Stephano wins IPL 3

French Zerg Pro Gamer, Stephano wins IPL 3 after tearing apart Korean Zerg gamer, FXOLucky 4-0 in the finals. This is a huge surprise as he is often considered the underdog in the whole Starcraft 2 tournament. What's more, Stephano managed to grab the title amidst facing against some of the Korean best SC2 players present at the tournament. His impressive and smart Zerg strategies and tactics managed to bring the title back to the Westerners. Stephano was previously a progamer from Warcraft 3. This is the second international tournament where foreigners wins another international tournament. The previous was EGIdra's magnificent run at IEM:Guanzhou. Is this the end of the Korean domination? Will the fat price money being siphoned into the Korean economy coming to an end? Let's hope so.

This is the final 32 brackets for IPL 3.

In the top 4 we have France very own Stephano and 3 other Koreans; Lucky, MMA and STC. Stephano's impressive run including beating 4 Koreans from the round of 32. Very few foreigners or nearly none were able to achieve this record at this point.

Group Stages

• 2-0 Huk
• 0-2 Alive
• 2-0 Boxer

Round of 32

• 2-1 Kiwikaki
• 2-0 Voilet
• 2-1 Inori
• 2-1 oGsTheSTC
• 4-0 FXOLucky

Although oGsMC performed magnificently in his group stages where he won 3 matches with a total 6-0 record, MC found himself facing against relatively unknown FXOInori. Their match was decided when MC mismicroed his Warp Prism with 4 Stalkers getting focused down by Inori. We all know what happens next in PvP. Inori proceeded to own EGHuk in another anticlimax PvP fashion. This is another dry Protoss tournament with only 1 managed to make it into the round of 8 before getting man handled by the champion.

Finally, congratulations to Stephano for winning IPL 3 facing against some of the toughest opponents around the world and stopping the Korean invasions in the SC2 international tournament scene. Who says Foreigners can't win international tournaments?