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The Russian Starcraft community is not always very easy to get news from. We western Europeans and Americans e.t.c. usually just hear from it once in a while. Now a great event has been held. ASUS Spring 2005: Starcraft: BW TOP16 is a tournament with the top16 players from the Russian speaking community.



Playsers like Androide, Advokate and yAn were invited to fight for the total prize sum of 20 000 rubels. The players were divided into four groups.

GROUP A
[Skyline]White.Ra
vWeb.creAtiv
NonStop.EX[S2]
Antonio[a2]
GROUP B
SW)Advokate[S2]
Chekanog
bwt.Enemy.C-club
R^MCA
GROUP C
PGC.Androide.3D
Pomidor[S2]
MiG.Scout
k7.Topick
GROUP D
SW)yAn[S2]
iG.Bruce*Zebra
T21.SaShok
Notforu[S2]

The group phase didn't exactly work like groups. I'll take group A as example. White.Ra played creAtiv and NonStop played Antonio. The winners from those matches played each other in a fight about who was going to be placed #1 and #2. The two losers from the first matches played each other for a placing match. Same thing happened in all of the groups.

Single elimination tournament


After the group play a single elimination tournament started. Below is the scores from the matches.
Quarter finals NonStop.EX[S2] < PGC.Androide.3D 1-2
 bwt.Enemy.C-club < SW)yAn[S2] 0-2
MiG.Scout > [Skyline]White.Ra 2-0
iG.Bruce*Zebra > SW)Advokate[S2] 2-1
Semi finals PGC.Androide.3D < SW)yAn[S2] 0-2
iG.Bruce > MiG.Scout 2-1
Third place matchMiG.Scout > PGC.Androide.3D 2-0
Grand final iG.Bruce < SW)yAn[S2] 0-2

Final results1.SW)yAn[S2]6 000 rubles
2. iG.Bruce 5 000 rubles
3. MiG.Scout 3 500 rubles
4. PGC.Androide.3D 2 500 rubles
5. [Skyline]White.Ra 1 500 rubles
6. NonStop.EX[S2] 1 500 rubles

For winning yAn was also given a Graphics accelerator from ASUS. Congratulations to all participants!

Thank you for the help, Overmind!

Links
Cyberfight.ru - Newspost about the event
TeamLiquid - Forum thread about the event