That's right we are sponsoring another Pro series for your entertainment right here on StarCraft-Source. The tournament will be having 11 of the top gamers from NA playing against some the top gamers from EU. Each match will be a best of five and the team with the most wins takes home the prize!




The tournament will be a four day event over two weekends broadcasted live on our TV page by Schicky, Scan, and some special guest casters. Organizing the event is Toss.ita for the European team and Catz for the American team. We do have a full cast of players already signed up and ready to go, but we are not releasing the entire list quite yet, but we will have something to wet your appetite below.

Dates:

December 4th and 5th
December 11th and 12th



Prizes:

$550 to the winning team
More to be announced later

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Added on November 18, 2010, 9:46 pm550usd only??? sad case la for 11 top players....only 50usd each XD and its a best of 5 lolol... 10usd each game?

but already very very big names...if TLO and Jinro are playing for EU too, EU would probably crush america..of course NA have the mighty Idra...

nt sure nazgul, kiwikaki and nony are from where....but select is korean so too bad. XD

This post has been edited by quest_5692: Dec 1 2010, 09:00 PM

well its a good start and good appearance despite the small prize pool...
i think EU gonna pwn >.<

lol at prize pool

Honestly if you look at TTone final games vs. Jinro, he is terribad. He doesn't even have any idea on how to counter Polt timing attack (I wonder if he even know what is Polt timing attack after he saw Jinro's factory flew over him in Game 1 and 3).

actually in the steppes of war game he did really well with his timing push...
and polt timing attack is not ez to stop...
u need all 3 tech path with super micro and pray ur obs dun get sniped...
even if u scouted its nt ez to prepare for it...

so far i only saw 2 ppl hold it off at the pro lvl...
whitera and another guy in gsl...
even tester lost to it

so TTone is definitely good...
his PvZ is so classy...
and socke have of the most entertaining protoss and unique style to me...

The GSL guy is SanZenith. He held off the timing attack by proactively seek out Hyperdub's Raven and kill it using Phoenixes. But TTone? He continued to make Colo and not even thinking of making a Stargate even though he knew it's coming (I doubt whether he know Polt timing attack though, he seemed pretty clueless from his subsequent action).

Maybe this has just shown the level difference between Korean and the rest of the world.

This post has been edited by westley0214: Nov 18 2010, 10:44 PM

colossus is no doubt good as u can melt down the marines...
the other solution was whitera's robo+gate+cannons...

why no loves for qxc? he is half my sifu as i downloaded his f***ton of replays and learn 99...he might not be top terran like ITR and foxer but he gives replay so i must love love

i like his drops n reaper...
but i generally support toss players as they are lackign wins T.T

love his plays man...but long way to go.

toss, i think its player quality not good? cuz actually toss has very high micro skill cap and each unit are very strong. just like how pain user describe idra in an interview, its not zerg strong, its idra imba. he will still crush ppl no matter he uses terran or toss...

p/s im on a very very bad losing streak today...lose alot to 4 gate all in...hate those ppl who 4 gate all in every match till diamond. puik!!! its easy to pull off hard to fend off...having a hard time defending it using terran, normally forces me to go 3 rax MM + turtle in base...cant slack off a tiny bit to tech up or trying to exxpo....need to keep pumping unit to match him =(

maybe u guys have some protips for me?

Bunkers + Banshees?

Are you a T or what? I just constantly pump out my marines and have bunker ready.

qxc is studying as well atm so he cant play much...
his terran is one of the better creative ones (HSM vs idra, stalker sniping via drops, reaper pinning)...
i enjoy seeing him play for sure...

2 bunkers...
that's all u need...
no matter how gosu is his FF to cut u from repairing, the 2 bunker would decimate his army enuff for his 4gate to fail...
4 gate is one of the worst PvT build ever "
u can jz tech with 2 bunker and still roll hit (cloak banshee, tanks etc)...
the key is always the 2 bunkers which u can salvage later...

toss players are good: -
- tester (he jz beat nada earlier today)
- nexgenius (blizzcon champ, just beat nestea earlier today)
- inca
- socke
- huk (mlg high places)
- nony (pwned idra)
- nazgul (blunked idra)
- kiwikaki (high placement in tournaments, beat idra etc)
- sangho (A team in BW)
all of them have really high apm (tester's FF is so orgasmic in his game1 vs nada)

do note that some of these toss are BW legends as well...
toss is no doubt a good race, but toss is forced to the same old get robo for observer path or banshee roflstomped u (common in KR)...
anything else u go and ppl say u are all-in (read TL)...
blink is all-in, VR is all-in anything with no robo for obs is all-in...
in the end ur play is really predictable and u need super FF just to stay alive, single small mistake and u are dead which make toss really inconsistent...

as idra said it, toss dun have a high skill cap as you cant do very much with it...
easy to pick up (4gate lol) but hard at the high lvl (forcing robo)...
that's y they have a high winning rate in general but fail at the higher lvl tournaments (those with lots of pros of other races)

look at gsl3 toss count T.T

ps:
dun listen to painuser...
while i like his mech style late game in TvP he is someone who said that he wanna trade banshee for DTs? and then admit that he is wrong (sotg)
dun get why he wanna trade a melee ground unit with a flying 7 range unit "

This post has been edited by evofantasy: Nov 19 2010, 12:05 AM

another reason i like peinuser's play is his str8 forward style of play terran and of course stratbunker teaching me how to play. obvious reason as qxc, they teach me how to play, of course much love.

u missed white ra.

kiwikaki was good but his recent plays are meh...nony and nazgul both couldnt commit 100% oso of course sangho is aweshume

so true about the easy to pick up (4 gate) hard in high level.

watching painuser's mass banshee + obs sniping had me worried so much lol...
ya how could i missed out grandpa toss!!!

owh u mean his recent video on youtube? thor + clock banshee. scan orbs and banshee will clean up others. so broken man...

his game vs nony in MLG dallas...
i dun follow games on youtube...
mostly i follow tournaments (MLG, IEM, GSL, any tournament that day9 is casting etc)

will check it out, downloaded mlg dallas replay pack from TL few days ago but i only watched a couple highly rated one...could u recommend me some good one to pick off also?

since u are terran, jinro's game, select vs idra, painuser vs nony...
this is wut i feel the really awesome games are...
oh ya qxc vs huk...
mega drops!!!

Also watch Sockeh v FnaticSen. The games are PvZ and they are kinda fun to watch.

This post has been edited by westley0214: Nov 19 2010, 02:06 AM

updated player pool. + 5 terran 1 protoss.


This post has been edited by quest_5692: Dec 1 2010, 09:03 PM

player pool had been finalized!!! surprisingly NA could field in alot of big names like Idra, Tyler, Select....while EU is so monstrous with ret, jinro, haypro, whitera, dimaga, demuslim and whitera..........sounds like a one sided slaughter?

awesome, saw that one team liquid today too haha, awesome jinro and dimaga <3

Europe's is so evil

day 1 result

white ra 3-2 machine
sjow 3-0 tt1
tarson 2-3 kiwikaki