Jared "PiG" Krensel is an Australian Zerg player living in Sydney. His first memories of hearing about Starcraft was when he flew Korean Airlines and watched a Starcraft channel on TV. Seeing a computer game being televised opened his eyes to another world of competitive sports - eSports! He played WarCraft II casually before preordering Starcraft 2. Realising he was pretty good at the game and was pouring more and more time into getting better at it, PiG made the tough decision to put his university studies on hold to pursue a Starcraft career. And boy did it not pay off! Since playing full time from mid-2011 PiG has shot to the top of the Australian/SEA scene with the likes of players such as mOOnGLade and tgun. He was picked up by Tt eSports a few months later and is their sole player. He also coaches to support his Starcraft career and is recognised as the most successful and popular coach in SEA. PiG considers his breakout tournament to be his third place finish in the Australian WCG National Finals in October 2011. Since then he has gone on to qualify for IEM Guangzhou (2011), IEM Cologne (Aug 2012) and IEM Singapore (Nov 2012), as well as IeSF (Oct 2012). He finally broke his third place curse to take the ACL Melbourne crown in July 2012. He was also crowned the WCS Australian champion in August 2012. In February 2013 PiG announced through a series of entertaining announcement videos that he had joined Team Exile5. x5 is notable for their Battlefield, COD and LOL teams and had just started taking steps into the Starcraft 2 scene.
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PiG's performance at IEM Singapore! PiG started off his IEM group stage by playing compatriot Mafia, going down 1-2. His next opponent, Vortix, seemed even more formidable but PiG made a comeback, taking Vortix down 2-1. At 1-1 in group stages PiG had already outperformed his other IEM appearances! His next series was against MC, the favourite to win the tournament. Although PiG could not manage to win he did take 1 game off him, the only player to do so in Group A. When PiG took down Yekke 2-0 he needed only one more set to go through to the Playoffs the next day. In his way stood HasuObs, who was originally at IEM to cast but eventually replaced dKiller when he pulled out. Unfortunately PiG could not match the Protoss pro and went down to him 0-2.
PiG finished 2-3 with a map score of 6-7. Had we won 2-0 over Hasu he would have finished second in Group A. Had it been 2-1 he would have edged Hasu out to take third. So close yet still so far. Bad luck, PiG. Good luck next time!
PiG Going To IEM Singapore! PiG earned his spot by racing through the Stage 3 qualifiers for Australia, knocking aside mOOnGLade and Ninja before clinching the finals from KingKong. IEM Singapore will be his third IEM event and fourth international event. Having now completed his stint in the Prime House in Korea will this be his breakthrough event?
PiG Competes in the Code A Preliminaries! After showing considerable improvement during his time in the Prime House, PiG decided to extend his stay in Korea by a few days to allow him to compete in the Code A qualifiers. He defeated his first round opponent 2-0 before falling to Skyhigh (BW terran) in a close 2-1 series.
PiG staying in the Prime House! The fun didn't end at IeSF though! From there, PiG went to the Prime House to stay with the likes of MKP and Creator for a month and pick up their training regime. Whilst there he visited the GOM studio and watched the Code S finals to see Life become the first royal roader. He also had the opportunity to play soccer with the Prime team against MVP.
PiG is going to Korea after going undefeated through the IeSF Australia Finals. He managed to 2-0 some of SEA's best in iMMafia and NvRossi, as well as having to take out mOOnGLaDe to qualify for the finals. Unfortunately PiG went 1-2 in the best of 1 group stage of IeSF, beating Dayshi but losing to Socke and Masterok. And so ended his run.
NASL's SEA Update featuring PiG NASL's new segment is called the SEA Update and is hosted by Clutch. PiG's Korean adventures features in the first two episodes. + Show Spoiler +
PiG with a host of other pros discussing the future of HoTS at IEM Cologne
PiG has recently earned a spot into the IEM Cologne Global Challenge through the online qualifiers, coming first place! He will be joining fellow SEA player and second place mOOnGLaDe. Goodluck PiG!!! Do us proud!
PiG with his family celebrating his WCS Australia win
The biggest SC2 event Down Under saw the most stacked tournament Australia had ever witnessed. PiG took the WCS Australia title by defeating mOOnGLade in the second best of 3 series in the Grand Final (having come from the winner's bracket). It has been his biggest title to date and has earned him his biggest paycheck by far. The next day, the top 6 competitors of WCS Australia along with the top 2 of WCS New Zealand competed in WCS Oceania. Same venue. Same crowd. This time, however, 2 spots for the Battlenet Championship Series was at stake. Despite his impressive performance only a day before, PiG was knocked out due to back to back losses to mOOnGLaDe then Light in the loser's bracket. Empty handed. From the highest highs to the lowest lows.
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L3g3nd_ New Zealand. August 01 2012 21:31. Posts 9595
