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PGL: Th000 and Wulin out, Happy and Lyn still in
We reach the penultimate stage of the PGL and both Happy and Lyn are battling it out in the lowerbracket, while Th000 and Wulin are both eliminated.
By Lawrence Benedict 'Malystryx' Phillips
Jan 7, 2009 23:17
We reach the penultimate stage of the PGL and both Happy and Lyn are battling it out in the lowerbracket, while Th000 and Wulin are both eliminated.Dmitriy 'Happy' Kostin is the only European left in the event and managed to take a map off Du Seop 'WhO' Changearlier today before being sent to the lower bracket, where he knocked out Lin 'Wulin' Wu to keep himself in the competition.
Meanwhile June 'Lyn' Park was on the receiving end of a heavy beating from Xiaofeng 'Sky' Li who played exceptionally well. The second game on Ancient Isles Sky performed some exquisite Archmage harass early game forcing a tp, cancelling a shop as well as a beastiaty really putting Lyn on the backfoot.
Lyn had gone for a Farseer first allowing Sky to go on the offensive ane opted for some base raiding to get himself back in the game while trying to expand. He expanded twice on Ancient Isles but never really managed to get an expo up as Sky quickly found them and called gg realising he would be unable to turn things around.
He went into another Orc v Human matchup in the lower bracket, this time against Xiang 'TH000' Huang who had been beaten by Weiliang 'Fly100%' Lu 2-1 in the upper bracket. Lyn started off the first game well enough on Tidewater Glades but fell fowl to a tower rush by TH000 in late tier 1. Second game was Melting Valley and Lyn got a stroke of luck killing TH000's first hero the Mountain King while he was creeping the orange mercenary camp, as well as a couple of footmen.
TH000 then went on the defensive by expanding and towering up to go for dragonhawks and gryphons but could never really level up the MK enough to be the aggressor. Third game was Twisted Meadows and a long and gruelling tier 1 battle. TH000 went for a tier 1 tower rush and managed to level up the Archmage to level 4 but a lapse of concentration by one player would decide the game.
Having escaped on low HP TH000's Archmage, while being chased by spirit wolves, suddenly turned back to face his enemies and was immediately clawed down. This would prove to be the turning point for Lyn who was able to fight back to keep his PGL hopes alive.
Lyn and Happy will now wait in the wings while the matches Du Seop 'WhO' Chang versus Xuwen 'InFi' Wang and Xiaofeng 'Sky' Li against Weiliang 'Fly100%' Lu decide who they will face next.
PGL Upper Bracket Individual knockout phase
Du Seop 'WhO' Chang vs Xuwen 'InFi' Wang
Xiaofeng 'Sky' Li vs Weiliang 'Fly100%' Lu
PGL Lower Bracket Individual knockout phase
June 'Lyn' Park vs Who/Infi
Dmitriy 'Happy' Kostin vs Sky/Fly100%
[photo taken by the PGL]
Meanwhile June 'Lyn' Park was on the receiving end of a heavy beating from Xiaofeng 'Sky' Li who played exceptionally well. The second game on Ancient Isles Sky performed some exquisite Archmage harass early game forcing a tp, cancelling a shop as well as a beastiaty really putting Lyn on the backfoot.
Lyn had gone for a Farseer first allowing Sky to go on the offensive ane opted for some base raiding to get himself back in the game while trying to expand. He expanded twice on Ancient Isles but never really managed to get an expo up as Sky quickly found them and called gg realising he would be unable to turn things around.
He went into another Orc v Human matchup in the lower bracket, this time against Xiang 'TH000' Huang who had been beaten by Weiliang 'Fly100%' Lu 2-1 in the upper bracket. Lyn started off the first game well enough on Tidewater Glades but fell fowl to a tower rush by TH000 in late tier 1. Second game was Melting Valley and Lyn got a stroke of luck killing TH000's first hero the Mountain King while he was creeping the orange mercenary camp, as well as a couple of footmen.
TH000 then went on the defensive by expanding and towering up to go for dragonhawks and gryphons but could never really level up the MK enough to be the aggressor. Third game was Twisted Meadows and a long and gruelling tier 1 battle. TH000 went for a tier 1 tower rush and managed to level up the Archmage to level 4 but a lapse of concentration by one player would decide the game.
Having escaped on low HP TH000's Archmage, while being chased by spirit wolves, suddenly turned back to face his enemies and was immediately clawed down. This would prove to be the turning point for Lyn who was able to fight back to keep his PGL hopes alive.
Lyn and Happy will now wait in the wings while the matches Du Seop 'WhO' Chang versus Xuwen 'InFi' Wang and Xiaofeng 'Sky' Li against Weiliang 'Fly100%' Lu decide who they will face next.
PGL Upper Bracket Individual knockout phase
Du Seop 'WhO' Chang vs Xuwen 'InFi' Wang
Xiaofeng 'Sky' Li vs Weiliang 'Fly100%' Lu
PGL Lower Bracket Individual knockout phase
June 'Lyn' Park vs Who/Infi
Dmitriy 'Happy' Kostin vs Sky/Fly100%
[photo taken by the PGL]
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gl both!
The game that I found particularly interesting was round 2 of sky vs lyn.We have seen ''the Sky'' at his best with brilliant harrasement at t1 and early t2.Afterwards,Lyn opts for some classic ''orc bullshit''(this also requires a lot of skill,I just like to call it like this)-base harrasement,forcing a tp from sky with his superior siege dmg multiple times,allowing himself to expo not once,but twice!However,sky's scouting was simply godlike.Using the powerfull combo of quils/WE/bears,he never lets lyn get his expos up and running.It took sky a long time,but in the end,he managed to force a fight.Lyn got terrible positioning and was bound to fail.
Sky will win this hands down
Btw,sry if I made a lot of mistakes,it's almost 4 am and i am a ''bit'' drunk :)
GL to all of the remaining participants