Friday, August 15, 2008
{1:27 PM}
Havent did a proper write-up on the games itself during WCG, so here it is :).

Top 15 qualified : Oxygen, JayggX, Riskin, Girlyluck, Summoner, Gowad, Ashkane, Nickt, Revenant, Pinkly, vLae, Shana, Tagan, Timber and one more i not too sure

Top 16 matches : Gosubay vs Riskin (Bay)
Oxygen vs Pinkly (Oxy)
Ashkane vs Timber (Ashkane)
JayggX vs vLae (JayggX)
Revenant vs Nickt (Nickt)
Tagan vs dunno (Tagan)
Girlyluck vs Summoner (Girlyluck)
Gowad vs Shana (Shana)

Quarter Finals : Gosubay vs Girlyluck (Bay)
Oxygen vs Shana (Oxy)
Ashkane vs Nickt (Ashkane)
Tagan vs JayggX (Tagan)

Semi Finals : Gosubay vs Oxygen (Oxy)
Ashkane vs Tagan (Tagan)

Finals : Oxygen vs Tagan (Oxy)


Starting off from the round of 16, i was kinda confident going into the match, but against pinkly, i remember always winning 2-1 vs him. or not winning at all. The 1st match, TM he gave me a very hard early game, with his dk and fiends constantly harassing me, giving me no chance to creep. but in the end, i kinda pulled through with Farseer, Tauren Chieftian and my wyverns. second game was TR, where i got towered by him, and i stupidly got TC as my 2nd hero. if i got SH, i was confident i could still win -_-. but oh well. watever. 3rd game was GW, and it was sort of a side spawn, and i won the game from killing his dk and like 4 fiends at t2, he held for destroyers, but with lv3 bm giving me MH, he couldnt do much to my burrows. kinda nervy finish for me, heart rate really reaching very high levels.

Quarter-finals was against shana, both games on Terenas Stand. 1st game i went FS SH with grunt raider sw. i won the game from killing his shop repeatedly, with no breakers vs grunts raider sw and link, it was pretty much decided there. 2nd game, after scouting i was going a fast tech again, he decided to t1 tower me, but it was not very successful as my burrows were placed on the exterior of my base. following which i went to his base caught his low hp lv3 am, and won the game there.

Semi-finals was against Gosubay! Last year defending WCG champion. although i beat him twice in GXL, i knew that this dude can rape my ass easily. the 1st game was EI, where i went BM NAGA, and pretty much was a rather static game, more of a creeping game by both sides, when he attacked my base, i managed to clear a siginificant portion of his talons. i tried to counter, and got my arse raped hard because i was aiming his DH, which couldnt die. it was pretty much over there, and i lost game 1. 2nd game was EI again, he pretty much went the same strat, with me going the same, except i went 2 wyverns to harass his wisp and his first few talons. it was highly successive to the extent i went straight into his base, killed many wisps, and aggroed him till the game was over. 3rd game, i was expecting him to take TR, but he took TS. i was thinking that he would be expecting me to go a blademaster fast expo, so i decided to try out my other strat, the FS NAGA T2 tower. it was kinda successful, but took a decent measure of luck when i managed to down his lv2 dh, which was harassing my lv3 creeping, allowing my fs to reach lv3. gathering my 4 peons, and my naga, i knew it was pretty much over, he couldnt do much with my 4 grunts lv3 fs and naga.

Finals was bo1 because of no more time, it was HU vs ORC. TR was the map, and through low harassing early game, i got my lv3 AM pretty quick, and everything else fell into place. my lv3 mk.. 2 surorunds on both heroes.. and a win. =)