EGHuk wins MLG Orlando, ogsMC second!!

EGHuk wins MLG Orlando defeating ex teammate ogsMC in the tournament's Grand Finals. Huk was crowned the champion and MC gets the very important GSL Code S spot for next season. What this means is that MC who had been knocked out form Code A into Code B recently is finally back into Code S. Protoss supporters cheered for these awesome news. Huk is the first repeat champion gamer to ever win two MLG titles, where his previous was the first MLG Raleigh event ever hosted against Kiwikaki in the grandfinals.

Never would anyone expect to see a Protoss vs Protoss matchup for the finals in this major Starcraft 2 tournament. MLG is deemed the GSL version of the West and the most prestigious tournament outside of Korea with its huge price money and competition level. Leading off into the finals with a 2-1 lead over MC due to the extended series rules of MLG, Huk only needs to win another 2 games. In the first game, Huk outmicroed MC in a 4 Gate fashion battle on Tel'Darim Altar which is infamous for its 4 Gating heaven or should I say hell. A mismicro from MC failing to target down a very low hp Zealot cost him the game. Game 2 on Xel Naga Caverns had MC lead off with a Cannon rush. However, it was scouted instantly by Huk and a well placed Pylon behind his mineral line thwarts any attempt of incoming cheese. Falling behind, MC
tried his best to recover from the fail cheese. However, we all know what happens next.


Protoss race has been in a declined from major tournament results recently where the finals were always dominated by both Terrans and Zergs. However, time has changed finally at MLG Orlando. Huk is often known to have the top 3 micro in the world and the best foreigner Protoss from the West. MC the Protoss President needs no introduction with 2 GSL titles in his bag. However, since the recent slump of the Protoss race, players playing the race is seen losing matches after matches and being knocked of tournament after one another.People start to doubt on the race itself.

Starting the tournament, Huk and MC was placed within the same group D. Their group consist of 5 Protoss with our Golden Mouse Winner, July Zerg. Does July actually own a Golden Mouse? Huk placed first for this group and earning an entry into the semifinals for the winners bracket against three other Terrans, Bomber, Marineking and ogsTheSTC. Huk defeated MKP and then TheSTC to secure a spot in the grandfinals. MC's journey to the finals is long and difficult route. MC defeated Rain, Ret, long time nemesis EGPuma, Marineking, Idra and ogstheSTC to finally reach the grand finals against exteammate Huk.

This march the third international tournament champion being a Foreigner (If you consider Huk a foreigner) since Idra's win at IEM Guangzhou, Stephano at IPL 3 and now Huk at MLG Orlando. Foreigner continue to put up good fights against the Koreans. The foreigners  are no longer the easy punching bags for the Koreans.

Final Rankings
1. EGHuk
2. ogsMC
3. ogsTheSTC
4. EGIdra
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5th to 8th
- MarineKingPrime
- ST.Bomber
- HongUnPrime
- EGPuma

Idra performed impressively throughout this tournament. His matches against SlayersBoxer had crowds cheered and even the backstage staffs put down their jobs to have a glimpse of the match between the two legends. The top 4 were dominated by team EG and oGs. Within the top 8, we have 6 Koreans and 2 Foreigners. The Koreans still showed strong dominance in international events. MarineKing was invited thanks to his fellow supporters from Reddit and did not disappoint them. MKP started from the open brackets. Having dominate the open brackets, MKP took down his group with ease. However, his run was stopped by both the eventual finalist, Huk and MC.

Finally, MLG Orlando is one of best tournament to date with great Games, Casters, Streams (Up to 4 - Red, Blue, White and Black streams). The games and matches were really good. The games between SlayersBoxer and LiquidTLO is a MUST WATCH. With this victory, Protoss has finally end the dry spell that spreads from Korea to the rest of the world. We will once again see Starcraft as a game between three races. If you want to be the very best gamer, Korea is definitely the place.

*Just to add if you are a Protoss player, MC's games are must watch. MC vs Puma Game 2 and he did roughly the same strategy against oGsTheSTC game 3 on Dual Sight. Learn how MC Forcefield in layers.