StarCraft 2 NewSCast for Friday, June 24th

Alright everyone I am TheAmazombie and this is your StarCraft 2 NewS Cast for Friday, June 24th.

Well, with all of the excitement with FXO in the team league last night, we also had IM taking on Fou, which I did not get to cover as it was still ongoing, so I will start with that tonight.  IM.Happy took a couple of games, scfou took a couple of games, but in the end IM took the series 4-3.

On to the big tourney right now, HomeStory Cup 3 with day 2 action.  We had group play for groups E through H with the top two from each group advancing.  Here are the resutls from today:
Group E:
MC with the all-kill 3-0, Xlord at 2-1, DeMuslim: 1-2, and Tyler looking weak as he fell 0-3.
Group F:
Stephano coming out of nowhere at 3-0, Huk: 2-1, iNSolence: 1-2, and Naruto at 0-3.
Group G:
Naniwa at 3-0, Tarson: 2-1, and Dimaga and Bischu each dropping without a win.
and in Group H:
White-Ra: 3-0, Goody: 2-1, Darkforce: 1-2, and Machine at 0-3.
Tomorrow will consist of bracket elimination play.  Tune into that to see who take home the money.

In the NASL open we had the round of 16 play today.  I will report all of the results from that:
First, we had Thorzain taking out Bubbles, and he will play TSL.Revival who took out checkpooh.  Next was Fnatic.Rain taking down Minhyuk Kim, who I believe is TSL.Heart.  He will face Lee Seok Han, who I believe is TSL.Alive, as he beat Inka.  TSL.Puma took down Linko to move on and face NightEnd as he took out Cocoa.  The final match ups were TSL.Clide taking out KnowMe to face Lowei who took down DeMuslim.  The round of 8 and round of 4 matches are set to be played Saturday with the finals on Sunday.  The winner gets into NASL season 2 as well as the championship bracket of season 1. 

In team news we recently talked about Rain, formally of TSL leaving the team and expressing hope to join a foreign team.  Well, it has happened.  Many people speculated, but in the end it was FnaticMSI who got him.  He released a statement saying that he is looking forward to his new team with TT1, Fenix, and Sen.  That is a good class to belong to.   Also in team reports, Inka (The foreign one, not the Korean Inca) has joined Quantic Gaming.  Good luck to all of them.

Also in player news, we have a report that during HomeStory Huk was playing custom games on TLOs account and in turn Blizzard calls the tourney and gives a warning to Huk and TLO claiming that if it happens again there would be action up to and including account termination for TLO.  I find this funny because people do this on stream all the time.  I have seen everyone from Slayers Clan play on Cella's account.  After the call Huk and TLO continued to share accounts, so we will see if anything comes from this.

Coming up this weekend not only do we have TL Open #17, but we also have another episode of TL Attack and this week it is featuring the aforementioned Huk.  Tune in to teamliquid.net to watch and participate.

Other funsies out there, last night on Destiny's stream we had the "Battle of the Trolls" as Deezer took on CombatEX.  In the end Deezer took down Combat 3-2, but them Combat ranted on skype with trash talking abound.  This was hilarious, so check it out.


Well, that will wrap it up for today.  Don't miss any of the action, but if you do you can find it here the next morning at SC2NewSCast.com.