StarCraft 2 NewSCast for Thursday, July 28th

Here we go everyone.  I am TheAmazombie and this is your StarCraft 2 NewS Cast for Thursday, July 28th.

We are going to start off with big news coming out of Team Liquid.  If you have not heard, the recently released Sheth, formally of FXOpen has a new home with Team Liquid.  It has been awhile since TL has announced a new member and the ubermannered Sheth with his skill and attitude is a perfect fit.  Congrats to Sheth on the new team.  Just for reference, here is the complete roster of Team Liquid:
Nazgul, TLO, Haypro, Tyler, Jinro, Ret, Huk, and now Sheth.

On to tourney play with the up and down matches in the GSL from early this morning.  I will run through the single game results, then overall afterward:  First we had aLive over Inca, Leenock over Keen, aLive over Banbanssu, Keen over Inca, aLive over Leenock, Keen over Banbanssu, Keen over aLive, and Inca over Leenock.  This means that Keen and aLive will retain Code S, Inca, Leenock, and Banbanssu all Code A status.

We also had some loser's bracket play in the IPL season 2.  Today we had Drewbie taking out Cloud 2-0.  The next match was Tarson taking down NightEnd 2-1.  The third match was Lalush taking down Axslav 2-1, and the final match of the night was Darkforce falling 2-1 to BratOK.  All losers are eliminated from the tourney.

In other news, last night we announced the showmatch between SlayersBoxer and Yellow.  More details have come forward and this will actually be a best of 3, not best of 5 which is what we originally thought.  That match can be found over at gomtv.net on August 5th at 6AM PST.  This is the show match event of the year, so be there.

Also, another announcement from FXOpen.  They have signed a new player from South East Asia name proTimber, Julian Ho.  Good luck to him and his new team.

Well, that's about all of 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.

StarCraft 2 NewSCast for Friday, July 1st 2011

Here we go, the start of Month 3 for the SC2 NewS Cast.  I am TheAmazombie and we will get down to it:

We will start with the GSTL from last night as it was still going on.  First, as covered yesterday was the all-kill from Zenex over FXOpen.  Next was Fou taking on Hosea.  Not quite an all-kill, but almost.  First was Sirius taking game 1 over Scalp.  Then Sage came in and took game 2 from Sirius, game 3 from asd, game 4 from SC, and game 5 from Leenock.  Hoseo wins 4-1.

We also have the ro8 set in the NASL Season 2 Qualifier.  The final matchups are listed as AllAboutYou vs. SCFou, Polt vs. MarineKing, Vines vs. Hero, and CheckPoo vs. Top, all Koreans.  This means that the open winner was Korean and the season 2 qualifier will be Korean.  As the top 4 players receive an invite to season 2, and the spots 5-8 receive a waiting list spot, this means there could potentially be 8 more Korean players for season 2.

In other news from today, we had the announcement that for MLG Anaheim coming up in a few weeks the GSL will be sending MMA to defend his title as well as the Emperor himself, SlayersBoxer.  This was to be expected as Boxer has to come to California for the NASL finals as well.  The other players they are sending have not been announced as of yet.

Coming up this weekend over at TeamLiquid.net we have TL Open #18 on Saturday.  They also just announced another episode of TL Attack for Sunday featuring another fun player in dignitas.Naniwa.  That should be a good time so tune in there for a chance to play with Naniwa.

Well, that's about all 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.