* Mondi wins GIGA Grandslam

[s]event[/s]Remember the German Giga Liga? Remember that StarCraft was close to not being one of the broadcasted games? Well, things went exactly as we wanted them to. Recently, the playoffs ended, with ToT)Mondragon( as the winner.

Live broadcast
8 players made it from online groups, to attend the GIGA Grandslam in Leipzig, Germany. The whole event was organised by the German TV channel NBC Europe/GIGA during the Games Convention. The games were broadcasted by the inactive [pG] member Korn and another guy called Budi. The entire hall was filled with observers, who squeezed themselves in to watch the finals live.


The massive crowd during GIGA Grandslam
20,000 € prize money
Apart from StarCraft: Brood War, five other games were played - Counter-Strike, WarCraft 3: The Frozen Throne, FIFA 2004, Unreal Tournament 2004 and Need for Speed: Underground. In StarCraft, the winner got 2,000 €, and the runner-up 1,000 €.

Quarterfinals

ToT)Mondragon > BrEaKdOwN[pG] 2-1
TFSC|Fisheye > Dashwriter 2-1
ToT)Rob( > iX.Selector 2-1
heXer[pG] > muhderahf 2-0 (WO)

Semifinals

ToT)Mondragon( > TFSC|FiSheYe 2-0
heXer[pG] > ToT)Rob( 2-1

Final

ToT)Mondragon( > heXer[pG] 2-1

Game for Third place

TFSC|FisheYe > ToT)Rob( 2-0


ToT)Mondragon( - winner of GIGA Grandslam SC:BW

Triple [pG] no match for ToT)Mondragon
Congratulations to ToT)Mondragon(, who played a great tournament. First be managed to beat BrEaKdOwN[pG], then TFSC|FiSheYe, and last but not least heXer[pG] - all three [pG] members.
Below are some clips from the final between Mondragon and heXer. Each clip is about 20 seconds long and weighs about 6 MB.

» Mondragon vs. heXer Clip 1
» Mondragon vs. heXer Clip 2
» Mondragon vs. heXer Clip 3
» Mondragon vs. heXer Clip 4
» Mondragon vs. heXer Clip 5
» Mondragon vs. heXer Clip 6
» Mondragon vs. heXer Clip 7

Tons of pictures from GIGA Grandslam
If you're not a fan of video clips then here are some pictures from the event. On many of the pictures you can see Mondragon being interviewed by the TV channel. Hopefully, it will get released as well. You can download all the pictures in a package » here.

Replays availableThere is now a small replay package available. It's the games from the final and the semifinals. You may download it » here.

Links
WGTour.com - Source
Broodwar.de - Download the replay package
liga.GIGA.de - Home of GIGA Liga