MLG Day 1 Recap

Much excitement to be had watching the first day of MLG. The broadcast stream suffered some major issues which they hopefully have ironed out for today, and focused on the pool play which has no finished. Given that the 16 players in the pool play are all top notch, there weren't any upsets per say, but there were some interesting results. Some players rose to the occasion to dominate, others were surprisingly unremarkable. Here are some of the more interesting results :

Warning Spoilers ahead:


Liquid'Tyler: Going 2-1 in his group for 3rd place with only the open bracket player to go. Taken out first 2-1 by drewbie, and then a surprising 2-0 loss to Machine on the broadcast stream. It appears that the EG Zerg players found a solid counter to Protoss warpgate play in burrowed roaches, and Tyler couldn't come out on top over it.

Kiwikaki vs Idra: One of the final broadcasted matches, the two players were both sitting 2-0 when their match came. the surprising element in this series was Kiwikaki's amazing economy management. I don't think their was a single time in those matches where Idra had more workers than Kiwi. In the first game some heavy economic damage by a Void Ray and four Phoenix (5+ Queens, A couple drones, a multitude of Overlords) cemented that dominance allowing Kiwikaki the win. And in game two some questionable decision making by Idra gave Kiwikaki the lead. Going for an almost all-in assault on Kiwikaki's front door with burrowed roaches, and then completely overmaking corrupters allowed Kiwikaki to glide to victory. Some tense moments occurred when roaches arrived at Kiwi's natural before his Observer came out, but he held on to Victory.

EG Axslav Losing in OBR2: We never saw the matchup, but Axslav was eliminated one round before he was going to face teammate LzGamer, who ended up avenging him. Axslav has a long Loser's Bracket ahead of him.

InControl 2-1 in group: Lost to Painuser, defeated Slush and then cheesed the living milk out of TLO. In his own words "I feel like a quesadilla right now", but he emerged at the top of his group with his win Slush, the other person 2-1 in Pool C.


Thats all for now folks, stream is coming back up in just over an hour.