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[RavenZ Cup IX, USD 350 prize money, 1vs1 mode] Welcome to the RavenZ Cup IX! #RavenZ
The RavenZ Cup IX will have a brand-new structure. Check out all the former RavenZ Cup’s here: RavenZ Cup .
The RavenZ Cup IX is an Invitational-Tournament without Qualifiers. We invited some of the best Starcraft 2 players – as always in our very own RavenZ Cup’s. However, we also wanted to have some of the most likeable and kind Koreans (for example how they handle the interaction with us in Skype etc.) in our Tournament.
There are 4 groups with 4 players each. We will use the “GSL-Structure” this time: - Best of 3 - The 4 players of each group are split into two pairs and play each other - The winners of these matches will then face each other in the Winner’s-match – the winner advances to the Playoffs (Top 8). - The losers of the initial matches face each other in the Loser’s-match – the loser places fourth in the group and therefore is eliminated from RavenZ Cup IX. - The loser of the Winner’s-match and the winner of the Loser’s-match will face each other in a fifth series – the winner gets second place and advances to the Playoffs while the loser places third in the group and is eliminated.
Key data to the RavenZ Cup IX:
When: - Playoffs: Sunday, 22.07.2018; 12:00 CET / 13:00 CEST / 20:00 KST - Group A: Saturday, 21.07.2018; 11:00 CET / 12:00 CEST / 19:00 KST - Group B: Saturday, 21.07.2018; 14:00 CET / 15:00 CEST / 22:00 KST - Group C: Saturday, 21.07.2018; 17:00 CET / 18:00 CEST / Sunday, 22.07.2018; 01:00 KST - Group D: Saturday, 21.07.2018; 20:00 CET / 21:00 CEST / Sunday, 22.07.2018; 04:00 KST
Prize money: - USD 350 (1st place USD 200, 2nd place USD 100, 3rd place USD 50)
Who: - Invitational-Tournament – some of the best & some of the most sympathetic and kind Starcraft 2 players.
Where: - Online, on the KR-Server. Please join the ingame channel group "RavenZ Cup" ("/join RavenZ Cup") and receive all the necessary information.
Maps: - Maps from the regular ladder-pool.
Stream: - Casted by [RavenZ] Frutiger & Baltimore on http://www.twitch.tv/ravenz_2vs2 . - No other Casters allowed.
Organizational: - In case of any questions please contact Quixx # 271, who is the responsible contact person. Of course, you will also get additional support by our Twitch-Mods. - Furthermore, you can contact Baltimore_SC2 in Skype.
We are looking forward to the RavenZ Cup IX and the brand-new structure. Hopefully we will have a phenomenal event once again. May the best player win – let’s go!
For further information, we recommend you visit our stream channel [www.twitch.tv/ravenz_2vs2].
All the best,
TEAM RavenZ #RavenZ
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Nice, been looking forward to this! always quality cups by you guys!
teamRAVENZ! 1luv!
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We would like to let you know that quite a few names are already known!! Just to mention two of them: Innovation (T) as well as Solar (Z).
We will keep you posted but one thing is for sure: This is going to be a phenomenal RavenZ Cup once again!!
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Innovation? Omg my absolut favourite player
Great job as always Ravenz. Looking forward to it! Hope for much success for you and cool games for us
Poppky
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I am happy to announce two other heavy-weights who will most likely be in: - Zest (P) - Rogue (Z)
We will post the finalized bracket early next week.
<3
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WoW !! this is getting awesome ..!!! this big names in the cup !! GoGo #RavenZ CUP !
Fraggi
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Let's introduce a few other players: - Creator (P) - Stats (P) - Trap (P) - Cure (T)
We will most likely finalize the groups within the next two days.
♥
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Cool looking forward to it
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We finalized our bracket for the RavenZ Cup IX today. Check all the details here: RavenZ Cup IX
Here are the 4 groups:
Group A: Rogue (Z), Stats (P), Bunny (T), Keen (T). 1st match: Rogue vs Bunny // 2nd match: Stats vs Keen. Group B: Zest (P), Solar (Z), Ryung (T), Fantasy (T). 1st match: Zest vs Fantasy // 2nd match: Solar vs Ryung. Group C: Innovation (T), Alive (T), True (Z), Creator (P). 1st match: Innovation vs True // 2nd match: Alive vs Creator. Group D: TY (T), Trap (P), Cure (T), Leenock (Z). 1st match: TY vs Cure // 2nd match: Trap vs Leenock.
The groups will be BO3, the RO8/RO4/3rd-Place-Match will be BO5 and the Grandfinals will be BO7.
Hope you guys are as hyped as we are - may the best player win our RavenZ Cup IX
#RavenZ
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That's a pretty stacked lineup. Kinda surprised Rogue is playing so close to his GSL group though.
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We have to do one little amendment as Ryung (T) won't be able to participate due to personal reasons. We are happy to announce that SuperNova (T) will replace him!
As for your question, pvsnp: We scheduled the groups the best possible way because the players are pretty busy with GSL as you mentioned. They all confirmed their spots and therefore we are optimistic about their showings.
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It is interesting quastion
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Only 1 hour left until the RavenZ Cup IX will start! Rogue, Bunny, Keen and Stats will play in Group A.$
Make sure to grab some snacks and let's have a good time together!
See you on our Twitch-Channel: www.twitch.tv/ravenz_2vs2
#RavenZ
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nice, can´t wait .. great lineup good job @ravenz :D
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Rogue better be hiding strats for GSL tomorrow or else he's gonna have a really rough time against Major and Keen
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On July 21 2018 19:20 pvsnp wrote: Rogue better be hiding strats for GSL tomorrow or else he's gonna have a really rough time against Major and Keen He seems to be hiding his multitasking and army splitting.
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This one's for Durn:
BUNNNNNNNNNY
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Bunny finally does something decent and he misses it. Poor guy.
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Bunny and Rogue advance in Group A.
We start with Group B now. Zest vs Fantasy first. Then Solar vs Supernova.
Gogo
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Such a sick lineup! Amazing games so far
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How is it possible all these top players playing so poorly? It's like they're not even trying.
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@geokilla or maybe the "underdogs" are just playing lights out. If you saw the games, they played fantastic!
Let's see what the other matches bring us
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wow wtf happened with Group B
replacement man too good
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Supernova and Zest advance in Group B.
We start with Group C now. Innovation vs True first. Then Creator vs Alive.
Gl & hf guys
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Great tournament! Thanks for hosting this!
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TRUE just won 2:0 against Creator in the Losers-Match. So next up Decider-Match Innovation vs TRUE.
After this series we still have 1 more Group:
TY, Cure, Trap and Leenock
#RavenZ
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ALive coming out of nowhere to take 1st in a group with Innovation.
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On July 22 2018 02:26 royalroadweed wrote: ALive coming out of nowhere to take 1st in a group with Innovation. If you watch Inno's stream, he actually loses like 90% of his games vs aLive.
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On July 22 2018 03:03 Elentos wrote:Show nested quote +On July 22 2018 02:26 royalroadweed wrote: ALive coming out of nowhere to take 1st in a group with Innovation. If you watch Inno's stream, he actually loses like 90% of his games vs aLive.
But he usually stomps aLive in tournaments: http://aligulac.com/m/mEyohLl6uNg9RTnF
Rogue, Zest, and now Inno all advancing in second, after Bunny, Supernova and aLive. Clearly, getting knocked out of GSL is the key to success here.
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aLive and Innovation advance in Group C.
We start with Group D now. TY vs Cure first. Then Trap vs Leenock.
#RavenZ
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Much like mass Cyclone bullshit, mass Raven bullshit is now exclusively a TvT phenomenon
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On July 22 2018 03:42 pvsnp wrote: Much like mass Cyclone bullshit, mass Raven bullshit is now exclusively a TvT phenomenon It's even more stupid than mass cyclone, but it's also even more intense. I expected the entire map to get blown up at any moment.
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seems like a great tournament so far, thx guys I think the relaxed casting style is good
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The winrate of 2rax/3rax vs zerg in tournaments has to be absolutely insane. I never see this strategy lose.
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On July 22 2018 05:01 pvsnp wrote: The winrate of 2rax/3rax vs zerg in tournaments has to be absolutely insane. I never see this strategy lose. And TY even has this special skill where every time he proxies in non-mirrors the rax get found instantly.
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The winrate of the TY push against zerg in tournaments has to be absolutely insane. I never see this build lose.
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TY breaking this tournament's curse of the weaker player advancing in first
......or did he?
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Cure won 2-0 against Trap. So we got our last series for today: Leenock vs Cure.
Let's get hyped!
#RavenZ
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On July 22 2018 05:20 pvsnp wrote:TY breaking this tournament's curse of the weaker player advancing in first ......or did he? Terran won every group in this tournament, what's going on Blizzard?
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On July 22 2018 05:20 Elentos wrote: The winrate of the TY push against zerg in tournaments has to be absolutely insane. I never see this build lose.
Isn't that Bunny's 2-base allin build?
IIRC Bunny was casting some series at HSC where the T did that same push on Catalyst, and said "This is my build." I remember because Fantasy called it as a 2-base allin super early and got mocked for it but then it turned out he was right.
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On July 22 2018 05:25 pvsnp wrote:Show nested quote +On July 22 2018 05:20 Elentos wrote: The winrate of the TY push against zerg in tournaments has to be absolutely insane. I never see this build lose. Isn't that Bunny's 2-base allin build? IIRC Bunny was casting some series at HSC where the T did that same push on Catalyst, and said "This is my build." TY is the first player I've seen do it successfully back in Memes & Dreams Invitational, and he's not lost any tournament games with it. Who actually came up with it? No idea.
He actually did it in GSL the other day.
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On July 22 2018 05:27 Elentos wrote:Show nested quote +On July 22 2018 05:25 pvsnp wrote:On July 22 2018 05:20 Elentos wrote: The winrate of the TY push against zerg in tournaments has to be absolutely insane. I never see this build lose. Isn't that Bunny's 2-base allin build? IIRC Bunny was casting some series at HSC where the T did that same push on Catalyst, and said "This is my build." TY is the first player I've seen do it successfully back in Memes & Dreams Invitational, and he's not lost any tournament games with it. Who actually came up with it? No idea.
Hmm, I guess I'll go hunting through the HSC vods later then.
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In Group D TY and Leenock advanced to the Playoffs tomorrow.
What a first Day, thanks to all of you for tuning in and appreciating what we are doing! It was a great experience as always and we saw some really sick games!
Playoffs will start tomorrow, 13.00 CEST / 20.00 KST. We will make a Post in a few minutes with the complete Bracket.
EDIT:
1st Match RO8: aLive (T) vs Leenock (Z), at about 13.00 CEST / 20.00 KST 2nd Match RO8: Innovation (T) vs TY (T), at about 14.00 CEST / 21.00 KST 3rd Match RO8: Bunny (T) vs Zest (P), at about 15.00 CEST / 22.00 KST 4th Match RO8: Supernova (T) vs Rogue (Z), at about 16.00 CEST / 23.00 KST
We had to put Bunny in the 3rd Match since he has a full calender on this sunday. Same for Rogue, since he has to play the GSL Code S in the afternoon.
Hope you guys tune in tomorrow as well - may the best player win it all!
#RavenZ
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Ohhhh it seems I missed some cool games, and I’m gonna miss the ro8 >(
#RavenZ
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@Silvana All the games will be watchable as a VOD. And we will provide all the Replays to Subscriber as well - just drop us a message and you will get it.
#RavenZ
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Your games should be available in sc2links, why aren't they?¡
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Playoffs start in less than 30' - let's get hyped! What do you think - who will win it all?
See you onstream at discuss / watch here: www.twitch.tv/ravenz_2vs2
#RavenZ
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Zest will win it all
#RavenZ
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We have to stop our Series "aLive vs Leenock" for now. Leenock is sick and needs to go to the hospital as fast as possible. He tries to come back afterwards and would finish the series after Rogue vs Supernova. If he can't attend, then aLive will advance to the Ro4.
We wait for TY, Innovation is already here. Games will start soon
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Inno's way to TvT success: make more cyclones than your opponent. If that doesn't work, doom drop over and over until it works. Who cares about strategy, tactics and positioning when you can just power through.
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Bunny wins 3:0 against Zest - quite a surprise. Bunny 7:0 so far in the RavenZ Cup IX - what a performance. He looks on fire!
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Leenock came back from hospital and wants to finish his series. so we continue. 1:1 score for now. Winner goes up against Innovation in the 1st Semifinal.
Other Semifinal Rogue vs Bunny.
#RavenZ
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aLive and Inno are not great at late game TvT
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First finalist is Innovation! Won 3:1 against aLive. Now 2nd Semi is live: Rogue vs Bunny.
Little amendment: There will be no 3rd place match. Both losers of the Semifinals will get 25 Dollars. Reason: aLive is a little sick as well and wants to go to bed to rest
#RavenZ
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GRAND FINALS: Innovation vs Rogue, Best of 7.
#RavenZ
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the reverse kill is real. poor bunny
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Can someone do a compilation of all the times the casters said "nice micro" in this tournament?
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INNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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also nice tournie! thx raven guys!
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Haven't seen someone beat Rogue that easily in a very long time.
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Not to take anything from Inno but Rogue didn't seem to take those games seriously and that's not good.
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What a nice experience once again! Thank you guys so much for tuning in and having such a great time together this weekend. And we got ourselves some sick games guys!!
Innovation took it 4-0 in the GrandFinals Machine-Gun-Eddy! <3
#RavenZ and make sure to stay in touch with us. Next Cup will most likely be in February 2019. We will have something special in store for you guys, since it's our 10th Cup, RavenZ Cup X.
See you guys and have a great evening.
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On July 23 2018 02:36 romson87 wrote: Not to take anything from Inno but Rogue didn't seem to take those games seriously and that's not good. maybe he doesn't want to reveal anything for GSL vs the World.
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On July 23 2018 02:50 Charoisaur wrote:Show nested quote +On July 23 2018 02:36 romson87 wrote: Not to take anything from Inno but Rogue didn't seem to take those games seriously and that's not good. maybe he doesn't want to reveal anything for GSL vs the World.
He just messaged us that he felt kind of sick as well (headache) - so definitely not the best conditions. Leenock, aLive and Rogue all a bit sick. Keep Fighting Koreans - hope they feel well really soon!
#RavenZ
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On July 23 2018 02:56 RavenZ_2vs2 wrote:Show nested quote +On July 23 2018 02:50 Charoisaur wrote:On July 23 2018 02:36 romson87 wrote: Not to take anything from Inno but Rogue didn't seem to take those games seriously and that's not good. maybe he doesn't want to reveal anything for GSL vs the World. He just messaged us that he felt kind of sick as well (headache) - so definitely not the best conditions. Leenock, aLive and Rogue all a bit sick. Keep Fighting Koreans - hope they feel well really soon! #RavenZ
Fair enough. Doesn't change the fact the tournament was interesting and fun. Good job!
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@JJJzy VOD's are available on our Twitch-Channel. Subscriber will get all the Replays from the Groups and the Playoffs - just message us if you are interested
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