Hmm, I'm pretty worried for Polt's condition and Ro16 play-ready level because he appears a little broken after the results of LSC. If Polt somehow got over his mini-slump and had enough time to study and rest in the two days, he still has a chance at second place in the group. If he continues from the post-LSC slump, he probably will go 0-4 in his group. I still believe that Polt can do it with smart builds (e.g. Hellionshee build), but he really has to play at his best now, not even 90% will suffice.
Polt 화이팅!

Also, yay, we reached 100 pages!

Plus, the GSL banner for S5 is a Marauder, how much more Polt-ish can you get?

CosmicSpiral

United States15275 Posts

November 14 2012 04:08 GMT

#1983

On November 14 2012 12:02 PhoenixVoid wrote:
Hmm, I'm pretty worried for Polt's condition and Ro16 play-ready level because he appears a little broken after the results of LSC. If Polt somehow got over his mini-slump and had enough time to study and rest in the two days, he still has a chance at second place in the group. If he continues from the post-LSC slump, he probably will go 0-4 in his group. I still believe that Polt can do it with smart builds (e.g. Hellionshee build), but he really has to play at his best now, not even 90% will suffice.
Polt 화이팅!

Also, yay, we reached 100 pages!

Plus, the GSL banner for S5 is a Marauder, how much more Polt-ish can you get?

A sure sign that it is Polt's season!

Detri

United Kingdom683 Posts

November 14 2012 09:51 GMT

#1984

Polt such a boss.

+ Show Spoiler +

Game 1 vs parting was like he knew the warpgate attack was incoming, moving out at the perfect time. Perfect.

FlowerBunny

Sweden187 Posts

November 14 2012 10:14 GMT

#1985

2-0ing parting with ease. Just great build in game 1. And who needs ghosts vs HTs? Just go mass marine marauder baby! Gogogogo take the 1st place sir!

PhoenixVoid

Canada32746 Posts

November 14 2012 18:18 GMT

#1986

Dammit

Sad how Polt takes out PartinG 2-0, and then loses to INoVation and Sniper 0-2...
Well, better luck in HoTS GSL Polt.

Alt Eisen Riese

Estonia69 Posts

November 14 2012 18:29 GMT

#1987

Peeked at the results when at work. After seeing Polt vs Parting I was all :D, then saw Polt vs Bogus and went :| and after Polt vs Sniper T_T.

Better luck next time and hopefully he' ll finally make it again into the Ro8.

CosmicSpiral

United States15275 Posts

November 14 2012 18:36 GMT

#1988

Damn, this is bogus. :/

plogamer

Canada3132 Posts

November 14 2012 19:18 GMT

#1989

>_<

Fionn

United States23455 Posts

November 14 2012 20:13 GMT

#1990

Really sucks. Played a perfect series against Parting, was very unlucky vs. Bogus (G1 especially), and then Sniper just hard countered his two builds in back to back games.

PhoenixVoid

Canada32746 Posts

November 14 2012 20:23 GMT

#1991

Ah well, look on the bright side of things, at least Polt doesn't have GSL as a distraction from IPL5 this time around. As long as he has his mentality on check and plays better, Polt is a top three Terran in IPL5, or even the top four overall if he plays right. Plus there is NASL which is Polt's best chance at a second championship in 2012.
I just hope Polt is ready for GSTL, because TSL needs him as a Protoss and potentially Terran sniper against MVP.

Fionn

United States23455 Posts

November 14 2012 20:54 GMT

#1992

Polt's already in WR4, so he really only needs to win two matches to make it into the money. He can win/get deep if he can dodge Life. I think he can beat anyone on any given day except Life.

Also I really hope TSL makes the finals. Would suck if Polt threw away his place in MLG last season to make it to the finals and failed, and then gave up a chance for huge money in an easier player field to try and make the finals again. Please get redemption against Sniper.

NovemberstOrm

Canada16217 Posts

November 15 2012 06:59 GMT

#1993

Polt lost in Code S but he did well vs PartinG not too worried about him getting back into Code S

He plays one of:
Bbyong
Tails
Heart
Nestea

in code A

Fionn

United States23455 Posts

November 15 2012 07:03 GMT

#1994

Heart is the scariest.

He should make it again no matter what, but who knows. Next Code S is the last Wings of Liberty season, so maybe with some new units, someone like Polt, who is king at making new strategies, will be able to get ahead of the group. He's already in the top echelon of players, but new units will help him.

NovemberstOrm

Canada16217 Posts

November 15 2012 07:11 GMT

#1995

On November 15 2012 16:03 Fionn wrote:
Heart is the scariest.

He should make it again no matter what, but who knows. Next Code S is the last Wings of Liberty season, so maybe with some new units, someone like Polt, who is king at making new strategies, will be able to get ahead of the group. He's already in the top echelon of players, but new units will help him.

He may be forced to play mech LOL, i just remembered that he doesn't like mech or thinks bio is much more fun to use. Won't be the only strategy of course, bio mech could be viable like marine, marauder, medivac with widow mines or marine-tank with widow mines etc

Fionn

United States23455 Posts

November 15 2012 07:12 GMT

#1996

Also Polt has one chance left at winning GSL this year. If he can win IPL5 or probably even NASL, he'll get invited to the Blizzard Cup in the middle of December.

TheEmulator

28096 Posts

November 15 2012 07:14 GMT

#1997

Hopefully he does win

NovemberstOrm

Canada16217 Posts

November 15 2012 07:17 GMT

#1998

On November 15 2012 16:12 Fionn wrote:
Also Polt has one chance left at winning GSL this year. If he can win IPL5 or probably even NASL, he'll get invited to the Blizzard Cup in the middle of December.

it's crazy if they actually do a Blizzard cup then again more starcraft=more awesome games so I won't complain.

PhoenixVoid

Canada32746 Posts

November 16 2012 00:21 GMT

#1999

On November 15 2012 15:59 NovemberstOrm wrote:
Polt lost in Code S but he did well vs PartinG not too worried about him getting back into Code S

He plays one of:
Bbyong
Tails
Heart
Nestea

in code A

Heart is the strongest contender there, because the coL "I maek mareen" build hard counters Polt's Banshee openers (which Polt goes about 70% of the time in TvT). But if he manages to study Heart's TvT and diversify his opening builds, he should do well. No one else really should scare Polt, save for TAiLS with his builds, but Polt's TvP is pretty strong recently.