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World of Warcraft: MLG Anaheim Championship Sunday

By: Ryan Cole - Published November 08, 2009 at 1:09 PM EST - Writer Archive
Sunday plays host to competition we've never seen before at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California.


The final day here at the Anaheim Convention Center will be some of the most intense match ups of the weekend. Look forward to some teams getting annihilated by the competition as well as others just barely slipping in to bracket play. This has been the most exciting World of Warcraft event to date, and it only gets better. Of the teams competing here in Anaheim, only one, Check-Six, has made it clearly into the next round of play - the double elimination bracket championship.

We haven't seen anyone take out beast cleave, however at this point, the only way to get first here in Anaheim is to throw a comp out that will be able to beat this unstoppable trio. Today is going to be a big analyzing day for many of the teams out there. Will they settle for second and third? We hope not.

Looking back over the weekend, we've seen team after team barely missing wins by one match. It seems as though 3-2 victories are the trend at this point in the tournament and the competition is only heating up.

Notably throughout the weekend, Button Bashers has shown that even though they were performing poorly on live, they can come out with their new rogue "Hiren" and beat many of the other top tier U.S. teams. However, they still have 3 matches left in round robin, and if not careful, other teams will sneak up on them.

So what can we say about the rest of the teams?

We don't know.

Currently we have four teams with two wins and at least two losses. Each match has played out much differently than what was expected and today will be the deciding factor. Complexity.BHMS will be coming out to show everyone that they can be a team to be reckoned with while teams like Fnatic, Complexity, and SK.EU have a reputation to uphold.

It's going to be a big day here in Anaheim, keep it locked here to get up to the minute coverage on all your MLG Anaheim WoW related information.

As we said before, if you haven't already purchased the HD Stream, you may want to reconsider as today will be the most exciting day of the weekend. It's going to be worth every penny spent in order to see these teams compete for a chance at $24,000 in cash and prizes.

Standings
1st Place: South Korea Button Bashers - $9,000 US, 3 HP Firebird PC
2nd Place: France SK.EU - $4,500 US
3rd Place: United States Check Six - $2,250 US
4th Place: United States Complexity.BMHS

Top Four Teams for Bracket Play
1st Seed: Check-Six
2nd Seed: Button Bashers
3rd Seed: SK Europe
4th Seed: Complexity.BHMS

Teams
United States SK.US: Enforcer, Pookz, Realz
United States Check-Six: Twixz, Flexxorz, Toes
South Korea Button Bashers: Hiren, Numberone, Orangemarmalade
France SK.EU: Another, Enigmz, Inflame
United States Complexity: Reckful, Sodah, Venruki
United States Evil Geniuses: Azael, Smatin, Tenderloin
United States Fnatic: Douja, Yog, Woundman
United States Complexity.BHMS: Brogo, Massive, Snutz

Grand Finals


Scoreboard1H2HOTF
Button Bashers6--6
SK Europe4--4
Match continued from earlier to Best of 11
Button Bashers
Orangemarmalade - Undead Mage
Numberone - Undead Priest | Orc Shaman
Hiren - Undead Rogue
SK EU
Inflame - Gnome Warlock | Undead Warlock
Enigmz - Tauren Druid
Another - Undead Mage | Blood Elf Death Knight
BB Nagrand Arena SK.EU
Nagrand: SK.EU focuses Numberone down on a good swap with orange and hiren not able to help. 1-0 sk
BB Nagrand Arena SK.EU
Nagrand: SK’s druid gets caught out in the open by BB and is killed. 1-1
BB Ring of Valor SK.EU
RoV: SK’s druid catches to help from his teammates, druid dies.. 2-1 bb
BB Ruins of Lordaeran SK.EU
Ruins: Engimz barely escapes BB’s onslaught , living with 1% health while Numberone dies. 2-2
BB Blade's Edge SK.EU
Blade’s Edge: BB comes out with amazing CC on SK’s druid, he is sheeped for one second in caster form which interrupts the heal that would have saved another.. 3-2 bb
SK.EU Ring of Valor BB
RoV: Numberone runs oom and SK.EU’s damage just overcomes BB. 3-3
SK.EU Ring of Valor BB
RoV: Button Bashers coordinate amazing burst onto SK’s druid Enigmz, on a terrible map for their matchup. 4-3 bb
SK.EU Ring of Valor BB
RoV: Both teams trade kills, numberone saves himself by staying on the pillar and being out of reach of the DK. Another is killed shortly after.. 5-3 bb
SK.EU Dalaran Sewers BB
Dalaran: Comes down to a 1v1 and after 25 minutes of damage dealing, SK.EU wins by damage. 5-4
SK.EU Ring of Valor BB
RoV: Button Bashers takes down SK.EU in fashion, and wins MLG Anaheim. 6-4

Lower Finals


Scoreboard1H2HOTF
SK Europe3--3
CheckSix----
Check-Six
Twixz - Orc Hunter
Toes - Blood Elf Paladin Undead Priest
Flexx - Orc Shaman
SK.EU Blade's Edge x6
Blade’s Edge- SK-EU Kills Twix. 1-0
SK.EU Dalaran Sewers x6
Ruins- SK-EU kills Twix’s Pet, after all cooldowns Toez gets cyclone then they finish Twix off. 2-0
SK.EU Dalaran Sewers x6
Ruins- SK-EU kills Flexx after a long Battle. 3-0 SK-EU

Upper Finals


Scoreboard1H2HOTF
Button Bashers3--3
CheckSix2--2
Check-Six
Twixz - Orc Hunter
Toes - Blood Elf Paladin Undead Priest
Flexx - Orc Shaman
Button Bashers
Orangemarmalade - Undead Mage
Numberone - Undead Priest | Orc Shaman
Hiren - Undead Rogue| Human Rogue
x6 Nagrand Arena BB
Nagrand: CheckSix opens on Marmal, after BM is used BB go on Flexx the shaman. BB makes a quick switch onto Twix. Twix dies. 1-0 BB
x6 Nagrand Arena BB
Nagrand: Orangemarmal kited Twix and flexx extremely well after the 2nd Beastral Wrath. 2-0 BB
x6 Nagrand BB
Nagrand: CheckSix forces Orange to block. Orange is able to kite around, Orangemarmal misses a Nova on Flexx and it basically costs him the game. (without freedom on flexx.) I guess that’s how perfect BB needs to play to win. 2-1 BB
x6 Ruins of Lordaeran BB
Ruins: Orange dies before his 2nd Ice block is up. 2-2 Tie
x6 Ruins of Lordaeran BB
Ruins: BB kills Flexx after a long battle. 3-2 BB

Lower Round 1


Scoreboard1H2HOTF
SK Europe3--3
Complexity.BHMS----
coL.BHMS
Brogo - Tauren Druid
Massive - Blood Elf Death Knight
Snutz - Undead Warlock
SK EU
Inflame - Gnome Warlock | Undead Warlock
Enigmz - Tauren Druid
Another - Undead Mage | Blood Elf Death Knight
SK.EU Ring of Valor BHMS
RoV: Snutz is killed after a long mana battle between the druids on RoV, 1-0 SK
SK.EU Ruins of Lordaeran BHMS
Ruins: SK.EU is just overall more effective damage and healing wise in mirrors, SK kills Brogo. 2-0 SK
SK.EU Ring of Valor BHMS
Ring of Valor: BHMS gets out played again. 3-0 SK

Upper Round 1


Scoreboard1H2HOTF
CheckSix3--3
Complexity.BHMS----
coL.BHMS
Brogo - Tauren Druid
Massive - Blood Elf Death Knight
Snutz - Undead Warlock
Check-Six
Twixz - Orc Hunter
Toes - Blood Elf Paladin Undead Priest
Flexx - Orc Shaman
x6 Dalaran Sewers BHMS
Dalaran: x6 cleaves snutz hard.. 1-0 x6
x6 Ruins of Lordaeran BHMS
Ruins: Cleaved snutz even harder.. 2-0 x6
x6 Ruins of Lordaeran BHMS
Ruins: Cleavers cleave snutz.. again. 3-0 x6

Scoreboard1H2HOTF
Button Bashers3--3
SK Europe2--2
Button Bashers
Orangemarmalade - Undead Mage
Numberone - Undead Priest | Orc Shaman
Hiren - Undead Rogue
SK EU
Inflame - Gnome Warlock | Undead Warlock
Enigmz - Tauren Druid
Another - Undead Mage | Blood Elf Death Knight
BB Nagrand Arena SK.EU
Nagrand: SK.EU focuses Numberone down on a good swap with orange and hiren not able to help. 1-0 sk
BB Nagrand Arena SK.EU
Nagrand: SK’s druid gets caught out in the open by BB and is killed. 1-1
BB Ring of Valor SK.EU
RoV: SK’s druid catches to help from his teammates, druid dies.. 2-1 bb
BB Ruins of Lordaeran SK.EU
Ruins: Engimz barely escapes BB’s onslaught , living with 1% health while Numberone dies. 2-2
BB Blade's Edge SK.EU
Blade’s Edge: BB comes out with amazing CC on SK’s druid, he is sheeped for one second in caster form which interrupts the heal that would have saved another.. 3-2 bb

Double Elimination Bracket


Upper Bracket

Round 1Round 2Winner
.....
coL.BHMT...
3 - 0M x6T.
x6B.|.
..3 - 2M Button
SK.EUT.|.
3 - 2M Button B.
Button B...

Lower Bracket

Round 1Round 2Winner
.....
SK.EUT...
3 - 0M SK.EUT.
coL.BHMB3 - 0M SK.EU
.. x6B.
.....
...

Finals Bracket

Round 1Winner
...
SK.EUT.
6 - 4M Button
Button B.
...
...
...

Round Robin Standings
StandingsGWLTRW/RLP
CheckSix77--26/914
Button Bashers761-21/1412
SK Europe743-21/148
Complexity.BHMS734-16/196
Team EG734-16/196
Fnatic725-14/214
Complexity725-13/224
SK US716-13/222



Past Results: Round 1 Results | Round 2 Results | Round 3 Results | Round 4 Results | Round 5 Results | Round 6 Results | Round 7 Results

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