Tomorrow morning at 04:00 CET the quarter finals of the JustinTV iCCup StarCraft Invitatational will be broadcasted. A European clash between Oleksii "White-Ra" Krupnyk and Christoph "Mondragon" Semke will be the highlight of the round.



Mondragon, who many were sad to see not playing in World Cyber Games this year, is not as highly ranked as he was earlier this year. Mixing good with bad results, Mondragon is down on rank nine in the GosuGamers rankings.

- Heralded once as the greatest player outside of Korea, Mondragon has a distinct aura about him whenever he gets behind a keyboard despite being less active and somewhat off form recently, comments iCCup editor-in-chief Brendan "deL" Ferguson.

White-Ra was up against another German Zerg, kolll, prior to the quarter finals, and advanced by a 2-1 win. On the other side, Mondragon defeated Protoss player Yayba. Looking at the six previous encounters White-Ra and Mondragon break even, so only the stars should know how this match ends.

The clash between TvZ-playing Hayder "HayprO" Hussein and Zerg player Zhe "XiaOzI" Teng will be another acid test for the Swede. Last round he narrowly defeated Cristóbal "Dinot" Lledó in what was another tough TvZ matchup.

XiaOzI has only lost to IdrA when it comes to playing Terrans looking over his last 30 matches. HayprO and XiaOzI have never faced each other prior to this event, and it should be a nice treat.

Polish Protoss youngster Grzegorz "MaNa" Komincz will take on David "Louder" Fells in the other side of the brackets. There, Pavel "BRAT_OK" Kuznetsov will lock horns with Kelby "iNkA" WIlliams.

JustinTV iCCup StarCraft Invitational Round of 8
Louder vs. MaNa
iNkA vs. BRAT_OK
HayprO vs. XiaOzI
White-Ra vs. Mondragon

Links
iCCup.com - Source
iCCup.com - Round 2 replay package
Justin.TV - Catch the Round 3 VODs at 04:00 CET