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IEM Cologne Group of Death? - Page 5

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voy
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Poland348 Posts
August 15 2011 13:05 GMT
#81
MaNa is the best toss in EU at the moment. Stephano top3 zerg, puma and sase are always dangerous. CAnt wait for the IEM! !!!!!
I'm a man with a dream. And I look good in jeans. graphic designer looking for freelance work.
Asha
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United Kingdom38257 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-15 13:18:58
August 15 2011 13:17 GMT
#82
Puma, Mana, Stephano, Sase for me.

Puma is an incredible terran, but we don't know much about how he's playing lately, if he tried to qualify for Code A he failed again.

Mana is in perhaps the form of his career with awesome performances in the IPL and Assembly.

Stephano is one of the hottest Zergs on the planet, and perhaps the fastest improving player around.

Sase is a beastly protoss fresh off a runners up spot at the CPL, and while I doubt his time in Korea is paying off just yet, he'll definitely be highly motivated going into this.

All 4 of them are awesome, and they all perform well in a LAN setting.

Group A is close behind; but MC and Idra aren't currently the forces they once were, Kas is still struggling to bring in consistent results at LAN events, and beastyqt is perhaps a level below still.
kethers
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States719 Posts
August 15 2011 13:48 GMT
#83
Any group with MC will qualify as a group of death...for the other players
zeenix1
Profile Joined May 2011
Sweden89 Posts
August 15 2011 14:32 GMT
#84
It worries me that 3392 people (so far) are having such a low comprehension of player skills. Pool D should have 90% of the votes here. IdrA is overrated, not because he's bad but because people think of him as a god or the true representative for NA-SC2, Kas can really crush noobs and semi-pros in devastating fashion, even make a number on ppl of higher ranks like TSL (as long as it is online) but won't stand a chance against MC or any other high-korean on LAN. Beastyqt, good luck.

MaNa and SaSe has become European powerhouses (in Europe) and Stephano is the brightest up and coming star right now in impeccable fashion. PuMa I dont know who it is, but he's korean and probably won something to get invited here..
StarVe
Profile Joined June 2011
Germany13591 Posts
August 15 2011 14:37 GMT
#85
Clearly Pool D, all groups are stacked but Pool D has by far the highest average skill overall.
DailYLeet
Profile Joined November 2010
Germany827 Posts
August 15 2011 14:42 GMT
#86
Killer, Select, Socke, Diestar
"King Goody spoke - you have to treat his words like gold , he is the wisest man , who ever crossed the EU server" - Cloud
Noocta
Profile Joined June 2010
France12578 Posts
August 15 2011 16:16 GMT
#87
A, because Idra in a pool against MC and Beasty ( who is like, the most abusive terran know to world ) is gonna be pretty damn epic.
" I'm not gonna fight you. I'm gonna kick your ass ! "
Jinivus
Profile Joined July 2011
747 Posts
August 15 2011 16:29 GMT
#88
d.Killer now replacing Idra in group A. Still gonna be MC owning some foreigners in group A
Xenogears
Profile Joined July 2011
France87 Posts
August 15 2011 16:34 GMT
#89
Select is gonna take IEM ez

Gogo Select !
MVP :)
PiRate647
Profile Joined January 2011
Belgium187 Posts
August 15 2011 16:36 GMT
#90
LOL , no shit Idra&MC&Kas . wonder what the group of death is
"Who always takes a taxi, but never pays a fare?" - "Vegeta!?" ||||exclusively a fan of RET!! .... and perhaps ClouD !
Baeras
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States140 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-15 17:56:44
August 15 2011 17:54 GMT
#91
taken from
http://www.esl-world.net/masters/#/masters/season6/cologne/


MC revisits Europe

Unfortunately we have to replace one of our recently announced Korean invites for next week's Global Challenge Cologne. MarineKing won't be able to travel to Germany. Nevertheless, his substitute isn't less popular or successful.

Two-time GSL champion MC from SK Gaming and oGs is not only a great addition to our tournament, but will also even out the overall ratio of Protoss and Terran with 6 representatives each. MC won't be placed in group D. He will start in group A and PuMa moves to group D instead, to avoid having two groups with three players of one race. This was done in agreement with all affected players.

Group A

Empire.Kas
Beastyqt
IdrA
MC

Group B

Socke
DieStar
SeleCT
Killer

Group C

Tarson
Nerchio
mOOnGLaDe
HuK

Group D

Stephano
MYMSaSe
MaNa
PuMa

pools are correct and im super excited to see group A Group D is probably gonna be the second most interesting group to watch i see huk taking his group quite easily
Bet on it!
R0YAL
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United States1768 Posts
August 15 2011 18:14 GMT
#92
Idra got MC again! Well played fate.. Well played..
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
lunis
Profile Joined June 2011
Germany104 Posts
August 15 2011 19:56 GMT
#93
On August 16 2011 03:14 R0YAL wrote:
Idra got MC again! Well played fate.. Well played..


Idra won't be at IEM

http://twitter.com/#!/IntelEM/status/103107015093661696
Mellon
Profile Joined October 2010
Sweden917 Posts
August 15 2011 22:08 GMT
#94
Idra aint that scary, basicly only MC is because Kas has such... stagefright. D got really good players such as Puma and up and coming players like Stephano, that aswell as Mana playing good recently and Sase having practiced in Korea!

B Isn't that scary really...

C If Nerchio plays his best he and Huk should definately advance... Kind of easily aswell.
obsKura
Profile Joined March 2011
Ireland1061 Posts
August 15 2011 22:29 GMT
#95
Stephano
SaSe
MaNa
PuMa

is a pretty scary group - you have to consider that all Stephano, MaNa and SaSe have improved so much within the last couple of months
C9 ~^v^~ In EE-sama we trust. ~^v^~ C9
The Final Boss
Profile Joined February 2011
United States1839 Posts
August 16 2011 00:44 GMT
#96
(P)MC, (Z)IdrA, (T)Kas, and (T)Beastyqt is a scary group, no doubt--MC is the best Protoss in the world, Kas is one of the best European Terrans despite most of his accomplishments being in smaller tournaments (other than TSL I haven't really seen him deep into any big tournaments), Beastyqt is a good player, but not quite as well known as the other members of the group, and of course: IdrA. Everybody's favorite player to hate and one of the best Zergs in the world. I was pretty certain I would vote that group (IdrA+MC how is that not a scary group), but then I saw another group that caught my eye and struck fear into my heart:

(T)PuMa, (P)MaNa, (Z)Stephano, (P)SaSe. Holy crap. First off, the gentlemanly Korean President Terran himself. I don't know who else watched all his matches at NASL or his play in the GSTL (before EG stole him, just kidding, but seriously), but that dude is a sick-baller-nerd (alternatively if you don't speak Tastosis that means really, really, good). MaNa is an especially good Protoss player who I don't think ever got super far in tournaments because his PvZ was so weak compared to his other match-ups (not (P)InCa weak, but certainly weak). That being said, recently, MaNa's PvZ has been exceptionally well played:
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beating (Z)DarKFoRcE, (T)IdrA, and coming just short of beating (Z)Nerchio in the IPL2.
Stephano is definitely one of the top Zergs outside of Korea. Better than IdrA? That one is hard to say but he certainly has better composure than IdrA; so while a IdrA playing at his best might be a better player than Stephano, if it comes down to the crunch time in a tournament, and MC just calmly types "are you angry?" I can't see IdrA playing as well as the Frenchman, Stephano. Then SaSe, another great European Protoss player who has been training in Korea. I think that his time in Korea will allow him to prepare super well for this tournament and be even scarier of a competitor than he usually is.

And that is why I voted for PuMa, MaNa, Stephano, and SaSe's group, because while IdrA, MC, Kas, and Beastyqt has the most votes, I think that's mainly because it has two of the most popular players. MC vs IdrA definitely has the potential to be a great set so long as IdrA doesn't decide to randomly rage quit unpredictably, but overall PuMa vs MaNa will be a great match, and PuMa vs Stephano, and PuMa vs SaSe, and MaNa vs Stephano, and Stephano vs SaSe. Yeah basically all the matches are going to be awesome (minus PvP haha).
00Visor
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
4337 Posts
August 16 2011 02:47 GMT
#97
too much MC vs Idra hype here

Puma, Mana, Stephano, Sase
Contagious
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
United States1319 Posts
August 16 2011 02:54 GMT
#98
Puma, Mana, Stephano, Sase ... easy
onedayclose
Profile Joined April 2010
United States1145 Posts
August 16 2011 05:47 GMT
#99
there are no groups of death at this event. Just Hot_Bid trolling us like always. TT
Techno
Profile Joined June 2010
1900 Posts
August 16 2011 05:49 GMT
#100
What the fuck? Nerchio like 3-0d Idra in IPL or something and I'm voting HuK for Highest Templar.
Hell, its awesome to LOSE to nukes!
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