HayprO, ajtls to NVIDIA GosuCup playoff

Hayder "HayprO" Hussein and Nick "ajtls" De Cesare are the first two to pull through to the NVIDIA StarCraft 2 GosuCup playoff. This after yesterday's first open qualifier.

The Swedish Zerg ran through the brackets fairly unthreatened, albeit beating Tomasz "Tarson" Boroń in the fourth round. The semi final against Andrew "Andro" Lozinski ended in a 2-1 win after a tough start for the Swede.

- "He did a fast dark templar opening that I kinda saw so it didn't do damage but afterwards I somehow manage to keep losing my overseers so I lost too much to the dark templars and ended up losing the game," explains HayprO to GosuGamers.

In the second game he was able to defend against the proven favored dark templar strategy of Andro and could win with mutalisk harass transitioning into roaches.

To end the series and qualify for the playoffs, HayprO did an early zergling push that caught Andro off guard who teched early and went fast expansion.

ajtls, also him a known StarCraft: Brood War player, had a tougher route to reach the playoffs. By defeating known veterans as Paulo "Cat" Vizcarra, Simon "stalife" Park and Stefan "MorroW" Anderson his journey towards the playoffs ended in victory.

The final between HayprO and ajtls will be played in a near future to determine seeding positions for the playoff.

Schedule
August 14: +00:00 CET 18:00 EDT	US qualifier #1 (Top 2 advance)	» SIGN UP
August 15: 18:00 CET 12:00 EDT	EU qualifier #1 (Top 2 advance)	» SIGN UP
August 21: +00:00 CET 18:00 EDT	US qualifier #2 (Top 2 advance)	» SIGN UP
August 22: 18:00 CET 12:00 EDT	EU qualifier #2 (Top 2 advance)	» SIGN UP
August 27:	Quarter Final
August 28:	Semi Final
August 29:	Grand Final, Bronze Final