The rise of Notorious PiG, and how he defeated Mafia
Jared Krensel "Tt.PiG" (above) defeated Timothy He "iM.Mafia" in a stunning Zerg versus Zerg final at the Australia Cyber League Melbourne Nationals.
PiG came fought his way back from the lower bracket after losing in the second round to Mafia's protoss team-mate Ray Zi "iM.Light". PiG couldn't hold a single match against Light. It wasn't until dropping down into the lower bracket that PiG began to shine.
Bradley Seymour "GoSu.tgun" and crowd favourite to win the event Andrew Pender "Nv.mOOnGLaDe" both fell quickly to PiG. Neither player was able to steal a single game away from PiG.
"I'm going to study some replays," said tgun in a post match interview. "I've learnt a lot".
His last obstacle to the final was none other than Light. After defeating PiG earlier in the tournament, Light looked set to knock out PiG. Light appeared a bit shaken during the match having just lost 2-0 to team-mate Mafia.
On a role with 4 wins from 2 matches, PiG looked as if nothing could stop him. Light soon faded to darkness as PiG's Zerg steamroller defeated yet another player. Getting vengence for his early knockout from the upper bracket.
Mafia sat waiting for PiG in the final having only lost 2 of the 8 games, in the upper bracket, that he played. Less than a month ago, Mafia took out the number on spot in the Grandmaster League, on the Korean server.
A recent addition to Team Immunity, Mafia said "they have been looking after me".
This is one of our first posts covering eSports, so I'd love as much feedback as you can give me!
Our goal in covering esports is to make it as accessible as possible, to make it easier for newcomers to get excited and interested. So you wont find an in depth strategic analysis in this feature. But hopefully, it's an interesting portrait of PiG.
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Executive Editor Novede.com | tweet me @ojkelly
Awesome write up, just thought I'd point out your use of 'role' should be 'roll', and 'vengence' should be 'vengeance', that's all I really saw in terms of feedback.
Yeah this is something we've been thinking about for a while. I've pushed some of the changes we've had in the pipeline live. Let me know what you think.
We have heaps of ideas for things to add and improve, so feedback is more than welcome. As harsh as you want, it all helps
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Executive Editor Novede.com | tweet me @ojkelly
Yeah this is something we've been thinking about for a while. I've pushed some of the changes we've had in the pipeline live. Let me know what you think.
We have heaps of ideas for things to add and improve, so feedback is more than welcome. As harsh as you want, it all helps
It's still a copy of layout - but this iteration (imo) is much less copied and much more suited to your content. As the guy who started Rakaka.se and runs eSports @ Dreamhack has said in the past, sometimes you need to copy to learn what does and doesn't work
Really interesting article and well supported by photos. It might do you well to get someone to proofread it before it is published though but that's me nitpicking.
I'm curious, do you have any background in playing starcraft? Did you come to acl as a spectator just for starcraft or for other games as well?
Really interesting article and well supported by photos. It might do you well to get someone to proofread it before it is published though but that's me nitpicking.
I'm curious, do you have any background in playing starcraft? Did you come to acl as a spectator just for starcraft or for other games as well?
I've played SC2 since it came out. I reached around top 25 Gold, when I was laddering. Now I just play for fun, as it's more exciting to watch the really higher levels play.
We do have a proofreading system (editors etc), but because it was weekend, and I wanted to get it out quickly a few things were missed. I believe most of it has been fixed up now. We are working to getting enough people on our team that we can have everything proofread, but at the moment we make do with what we have. Which, is partly crowd sourcing corrections, so nitpick as much as you want!
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Executive Editor Novede.com | tweet me @ojkelly
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