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EddyBee
Profile Joined April 2010
Netherlands46 Posts
July 14 2012 12:00 GMT
#81
Ret fighting! Hope he wins it all GLGL
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.” Douglas MacArthur
InVerno
Profile Joined May 2011
258 Posts
July 14 2012 12:03 GMT
#82
HerO fighting!
4ZakeN87
Profile Joined June 2011
Sweden1071 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-07-14 12:21:34
July 14 2012 12:08 GMT
#83
It is insane to think how important a match can be for a players career.

When Puma played in the open bracket tournament for NASL 1 he won 2-1 against Nightend and the won the final against Alive 3-2. Imagine if he lost one more round in either of those matches. Specially against Nightend, he would not even have qualified for NASL Season 2.

He would have remained almost completely unknown, not joined EG, would not have gone to either IEM, MLG or dreamhack. Add to this that he never qualified for GSL.

Puma would probably been one of many unknown high skilled Koreans as he was before NASL season 1. Now he is top 5 most well known Korean SC2 players in the world.

Interesting to think about, as there most likely is a korean out there that could have been "Puma".


Regarding this final is it really tricky to predict. MC usually wins although I never understand how it actually happens so he is probably the best bet x)
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler" Einstein
Stancel
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
Singapore15360 Posts
July 14 2012 12:10 GMT
#84
TL writeups never disappoint.

MC to take this whole thing!
ffxiv enjoyer
MCDayC
Profile Joined March 2011
United Kingdom14464 Posts
July 14 2012 12:11 GMT
#85
Nice writeup! Who is JimLloyd? I didn't recognise the name, and as far as I can tell he is only seen him in regards to NASL content, is he just an occasional TL writer, but only for NASL?
VERY FRAGILE, LIKE A BABY PANDA EGG
arQ
Profile Joined October 2010
1033 Posts
July 14 2012 12:17 GMT
#86
Whats the prize pool like?
"The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition." -Carl Sagan || Flash || Mvp || Naniwa ||
Olli
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
Austria24422 Posts
July 14 2012 12:18 GMT
#87
HerO's art will prevail!
Administrator"Declaring anything a disaster because aLive popped up out of nowhere is just downright silly."
SpiZe
Profile Joined December 2010
Canada3640 Posts
July 14 2012 12:38 GMT
#88
I'm so hyped for HerO vs Stephano, this should be epic. EPIC.
Testuser
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
6469 Posts
July 14 2012 12:45 GMT
#89
Oh wow. I'm so excited for this ... didn't know Stephano was playing (Silly me, not following NASL!), so it'll be nice to see where he is at. The other players are all top-notch too, so I don't see this in any way being a let down.

Gogogoogogo!!! ~~~~
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Benjamin99
Profile Joined April 2012
4176 Posts
July 14 2012 12:48 GMT
#90
On July 14 2012 13:06 Kluey wrote:
HerO's PvZ is not to be underestimated. 3-0 vs Stephano shouldn't be a big deal for him.


Hah, Stephano gonna stomp him:D

I cant wait for the final and great writeup
Stephano & Jaedong <-- The Pain Train. Polt and Innovation to EG plz
Ration
Profile Joined January 2011
Netherlands7 Posts
July 14 2012 12:52 GMT
#91
Look at the predictions, All 3-2 !! lol
Ration(s).... is all I need!
Roachu
Profile Joined June 2011
Sweden692 Posts
July 14 2012 13:15 GMT
#92
3-2 across the board seems a little too optimistic, even though it would be pretty awesome to see every bo5 go to game 5.
Don't be asshats
kochujang
Profile Joined July 2010
Germany1226 Posts
July 14 2012 13:23 GMT
#93
Time for HerO to win a tournament again!
DVNO911
Profile Joined March 2012
14 Posts
July 14 2012 13:25 GMT
#94
Then there's HuK, who was bumped out of Dreamhack Summer in the groups—some would say unfairly

What does this refer to? What happened?
teddyoojo
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
Germany22369 Posts
July 14 2012 13:30 GMT
#95
a terran! fuck yeah!
Esports historian since 2000. Creator of 'The Universe' and 'The best scrambled Eggs 2013'. Host of 'Star Wars Marathon 2015'. Thinker of 'teddyoojo's Thoughts'. Earths and Moons leading CS:GO expert. Lord of the Rings.
CursedRich
Profile Joined November 2010
United Kingdom737 Posts
July 14 2012 13:35 GMT
#96
On July 14 2012 20:13 MtlGuitarist97 wrote:
Great to see how far you guys have come in terms of production, quality of matches, and casting. Great to see that NASL 3 Season Finals are going to be huge and awesome, and hope that you guys continue to get better :D


I agree that everything has improved massively and well done to NASL for that, but please NASL change your format (it needs a tweak not an overhaul, IMO)
Chill Winston......
turdburgler
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
England6749 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-07-14 13:56:51
July 14 2012 13:56 GMT
#97
On July 14 2012 22:25 DVNO911 wrote:
Show nested quote +
Then there's HuK, who was bumped out of Dreamhack Summer in the groups—some would say unfairly

What does this refer to? What happened?


fan boys dont want to accept that its huks fault he went out. he went out on map score or something, well suprisingly its his own fault that he lost those maps.
Thurken
Profile Joined September 2011
961 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-07-14 14:21:22
July 14 2012 14:11 GMT
#98
Was this bracket randommed?
It looks like they couln't have chosen more evenly matched quarterfinals with this pool of player. And even after that the semifinals will be evenly matched. The problem is that the final is likely to be one-sided... if there weren't that many Protosses here, and this may be a problem here i think since we will most likely get a semifinal full of protosses. Another problem would be for MC, Puma, HerO and Stephano, since there is no loser bracket and only the top 4 get a good share of the prize, it would suck to be eliminated by one of those players and having to say goodbye to the prize while Huk, Ret, Puzzle and Alicia will get half of it (even if those four are really good and may pull an upset).
But the ro8 looks pretty awesome!
Dumboprime
Profile Joined March 2011
985 Posts
July 14 2012 14:13 GMT
#99
Go MC! this is gonna be nice
robaq
Profile Joined December 2011
Poland186 Posts
July 14 2012 14:19 GMT
#100
Solid writeup. I'll probably don't get to sleep today.
Omg BW is back | DB: dotabuff.com/players/83694874 | MAL: myanimelist.net/animelist/robaq
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