StarCraft 2 NewSCast for Friday, August 26th

Here we go everyone.  I am TheAmazombie and this is your StarCraft 2 NewSCast for Friday, August 26th, first day of MLG Raleigh.

Well, let's start with results from Day 1 at MLG.  Here are the results from pool play so far:
Pool A: Coca 3-0, Naniwa 2-1, Rain 1-1, Huk 1-2, and InControl trying for the repeat performance at 0-3.
Pool B: Bomber 3-0, Sjow 2-1, Machine 1-2, Idra 1-2, and Haypro 0-2.
Pool C: Select 2-1, DRG 2-1, Trickster 1-1, Slush 1-2, and TLO at 1-2 taking down Trickster.
Pool D: Kiwikaki 3-0, Sheth 2-1, Nada 2-1, Ret 0-2, and Moonan 0-3.  This is the only group where the current top 2 does not contain a Korean.

In Open Winner's bracket play, here are the lineups for tomorrow: Drewbie vs. Ostojiy, wbc vs. Puma, KawaiiRice vs. DeMuslism, Tri_Master vs. Jinro, TTN114 vs. Grubby, theognis vs. Noblesse, Hero vs. PainUser, and Inka vs. Tyler.  Everyone else from the upper bracket has been dropped to the loser's brackets.  Notable names include: Spanishiwa, giX, Catz, HwangSin, Cruncher, Gretorp, qxc, and ThisIsJimmy.

After all of the games, MLG hosted a special live episode of State of the Game.  During this time, Sundance, the CEO of MLG, came on and made some announcements including an idea of their seasonal structure for 2012, some ideas for prize money increases, and a special Global MLG Invitational where the finals will be live at Providence.  Not all of the details have been announced as of yet, but they teased us with the ideas.

In other news, the NASL has released the next 5 players for season 2.  Today they announced TLO, DarkForce, Socke, HasuObs, and Haypro.  Next week they will release the other half of the players for season 2.

Well, that's about all that we have to report on for today.  Don't miss any of the action, but if you do you can find it here the next morning at SC2NewSCast.com.