Glad to see a Korean invited who is not an auto tournament winner. I could definitely see people take games off fbh.
Really pumped to see nony play again, too.
But why would you ever hold a tournament on a Wednesday+Thursday? I certainly won't be able to watch any of it live. Tournaments are supposed to be on weekends, you know?

Sayle

United Kingdom3685 Posts

October 15 2017 15:11 GMT

#284

I'll be casting the EU qualifier playoffs in less than one hour on twitch.tv/esl_sc2 ! Voting for which match I should cast first is here: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/bw-tournaments/526802-italian-esports-open?page=11#209

RAPiDCasting

Korea (South)594 Posts

October 15 2017 16:10 GMT

#285

Streaming the other off-stream matches on my channel until the Final here: http://www.twitch.tv/RAPiDCasting

elKa-ThE-FeArEd

Sweden177 Posts

October 15 2017 17:29 GMT

#286

wow sziky noshow ? pretty weird

HsDLTitich

Italy831 Posts

October 15 2017 21:06 GMT

#287

On October 15 2017 23:10 Lorch wrote:
Glad to see a Korean invited who is not an auto tournament winner. I could definitely see people take games off fbh.
Really pumped to see nony play again, too.
But why would you ever hold a tournament on a Wednesday+Thursday? I certainly won't be able to watch any of it live. Tournaments are supposed to be on weekends, you know?

Because Blizzcon is happening on Saturday and Sunday

Qikz

United Kingdom12052 Posts

October 15 2017 22:19 GMT

#288

Really good games today! I wish I could've gone to the finals to cast with Sayle. I was invited, but I can't get a passport in time. T_T

Liquid`Drone

Norway28878 Posts

October 15 2017 22:27 GMT

#289

russian domination! a little sad for koget, but really entertaining games today. Gonna be an exciting tourney.

[sc1f]eonzerg

Belgium7012 Posts

October 15 2017 22:31 GMT

#290

congratulations 3heads and dewalt

thezanursic

5500 Posts

October 15 2017 22:35 GMT

#291

I'm excited for this, but I don't quite see the value of FBH being there, sure he's out of shape, but he is still likely to take the thing.

Here's hoping one of the 7 other players manages to take it

_Animus_

Bulgaria1064 Posts

October 15 2017 22:46 GMT

#292

Really nice games with unexpected Bonyth elimination.
Congrats to winners. Really liked Dewalt play.

ne4aJIb

Russian Federation3209 Posts

October 15 2017 23:10 GMT

#293

The Russians did it!

sc19980331

China1609 Posts

October 16 2017 06:31 GMT

#294

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Italian_esports_open Finalist:
Protoss: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Dewalt PrO http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Draco http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/NonY http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/ClouD
Terran: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/MorroW http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Firebathero
Zerg: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Notforu

Notforu won 3 tours recently.

L_Master

United States8017 Posts

October 16 2017 06:35 GMT

#295

No Sziky, TrutacZ, eOn, or Bonyth. Grats to those who made it through, but that's really quite surprising. I'd have assumed that at least one or two of those guys would have shown up and been able to make it through, even if number of spots were tight.

thezanursic

5500 Posts

October 16 2017 06:44 GMT

#296

On October 16 2017 15:31 sc19980331 wrote:
http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Italian_esports_open Finalist:
Protoss: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Dewalt PrO http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Draco http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/NonY http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/ClouD
Terran: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/MorroW http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Firebathero
Zerg: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Notforu

Notforu won 3 tours recently.

Well I know who ISN'T going to win, the one without a liquipedia entry who made it through the easy Italian qualifier

[sc1f]eonzerg

Belgium7012 Posts

October 16 2017 06:53 GMT

#297

On October 16 2017 15:44 thezanursic wrote:

Show nested quote +

Well I know who ISN'T going to win, the one without a liquipedia entry who made it through the easy Italian qualifier

kind of funny anyone thinks some foreigner can win a progamer like firebathero.the champion is already known and the second place will depends who faces firebathero early on.

Bonyth

Poland611 Posts

October 16 2017 06:59 GMT

#298

i don't agree with the statement above. Granted, he is the favourite, but starcraft shows that favourites to win don't actually always win.

L_Master

United States8017 Posts

October 16 2017 07:01 GMT

#299

On October 16 2017 15:53 [sc1f]eonzerg wrote:

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kind of funny anyone thinks some foreigner can win a progamer like firebathero.the champion is already known and the second place will depends who faces firebathero early on.

Usually I'm a fan of letting Korean players in, especially when there is double elimination or the like, but it does feel a little wierd for this tournament. Anybody on FBH side of the bracket is definitely the unlucky draw.

I won't go so far as to say Firebathero won't win, but he is certainly a HUGE favorite. I can see him losing if someone brought their peak game and had some good prepared builds.

I'd be relatively okay with it if they used the Chinese rule, where you have to offrace at least every other game (or even all games). Progamers offrace is usually good, but not win one series out of a thousand good.

merz

Sweden2760 Posts

October 16 2017 07:32 GMT

#300

Looking at the given situation, FBH is and always will be the favorite to win this thing, but there's only one Zerg in the tournament and quite a few protosses. Three of those protosses (I don't know about Dewalt, but he's been posting promising results) already have a history of being able to take down Korean terrans, Draco took out Midas in Midas prime in WCG.

Now, I know the argument, Draco, Nony and Cloud are all "old timers" and we can't possibly know their current form. But their history show that they are all very capable, on a good day, to take out someone like FBH in a bo3. Especially considering FBH is notoriously known for being horrible in TvP. So yeah, I'll go with being carefully optimistic about this one. There's definitely a chance that FBH goes out to a foreing protoss at least.