SK-Gaming has recently posted a “Who is coL.CrunCher” article, detailing CrunCher’s upset win over EG’s Idra yesterday during the TSL3 Day 4 Round of 32. The win has sparked a momentus debate in the SC2 community as well as the beginning of a new meme in the esports world, with the now infamous :).
Down goes Goliath
Smack in the middle of Tennessee, an up and coming American Protoss dubbed Cruncher just beat one of the greatest and most infamous American players of all time.
Idra’s 1-2 fall to a person he’d been publicly antagonizing only recently led to an explosion of emotional reactions from fans all over the world. Many fans were ecstatic with the Protoss win and happily danced on Idra’s grave. Others defended their fallen Zerg hero and attacked Cruncher’s play and behavior.
Twitter, Facebook, Team Liquid, Reddit and every corner of the StarCraft universe felt the weight of ten thousand nerds screaming out. Team Liquid went offline instantly and Reddit followed shortly thereafter.
The winner, Cruncher, has just expanded his fan base tenfold. Although his resume includes convincing recent wins over the likes Kas, Sjow, Inca and more, it is this win over Idra which the world will remember as his coming out moment. It is this win that sponsors will hear about.
compLexity Gaming is thrilled to announce our upcoming StarCraft 2 tournament sponsored by Creative and presented by Fry’s Electronics: The SOUND BLASTER TACTIC 3D PRO-AM GAMING TOURNAMENT.
The event, which is open to North American players, will take place during the month of May and will offer a 1,000 player open event with $5,000 in prizes. The top 32 finalists from the open event will join 32 invited professional players in a 64 man bracket for $5,000 in cash.
Creative Offers 10k in Cash and Prizes for the Sound Blaster® Tactic3D™ Online Gaming Tournament Presented by Fry’s Electronics
Developed in Conjunction with Pro-Gaming Team compLexity
What: Creative Technology Ltd. today announced the Sound Blaster Tactic 3D Online Pro-am Gaming Tournament, featuring StarCraft® II, with cash and prizes totaling USD$10,000.00. Registration will be open on April 8 for the Sound Blaster Tactic 3D Online Gaming Tournament presented by Fry’s Electronics at http://tactic3d.complexitygaming.com
The Sound Blaster Tactic3D Online Gaming Tournament presented by Fry’s Electronics will be conducted in two stages. The first stage is the amateur bracket, where 1,000 amateur StarCraft II players will compete against each other until there are 32 players remaining. The second stage is the pro-am portion of the tournament, where the 32 amateur players will go head to head against 32 pro gamers for a chance to win the grand cash prize.
“Sponsoring a pro-am tournament is a natural extension of our love for the gaming community,” said Ryan Schlieper, product manager for gaming at Creative Labs, Inc. “The e-sports community has taken a hit over the past few years and we are excited to give up-and-comers a direct shot against the best professional gamers in the world, while playing one of the hottest online competitive games, StarCraft II. With 10K of cash and prizes up for grabs, it has all the makings of an amazing gaming event!”
“Complexity Gaming is honored to help bring to life an event that not only recognizes today’s top players but provides an opportunity for tomorrow’s big names to step forward and shine along side them,” said Jason Lake of compLexity Gaming.
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Today SCReddit put on it’s final Open tournament, the 26th in the series. After a long journey, the final match saw CompLexity’s rsvp take on NrGdde in a thrilling series.
With a final score of 4-3, coL.rsvp fought tooth and nail to with the match. In fact, he started out by losing three games in a row, but thanks to solid strategies and some clever Dark Templar usage rsvp managed to make an astounding comeback worthy of the tournament’s title “The Grand Finale.” rsvp takes home a prize consisting of $360, plus an ASTRO A30 Headset.
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We’d like to give a huge thank you to the awesome community over at SCreddit and Reddit.com/r/starcraft for putting on such an amazing community driven tournament. We compLexity look forward to seeing what the good folks at SCReddit have in store for the future of eSports.
Today’s round of the TSL3 saw CompLexity’s CrunCher take on Evil Genuses’ IdrA. After much anticipation and a little bit of smack talk, CrunCher was able to bring home the win. Both players displayed an astounding amount skill and strategic thinking, but ultimately CrunCher proved that he’s no “walk over.”
Game one was on Shakuras Plateau in cross prositions. CrunCher opened up with a Forge fast expand, mirroring IdrA’s own fast expansion. In a surprising strategic move, CrunCher when with an unorthodox fast tech to StarGate allowing him to get out one Void Ray and three Phoenix. Unfortunately for CrunCher IdrA scouted this build and mustered a strong Roach, Hydra, Corruptor army. After a long arms race, Idra initiated the first battle around the sixteen minute mark. Luckily, CunCher had a strong enough force to beat back IdrA’s aggression. Utilizing this momentum, CrunCher easily walked across the map forcing IdrA to leave the game without saying “gg.”
Game two was on the GSL map Terminus RE and, again, the players spawned in cross positions. CrunCher went with the same build he used in game one. IdrA must have expected this because, after getting three expansions, he teched to Hydralisks and researched Overlord drops. Abusing CrunCher’s immobile army of Stalkers, Collusus, and Void Rays, IdrA was able to drop the back of CrunCher’s main and his third expansion all while pushing the front door. CrunCher tried to hold on as long as he could, but each wave of drops was just too cost effective for IdrA and eventually forced a “gg.”
Game three was on the GSL map Crevasse and the players spawned at close positions. CrunCher utilized some pretty impressive mind-game play, by opening with a gateway but then transitioning to a expansion at the in-base natural. IdrA did the typical fast expansion focusing on a Zergling Roach unit composition. After IdrA scouted CrunCher’s second base by sacrificing an Overlord, CrunCher switched gears into a six Warpgate push. Thanks to some amazing Pylon placement and absolutely breathtaking Forcefields, CunCher was able to walk right over IdrA’s army forcing him to leave the game.
Huge congratulation to coL.CunCher, widely considered by the SC2 community to be the underdog in the match up. Be sure to tune into the rest of the TSL series and to cheer on CunCher when he plays in the round of sixteen.
Day 4 – Round of 32
Starting today (Sunday) at 2:00PM EST, CompLexity’s Abdulaziz ‘CrunCher’ Abed will take on EG’s Greg “Idra” Fields in the Team Liquid Star League round of 32. The PvZ matchup is sure to be one of the highlights of the day as both players come into the match up with confidence in their gameplay and strats.
The match will be casted by DJWheat and Day9 on Team Liquid’s stream which can be found below.
Today both coL.Stalife and coL.CrunCher will be competing in the MYeGamer SC2 Open tournament. The format is 128 players and will be single elimination and best of 1 until 16 players remain, then it will switch to best of 3. The finals will be best of 5. The winner will take home $300.00.
Update #2: Josh “AskJoshy” Sutherland has done commentary for CrunCher’s match against MarineKingPrime. The VoD’s can be found below:
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Unfortunately coL.Stalife fell to WE.SuperPrime with a score of 2-1. coL.CrunCher is still fighting it out, so be sure to tune in and cheer him on tomorrow.
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Today marks the first day of FXOpen’s Invitational Series. The 64 player StarCraft II tournament features the best and more prominent names in eSports. According to the official post:
The tournament will be a two-day, 64 player invitational/qualification event with a $1500 prizepool, distributed 900/400/200. The 64 players will compete in a best-of-three double elimination competition. Round 1 matchups will be based on rough ‘seedings’ gathered from previous tournament events and other scene activity. Map determination will be via vetoe. Tournament UB and LB finals will be Bo5, and the final will be up to 2 x Bo5.
The map selections will include: Xel’Naga Caverns Metalopolis (MLG) Typhon Peaks Tal’Darim Altar (GSL) Terminus RE (GSL)
Be sure to tune in at 8:00PM EST on both Friday and Saturday so you can cheer on both coL.Stalife and coL.CrunCher as they take on pro gamers from around the globe.
Weekend number two of TSL3 features some big matchups, including our very own coL.CrunCher taking on the famous zerg Greg “EG.Idra” Fields.
The series doesn’t come without its share of controversy as the two players seem to have built some type of rivalry early in the life of StarCraft 2. Previously, EG.Idra appeared on JP McDaniel’s show “JP and Friends” and had some pretty rough things to say about our coL star. Now, he has fired more shots in his recent Team Liquid interview.
Q: Your first round opponent is a relatively unknown player – Cruncher. What are your thoughts about him?
I’m approaching the match as if it were a walkover.
Q: Are you confident you can beat him? Do you expect him to do any risky strategies against you?
Yes, he’s going to 4 gate all-in both games unless he decides to be clever and make voidrays or DTs.
Yesterday the good folks over at SCReddit announced that this week’s edition of the SCReddit Open (#26) will be the last. While this is sad news for the reddit.com/r/starcraft community, it’s not all bad.
The official post reads:
What’s going on?
As the SCReddit team takes on more and more responsibilities within the eSports scene, we’ve found it necessary to put an end to our role in the management of the SCRO and KotH series. We’re ecstatic that these events have enjoyed the success that they did for as long as they have, and we’re putting everything that we have into making this final SCRO as amazing as it can be. I’ll get into the details very soon, but first, I want to address a few concerns that a number of people have expressed to me, both in public and in private:
Are you quitting the eSports scene?
No! 100% no. In fact, the opposite is happening, and you’ll be seeing the people behind the SCReddit events taking up massively influential roles in the weeks and months to come, and though we can’t announce anything concrete just yet, we’ll be sure to drop as many hints as we can, starting this Saturday during the SCRO broadcast.”
It sounds like the SCReddit team is making some major moves in the eSports world. Hopefully they will be opening another avenue in eSports to both professional gamers and amateurs alike.
Be sure to tune into the final SCReddit Open, which kicks off on this Saturday, the 26th at 3:00 PM EST.
With the help of IGN and Justin.TV, the well-renown Starcraft II figure, HDstarcraft, has arranged a spiffy $1750 invitational tournament. The 16-player single elimination tournament will commence next week and will conclude at the end of March.
Each player is permitted to veto one map and loser picks the next map. Each round will be a best of 3 until the semifinals and finals. The semifinals will be a best of 5, whereas the finals will be a best of 7. To check out the tournament games and results, you can find them at his Youtube channel, HDstarcraft.
Contest Winner: Congratulations to Kelvin “sawtoothjimmy” Tran, the winner of a QPAD Gaming Mouse. Kelvin has been contacted via Facebook.
For the fourth time in a row, compLexity’s own CrunCher has shown that no one can best him in The V. In a 4-0 blowout versus Evil Geniuses’ StrifeCro, CrunCher was clearly more prepared player. As per usual, CrunCher displayed tight micro, sharp force field placement, and well thought out strategies, earning him such quick wins. In game three he even brought out a Mothership, using it’s cloaking field to cover his Colossus ball while Phoenix picked off the StrifeCro’s Overseers. If CrunCher brings this same play to Sunday’s TSL3 match versus Idra, the notorious Gracken might be in some trouble.
The V
The compLexity Syndicate is proud to announce week 10 of our Starcraft 2, 1 v 1 initiative, called The V! This week, defending champion Abdulaziz “coL.CrunCher” Abed from CompLexity Gaming will take on Cong “StrifeCro” Shu from Team EG. This will be CrunChers third week defending The V Championship, after taking down Jacob “LzGaMeR” Winstead last week.
Each week we will invite two professional SC2 players to square off for a $100 cash prize. The winner will return the next week to take on a new challenger. In addition, every week we will offer viewers the chance to enter to win great prizes, including the new Sound Blaster Tactic Headset.
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Date: 7:00 PM EST Format: Best of 7 Streaming:compLexityGaming.com Prize: $100.00 per week Casting: Shoutcasting by AskJoshy
Be sure to mark your calendars and check in every Friday night for some of the best 1v1 action in StarCraft 2! Tune in to see who can survive the longest in THE V!
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compLexity Gaming is thrilled to announce our upcoming StarCraft 2 tournament sponsored by Creative and presented by Fry’s Electronics: The SOUND BLASTER TACTIC 3D PRO-AM GAMING TOURNAMENT.
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