EPT"I first thought of deciding on one of the easier Terran opponents."
Anytime hints that he will be picking his group rather strategically, however soon the crowd went crazy with delight as he picked his fellow Protoss rival Pusan ^^
"He phoned me a few days earlier. He said 'I'm gonna pick you so get us a weak Terran guy.'"
Pusan explains why Anytime had picked him. Commentator Kim Do Hyung states in reply “any Terran who finds themselves in group A won’t feel to happy, I don’t think”
"Next season my goal is to achieve a top seeding and make sure others truly fear me."
Boxer, showing his bitterness after last season July (as first seed) picked the player he himself wanted, preventing him from forming the group he had in mind.
"I’m obliged to pick a Protoss user."
Boxer states that in order to avoid the chance of Rainbow being in his group, he will have to pick a Protoss user. He picks Stork, of Samsung Khan, but insists soon after he has "nothing personal" against Samsung Khan.
"My new year's resolution is to have invested 20,000,000 won into my newly opened Sinhan Bank account by the end of this Starleague"
Vintage Boxer, already showing claims to the winner's prize of 20,000,000 won.
"Backstage, he’s been practicing that line for some time."
iloveoov, on Boxer's supposedly charming wit.
"I'm picking someone who wouldn’t feel any grudge against me in doing so."
Midas, as he strokes his head naively picks his rival Goodfriend of KTF. Goodfriend expresses that he’s been betrayed and replies "That’s not what he said to me earlier on..."
Midas, to console him says "Well, I always provide you a free passage to the semi's, so."
"Well, quarter finals, group stages, they’re more or less the same, so again beating Midas will be merely another passage to the final"
Goodfriend trash talks to Midas. Midas stares at him, clearly offended despite them being close friends. Goodfriend continues his mind games; "Beating him is a lucky sign that I can make it to at least the semis."
As Goodfriend picks Rainbow, Boxer and Zergman in turn shakes his hand, relieved to have avoided any of their team mates being in their groups thanks to this decision. Commentator Um Jae Kyung highlights this incident and Boxer innocently explains his action;
"It was an innocent gesture to bid him good luck."
"I’m only good at stuff like donuts, pancakes and pastry..."
SaferZerg blushes as commentator Kim Do Hyung asks "Apparently you’re known for your cooking, what are your specialities?"
"It's for the good of our team mates."
Stork on his decision to pick July, thus avoiding any Samsung Khan complications within the groups.
"These days I use arbiters too y’know, say something about that please?"
Pusan, expressing his frustration at the commentators constantly labelling him with his trademark "attack-ground zealot spirit" and "super macro toss" ^^
Kim Do Hyung then asks in reply, "how do you feel about carriers?" and everyone bursts into laughter. (Kim Do Hyung is constantly criticised throughout Korean forums for his “Carrier Fetish”; he almost always states in his commentary that the Protoss player must build carriers to win PvT late-game)
Then adding further comedy, Pusan replies "I used them in Proleague couple of days ago."
Kim Do Hyung asks "and how were they?"
Pusan replies "Yeah, they felt pretty good." xD
"I'm actually scared of him"
Pusan claims Anytime told him to pick Xellos, but he expresses his respect for the Perfect Terran. Xellos lets out an elusive smile, having heard this. Eventually Pusan did pick Xellos, completing the Group of Death.
"I wanted to be in Group B..."
After being picked by Pusan, Xellos was forced to pick Casy, for an even racial distribution.
"I will show you what a glorious race Zerg are!"
A melodramatic July expresses his confidence despite the weak Zerg line-up this OSL. He reminds the audience he won the 3-zerg Gillette OSL last year, and claims that the golden mouse will be his.
Cloud: “It seems only handsome guys make it into Starleague.”
Um Jae Kyung then replies; "So what happened before, uptil now?" ^^
To which smooth man Cloud replies:
"I can assure you I was simply lacking in skill."
"I can safely say I’m the best in the Daegu region!"
Cloud startles SaferZerg and Nal_Rock, who are also from the Daegu region with this audacious claim.
"He seemed such a nice guy uptil now..."
Rainbow’s response as Goodfriend picks him. He continues to say he’s close friends with all the gamers in his group.
For your reference:
A : Anytime -> Pusan -> Xellos -> Casy
B : Boxer -> Stork -> July -> iris
C : iloveoov -> SaferZerg -> Cloud -> Rock
D : midas -> GoodFriend -> intotherainbow -> ZergMan
