The Syndicate would like to wish coL.sc2’s own Sam “FireZerg” Prowse a very Happy Birthday as he turns 19 today!

Sam joined CompLexity at the start of the new year, when we acquired teamNOVA. As a member of CompLexity, FireZerg has shown why is he one of the highest rated Gosu Coaches. He’s always coming up with new strats, being very friendly and funny when it comes to practice. His dedication is what is helping this team get to the level they want to be on. 

Once again, we’d like to wish a very Happy 19th Birthday to Sam “FireZerg” Prowse!

With the Intel Extreme Masters 5 World Championship only a few days away, Renato “nak” Nakano conducted an interview with HLTV.org. The interview discusses the teams preparation for the event as well as what Nak predicts the outcome to be.

Below is an excerpt from the interview:

Who do you think that are the main favourites for the IEM trophy?

The favourites are the same as always, Na´Vi, fnatic, SK, mTw and FX. But in my opinion, the teams are absurdly even. Being favourite does not win matches. I have no idea who will come out with the title. There will be 12 teams with great chances of getting the crown, some with the help of a good day or luck, but all with great chances.

At WCG, you finished in fourth place. Do you think you will fare better this time around?

That is our goal. We have been growing, at ESWC we finished in 5th-8th place, at WCG we got a top4 finish and we won the IEM5 American Championship. The results have always been improving. We believe that a top3 finish is possible or a place in the final, who knows?

HLTV.org also provided an excellent preview of coL @ IEM5. An excerpt from that can be found below:

Brazilian Counter-Strike has a great place in history, it has always been mingling with the very best in the field, but very few titles have actually been brought back to South America. Looking in the history books, we have to go back to 2006 to find the first and sort of the only major win for Brazil.  At ESWC 2006 in Paris, a team experienced players and young talents went to the very top, as Made in Brazil downed fnatic to win the event.

A year later in Copenhagen, Made in Brazil won shgOpen 2007 with a victory against PGS. The same year, DreamHack Winter was conquered with a win against SK Gaming in the final. In the Summer of 2008, the Brazilians once again won an event, winning GameGune 2008 with a win against mousesports in the Grand Final. But this sums up the tournament victories for Brazilian CS. A good three years brought Brazil 3 titles, but what happened afterwards?

To view the entire interview, click here.
To view the entire IEM5 Preview, click here.

Post-Game

coL.SC2 was able to get 6 out of 7 points tonight vs Team sC. The champions match has been postponed until next week. coL.rsvp will then play PLZLEAVEDUCK on Lost Temple for the shut out.

Pre-Game

Last week the guys were able to beat 1nsanity 5-2. Today we are going up against team sC in the ESGL, who had a very close game with RoW, but came up short 4-3. The match is set to start at 9:00PM EST.

* Clan War
– Each team on a clan war has 1 Team Champion and 3 Challengers. The team champion for one team will play all 3 challengers on the opposing team. A match between both champions will also be played. This will result in 7 total 1v1 matches.
– All series are best of 1
– Team is awarded 1 point per match won, even if the winning player is a challenger. No points will be given for a loss.
* Maps
– Champion vs Champion map of the series will be posted by the league admins, the remaining maps are decided by the Challenger.
* Map Veto System
– Before the start of the war, both team champions will decide on 2 maps to veto from map pool. Failure to announce veto map before the 2nd game will result in the loss of veto power.
– A champion may play a map only once in a given war. After each match, the map played will be vetoed for future matches against that champion.
– Each champion will have their own map pool. The pool starts with 8 maps, the weeks champion map is removed and the champions veto maps will also be removed. The first challenger must then choose from a pool of 6 maps. A map may only be used once. Each succeeding challenger must play on a different map. 

 

Lineups will be added in 15 minutes prior to the start of the match.

Lineups

coL.SC2	sC
Champion:  coL.rsvp Challengers  coL.Ryan  coL.Antimage  coL.Ryze	Champion:  PLZLEAVEDUCK Challengers  sCFade  Insur  LaGTTJack

Score	1	2	3	F
coL.rsvp	0	0	–	1
sCFade	0	0	–	0

Map: Xel’Naga Caverns

Score	1	2	3	F
coL.Ryan	0	0	–	1
PLZLEAVEDUCK	0	0	–	0

Map: Steppes of War

Score	1	2	3	F
coL.Antimage	0	0	–	1
PLZLEAVEDUCK	0	0	–	0

Map: Metalopolis

Score	1	2	3	F
coL.rsvp	0	0	–	1
Insur	0	0	–	0

Map: Lost Temple

Score	1	2	3	F
coL.Ryze	0	0	–	1
PLZLEAVEDUCK	0	0	–	0

Map: Lost Temple

Score	1	2	3	F
coL.rsvp	0	0	–	1
LaGTTJack	0	0	–	0

Map: Delta Quadrant

ESEANews has sat down with coL.Antimage to go over a replay on Lost Temple against NrGostojiy, an American Zerg player.

Hi everyone, this is Antimage and some of you know me as Victor. Just a short background – I played Starcraft “mostly” recreationally (C+ iccup) and Warcraft III/Dota. I found Starcraft II as a very exciting game as it was undiscovered, unexplored and unmastered.

The replay is from game 4 of a Best-of-5 series in the semi-finals of the Universities of Southern Ontario Gamers Tournament (I was down 1-2 going into this game).

To check out the review and download the replay head on over to ESEANews. 

Tonight coL.Stalife was invited to play in the tQ Invitational at the last minute. Stalife was able to take down the remaining 18 players to take home the first place prize of $75!

This is the second tQ win for Stalife in the last week. He was able to win Team tQ’s live tourney last Saturday.