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Dota 2 Player World Ranking

Fear, ppd and UniVeRsE From Evil Geniuses Dominate The Dota 2 Player World Ranking In March

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This is domincance: Clinton ‚Fear‘ Loomis, Peter ‚ppd‘ Dager and Saahil ‚UNiVeRsE‘ Arora lead the Dota 2 Player World Ranking in March. The three Americans play together for Evil Geniuses and recently won the Dota 2 Asia Championships. Their fourth member enters the top 10 for the first time in his career and EGs newest addition is the newcomer of the month. Weiterlesen →

World Championship Series (WCS) 2015 Season 1

Here Is All You Need To Know About The WCS Premier League Season 1

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The World Championship Series Season 1 is different from all its predecessors: For the first time, Europeans, Americans and Asian except Koreans will play in one league for a ticket at the Global Finals in November. The WCS is already down to the best 32 players from all around the world – including four Koreans who live abroad. Much is to be said about these guys but i thought it is best to show them all in one giant infographic. So here is all you need to know about this season! Weiterlesen →

Seven young players to break through in 2015

Here Are Seven Young Players To Break Through In 2015

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2015 offers the chance for a lot of young players to break through, since the new WCS system allows for more european and american players to prove themselves on the highest level. Here are the seven players most likely to benefit from that. Weiterlesen →

All participants of WCS America

These are all participants of WCS America ever

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Two Americans in WCS America Round of 8 today: That is a record! Never before did the playoffs see so many Americans. The scene is heavily dominated by Korean players and especially by one of them. Weiterlesen →

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The most awesome beard and the best female player battle in Americas final day of Challenger League tonight

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Yesterday we saw a 14-year-old entering WCS America Premier League so why not have some oddity tonight too? Challenger League is packed with the best female player in the world, Sasha ‚Scarlett‘ Hostyn, the best random player Jung Woo ‚Balloon‘ Joon, the man with the most awesome beard Ethan ‚iaguz‘ Zugai and the up to now total noname John ‚Believe‘ Lagousakos. Here are some stats and trivia about WCS America Challenger League Day 3.

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After his first season in Premier League [qxc] finds himself back in the WCS. And with [iaguz] he got an opponent that is beatable, though qxc lost when both met in the MLG Anaheim qualifier in May. Since then qxc won 7 out of 9 matches of TvT only losing to [jjakji] and [dayshi] while iaguz is out of training. His last and only TvT recently was against [xenocider] at MLG Anaheim in June – and he lost. But you can guess the Australian is well prepared for his first WCS Challenger league game ever. After all he might become the first Australian in Premier League since [moonglade] one year ago.

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Though his World Rank might not be the highest, [illusion] is up for his third consecutive season in WCS America Premier League. As a player defending his slot he got a considerably weaker opponent in [gemini]. The chinese Protoss qualified for his first tournament outside of China. As both players have never met before and TvP is their weakest matchup respectively, it is hard to tell who will have the upper hand here. Your guess?

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[hero2] was the champion of 2013 WCS America Season 1 but after that his efforts got lower and lower. He hit rock bottom last season when [huk] and [revival] eliminated him in the Ro32. After that he came back with a second place at Dreamhack Summer and is now ready to rock WCS again. His opponent [ian] should be no obstacle on HerO’s way since the Taiwanese isn’t even a big star in his home country. Last season he lost 0:3 to [check].

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Hard to imagine how this match could be any more unbalanced. [believe] is a player who has no record of individual tournaments yet whereas [jim] is one of the best chinese players and was part of the Premier League last season. Nevertheless Believe survived the american qualifier and beat people who were supposedly stronger than him, so why shouldn’t he surprise here again?

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There aren’t a lot of players out there whose race is „Random“ but [balloon] surely is the best of them. He was picked up by StarTale after a good run in the WCS Korea Challenger League in 2013. He retired in November and came back in April, moving to the United States for university and joining swiss bases myInsanity – as an 18-year-old by the way. He played HomeStory Cup and Dreamhack Summer on a european tour in June and was able to surprise in both tournaments. So [puck] should be warned – his streak of four consecutive seasons in Premier League might end today.

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Thanks to Blizzard the best match of this Premier League is saved for last. [sen] and [scarlett] both belong to the best 30 players of the World Ranking. Though it’s somehow a shame one of them has to leave WCS tonight, their match might be the highlight of the Challenger League. A long time ago, in 2012, both met in a GSL-Tournament and Scarlett won 3:0. Let’s see if she can repeat this success. It’s almost been a year since she was third in WCS America and fifth in the following Season Finals – and only three months since she lost 0:3 in Challenger League to [hendralisk].

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A 14-year-old, a legend and a 27:3 record: Here’s what you need to know about WCS America Challenger League Day 2

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One of the youngest players ever enters the WCS tonight: Samson ‚Arium‘ Nazaryan is only 14 years old, but will still compete with the best – he is by the way the only american in a day of Challenger League that will be dominated by Koreans with Lee ‚Jaedong‘ Jae Dong at the top. Stats and trivia of Challenger League Day 2.

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How could you compare a chinese player, though a good one, to a player who has the experience of 27 GSL-events? Barely. But tonight this comparison is made between [macsed] and [ryung]. And even though the Korean is the much more experienced player and has not even lost a map to his chinese opponent yet, MacSed might surprise. Ryung has lost two matches against [sjaak] lately, another Protoss whom you would consider to be far weaker.

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Being only 14 years old, [arium] is one of the youngest players in WCS ever. Needless to say that this is his first season too and that he never played [courage] in any official tournament – which makes this game kinda unpredictable. Courage however is in his second season, he was close to Premier League Ro32 last season. He is kinda struggling in ZvP lately, his record is 9:6 for the past month. Arium however defeated two Zerg players in the qualifier already.

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It’s time for revenge! [masa] and [slam] were opponents in the last season of Challenger League as well and the Canadian won flawlessly. For both it was their first WCS-attendance. So now, with a little more time passed, who will advance into Premier League? Recently both haven’t played much TvZ in tournaments so it is hard to say if the tides have turned.

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In July 2012, [seed] won the GSL Code S – so you know what he is capable of. Unfortunately he failed to show it since then. For example: Tonight is his first WCS match ever. But since joining Team Dignitas in June he went to MLG Anaheim and finished as 9th – his best performance in a year. So maybe he is able to defeat [top] whose PvP is by far his weakest matchup, while Seed is on a 8:0 streak since April.

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It’s rare to see a Top10 player like [jaedong] in Challenger League, but the Korean legend has managed to fail twice in the WCS Premier League in a row this year. First he lost to [bomber] and [has] then to [heart] and [jim]. Still he is the huge favourite over [kingkong] who has not won a single map in his two appearances in WCS Challenger League. In the past two seasons he lost 0:3 to [nestea] and [major]. The only statistic that might make this match interesting is the records in ZvZ: Jaedong is 13:2 since April, while KingKong is 27:3 in the same time period.

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Phog, Shana, Bails and Guitarcheese: New faces shape the first day of Americas Challenger League

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The WCS Challenger League is the time to shine for a lot of new players: On the first day of the third season this year we will see Drew ‚Phog‘ Roberts (16 years), Bailey ‚Bails‘ Thomas (18), Alex ‚Guitarcheese‘ Tarkoff (19) and chinese rookie Shana debuting. And some of them might be able to advance even further. Stats and trivia of Challenger League Day 1.

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Though [huk] is the huge favourite in this game when it comes to former WCS-experience and prestige, [phog] may suprise: The American won the past three games against Huk. Both met in the Midwest Pro Am 1 Qualifier in April and twice in Copa America in June. Phog won 2:1 in each of these games. It would be game-changer in WCS America: Huk played in each season of Premier League so far while Phog plays his first WCS season ever.

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[crank] has played in every season of WCS America to date and he has always been part of the Premier League. So you wouldn’t guess that just [shana] could break this series. The Chinese enters his first WCS-season ever, so far he has only played in a few asian tournaments. The chinese qualifier wasn’t that hard either: With the top players [toodming], [jim], [top1] and [macsed] already qualified, Shana didn’t have to beat any supposedly stronger players.

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We got an balanced match here by all numbers imagineable: Both are almost tied in matches, they are very near in terms of World Rank, they don’t even distinguish themselves that much experience-wise. While [hendralisk] played his first WCS last season and made it to the Premier League in his first attempt, it’s the first WCS for [vibe] this year. In 2013 he was consistently in Premier League Ro32 though. Least, hendralisk and Vibe both play Zerg. So maybe it will come down to the mental state of both opponents tonight: Lately Vibe is 4:1 in ZvZ while hendralisk is 2:3.

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It’s the second attempt of [guitarcheese] to make it into WCS Premier League. And while you may easily underestimate him, let it be said that he almost beat [sen] last season but lost 2:3 in the end. Nevertheless, [suppy] is the clear favourite of this match: He played in each Premier League season since the beginning of WCS with one exception and he is clearly ahead in terms of tournament success and experience. But both players never met in official matches before so we might be surprised.

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Two seasons ago [bails] was stopped in Challenger League by [huk] easily but this time might be different. The young Protoss was the best player of the all-american Deimos Team League in April, made his first trip to MLG this summer and is currently on a 7:0-streak against Terran. So in a duel of two newcomers, Bails might not be the underdog. However, [neeb] goes into the match with the experience of three Premier League attendances and the training of the Fnatic.Academy.

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TaeJa and Major may benefit from their opponents Terran-weakness tonight

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Yoon ‚TaeJa‘ Young Suh is not only the huge favourite of tonights WCS America Ro16 group, the weakness of his opponents Yoon ‚Arthur‘ Myung Hyuk and Kim ‚viOLet‘ Dong Hwan also plays in his favor. Can terran player Juan Carlos ‚MajOr‘ Tena also benefit from this? Stats and trivia of group D.

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Results

[violet] 0:0 [major]
[taeja] 0:0 [arthur]
[-] 0:0 [-]
[-] 0:0 [-]
[-] 0:0 [-]

Final Standings

  • [taeja]
  • [major]
  • [arthur]
  • [violet]

    • WCS is played in Double Elimination mode: A player who wins two matches advances, a player who loses twice is out

Trivia

  • [major] just beat [violet] ten days ago at MLG Anaheim but overall viOLet won 4 out of 6 matches
  • [taeja] and [arthur] met in last seasons Ro16 as well where Taeja won 2:0. He met with Major in both of the last two Ro32 in WCS America. Each time Taeja and Major won one match each.
  • The young Korean won all of his 4 matches against viOLet
  • Taeja might face every other race in this group – not a problem since he is 10:0 in TvP and 5:0 in TvZ this month
  • Major however only has a positive record in TvP
  • Arthur is on a 10:3 record in PvZ but struggles in PvT lately
  • Unfortunately, viOLet also struggles versus Terran though he is good in ZvP lately
  • In his three appearances in WCS America, Taeja only once dropped out in the Ro16
  • Major already plays his best WCS-season ever. He never made it past the Ro32 so far
  • Arthur was fifth last season but he had a hard time in the Ro16
  • viOLet dropped out in the Ro16 twice last year and never made it further
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Polt and Bomber have to get rid of Toodming and Check in order to reach to quarter-finals again

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Last season both Choi ‚Polt‘ Seong Hun and Choi ‚Bomber‘ Ji Sung were in the playoffs of WCS America – to achieve the same again they have to beat Huang ‚TooDming‘ Hui Ming and Kim ‚Check‘ Min Gyu in the Round of 16 tonight. This would be easier if both korean Terrans were in better shape in TvZ than they are lately. Stats and trivia of group C.

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Results

[bomber] 0:2 [toodming]
[polt] 2:0 [check]
[bomber] 2:0 [check]
[toodming] 1:2 [polt]
[bomber] 2:0 [toodming]

Final Standings

  1. [polt]
  2. [bomber]
  3. [toodming]
  4. [check]

WCS is played in Double Elimination mode: A player who wins two matches advances, a player who loses twice is out

Trivia

  • [bomber] and [toodming] have never met before, so do [polt] and [check]
  • Polt and Bomber were in the same group of WCS America Ro16 last season as well – Polt won 2:0
  • Bomber and Check met in the qualifier of WCS America last season, where Bomber won 2:1
  • Check beat Toodming in Match in their only match
  • Polt is 16:1 in TvT since March, but weaker in TvZ
  • Toodming won 9 matches in ZvZ in a row from March to June – the last match that he lost before this series was versus Check, who is on a 8:2 record in ZvZ since then
  • Polt won WCS America twice last year and was fifth at the 2013 Global Finals
  • Bomber was third at the 2013 Global Finals and fifth last season
  • Toodming dropped out in the Round of 16 last season
  • Check is a rookie in WCS America Premier League