StarCraft 2 NewSCast for Thursday, August 18th

Welcome everyone.  I am TheAmazombie and this is your StarCraft 2 NewS Cast for Thusday, August 18th.

Well, some good action from the day.  We will start with the GSTL from early Thursday morning.  The first match was between Slayers and the foreign heroes F. United.  Last week the foreigners pulled out an amazing win over a powerful MVP team, but this week, well, they got all-killed by SlayersTaeja.  In order, we had Soccer, Moon, Thorzain, and then Naniwa falling.  After that match we had MVP taking on Prime and here is that rundown:
MarineKing over Tails, and then the man himself, DongRaeGu came in to take out MarineKing, anypro, BBoongBBoong, and Polt to take the series 4-1 for his team MVP.

Also today we had day 2 action over in Germany with the Intel Extreme Masters GamesCon.  Today groups C and D played and here are the results with the top 2 advancing to the championship bracket:
Group C: Nerchio 3-0, Moonglade 2-1, Tarson 1-2, and the newest EG member Huk falling 0-3.
Group D: Mana 3-0, Puma 2-1, then Stephano 1-2 and Sase 0-3.
The championship brackets start Friday morning.  Here are the pairings for that:
Socke vs. Kas, Nerchio vs. Puma, Select vs. MC, and Mana vs. Moonglade.


In other news, just the other day ArtosisTV has released the first episode in a new show series that they are calling "Imbalanced!"  The show features Artosis and Idra attempting to have a discussion about SC2 and the games balance issues.  You can find that over at youtube.com/artosistv.

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