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16 years ago

IEM Chengdu 2009 Day 2: Golden quartet unveiled

The upper bracket encounters have been launched a few hours after the end of the groupstage matches featuring the first two of each group with a best of three pattern and a direct elimination system.

Despite showing signs of tension before the encounter, the Chinese superstar 'Sky', seeded with the strong Korean player 'ReMinD' overcame his opponent by a convincing score of 2-0. The Night Elf, seeming to slope downwards since his game versus 'InFi' in the groupstage, confessed that he was not satisfied with his performance during the game, therefore leaving the competition bitterly.

World Elite's strong Undead 'TED' got unhinged by Fly's consistent play who dropped a map, regardless. Guided by the horde's warsong, 'Fly100%' grabbed the qualification spot declaring an impending clash with his country mate 'Sky' in the semis.

As 'Moon' showed his fans how to drive the point home in his previous encounters, he didn't disappoint when facing the almighty 'Lyn', striking him off the podium with a 2-1 score, signing a prowess once again.

Considered as an underdog versus InFi after that the latter proceeded from his group undefeated, 'FoCuS' unexpectedly managed to triumph and join the victorious trio formed by 'Moon', 'Sky' and 'Fly100%' in the semi-finals.


Upper brackets results:

Sky 2 - 0 ReminD
Fly100% 2 - 1 TED
Moon 2 - 1 Lyn
FoCuS 2 - 0 InFi

Semi-finals schedule:

Sky vs Fly100% [2009-10-03 06:15]
Moon vs FoCuS [2009-10-03 06:15]

Links
SK-Gaming.com - Source
GosuGamers.net - Download the replays from our database
Author
Ghassen "maelstrom" SFormer WC3 Editor and WC3 Team Leader, back in 2009-2010.