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Weekly Digest #5 (Week ending 27th Feb 2011)

Tournament Weekly Recap

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TUESDAY
iMaster Of SEA #1
Winner: inF - $50

inF wins the iMaster of SEA for the second consecutive week by defeating both aLtPiG and aLtKinGJessE 3-2 and 3-0 respectively to claim the well earned $50.

Winner of this tournament is required to submit his last 10 ladder games + the BO5 games so if you're in contention to play in this, keep Tuesday night free and remember to save your last 10 ladder replays!

WEDNESDAY

Community Open #12
Winner: aLtOxygeN $25

aLtOxygeN takes out this week's Community Open, taking down last weeks champ inF and nGenLight on his way to the final, with his final opponent being fellow Singaporean ProAnn, who took down nGenWild on his own way to the final. However, it was aLtOxygeN who ran out with the $25 prize.

THURSDAY
2v2 Open #01
Winners: aLtnirvAnA & YoonYJ

The inaugural SC2SEA 2v2 tournament began this week, with aLtnirvAnA and YoonYJ taking out the $20 prize, defeating nGenWild/Master and aLtOxygeN/inFiIce on the way! Only 16 teams signed up this time so remember to join again this week if you want to see the 2v2 format become a regular thing on sc2sea!!

SATURDAY

BSG Open #9
Winner: Hillboy

Saturday saw the 9th edition of the Bronze, Silver, Gold Open. Crushing through his opponents was Hillboy, who ended up winning. Congrats, and thanks to everyone who played!

SUNDAY
GPD Open #2
Winner: Lithium

The second installment saw the Protoss player Lithium take the Open, triumphing over Cryptika in the finals! Well done to Lithium and thanks to everyone who participated.

Weekly Happenings

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Main Story: mOOnGLaDe in GSL!

SEA's very own mOOnGLaDe competed in this weeks GSL Code A, facing up against Jjun. You can read the battle report below!
Following his games in the GSL, mOOnGLaDe is off to IEM in Germany to face against some of the best players from around the world. From everyone at SC2SEA and the SEA region itself, we wish you the best of luck Andrew!

Threads of the Week

nirvAnA's anti-chese guide - A comprehensive and must read guide on how to stop the popular cheeses.
PoisoN's Korean Adventureuuu - PoisoN shares his trip to Korea with some amazing pictures.
New Ladder Maps discussion. The maps, the problem, the solution? - Pinder
CnZ Top 3 Interviews - A must read comprehensive interview series with the top 3 finishers of CnZ, Juicy, OxygeN and exciting new comer Jabito.

Replay of the Week

mOOnGLaDe at GSL CODE A Ro32 by ddengster

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Game 1 - Xel'Naga Caverns

Moonglade(Zerg) spawns at the bottom, Jjun(Terran) spawns at the top.

The game starts off with Moonglade opting for a fast expansion before pool and Jjun going for the standard 2 barracks build. Jjun's marines go overlord hunting and snipes moonglade's first overlord.



Jjun moves forward with his marines, forcing moonglade to enforce his zergling numbers. Jjun then smartly backs off as he sees the increasing zergling count. The simple method of walking forward with marines has dealt a huge blow to moonglade's economy, forcing moonglade to focus on an army without the economy to back it up.


The power and frustration of a 2 rax build

Back at terran's base, a new command center is already up and 2 more factories are being built. Moonglade, with no information of what is happening inside the terran base, drops a baneling nest in hopes that he would be able to apply some pressure onto Jjun and force Jjun to show his hand - or hold off any type of one base all-in play. Meanwhile, Jjun's factories start pumping hellions and researching blue flame.


This late into the game and no crucial information on the enemy is always a bad sign.

Jjun signals his intention for an expansion by walling off the right portion of the choke to his natural with the relocation of his barracks. Jjun's hellions push forward and are revealed as he meets Moonglade's combined force of banelings and zerglings.



Moonglade's zerglings fail to surround the hellions as they are roasted alive by the blue flame. With the absence of zerglings, Jjun is able to kite Moonglade's banelings endlessly, killing all of them. He gathers his marines and pushes into the heart of the zerg base, taking out moonglade's expansion and killing the majority of the banelings behind they come too close. Moonglade gg's.

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Game 2 - Terminus RE
Moonglade(Zerg) spawns at 12, Jjun(Terran) spawns at 6

The game starts off with Moonglade doing the same fast expand build, while Jjun uses a 1 barracks fast expand build.


I need my INFO

Possibly due to the size of Terminus RE, moonglade discovers that his scouting drone arrives too late to find out anything else that Jjun is doing besides the one barracks and the one marine who promptly chases the scouting drone away. Jjun is thus able to expand once again without any difficulty. He builds 2 factories yet again and starts pumping out hellions while researching blue flame.



Meanwhile, moonglade, anticipating some sort of push, had already dropped down a couple of spine crawler - which unfortunately prove to be useless in stopping hellions from slipping through the front entrance into his natural. The hellions manage to delay a significant amount of mining time and take the lives of some zerglings before they are dealt with.


That was quick reaction to pull those drones into spine crawler defense

But that is not all that Jjun has up his sleeve. He drops 4 hellions with his medivac into the zerg's main, delaying yet more mining time, and even manages to save the hellions with his medivac.



Moonglade had meanwhile been focusing on his economy and tech, expanding at the 9 o'clock position and taking his low mineral patch 3rd base. Baneling speed is finished, and a large number of mutalisks are out on the field Jjun masses up a large amount of marines and tanks and pushes towards moonglade's base while taking his 3rd base. A drop attempt at the 9 o'clock zerg base by Jjun is easily cleaned up by mutalisks. As Jjun pushes his marines into the zerg natural expansion, Moonglade seizes the opportunity to wipe out his tanks.


You picked the wrong unit to guard you, mr Tank.

The mutalisks are finally forced away by the marines. Since the tank count is low, moonglade finally decides that it's time to engage.



However, the zerg unit count proved to be way too low as moonglade finds himself failing to protect his newest expansion. Meanwhile, Jjun takes this opportunity to send tanks and marines to moonglade's 9 o'clock base.



This small taskforce of Jjun's is not done yet. Medivacs transport them to moonglade's 3rd expansion and they take out the hatchery there before the zerg destroy them. Moonglade, realizing the dire situation he is in, counterattacks Jjun's new fourth base and takes down the orbital command.



That does not seem to deter Jjun however, as he marches his forces to moonglade's natural yet again. Moonglade yet again manages to kill off the Jjun's forces but at huge cost. Jjun's numerous reinforcements, paid for with the economic might of MULEs and 3 terran bases, prove to be too much for moonglade to handle. Moonglade is forced to type out.




Believe me, the starcraft gods will not see this go unpunished

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G1 - Outplayed I question the risky decision to go after the hellions with the lack of zergling support though.

G2 - New map. Sadly, moonglade's build didn't seem to take into account hellions, plus the combination of expanding more than usual enabled Jjun to push and put pressure onto moonglade, making sure that the mutalisks were not able to utilize their potential of harrassment on the terran.

Don't be too down because of this, go show them what you're made of in IEM!

The rest of This Week's Tournaments

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THURSDAY

SC2SEA Team 2v2 #2
2v2 competition. Bring a friend and sign up!
Prize: $20
Hosted by: Baka
Time: Signups open Thursday Morning
Stream: TBA

FRIDAY

King of the Hill (KOTH) #17

Hosted by: Mukade.651
The top players on SEA battle it out KOTH style for prizes for consecutive wins.
Time: 7pm SGT
Stream: http://www.justin.tv/benjisc2

SATURDAY

BSG (Bronze, Silver, Gold) #10

Tournament for Bronze, Silver and Gold League Players.
Hosted by:Zergtastic.610 & BakaInu.974
Time: 6pm SGT / 9pm AEST (Melbourne, Australia)
Stream: TBA

SUNDAY

GPD (Gold, Platinum and Diamond) #3
A tournament only for Gold, Platinum and Diamond players.
Hosted by: Eddie
Time: 8pm AEST/5pm SGT
Stream: TBD