As promised, here is the full replay pack of Up and Coming 2. There are one or two replays from round one missing, but that's it. We also asked Avi-Love a few more questions after he won the tournament.
For those of you who missed the results of the tour follow the link at the bottom to the previous news. Also there's a pre-tournament interview with Avi (and others). Here is the interview after he won the tournament.
Lets start with the players you believed to have a good chance before the tournament. marine was replaced, but you mentioned stardeath, push and datoby. datoby and push were both eliminated in the first round. Were you surprised at their results? or any other results for that matter?
I was very surprised to see both push and datoby out so fast, honestly I'm still not sure if it was a fluke or if they were actually outplayed - looking forward to the reps! Apart from them, I think that it was a pretty big upset for gogna to reach the final, especially beating stardeath in the semi finals.
Your path to the win was 2-0 vs cancel, 2-0 vs moon, 2-1 vs mannertoss and 3-1 vs gogna. Seems like you had few problems. Tell us a little bit about each opponent/how the games went and who seemed strong, despite losing.
My first game vs cancel was a pretty fast and "easy" win, not to sound rude but he messed up his bo immensly and was promptly punished. Game two was however a very very good game, 43 mins of zvp action :) My games vs moon were both pretty easy wins for me, I played pvt and zvt. Vs mannertoss I threw away the first game playing insanely stupid, but then I secured the next two games without much struggle. And in the final I tried tvz in game 1, lost and then won 3 zvz's in a row. I honestly didn't have a lot of problems vs any of them, they suited my way of playing pretty well
If ggnet were to host up and coming 3, do you have any ideas for improvements (coverage/format etc) or ideas for specific players you would like to see in it?
Honestly I liked the first up and coming a lot, all players were interviewed and thus given a chance to introduce themselves and comment on their first games, so I'd love to see that in again ! And as for players, I can honestly say that I think uT)Mana is a rising star, and should get an invite! Apart from that, try to get encouraged people, a few of the players in this round came unprepared and barely knew the maps, I felt sad seeing that.
Congratulations on the win, anything else you want to say about u&c2 or anything in general?
Well I'd like to thank uT)Stormtoss and Get.Remember117 for helping me practice and encouraging me a lot. Thanks guys! Also, I forgot to mention Svampis in the last interview, and he's another swede that I love much <3. I'm very grateful gg.net does a lot for the community, so thanks to gg.net aswell for an awesome site, community and tournament!
Links
GosuGamers - Brackets & results
GosuGamers - Avi and Nesh interviews pre-tournament
GosuGamers - Replay pack
