HoNTour Qualifiers Day Two

compLexity.HoN has had a very shakey start in HoNTour, having to forfiet the first round match due to some PC issues from Jeppe “Haxxeren” Jensen, The team managed to start their comeback with a strong win over ett63.

Today the coL.HoN team will be up against Clan Veto in the second round of the loser’s bracket. Provided they win, they will then play the third round of the loser’s bracket against the winner of Reddit Lowbie Squad and MehuPojat.

Matches will begin at 13:00 EST (18:00 CET) for the second round with the third round being at 16:30 EST (21:30 CET).

Coverage by Honcast & Others

General coverage of the event is conducted by S2Game’s Honcast although there is likely to be other third party streams running during the time.

Match Results

A link to the qualifier brackets can be found here.

Score	1	2	3	F
coL.HoN	–	–	–	2
vTo	–	–	–	0

Round: Loser’s Bracket Round 2

Score	1	2	3	F
coL.HoN	–	–	–	2
M3hu	–	–	–	0

Round: Loser’s Bracket Round 3

To view the qualifier schedule click here.
To view prizing/point system click here.
To view the FAQ/Official rules click here and here.

American Stage 3 Qualifier – Intel Extreme Masters Singapore

Michael “Goswser” Dobler has managed to fight his way out of the first two IEM Singapore qualifiers to land himself in the 3rd and final stage. In the second stage, Goswser was knocked into the losers bracket by the Canadian Zerg, SLush who he then managed to beat 2-0 later in the loser’s bracket to secure the spot for the third round.

The third round is in a best-of-three double elimination format and contains a number of high class North American players. The top three places are awarded with a slot in the group stage of IEM Singapore, skipping the open bracket and although travel is not funded directly for winners, there is a guaranteed $950 as a cash prize.

Check out the brackets below:

Matches begin today (28th of October) at 8PM EST and will be broadcasted by ZanderFever.

This weekend, compLexity’s Ryan “Filipino Champ” Ramirez competes in the Canada Cup 2012 event being held at The Calgary Chinese Cultural Centre. This year’s event features over $20,000 in cash and prizes.

Prizes

Here are the break downs:

• Super Street Fighter IV International Team Tournament – $5000 Prize Pot
• Super Street Fighter IV Singles – $2000 Pot Bonus
• Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 Singles – $2000 Pot Bonus

Schedule

Results

Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition Ver.2012

Final Placing: 9th

Score	1	2	3	F
EG|Ricky_Ortiz	1	0	1	2
coL|Filipino Champ	0	1	0	0

  Rufus vs. Dhlasim Top 16 Winners

Score	1	2	3	F
RZR|Fuudo	1	0	1	2
coL|Filipino Champ	0	1	0	1

  Fei Long vs. Dhlasim Top 16 Winners

Score	1	2	3	F
CCG|Jozhear	0	0	–	0
coL|Filipino Champ	1	1	–	2

  Vega vs. Dhlasim

Score	1	2	3	F
AGE|NYChrisG	0	0	–	0
coL|Filipino Champ	1	1	–	2

  Sakura vs. Dhlasim Top 16 Winners

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3:

Final Placing: 7th

Score	1	2	3	F
Bee	0	0	–	3
coL|Filipino Champ	0	0	–	0

Spencer/Frank West/Dante vs. Magneto/Doctor Doom/Phoenix Top 8 Losers

Score	1	2	3	F
STC|Quandizzle	0	0	–	2
coL|Filipino Champ	0	0	–	3

Magneto/Taskmaster Dormammu vs. Dormammu/Doctor Doom/Phoenix  Top 16 Losers

Score	1	2	3	F
CxO|Bionic Fraud	0	0	–	0
coL|Filipino Champ	0	0	–	3

Captain America/Iron Man/Spencer vs.  Dormammu/Doctor Doom/Phoenix

Score	1	2	3	F
DoomDomainn	0	0	–	1
coL|Filipino Champ	0	0	–	3

Taskmaster/Spencer/Doctor Doom vs. Dormammu/Doctor Doom/Phoenix

Score	1	2	3	F
FNEX|K-Brad	0	0	–	0
coL|Filipino Champ	0	0	–	3

Trish/Vergil/Dante vs Dormammu/Doctor Doom/Phoenix

Streams

compLexity.SC2’s Kim “Heart” Min Hyuk will be playing in the GSL Up and Down Matches and will have the chance to qualify for Code S once again. After falling to CJ Entus’ Jung “Bbyong” Woo Yong 1-2 in a very close Terran vs. Terran series, Heart will be fired up and ready to go for the upcoming Up and Down Matches.

Heart had the following to say to his fans:

        Thank you all for Your cheers, I’ll do my best!

– Kim “Heart” Min Hyuk

Heart is in Group E, of which includes the following players of all Protoss and Terran players:

• Sang/Terminator
• Happy
• Finale
• MC
• Sparta

To see Heart play, tune into GOMTV.net on Friday, Oct. 26 at 2:10 AM PDT / 4:10 AM CDT / 5:10 AM EDT.

Be sure to stay updated by following and sending Heart words of encouragement via Twitter @coL_Heart.

The good people over at GosuGamers just posted an interview with compLexity’s Heroes of Newerth star MoonMeander. For those of you who are not familiar with the HoN scene, compLexity recently won the DreamHoN Online Summer Championships: Redemption with a score of 3-0 versus Trademark eSports. This win earned coL.HoN $4,000 plus a free trip to DreamHack Winter in Sweden.

As you would expect, GosuGamers asked about coL.HoN’s plans and preperations for DreamHack, as well as touching on living in the compLexity Gamma Gamer House, team chemistry, and the upcoming HoN Tour.

GG: DHW is one month away, how do you and the team prepare for the big event? Any special plans?
Not going to give away any information on our “special plans,” but we definitely have some up our
sleeves, like other any team should. We’re preparing by scrimming regularly (no surprise there).

GG: What was your first thought, as soon as you got the confirmation that you are going to return to
Sweden?
My first thought was the atmosphere and meeting everyone and my fans again. We were all overjoyed
and yelling on Skype the moment we won our tickets so I’m sure my teammates feel the same way.

To read the full interview click here.

VOD – Episode 1 with qxc and Fuzzy

compLexity Gaming is proud to announce that it will be putting on a new show dedicated to the pro strategies of some of the best players in the StarCraft II scene. Dubbed compLex Strategies, the new show hosted by Samsc2 will feature players from both the main compLexity team and the Academy as they share their knowledge on the game.

“compLex Strategies” will premiere on Tuesday, Oct. 23 at 3:00 PM PDT / 5:00 PM CDT / 6:00 PM EDT. To watch, all you have to do is tune into Samsc2’s stream.

The first show will feature both qxc and Fuzzy as they go over how to properly execute specific builds, strategies on specific maps, and how to react to your opponents and adjust strategies accordingly.

Please tune into every broadcast you can and let us know what you think. We at compLexity believe very strongly in growing American StarCraft II talent. A large part of growing this talent is getting these players names out in the community. Thanks to the hard work of Samsc2, we feel like we’re on the right track. That said, there’s always room for improvement, so let us know what you think and what we can improve on.

Tonight coL.Sasquatch will be taking on Team RIP ZeeZ in a showmatch hosted by Samsc2. This will not be your conventional showmatch. Samsc2 has set up a series of challenges to make things interesting.

But before we get into the format of the showmatch, some of you may be wondering who are RIP ZeeZ. RIP ZeeZ is a StarCraft II team that is affiliated with the comedy website SomethingAwful.com. They welcome players of all levels, meaning it’s more of a clan than a professional team.

Because of RIP ZeeZ’s clan atmosphere, we thought it would be interesting to add some modifiers to the showmatch. Organized into a series of five challenges. Sasquatch is sure to have his work cut out for him.

Bo3 Standard 1v1 – To open we will have the Rip Zeez Austrialian Protoss player, Zugz take on Sasquatch in a conventional 1v1.

Half Price Platinum! – A zeez Platinum player will be taking on his first professional player, but with this caveat: the coL player known as partSasquatch will be shaved down even further to halfpartSasquatch, as Sasquatch will play this match with 50% health on his units and buildings. Will the Platinum player take the win in his run against Sasquatch, or will will the half man half wildikin still prevail?

Blizzard Approved Map-Hack! – Have you ever thought, man I would be Grand Master Rank 1 easy if I just used a maphack, well now that theory will finally get the test it deserves. A Diamond zeez player will take on Sasquatch… with the best maphacking tools known to man; SamSC2 will add the Diamond player to his cast and then, SamSC2 will not only alert the Diamond of Sasquatch’s every move, every building, every drop, but he’ll even be adding helpful insight, such as ‘build a probe’, ‘build a marine’, “no, No, NO! What are you doing I told you to move your army there!!!!”

Strength in Numbers – Playing a Professional GM by yourself is a bit unfair, so we’ll be taking a Platinum player and adding a Silver partner. Together these two zeez players will attempt to out-cheese, out-macro, and out-smart coL.Sasquatch, hoping to prove that team play is where true skill lies.

Bo3 Standard 1v1 – Finishing it off, we’ll be returning to a “standard” Bo3, if you can call the self proclaimed Son of MVP and Prince of Mech facing a giant partially mythological creature known as Sasquatch ‘Standard’. ZeeZ Ace LemonyTang will be showing off mech play, favoring hellion and tank run by’s to harrow his opponents economy, while maintaining patiently out-positioning his opponent with mech, this will be an interesting ZvT.

The showmatch is set to kick off at 9:00 PM EDT and will be streamed on Samsc2’s Twitch.tv channel. With all the hijinks going on in this showmatch, you’re not going to want to miss it.

Recently compLexity’s TriMaster had a chance to sit down with Dustin Steiner, eSports editor for GameZone, to talk about his second place finish at the World Cyber Games USA Nationals.

DS: Going up against your teammate QXC must’ve been tough in the finals – tell me what was running through your head in the minutes before, and during your matches.

TM: I play against QXC quite often here at the Gamma Gamer House so I don’t think my mindset really changed much. The only thing I was thinking about before the matches was to make sure I could focus 100% on the games. During the matches I made sure not to let any mistakes or losses tilt my mindset and that I was able to start each game with a calm mind.

In addition to WCG, TriMaster also spoke about how he got into the pro scene, playing with his younger brother SniXSniPe of the compLexity Academy, and his current thougts on Heart of the Swarm.

To read the full interview click here.