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Musli
Profile Blog Joined February 2004
Poland5130 Posts
December 16 2009 22:18 GMT
#81
On December 17 2009 03:44 cYaN wrote:
Group of death to me means the one that will produce the closest games all the way. Doesn't matter at what level. To me that's group g. i doubt the winner of the tsl is in there, but anyone can win that group imo.

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PhilGood2DaY
Profile Joined September 2005
Germany7424 Posts
December 16 2009 23:09 GMT
#82
On December 16 2009 23:30 IdrA wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 16 2009 23:18 Intr3pid wrote:
It's easily Group B, people just fanboying ret (not that I hate him or anything, the guy's great) doesn't make his group the group of death. Actually I think he won't have much trouble advancing, whereas in Group B it is much harder to tell because the skill is on a very high but yet balanced level.

balanced level doesnt make it a group of depth. ask any player if theyd rather be in B or F, every one of them will say B.


depends on whom they would replace though

If any player had to replace ret in group F and have flaf,g5 and cloud in his group he would surely favour this over replacing octzerg and being in a group with morrow,kolll and naugrim..

get my point ?

in group F ret is standing out followed by two very good players Cloud and G5

in group B kolll, naugrim and morrow are all very good players
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Sc2ggRise
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States607 Posts
December 17 2009 01:23 GMT
#83
B
IdrA
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States11541 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-17 03:08:33
December 17 2009 03:07 GMT
#84
On December 17 2009 08:09 MaGic~PhiL wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 16 2009 23:30 IdrA wrote:
On December 16 2009 23:18 Intr3pid wrote:
It's easily Group B, people just fanboying ret (not that I hate him or anything, the guy's great) doesn't make his group the group of death. Actually I think he won't have much trouble advancing, whereas in Group B it is much harder to tell because the skill is on a very high but yet balanced level.

balanced level doesnt make it a group of depth. ask any player if theyd rather be in B or F, every one of them will say B.


depends on whom they would replace though

If any player had to replace ret in group F and have flaf,g5 and cloud in his group he would surely favour this over replacing octzerg and being in a group with morrow,kolll and naugrim..

get my point ?

in group F ret is standing out followed by two very good players Cloud and G5

in group B kolll, naugrim and morrow are all very good players

well cloud and g5 is still harder to get through than kolll naugrim morrow, but we're talking about the strength of the group, not the strength of 3 players.
ya, F wouldnt be as strong without ret. but none of the groups would be as strong without their strongest player so whats the point of even discussing that?
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IdrA
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States11541 Posts
December 17 2009 03:08 GMT
#85
On December 17 2009 03:44 cYaN wrote:
Group of death to me means the one that will produce the closest games all the way. Doesn't matter at what level. To me that's group g. i doubt the winner of the tsl is in there, but anyone can win that group imo.

why do people think that
you can have 3 D players and have dead even games, would you call that a group of death?
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FragKrag
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States11552 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-17 03:59:00
December 17 2009 03:58 GMT
#86
Gonna have to go with B. Morrow Naugrim and Koll should make the games interesting indeed
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ThE_OsToJiY
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Canada1167 Posts
December 17 2009 04:04 GMT
#87
GROUP D DAMNIT!
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BlueStar
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
Bulgaria1166 Posts
December 17 2009 09:52 GMT
#88
A I would say ~_~
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SpaNiarD
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
Spain346 Posts
December 17 2009 10:22 GMT
#89
C is the group of death

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InFiNitY[pG]
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
Germany3474 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-17 11:15:58
December 17 2009 11:12 GMT
#90
B or G, went with G in the end. I don't see how so many people can vote F, imo Ret will take this group with ease. A group that has one clear favorite can't really be a group of death imo, it's like putting three strong terrans in a group with Flash.
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PhilGood2DaY
Profile Joined September 2005
Germany7424 Posts
December 17 2009 15:04 GMT
#91
On December 17 2009 12:07 IdrA wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 17 2009 08:09 MaGic~PhiL wrote:
On December 16 2009 23:30 IdrA wrote:
On December 16 2009 23:18 Intr3pid wrote:
It's easily Group B, people just fanboying ret (not that I hate him or anything, the guy's great) doesn't make his group the group of death. Actually I think he won't have much trouble advancing, whereas in Group B it is much harder to tell because the skill is on a very high but yet balanced level.

balanced level doesnt make it a group of depth. ask any player if theyd rather be in B or F, every one of them will say B.


depends on whom they would replace though

If any player had to replace ret in group F and have flaf,g5 and cloud in his group he would surely favour this over replacing octzerg and being in a group with morrow,kolll and naugrim..

get my point ?

in group F ret is standing out followed by two very good players Cloud and G5

in group B kolll, naugrim and morrow are all very good players

well cloud and g5 is still harder to get through than kolll naugrim morrow, but we're talking about the strength of the group, not the strength of 3 players.
ya, F wouldnt be as strong without ret. but none of the groups would be as strong without their strongest player so whats the point of even discussing that?



How comes u think G5 and cloud are harder to beat than morrow,kolll or naugrim ?
I think they are pretty even in skill. I mean you played them okey u should know best. So i cant really know better than you but we agree it mainly depends on what race you play and what match up u like, too doesnt it ?

imagine a player who hates to play vs p and isnt that comfortable vs z being in the group with cloud,g5 and ret.. he probably would like to be in the zzzt group instead..

vice versa..

And people here thinkin that this group isnt a group of death because ret in it is simply wrong, too.

Ret is the big favourite to win this group but let me tell u:

In many other groups Cloud and maybe G5 would be favs too. Granted they dont have ret in the same group obviously..

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cYaN
Profile Joined May 2004
Norway3322 Posts
December 17 2009 16:56 GMT
#92
On December 17 2009 12:08 IdrA wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 17 2009 03:44 cYaN wrote:
Group of death to me means the one that will produce the closest games all the way. Doesn't matter at what level. To me that's group g. i doubt the winner of the tsl is in there, but anyone can win that group imo.

why do people think that
you can have 3 D players and have dead even games, would you call that a group of death?

Yes.

1) Bisu, Jaedong, IdrA, ret
2) C, C, C, C (since they are more consistent that D)

My group of death is 2 in this case. Group 1 bisu and jaedong qualifies, group C.. who knows. Obviously that wouldn't be the same tournament so we're not talking anywhere near as big a range of skill.

Why do people think that? Why do you think otherwise? Do you have anything to back that up? Stop passing your opinion off as fact please. I was very careful to explain what i meant and that it was my definition. A quick google search reveals that there is no hard definition, but everyone is split on it. Football fans, starcraft fans.. you name it.
IdrA
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States11541 Posts
December 17 2009 17:19 GMT
#93
On December 18 2009 00:04 MaGic~PhiL wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 17 2009 12:07 IdrA wrote:
On December 17 2009 08:09 MaGic~PhiL wrote:
On December 16 2009 23:30 IdrA wrote:
On December 16 2009 23:18 Intr3pid wrote:
It's easily Group B, people just fanboying ret (not that I hate him or anything, the guy's great) doesn't make his group the group of death. Actually I think he won't have much trouble advancing, whereas in Group B it is much harder to tell because the skill is on a very high but yet balanced level.

balanced level doesnt make it a group of depth. ask any player if theyd rather be in B or F, every one of them will say B.


depends on whom they would replace though

If any player had to replace ret in group F and have flaf,g5 and cloud in his group he would surely favour this over replacing octzerg and being in a group with morrow,kolll and naugrim..

get my point ?

in group F ret is standing out followed by two very good players Cloud and G5

in group B kolll, naugrim and morrow are all very good players

well cloud and g5 is still harder to get through than kolll naugrim morrow, but we're talking about the strength of the group, not the strength of 3 players.
ya, F wouldnt be as strong without ret. but none of the groups would be as strong without their strongest player so whats the point of even discussing that?



How comes u think G5 and cloud are harder to beat than morrow,kolll or naugrim ?
I think they are pretty even in skill. I mean you played them okey u should know best. So i cant really know better than you but we agree it mainly depends on what race you play and what match up u like, too doesnt it ?

imagine a player who hates to play vs p and isnt that comfortable vs z being in the group with cloud,g5 and ret.. he probably would like to be in the zzzt group instead..

vice versa..

And people here thinkin that this group isnt a group of death because ret in it is simply wrong, too.

Ret is the big favourite to win this group but let me tell u:

In many other groups Cloud and maybe G5 would be favs too. Granted they dont have ret in the same group obviously..


octzerg is trash, morrow and naugrim are mediocre and kolll is questionable, given his performance since wcg. g5 is very good and cloud was the best or 2nd best foreign protoss for a long time, he dropped off the radar given his inactivity but he just laddered for 3 weeks and has another 3 weeks to prep for his matches, once youve reached that level its not that hard to regain alot of it.
obviously personal preference depends on matchup, though theres not many players with matchups so skewed that theyd rather face ret g5 cloud than morrow naugrim koll, but we're talking about the overall strength of the group, where that doesnt matter.
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IdrA
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States11541 Posts
December 17 2009 17:21 GMT
#94
On December 18 2009 01:56 cYaN wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 17 2009 12:08 IdrA wrote:
On December 17 2009 03:44 cYaN wrote:
Group of death to me means the one that will produce the closest games all the way. Doesn't matter at what level. To me that's group g. i doubt the winner of the tsl is in there, but anyone can win that group imo.

why do people think that
you can have 3 D players and have dead even games, would you call that a group of death?

Yes.

1) Bisu, Jaedong, IdrA, ret
2) C, C, C, C (since they are more consistent that D)

My group of death is 2 in this case. Group 1 bisu and jaedong qualifies, group C.. who knows. Obviously that wouldn't be the same tournament so we're not talking anywhere near as big a range of skill.

Why do people think that? Why do you think otherwise? Do you have anything to back that up? Stop passing your opinion off as fact please. I was very careful to explain what i meant and that it was my definition. A quick google search reveals that there is no hard definition, but everyone is split on it. Football fans, starcraft fans.. you name it.

because its a "group of death" not a "group of evenly matched players with an uncertain outcome"
we're talking about the best, hardest, scariest group.
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cYaN
Profile Joined May 2004
Norway3322 Posts
December 17 2009 18:42 GMT
#95
lol, why do i bother^^
aTnClouD
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Italy2428 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-17 18:58:13
December 17 2009 18:46 GMT
#96
I'm not sure if my group is the one of death, but seriously group B is nowhere the hardest in this TSL. In my opinion groups F E J K D are all harder than group B, and you are giving Kolll too much credit. He's very good, but he has still a lot of room to improve and plays very risky most of the times. You can't compare him, Naugrim or octzerg to Mondragon, Strelok, Sen, White-Ra or whatever major obstacle you could meet in these groups. And I'm saying it because I know these guys and they are SCARY in tournaments (especially White-Ra). I would rather play in group B than in any of these.
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BlasiuS
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States2405 Posts
December 17 2009 18:51 GMT
#97
Was debating between group G and group B, but then I thought to myself "I have no idea who FlaF is" and that settled that.

Definitely group B
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Shikyo
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Finland33997 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-17 19:27:41
December 17 2009 19:24 GMT
#98
On December 18 2009 01:56 cYaN wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 17 2009 12:08 IdrA wrote:
On December 17 2009 03:44 cYaN wrote:
Group of death to me means the one that will produce the closest games all the way. Doesn't matter at what level. To me that's group g. i doubt the winner of the tsl is in there, but anyone can win that group imo.

why do people think that
you can have 3 D players and have dead even games, would you call that a group of death?

Yes.

1) Bisu, Jaedong, IdrA, ret
2) C, C, C, C (since they are more consistent that D)

My group of death is 2 in this case. Group 1 bisu and jaedong qualifies, group C.. who knows. Obviously that wouldn't be the same tournament so we're not talking anywhere near as big a range of skill.

Why do people think that? Why do you think otherwise? Do you have anything to back that up? Stop passing your opinion off as fact please. I was very careful to explain what i meant and that it was my definition. A quick google search reveals that there is no hard definition, but everyone is split on it. Football fans, starcraft fans.. you name it.

It's a group of death because it forces elimination of players who deserve to place higher in the tournament -> death.

A group of C C C C has none so it's not a group of death. Also, if 2 of them are koreans its not even at all.

On December 17 2009 08:09 MaGic~PhiL wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 16 2009 23:30 IdrA wrote:
On December 16 2009 23:18 Intr3pid wrote:
It's easily Group B, people just fanboying ret (not that I hate him or anything, the guy's great) doesn't make his group the group of death. Actually I think he won't have much trouble advancing, whereas in Group B it is much harder to tell because the skill is on a very high but yet balanced level.

balanced level doesnt make it a group of depth. ask any player if theyd rather be in B or F, every one of them will say B.


depends on whom they would replace though

If any player had to replace ret in group F and have flaf,g5 and cloud in his group he would surely favour this over replacing octzerg and being in a group with morrow,kolll and naugrim..

get my point ?

in group F ret is standing out followed by two very good players Cloud and G5

in group B kolll, naugrim and morrow are all very good players


So you believe that OctZerg is as good at Ret?

This comparison makes no sense in the first place. OctZerg isn't even the first seed.
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DreaM)XeRO
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Korea (South)4667 Posts
December 17 2009 20:34 GMT
#99
G5 + Ret + Cloud is fucking SICK

but a Morrow, OctZerg, Koll, Naugrim group comes in a close second
that is ridic. Morrow @ second, Octzerg is gosu, Koll is wonderkid with like an umlat over the "O". UBER wonderkid, and Naugrim is a gosu and gm player.
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EpiK
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Korea (South)5757 Posts
December 17 2009 20:56 GMT
#100
Definitely group B. But group F is probably going to produce the sickest games
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