It depends how many of these gosu Koreans continue to play until the end. There aren't 50 foreigners who can win >50% of their games at B+ right now. But if foreigners flood B-/B/B+ and there are hardly any Koreans to slow the progress, then I could see 50 foreigners getting A- in 3 weeks.

Daigomi

South Africa4316 Posts

March 31 2008 18:56 GMT

#23

That's my point Nony, there's seriously not 50 foreigners who can win more than 50% of their games at that level, which is why I suggested B+. ON the other hand, as you say, if we get tons of players playing really hard, we could suddenly have lots of foreigners on a higher level than expected, which might mean more A- players.

We'll have to see.

trollbone

France1905 Posts

March 31 2008 19:04 GMT

#24

OMG Draco is playing

i think in no particular order we will see :

Xiaozi
Idra
Horror
Artosis
Nony
Dreiven
LZgamer
Mondragon
Legend
Leftnaj
Goody
Gohan
Strelok
Rushgoon
Notforu
...

oh god there are a lot of good players O_O cant list all the favourite

Chill

Calgary26004 Posts

March 31 2008 19:06 GMT

#25

Leftnaj
haha :D

obithrawn

8 Posts

March 31 2008 19:33 GMT

#26

On April 01 2008 02:57 RaGe wrote:
We should print screen the first 25 spots every day and make an animated gif of it.

I'm going to manually save all the pages every 24 hours so we can do something like this, or even go as far to make some compiled stats on progress

Shauni

4077 Posts

March 31 2008 20:01 GMT

#27

I was thinking of staying in the top48 the whole while, but maybe I'm being a bit too optimistic. A ranks seem almost unreachable this early on in season for me.

city42

1656 Posts

March 31 2008 20:02 GMT

#28

Oh my god, so many people have already played 20+ games. I really wish this event happened in June or July, because it's just not possible to compete with people who can throw 5 hours a day into the ladder in the middle of a semester.

The competition looks really fierce, though. It's gonna get a lot tougher, too, since yaoyuan made a post about it. I'd expect all the top Chinese players (and there are quite a few) to take over the top ranks within a few days.

Senx

Sweden5901 Posts

March 31 2008 20:03 GMT

#29

Draco will win the entire thing

PhilGood2DaY

Germany7424 Posts

March 31 2008 20:38 GMT

#30

is iccup down !?

oh my god !?

ScarFace

United States1175 Posts

March 31 2008 20:47 GMT

#31

Ive noticed something strange but funny. I guess all the TSL players have made an impression on the non TSL players. Because now whenever I join a d v d game, they ban me. I guess they think I'm more skilled than they? How wrong they are!

PhilGood2DaY

Germany7424 Posts

March 31 2008 20:53 GMT

#32

haha
lool

Woyn

United Kingdom1628 Posts

March 31 2008 21:07 GMT

#33

Why iCCup no allow registration =[

Frits

11782 Posts

March 31 2008 21:23 GMT

#34

That's an impressive list of players participating.

Bah, don't even have time to play a single game in this event because of exams, gay.

Shauni

4077 Posts

March 31 2008 21:25 GMT

#35

On April 01 2008 05:47 ScarFace wrote:
Ive noticed something strange but funny. I guess all the TSL players have made an impression on the non TSL players. Because now whenever I join a d v d game, they ban me. I guess they think I'm more skilled than they? How wrong they are!

I've had a couple of koreans and other players asking about this starleague.

Someone I played thought TSL was a clan led by Nony lol.

fusionsdf

Canada15390 Posts

March 31 2008 21:26 GMT

#36

On April 01 2008 04:04 trollbone wrote:
OMG Draco is playing

i think in no particular order we will see :

Xiaozi
Idra
Horror
Artosis
Nony
Dreiven
LZgamer
Mondragon
Legend
Leftnaj
Goody
Gohan
Strelok
Rushgoon
Notforu
...

oh god there are a lot of good players O_O cant list all the favourite

DRACO? WHERE?

Woyn

United Kingdom1628 Posts

March 31 2008 21:29 GMT

#37

he's only like 4-0 so far

JoMal

Trinidad/Tobago1177 Posts

March 31 2008 21:32 GMT

#38

I'm loving the determination of TSL-Katoan =]

useLess

United States4781 Posts

March 31 2008 21:54 GMT

#39

Just some observations on my side:
Last night (or roughly 12 hours ago), there were 650+ signed up, and you only had to have played a dozen games (and win almost all of them) to break #48. As of now, there are 930+ signed up and you need about 18 +/- 1 or 2 games to break #48. So its early and still anyones game.

But this has only been one day. The top will probably be defined relatively early on, while the round 1 spots will be the fiercely contested.

NrG.Bamboo

United States2756 Posts

March 31 2008 22:24 GMT

#40

So when I kicked off laddering for TSL I was thinking "fuck yeah, now I can show my stuff to everyone" and I was having a pretty good time. I played some good people; I played Machine, IdrA, sky (I've been told this is WhistleR), TT1, Worked, and other players also on TSL tags, some good games, some bad games.

I've seen a fuckton of cheese (even from the "top" players I played) however ~~; Like, from all the past seasons and ladders played, I have never seen so much all-in cheese everywhere, it's increadible.

Anyway, how can I complain ;] Money is involved, and alot of it, so it's fair for people to play at any way they please ^^

Oh, and alot of people seem to dodge good record people, which I think is pretty stupid =/

EDIT - And nony just stomped me ; ]