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Zealo · Tue, 22nd-Jan-2013, 8:45 PM

Zealo's round 6 preview:

ROUND 6
game 1: WCS ohana

game 2: WCS cloud kingdom

game 3: WCS daybreak

Some more popular maps as a refreshing change, also a ton of exciting matches this week

Match to watch: Armi vs Nomad - there are a ton i could pick this week, but it's hard to go past the top of the table clash.

Zealo · Wed, 30th-Jan-2013, 5:45 PM

Zealo's round 7 preview:

ROUND 7
game 1: WCS entombed valley

game 2: WCS ohana

game 3: WCS antiga shipyard

the 2nd last week! there are 7 matches i'm looking forward to watching

I believe if Nomad wins this week his TB score is enough to guarantee him the 1st place finish even if he loses next week, but we will see.

Match to watch: Frustration vs Why - I pick this over Nomad's match because i get the impression that goosjuice hasn't been practicing much lately. Also Frustration's late game focussed PvZ is fun to watch.

Zealo · Fri, 4th-Jan-2013, 3:02 AM

not all the results are finalised yet, but i think it's safe to assume the last 2 matches are going to be double walkovers, they have until 9am to send results in if the games were played...

Round 3 Review:

maps:
game 1: WCS cloud kingdom
game 2: WCS shakuras plateau
game 3: WCS entombed valley

players still in the running for the competitors prize: 24

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- Round took place over xmas and new year, which resulted in many forfeits.

- Nomad vs Undone; for the second week in a row the match I was most looking forward to ended up being a walkover

- Of the matches that were played, all of them were very one sided as far as i can tell.

- Match of the round: MVP vs Nadir, MVP makes a strong claim to the title of best ZvZ in perth.

- Upset of the round: Scalaz vs Chobo, Scalaz defends himself against the chobo cheese and takes the series 2-0 in quick fashion.

we are left with only 6 players undefeated; Frustration, Armi, Nomad, Paul, MVP, Scalaz (who is on 2 wins and a draw)

while none of them are guaranteed to be in the final 6 that make finals (there'll be no more easy matches for any of them), it should be entertaining to watch them match up against each other next week and once again halve the numbers of undefeated players.

Zealo · Fri, 11th-Jan-2013, 10:50 AM

Round 4 Review:

maps:
game 1: abyssal city
game 2: WCS tal darim altar
game 3: WCS cloud kingdom

players still in the running for the competitors prize: 23

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- Some people weren't happy about playing on tal darim and/or abyssal city, i'm sure they'll be less happy playing on them a second week in a row in round 5

- Mvp vs Scalaz; Once again my most anticipated match was a walkover, it is clearly a curse.

- Match of the round: Nomad vs Paul - Yet again Nomad comes out on top in the most entertaining series this round.

- Upset of the round: dAXn vs Thor - dAXn has clearly been laddering hard since RFlan, it's good to see that hard work translating into results.

- We are left with only 3 players undefeated; Frustration and Nomad will be fighting it in round 5 for outright top place, while Scalaz sits half a win behind after his partying induced draw in round 1.

- The winner of the free coaching prize has been decided (the top placed bronze, silver or gold ranked player after 4 rounds receives a 1 hour coaching session from grandmaster AsGCHoBo)

Congratulations BigTwinkie!

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Zealo · Tue, 22nd-Jan-2013, 1:00 AM

Round 5 Review:

maps:
game 1: WCS shakuras plateau
game 2: abyssal city
game 3: WCS tal darim altar

players still in the running for the competitors prize: 20

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- This was the most exciting round so far in terms of matches, even though it seems like half of them were PvP

- The results each week now have a new factor to watch for; i haven't done all the maths, but I'm expecting the cut off for the final 6 to be somewhere in the group of players on 5 wins from 8 games. So anyone who accumulates their 4th loss is pretty much out of contention, anyone racking up a 3rd loss is on shaky ground and needs a good TB score (wins earlier in the season help tie break score more than later wins)

- Nomad vs Frustration; For once my anticipated match actually got played, Nomad surprised everyone and came away as the last undefeated player, can he stay that way all season?

- Match of the round: dAXn vs Paul - All 3 games coming down to the wire. There were a few other good series this week, but this one was my favourite

- Upset of the round: SuperNova vs Zealo - well done supernova! Now win the next 3 weeks please to make my tie break score better.

Zealo · Mon, 28th-Jan-2013, 6:02 AM

Round 6 Review:

game 1: WCS ohana
game 2: WCS cloud kingdom
game 3: WCS daybreak

players still in the running for the competitors prize: 18

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- as a nice change, we got some matches at the top end which are not PvP

- several players have changed Bnet IDs, including:
Scalaz > ScalaToR
AsGCHoBo > AsGKiceK
FaDeUndoNe > RichocheT

- Last week i estimated the cut off for the final 6 would be somewhere in the 5 points range. looking at the table this week i can't see a way for anyone on less than 6 points to make the cut.

- over recent weeks; Nadir has withdrawn, while mvp and MrToast continue to be awol on match days. this creates a situation where players in the top half of the ladder are receiving byes (free wins), where they otherwise would have been huge underdogs, this jumbles the ladder greatly, which is unfortunate. more tragically, it leaves the top of the ladder protoss dominated.

- Nomad vs Armi: nomad crushes his way through another top of the table PvP in convincing fashion

- Match of the round: dAXn vs Goosejuice - some entertaining (if sloppy) super late game ZvPs and a mind game win in game 1's PvP.

- Upset of the round: All the matches went the way i expected, so wtchuwahmon taking a map off chobo is my pick.

CHoBo(kice) · Mon, 28th-Jan-2013, 11:10 PM

Should have just played standard! But I thought what silly build can I do to make zealo proud... So thought what would zealo do. Thought mass banshee, battle cruiser was in order but failed!

(((((

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Zealo:

BCs my favourite non cannon unit ♥

Zealo · Thu, 7th-Feb-2013, 9:14 AM

Round 7 Review:

game 1: WCS entombed valley
game 2: WCS ohana
game 3: WCS antiga shipyard

players still in the running for the competitors prize: 18 (first week this number didn't go down i believe)

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- best matches so far, almost all the matches played were evenly matched and entertaining.

- still way too many PvPs

- kice, scalaz, daxn and paul drop out of the running for the top 6.

- Goosejuice and Frustration joined Nomad in securing a top 6 finish

- Frustration vs Why: Frustration showed his class and won easily, probably the least entertaining of the series i watched from this round.

- Match of the round: Nomad vs Goosejuice - The Goose managed to overcome some his sever lag issues and lack of practice (due to lag issues) to actually make the top of the table clash exciting.

- Upset of the round: Goose > Nomad - After his 6-0 start vs most of the best perth has to offer, Nomad's run is stopped by the 400 ping Goose. NovaD and Head also managed surprising victories to keep themselves in the running for the top 6.

for those interested, Moosable has uploaded some more casts of PBSL matches to youtube (featuring the awesome guest caster Temp0 for a few matches)
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...LzF6abMIy_Hc5d

TtSYF.tRoy · Fri, 4th-Jan-2013, 1:15 PM

Seems like a cool event and really well run, wish i lived in perth

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Zealo:

thankyou :)

jayaiwhy · Fri, 11th-Jan-2013, 11:18 AM

- The winner of the free coaching prize has been decided (the top placed bronze, silver or gold ranked player after 4 rounds receives a 1 hour coaching session from grandmaster AsGCHoBo)

nice.

CHoBo(kice) · Fri, 11th-Jan-2013, 12:00 PM

Congrats bigtwinkie, send me a PM and we can organise a time

Zealo · Thu, 17th-Jan-2013, 9:41 PM

this probably should have been posted earlier, but to avoid confusion we didn't want to release details until we confirmed them.

LIVE FINALS DETAILS

Location:
The Broadway Tavern
88 Broadway, Crawley-Nedlands, Western Australia

Date/Time:
23rd of February
12:15pm to 5:30pm
players to check in by 11:45, if any player has not arrived by this time their spot in the finals will be forfeit and every player seeded below them will be promoted 1 spot. It is suggested that players who just missed out on playing in the finals bring their peripherals in case of this.

Prizes:
as well as random give-a-ways for spectators, the prizes are as follows:

1st place - $150
2nd place - $100
3rd place** - $50
Competitor's Prize* - Powershield UPS

cash prizes were donated by AsGZealo and Moosable, the UPS was donated by Powershield. Horize have provided the laptops which will be used to run the matches.

* drawn randomly from players attending/spectating the finals who had 0 forfeits for the season

** In the event that the 1st or 2nd seed does not compete in the live finals, they will be awarded 3rd prize which will be transferred to them electronically. The players who show up will be competing for only the 1st and 2nd place prizes.

Format:
King of the Hill

I wanted to make sure the finals used a format that rewarded players for their performance in the swiss bracket, and gave them significant motivation to aim for even 1 slot higher on the ladder. I feel this format achieves that aim.

Players will be seeded based on their final standing in the regular season swiss bracket. Starting with 5th vs 6th, the winner will continue onto the next match while the loser will drop out, until after 5 matches we are left with the champion. The first two matches will be Bo3, the next two Bo5 and the grand final Bo7.

in ugly chart form:
http://i.imgur.com/3PF5d.jpg

For the Bo3s and Bo5s, each player will give the admins 1 veto (without knowing the other player's veto), the players will then take turns choosing maps, starting with the higher seeded player, until the required number of maps have been added to the list.

For the Grand Final, the #1 seed will get one veto, the remaining 7 maps will be played in alphabetical order (ignoring prefixes ie WCS).

Heady · Thu, 17th-Jan-2013, 10:22 PM

I love the format.

Gubna · Fri, 18th-Jan-2013, 11:12 AM

what if neither the first nor the second seed turn up to the live finals? I'm not sure I understand the 3rd place prize rules.

Zealo · Fri, 18th-Jan-2013, 5:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gubna

what if neither the first nor the second seed turn up to the live finals? I'm not sure I understand the 3rd place prize rules.

in that unlikely event, then the $50 prize will be sent to the winner of the swiss bracket, and the 6 highest finishing players who do attend the live finals will compete for the 1st and 2nd prizes.