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We Have A Winner!

by Daxxarri 06 Oct 2010 17:23 UTC
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We Have A Winner!

It was a month full of fierce competition, shocking upsets, and exciting action as some of the best StarCraft II players in the world went head-to-head during the GSL’s TG-Intel StarCraft II Open Season1 tournament. This past weekend, the competition came to a thrilling conclusion.  

We’d like to congratulate Won-Ki Kim (AKA FruitDealer) as the first-ever tournament champion of the GSL! He displayed incredible skill and innovative strategies as he commanded his zerg armies all the way to the top against a field of extremely talented players, finally besting his terran opponent, Sung-Je Kim (AKA HopeTorture). After a decisive series of games, Won-Ki Kim took home a prize of over $85,000.

Thanks again to everyone who participated in the first season of GSL -- the skill all of the competitors displayed during this tournament is an inspiration to StarCraft II players the world over.  

If you missed the live games, you can still catch up on all the action by visiting http://www.gomtv.net.

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Adapt #366
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08/10/2010
you can see all tournaments replays here http://www.sc2rep.com
some are videos some just replays you can load and see with no streaming problems
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Gevurah #473
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08/10/2010
Too bad that the only site allowed to host these videos does so at a terrible low quality. Some standard YouTube channels (if allowed) would have been much better. The commentators are excellent though.
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Gevurah #473
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08/10/2010
What a load of crap, I can only watch Set 1, the others I need to pay for...
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Olorin #907
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07/10/2010
Search for "Fruitdealer vs Hopetorture" on google, I found free videos of the matches in that way.
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Predvoditel #735
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07/10/2010
You can find on YOU TUBE some of the games. BTW Fruit dealer has some amasing skill with zerg. It's true that Zerg race is hard to learn and play, but once you master it - it's really imba :)
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BrotherDeath #851
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07/10/2010
At least you can no longer say that Zerg is a weak choice of race.
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Lemonhead #405
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07/10/2010
@BrotherDeath:
Sure you can.

If you want to talk about race balance from this tournament alone, you cald say that protoss is weak, since the finals was between a terran and a zerg.

You could however say something like "zerg is not too bad" since one guy managed to win a tournament with that race.
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machine #503
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07/10/2010
a question comes up again and again; why Europe site has such a delay? do they send the news with chariots or something?
your strategies my friends, insult the very concept of the "internet"; call it "just-net" or something and get it over with.

It's a post, which means copy-pasting a few paragraph from the other site to this one. and it could be easily automated. in other words, the only resource required in order to achieve this simple task is called "management". i'm sorry you're so low on this particular resource.
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coCoKNIght #772
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07/10/2010
"If you missed the live games, you can still catch up on all the action by visiting http://www.gomtv.net"
No I can't, the player is windows only...
Congrats to FruitDealer, and great to see a Zerg player take home the price.
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TheTouch #807
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07/10/2010
@coCoKNIght: The GomTV player may be windows only, but I think the VODs can be watched in a browser window on any OS.
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coCoKNIght #772
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07/10/2010
@BigManMike: Hmm.. thanks for the info, yeah, it seams to work on my gf's mac...
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CanisMajoris #609
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CanisMajoris
07/10/2010
I think FruitDealer is for the Zerg race in SC2 what Slayer'sBoxer was for the Terran race in SC1.
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TeQuiiLa #348
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TeQuiiLa
07/10/2010
brilliant! he is one of my fav players, right in line with idra.
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Medonja #646
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Medonja
07/10/2010
@TeQuiiLa: Lol@IdrA
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Thanatos #712
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07/10/2010
A Korean won ... who would have guessed !!! :D

I do hope none got stupidly offended by that previous remark :)

Congrats to the winner
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Tribu #106
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07/10/2010
i cant get the videos to play.. there is just the foot logo flashing, anything i need to know to make this work?
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wyNd #423
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07/10/2010
@Tribu: Probably don't have the right browser plug-in.
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Nikkov #898
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Nikkov
07/10/2010
@Tribu: You have to pay for it... (you need to log in...)
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Euronyme #325
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07/10/2010
@Nikkov:
no you dont.. i made an account and watched all games without paying one penny.. dunno why ppl says it's not free :S
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eXe
07/10/2010
Grats!
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Taesty #826
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07/10/2010
I learnt a lot watching A Fruit Dealer's Zerg.

I'm sure quite a few of us did. I look forward to more of his matches
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Alenius #652
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Alenius
07/10/2010
This goes to show that Terran doesn't need a nerf and Zerg is fine as it is!
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CptTehnoMage #943
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07/10/2010
@Alenius: lol. NO. Zerg is UP. fruitdealer is just an amazing player.
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Alenius #652
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Alenius
08/10/2010
@TehnoMage: Lol no! All the Zerg players just suck!
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Lamarq #795
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Lamarq
12/10/2010
@Alenius: you suck terran trash
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Hipno #921
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Hipno
06/10/2010
Thank you FruitDealer for winning the tournament in the name of the zerg!
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Hamster #326
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Hamster
06/10/2010
I want his fruit. And his babies.
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Coco #592
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Coco
06/10/2010
For the swarm!
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LucaZ #229
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LucaZ
06/10/2010
Way to be four days late, but yeah this GSL was awesome, can't wait for the next one ^^
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sly
06/10/2010
Congratulation on fellow Zerg player win in this tournament. gg
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KalooKi #789
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KalooKi
06/10/2010
Haters gonna hate.
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sbroon #228
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sbroon
06/10/2010
he is really on another level at the moment
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MLLink #764
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06/10/2010
And the winner IS ZERG!!! How many dissappointed compailing-always-dudes he made by his perfect 4-1 victory over imba-terrans ))
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Resist #815
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07/10/2010
@Link: Just because the best Starcraft 2 player in the World can win with Zerg doesn't mean they aren't UP for normal humans.
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Medonja #646
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07/10/2010
@Resist: You're wrong...It means all you zergies out there need to l2p...And btw lol@best player in the world...I don't think so...
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Vedran #157
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06/10/2010
Where else can I watch these videos?
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Xoraisse #947
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Xoraisse
06/10/2010
This is what I use at least http://www.sc2replayed.com/ . On topic, Fruitdealer is really on a league of his own, at least regarding Zerg play. Fantastic matches, worth the time to watch them.
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Rafiki #609
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Rafiki
06/10/2010
Is there a place one can download the game replays??
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Zemic #774
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06/10/2010
<3 Zerg
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Stafngrimr #796
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06/10/2010
Fruitdealer is the man. And GomTV is #@!*e. The player broke after the first match for me and I had to find a stream of a stream of a stream. Clearly they couldn't handle the popularity that the GSL ended up having.
Hopefully this will be cleared up for GSL II. I look forward to it =)
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