CKCG 2005

Day one of the CKCG 2005 South Korea versus China event has come and gone. Some very exciting things happened on this day. The Chinese and South Korean Brood War gamers got off to a great start as the group stages commenced.

Earlier in the week the group announcement was made and I presented the groups with most of the information I had. To refresh some people's memories the groups were as follows.

Group A Group B wNv.Pj THE_Super SlayerS_`BoxeR` Iloveoov Kingdom Dream.t)Siva Yx.Mop qcH.ZzR Group C Group D SCI)_Dp_R HK Silent_Control [ReD]NaDa GooDFriend GoRush [S.Top]Phoenix66 [S.Top]Vulture

In the first round 8 games were played. 8 Players emerged as victors. Some very exciting things happened in the first round as some upsets were pulled and some of the worlds most favorite gamers won their matches.

Round One

Group A BoxeR > Kingdom Yx.Mop > wNv.Pj Group B Iloveoov > Dream.T)Siva THE_Super > qcH.ZzR Group C NaDa > GoRush [S.Top]Vulture > HK Group D Silent_Control > GooDFriend [S.Top]Phoenix66 > SCI)_Dp_R

The first round was dominated by the Terran gamers. Only one protoss managed to pull up a win. Yx.Mop got a huge upset over a fellow Chinese gamer wNv.Pj. In the second round things got a little more interesting.

Round Two

Group A BoxeR > wNv.Pj Kingdom - Yx.Mop Group B Iloveoov > qcH.ZzR THE_Super > Dream.T)Siva Group C GoRush > HK NaDa > / [S.Top]Vulture Group D Silent_Control > SCI)_Dp_R GooDFriend > [S.Top]Phoenix66

In this round the Koreans dominated over their opponents. Also once again Terran players just destroyed the competition. In the next round more games were played and more people were defeated, and others were winners.

Round Three

Group A Kingdom > / wNv.Pj Yx.Mop > BoxeR Group B Dream.T)Siva > qcH.ZzR Iloveoov > THE_Super Group C NaDa > HK GoRush > / [S.Top]Vulture Group D GooDFriend > SCI)_Dp_R Silent_Control > [S.Top]Phoenix66

Some more upsets in this series as wNv.Pj was shutout the entire event. So was qcH.ZzR. The Chinese gamers as many expected did not do very well. Although Yx.Mop did take up some the slack for his nation.

Group A

Name	Wins	Losses	Draws
Yx.Mop	2	0	1
BoxeR	2	1	0
Kingdom	1	1	1
wNv.Pj	0	3	0

Group B

Name	Wins	Losses	Draws
Iloveoov	3	0	0
THE_Super	2	1	0
Dream.T)Siva	1	2	0
qcH.ZzR	0	3	0

Group C

Name	Wins	Losses	Draws
NaDa	3	0	0
GoRush	2	1	0
[S.Top]Vulture	1	2	0
HK	0	3	0

Group D

Name	Wins	Losses	Draws
Silent_Control	2	1	0
[S.Top]Phoenix66	2	1	0
GooDFriend	2	1	0
SCI)_Dp_R	0	3	0

The top two players in each group qualified for the next round in the event. In Group D there was a three way tie for first. Each of the three gamers played one another once again to see who would advance and who would not.

Slient_Control > Goodfriend GooDFriend > [S.Top]Phoenix66 Silent_Control > [S.Top]Phoenix66

So after that GooDFriend and Silent_Control advance while [S.Top]Phoenix66 is left behind.

For the next round which should be held tomorrow the matches will get even more interesting than today's games. Only 8 gamers left in the event, what will happen!?

BoxeR vs. Iloveoov Yx.Mop vs. THE_Super NaDa vs. Goodfriend GoRush vs. Slient_Control

Some replays have been found and have been uploaded.

2 versus 2 Amateur Matches - Here
[S.Top]Phoenix66 vs. Silent_Control - Here
NaDa vs. HK - Here
wNv.Pj vs. Kingdom - Here

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