Today the first part of the top 8 tournament deciding who gets all the money and fame was played. There were a couple of surprises I guess, among other things Elky got knocked out early, first rekrul beat him in the first round, then he defeated froz and after that he lost once again to nazgul.
Apart from rekrul beating elky (2-0 I might add) (which, considering his previous 0-7 defeat in liquibition could and should be considered as a surprise, the first round had no other weird incidents. Nazgul won, Hellghost (whom has previously gotten #2 in one of these tourneys) won, and legionnaire beat froz. Froz the californian gets shafted by us euros once again and had to wake up 7 am to play, but oh well. I'm european so I don't care. =]
In the second round of winners bracket (the winners of these games were both guaranteed top 3 and thus at least $50), we had nazgul vs hellghost and rekrul vs legionnaire, where hellghost, whom tends to beat nazgul into the losers bracket when the games are important (WCG anyone? ) once again defeated him.
Rekrul beat legionnaire, however I'm not sure if they've ever faced in a tournament before. This knocked nazgul and leg down into the losers bracket, where they faced elky (who had defeated froz in round 1 of losers bracket) and ghost (who beat mif) respectivly. Naz beat elky and leg beat ghost, so now nazgul and leg had to play loser bracket semi finals. This was won by nazgul, guaranteeing him a third spot at worst.
In the winners bracket finals, rekrul beat hellghost 3-2 in a fun series of games (which should have been won 3-0 by hellghost if he didnt fuck up the second game ), so rekrul secured #2 and $75 while hellghost has to face nazgul in the loser bracket finals to see if he gets another shot at beating rek, or if nazgul will finally manage to not lose. =]
There will be liquibets for these games.
And, now that I've made you read this far, here are the brackets :
http://www.bracketmaker.com/scripts-bracketmaker/tmenu.cfm?tid=39302