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Kazeyonoma
United States2912 Posts
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XRaDiiX
Canada1730 Posts
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
 I Hope we get the dream finals of Idra vs HuK, would be something special to see those two head to head again! I think this tournament is going to be pretty good, nice pool of players, Bo5 from the get go, seems pretty good and interesting format. | ||
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CaptainCrush
United States785 Posts
That being said, this is a great tournament lineup, I'm pulling hard for Sjow and Select! | ||
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Frankon
3054 Posts
On November 03 2011 19:05 Waxangel wrote: Add in a favorable jet-lag situation for DIMAGA, and it's enough to give him the edge here. Kill me since im not a native speaker.... But this sounds so very wrong. On November 03 2011 19:52 CaptainCrush wrote: What in the world is that bullshit America-bashing mini rant doing in there? Is there some situation I missed where all the American audience somehow ignored the lesser European players? The mods of this site try awfully hard to keep baseless regional and political nonsense out of the forums, it would probably be better if the mods kept it out of tournament reviews as well... Well it was a fact that after MaNa took out Idra in IPL2 the rest of semis and finals had way lover viewer-ship. Also TSL3.... | ||
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rasnj
United States1959 Posts
On November 03 2011 19:38 Kazeyonoma wrote: nice write up. hope this turns out good, but strangely i still have that 'no koreans, not legit' feeling, but at least with the lineup here, i can actually root for any number of them, instead of a bunch of european unknowns. I think such sentiments are hard to escape. Even if there are Koreans there are not enough Koreans, they are jetlagged, they are not the right Koreans, they are not used to the tournament format, they are just not used to foreigner playstyles, they weren't really trying, etc. I think Huk has proven that in terms of his play he can count as a Korean. Idra has proven that when he's on form he can compete at the level of top Koreans (maybe not Nestea/MVP, but slightly below). Also IMO Select should be counted as a Korean (at least you are forced to count either Huk or Select as Korean, as one is Korean by nationality and the other is by practice environment). I look forward to this tournament. Really good interesting lineup. Personally I hope for some dimaga/idra ownage. To the guy wishing for goody/thorzain: I too wish thorzain participated as he's without a doubt amazing. However I'm not really sorry about Goody. He has proven time and time again that he can compete with the best consistently despite being considerably worse than them in most traditional measures of skill. To a much larger extent than White-Ra does he have that "how did you win? You have 12 tanks queued at 13min and your opponent is in code S." feel, but for some reason it just feels wrong that he can win so much. Anyway I feel Select and Sjow are worthy replacements for both of them. Select reminds me somewhat of Thorzain, and Sjow reminds me of Goody with better macro, but somehow still not really much better results. | ||
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Losthorn
Georgia351 Posts
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A Wet Shamwow
United States1590 Posts
Also the new page width makes these writes look a lot better in my opinion. | ||
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brendaaan
New Zealand77 Posts
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nekuodah
England2409 Posts
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eme
Finland105 Posts
On November 03 2011 19:38 Kazeyonoma wrote: nice write up. hope this turns out good, but strangely i still have that 'no koreans, not legit' feeling, but at least with the lineup here, i can actually root for any number of them, instead of a bunch of european unknowns. I can understand the feeling, but then again all of these players have beaten koreans in lan events although not all of the koreans were of the absolute top tier. The point I'm making here is that while there is only one korean, and he isnt even considered a korean anymore (Select), no one should be heard to say that this tournament is not legitimate with no koreans being participating. The skill level in this foregneir event is absolutely huge. | ||
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worosei
Australia198 Posts
Im pumped to see Elfi play again. I kinda wish it was a different matchup to PvP, as if HuK 4-0 MC, then i dunno how well elfi can do, but the kid has some nice nice plays and fun fun builds and i think with this lineup, i think it's more legit than some random code B (or even A) korean player because i think each one of these players has S-class play in them (maybe white-ra teetering out... the boxer comparison seems pretty apt, just without the cheese i think...id like to say nada at the end of his bw career; still ridiculously strong, just not winning as much as he used to) | ||
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luckybeni2
Germany1065 Posts
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MCDayC
United Kingdom14464 Posts
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Vanimar
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r2Cover
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![[image loading]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AHmWcCUAmLI/TrKBhFwowrI/AAAAAAAAAns/a-NFOFjHqrA/s800/Over9000DRG.jpg) User was temp banned for this post. | ||
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KiNGxXx
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Yaki
France4234 Posts
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Cerubellum
Denmark58 Posts
Similar to DIMAGA, SeleCT finally resolved this situation in August of 2011, defeating SeleCT to become the champion of the North American Battle.net Invitational. Just a heads up. | ||
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ViperPL
Poland1775 Posts
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