!!

[ToR.Arnor]

and Rossi is out too due to his flight being cancelled

[Dox]

Awww man.

[TidaL]

update please

[iM tgun]

Originally Posted by Dox

+ [Live Report] +

10:40am: tgun failed to type in his password so many times that the entire venue has been IP banned lol!!!

I'm proud of this.

[TidaL]

Originally Posted by Dox

I've just seeded the players and brackets are being generated as we speak!

yeah can't wait

go tgun!!!

[AxSGRiM]

tgun fighting!

[Pongo]

Aww I thought it would be all said and done by the time I finished work. Looks like I could have snuck in for a few hours of RL SC tourney.

GL Folks.

Hope you're having fun covering the event Dox (you lucky so and so).

[Dox]

I just wanted to add (now that the event is all finished!) that the first thing I said to Pinder when he walked in the door was, "Oh shit! I forgot to include you in the list of contenders for today!" 'cos I knew he had a solid chance!

[NvPinder]

Originally Posted by Dox

I just wanted to add (now that the event is all finished!) that the first thing I said to Pinder when he walked in the door was, "Oh shit! I forgot to include you in the list of contenders for today!" 'cos I knew he had a solid chance!

hahaha I'll confirm that. Although my response was to laugh at you and tell you not to be stupid cos i thought i had no chance :P

[syfMiley]

Originally Posted by TAJPMoney

hahaha I'll confirm that. Although my response was to laugh at you and tell you not to be stupid cos i thought i had no chance :P

I'm going to start smoking now.

[Dox]

Originally Posted by TAJPMoney

hahaha I'll confirm that. Although my response was to laugh at you and tell you not to be stupid cos i thought i had no chance :P

I'm clairvoyant!

Today was a really great event. Thanks to everyone who turned up, I honestly don't have a single bad thing to say about the tournament. I had a blast running it and Matt "Haymo" was an absolute joy to work with. For an event with no cash prize behind it, the competition and atmosphere was actually very friendly and relaxed.

Huge shout outs to TargA and PiG who fell so close to the finish line.
TargA: for performing so well despite his wrist injury and lack of practice.
PiG: for flying all the way down here. PLEASE compete in Brisbane! You deserve to be in those finals and everyone knows it!

And massive shout out to "OUT OF NOWHERE" Pinder for beasting his way through despite the odds!

Can't wait until the Blizzcon Invitational in a few weeks, and WCG Brisbane after that!

See you all again soon.

[Dox]

Oh oh oh! And massive thanks to Meatex for giving up most of his day to stream our event in wonderful 720p all the way from South Korea, and for the TA guys for joining in to provide additional coverage on the rest of the games which were being played simultaneously.

And huge thanks to tgun for buying all of my meals while he was here! What a champ!

[Dox]

And one last shout out to the iBisQ staff! Friendly, tolerant and helpful all day long. Even when I asked them to walk around and unlock every single computer for me at the end of the night so I could gather the replays. Champions.

And everyone who came up and said, "Hi, I stalk you on Twitter!"

[Dox]

Replays are up!
Photos will be up tomorrow, along with the WCG Brisbane thread.

[Eddie]

I had a great time yesterday. Thought it was a really well run event!

Was lucky enough to get seated next to aLtPiG. Cool dude, friendly, and knows a lot about the game. (Any Zergs out there should def look at coaching from him).

Was quite happy with my own games. Played 9 matches, had a few good wins.

Met some cool people, and some other familar faces. Still missed out on getting a chance to talk to some others, such as Dox. Ended up playing for a lot longer than i thought i would going into the tournament which is a good thing i guess.

Was able to watch a lot of PiG play. Caught some of Deth v Tgun on stream. Would have liked to see some of Targa + Pinders games, but had to leave a little earlier so missed out on PiG v Targa and the finals. Thanks for uploading replays Dox, shall check out the games i missed

Congrats to Deth, Tgun and Pinder