EPT-FrozenArbiter
After the death of starcrafting.se (AKA gamingeye), the Swedish community has been slumping pretty hard. As with most other countries today, we miss our greats of the past like SaFT, Jesse and Daaman. Even our relatively new gosus such as HayprO are retiring. He's been playing for a long time, but only reached stardom recently. However, the Swedish community is now headings towards something good again. We are going through something similar to the renaissance.
New stars are rising in the Swedish scene. Especially MorroW, Naugrim and Shauni come to mind. There are also some new players performing very well. SortOf and OminouS are great examples of that. Moreover, the national teams are more active than ever. Sarain is doing a great job with Sweden A and I think RoSe finally got his connection back up again.
The problem of lacking a community portal is also gone now. MeYera, with much help from Nysikto (<3) have launched www.swebw.tk . Some of you might have noticed the gosubets of Swedish tier 3 players. Those are events hosted by swebw.tk. Other than random showgames, this new site will be hosting a Swedish KOTH (in which I will play the first game vs Becks in 5 minutes!), a forum for our Swedish players and the great tour handled almost single handledly by MeYera!
The tournament is called "Sweden's best" and has been run once before with a huge success. It had all of Sweden's elite players, great coverage (including live shoutcasting and vods with commentating released afterwards) and very good organisation. Gurram, who also dominated the last Swedish race wars, was last time's winner, but he is sadly not participating this year.
Here is the list of players participating this time:
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Get.MeYera
dogmanner (NaW-Jolly)
sD.Zoler
APOCALYPSETANK
sD.SieGe
Get.Shauni
NrG.Neliel (Bischu)
NrG.SortOf
Enivid[MB]
FrozenArbiter
BW-Space
Get.Lovelace
hOn_MusiC
AoN.OminouS
BW-TreK
TS-Rupbar
corne1lle (Raistlin)
JangMi-.- (Rose)
DeWa[KB]
Saafen
NaW-RuNa
BanneD(OD)
Cyrox
NaW-datoby
aGony
hAsu)Soda
Salle
BeCkS[BoB]
Zsork-BoD
NrG.MorroW
BW-DoWn
ToT)Naugrim(
Suntester
DA]gerrArd (Archons)
BW-TuFFeR
TS-Sillen
Mireille
dogmanner (NaW-Jolly)
sD.Zoler
APOCALYPSETANK
sD.SieGe
Get.Shauni
NrG.Neliel (Bischu)
NrG.SortOf
Enivid[MB]
FrozenArbiter
BW-Space
Get.Lovelace
hOn_MusiC
AoN.OminouS
BW-TreK
TS-Rupbar
corne1lle (Raistlin)
JangMi-.- (Rose)
DeWa[KB]
Saafen
NaW-RuNa
BanneD(OD)
Cyrox
NaW-datoby
aGony
hAsu)Soda
Salle
BeCkS[BoB]
Zsork-BoD
NrG.MorroW
BW-DoWn
ToT)Naugrim(
Suntester
DA]gerrArd (Archons)
BW-TuFFeR
TS-Sillen
Mireille
The groups:
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Grupp 1:
BW-TreK
ToT)Naugrim(
Get.LoveLace
Raistlin
TS-Rupbar
Grupp 2:
AoN.OminouS
BW-DoWn
hasu)soda
suntester
hon_Music
Grupp 3:
NrG.MorroW
NaW-datoby
TS-Sillen
ArchonS
RoSe
Grupp 4:
NaW-RuNa
BW-TuFFeR
Zsork
agony
sD.Zoler
Grupp 5:
NrG.SortOf
sD.SieGe
NaW-Jolly
Becks[BoB]
Apocalypsetank
Grupp 6:
Enivid[MB]
Get.Shauni
Saafen
Banned(OD)
- Möjlig kvalplats
Grupp 7:
Mireille
FrozenArbiter
DeWa[KB]
Get.MeYera
- Möjlig kvalplats
Grupp 8:
NrG.Neliel
BW-Space
Cyrox
Salle
- Möjlig kvalplats
BW-TreK
ToT)Naugrim(
Get.LoveLace
Raistlin
TS-Rupbar
Grupp 2:
AoN.OminouS
BW-DoWn
hasu)soda
suntester
hon_Music
Grupp 3:
NrG.MorroW
NaW-datoby
TS-Sillen
ArchonS
RoSe
Grupp 4:
NaW-RuNa
BW-TuFFeR
Zsork
agony
sD.Zoler
Grupp 5:
NrG.SortOf
sD.SieGe
NaW-Jolly
Becks[BoB]
Apocalypsetank
Grupp 6:
Enivid[MB]
Get.Shauni
Saafen
Banned(OD)
- Möjlig kvalplats
Grupp 7:
Mireille
FrozenArbiter
DeWa[KB]
Get.MeYera
- Möjlig kvalplats
Grupp 8:
NrG.Neliel
BW-Space
Cyrox
Salle
- Möjlig kvalplats
There are basically three rounds:
Group stage 1
Group stage 2
Playoffs
The top 2 in every group will advance directly to group stage 2 while the third place player in group 1 will play the third place in group 2 etc. making four third place players advancing to the second group stage as well. The two top players in the groups are seeded. For example, Naugrim and TreK are seeded in group 1 and Neliel and Space in group 8.
My predictions for group stage 1:
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Group 1:
1. ToT)Naugrim
2. BW-TreK
3. TS-Rupbar
4. Get.Lovelace
5. Raistlin
This is probably the third hardest group after Group 3 and Group 7. Both Naugrim and TreK are favorites to take the title of Sweden's best and I (TS-Rupbar) believe that I would have a decent shot at placing second in any group other than 1 or 3. I don't know the skill of Lovelace or Raistlin, but I heard they're not very good.
Group 2:
1. BW-DowN
2. AoN.OminouS
3. hAsu)sOda
4. hon_MusIC
5. suntester
The top 3 in this group could go either way. BW-DowN is most likely to place first, but I would not be surprised if he lost to both sOda and OminouS. BW-DowN used to be the best player in Swe B for a long time, OminouS is in Swe B and sOda is an old Swe B player known for cheese tactics. MusIC is a 2v2 player and I don't even know who suntester is, so I expect them to place 4th and 5th.
Group 3:
1. NaW-datoby
2. NrG.MorroW
3. TS-Sillen
4. ArchonS
5. RoSe
This group is very interesting. I'm looking forward very much to see the games between datoby and MorroW. TS-Sillen and DA]gerrarD (ArchonS) are among the best unseeded players.
Group 4:
1. BW-TuFFeR
2. NaW-Runa
3. agony
4. sD.Zoler
5. Zsork
BW-TuFFeR is a huge favorite to take this group home. I don't know who agony is, but he's apparently in Swe B, so I'm guessing he will take the third place after the Swe B player NaW-Runa. Zoler and Zsork should be no threat to the top 3.
Group 5:
1. sD.SieGe
2. NrG.SortOf
3. NaW-Jolly
4. BeCkS[BoB]
5. APOCALYPSETANK
sD.SieGe was a very good player 6 months ago, but recently returned from inactivity. He's still quite good and I don't see how SieGe and the Swe B player SortOf could not end up in the top 2. Jolly might be able to steal a game from SortOf with his feared kirurgterran TvZ.
Group 6:
1. Get.Shauni
2. Enivid[MB]
3. Saafen
4. Banned(OD)
Very uninteresting group. Shauni and Enivid are obvious favorites.
Group 7:
1. Mireille
2. FrozenArbiter
3. Get.MeYera
4. DeWa[KB]
This group, on the other hand, is the most interesting of them all! It has a very unsure outcome. Mireille and FrozenArbiter are old inactive gosus and MeYera and DeWa are Swe B class players. I expect Mireille to take first place, but I'm not so sure about FrozenArbiter. This group could go any way.
Group 8:
1. NrG.Neliel
2. BW-Space
3. Cyrox
4. Salle
The worst group of them all. It has the two worst seeded players and among the two worst non-seeded players.
In a poll about whether this should be covered in English, the option for English won. If you want the live casts and VODs to be commentated in English, please give your support to MeYer and Salesman. They're doing a great job hosting this tournament for the Swedish community.
It'd be cool if you guys could give your own predictions, show support for your favorite players or the organisation and follow this tournament. If you're interested, you can view the old games commentated in Swedish HERE
This event starts 7/3 and the finals are played 15/3.
Please check this thread for further updates and results. Thank you for reading and GO SWEDEN! : )
Sweden has a great community.. good luck guys.
