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Irave
United States9965 Posts
On October 05 2012 20:19 Flicky wrote: Am I right in thinking that the finals will be inside the Staples Centre? Perhaps next time. This years at the USC Trojans basketball arena. 10,258 seats. Venue Wow uncertain if they are using all of the seats, but its sold out. | ||
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Slaughter
United States20254 Posts
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Kupon3ss
時の回廊10066 Posts
That in terms of organization TI2 is (aside from the lack of some sort of WB advantage), the single most beautifully organized tournament, in terms of progression and fairness, that I have ever witnessed. The group stages were done by dividing the pool into 2 groups of 8 and doing Round Robin Bo2's for standing in which no team was outright eliminated and all got to play at least 14 games at the event and made it to the main event. The Bo2 format and the fact that every team played each team left nothing to chance, with even the radiant/dire (similar to blue vs purple and something that's always been an issue in BoX, where X is an odd number) evened out. If a team made it to the WB of the event, you knew damn well why, because they wode through the blood of 7 of the other best teams in the world to get there instead of having l337noScope480xXx Coin Flipping skillz The rest of the tourney was standard Double Elimination, with the teams that were "eliminated" during the group stages starting in the LB instead of outright going home, adding potential and leading to more exposure for every team. The only thing I would have changed was the lack of WB advantage. While I think free wins or additional series are too much of an advantage and kills hype and the fact that you have less games and got a break to relax and analyze your opponent was fine, I'd like to have seen some extra prize (be it an additional $50,000) or some sort of tour or even something fun like getting to add some in-game items to the winners of the WB. This way you get to incentivize and award winning the WB without needing to do the hype killing/inbalancing the finals with free wins | ||
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Kupon3ss
時の回廊10066 Posts
On October 05 2012 20:17 TheYango wrote: Yeah I'm aware of that, lol, just still thought it was funny that he couldn't translate when it came down to it. w/e this is getting way off topic EDIT: btw did you watch the GTV restream at all? It was lagging way more for me than the Garena stream, so I turned it off, but I'm curious what DC is like commentating LoL, lol. I did a bit, but then I actually wanted to get something knowledge-based out of my commentary so I switched to the official Chinese one. (I'm sure there'll be a blooper reel or something of DC's commentary and I get all the DC trolling I need from the variety show anyways) The Chinese commentators at the LoL finals are actually doing a great job and the duos had good chemistry and banter with a good amount of game knowledge, even if they dont have the past experience or fanbase of the DotA ones. | ||
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Tal
United Kingdom1017 Posts
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jpak
United States5045 Posts
On October 05 2012 21:13 Tal wrote: Yeah I also wanted to say I liked the Chinese commentators a lot from what I saw today. Professional in suits, but also obviously loved the game. Meanwhile, the Korean ones are in jeans, casting while sitting on couches :D | ||
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Tal
United Kingdom1017 Posts
On October 05 2012 21:16 jpak wrote: Meanwhile, the Korean ones are in jeans, casting while sitting on couches :D That's also cool  | ||
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byFd
Germany620 Posts
wanna look at his runes and masteries :D | ||
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cascades
Singapore6122 Posts
(Not talking about restreams. I heard koreans actually had *gasp* camerawork) | ||
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sihyunie
United States108 Posts
On October 05 2012 22:04 cascades wrote: Requesting korean vods again. They must exist somewhere =/ (Not talking about restreams. I heard koreans actually had *gasp* camerawork) I'm assuming korean vods are property of ongamenet and they will upload to their site. While I love korean commentaries and production, their stream quality was subpar to english one. Even at 720+ on both, korean one had noticeably lower resolution. I like that they had interviews with korean players during downtime tho. Cloudtemplar even came and commentated on first 2 Sword games. As for quarterfinals, both korean teams seem to think chinese teams are underestimated and iG has a good chance to beat M5, so all Asian semi doesn't seem that out of question. I do want to see M5 vs Sword tho. Their hyper aggressive playstyles should make for some very entertaining games. | ||
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CROrens
Croatia1005 Posts
On October 05 2012 15:56 SnK-Arcbound wrote: The chances of getting one side is 50%. The chances of getting the same side 3 times in a row is 12.5%, but there's a 12.5% chance you will get either side for any 3 matches. Him bitching about purple side doesn't make sense. Their strat was to lose the game if they don't get blue side? The fuck kind of excuse is that. Moving from bitching about OP stuff to bitching about a coin toss. Can't logic gaming. is he really blaming the side for their debacle... man i expected more - even from him | ||
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AsnSensation
Germany24009 Posts
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QuakerOats
United States1024 Posts
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CROrens
Croatia1005 Posts
WE and TPA got any chance or will it be a stomp? cant say i ever heard of those teams | ||
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EchelonTee
United States5256 Posts
On October 05 2012 22:48 CROrens wrote: WE and TPA got any chance or will it be a stomp? cant say i ever heard of those teams W.E. prolly not, but you can't ever really can't count out asian teams. iG/AF > WE, and CLG.EU is as good as iG/AF TPA has a chance, they are less known but have been completely dominating SEA region | ||
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XenOmega
Canada2822 Posts
Najinn was impressive, almost flawless. I think the fact of playing 3 games could give them a slight edge. I'll go with them, but that's because I don't know anything about TPA | ||
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ihasaKAROT
Netherlands4730 Posts
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HazMat
United States17077 Posts
And Roffles I just made a simple joke about how you're pretty much a more immune Idra when it comes to posting. No need to get mad and attack me, breh. Sometimes I think you're seeing how much you can get away with to test the mods. | ||
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CROrens
Croatia1005 Posts
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KarlKaliente
United States434 Posts
On October 05 2012 23:04 CROrens wrote: TSM vs Azubu starts at 5 am. well fuck my life Hey at least its the weekend. This is how I feel when I want to watch GSL :> | ||
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