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On January 29 2011 20:08 Golden Ghost wrote:
Why is the top 4 of Kiev going there (and the top 5 from Asia) but only the top 2 from America? The slots are distributed considering the results and appearance during the recent Intel Extreme Masters events and seasons. Example. If the two Americans will be placed first and second in Hannover America would have more slots for future events.
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i think whitera really gave 3 games away
everyone knows he never makes phoenixes so hes open to drop harass for the _entire_ game, he never managed to stabilize 2 bases against sjows drop play which is a bit laughable imo
3rd game is xelnaga, almost undroppable that map
4th game he 4gates....
well it was late into the night but i was extremely underwhelmed by ra's performance in the final game
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On January 29 2011 19:51 DisaFear wrote:Poor White-Ra  On the other hand, wow replays available for dl? Yay
"Poor Whitera"? Dude, it's okay if you're just not badass enough to not take FOUR tournaments in like 2 weeks. Even Whitera needs to deepen his medal repertoire! (with silvers!)
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This isnt a thread to talk about how OP terran is, its to talk about about Gosu sjow is. Ggs SJow I hope you make it into Korea and dominate to prove all your haters wrong
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On January 29 2011 20:32 ChickenLips wrote:
well it was late into the night but i was extremely underwhelmed by ra's performance in the final game
I kinda agree, it felt like he was trying to force something special against an extremely safe player.
Really really nice write-up btw
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True.. he seemed really tired tough.. especially the three forcefields in his 4gate attempt in sjows base.. they seemed.. random.
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On January 29 2011 20:08 Golden Ghost wrote: Was a good tournament to watch.
One question about the IEM World Championship. Why is the top 4 of Kiev going there (and the top 5 from Asia) but only the top 2 from America?
We don't have an even distribution of slots between continents. Normally we look at prior results in ESL competitions (and others if we believe it would give us a better idea of the region's strength) and assign a slot number arbitrarily.
For this season the Americas received 2 slots (remember IdrA is counted as an Asian since he lives there), Europe 4 and Asia 5. The last, or rather first, slot was to be won in the Global Challenge in Cologne.
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They should do something with terrans cuz 90% of all tournaments - terran players =\ We want to see more tosses and zerg :D
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Thanks for your clear answer Carmac & KiNGxXx. Looking forward to the finals. Also I didn't know that foreigners currently living in Korea would be counted as Asians. Good to know.
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On January 29 2011 19:47 Armada Vega wrote:Show nested quote +On January 29 2011 17:17 Silverymoon wrote:There wasn't even a single zerg player TT - Rawr  Yeah, but if Idra was there I think he could have had a really big chance of winning.
Idra changed nationality? Last time I checked, USA was far from Europe.
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Good to see White-Ra is still in pretty good shape ! But i gotta say grats to Sjow it was his day
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there is a replaypack of (almost) all matches released on the esl site:
edit: sorry i was thinking of another cup :/
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On January 29 2011 19:49 Liquid`Nazgul wrote: Sjow so good!
LiquidSjow, make it happen, go go go :D
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Sjow was so deserving. Did anyone see him vs. Socke? Quite the game!
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Fuck I was in Kiev the last two weeks and I didn't even know about it!!!
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GG's, I really hope he gets his money x_x
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On January 29 2011 21:29 Carmac wrote:Show nested quote +On January 29 2011 20:08 Golden Ghost wrote: Was a good tournament to watch.
One question about the IEM World Championship. Why is the top 4 of Kiev going there (and the top 5 from Asia) but only the top 2 from America? We don't have an even distribution of slots between continents. Normally we look at prior results in ESL competitions (and others if we believe it would give us a better idea of the region's strength) and assign a slot number arbitrarily. For this season the Americas received 2 slots (remember IdrA is counted as an Asian since he lives there), Europe 4 and Asia 5. The last, or rather first, slot was to be won in the Global Challenge in Cologne.
But Idra played the American Qualifier, why is he counted as korean now? Isn't that competitive distortion?
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On January 30 2011 07:49 arctics86 wrote:Show nested quote +On January 29 2011 21:29 Carmac wrote:On January 29 2011 20:08 Golden Ghost wrote: Was a good tournament to watch.
One question about the IEM World Championship. Why is the top 4 of Kiev going there (and the top 5 from Asia) but only the top 2 from America? We don't have an even distribution of slots between continents. Normally we look at prior results in ESL competitions (and others if we believe it would give us a better idea of the region's strength) and assign a slot number arbitrarily. For this season the Americas received 2 slots (remember IdrA is counted as an Asian since he lives there), Europe 4 and Asia 5. The last, or rather first, slot was to be won in the Global Challenge in Cologne. But Idra played the American Qualifier, why is he counted as korean now? Isn't that competitive distortion? Are you sure he played the qualifier? He was not in the online group stage http://www.esl-world.net/masters/season5/america_sc2/ , i don't know how the amaricans qualified for the online group stage but sounds strange that Idra didn't manage to qualifie there.
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Incredibly impressive performance by Sjow, keep up the good work!
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On January 30 2011 02:42 Nimic wrote:LiquidSjow, make it happen, go go go :D How about LiquidWhite-Ra ?
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