On the whole, the two represent each other's respective 'weak' race match-up, at least compared to their ability to wreck face against the other races.

Dimagas weakest is vs P by his own admission and by statistics.

Engore

United States1916 Posts

November 03 2011 18:21 GMT

#83

SeleCT has this in the bag boys. Let's see some kick ass games son! Fighting!!

Juliette

United States6003 Posts

November 03 2011 18:22 GMT

#84

I think with the tone and writing, Wax, this article is my favorite SC2 writeup so far. Maybe some of the GSL ones top it (Like the super tournament deserts lol), but overall with the way you hype up the event without quite overhyping it gives this something special. I love it <3.

Kibibit

United States1551 Posts

November 03 2011 18:29 GMT

#85

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.

Yeah, Select played super sick in that match vs Select.

naux

Canada738 Posts

November 03 2011 18:33 GMT

#86

If I don't see idra 3-0 sjow I'm gonna throw my laptop at the wall

Waxangel

United States33075 Posts

November 03 2011 18:35 GMT

#87

whoop, I guess I just didn't want to acknowledge that sheth lost :o

red4ce

United States7313 Posts

November 03 2011 19:06 GMT

#88

Looking forward to this one. I think Idra should win unless he has to play Dimaga in a ZvZ. All the matchups are gonna be close though so it should be entertaining.

pewpew444

United States121 Posts

November 03 2011 19:11 GMT

#89

Special Taktiks is all you need when you're WhiteRa.

ChuCky.Ca

Canada2497 Posts

November 03 2011 19:17 GMT

#90

GoGo Huk!!!

sixfour

England11061 Posts

November 03 2011 19:27 GMT

#91

meh, straight knockout, usual suspects for a larger invitational, not actually THAT interested. might watch the white-ra/ret series but that's about it. i can't look at this sort of event nowadays and not think what could have been - they're budgeting timewise for 42 games. get two more PC's and an additional streaming pair, and you can make that 84 games, which is coincidentally exactly the amount of games that a bo3 all-play-all could go to, which to me would be a lot more interesting.

mordk

Chile8385 Posts

November 03 2011 19:33 GMT

#92

While it's a bit interesting, it would still be more interesting if koreans were there imo. Go DIMAGA, hope he can take this.

VirgilSC2

United States6151 Posts

November 03 2011 19:43 GMT

#93

On November 04 2011 03:33 naux wrote:
If I don't see idra 3-0 sjow I'm gonna throw my laptop at the wall

I'll be in the LR thread to remind you of this when SjoW takes a game.

namste

Finland2292 Posts

November 03 2011 19:44 GMT

#94

I got a feeling that this tournament will be Select's.

JawHun

United States151 Posts

November 03 2011 19:52 GMT

#95

This is a great piece, thanks for writing it! Fantastic research and analysis!

SuB.ZerO

United States55 Posts

November 03 2011 19:57 GMT

#96

good write-up...i'm very excited for this

Derez

Netherlands6068 Posts

November 03 2011 20:03 GMT

#97

I'm still rather disappointed by the complete lack of koreans, and especially when it comes to the terran department. Not having at least a single top-tier terran kind of invalidates the tournament as a whole.

And yes, Select and Sjow aren't bad by any measure, but let's not kid around either, while Select's control is meticulous, his macro can be lacking at times and overly reliant on gimmicky strategies. Sjow on the other hand has the strategy part down, but is lacking in execution.

Ah well, I have a free weekend so I'll be watching nonetheless. Hoping for Select to exceed expectations and for Sjow to get rid of Idra in the first round. So much less spam in the LR thread that way ;p.

GreEny K

Germany7312 Posts

November 03 2011 20:21 GMT

#98

On November 03 2011 19:26 JoNyJoNy wrote:

Show nested quote +

So... seems ure wrong ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I can already tell that your future is littered with bans... Don't be a dick.

I think sjow will beat idra, and white-ra will take it over ret. GL to all.