StarCraft 2 NewSCast for Wednesday, August 17th

Welcome back everyone from the weekend. I am TheAmazombie and this is your StarCraft 2 NewS Cast for Wednesday, August 17th.

Well, for anyone that missed the big news from Tuesday, it is that Liquid'Huk has left Team Liquid and joined EG to fight in Korea along side his teammates Idra and Puma, as it was also announced that Idra will head back to Korea to participate in GSL.

In tourney action, we Day 4 in the GSL Code S play early Wednesday morning. Here is the rundown from group G:
Virus over HongUn, Clide over SuperNova, Virus over Clide, HongUn over SuperNova, and HongUn over Clide. These results mean that Virus and HongUn will advance, Clide retains Code S, and SuperNova drops to the Up and Down Matches.
Here is the rundown from group H:
Ensnare over Losira, July over Genius, July over Ensnare, Genius over Losira, and Genius over Ensnare meaning that July and Genius advance, Ensnare retains, and Losira drops to the Up and Down Matches.

Also over the weekend we had the iCCup Korean Weekly. The winners this week were Gumiho over Taeja 4-1. 3rd/4th were Naya and TheBest.

Started today was also the first rounds in the IEM Intel Extreme Masters tourney over in Europe. We had groups A and B play and here are the results with the top 2 of each group advancing:
MC: 3-0, Kas 2-1, Beastyqy: 1-2, and dignitas.Killer 0-3.
Group B:
Socke 2-1, Select 2-1, TSL.Killer 2-1, and DieStar 0-3.
Group play has resumed for Day 2 as I am recording this.

In other player news, Coco, formally of ZeNEX has signed with Slayers. The Slayers clan is becoming even more stacked. Also, TanDongHo, formally of ZeNEX has also signed with a new team, Team Dignitas. Good luck to the players and their new homes.

Also announced today is a partnership between Team ReIGN and IGN. IGN will support them monetarily and ReIGN will be providing content for IPL TV.

The last announcement for the day will be that two top Koreans will be at BlizzCon. This year it will be none other than champions IM.MVP and IM.NesTea. We will finally get to see NesTea in action outside of Korea.

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