Schlagwort-Archiv: Rain

IEM World Championship 2015 Preview

Here’s The Big Preview For The Intel Extreme Masters World Championship

The Intel Extreme Masters World Championship starts today in Katowice, Poland. 117,707 dollar are to be won and instead of only rewarding the winner, this year each contestant has won at least a little piece of the cake. The „prize-cake“ will go to South Korea solely as usual, no foreigner made it to the finals of the ninth season of IEM. But that doesn’t hurt the competition – we even got four complete rookies in Katowice. Weiterlesen

All participants of GSL Code S Season 1 2015

These are all players of GSL Season 1 as trading cards

The champion is back: Lee ‚MarineKing‘ Jung Hoon plays his 14th season of Code S this month – more than any other player ever did in Starcraft 2 and almost two years after his last. Whom will he face? Here are all participants of this years first GSL Code S as trading cards Weiterlesen

Conn.Si Christmas League - Playoffs

Lilbow fights an armada of Koreans at the Conn.Si Christmas League

Lilbow is the one foreigner to fight them all at the Conn.Si Christmas League – twelve players left in the tournament he is up against Life, SOlar, jjakji, Rain, MarineKing and more. Is there any hope? Weiterlesen

The four best players in the world didn’t survive the Starleague Qualifiers

The Starleague qualifiers yesterday were without a doubt the hardest qualifier of the year. 137 players attended the tournament in Seoul yesterday, 108 had to go home afterwards. Amongst these were the four best players in the world right now and some more famous… Weiterlesen

Intel Extreme Masters San Jose Quarter-Finals

IEM San Jose: 9 facts you should know about the last 8 players

It’s down to eight at Intel Extreme Masters San Jose: Among them the second best foreigner of all time, the leader of the current World Ranking, the only player who won IEM twice and many more – here are nine facts you should know about these eight players. Weiterlesen

GSL Code S Contestants

These 32 players aim for the $66.000 jackpot in GSL Code S

Seven rookies and five former champions: We now know the 32 players that will determine the new champion of this GSL Code S and follow in the big footsteps of Royal Roader Joo ‚Zest‘ Sung Wook and almost Royal Roader Kim ‚Classic‘ Doh Woo. Here they are as trading cards.

To sum some facts up:

  • Four players out of the worlds best 10 is quite usual. It was the same number in Season 1 and 2 this year
  • [maru] is the youngest contestant once again just turning 17 years today – the oldest is [stork] who is 25 years old
  • There are seven rookies this season: [hurricane1], [avenge], [effort], [cure], [terminator], [hush] and [trust]
  • Five former champions compete this season: [dear], [soulkey], [classic (kdw)], [zest] and [dongraegu]. Also the defending WCS global champion [sos] and last years OSL-winner [maru]
  • [soo] was three times runner-up in GSL yet. Time to take the last step
  • [dongraegu] is the most experienced player with 12 seasons so far followed by [parting] (10), [maru] (7), [soulkey] and [rain (by.sun)] (both 6)
  • Each contestant has already won $1.427. but $66.612 await the champion

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[group_4_soulkey_soo_classic (kdw)_rain (by.sun)]
[group_4_zest_parting_trap_flash]
[group_4_bbyong_true1_solar_dongraegu]
[group_4_stats_hurricane1_rogue_paralyze]
[group_4_reality_avenge_stork_dark2]
[group_4_shine_effort_ty_myungsik]
[group_4_cure_terminator_hush_trust]

Will another rookie rocket high into the quarter-finals? – GSL Round of 16 Preview IV

Today we saw Zest moving through the round of 16 leaving former champions behind. Tomorrow might be the day of his dear rookie companion Classic. He faces an All-Protoss-group consisting of two of his teammates – PartinG and Rain – as well as StarTales Squirtle. If you are eas excited as i am, check this preview. Can Classic make it?

GSL Ro16 Group C Preview

Links to the players

  • [parting]
  • [rain (by.sun)]
  • [squirtle]
  • [classic (chintoss)]