[ASL19] Ro16 Group Discussion Thread - Page 3

On April 09 2025 05:01 prosatan wrote:


I hate it because i didn't vote for JD , but the LB is made with your head , not with your heart !

I got:

Sk and Light

Best and Speed

Bisu and Zero

Rush and mini

On April 09 2025 14:06 evilfatsh1t wrote:

because rush and light appealed to him that they arent confident against snow. in order to increase chances of snow being eliminated, a zerg should be in his group.
sk was contemplating between sending queen and hero but ultimately sent hero because it eliminates the coinflip zvz matchup in his own group and lets him practice only one matchup for the entire round.

On April 09 2025 22:01 goody153 wrote:
Group D is kinda crazy. Isnt that like 4 ASL champions and the two strongest protoss in one group ? lol

Also SK putting Light in the same group sounds nuts. Although him only worrying about zvt all the time is a big advantage. He can just scrim and practice all zvt all the time.

Group B and C sounds like a fun group to watch

On April 09 2025 21:58 RJBTVYOUTUBE wrote:

Everyone fears SnOw the most right now. Even if it is only in online play, SnOw has lost only three sets out of the last 20+ online sets. One to SK. One to Light. One to HerO. If SnOw can bring that same form from Online into Offline, he will win the season. Not even Soulkey has been able to properly play 50/50 vs SnOw online.

However, HerO is currently playing disgustingly good. He might be the one to stand in SnOw's way. Soulkey swapping herO and Light might just have been the best swap in ASL history.

On April 09 2025 22:02 RJBTVYOUTUBE wrote:

Yeah group D is the most stacked group ever.

On April 09 2025 21:58 RJBTVYOUTUBE wrote:

Everyone fears SnOw the most right now. Even if it is only in online play, SnOw has lost only three sets out of the last 20+ online sets. One to SK. One to Light. One to HerO. If SnOw can bring that same form from Online into Offline, he will win the season. Not even Soulkey has been able to properly play 50/50 vs SnOw online.

However, HerO is currently playing disgustingly good. He might be the one to stand in SnOw's way. Soulkey swapping herO and Light might just have been the best swap in ASL history.

On April 09 2025 16:30 HOLYBATS wrote:
No way you betrayed JD for LB! History will not forget this.

On April 09 2025 22:26 Miragee wrote:
Just like everyone else here I find it really hard to predict these groups. It's not even because the Ro16 is that stacked but also because some of the usual dominant suspects have shown considerable weaknesses in the Ro24. Here's my LB:

Group A: Soulkey and Barracks (mostly because Light played poorly in the Ro24 while Barracks had a strong showing)
Group B: Speed and Best (this could go either way; I doubt JD will advance but if he wins his first match vs Best and faces him in the final match, who knows...
Group C: Queen and Rain (no idea how good Rain is atm. but he usually need very little practice to be competitive. Bisu looked super weak but in a direct match up against Rain, anything could happen...)
Group D: Snow and Hero (Mini could easily take the spot of either of the two tbh. I just think there is a distinct possiblity of Mini losing to Rush in the losers match)



It's always the same and it doesn't matter with Snow. These "low stakes" online series are different. For the time being I think Snow just lacks something fundamental to take an offline tournament such as ASL. His performance in "low-stakes" online matches just never translates to offline. I would love to be proven wrong but for now the outcome of previous, comparable situations overwhelmingly point towards Snow not winning ASL.

On April 09 2025 23:46 TornadoSteve wrote:
Since prosatan decided to bet against the dong, i will go ahead and vote for Speed and JD

On April 09 2025 22:03 goody153 wrote:

Honestly I wonder how Group D typically ends up the group of death in ASL.

Is it just picking order why this happens ? Like Group D gets the unwanted players most of the time