IPL Team Arena Challenge 2: New Ground - Page 6

On January 24 2012 11:29 TheDougler wrote:
Edit: Rather than reading the following you might as well read Final Boss' predictions above. They're well worded and make sense... Though I stand by the following predictions:

Mousesports 5-2 Quantic
New Star HoSeo 5-2 Dignitas
EG 5-4 oGs
coL.MvP 5-2 Liquid
TSL 2-5 ReIGN
FXO 5-1 Vile
Startale 5-2 ZeNex
Prime 5-4 Empire

The reasons for these for the most part are below:



I agree with you on some parts but you are DEAD WRONG on a few of them. Most notably TSL vs ReIGN.

Strait up, ReIGN is going to MOP THE FLOOR with TSL. Well.. ok maybe not "Mop the floor" ReIGN will win pretty damn convincingly. There are two reasons for this:

1. TSL is in complete turmoil. Their coach seems more keen on griefmongering than coaching, and there's no way he can know the strengths and weaknesses of his perpetually shifting roster.

2. ReIGN is really REALLY good. Their whole team is kind of based completely around THIS team league. This is THE event that they focus on and they take it very seriously. They live in a pretty strict team house, and have a complete understanding of their strengths and weaknesses. If you want me to name specifics, no protoss on TSL will even come close to beating Inori. That dude is a PvP machine, that's what he was heralded as and he's proven it beating oGsMC and HuK (I think? Might've been Hero) at IPL3 as well as numerous PvP victories last season. So they can beat P, and Artist can easily beat any Zerg, that just leaves Polt. Polt might take a game or two off of ReIGN, but I don't think he can all kill them which is what he'll need to do.

The closest this match will be is 5-3 ReIGN.

Can't disagree with you on Col.MVP vs Liquid... Never bet against a team that includes DRG in a teamleague match.

Mouz losing to quantic? I find your abundance of faith in Naniwa disturbing... Sase too I guess, but Mana can certainly beat Sase... In fact, I really don't see where your prediction here comes from, please explain because I just strait up don't understand it. I think you just might not know anything about Mouz... the Silver Medalists from last season.

I agree that Prime will beat Empire but having watched with great anticipation all of MKPs matches, and agreeing that his TvT is not as bad as some people claim, I'm pretty certain Kas will beat him, the dude's a great player and a TvT monster. And then they've got violet... This one will be AT LEAST 5-3 Prime.


Lol and your most ridiculous opinion of all is this:
EG 1-5 oGs.

I mean COME ON! God I want to flame you so bad right now but instead I'll just tell you why you're wrong:

HuK
JYP
Puma

all three have proven themselves BIG TIME. HuK is, the second most consistent protoss in the world. He's been in the GSL for OVER A YEAR. No other protoss can say the same, even MC dropped out briefly (though he's still the most consistent protoss). But guess what? MC ISN'T HERE!

JYP is no slouch either man, and Puma has beaten plenty of top players before, Korean and foreigner alike. One of the best things is that if HuK can be said to have a weak matchup it's still PvP. So lets say a toss takes him out? Puma will DESTROY him.

On a tier just below those three is IdrA. You can bet he is PRACTICING hard now to stay in Code A at the very least. He can pull out wins, but EG can't rely on him.

So that's four pretty top notch players. If you're going to WIN a Bo5 Teamleague match, that's how many you need, sure a fifth would be nice, but four of this caliber can easily go the distance.

I'll let the results speak for themselves but I can't BELIEVE you think 1-5 oGs. It's going to be 5-4 I'm pretty sure, one way or the other.

On January 24 2012 07:58 Corsica wrote:


Your predictions are worse some of em are very outdated and dont recognize recent transfers.