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The Canadian star is the first American to make home-turf playoffs since the start of the circuit.
If WCS Europe was stealing the headlines from the past two days with Grubby's win over Mvp and Stephano's last professional game, it was WCS America that finally came into people's attention last night. With 4-1 in maps over season one runner-up Revival and ROOT's Sage, Acer's Scarlett became the first American to make the WCS America playoffs. The Canadian Zerg is also the first foreigner to make this season's quarter final and the third foreigner to do so since the start of the WCS circuit.
With a flawless sweep over Revival in the deciding match, Chinese Protoss MacSed followed Scarlett to the round of eight, making for a full Korean defeat on the night of August 7th, the only one in the Ro16 so far. China will take its chances at getting two-for-two as iG's Jim will play his matches today, placed in a group with Alicia, Polt and Crank.
Earlier the same day, Alliance's Naniwa continued the tradition of Europe domination in old continent's circuit. Like Scarlett, Naniwa dropped but a single map on his way to the top position in Group C and through his performance made a strong statement of what viewers can expect come playoffs.
Second behind the Swede came Acer's MMA who played Happy twice to make it out of the playoffs. The loss to group winner Naniwa was the only maps the Korean dropped and 4-0'ing Happy allowed him to be to second Korean after duckdeok to make the WCS Europe quarter finals.
The last group of the circuit is today as Titan opens against MC, followed by Vortix against Mana.
