[Mox]

So after four intense days of nerd balling, giving rise to some amazing games of Starcraft 2 and possibly one of the best gifs ever made, IEM Cologne Season VII has come to a close with LG-IMMVP taking home the $6,500 first prize. MVP managed to defeat Team Acer’s Nerchio in the Grand Finals with a score of 3-1. Taking second place, Nerchio pocketed a handy $3,300, whilst viOLet and VortiX each took home $1,700.

~SEA Fighting~

Our SEA heroes, despite not making it out of the group stages, battled hard throughout the tournament. Our adopted-Australian Kristoffer “MFTargA” Marthinsen started his open bracket campaign in tremendous fashion, beating ST_Ace with a score of 2-1, and Team Fnatic’s Oz with a score of 2-0. TargA then managed to take a game off of the eventual winner, LG-IMMVP, before falling 2-1 and unfortunately being knocked out of the open bracket by Grubby.

After having MVP and his teammate LG-IMNestea added to his already difficult group, Jared “Tt.PiG” Krensel was always going to have a rough time of it. PiG fought valiantly managing to break his deadlock of 0 game wins in international tournaments, by taking a game from Team Millenium’s Feast, but unfortunately could not progress from his group.

Team Gamecom Nv’s Andrew “mOOnGLaDe” Pender looked promising throughout his group stages. Glade fell narrowly 2-1 to Grubby early on in the group stages, before stomping ST_Bomber in an emphatic 2-0 rout. Unfortunately, Glade fell painstakingly short of progressing, needing to take just 1 more game from either elfi or sLivko to progress.

In what was a very exciting tournament, all of our SEA participants represented our scene well on the global stage, and the future looks bright for SEA eSports.

Full details including brackets and results can be found here: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft...llenge_Cologne

REPLAYS
PiG's Replay Pack | GLaDe Replay Pack

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Open Bracket (Top 2 Qualify)
Open Bracket 1 (Bomber, Real, YongHwa) | Open Bracket 2 (MVP, Grubby, Targa)
Open Bracket 3 (Puma, Killer, Nestea) | Open Bracket 4 (MC, ForGG, JYP)

Group Stage (Top 3 Qualify):
Group A: (Nerchio, ForGG, Sortof) | Group B: PiG's Group (MVP, viOLet, Kas)
Group C: Glade's Group (Bomber, sLivko, elfi) | Group D: (SuperNova, MC, VortiX)