The Bunker was the venue and WCG.QLD State Qualifiers was the occasion. Over the weekend, gamers from across the board competed in a number of tournaments held over the course of two days. Up for grabs was autoberths for two CS teams, 1 WC3 Player and 2 UT3 players. There was also a number of invitational positions available for CS, Halo, WC3 & Guitar Hero 3.

I was looking forward to being in sunny QLD for a brief couple of days whilst the tournaments progressed, and it was good to see a number of familliar faces as well as putting a couple of faces to names I have seen online.

On Saturday the Halo 3 tournament went for the majority of the day with the following teams competing in a double elimination competition, with the top two teams winning invites.

iNcontrol
Team Feared
Japan Set to..
HaC
BK Rollerz
Natural Talent
Team DOA

The day progressed steadily and saw the top seed (iNcontrol) knock out the second seed (Team Feared) in the second stage of the compeition. As the day progressed there was a number of good, close matches played under the WCG format of Team Slayer.

First Round:
iNcontrol > BYE
Team Feared > Japan Set To.. 128-70
HaC > BK Rollerz 128-78
Team DOA > Natural Talent 147-96

Second Round (Winners Bracket):
iNcontrol > Team Feared 52-47
HaC > Team DOA 126-89

Second Round (Losers Bracket):
Japan Set To.. > BYE
BK Rollerz > Natural Talnet 122-92

Third Round (Winners Bracket):
iNcontrol > HaC 107-96

Third Round (Losers Bracket):
Team DOA > Japan Set To.. 122-96
Team Feared > BK Rollerz 101-83

Fourth Round (Losers Bracket):
Team Feared > Team DOA 93-92

FINAL:
Team Feared > iNcontrol
1st Elimination Match:
First map - Guardian 69-62 (Team Feared)
Second Map - Narrows 97-95 (Team Feared)
3rd map not required

2nd Elimination Match:
First map - The Pit 71-79 (Team Feared)
Second map - Construct 110-95 (iNcontrol)
Last Map - Guardian - 62-59(Team Feared)

Bracket Here

Warcraft 3 saw a TB local take out the autoberth position, mOOn-GLaDe. He defeated iCute and gets flights to Sydney for the National Final event in August.

Sunday brought the masses, with the Counter-Strike tournament held over the course of the day. Teams turned up early with registration, draw and first matches were under way before the planned 10am start. Two autoberths and two invites were up for grabs which saw some players stress levels rise towards the middle of the tournament.

1st Round: de_dust2
fzer0 > BYE
f4f > appletini 16-0 - appletini pulled out last minute
shuffz > connexion 16-13
gameSeven > teamXEN 16-0
EYA > nB - also pulled out late notice
A-Gamers > magical 16-3
ATP > nexGen 16-14
nme > BYE

2nd Round (Winners Bracket): de_infero
fzer0 > f4f 16-9
shuffz > gameSeven 16-6
A-Gamers > EYA 16-14
nme > ATP 16-8

2nd Round (Losers Bracket): de_inferno
connexion > teamXEN 16-2
magical > BYE
nexGen > BYE

3rd Round (Winners Bracket): de_nuke
fzer0 > shuffz 16-6
A-Gamers > nme 16-8

3rd Round (Losers Bracket): de_nuke
ATP > BYE
EYA > connexion 16-6
gameSeven > magical 16-11
f4f > nexGen

4th Round (Winners Bracket): de_train
fzer0 > A-Gamers 16-13

4th Round (Losers Bracket): de_train
EYA > ATP 16-13
gameSeven > f4f 16-8

5th Round (Losers Bracket): de_dust2
EYA > shuffz
gameSeven > nme 16-5

6th Round (Losers Bracket): de_inferno
EYA > gameSeven 16-7

7th Round (Losers Bracket): de_train
A-Gamers > EYA EYA Disqualified.

FINAL de_nuke
fzer0 > A-Gamers 16-4

Bracket Here

Guitar Hero 3 competitiors played it out in the depths of the bunker in a best of 3 competition. Over the course of the day we saw Xant and Lamb of Thunder secure invites for the national finals event. One of the Favourites, THFS came up early against Lamb of Thunder and was knocked out in a narrow 3rd song decider.

GameStah casters, MomoWang & Depz provided us with shoutcasting for the day. They did a great job and were fantastic at providing a heap of coverage of the day. It will be good to see the GameStah team in Sydney for the National Finals at Luna Park. To download the casts of the day, head to the GameStah website!

Congratulations to all the winners, and thanks for everyone who came down to either spectate or compete. The final day took a while to finish, but thanks to Sam from The Bunker the day ran very well. I hope everyone had a good day & filled up on the stack of pizzas (which were all demolished within 10 minutes). :)

Thanks again, and see you all next time.

- Jake