The two-day Blizzard event and the first stop of "The Road to Blizzcon" brought some of Europe's finest to Warsaw, Poland. After the first round of WB matches, four players are closer to the €7,000 first place prize.
In the opening match, home-ground player Tarson found Ret's insane macro with transition to massive baneling and mutalisk armies too hard to swallow. The Dutch won the series 2-1, sending the Polish terran down to the consolation bracket.
Naniwa too won his first game 2-1, coming out of a one set disadvantage against Strelok. Despite losing the first match on Shakuras, Naniwa won two in a row, sealing the deal with a proxy void ray rush on Typhon Peaks.
As the results kept coming, it seemed that Socke and Thorzain had also performed on a top-notch level, as befits their reputation, defeating Nerchio and White-ra respectively. This would set a Ukraine vs Poland war down in the consolation bracket, with four contenders battling for survival.
Much to Warsaw's crowd's rejoice, both Nerchio and Tarson stood their ground with 2-0 wins. Nerchio exploited some fatal flaws in White-ra's wall-offs and defence decisions and Tarson triumphed over Strelok by winning the mech TvT wars. Both Polish players are now awaiting their opponents who will be the losers of the WB semi-finals. Namely, Ret vs Naniwa and Socke vs Thorzain, which are coming in a matter of minutes.
