Sharp > Clawson in UGT final*

[s]starcraft[/s]

Remember UGTour? The original SC ladder that we wrote about in late March? Yesterday they held their season 2 playoffs, where the finals stood between Clawson[pG] and iRk-Sharp.

UGTour ladder Top 8 1. Frosty[KTS] 2. iRk-Breeze 3. Clawson[pG] 4. 604ass 5. Riska.tf[MGS] 6. iRk-Kardinal 7. iRk-Tuffer 8. iRk-Sharp 11. vSa.Blacklemon 13. iRk-Spacepirate

The playoffs for the second season of the biggest original StarCraft ladder, not counting the Battle.Net original ladder, was held yesterday. The Top 8 from Season 2 were invited, among them the known Brood War player Clawson[pG]. The UGTour administration are very strict in bringing in players for the ladder, and Clawson was a tough decision. After a bit of a fight between the two administrators iRk-Agge and DarkTiger, they let him join the ladder. Clawson himself wanted to try it out. "It kind of gives us a bit more publicity," says Agge, and tells that other great gamers from Brood War who enter the channel daily.

Clawson and iRk-Sharp in the grand final

The grand final stood between one of Nordic's best players Clawson[pG] who went through the bracket by first beating the ex Swedish National Team member iRk-Tuffer and then the Canadian player 604ass. The fairly unknown iRk-Sharp won against iRk-Breeze and vSa.Blacklemon. The grand final was really close, but in the end Sharp could prove that knowing the vanilla way to play is important and thereby won 3-2.

Round 1 - Quarter Final iRk-Spacepirate < vSa.Blacklemon 1-2 iRk-Breeze < iRk-Sharp 1-2 Clawson[pG] > iRk-Tuffer 2-1 604ass > Riska.tf[MGS] 2-1 Round 2 - Semi Final iRk-Sharp > vSa.Blacklemon 2-1 Clawson[pG] > 604ass 2-0 Round 3 - Grand Final Clawson[pG] < iRk-Sharp 2-3

Agge: "UGTour getting better and better"

Season 1 was won by Riska.tf[MGS], and runner-up was 604ass. Winner of the ladder ranking was just as this season Frosty[KTS]. iRk-AgGe says that he and the rest of the administational team are very satisfied with how UGTour has developed. Of their hard work they have now started to work on a launcher reporting matches automatically. During season 2 they had a bot receiving reports instead of reporting the games via software as in season 1.

Update: A small replay package including four of the five games from the Grand final between Clawson and Sharp are now up. Download it by clicking on the last link below.

Links
UGTour site - Home of Universal Gaming Tour
GosuGamers.net - Previous newspost about UGTour
GosuGamers.net - Download the Grand Final replays