Another famous event, the world cyber games which takes place every year and where the best players around the world compete, has passed. Last year the three korean representatives took the top 3, however, this time the result was very unexpected.
Overall 34 players took part in the grand finals in Seattle, but 16 passed to the group-stage.
The brackets go as the following:
Round 16
Draco 0-2 Dreiven
eDDyiSrEADy 0-2 
Ra_Ukraine
Phoenix66 0-2 CN-PJ
Androide 0-2 
sAviOr[gm]
Hwasin[S.SIR] 2-0 
Steelheart
Stork 2-0 
Satanik
Cloud 1-2 
Goody
Mondragon 2-0 
Jamesfoo
Round 8
Dreiven 0-2 Ra_Ukraine
CN-PJ 2-1 sAviOr[gm]
Hwasin[S.SIR] 0-2 Stork
Goody 0-2 Mondragon
That was unexpected. Just about everyone thought that Saviour, who is one of the best in the world, to simply run over PJ. However, PJ did the unexpected and beat the zerg maestro!
Also, bad luck for hwasin to stumble across the best protoss, Stork, in the world, at least according to the rankings at the moment.
Semi-final
Ra_Ukraine 1-2 CN-PJ
Stork 2-0 Mondragon
The result over here were not unexpected. PJ is widely known to be one of the best protosses outside of korea. Most believed that Stork would win, as it came out, but many still thought that Mondragon had a chance as he has had the best Zerg vs Protoss outside of korea for years.
3rd place
Ra_Ukraine 0-2 Mondragon
Therefore, Mondragon earns the third spot at WCG!
Finals
Stork 2-0 CN-PJ
And That's it, Stork won the World Cyber Games!
1st spot: Stork $15 000
2nd spot: CN-PJ $7 000
3rd spot: Mondragon $4 000
Once again a korean has taken the first spot, as it has been every single time in the history of WCG, but perhaps next year....?
Thanks to gosugamers.net for the picture!
Source:
World Cyber games
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replays of the event should be released soon enough. ooa
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| I know like noone from that list. And i don't really care either >_>' Glad to see a German made it till the finals though. Hopeless encounters succesfully won Thedutchjelle
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Too bad Saviorgot beat out so early, Savior vs Mondi would be awesome...
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| God, I'm clueless: I thought Mondy was out of the business years ago >_< Hey Ahzz, does Tasteless comment in WCG?  BEWARE MARINES, TUSKS AHEAD
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I want to see the Greek guy plz.Unfortunately he got owned by the Korean.Ouch.
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| broodbuddy, in fact, savior and mondi were on the same group. However, mondragon beat him over there ZvZ torrasque, yeah, tasteless did indeed commentate on WCG. The VOD's should be released soon enough too I guess. In fact, there are some already.
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Oooooh, want those Reps (any chance of a Tasteless commentary track?  )And something that may be worth a rofl. One of my RL nicknames is Goody. That amused me when I saw that was one of the players With Duty and Service. K'tan.
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| I beat a Korean at Starcraft II during BlizzCon... it was fun =D So sad that the US guy lost out so quickly, and on home-turf too. Better luck next time! -Tassadar made me do it! -Entaro Adun sucka!
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| They often say in BN that Mexico has a good team, but I never see them in serious competitions >_< "WCG 2007" should do the trick in youtube, eh Ahzz? BEWARE MARINES, TUSKS AHEAD
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Do Chinese play -and know about- Starcraft?
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Where can we get the replays when they are released?
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I will make a newspost about it when they are released, however, they should be at world cyber games's website first.
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Koreans...they're the only people who have failed to the point where they consider StatCraft a school activity....
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| There are starcraft schools in korea, I'm not kidding. And besides, starcraft is their sport. That's all. Instead of athletes, they have starcraft pros. In fact, this one match had a bigger audience than a huge baseball match in US. (they had over 100 000 people in the audience in this boxer vs nada grand finals.) And they amount they earn? Well, atleast the top pros earn ENOUGH to say the least...
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