HomeStory Cup VI comes to its final day. Eight players will compete for the $25,000 while about thirty more goof around and cast the Christmas clashes.
Zergs easily occupied the top spots in Group A after Snute showed another excellent performance and was once again at 4-0 at the end of the day. Second came Symbol who, despite crushing the previous playday, was quite shaky in his mirror matches, losing 0-2 to Snute and dropping a game to Dimaga. The Korean is playing TLO in the first round of the playoffs and improvements in his ZvZ will be most welcome.
In Group B, MarineKing kept doing what MarineKing does best - beat people to the ground. The Korean continued on his strong showing from day two and finished first in the group, dropping just one game to Socke. Socke himself could not find in himself the strength that got him past the group stage and after losing 0-2 to BratOK in the decisive series, he gave his spot to the Russian terran.
Stephano continued to barely graduate from groups in which he should be the favorite and finished second to a most unexpected winner: hometurf player Xlord. The XMG-sponsored zerg played amazingly and easily defeated both group favorites in the EG ace and Acer's new acquisition - MMA.
MC's unconvincing play in the first day finally backfired lethally for him and SK's protoss saw his exit from the tournament, finishing last in Group D, losing to Kas and Grubby. Those two would go on to play each other in the decisive match, which sent the Dutchman straight to the playoffs.
He is joined by TLO who is on absolute roll and dominated yet another group, going into the final bracket with the second best map score in the tournament, 8-1.
With the group stages over, it's time for the final sprint towards the presents under the Christmas tree. The games (starting at 15:00 CET) are as follows:
Snute vs 
Grubby [GosuBet]
MarineKing vs 
Stephano [GosuBet]
XlorD vs 
BratOK [GosuBet] TLO vs Symbol [GosuBet]