1st: $200
2nd: $75
3rd: $50
4th: $30
5th: $20
Every group consisted of 5 players who all played a best of 3 against each other. The selected tournament maps were/are Plains to Hill, Sin Gaema Gowon and Neo Forbidden Zone. 2 from each group advance to day 2, so that makes a total of 8 finalists.
First map is either Plains to Hill or Sin Gaema Gowon. Then after that it's the loser who picks the next map (choice out of the 3 selected maps).
Group A:
3-1: Ghost
2-2: Elky
2-2: Willet
2-2: Tomson
1-3: Silence
By both beating Willet and Tomson in a play-off Elky advances. Interesting note is that after Willet beat both Ghost and Elky everyone expected him to advance for sure. He was 2-0, while Elky was 2-2 and Tomson 1-2. Then Willet lost against both Tomson and Silence forcing himself in a nasty situation where he had to beat Elky and Tomson to move up.
Group B:
4-0: Legionnaire
2-2: Mif
2-2: Suker
1-3: Ovvi
1-3: Socke
Mif beat Suker in regames with a score of 2-1. Legionnaire showed what those aussies are really made of. Mif shows never to underestimate Russians making it 2 out of 2 that go to the top 8.
Group C:
4-0: Nazgul
3-1: Froz
2-2: Strafe
0-3: Fox
0-3: HurtNTime
Froz and Strafe went up together down to the last second. Both being 2-1 and playing a third and deciding game against each other. Eventually it was Froz that came out on top.
Group D:
4-0: Rekrul
3-1: Hellghost
2-2: Drone
1-3: Ret
0-4: Raszi
Not much to say about this one. Ret had some problems and chose to forfeit after having beat Raszi and being down 0-1 to both Rekrul and Hellghost. Also when Rekrul and Hellghost were both 3-0, Hellghost had to go and gave the win to Rekrul. So technically Rekrul and Hellghost are both 3-0.
So this makes:
Ghost
Elky
Legionnaire
Mif
Nazgul
Froz
Rekrul
Hellghost
Tomorrow the top 8 will play again. After tomorrow there will be 3 players left. When we get to this stage we'll have Liquibet on the matches, which will be played later on coming week.
Replays will be posted, in time.