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[ASL10] Ro16 Group Selection
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BLinD-RawR
ALLEYCAT BLUES50121 Posts
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Highgamer
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SenorChang
Australia4730 Posts
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Terrakin
United States1440 Posts
On September 27 2020 19:22 SenorChang wrote: tuned in late, has Flash said anything yet? he said he took a small break and feels strong now | ||
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skycycle
Bulgaria36 Posts
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SenorChang
Australia4730 Posts
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Sorusaba
276 Posts
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att
128 Posts
On September 27 2020 19:58 Sorusaba wrote: Haha Snow with the big balls wanting to get into Flash's group We could be at a point where we see a fragile, fresh but still in beginning stages of starting his randomness transition, in which case it could be a possible snipe by snow who feels confident about his ability to handle random opponents, although PvZ could be difficult in the case of a random flash rolling Z in one of their games. Let us see it as the dramatic group unfolds. | ||
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M3t4PhYzX
Poland4195 Posts
On September 27 2020 19:44 SenorChang wrote: when does the first ro16 group actually play? this is a great question | ||
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Sorusaba
276 Posts
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BLinD-RawR
ALLEYCAT BLUES50121 Posts
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prosatan
Romania8024 Posts
Queen should have no problems in taking first place in his group! Group C : Flash and Hero (cuz he has very strong ZvP) Group D: Mini top place and on of the zergs second | ||
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Ikirouta
Finland727 Posts
Zero Rush Light Action FlaSh herO soma SoulKey | ||
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PVJ
Hungary5214 Posts
Great that there will be 2 weeks of preparation should make for clutch matchups and great strategies Grp A I will say Zero and Jyj | ||
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maybenexttime
Poland5556 Posts
B: Light, Best C: Flash, Snow D: Soma, Shuttle | ||
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Dante08
Singapore4128 Posts
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Zaibakk
101 Posts
A: 95% Zero, 40% Jyj, 40% Rush, 25% Leta, B: 90% Light, 43% Best, 33% Larva, 33% Action C: 75% Flash, 65% Snow, 50% Hero, 15% Free D: 80% Soma, 70% Soulkey, 40% Mini, 10% Shuttle B is the toughest group, especially for Larva & Action! | ||
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Brainojack
Canada195 Posts
On September 27 2020 19:20 Highgamer wrote: Someone tell the english translator that "Mini" is not pronounced like "meanie" xD edit: Oh well, seems like he only slipped once or twice He busted out an 'ostentatious' near the end. This more than makes up for any earlier slips | ||
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TornadoSteve
1023 Posts
Sk is screwed, probably soma//shuttle will advance | ||
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NoS-Craig
Australia3095 Posts
Zero, Rush Light, Best Snow, Hero Shuttle, SoulKey | ||
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TornadoSteve
1023 Posts
Action // Light herO // FlaSh soma // Shuttle | ||
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Rainalcar
Croatia360 Posts
On September 27 2020 21:15 PVJ wrote: Not sure why they referred to Group D as death. Grp B and Grp C look both more deadly to me, and harder to call who'll advance. I'd say Soma amd Sk both are clearly favoured over Mini and Shuttle. Am I missing something? On the other hand, Snow, Flash, hero in the same group (Snow 0-3 hero and still picking him was weird) and Light, Action, Larva, Best too those are really hard for me to figure out. I guess Snow and hero and Light and Action will advance? Great that there will be 2 weeks of preparation should make for clutch matchups and great strategies Grp A I will say Zero and Jyj It is unbelievable that nobody has commented the awesome recent matches in KCM involving Shuttle. That league seems arguably to produce the highest quality BW. | ||
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KobraKay
Portugal4231 Posts
Due to random, Snow and Hero will probably advance from the stacked group C. Why are people worried about B? It has Light and 2.5 choke artists. If the 0.5 (action) shows up with the non-choke version, he and Light will advance. Group A it depends on how people see Rush. It seems that recently he has been heavily favoured by people due to good performances in other places, but ASL is a different beast. | ||
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outscar
2832 Posts
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PVJ
Hungary5214 Posts
On September 27 2020 23:44 Rainalcar wrote: It is unbelievable that nobody has commented the awesome recent matches in KCM involving Shuttle. That league seems arguably to produce the highest quality BW. I have not yet seen this week's playoff between P and Z. Shuttle is awesome don't get me wrong but he never really had the same tenacity offline since won his ch'ship 4 years ago | ||
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Just_a_Moth
Canada1950 Posts
On September 27 2020 23:44 Rainalcar wrote: It is unbelievable that nobody has commented the awesome recent matches in KCM involving Shuttle. That league seems arguably to produce the highest quality BW. I love KCM. | ||
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Rainalcar
Croatia360 Posts
On September 28 2020 00:42 PVJ wrote: I have not yet seen this week's playoff between P and Z. Shuttle is awesome don't get me wrong but he never really had the same tenacity offline since won his ch'ship 4 years ago Check it, the games were outstanding. | ||
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TornadoSteve
1023 Posts
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QOGQOG
834 Posts
Predictions: Group A 1. Queen 2. Rush Group B 1. Action 2. Light Group C 1. HerO 2. Snow Group D 1. Soma 2. Shuttle (Though I'd love to see Mini advance.) | ||
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kogeT
Poland2037 Posts
B: Action / Best C: Hero / Snow D: SK / Soma Hopes and dream for 1 terran in Ro.8, but maps also do not help. | ||
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darktreb
United States3016 Posts
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skycycle
Bulgaria36 Posts
On September 28 2020 05:59 darktreb wrote: What is the game format? Is it all BO1, or are some of the matches BO3? First two matches: Bo1 - Final three matches: Bo3 | ||
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KobraKay
Portugal4231 Posts
On September 28 2020 04:23 QOGQOG wrote: I feel like people are overrating Flash, strange as that is to type. He should beat free, with Snow it will be more difficult, and I think he just loses to herO unless he gets Terran. Predictions: Group A 1. Queen 2. Rush Group B 1. Action 2. Light Group C 1. HerO 2. Snow Group D 1. Soma 2. Shuttle i also think flash will not advance, but to be fair, he has been destroying hero with protoss too (bw general has a vod with 2 recents games that well..were not close)....so i would change your sentence to "if he gets zerg" xD | ||
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Galacsia
Chile161 Posts
B. Light / Best C. Hero / Flash D. Mini / Soulkey Unpopular take: I feel like people are way overestimating Snow. | ||
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Lazyer
United States342 Posts
predictions, but mostly what i want to happen A: Queen / Leta B: Light / Action - this is group of death, anything could happen C: Flash / Hero D: Soulkey / Mini | ||
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SchAmToo
United States1141 Posts
B - Light Action C - snOw herO D - Soulkey Soma Flash random hasn't impressed me yet. Soulkey only will survive if he doesn't play Soma. Light is by far my top pick of ASL. | ||
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don_kyuhote
3006 Posts
My prediction: A) Zero + Rush B) Light + Action C) Flash + Snow D) Soma + Soulkey | ||
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hiro protagonist
1294 Posts
Flash has a 33.3% chance to make it to the RO8 | ||
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andertalets77
143 Posts
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don_kyuhote
3006 Posts
Shakuras Temple for the first games. Then, for the Bo3s, each players will get to ban 1 map, and 3 maps will be drawn from the 4 remaining maps. | ||
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RKC
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FlaShFTW
United States10155 Posts
Zero gave himself such an easy group lol. Flash interesting group, I think RvP is actually the best matchup since Protoss has issues with Forge FE vs 1 base play. | ||
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TornadoSteve
1023 Posts
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RowdierBob
Australia13006 Posts
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Crunchums
United States11144 Posts
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QOGQOG
834 Posts
On September 28 2020 11:32 TornadoSteve wrote: Really guys? SK is going to advance? Can i know why? Because from my point of view this group will smash him and sk winning a single game is an upset to me I didn't predict him to advance (I think he's been overhyped for a while, good as he is), but while we know he can't win a ZvZ ever, under any circumstances, his ZvP is quite strong. Mini is inconsistent and not the PvZ monster he once was, and Shuttle has looked pretty good but is recently back from the military and not necessarily totally back in shape, so there's a decent chance for SoulKey. | ||
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Djabanete
United States2786 Posts
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prosatan
Romania8024 Posts
On September 28 2020 13:01 QOGQOG wrote: I didn't predict him to advance (I think he's been overhyped for a while, good as he is), but while we know he can't win a ZvZ ever, under any circumstances, his ZvP is quite strong. Mini is inconsistent and not the PvZ monster he once was, and Shuttle has looked pretty good but is recently back from the military and not necessarily totally back in shape, so there's a decent chance for SoulKey. Yes, Sk has a poor zvz. Could it be because of his low apm ( 250 - 300 ) , compared to 400+ of The other zergs , who reach these numbers only in zvz ? ( not to mention hero or effort - 500 constant apm ) | ||
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p14c
Vatican City State431 Posts
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whaski
Finland577 Posts
On September 28 2020 05:46 kogeT wrote: A: Zero / Leta B: Action / Best C: Hero / Snow D: SK / Soma Hopes and dream for 1 terran in Ro.8, but maps also do not help. Could you share your thoughts about maps? From recent spongames, sure Benzene is as horrible to tvz as before and ringing bloom seems bad for both tvz and tvp but Shakuras seems to be quite good for terran, plasma (suprisingly) as well and optimizer is terran map acording koreans. That leaves eclipse and polypoid, at least Light and Rush like to play those two maps. | ||
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End1esss
12 Posts
B: Light, Action C: Snow, Hero D: Soulkey, Mini | ||
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Avi-Love
Denmark423 Posts
Firstly, the maps of this ASL are incredibly terran favoured, and I honestly think this could only happen because of Flash playing random. It takes about 1 minute to look up spon stats and what you get is this: Polypoid T wins 55.3% of the time Eclipse T wins 52% of the time Optimizer T wins 60.9% of the time Ringing Bloom T wins 51.6% of the time Benzene T wins 49.5% of the time Shakuras T wins 59.3% of the time Plasma T wins 55% of the time. Are these stats perfect? Of course not, a few of the maps have fairly small sample sizes (shakuras, Plasma and Benzene) But even if T has a bad matchup on a map, like they do TvZ on Benzene, their other matchup is even more imbalanced in their favour. Secondly, SK is by far the best player in his group, he's actually the only person in his group that has consistently been in the top 10 of spon stats for months and months. Mini has managed to sneak up to a 9th place recently, but for the majority of the time he has been hanging out around rank ~15, Shuttle has been below rank 20 pretty much for the entire time since he returned from the military, especially due to a ~30-32% win rate in pvz. Now I get it, it's a bo1/bo3 anything can happen, SK has obviously struggled with inconsistencies in offline performances, but make no mistake he is the best player in that group. (For anyone interested, over the last 5 months SK is 27-14 vs Mini, 18-10 vs Shuttle, and 4-4 vs Soma in head to head matches). Now for my own predictions: Group A Queen/Rush. This is the easiest group to predict by far, Leta might've gotten a win via Bisu's sudoku, but he's just not on the same level as Rush/Queen, and while Rush has been a notorious underperformer at offline events, I am genuinely hopeful after his flawless performance in the previous round. Group B Light/Best. This is the group of death, and by far the hardest group to predict -- I think Light makes it out no matter what. If Best wins the first game, he should be the one to make it out second, if not he probably has to win two PvZs to make it out, which is doable but extremely hard. I don't think any result in this group would be a surprise or upset though. (Some random h2h stats from the last 5 months: Light vs Best 26-21, Light vs Action 52-33, Light vs Larva 79-49. Best vs Action 31-32, Best vs Larva 32-44). Group C Snow/Flash. I think Flash's best mu is RvP, while RvZ is his worst. The only zvt games I've watched him play were 2 hatch mass ling into very low eco 2h muta all in, and his zvz againt zero looked incredibly bad. However, I think having two protoss players and the worst zerg left in the tournament in his group gives him a good chance at advancing. Snow is the most consistent / best performer in the group. There aren't a lot of interesting stats since spon doesn't track flash's random afaik, but Hero tends to do very well against Snow(72-49) and Free (54-14). Group D SK/Soma. Like I wrote earlier I really don't think there is much upset potential here, especially with the deciding games being zvp. Soma is 24-6 vs Shuttle, and 51-46 vs Mini. SK is 27-14 vs Mini and 18-10 vs Shuttle. | ||
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yeti
United States258 Posts
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QOGQOG
834 Posts
On September 28 2020 16:12 prosatan wrote: Yes, Sk has a poor zvz. Could it be because of his low apm ( 250 - 300 ) , compared to 400+ of The other zergs , who reach these numbers only in zvz ? ( not to mention hero or effort - 500 constant apm ) I don't think that's the issue—he does decently at the matchup online, for example (just a hair under 50% this year on Sponbbang, higher recently), so it's not like he's physically incapable of it. I think it's a combination of choking and seemingly bring very predictable on build order choices (thus getting countered, which happens to him way too often to be chance). On September 29 2020 00:22 Avi-Love wrote: I feel like there's a decent amount of trolling going on in this thread, so hopefully I can correct some misconceptions. Either people are trolling or they're misinformed, they really can't be both, kind of by definition. On September 29 2020 00:22 Avi-Love wrote: Secondly, SK is by far the best player in his group, he's actually the only person in his group that has consistently been in the top 10 of spon stats for months and months. Mini has managed to sneak up to a 9th place recently, but for the majority of the time he has been hanging out around rank ~15, Shuttle has been below rank 20 pretty much for the entire time since he returned from the military, especially due to a ~30-32% win rate in pvz. Now I get it, it's a bo1/bo3 anything can happen, SK has obviously struggled with inconsistencies in offline performances, but make no mistake he is the best player in that group. (For anyone interested, over the last 5 months SK is 27-14 vs Mini, 18-10 vs Shuttle, and 4-4 vs Soma in head to head matches). Bisu had been in the top ten (and often the top five) when he got eliminated by JyJ and Leta, who were nowhere close. Obviously actual skill level is important, but so is mentality and preparation. Soma made top four last season (and I'd say he's the most likely to advance), Mini is hard to prepare against and inconsistently brilliant, and Shuttle has a strong record for PvZ and for advancing from groups he has no business advancing from. They've all gone further in tournaments than people expected them to. Last season SK was eliminated by Soma and Brain, season before by Sacsri and Flash, season before by Snow and Last. In fact, the last time he made it beyond the Ro16 was ASL4. And every time I've heard how great SoulKey is beforehand. This may be the easiest group he's gotten, so he certainly has a chance, but with his Ro16 record and his recent ASTL performance, I don't give him great odds offline against a Zerg and two (admittedly inconsistent) PvZ experts. | ||
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Avi-Love
Denmark423 Posts
Just to put things into perspective, here are Shuttle's pvz stats against the good zergs since his return: vs Action 11-58 vs Soulkey 10-18 vs Zero 10-45 vs Soma 6-24 vs hero 23-74 vs Larva 14-48. Are you guys really that delusional because he had 1 good day of KCM? I won't even mention the map stats for ZvP, because they are also overall quite advantageous for zerg. | ||
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QOGQOG
834 Posts
On September 29 2020 02:56 Avi-Love wrote: Bisu was not eliminated by leta and JyJ though, Bisu was eliminated by himself -- Leta and JyJ just played solid enough that he couldn't come back from his own mistakes. That was my whole point. That on paper SK should advance but he chokes on stage and especially in ZvZ. So his good online stats don't hold that much weight, just as Bisu's didn't. On September 29 2020 02:56 Avi-Love wrote: I also think you're being a bit ridiculous when you call shuttle and mini pvz experts. Unless Bisu has retaken the lead, they're top two PvZ winrates in all of ASL, so yes, they're pretty clearly PvZ experts. Now, to be fair, Mini has fallen off the last couple seasons and Shuttle is, as you point out, pretty freshly back. If each of them played 100 games against SK, SK would win the majority. But they can absolutely play solid enough that SoulKey can't come back from his own mistakes, to borrow your description of JyJ and Leta vs. Bisu. And maybe play unusually/well enough to force those mistakes out of him. | ||
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TaardadAiel
Bulgaria750 Posts
Group D has the potential to be funkier just because their performance varies wildly. SK won the same KSL season he lost 0-3 to Mind in the group stage. If everyone plays within two standard variations of their usual online play, figuratively speaking, SK advancing is a pretty safe bet. I wonder if Shuttle has regained some of his late-game PvZ form. I'd love to see a macro slugfest between him and Soulkey. I'm pretty skeptical about it, though. Avi's on point. Mini and Shuttle used to be strong in PvZ, they're nowhere as good now. And there's a bunch of really strong Zergs at the moment. | ||
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ERSJ
Sweden57 Posts
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whaski
Finland577 Posts
On September 29 2020 03:08 QOGQOG wrote: That was my whole point. That on paper SK should advance but he chokes on stage and especially in ZvZ. So his good online stats don't hold that much weight, just as Bisu's didn't. Unless Bisu has retaken the lead, they're top two PvZ winrates in all of ASL, so yes, they're pretty clearly PvZ experts. Now, to be fair, Mini has fallen off the last couple seasons and Shuttle is, as you point out, pretty freshly back. If each of them played 100 games against SK, SK would win the majority. But they can absolutely play solid enough that SoulKey can't come back from his own mistakes, to borrow your description of JyJ and Leta vs. Bisu. And maybe play unusually/well enough to force those mistakes out of him. Shuttle was (before army) elite pvz player. He is getting there and like the examples of weekly tours show still has his lategame mastery. I doubt Soulkey is going to let him get there... Bisu was for a long time first in sponbang rankings AFTER his ASL disaster. He holds 72,9% winrate in pvz including 6-2 over Soulkey and 15-7 over Soma. So yes Bisu is best Protoss and best pvzer by a large margin. His horrible fuckup in ASL is worriesome, but certainly Bisu is not washed up in his overall form compared to Mini or Shuttle. | ||
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AttackZerg
United States7454 Posts
B - Action/Light but this is a crazy hard group. If 'potential' Larva shows up instead of 'offline' Larva, he remains a dangerous wild-card and Best is the FBH of Toss, on a good day he murders a god on a bad day he is ... just not good. I don't think there is a safe bet here. C - Flash/Hero I don't think Hero is the second best player in this group, but ZvP seems to be in a good place right now. I think the universe will give Flash Terran just because of how many people have doubted him. If the other pro's are correct, he is going to get crushed. Soulkey said, "put me in your group" according to Flash. D - not a prediction. I am rooting for Soma and Soulkey to advance. I do think Soulkey is one of the most talented zergs, we have ever seen. Soma is really, really fun to watch and he is Revival-level of odd. | ||
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RowdierBob
Australia13006 Posts
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TornadoSteve
1023 Posts
To me, SoulKey, Larva and SnOw are over rated. While Shuttle, Rush and and hero are under rated. Mini, BeSt and FlaSh are all unpredictable at this point. And free, Leta and JyJ just wont make it. soma is my wild card :D | ||
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ERSJ
Sweden57 Posts
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b0lt
United States790 Posts
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Sweden57 Posts
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