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Quanticfograw
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
United States2053 Posts
October 11 2010 07:54 GMT
#21
wowwwww god this is upsetting..... I think the fact that a one shot deal is pretty shitty
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Kinky
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States4126 Posts
October 11 2010 07:55 GMT
#22
I think the only reason they haven't seeded anyone is so that more newcomers have a chance to put their name out there, so I wouldn't say it's a bad thing.
FuRong
Profile Joined April 2010
New Zealand3089 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-11 07:56:22
October 11 2010 07:55 GMT
#23
This is pretty harsh but it goes to show that NOBODY is safe in an open qualifier. Those who have already made it in can consider themselves lucky, 'cos there are no guarantees.

At least the guy he lost to wasn't called Gaybar =/
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Highways
Profile Joined July 2005
Australia6106 Posts
October 11 2010 07:55 GMT
#24
Qualifying system fail.

Top 8 of season 1 should've had auto entry into the ro64.
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Teton
Profile Joined May 2010
France1656 Posts
October 11 2010 07:56 GMT
#25
nooooooo
My dream of tester vs boxer finals is dead
Darklance
Profile Joined August 2010
22 Posts
October 11 2010 07:56 GMT
#26
That Kim Byung Jun guy better be good
devolore
Profile Joined April 2010
United States70 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-11 07:59:05
October 11 2010 07:58 GMT
#27
I think it's interesting how many are immediately jumping to blame the GSL format or assume that the opponent cheesed. Tester's a high-quality player, no doubt, but it is too much to entertain the possibility that maybe Kim Byung Jun is just better?

If nothing else, I'm very interested to see how the "unknown" fares going forward.

EDIT: Note, I'm not particularly saying that the lack of seeding is a good thing, I'm just throwing it out there that maybe Kim Byung Jun is actually just good at Starcraft.
Dadant
Profile Joined August 2010
United Kingdom15 Posts
October 11 2010 07:58 GMT
#28
Got this from the live updates thread;



This is the guy that beat tester.
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KevinIX
Profile Joined October 2009
United States2472 Posts
October 11 2010 08:00 GMT
#29
On October 11 2010 16:55 Highways wrote:
Qualifying system fail.

Top 8 of season 1 should've had auto entry into the ro64.


As I understand it, the GSL will have seeds. The first 3 GSL seasons are actually to determine the seeds starting with GSL 4. The top players are given the rank "S" and are allowed to seed into the Ro64.
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Sfydjklm
Profile Blog Joined April 2005
United States9218 Posts
October 11 2010 08:00 GMT
#30
On October 11 2010 16:49 JWD wrote:
GSL needs seeds so freaking bad.

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On October 11 2010 16:49 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
Kinda the nature of SC2 atm. Stuff is new so if something relatively new comes around and a P player is playing trendy (tester is uber this way) it can get exposed.

I highly doubt that this is about "the nature of SC2" or exposure of Tester's "trendy play". Probably just cheese or, as the ever-euphemistic Korean eSports media calls it, a "unique timing rush".

or it might be simply a bo3 against another top notch player
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TheFinalWord
Profile Joined May 2010
Australia790 Posts
October 11 2010 08:00 GMT
#31
Woah this is surprising, I'm curious to know what this timing push was exactly.
Zlasher
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States9129 Posts
October 11 2010 08:01 GMT
#32
On October 11 2010 16:49 JWD wrote:
GSL needs seeds so freaking bad.

Show nested quote +
On October 11 2010 16:49 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
Kinda the nature of SC2 atm. Stuff is new so if something relatively new comes around and a P player is playing trendy (tester is uber this way) it can get exposed.

I highly doubt that this is about "the nature of SC2" or exposure of Tester's "trendy play". Probably just cheese or, as the ever-euphemistic Korean eSports media calls it, a "unique timing rush".


It was 2-0, and by the hundreds of posts on the other thread, didn't look like it was cheese, instead it was really smart play and smart studying.

I'm pretty sad that nobody is going to give this guy any credit for taking out tester, instead they just blame it on cheese/luck.

I'm with iNcontroL. The game is so new that nobody can ever be guaranteed to qualify, tester, cool, etc. included. Anyone can lose, and today, it was Testers day to lose.
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KillerPenguin
Profile Joined June 2004
United States516 Posts
October 11 2010 08:02 GMT
#33
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Would really like to see replays, I'm a bit confused why pro toss keep having problems with early t rushes, first jangminchul, then huk vs qxc who surprisingly likes to go zealot, stalker, stalker instead of a sentry, and now tester, is it really that necessary to play aggressive when t can have the advantage early and your widely regarded as the better player?
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Tef
Profile Joined April 2008
Sweden443 Posts
October 11 2010 08:02 GMT
#34
Its a new game, there should be no seeds as nobody can know for sure that the first GSL players are truly good or because it was the first GSL. But yes, I think its sad for Tester that he didn't go through.
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TehRaZer
Profile Joined September 2010
36 Posts
October 11 2010 08:02 GMT
#35
It's unorthodox play that probably took him out. He doesn't ladder that much and he has a small team of practice partners. I haven't seen Gas play but Clide on the other hand sticks to standard play in all the games I've seen of him.
Irrational_Animal
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany1059 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-11 08:03:59
October 11 2010 08:02 GMT
#36
Well the reason why that sort of qualifier sucks is that you canot really build sympathies for a player in this tourney as there are so many new and unknown faces every new cup. The korean SC2 scene desperately needs Stars but if even many Ro16 drop out there is no way to get accustomed to players.
Crushgroove
Profile Joined July 2010
United States793 Posts
October 11 2010 08:04 GMT
#37
On October 11 2010 16:43 acrimoneyius wrote:
wow, unfortunate...I wonder if he had a chance to research his opponents


Gonna be hard to do that since you have no idea who you'll get matched with in the prelims...
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Piy
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Scotland3152 Posts
October 11 2010 08:06 GMT
#38
That's a shame. Must have had an off day or played against something he was unfamiliar with I guess. Shame though, he would probably have delivered good games.
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QuothTheRaven
Profile Joined December 2008
United States5524 Posts
October 11 2010 08:10 GMT
#39
According to the LR thread, he won at least 1 of his games vs Tester with banshees.

Here's his sc2ranks profile:
http://sc2ranks.com/team/3362571

1,680 points
211 - 174, 54%
. . . nevermore
RebirthOfLeGenD
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
USA5860 Posts
October 11 2010 08:12 GMT
#40
On October 11 2010 17:00 KevinIX wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 11 2010 16:55 Highways wrote:
Qualifying system fail.

Top 8 of season 1 should've had auto entry into the ro64.


As I understand it, the GSL will have seeds. The first 3 GSL seasons are actually to determine the seeds starting with GSL 4. The top players are given the rank "S" and are allowed to seed into the Ro64.

This sounds really really retarded. Why would you seed from 3 tournaments into one tournament? If they just seed the top 2 its only 6 players but that would be really limited, I think top 4 should be seeded into the next tournament and the rest of the top 8 seeded into the end of a qualifier. The way they are doing it if they try and seed a fair number 4-8 players they will fill basically 1/4th the bracket.

Kind of ridiculous :/ Can you source this?
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