StarCraft 2 NewSCast for Thursday, September 8th

Hello again everyone.  I am TheAmazombie and this is your StarCraft 2 NewS Cast for Thursday, September 8th.

Well, not a ton of action, but there was some amazing match ups over in the GSL Up and Down Matches early Thursday morning.  Here is the complete rundown:
Violet over Tester, Taeja over MarineKing, JYP over Violet, Tester over MarineKing, Taeja over JYP, MarineKing over Violet, Tester over Taeja, MarineKing over JYP, Taeja over Violet, and JYP over Tester.  This set up a playoff round where JYP went over Tester, MarineKing over JYP, and finally MarineKing over Tester.  This means that our Code S spots went to Taeja and MareinKing with the other 3 players all heading back to Code A.
So now the final Code S spots have been seeded.  The winners are SuperNova, Losira, Taeja, Leenock, Jjakji, MarineKing, Ganzi, and DRG.  Now let's see who wins Code S this season and how everyone does in the placement matches.

In other news, it has been a bit of a story the last few days where NBA player Gordon Hayward has signed up for the Open brackets at IPL season 3 in Atlantic City.  He has stated that he has been playing quite a bit more considering the NBA lock out as well as wanting to help promote ESPORTS in general.  Gordon is a Mid-level Terran user who also plays a bit of the other races.  Good luck to him and the future of competitive ESPORTS.

Also today we had the final day in Week 4 of the EG Masters Cup.  The results from this week are:
Empire over Sixjax 3-1, EG over Complexity 3-2, FnaticMSI over Gosu 3-1, and finally we had Dignitas handing it to Mouz with a quick 4-0 victory.

In game-related news, it appears the the PTR server for Europe is active.  There are still some issues it seems and some users having problems getting to it, but there are confirmed reports of players on it.  Finally, our European friends can play with the new patches.

In player news, it was just announced is that FXOsC, the very strong Korean player, has moved on to another Korean team, MVP.  Also, Elfi has announced that he has left his team Virus over issues with management and communication.  Let's see who nabs him up.  And the last little bit is that the European ToD has left Millennium Gaming and has said that he is heading over to Korea for a few months.  Good luck to all these players!

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