The Russian comunity has had a RaceWars tournament. A lot of players attended to the event where the three races battled it out.
On the 6-7th March an online RaceWars tournament for the Russian community took place. More than 200 applications were received and no less than 96 players from different CIS countries (such as Russia, Ukraine, Byelorussia, Latvia etc.) where chosen to defend the honour of their race. Almost every great player from ex-USSR was there to fight for his race. Among the ones playing names like
Advokate[S2], 
yAn[S2], iG.Escape, MiG.Scout, Ro[S2], Ex[S2] and many more stick out a bit. The most interesting games were commented live on the big plasma screen in the PC centre VikaWeb in Moscow, Russia. Anyone interested in observing the games could go there. The commentated matches were also shoutcasted on an internet radio stream. All games were played online on the PGTour server - BnetX.Characteristic system
The system of the tournament had several characteristic parts. All the players had unique nicknames which were given to them by the judges and which reflected their group and race (e.g. AT1[RaWeN] where A is group, T is for Terran and 1 is the number of the player). It was done to lessen the psychological effect of playing against famous gosus, and help players to show their real potential. The other disputable peculiarity was the team round. In round four the players had to find a partner among them and play 2on2 games. The two teams that won passed on to the final. The idea of this stage was to show some really good team games as players who passed to the fourth round are really skilled. But the problem was that really good players (such as iG.Escape, [3D]creAtiv, EX[S2], White-Ra) who might have taken 1-3 place failed on this stage. It was especially to unfair iG.Escape who had just won in a very tough battle versus yAn[S2] 2-1.The final also had its problems as
HR-Marine (aka StarClan) who won against Fatal[S2] had to face A2[S2] in the battle for the first place, but he had no time to play. He was assured by one of the judges that he will get second place anyway, which was a mistake. Both players left the channel. But it was not final of 2 players, it was final of four players. The winner of that game would have taken the first place, but the looser would have to face eR22-Jogi in the fight for second place. As it was the mistake of the crew both the A2[S2] and HR-Marine shared the first place. Results
Let's jump straight into round number three. The results from there are as follows:
Fatal[S2] >  RiF)SouL 2-1 HR-Marine > Ro[S2] 2-0 [3D]creAtiv.vWeb > uQu)Van[Dex3] Escape[S2] > Yan[S2] 2-1 White-Ra >  Overdrive[a2] 2-1 EX[S2] > k7.Topick 2-1 A2[S2] > 88)Stre10k 2-0 eR22-Jogi > [3D]$m0ke 2-0 |
| Fatal[S2] HR-Marine > [3D]creAtiv.vWeb Escape[S2] 2-0 A2[S2] eR22-Jogi > EX[S2] White-Ra 2-1 |
| HR-Marine > Fatal[S2] 2-1 A2[S2] > eR22-Jogi 2-1 eR22-Jogi Fatal[S2] 2-1 |
That gives us a final table tha looks like this. First place is shared between HR-Marine and A2[S2]. On the second place we find eR22-Jogi. Fatal[S2] finished third.
| Rank Player 1st place HR-Marine A2[S2]2nd place eR22-Jogi3rd place Fatal[S2] |
The tournament was organized by
Overmind, TraToss[S2] and Man_At_War. Special thanks go to:| » CyberFight.Ru » ProGamer.Ru » S2Clan.Ru » Reps.Ru |
Co article made by
Overmind and 
ZoXXeR.Links
GosuGamers - Download replay package from the tournament
