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On March 23 2011 08:13 Bobster wrote:He just secured #24 at the worst out of 272 players instead of having to go through a bajillion Bo3s to get a whiff of the top 32. I think he's damn happy with this. :D
They do all advance I believe. Doesn't this just determine where the fall in the bracket later on against the rest of the players?
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A & B are so good compared to C & D :[
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On March 23 2011 08:46 jmbthirteen wrote:Show nested quote +On March 23 2011 08:13 Bobster wrote:On March 23 2011 08:04 Telcontar wrote:
lol poor gretorp....
GL HF all! He just secured #24 at the worst out of 272 players instead of having to go through a bajillion Bo3s to get a whiff of the top 32. I think he's damn happy with this. :D They do all advance I believe. Doesn't this just determine where the fall in the bracket later on against the rest of the players?
Yeah, pretty sure that's correct.
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Great for the spectators. Must suck for the guys who don't get seeded lol.
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On March 23 2011 08:36 Bagi wrote:Show nested quote +On March 23 2011 08:26 Spekulatius wrote:I wish the tournament officials would correct Socke's name. I know everyone was wondering about how he was pronounced, but putting an -h at the end to make the pronunciation more intuitive just ain't right. For everyone who is still wondering: Here you can have it read aloud to you  Anyhow, for patriotic sake: Socke hwaiting! I think the players are named after the accounts they play on, and Socke plays as Sockeh on the US servers. At least thats the name he had in the recent Justin.tv tournament on the US servers (which he won, ofc).
Yup, it's either the NA B.Net account or their MLG account I think...
And iirc Socke went with Sockeh to help those silly americans because they can't pronounce Socke correctly 
edit:
ALL the players have chances on winning the whole thing even if they finish 4th in their group
+ Show Spoiler +
mlg's insane tournament system thread:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=196798
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On March 23 2011 08:49 Alou wrote:
Great for the spectators. Must suck for the guys who don't get seeded lol.
Most of the 2nd day I think non seeded players will have the best chance to get streamed. there's like 6-7 hours of open bracket action without any pool play.
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Imagine you're a player who just spent all of Friday evening and all of Saturday playing constant bo3's to advance to the top 4 of the open tournament (That's winning 6 bo3's total) and then having to face a group of fresh players who have already been proven to be amazing at the game on Saturday night. They're well rested, they're only playing 1 bo3 and it's against you! You could have just busted your ass night and day to play a bo3 against IdrA, Socke, KiWiKaKi, and Gretorp, guys who have just been waiting to see who is unlucky enough to slip into their group of death. That's harsh.
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On March 23 2011 08:52 IdrA wrote:
good thing zvp is easy
Haha, You have the best group ever!
GLHF!
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How is SjoW seeded? I don't remember him attending MLG's..
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On March 23 2011 09:04 Omigawa wrote:
How is SjoW seeded? I don't remember him attending MLG's..
He placed 5th at Raleigh.
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On March 23 2011 09:05 FliedLice wrote:Show nested quote +On March 23 2011 09:04 Omigawa wrote:
How is SjoW seeded? I don't remember him attending MLG's.. He placed 5th at Raleigh.
Oh ok, knew I must have forgot something.
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On March 23 2011 08:57 JoshSuth wrote:
Imagine you're a player who just spent all of Friday evening and all of Saturday playing constant bo3's to advance to the top 4 of the open tournament (That's winning 6 bo3's total) and then having to face a group of fresh players who have already been proven to be amazing at the game on Saturday night. They're well rested, they're only playing 1 bo3 and it's against you! You could have just busted your ass night and day to play a bo3 against IdrA, Socke, KiWiKaKi, and Gretorp, guys who have just been waiting to see who is unlucky enough to slip into their group of death. That's harsh.
thats why they call it halo...erm wait.
i used to play halo 2 to a semi competitive level, met the ogres on ladder a few times. and i can tell you now that playing 20+ games of halo is not tiring. on the purely mental side of things, although during combat you are thinking a mile a minute you actually do get some mental "breaks" of up to 20 seconds every couple of minutes; makes a huge difference to your stamina.
even the idea of playing 20+ back to back starcraft 2 games makes me feel tired.
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disagree josh, the guys who played in the open bracket will be warmed up, where as I will not have played any games in the last 3 days ;D
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All these groups look so good! 2011 is a great year for starcraft and hopefully it will only get better!
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Oh wow.. Imagine the guy qualifying from the open tournament only to get put into group A or B... lol
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On March 23 2011 09:12 stalife wrote:
Oh wow.. Imagine the guy qualifying from the open tournament only to get put into group A or B... lol
Congratulations - Now lose.
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Group A:
IdrA
Socke
Group B:
Ret
SjoW
Group C:
TLO
Slush
Group D:
Tyler
Machine
I think group a and b are incredibly strong. I feel SjoW has good chances to advance since his tvt was always very very good.
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