It was a nail-biter of a quarter finals, DeMusliM started out well in the groupstage with three straight wins, but later lost to both Tarson and White-Ra, and got a difficult seed in the playoffs with his thirdplace from his group. Going up against GoOdy, everything was at stake for both the players; the winner would obviously move on in the playoffs, but also secure one of the four spots in the Intel Extreme Masters World Championship. The series would have to be settled in a fifth and deciding match, after DeMusliM equalized to 2-2 in the fourth game on Xel'Naga Caverns after being down 2-0.
In the final match on Steppes of War, DeMusliM managed to pull off a very well timed tank push, starting out with landing two vikings to damage the only tanks for GoOdy, and played safe from there, taking his own expansion and macroed up to eventually win the game.
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Revenge, Revenge. White-Ra is probably the favorite, but I'm looking forward to play him again. I didn't use my normal strategy in the groupstage, I'm looking forward to play him again - The Beast from the East.” - Benjamin "DeMusliM" BakerIn the second quarter finals Tarson proved his Terran vs Protoss strong after a convincing 3-0 win against one of Europe's strongest Protoss players, Socke. Tarson will meet up with SjoW (who qualified directly to the semi finals after winning group B), which will be just as exciting after Tarson managed to take down strong Terrans in his group; DeMusliM, Naama, Kas, and merz.
After the quarter finals of the European Championship we have a total of 7 players in the World Championship so far; MorroW (IEM at Gamescom, Cologne), Fenix & qxc (IEM US Championship), White-Ra, Tarson, DeMusliM, SjoW (IEM European Championship).
The semi finals will take place tomorrow (Sunday the 23rd) starting at 12:50 CET.
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 11:00 | Group B |  GoOdy | 2-1 | Socke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11:00 | Group B |  PredY | 2-1 |  ClouD | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12:15 | Group B |  SjoW | 2-0 |  SarenS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12:15 | Group B | PredY | 0-2 | Socke 13:30 | Group B | GoOdy 2-0 | SarenS 13:30 Group B | SjoW 2-0 | ClouD 14:45 Group A |  Naama 1-2 |  White-Ra 14:45 Group A | merz 0-2 |  Tarson 16:00 Group A | Kas 0-2 |  DeMusliM 16:00 Group A | Naama 1-2 | Tarson 17:15 Group A | Kas 2-0 | White-Ra 17:15 Group A | merz 1-2 | DeMusliM 18:30 Group A | Naama 0-2 | DeMusliM 18:30 Group A | Kas 2-0 | merz 19:45 Group A | White-Ra 2-0 | TarsonFriday, January 21 | 11:00 Group B | SarenS 2-0 | ClouD 11:00 Group B | GoOdy 2-0 | PredY 12:15 Group B | SjoW 2-1 | | Socke 12:15 Group B | GoOdy 2-1 | ClouD 13:30 Group B | SarenS 1-2 | | Socke 14:45 Group B | SjoW 2-0 | PredY 16:00 Group A | Kas 0-2 | Tarson 16:00 Group A | Naama 2-1 | merz 17:15 Group A | White-Ra 2-0 | DeMusliM 18:30 Group A | DeMusliM 1-2 | Tarson 18:30 Group A | White-Ra2-0 | merz 18:30 Group A | Kas 2-0 | Naama 18:30 Group B | Socke 0-2 | ClouD 18:30 Group B | SjoW 2-0 | | GoOdy 18:30 Group B | SarenS 2-0 | PredySaturday, January 22 | 12:30 Quarter Final |  Tarson 3-0 | |  Socke 14:15 Quarter Final | GoOdy 2-3 | | DeMusliMSunday, January 23 | 12:50 Semi Final #2 | White-Ravs. | DeMusliM 14:35 Semi Final #1 | Tarsonvs. | SjoW 17:35 Third-place Final | 19:35 Final | | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
