The two day Zerg streak is over and this time around a Terran has popped up in the lead. A familiar face, Sweden's Sjow has taken Morrow's place a top the terran food chain in 2010 and early 2011 before hitting a slump - right after winning the Intel Extreme Master's championship. It looks like this terran paragon who's low APM became his trademark and an inspiration for thousands of APM-impaired people is getting back into shape- right in time to try and qualify for yet another tournament under IEM banner- Gamescom Cologne 2011. But for now a Close Combat weekly championship and 125 euro will have to do.

The Money List
1st Sjow 1st place Close Combat 125 €
2nd MorroW 1st place ESET Qualification 100 €
3rd Osho 1st place MaxFrag CraftCup 100 $
4th Delphi 2nd place Close Combat 50 €
5th sYz 3rd place Close Combat 25 €
5th GLSnute 1st place EPS Cup #2 25 €
7th Ret 1st place HyperCrew Weekly 20$
8th rsvp 1st place ASCW Weekly, 2nd place Playhem.com 18$
9th Valkyrie 1st place Playhem.com Cup 15$
9th gix 1st place Playhem.com Cup 15$
11th Dhalism 2nd place Playhem.com, 3rd place Playhem.com 14$
12th goswser 3rd place Playhem.com Cup 6$

But it isn't for long that Sjow will top the lists- the weekend, as usual will bring us the largest and the juiciest tournaments. As such on Saturday we will see Thorzain, Socke and Hasuobs battle it out against the locals in the Spanish ESL tournament Torneo ESL Campus Valencia for 4000 euro first place prize. And while it might seem like an easy pickings for the international squad keep in mind this- both Thorzain and Socke have already lost in group stages.

Torneo ESL Campus Valencia
Brackets Spanish Coverage Stream(Maybe?)

In other events our forum-going coach Nineteen will face Odyssey in the final of the first Last Player Standing Cup(the organizers promise us it won't be the last)


Nineteen Bo5 Odyssey Bet!


IEM Gamescom North American Qualifications continue with TT1 facing SeleCT in the winner bracket finals and Idra facing KiLLeR in the loser bracket semifinal(winner faces Fenix). Top two advance with fare and accommodations to Cologne, Germany(a 600 dollar value as the casters have informed us) and, with any luck a chance to face today's top dog- Sjow.


TT1 Bo3 SeleCT Bet! Bet Real Money @ Pinnaclesports.com!



Idra Bo3 KiLLeR Bet! Bet Real Money @ Pinnaclesports.com!


IGN ProLeague Season 2 Continues with the highlight match of poker prodigy KiwiKaki(have you seen him in WSOP main event?) against Strelok(and 3 more).


KiwiKaki Bo3 Strelok Bet!


And last but not least do not forget to bet on GSL code A finals match! (Monday @11:10am CET or 05:10am EDT)


Tassadar Bo7 Puzzle Bet Gold Minerals!!