Gauntlet Starcraft is back and proud to bring you a best-of-five series featuring PiG vs ToD!! We're taking the friendly banter seen on the WCS stream and letting these two battle it out in a best-of -five competitive showmatch! Winner takes home a cool $100 while the loser takes home $50.
Now, we all know that these two are some of the best SC2 casters around, but let's not forget about their careers as players. No, i'm not talking about championships(excluding ToD's wc3 career ofc), but both of these players have had strong results in the past 12-18 months, foreigner results considered . Let's look at ToD fist, who qualified fair and square in the 2014 WCS S2 EU qualifiers before taking out TargA 3-0 in Challenger. He went on to advance in group play after trading series with Mvp and San, then advancing past uThermal. A good result no matter how you look at it. When you think of PiG, at least for me, you think of #passion (see image below). Bursting onto the scene in 2015, he advanced out of his group with a 2-1 victory over Happy, who had previously beat him earlier in the day 2-0, providing a great celebration fans will always remember.
Both players have proven that with hard work you can succeed in WCS(advancing = success in my book ). I don't recall either one of them being given much of a chance in their respective run, yet they proved many wrong, myself included. Enough with the nice guy stuff though.... it's time to BATTLE IT OUT!
I'm looking forward to doing more showmatches like this, please feel free to leave questions, comments, feedback, etc here in the thread. Thanks and hope you can tune in! VODS will be uploaded spoiler free and posted back in this thread for anyone who misses it.
Cheers and good luck to the players!