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Battle Summary at the ACON4 WC3 Tournament in Florida Regional @ E2 Café

Great turnout at the ACON4 WC3 Florida Regional at E2 Café in Miami, Florida; players participated from Florida to as far as S. Carolina. At the end of first two rounds, only 8 players stand; the favorites to win are: Matthew Anderson (Wizard) and Cheyne Seleski (Newbiee). Wizard is about to make a tough decision -- in order to pass the 3rd round he must face his own brother (Steven Anderson) and eliminate him from the competition; and as to Newbiee, he must do the same against his good friend (Neil Murphy). Wizard wins over his brother 2-1, but Newbiee has a tough time beating his friend, but at the end he passes to the next round winning over Murphy 2-1.

E2 Cafe: Tournament play

E2 Cafe: More tournament play

Only 4 players are left in the semifinals: Wizard, Newbiee, David Kennedy and Hugh Lomas. Wizard and Newbiee advance to the finals without a sweat, both wining over their opponents 2-0. Now, Kennedy and Lomas will battle for the 3rd place; and Kennedy comes out victorious over Lomas; not bad for a 3rd place, he gets an ATI Radeon 9600 Video Card. Now is the moment of truth, Wizard and Newbiee will face off for the 1st Place. It was a really tough competition, but at the end Wizard is victorious against Newbiee 2-1. Wizard gets an ATI Radeon 9800XT Video Card and Newbiee will walk out with an ABIT IC7-MAX3 Motherboard and a set of Kingston HyperX RAM.

Wizard and Newbiee will battle the next day at the National level in various online games against all the top 2 winners from all the other Regional Tournaments. Newbiee falls short to continue in this tough competition but Wizard advances all the way to the finals.

E2 cafe: Onlookers looking on

E2 Cafe: Heated competition

E2 Cafe: winner with his Radeon 9800XT

E2 Cafe: by the poster

E2 Cafe: 2 of the top 3 contestants

E2 Cafe: Winners pose

E2 Cafe: Anderson, the first place winner

E2 Cafe: Winner posing with the IC7 Max3 and Kingston RAM

At the end Wizard is defeated twice (2-1) in the finals by Jeff Zhang (Aether) who came back from the bottom bracket of double elimination. Aether wins $2000 and Wizard will travel to China and represent North America facing many other countries at the ACON4 Global Tournament. Good luck to Aether in China, this June 2004.