Starcraft Utah Neumont Tournament Wrap-Up

May 7th has come and gone...
The days have returned to somewhat normal...
And 3 people are richer today than they were May 6th...

The reign of the Terrans continues as NadaViKinG walks away with yet another win and $145 + GTX 440 Graphics Card + additional swag.  The beast of a Terran steam-rolled through all his opponents and, although he lost a few games, he remained undefeated in every match and took 1st without dropping to the losers bracket.  A big CONGRATS goes out to NadaViKinG for his victory.

The next Terran in line was our Grandmaster Pit.  After losing 2-0 in the 6th Round to Amandil, Pit fought his way back through the losers bracket, eventually facing and beating Amandil in the losers bracket finals and giving NadaViKinG a run for his money in the finals but falling short by a single game.  He didn't walk away empty handed though.  Pocketing $47 + GTS 250 Graphics Card + additional swag, I'm sure I saw him smile...maybe.

The 3rd runner up, Amandil, held his ground in the winners bracket all the way to the semi-finals, where NadaViKinG pushed him down (gently).  After knocking Pit to the losers bracket he faced him yet again, unable to beat him and coming up with the 3rd place prize - $22 + GTS 250 Graphics Card + additional swag.

I speak on behalf of myself, Sonde (Alex), and Tear (Anh) when I say that this event was much bigger and better than we ever imagined it to be.  Not only did we double the amount of players we were anticipating, but we received an incredible amount of free stuff from GeekBox, GEEX, NVIDIA, and Razer.  If you attended this event, you did not walk away empty-handed.  Thank you to everyone who showed up and participated in this tournament.  We hope it exceeded your expectations and we hope to see you all at our next event.  Thank you GeekBox & GEEX for sponsoring this tournament and making it a huge success.  We hope that we can participate in future events together and that you all got out of this what we did.

Last, but not least, a huge THANK YOU to Glen & JP at Neumont University for all their help.  Glen was a beast in helping us set up all the chairs/desks, hooking up all the networking, and fixing any power problems that arose.  Glen did this all out of the goodness of this heart and I know I speak for everyone when I say that it's people like Glen that made this tournament what it was.  So THANK YOU GLEN!

We look forward to future events and hope to see you all there.  Thanks again to all those that participated and we hope you enjoyed your Saturday.  Thanks to Sonde for his excellent casting and to Anh for being the backbone to Starcraft Utah.

Full brackets and tournament results can be found under the "Brackets" tab and clicking "Full Results" here.  Also, here's some videos and pictures of the event: