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After 34 participants, only one could be left standing as the winner. And it turned out to be one of the two foreign players who won. Or, foreign and foreign, he lives in Sweden but is a Norwegian citizen. His name is Emil "Mireille" Niklasson, coming from clan Infernal Gamers and a newly made member of Team Norway. Before the finals he told GosuGamers that he did not see himself as the winner, and was pretty sure he would lose. After winning the first best of three round by default, and losing the other one pretty clear, he made a nice comeback in the finals and finally won with 2-1 (5-4).
The players were seated next to the stage, as well as the commentators, camera men and a massive crowd standing a couple of meters further away. The players Liquid.Daaman and iG.Mireille just faced eachother two months earlier on the Swedish LAN RixHack, where Daaman proved to be stronger player, by not losing a single game and beating Mireille fairly easy with 3-0 in the grand final. Now, it was time for Mireille to seek revenge. Although this time, Mireille was the one coming from Winner Bracket.
On the big screen, the 50+ crowd could see the first match, casted by Raistlin and myself, Mazor. The first game was played on Luna, a match where Daaman proved that scouting, map control and advantage in expansions are deadly important. By using Lurkers and his strategical mind, he puts Mireille in a trap and wins the first game. The second game stars on Gaia, the World Cyber Games map. There Daaman quite early takes the advantage, but Mireille does a nice comeback and wins the match much thanks to his nice unit flow, and the final match was a fact. That one match would settle who to win 9,000 SEK.
Final placements DHS 2005
1. iG.Mireille~960€ (9,000 SEK)
2. Liquid.Daaman~426€ (4,000 SEK)
3. TS-diZreZpect~213€ (2,000 SEK)
4. xeQ.ZpuX--
5. Suwon--
5. Robert---
7. 4N.Return[SomE]--
7. Disruptor--
The finals game featured a very interesting fight on Lost Temple, where Mireille was able to break the trend constantly losing against Zerg's in offline tournament finals - and he did it nicely too. He played on one mineral income constantly (using two as a total though only one at the time). He was lucky with the position, 9vs12 as Zerg vs Terran, which forced Daaman to hatch his choke instead of early expansion, and Mireille was after this able to finish Daaman's main and expansions off with a strong marine/medic/tank force.
Shoutcasted in the bigscreen by Mazor and Raistlin, the crowd seemed to enjoy the final between Liquid.Daaman and iG.Mireille a lot. Although, a surprise were at the end of the tunnel when it turned out that iG.Mireille were the one who came out on top.
After 34 participants, only one could be left standing as the winner. And it turned out to be one of the two foreign players who won. Or, foreign and foreign, he lives in Sweden but is a Norwegian citizen. His name is Emil "Mireille" Niklasson, coming from clan Infernal Gamers and a newly made member of Team Norway. Before the finals he told GosuGamers that he did not see himself as the winner, and was pretty sure he would lose. After winning the first best of three round by default, and losing the other one pretty clear, he made a nice comeback in the finals and finally won with 2-1 (5-4).
Live audio and video shoutcast by GosuGamers
The players were seated next to the stage, as well as the commentators, camera men and a massive crowd standing a couple of meters further away. The players Liquid.Daaman and iG.Mireille just faced eachother two months earlier on the Swedish LAN RixHack, where Daaman proved to be stronger player, by not losing a single game and beating Mireille fairly easy with 3-0 in the grand final. Now, it was time for Mireille to seek revenge. Although this time, Mireille was the one coming from Winner Bracket.
On the big screen, the 50+ crowd could see the first match, casted by Raistlin and myself, Mazor. The first game was played on Luna, a match where Daaman proved that scouting, map control and advantage in expansions are deadly important. By using Lurkers and his strategical mind, he puts Mireille in a trap and wins the first game. The second game stars on Gaia, the World Cyber Games map. There Daaman quite early takes the advantage, but Mireille does a nice comeback and wins the match much thanks to his nice unit flow, and the final match was a fact. That one match would settle who to win 9,000 SEK.
Final placements DHS 2005
1. iG.Mireille~960€ (9,000 SEK)
2. Liquid.Daaman~426€ (4,000 SEK)
3. TS-diZreZpect~213€ (2,000 SEK)
4. xeQ.ZpuX--
5. Suwon--
5. Robert---
7. 4N.Return[SomE]--
7. Disruptor--
Lost Temple to settle it all
The finals game featured a very interesting fight on Lost Temple, where Mireille was able to break the trend constantly losing against Zerg's in offline tournament finals - and he did it nicely too. He played on one mineral income constantly (using two as a total though only one at the time). He was lucky with the position, 9vs12 as Zerg vs Terran, which forced Daaman to hatch his choke instead of early expansion, and Mireille was after this able to finish Daaman's main and expansions off with a strong marine/medic/tank force.
