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MLG Providence, The Tournament of Champions

MLG Providence is nearly upon us and the talent coming in to participate is going to be of the highest caliber at any MLG event to date. Earning positions from seeds through performing well at previous MLG events are: Protoss: HuK, NaNiwa, KiWiKaKi, and MC Terran: MMA, Bomber, SjoW, SeleCT, BoxeR, PuMa, and Rain Zerg: IdrA, SLush, Ret, DongRaeGu, HayprO

But none of these players have anything close to a free ride to the finals. As if this list of players wasn't intimidating enough, there is an even wider list of talent that is just as great coming up through the open bracket. This list includes, but is certainly not limited to: Protoss: HerO, Oz, and Puzzle Terran: Mvp, GanZi, MarineKing, and sC Zerg: LosirA, viOlet, NesTea, and Leenock

Tune in this weekend for the action.

#MLG Providence #MLG #Starcraft 2

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New GSL, New Ways to Shine

The GSL is back for a new season and this time, it's been changed up. Adopting a new way of shuffling players that will hopefully result in less static lineups in Code S and Code A, GOM hopes to make the GSL a true tournament of champions where only the best are able to stay alive. As players are eliminated in the Code S bracket now, they drop into Code A and immediately begin work in that bracket. Code A has been increased to 48 players at the start. We here at Members Only Crew anticipate much better games to come this season with the new format.

Already advancing to the round of 16 are MMA, MC, sC, NesTea, Mvp, aLive, GanZi, and Leenock.

Predicted to join them in the round of 16 are Bomber, DongRaeGu, NaDa, TaeJa, SuperNoVa, Virus, Clide, and July. 

#GSL #starcraft 2 #november #code s #Code A

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Not yet the Bonjwa!

GSL October is over and a new champion has been crowned. Long live the new king, SlayerS_MMA! In an intense GSL bracket that saw relative newcomer GanZi making the top four, Clide finally getting past the round of 16, and some finals quality matches between Nestea and MVP, things eventually boiled down to two important TvTs. Each TvT of the semifinals was an IM vs SlayerS match. GanZi attempted to dethrone favorite MVP from IM, but only managed to take one game before falling. From SlayerS, MMA was able to dispatch IM.Happy with relative ease. Meeting in the finals for the first time, both players had a lot to prove. MVP wanted to show the world that he was the dominant player in Starcraft 2 and a strong candidate to becoming the first Bonjwa. MMA wanted to make up for his disappointing second place finish in the Super Tournament earlier in the year. While MVP was heavily favored in the match, MMA's Anaheim play kicked in (I call it Anaheim play because he has a tendency to perform well in major tournaments located in that city) and MMA beat MVP 4-1 in some intense TvT games. In front of a crowd of over 20,000 people live and even more around the world, MMA was crowned the GSL October Code S chamption. Congratulations to Team SlayerS on their first GSL Code S win and congratulations to MMA for an impressive show of skill this month.

#GSL #october #code s #MMA #SlayerS

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I Have A Wide Stance

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Zoom...Enhance...Zoom...Enhance New Protoss Silhouette for HoTS released!

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MLG Orlando Is Coming!

Hi everyone, RunInSquares here. I know that being a foreign event, MLG is usually LastRedCoat's territory, but he is actually going to be out of the office this weekend in order to attend MLG Orlando! Pictured above are the signs he will be holding up while there. If you're going to be at the event, feel free to say hi to him. Additionally, you can tweet him @LastRedCoat. You can also tweet me throughout the event (or at any time, especially if you are in Seoul and want to say hi to me at a GSL event by tweeting @RunInSquares).

And without further ado, here are the [updated] predictions for MLG Orlando from Members Only Crew! The predictions below are only based on the pools as they currently stand and as we have seen, are likely to be inaccurate when a particularly skilled player makes it through the open bracket.

Pool A: 1st- Player from Open Bracket 2nd- EG.IdrA We're going to go out on a limb to predict an open bracket player taking this group which seems relatively easy. Their biggest competition will be IdrA who has recently been coming back into form. Will he have enough to top his group? We will see. 

Pool B: 1st- Startale.Bomber 2nd- EG.Puma  It doesn't matter which open bracket player makes it into this group, having Puma and Bomber in the group essentially locks it down and makes it easy to call. Bomber has to be the favorite to win this tournament, and while it is almost a certainty he will take his group, it is entirely possible that he will not claim the first place prize so easily. 

Pool C: 1st- FnaticRain 2nd- HongUnPrime.WE HongUn as well as his teammate MarineKing will both see large amounts of success in this tournament. The only player that has a chance against HongUn in his pool is Rain. 

Pool D: 1st- Col.MVP.DongRaeGu 2nd- oGsMC I have to agree with LastRedCoat's predictions last time. While July will be a tough battle for MC, I believe he can edge him out to take second in the group. After seeing MC's impressive showing in the group stage of IPL last weekend, I have confidence that he will beat HuK as well. 

Players to watch: MarineKingPrime.WE- The man wearing the patch of Reddit, MarineKing will almost certainly smash through the open bracket and we will get the pleasure of seeing several broadcasted matches from him. Stephano- After IPL, it became clear that Stephano is a foreigner force to be reckoned with. Look for him to place possibly as high as the top 10. And of course, I'm sure LastRedCoat would like me to mention DeMusliM's name here. We here at Members Only Crew (especially those of us with ties to the British Isles) will be pulling for him this weekend.

Have a good time watching MLG Orlando this coming weekend, everyone! 

#MLG #MLG Orlando #Starcraft 2 #LastRedCoat #RunInSquares

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Newest Code S Member: Startale.Curious

Congratulations to Startale.Curious on winning the GSL Code A tournament. Like SlayerS_GanZi of last season, Startale.Curious started this season of the GSL in the Code A preliminaries. In one season, Curious managed to go straight into Code S. He is a strong player and it will be interesting to see whether he can topple the strong core of Terrans still residing safely in Code S. While the finals of Code A were extremely disappointing, taking only an hour for the best of 7 including the break and postgame ceremony, it was still a hard fought battle for Curious who will have to work hard to maintain his Code S spot next season. As for FXOz who had an equally great run through Code A, he will have to try his luck in the up and down matches where he will face several non-Terran players who were dropped from Code S after the group stage.

#GSL #Code A #october #starcraft 2 #RunInSquares

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GSTL Season 1 Champions Crowned!

Congratulations to Team MVP on their win in the first full season of the GSTL. All throughout the season, there were hard fought matches, right up until the finals. In the end, both of the number one seeded teams lost out and the finals were left with Team Prime (who took down the undefeated favorites, Team SCV Life) to get to the finals while MVP took down the winners of the other division (with only one loss, Team NSHoSeo) to earn their place in the finals match.

The match started with Check taking a win over Vampire to bring the early lead to Team Prime. After that, MVP's Noblesse answered back with three wins over Check, Bumblebee, and (the hero of Prime vs TSL game who got 4 wins) Creator to put the favor squarely with Team MVP. Prime then put out BBoongBBoong to bring the team some wins and he did not disappoint, managing to take down Noblesse as well as MVP powerhouse Genius to tie up the series. MVP then put Keen in the drivers seat and let him play. With DongRaeGu waiting in the wings as the closer, it looked as though Team Prime was in a bad spot. Keen took down BBoongBBoong, putting Prime up against the wall, needing their next player to get 2 more wins before MVP could get one more. For their closing player, Team Prime wisely chose MarineKing. Keen managed to defeat him, thus securing victory for Team MVP.

Congrats to Team MVP on their excellent showing all season in the GSTL and thanks to GOMTV for hosting the games. We here at Members Only Crew can't wait for the next season to start up.

#starcraft 2 #GSTL #MVP #Season 1 #RunInSquares

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IPL 3 Predictions

The 3rd IGN Pro League Tournament is starting up today in Atlantic City.  The Tournament runs through Sunday and has a $100,000 Prize Pool.  8 Invited players and 8 qualified players will battle it out for final bracket seeding and 256 players will compete for an additional 16 spots in the final bracket.  Popular streamer and locked out NBA player Gordon Hayward will be making his professional Starcraft debut.  Enough chit chat... on the the picks!

Pool A: 1. BoxeR 2. HuK 3. aLive 4. Stephano

Boxer generally brings his 'A' game to foreign tournaments, look for him to battle it out with HuK for seeding.

Pool B: 1. Strelok 2. MC 3. Ryung 4. Ret

I predict a strong showing for the best Ukrainian player not named 'White-Ra,' Also, look for MC to use IPL as a springboard for recapturing his Code 'S' spot at this months MLG.  Yes, we fanboy here at Members Only.

Pool C: 1. HerO 2. SeleCT 3. Sleep 4. ThorZaIN

What can man do against so much Korean?  Expect some great matches out of this group.

Pool D: 1. MMA 2. White-Ra 3. IdrA 4. TheStC 

IdrA hopes to carry in some momentum from his recent IEM win, but will be hard pressed to do so against the likes of MMA and White-Ra.

Remember, pool play is only for seeding, so all these players will have a chance to advance in the championship bracket regardless of their performance in pool play.  Many high level players will also be fighting through the open bracket for a chance at the championship bracket.  Keep a look out for: KiWiKaki, TT1, DeMusliM, CatZ, PuMa and others.  

#Starcraft #Starcraft 2 #eSPORTS #IPL

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Hurry Artosis!

#Starcraft 2 #Comedy #Artosis #GomTV #GSL Live #Funny Lol

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GSL October aka Terran vs. Non-Terran

The group stage is over and the round of 16 for the GSL October Code S has been determined. After many heartbreaking Protoss losses, it is more apparent than ever that something needs to be done with balance. However, it seems the shock the Protoss race is looking for will likely not arrive until the release of Heart of the Swarm in early 2012. In the round of 16, we now find ourselves with 10 Terran pitted against 5 Zerg and 1 Protoss. Rest assured, the non-Terran players are ones that we can have confidence in to win some games, but at the same time, the odds are heavily stacked against them. There is one PvZ, so we have a guarantee that at least one non-Terran will make it into the round of 8. Tune in to find out who gets to move on this coming week.

Here are the round of 16 hopefuls, as well as our predictions: MVP(T) over Bomber(T) NesTea(Z) over Virus(T) GanZi(T) over Leenock (Z) [This one is a tossup] DongRaeGu(Z) over SuperNoVa(T) Clide(T) over Ryung(T) MMA(T) over asd(T) Happy(T) over LosirA(Z) Killer(P) over CoCa(Z)

#starcraft 2 #GSL #code s #october #Run #RunInSquares

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[Re]Introducing oGsFin (ForGG)

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Old Generations Team has recently signed a new player, oGsFin. For those of you that were fans of BroodWar however, you may know him better as KT Rolster's ForGG. Perhaps best known for his amazing run through the 2008 Arena MSL in which he beat then up-and-coming superstar Flash in a 3-1 victory, then going on to defeat the dominant player Jaedong 3-0 in the finals. From there, he achieved only moderate success before retiring in December of 2010. He then began to play Starcraft 2 in somewhat secrecy before announcing his switch recently. ForGG (now oGsFin) joins a strong team of former BroodWar players. The switch from BroodWar has been surprisingly good for several players including IM.MVP, IMNesTea, oGsNaDa, TSL.Clide, and StarTale.July.

We here at Members Only Crew have high hopes for oGsFin and look to see him entering Code A sometime soon.

#starcraft 2 #Starcraft #Broodwar #oGs

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Dream come true? Could they be bringing back the Zerg Scourge unit?

#Starcraft 2 #SC2 #Zerg #Scourge #Blizzard News #Patch Notes #Colossi

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Polt Joins Team SCV Life

                                 Polt (formerly PoltPrime.We and OptimusPrime) has joined Team SCV Life. This news comes just a week after Polt announced he was parting ways with Team Prime and changing his name back to Polt from Optimus. Team SCV Life recently lost such superstar players as TricKsteR and FruitDealer (both to Startale), Rain (to Fnatic), and PuMa (to EG). Retaining such strong players as Clide, Killer, Revival, JYP, and aLive, Team SCV Life still managed to rock the GSTL this season going an impressive 5-0 in their regular season matches. The acquisition of Polt going into their playoff games next week only makes Team SCV Life a more formidable opponent for team Prime. Tune in next week to see what will surely be a great match.

#starcraft 2 #GSTL #TSL #Polt

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Player Spotlight: Samsung KHAN's JangBi

                 Jangbi showed this week that he is a force to be reckoned with in the Starcraft: BroodWar scene. After arriving on the scene in 2007, Jangbi began to achieve relatively high amounts of success, though never really managing to secure a major title. He spent most of his early career working in the shadow of fellow KHAN Protoss player, Stork. He experienced some second place finishes and began to enter a slump in 2009 and 2010. More recently in 2011, Jangbi's hard work began to show up in his playing as he began to bring stronger performances to the team leagues and now the OSL.

He actually was defeated by n.Die_soO in the preliminaries of the tournament, but was granted access in a wildcard tournament held after the player Hogil's retirement. He advanced to the group stage by defeating s2 and Shuttle. He was nearly eliminated from the group stage, but hung on with wins over Calm and Baby. He then was pitted against Flash in the quarterfinals. For many players, especially one of Jangbi's (recent) caliber, this was all but a death sentence. Jangbi predictably lost the first game to Flash. But a week later, in the second day of the quarterfinals, something amazing happened. Jangbi beat Flash. And he didn't just beat Flash, he completely rolled him. Being there was an amazing experience. The crowd was first shocked, then exploded in applause for their new hero, Jangbi. He proceeded to enter the semifinals against n.Die_soO. Again, the odds were against Jangbi for not only had soO beaten him recently, but all of the maps were slightly favored for Zerg players. Jangbi then proceeded to do what nobody expected and beat soO down in a decisive 3-0 victory.

His final test came in the finals, facing the defending OSL champion, Fantasy of SKT. It took all five games (and more amazing games, I have not seen in a long time), but Jangbi pulled out his first major victory after a very intense fifth game. Perhaps the legend of the Fall is real, but we here at Members Only Crew have to acknowledge Jangbi's incredible run through the OSL and wish him future success.

#Starcraft #Broodwar #Jangbi #Player Spotlight #RunInSquares

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PLAY OF THE DAY: Who says Banelings aren't effective against Thors?  NesTea secures top spot in his GSL group with a great play over NaDa.  

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PLAY OF THE DAY: A new kind of Retard Magnet. 

#Game Lure #Strategy #Starcraft 2 #SC2 #4v4 Replay