WCG 2008: Day 3 Results - Single Elimination Stage

The Warcraft tournament on Day 3 of WCG saw some really amazing games. The intensity of the games played was even greater since it was a knock-out phase. It was pretty obvious who would advance from the round of top 16 to the quarter-finals, with the exception of Like vs ToD, where with the use of some risky tower pushes ToD was able to defeat Like and moved on to face Grubby in the quarter-finals.

Having used his surprise tactic against Like already, ToD admitted that the King of Orcs was going to be hard to take down in an interview with SK-Gaming. That is what exactly happened, and Grubby came on top after three close games. Another quarter-final match that generated much interest was Moon vs TeD. Moon recovered from being down 0-1 in map score, taking the series with a score of 2-1.

The semi-finals saw Moon winning over Happy and Grubby over HoT. This set the stage for the most anticipated and THE greatest WCG final ever: MYM]Moon vs MYM]Grubby. The final is going to be played today, at 13:00 CET and will be streamed live on ESL TV, and WCG’s official stream. Let’s hope the streams are able to handle the load of the amount of expected spectators, which could be a record high!

Moon and Grubby - Team mates and rivals at the same time. Image from ggl.com

On the other hand, the Counter-Strike tournament became nail biting from the quarter-final onwards. In the lower half of the bracket, mTw thrashed MYM 2-0 in the querter-finals. mTw crashed into the scene recently and has managed to place atleast top 4 in all the recent tournaments except for Extreme Masters: LA, where they failed to advance from the group stage. They moved on to win the semi-final over CBTEAM (ex-MYM) from Norway.

In the upper half of the bracket, SK beat GAMEPLAY 2-1 in the quarter-final, then beat eSTRO with a similar map score and will now meet mTw in the final. Considering SK’s solid performance in this tournament and mTw’s consistent winning streaks, the CS final is bound to be a close one! It starts at 14:30 CET today and will be broadcasted live on the two streams mentioned above.