Great Moments in E-Sports/Highlight Reel

[Dezzimal]

I was catching a starcraft match or two in the wee hours today when I was reminded of the epic finale to the most recent Winner's League. It got me thinking about other epic moments in other games at the professional level and I came up with three right away that I thought I'd share with you.

Shinshan Bank Winner's League 2009 Finals (03-28-2009)

TLPD - League Information - 2009 Shinhan Bank Winners League
The two main players in this story are sKyHigh and Jaedong.

Skyhigh
http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/players/554.jpg

Jaedong
http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/players/211.jpg

The league format is a two teams play to best of 7, and the winner of the previous game gets to stay to face the next player sent out by the losing team. Think of it like pokemon, once you've expended 4 players your team loses. For the finals Hwaseung OZ decides to send out their star player, Jaedong (Zerg), right off the bat. He is the Michael Jordan of starcraft at this point in time, almost nobody stands a chance. Jaedong makes quick work of the first 3 players including CJ Entus' best hope for defeating Jaedong, Effort (Zerg). In his 4th match he faces sKyHigh (Terran), who is CJ's second best hope at defeating Jaedong. Jaedong plays very aggressively, using a rush build under which he expects to quickly defeat sKyHigh in the first 4-5 minutes of the match. This backfires and jaedong is overwhelmed a bit later by skyhigh's superior economy. It wasn't over yet though, even though Jaedong had lost skyhigh still had to win 3 more games against other players from Hwaseung OZ. Not one to buckle under intense pressure sKyHigh plays three amazing games to take home the championship for his team, even though Hwaseung decided to save their best hope for defeating skyhigh for the final match, Hiya (Terran), when skyhigh would be worn down and weary.

Fanmade Highlight Reel from that night below. Also see the link at the top to watch the full matches if you wish; click the yellow + sign next to each match to watch the most recent 7 matches.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8DD_OMjin0

Intel Extreme Masters World of Warcraft 3v3 Grand Finals, HON vs. SK-Asia

HON is the clear underdog here. Just watch this, fast forward to 3 minutes in if you must to see the moment, the announcers do a pretty good job of describing whats going on I think. In before lolWoW as an esport, it is what it is. Don't be afraid to turn it off or fast forward once the good part is over, you're not missing anything but a bunch of hide-and-go-seek which eventually has to come down to a judge's decision based upon who did the most total damage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7duX4QpVaAQ

Evo 2004, Daigo(Ryu) vs. Justin Wong(Chun-Li) SF3 - Third Strike

If you've ever played a respectable fighter you know that blocked attacks still do a small amount of damage to you, so you can respect someone pulling off something like this while sitting on less than a blocked hit worth of HP, especially at the professional level. I've never followed the fighter scene much so someone is either going to come in here and lament or praise this choice probably.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtuA5we0RZU

Those are my favorites, please share your own with pics/youtube or anything else you deem necessary to illustrate why you think that moment was amazing.

[Korietsu]

Most epic mage pissing contest in that HON vs SK video. I remember watching that last year lol.

[BRP]

Moments which are hyped up? Because there could be many "wow" moments that have almost no hype. Anyway, here is one very hyped up moment:

[Abandon]

that 3rd Strike moment is impressive.

[Seymouren]

that 3rd Strike moment is impressive.

And 4 years later Justin's super was parry'd by Ryan Hart aswell lol.

youtube.com/watch?v=9xhyCJqFaRU (<10 posts etc), skip to like 0:50.

[Scunsion]

all of 3rd strike in one video
YouTube - ストⅢ 3rd 厳選シーン

[Correction]

RX's Urien was a destroyer of worlds lol

[Weltall]

I miss 3rd Strike so much....God, I wish they would redo it in HD....SF4 would just...die.

[Ramor]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-bjrW-UNrA
Team Tutorial_vid vs. Heart NaNa's team, I think heart nana's team ends up winning (I didn't follow it all that closely, not positive) at Evo 2009.

A few good matches, then Heart nana (noel) comes in and brings it all down to Mike Z, the anchor for his team. Mike Z ends up face-raping heart nana (who did really well in the singles too I believe). Mike Z ends up losing to a carl in the next round, but I enjoyed it a lot anyway.

Also, does anyone know where I can find the final brackets for Evo? I can't find jack-fucking-shit about it online for some reason, just people talking about BB being at Evo.

[geno]

I remember watching that CJ v Lecaf match, god. I like Jaedong, but I always root for CJ so that night was fucking amazing. Some of the most intense clutch play ever, all the more amazing because of how ridiculously clutch Jaedong usually is (See: Jaedong v Fantasy OSL, Jaedong v Bisu GOM Special Season1 v Season2 winners)

I'm totally tempted to turn this into a best games of SC thread, but I'm too lazy to get all the youtube links that would require