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AIGL - Starcraft final

The grand final of the Starcraft competition at the "NYC Challenge" has just ended, with [usa]jolly taking the first game, only for Pillar to come back and beat him in the second, leading to a tense tie breaker that was hard fought. Pillar dug in heavily, and fought off attacks by Jolly while launching his own counter-offensives to keep him off balance. In the end it paid off, and a juggernaut of Pillar's Protoss troops paraded into Jolly's base, with running battles all the way to the heart of his base before the game came to an end. Pillar goes home $3500 richer, and both players will get to represent the USA at the World Cyber Games Challenge in Korea next month.

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