On May 06 2010 02:49 7mk wrote:
Obviously the guy doesn't know what he's talking about. If he's ever seen any of these 6 play he'd know they're more than qualified for this tournament.

I'm torn between Orb, Lz, and my favorite casters ever, the Plott brothers.

I love how you go from "they are more than qualified for this tournament" to "my favorite casters ever", just shows how people mix the two up.

On May 06 2010 03:08 hejakev wrote:
Who would you have prefered over these people then and how exactly do you know that they are sooo much better than these people?
You must for example have some secret source for lots of Tasteless replays to be able to judge his skill.

I have watched all of them play, and yes I even watched artosis 5-0 tasteless on his stream, But my fault, I didn't know this thing was US only. I'll be rooting for Artosis since Idra isn't here to win it all. GLHF all.

eNoq

Netherlands502 Posts

May 05 2010 22:57 GMT

#204

This is going to be sick.
Can't wait!

NeCroPoTeNce

United States513 Posts

May 05 2010 23:10 GMT

#205

Can't wait to see Day[9] and Tasteless play. This is gonna be awesome.

shinosai

United States1577 Posts

May 05 2010 23:12 GMT

#206

Just curious why whitera and thelittleone aren't returning? Do you not invite the former winners to keep the results from being stale? Either way, exciting tourney. I'm rooting for cauthonluck and huk, I bet one of them will win it.

edit: Oh, US only this time around. Gotcha.

kasumimi

Greece460 Posts

May 05 2010 23:14 GMT

#207

Jizz in my pants

GreggSauce

United States566 Posts

May 05 2010 23:30 GMT

#208

I'm extremely underwhelmed, I can't wait for blizzard's tournaments to start so we can see the top of the pack actually playing eachother, instead of the top of the pack, and a whole bunch of popular names.

MorroW

Sweden3522 Posts

May 05 2010 23:36 GMT

#209

why did idra decline? :o sry if its mentioned in these 10 pages

us seem to lack players imo )

NonY

8751 Posts

May 05 2010 23:36 GMT

#210

On May 06 2010 08:30 GreggSauce wrote:
I'm extremely underwhelmed, I can't wait for blizzard's tournaments to start so we can see the top of the pack actually playing eachother, instead of the top of the pack, and a whole bunch of popular names.

As soon as there are better ways to determine skill, tournament admins will use them. You have no idea who the top of the pack is.

Nick_54

United States2230 Posts

May 05 2010 23:47 GMT

#211

Too bad Idra declined, this should be awesome though. I know the European version was great.

jtype

England2167 Posts

May 05 2010 23:58 GMT

#212

On May 06 2010 08:30 GreggSauce wrote:
so we can see the top of the pack actually playing eachother, instead of the top of the pack, and a whole bunch of popular names.

Lol come on man! It's an invitational. Are you telling me that you wouldn't want these ('these' referring to whoever you feel isn't "top of the pack", for whatever reason) players invited?

They are clearly at least among the top of the pack and, as Nony said, you have no idea where these players rank overall.

If you feel there's a bunch of players that aren't getting the exposure they deserve, then run a tournament yourself with them in it. Don't just whine for the sake of it. TL are putting in time, effort and money so that we can all watch great games. Why not just sit back and enjoy it?

Z3kk

4099 Posts

May 06 2010 00:01 GMT

#213

Um, why did you force Day[9] and Artosis to play each other in the first round AGAIN? -___- It's all up to you, of course, but I think that's sort of mean...

Edit: Yeah, I just realized that Artosis isn't Day[9]'s brother. I was watching his stream and saw that he was facing "Tasteless", and I was just like *epic facepalm*.

jtype

England2167 Posts

May 06 2010 00:04 GMT

#214

On May 06 2010 09:01 Z3kk wrote:
Um, why did you force Day[9] and Artosis to play each other in the first round AGAIN? -___- It's all up to you, of course, but I think that's sort of mean...

Ah the notorious brothers, Day[9] and Artosis. Brothers, fighting to the death. Blood against blood.

...

Err.. Wait a minute..

+ Show Spoiler +

Tasteless is Day[9]'s brother, not Artosis. Although I'm sure their time spent together in the Casting Archon has made Artosis and Tasteless as close as brothers.

Prem_

United States85 Posts

May 06 2010 00:12 GMT

#215

wow awesome... ima be there!

TheTeamLiquidTiger

United States627 Posts

May 06 2010 00:16 GMT

#216

artosis vs day9
NERD BUDDIES!!!!

LunarDestiny

United States4177 Posts

May 06 2010 00:24 GMT

#217

Nick and Sean final. Calling it and will make it happen even if I have to voodoo the other players.

I can only dream... but where is Idra?

Sclerosis

Mexico60 Posts

May 06 2010 00:34 GMT

#218

go day[9]! :D :D

GreggSauce

United States566 Posts

May 06 2010 00:38 GMT

#219

On May 06 2010 08:58 jtype wrote:

Show nested quote +

show me where i'm "whining"

I'm stating an opinion, this obviously isn't a tournament that involves the best players. It's a few of the best players in the US, and a handful of names of people that are popular, generally very very good players with streams.

thats it. I'm not that great of a player, I've been slacking lately but I've beaten a few of the popular guys, and there's players out there that hand me my ass that I can't figure out how to beat, but they don't get recognition because they don't have a stream.

thats all i'm saying. Its a pretty easy guess to figure out how each round will go

Louder Machine
QXC Nony
Artosis Day[9] <=I can't even believe people are giving day9 a chance, unless he 6pools he's just going to lose. Still love the guy but seriously? Someone who doesn't have the time to cast let alone play sc2 can beat one of the best out there? fanboys..
iNcontrol Slush
iNka PainUser
Huk Orb <-actually not a one sided affair, I believe Huk has it though
CauthonLuck Tasteless Cauthon isn't in his prime yet, but he doesn't make stupid mistakes
LzGamer Attero I like LZ more in this match, but the fanboy in me says Attero's got this

Louder QXC
Artosis Slush
iNka Huk
CauthonLuck Attero

Artosis QXC
Huk CauthonLuck

ARTOSIS wins
--
The worst part about this is almost all the match ups will obviously be stompings. Day9, Tasteless, iNcontrol, PainUser, and Nony all need to develop more. We've all seen the last 3 do pull off something awesome, but more often then not I've seen then just get outplayed by someone who's more solid, that will continue.

jtype

England2167 Posts

May 06 2010 00:46 GMT

#220

On May 06 2010 09:38 GreggSauce wrote:

Show nested quote +

Well why don't you put your vast wisdom to good use and make everyone aware of these 'better' players that you're referring to?

I appreciate your opinion, but, again, as there's no overall ranking system in place I don't know how you expect to see all these players in an Invitational. You have to know who people are to invite them right?

edit - Also, I think you seem to forget that the skills needed to be good in a ladder system bear little relation to those needed to win tournaments. Players like Machine, for example, say that they hardly ladder at all, but practice most of their games in custom games. So how can you judge players' skill levels based on bumping into them in the ladder?

I for one like to use the ladder to try and hammer out new builds and try out ideas on random people. How do you know, say, if you faced Nony in the ladder, that he wasn't trying to work on a new build timing against an unknown player? Or just not really trying at all? Or having a bad day? Or an exceptionally good one? Or that an, as of yet, unknown bug was exploited to cause a win or a loss?