Coming from the BYOC, four players walked a hard road to embark on even harder one. To the luck of two of them, Jonkoping was kind, really kind.
For Feast and especially for Snute, day two at DreamHack Winter was heavy on successes. The Norwegian zerg got a short straw by drawing Group A but that did not hold him back as he landed just behind Taeja, leaving players like TheSTC and Stephano to eat elimination dirt.
Feast, on the other hand, was the fifth protoss in Group B and had similarly stunning run, finishing as the only player that took a series off group leader Mana.
At the same time, the other two newcomers in NightEnd and Bischu could not disrupt the top threes in groups C and D which were established yesterday, although not that Fnatic's protoss did not try his best. NightEnd's victories tight him both in series and in maps with Naniwa and ForGG in group D and only the slightly better map score of Naniwa within this triad secured him a spot in the playoffs.
The playoffs began with a handful of one-sided games as Thorzain, Snute and Nerchio cast out Socke, TLO and Fraer, respectively and only the Naniwa/Feast series proved to be somewhat of a nail-biter. It took both protosses all five sets and one late game chaos finale to proclaim a winner: hometurf hero Naniwa would live to fight another day.
GosuGamers' coverage resumes tomorrow at 12:00 CET with the quarter final matches of DHW '12.
