Starcraft II in a chainhai, or results of WCS World Championship 2012
2012 turned out to be generous for high -quality e -sports competitions, and the WorldCraft II World Cup from Blizzard met all expectations. All year in different corners of the planet, regional qualifying ones took place, and finally the time came the world finals. Time to find out who is the best of the best!
Recently, many large developing companies related to computer sports have wished to have their own large tournament. So, Valve At the end of summer – early autumn The International 2, And in our area Wargaming They brought to Moscow the best tankers to "" Ural steel-2012 ".
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Valve teams came at invitation, and a whole million was relied on for the first place. Wargaming rely on European groups and several Chinese seeds. Blizzard Let's go the third way.
There can be only!
Setting a goal to determine the best player in the world in Starcraft II, The creators discarded the idea of the tournament at invitation and held full-fledged Lan-selector in the twenty-eight countries of Asia, Europe and both America, as well as in Australia. They did not forget about us-the joint Russian-Ukrainian qualifying were held at the end of July in Kyiv.
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The best participants went to get quotas for the Grand Final for five continental qualifying. European and Asian finals were the most interesting traditionally – the first passed in the capital Sweden , And the second in China. Well, thirty -two strongest strategists in the world went to Shanghai – find out who is the absolute champion.
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Koreans drag again?
So that you understand the scale of the event, say that for the sake of the championship Blizzard I had to abandon the traditional BlizzCon 2012 Invitational and completely delve into World Championship Series. The creators did not stint on the prize fund – two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in the amount, of which a hundred went directly to the champion.
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And anyone could become, the composition of the participants was so strong. Of the most-most favorites, it was possible to distinguish only the Frenchman Ilyes Saturi ( STEPHANO ), Pole Arthur Bloch ( Nerchio ) and … all South Koreans. The latter has arrived, no less, seven people ( Roro , Parting , Creator , Hero , Rain , Hero , Curious ). The most experienced of the "Happy Seven" were Parting, old -timer Rain and Hero (the one from the American team Team Liquid ).
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Among the participants WCS World Championship2012 There were fifteen graves, thirteen protosss and only four representatives of earthlings ( Illusion , Fenix , Lucifron , Major ). Although earthlings are currently considered the weakest race in Starcraft II, many nodded towards the Koreans, they say, look, they have only terraces in high school. So it, in principle, is, only none of the “terraranovodes” made his way to Shanghai – there were left overboard MVP , MMA , Bomber , POLT And many others.
► The subject of dreams of all lovers of Starcraft II against the background of the flags of Germany, China and Belarus.
There was someone to worry about our fans, because experienced Russian Oleg Kuptsov went to the Celestial Empire ( Titan ) and the veteran Starcraft Belarusian Anton Plebanovich ( Lowly ). The excellent performance of our guys directly depended on the successful draw of the group stage, because initially few believed that the Slavs were able to pull out gold from South Korean claws.
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By the will of the organizers, all participants were divided into eight approximately equal groups, and Lowly C Titan They took their places in quarters G and F, respectively. Belarusian with rivals was lucky – a strong Spaniard Lucifron And weak American Insum And the Brazilian Levin. Oleg Kuptsov could not boast of such luck – he got a weak Mexican Major and two strong Koreans Curious And Hero.
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Before starting the description of the games themselves, let's say a few words about the format and official maps of WCS World Championship 2012. The best grains, protosss and terrane of the world were to fight on the maps familiar to other tournaments Cloud Kingdom le , Daybreak le , Ohanale , Antiguashipyard , EntombedValley , Tal’Darimaltar le And Shakuras Plateau.
► Pass the group stage after the severe poisoning Grubby failed.
What really surprised us is the tournament scheme of the group stage. Wanting to get rid of anything inappropriate matches in the group, the organizers came up with a scheme according to which two teams – the winners of the first round in the second fought among themselves for the first place in the group. The losers of the first round played against each other in parallel – the loser in this pair took fourth place and went to collect things, and the winner was included in the struggle for leaving the second place.
► Group sowing of all eight WCS World Championship 2012.
We observed something similar in the summer at the Spanish CS 1 Championship.6 Gamegune 2012. The scheme can be safely recognized as ideal, because it excludes the possibility of contractual matches and obvious losses, when the team, which lost the chances of exit after the first two rounds, openly “merges” the other valuable glasses and rounds.
Mexico, Brazil and other "exotic"
In the first round of group G, the best strategist of all Belarus Anton Plebanovich ( Lowly ), played against the American Insur, and Pedro Moreno-Dyran ( Lucifron ) Fighted with the Brazilian protoss Levin. By the way, this representative of the country of Carnival, beaches and wild monkeys was the only player at the championship without a team.
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Both favorites of the group won, and it seemed to us that the Spaniard would defeat Levin’s even without a mouse – he looked so confident in light and “walking” matches at Daybreak And EntombedValley. Although what, in fact, is to expect from a player from South America – from the continent, where Starcraft II Not popular. By and large, the qualifications were not required there – it was just necessary to invite the Chilean Killer and Peruvian Fenix (the only players of a decent level), that would be enough with their heads.
After losing the Spanish terrane in the struggle for first place (0: 2 on Cloud Kingdom and Antigua Shipyard) Tournament Fate Fxopen hung in the balance. To continue to fight in the last round, it was necessary to defeat Insur’s again, who sent the Brazilian to the auditorium.
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If in the first round the games with Insur were given to Belarusian relatively easily, then the matches turned out to be much more intense. Anton won on Daybreak, but Insur equalized the score on Antigua Shipyard. There was a decisive OHANA map ahead, on which the Zerig still turned out to be stronger and thus left the second place of the group G.
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Parallel to games Lowly Oleg Kuptsov played his matches in group F ( Titan ). In the first two rounds, he had to play with two Koreans, and, to our great joy, he beat both and left the first place. Scarab Wins sister sites Games against Zerg Curious The first round turned out to be somewhat more complicated (2: 1 on Daybreak, Ohana, Sharas Plateau) than matches against the second Korean Hero (2: 0 on OHANA, Shakuras Plateau).
► The odious American Zerg Greg Fields (Idra) to prize places, unfortunately, did not get, but managed to stop the Frenchman Stephano himself.
Thus, after the victories of Oleg, both representatives of the CIS booked their places in the playoffs and fell into fairly convenient rivals-Lowly went to another American, Suppy , And Titan had to measure the forces with Chilean Killer.
The presence of the Slavs among the sixteen better especially pleased, given that they did not come out of their groups STEPHANO , Grubby And Nerchio – The main hopes of Western Europe for Shanghai Gold. The latter missed the Korean Creator and Canadian representative Sasha Khostin ( Scarlett ).
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Played, and enough
One of the four simultaneous games of the 1/8 finals was ZVZ -Meeting Lowly and Suppy. On the first map of Daybreak, Belarus at first had a slight advantage, but a couple of unsuccessful attacks with cockroaches brought the advantage to zero. Legging behind the limit, Suppy He just did that he flew with his mutualis and cut everything that could.
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This approach, coupled with the exit in hydralis, soon gave the result – a number of excellent fights, and the Belarusian is decently lagging behind the limit (120 by 190). Fxopen played to fix the situation at the expense of the hosts of the pack, but five or six flyers were not enough to “squeeze” Suppy. Seeing what the European went into, Suppy added several infectors to his swarm and finished the first game with a score of 1: 0.
The rest of the games were held in a similar manner – a beginner Evil Geniuses Better “controlled” detachments, played more aggressively and almost always a step ahead of the opponent. For two American cards won by American, Entombed Valley) Lowly answered OHANA with a victory. Having lost 1: 3, Anton, unfortunately, turned from the applicant for the championship in an ordinary spectator.
► Record of games 1/8 finals by ROX player comments.KIS Sergey Rodionov (Pomi)
After loss Lowly All our attention switched to Titan’a. IN ZVP -match against Chilean Felippe Tsuniga ( Killer ) the Russian looked like a clear favorite. The first map of the Russian-Chilian confrontation was Cloud Kingdom. The first fifteen minutes passed relatively calmly, it is a pity that Oleg, having 200 units of the limit, did not dare to push the opponent until he had the owners of the pack.
It was this detachment that became for Chilean a lifesaver-Killer, locked at his four bases, gradually created a myriad of owners and won in a decisive battle for the twenty-sixth minute. Neither the colossus, nor aircraft carriers, nor a maternal ship helped in that battle on the center of the Titan’s card.
► Bill Ship of the Protoss-the last and most significant argument of representatives of the highest race.
It is a shame that the Russian, due to excessive accuracy and indecision, gave the almost won map of Chilitsu, who, having rejoiced, won the two subsequent matches for Daybreak and Entombed Valley.
The second game lasted about twenty minutes and ended with a successful attack by the owners of the pack, grabings and infectors on the third location of the protoss. During the third Titan , Despite the excellent power fields, he lost another decisive battle and did not manage to restore the equality of forces.
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Frankly, almost no one expected from Chilean, who never had enough stars from the sky, such a crushing defeat. The departure of our last representative to WCS World Championship 2012 markedly affected the interest of Russian -speaking spectators.
Brother at brother
Among other pairs 1/8, we note the victory of the Korean Parting over Scarlett (3: 0 on Antigua Shipyard, Daybreak, Ohana) and the Spanish confrontation of the two brothers Lucifron and Vortix. The defeat of the latter upset all fans of terrane, because Lucifron was the last representative of this race at the championship.
The subsequent stages of the championship became more and more "Asian". Three South Korean (Parting, Creator, Rain ) and strong Taiwan Sen , And all representatives of the West flew by like plywood over Shanghai.
► Record of the quarter -final and semi -final Gameswcs World Championship 2012
The last “non -oreist” participant, despite all efforts, in the first semifinals of the dry Lisak Vona lost ( Parting ). One of the best representatives of the team Startale Very confidently won on Daybreak, Ogana and Cloud Kingdom and became the first finalist of the championship from Blizzard.
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Following him, the other Korean Hyunwa Yang also protected the path to the final ( Creator ). The sixteen-year-old star of the Prime team in five very tense matches beat the Veteran of the Starcraft scenes of South Korea Yunchong Yuna ( Rain ).
Korea is ahead of the planet of the whole
Korean PVP it turned out not very interesting. We witnessed six very strange games, where the one who managed to get together won and made fewer tactical mistakes. This player was a little more experienced Parting , winning Entombed Valley, Antigua Shipyard, Cloud Kingdom and Tal’Darim Altar (4: 2).
In most final matches, young protoss Creator He had a huge economic and military advantage, but each time he managed to lose him. The third game on the Antigua Shipyard map is especially indicative in this regard. Having several colosses more, Creator unsuccessfully chose a position for a decisive battle, lost the battle and with it and the map.
► Record of all final games Creator and Parting with the comments of the player ROX.KIS Sergey Rodionov (Pomi)
Commenting the finale, the player Rox.KIS Sergey Rodionov ( Pomi ) said that none of the players were impressive, but the championship is more worthy of Parting, because, as he put it, “there will be trouble” if Creator wins, which makes a lot of simple mistakes. Well, a young and promising player Prime , Holding in my head the championship title, apparently, simply “burned out” in the final ..
► Happy Korean champion can hardly hold a cardboard check in their hands, and also stick a ten -kilogram cup.
On Ohana, the last map of the Grand Final, Creator rushed headlong into the attack with stalkers, but Parting fought back with the help of workers and became the absolute world champion in Starcraft II According to the version WCS World Championship 2012. In addition to worldwide recognition, the victory brought Lisak the heavy champion Cup and one hundred thousand dollars of prize. Sincerely congratulations on a well -deserved victory!
The final location of the players on the WCS World Championship 2012:
1st place: Startale.Parting (South Korea) – $ 100,000
2nd place: Prime.Creator (South Korea) – $ 40,000
3rd place: SK Telecom T1.Rain (South Korea) – $ 16,000
4th place: Gama Bears.Sen (Taiwan) – $ 8,000
5–8th place: Team Evil Geniuses.Suppy (USA) – $ 5,500
5–8th place: Team Liquid.Hero (South Korea) – $ 5,500
5–8th place: Dignitas.Killer (Chile) – $ 5,500
5–8th place: Karont3.Vortix (Spain) – 5500 dollars
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