Starcraft 2 Armory

Gemini < Neo Planet S > Remnant
Gemini < Whirlwind > Remnant
Gemini < Cloud Kingdom > Remnant
Gemini < Breaking Point > Remnant

Gemini wins 3-1!

Infested Zombie: When did you first join the armory and why did you join the KASL?
Remnant: I first joined the army when I was watching HuskyStarcraft videos, they introduced me to the game and from that I wanted to join a community so that when I did get my first RTS ever, sc2 I would be able to have a decent understanding of the game. I joined the armory in order for some competition as I've actually grown quite bored of the game over the past couple of months & the release of hots.
Infested Zombie: Interesting. Do you think your bordom will make an impact on your performance?
Remnant: Of course, recently I've lost the motivation to play this game. It really impacts my play as I used to be somewhat decent but then I started slacking and it just spiralled out of my control, I now no longer consider myself even decent, I'd go as far as saying that I am garbage
Infested Zombie: If you don't mind me saying, I think you might actually be lacking complete confidence. You do realize that you didn't lose a single match against any players in the group division or finals.
Remnant: This is true however versus a player of equal skill I may have some trouble, furthermore I think I deserved to at least drop a map vs editor however he didn't seem to play to his regular standard.
Infested Zombie: You make a good point. What would you say your confidence level is in beating Gemini and winning this tournament on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being fully confident.
Remnant: My confidence right now is lacking, quite frankly I'd say it's a 3. Maybe if I care enough to get in some practice that could jump to a 7 but right now I have some exams coming up in the next week, 6 exams which determine the rest of my life. However I don't know whether Gemini's confidence is all that he says it is.
Infested Zombie: I see. Your personal life will no doubt make an impact on your performance. Stebo had also mentioned that you felt insecure about playing as Zerg. Care to comment?
Remnant: I'd certainly say it's true. I feel like my terran is only a tiny bit worse than my zerg atm, I don't really have much in the way of game knowledge for zerg which may be the cause of this. Mechanics have always been my strong point.
Infested Zombie: Is there anything from the release of HOTS that changed your gameplay and perspective on SC2?
Remnant: At the start of hots I just thought the idea of swarmhosts, widow mines and free units on a whole were stupid. Now I've come to terms with that however it's too late as I'm now going to struggle to catch up to my teammates if I catch up at all.
Infested Zombie: Going to have to agree with you on that. I played Zerg, not that competitively, and it was difficult for me to adjust to Swarm Hosts, Firebats and espicially those Widow Mines.

Remnant: How did you feel beating Stebo in the Bo3, seeing is how you two have had a grudge match in the past and were fighting for the championship spot of the kasl.
Remnant: It felt natural, to be honest the last time we played I was playing terran and this was wings of liberty where terran was pretty underpowered, although I also didn't understand what to do, furthermore I've improved since then so this factors in to why it felt natural. I'm not trying to be cocky but it's just the truth.
Infested Zombie: Haha cool.

Infested Zombie: What your theme song is for the tournament. XD
Remnant: Ugh, this question.
Infested Zombie: Bahahaha
Remnant: Well you may have to give me a moment..
Infested Zombie: Not a problem.
Remnant: Honestly, it'd have to be High Road - Fort Minor(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au88hbUwL18) as I feel the chorus echoes how I feel about Gemini's cockiness in his interview
Infested Zombie: Haha excelent.
Infested Zombie: That actually leads me to my last question.

Remnant: Do you have anything to say to Gemini before you play your matches?
Remnant: Good luck and remember to have fun, thank you for the interview by the way, it has calmed me somewhat.
Infested Zombie: It was my privilage Remnant
Infested Zombie: Despite your lack of confidence in SC2, I hope you continue to play and have fun.
Remnant: I certainly hope so, I don't really have much else to spend my time on. So right now I'm sort of stuck
Infested Zombie: I understand.
Infested Zombie: Thank you, and good luck on your tests!
Remnant: Thanks! It was a pleasure.

Stebo: When did you join the armory and why did you join the KASL?
Gemini: I joined the Armory on December 31st, 2009. New Years Eve night just before the ball dropped. I was at home bored out of my mind cause I was a little loner kid who didn't do !?#* with anyone and I was looking for things to do.
Gemini: The thought of Starcraft 2 came to mind after seeing the old starcraft2.com website with some new units on it. So I googled Starcraft 2 and I found one of the battle reports posted on the SC2Armory. I watched it, was amazed, and signed up only a few minutes later.
Gemini: The SC2Armory was basically the start of my entire SC2 career, and without all the awesome guys that were a part of the early glory days I wouldn't be where I am today.
Gemini: I joined the KASL because the throne is mine. I've been the best player on the Armory for over 2 years now, however I have not won a single KASL. That ends now as I look to finally take my first win and take the spot that belongs to me.
Stebo: That's a pretty cool story, bro. In all seriousness
Gemini: Thanks.
Stebo: That's a pretty bold statement though about being the best player on the armory in the past 2 years.
Stebo: Would you say there are any armory members up to par with you?
Gemini: I would say the only person as of late that would be up to my skill is GreenMachine. I haven't played him in a long time (because honest I'm afraid to) and I'm not entirely sure of his skill, however he's always just had something weird up his sleeve that seems to beat me whenever we play.
Gemini: He was also my original mentor when I was learning how to play back in 2010 and I owe so much to him for helping me. So whenever we play I get that Mentor vs Apprentice feeling and it makes the match seem much more important than it really is.
Stebo: It's a shame that he didn't play in the KASL. He was in the process of moving because he's in the air force and he was also working on his new computer at the time when the kasl was first starting. Otherwise, he would have joined in.
Gemini: Yeah I wished he did.
Stebo: And I too acknowledge GreenMachine for being one of our best players.

Stebo: Respectively, I think you do deserve to sit on the throne. But how do you feel about Remnant, not just about playing him, but him as a player overall? Do you think he deserves to be crowned king?
Gemini: I feel confident in playing him. However I have to be careful of not to be too confident, as that has what has killed me in the past two KASL's. The results are too embarassing that I'd rather not restate them.
Gemini: I'm not entirely sure of him as a player as I haven't really seen his games. However I would imagine he's a fairly decent player and expect some of my hardest games yet of the tournament.
Gemini: Despite this, I still think I deserve to be crowned king.

Stebo: Let's talk about your e-peen. You've really stepped up your game these past 2 years, getting to high masters, playing/beating pros, joining a team and even getting a pretty decent following on your stream. Would you say you are at your prime in SC2?
Gemini: I'd have to agree with that. I feel like I'm doing my best yet and HOTS has opened up a huge amount of possibilities for me and other players to break out into the scene.
Gemini: I've been helping a lot on the subreddit /r/allthingsprotoss which has gained me a lot of fame in the protoss community and given me some good noteriety. Which helps increase my stream following.
Gemini: I also casted the HSL playoffs which got a good number of views as well.
Stebo: Wow, thats impressive. And I had no idea you had a following on subreddit.
Gemini: Yeah I'm also one of the mods there.

Stebo: You seem to have a lot going for you in the SC2 community, as both a player and spectator, so where do you see yourself in 1 year?
Gemini: God that's such a hard question to answer
Gemini: I see myself improving fairly well recently and I have really improved my mindset in a short amount of time and it has led to my practice seeming much more productive. So I would hope that sometime in the next year that I will hit Grandmaster, effectively starting my semi pro competitive career.
Gemini: With college coming up I feel it will allow me to be much more flexible with my schedule and overall make my lifestyles change (as I don't have to get up at 6 in the morning every day now) and I forsee that helping my physical state, which I would hope would transfer over to my practice.
Gemini: So I hope to improve my stream following and just get my name out there as much as I can and possibly win a couple small tournaments.
Gemini: But GM is definitely my #1 goal and priority at this point. If I can reach that then I feel I could go anywhere. I want to eventually feel the roar of an audience chanting my name and be overwhelmed with emotions standing before them holding a trophy in the air with tears flowing from my eyes as I wouldn't be able to control myself.
Gemini: And to think I started just 2 and a half years ago.
Stebo: Yeah man. I've seen you improve so much. If you managed to get to GM within the year that would be your greatest accomplishment.
Gemini: I think I would cry some manly tears of joy.
Stebo: Lol as long as its not like Destiny's reaction
Gemini: Lol oh yeah I remember that LOL
Stebo: Haha
Gemini: No I would be the exact opposite , HAHA. I'd prolly flip my table in pure excitement,
Stebo: You would piss in your panties and it'd better happen over stream.
Gemini: Hahaha I hope it does =P

Stebo: Do you have ANYTHING to say or get off your chest before completing this tournament
Gemini: I want to seriously thank from the bottom of my heart everyone who was around during 2010 from this site. Reading all those posts and interacting with all of them was amazing. It was so awesome to be welcomed into a completely forgein community so easily. I want to thank gearvOsh for making the site in the first place as well. And a HUUUUUUUUGE shoutout and thanks to GreenMachine. As I said before, he was my mentor early on. He completely took me under his wing willingly by himself and taught me all the basics. He taught me how to probe till I couldn't probe no more and I have to say that was one of the things that really made it easy for me to learn as quickly as I did. You don't know how thankful I am for what you did and I'll hold it for as long as I'm in this scene.
Gemini: I always tell my students that you should hammer down the simple things early so that they become muscle memory, so that way when you get better and have to focus on the more important smaller things, the "simpler" things aren't getting in the way. So huge to you Green!
Gemini: And to Remnant: Prepare your diddly hole, because you're about to have the biggest e-peen on the armory, besides DC's, get shoved straight up it with out any lube and everyone's gonna see it.
Stebo: LOL
Gemini: I will be king.
Stebo: Oh my god, you'd better win this if after saying that.
Gemini: I wouldn't have said it if I didn't think I could

I want to give thanks to everyone who participated in the tournament; it really meant a lot for people to take time out of their busy schedules and play as a community again. I very much look forward to seeing you all again in further tournaments and in the forums. We may have not had a lot of members but the tournament ran smoothly and despite a little bit of drama we all managed to complete our matches and have a great time.

I would also like to give a big shout out to Timmay and GearvOsh for helping me with the tournament. I would probably not have pulled off this tournament without either one of them helping me and supporting me along the way. A big thanks to Infested Zombie who helped me with the interview process. ♥

Timmay < Cloud Kingdom > Gemini
Timmay < Neo Planet S > Gemini

Gemini wins 2-0!

Infested Zombie: you've had a pretty solid record in the group divisions, so does this give you a boost of confidence that you can beat everyone in this tournament?
Gemini: Yeah pretty much. DC was really the only one i was a little bit afraid of going into this since he's always fairly solid and he was going up in the ladder ranks quite quickly however I beat him in groups and after that I didn't think I would lose to anyone else.
Infested Zombie: Interesting. would you say PvP is your least winable match? or do you feel DC is better or on par with your skills?
Gemini: My PvP is kind of 50/50. Sometimes I do really well and other times I get destroyed. I think it's mostly just because I don't have a really solid build like I did during the first season of HOTS or during most of Wings.
Gemini: DC has also usually been either better than me or fairly equally matched vs me so we have some history, both good and bad so there was that affecting me a little bit.

Infested Zombie: What about Remnant? You'll be facing him in the champsionship round if you beat Timmay. How would you feel going up against him in the tournament? Nervouse? Excited? Confident?
Gemini: I'd say pretty confident. Even though my PvZ is pretty $?%* recently I think it'll be more than enough to beat Remnant.
Infested Zombie: I hope he reads this. XD
Gemini: I'm hoping so too.

Infested Zombie: Do you feel your game is much better in HotS, rather than in WoL?
Gemini: Oh yeah definitely. I've been playing more GMs since HOTS was released and I overall feel that I've been improving since HOTS was released. It's definitely a much more fun game to play with so much more opportunity that has yet to be figured out so it's also much more fun.
Infested Zombie: Any notable GMs?!
Gemini: I beat ROOTCaliber and ROOTPUck. Played vs EGMachine. Beat some barcode. Oh and iSMike as well
Infested Zombie: Whaaaaat...
Gemini: Yeah, that's all I remember thought =p
Infested Zombie: You're way better than I thought you were.
Gemini: I've lost others as well. Haha.

Infested Zombie: Stebo mentioned how you're in a clan or team. Care to touch on that?
Gemini:Yeah I'm on a team with a lot of good close friends, The Jamaican Bobsled team. While the name sounds absolutely absurd and amazing it doesn't reflect our play =P We're still serious about the game and are competitive but we do so in a more casual and chill/friendly way.
Gemini: There's a lot of players from my last team Soviet Gaming so we have that little bond there.
Infested Zombie: That's pretty cool. SC2 and eSports are always better with close friends.
Gemini: Yeah it makes it much more enjoyable.

Infested Zombie: I had one more question and this is from Stebo's request
Gemini: Oh jesus.
Infested Zombie: What is your theme song going into this tournament?
Gemini: lol oh god. Ok wait up.
Infested Zombie: Take your time.
Gemini: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX925qB2GXY
Gemini: My confidence shall not be shattered.
Infested Zombie: Okey dokey! That's all I have. I wish you best of luck in the championship rounds!
Gemini:Thanks :)

Firetail < Whirlwind LE > Timmay
Firetail < Atlas > Timmay
Firetail < Neo Planet S > Timmay

Timmay wins 2-1!

DCrodrigo forfeits due to scheduling conflicts

Peppy wins!

Texmix < Cloud Kingdom > Timmay
Texmix < Atlas > Timmay
Texmix < Neo Planet S > Timmay

Timmay wins 2-1!

Peppy < Cloud Kingdom > Stebo
Peppy < Neo Planet S > Stebo

Stebo wins 2-0!

Peppy: Shall we begin?
Infested Zombie: Yes
Infested Zombie: First question is regarding Group Division. How was your performance between everyone in your division?
Peppy: I don't feel as if I have performed my best. I recently switched race to Terran but signed up as Zerg so having not played Zerg this season has definitely effected my play. I am happy with the games i have played though.

Infested Zombie: Since you are playing Zerg, having switched to Terran, do you think you'll be able to win the KASL?

Peppy: I doubt it, even at my best I still think Gem is a better player than me. I think I might come close in a series but would definitely not say the odds are in my favour. So in this current form I very highly doubt I can win.
Infested Zombie: I think everyone is looking towards Gemini in the brackets, as he would probably be the hardest player to beat.
Infested Zombie: o_o
Peppy: Yes I would agree with that.

Infested Zombie: You have DCrodrigo, Stebo and lastly Remnant to make it up to face Gemini. Do you see any trouble getting past these players?
Peppy: Well I dont know DC's current form, but I know he used to be very good. I don't think I will have too much trouble vs Stebo. I will be playing very hard in these games to ensure I face Remnant again.
Peppy: I will have his ass
Infested Zombie: Is that so? you seem eager and confident you can be Remnant; I'd like to hear you elaborate

Peppy: Well, our previous encounters have been quite interesting. So it is more of a personal thing than anything. His play didn't seem to clever to me and he seems to not like aggressive builds... so I think I can exploit that.
Infested Zombie: I really look forward to it then, seeing i show remnant is the only player in the tournament to go undefeated so far.

Infested Zombie: I had one last question.
Peppy: go ahead
Infested Zombie: As requested by Stebo, what is your theme song for the playoffs?
Peppy: AHAHAHAHA
Peppy: Okay I need a moment on this one.
Infested Zombie: Go for it. XD
Peppy: Well seeing as how I'm going to an 18th this weekend dressed as a wizard, I think that this song is pretty fitting
Peppy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2An0fuHW8E
Infested Zombie: bahaha what in the world??!
Infested Zombie: I like it. XD
Peppy: That's gonna be me with the shutter shades.
Peppy: ez
Infested Zombie: Nice.
Infested Zombie: Straight outta mordor.
Peppy: That's the one
Infested Zombie: You will be getting all the ladies, Editor.
Peppy: damn straight
Infested Zombie: Thank you for your time, that's all I've got.
Infested Zombie:
Peppy: No worries.
Peppy: I'd like to thank my sponsors.
Peppy: Bread and water.
Infested Zombie: Hahaha!
Infested Zombie: gl and hf in the tournament.
Peppy: Thanks. :)

Group A
1) Gemini
2) DCrodrigo
3) Timmay
4) Stebo
5) Seven

Group B
1) Texmix
2) Peppy
3) Remnent
4) Firetail
5) GearvOsh

Neo Planet S LE
Whirlwind LE
Cloud Kingdom
DF Atlas
TPW Breaking Point

Each week a new map will be chosen to be played for the first game. The loser will then choose the next map until the Bo3 is completed. Here are the starting maps for each match.

Week 1, Game 1: Could Kingdom
Week 1, Game 2: Atlas
Week 2, Game 1: Breaking Point
Week 2, Game 2: Neo Planet

The group players- 1,2,3,4,5

2 v 4 and 1 v 3
2 v 3 and 4 v 5
2 v 5 and 1 v 4
2 v 1 and 5 v 3
1 v 5 and 3 v 4

Example Group A

Group A
1) Gemini
2) DCrodrigo
3) Timmay
4) Stebo
5) Seven

Gemini = 1
DCrodrigo = 2
Timmay = 3
Stebo = 4
Seven = 5

So...

Player 1, Gemini, would verse Seven and Timmay in Week 1
and then would verse Stebo and DCrodrigo in Week 2

Neo Planet S LE
Whirlwind LE
Cloud Kingdom
DF Atlas
TPW Breaking Point

Terran:
GearvOsh.896
Firetail.574
NeBu.568
Unstable.268


Protoss:
Stebo.627
Gemini.716
Texmix.708
Stroid.732
ammggm.2434
ForAiur.221
DCrodrigo.103
Torque.1060

Zerg:
Remnant.461
Peppy.326
emelius.1560

Random:
Timmay.164
VicIouS.2507