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ASUS ROG SCII Invitational

by Baggiez • 4 Nov 2011, 22:02 • News
image: 2mwumv4image: 2zppfs1The ASUS Republic of Gamers is an eight-player invitational image: 4302834 StarCraft II tournament held in Finland Helsinki, Finland over the weekend of Saturday 4th-Sunday 6th November. The event will be cast in English by Apollo & TotalBiscuit. This summer has been amazing for StarCraft fans around the world as for the first time our 'foreign' players have been competing on a level playing field with the Korean players who were previously seen as in a league of their own. Since the inception of the MLG/GSL Exchange Program, we've seen cross continental play on a regular basis at every MLG, IEM and GSL event. It is natural for a spectator audience to be interested in the best level of competition and had it not been for the recent major tournament victories by Canada HuK at MLG Orlando, United States of America IdrA at IEM Guangzhou and France Stephano at IPL 3, then we might consider that tournaments that excluded Korean entrants would be seen as second tier. Though this is no longer the case - ASUS ROG is not relying on Korean entrants to succeed. The 'foreign' players can be regarded alongside their Eastern players as equals and because of that we can fully appreciate the level of competition seen at such tournaments.

The 8 players invited were:

Canada image: Picon_small HuK
Finland image: Picon_small elfi
Ukraine image: Zicon_small DIMAGA
United States of America image: Ticon_small SeleCT
United States of America image: Zicon_small IdrA
Sweden image: Ticon_small SjoW
Ukraine image: Picon_small White-Ra
Netherlands image: Zicon_small Ret


The first days play was earlier today and the results were as follows:

Canada image: Picon_small HuK 1-3 Finland image: Picon_small elfi
Ukraine image: Zicon_small DIMAGA 2-3 United States of America image: Ticon_small SeleCT
United States of America image: Zicon_small IdrA 3-1 Sweden image: Ticon_small SjoW
Ukraine image: Picon_small White-Ra 3-2 Netherlands image: Zicon_small Ret


Tomorrow will see the semi finals and the schedule states that the action gets underway from 08:00 CET. In the semi's we will see:

Finland image: Picon_small elfi vs. United States of America image: Ticon_small SeleCT
United States of America image: Zicon_small IdrA vs. Ukraine image: Picon_small White-Ra


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Provok 4 Nov 2011, 22:13
Nice read. Too bad HuK is already out, was hoping for HuK vs. IdrA in final, gonna be SeleCT vs. IdrA I think :P
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dEzIrE 4 Nov 2011, 22:14
i planned on writing something for this, but i was lazy, im sorry
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nORAs 5 Nov 2011, 10:10
im trying to do something like that every day is something going on in sc2 world but im failing on start, my willpower is soo soo weak :X
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