On May 21 2010 00:24 Liquid`Nazgul wrote:
looking for for dimaga, but every tourney should seriously take oasis out of their mappool I don't recall a protoss winning against a good zerg in any tourney

I believe in one of Zotac cup, protoss abused FF to block ramp to win zerg.

Prodtoss

China849 Posts

May 20 2010 15:32 GMT

#822

On May 21 2010 00:30 kickinhead wrote:
who advanced in grp2?

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Cezzane 1st,Dimaga 2nd

HolydaKing

21254 Posts

May 20 2010 15:32 GMT

#823

Thanks to Forsti for streaming by the way! The chinese stream ain't bad but it lags hard sometimes!

rhap

Brazil136 Posts

May 20 2010 15:32 GMT

#824

Awesome, DIMAGA showed why he's the european who won more tourneys during beta. This World Cup is what I'd call "ASIA VS EUROPE", not that event without DIMAGA and DeMusliM.

Sfydjklm

United States9218 Posts

May 20 2010 15:35 GMT

#825

dimaga said in an iview to the goodgame.ru that when asked before this tournament to remove two maps he removed IZ and... Desert Oasis.

kheldorin

Singapore539 Posts

May 20 2010 15:36 GMT

#826

So in both groups played today, 4 out of 4 players that advanced are Zerg? Hope we don't end up with more ZvZ in the latter stages.

Prodtoss

China849 Posts

May 20 2010 15:36 GMT

#827

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Now Sen,SlayersBoxer,White-Ra,Check,Leeraeun,F91,Cezzane,Dimaga advanced into 16

billyX333

United States1360 Posts

May 20 2010 15:37 GMT

#828

I agree, desert oasis is an awful map
especially for PvZ
The only way protoss wins on that map is if they proxy gate or somehow catch z off guard with quad warpgate and a sneaky proxy pylon

Art_of_Kill

Zaire1232 Posts

May 20 2010 15:37 GMT

#829

On May 21 2010 00:32 rhap wrote:
Awesome, DIMAGA showed why he's the european who won more tourneys during beta. This World Cup is what I'd call "ASIA VS EUROPE", not that event without DIMAGA and DeMusliM.

hehe, true the europe line up is so much stronger here replace idra with demuslim and you have the best of the best from europe

skypacer

China174 Posts

May 20 2010 15:37 GMT

#830

you'd better call it "Korea vs other parts of the world".
Dimaga just beat 2 Chinese players who are not as solid as any korean in the event.
Comparing to Koreans, Dimaga is pretty weak..

Tanatos

United States381 Posts

May 20 2010 15:38 GMT

#831

On May 21 2010 00:36 kheldorin wrote:
So in both groups played today, 4 out of 4 players that advanced are Zerg? Hope we don't end up with more ZvZ in the latter stages.

Too bad for you. Tomorrow we have 4 zerg group

Skyze

Canada2324 Posts

May 20 2010 15:39 GMT

#832

DIMAGA is a beast.. using ultras too!

Its funny that DIMAGA actually made ultras look semi-decent for patch 12.. now Ultras are gonna get a huge buff most likely in this upcoming patch. This'll be interesting..

cyclone25

Romania3344 Posts

May 20 2010 15:40 GMT

#833

On May 21 2010 00:38 Tanatos wrote:

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Too bad for you. Tomorrow we have 4 zerg group

Rofl! ZvZ is awesome anyway :D

kheldorin

Singapore539 Posts

May 20 2010 15:41 GMT

#834

On May 21 2010 00:38 Tanatos wrote:

Too bad for you. Tomorrow we have 4 zerg group

Seriously, 6 of the 8 people who has advanced into the next stage are Zerg??!! That's kinda ridiculous. Luckily the top korean protoss and terran have yet to play.

Azarkon

United States21060 Posts

May 20 2010 15:44 GMT

#835

I think I agree with Artosis that Zerg has a faster learning curve, so Protoss and Terran players are not necessarily playing at their best, yet.

If you look at the latest gosucoaching results, Terrans are dominating. Not saying that gosucoaching is comparable to this sort of tournament, but it's quite likely that there's still much to be discovered.

Prodtoss

China849 Posts

May 20 2010 15:46 GMT

#836

Tomorrow will be Zergcraft ZVZVZVZ LOL

Tanatos

United States381 Posts

May 20 2010 15:49 GMT

#837

Also not many high level T,P player are in this WORLD CUP. I don't know how good Chinese players are, but we do miss many top American T,P players.

Actually only American in this tourney is Idra, WHO IS ZERG!

epik640x

United States1134 Posts

May 20 2010 15:51 GMT

#838

Idra is better than Dimaga, he just had a tougher group. Both went 1-2 but Dimaga's group had 2 other guys who also went 1-2 and he was able to squeeze through.

Will get rolled by the next korean player like he got rolled against the 1 korean player in that first group.

Azarkon

United States21060 Posts

May 20 2010 15:53 GMT

#839

I think it's more accurate to say that IdrA's ZvZ is not up to par. He had to face off against two Zergs after winning against a Terran. Dimaga faced a Terran and a Protoss after losing against a Zerg.

The way group elimination is set up, you really have to be solid in almost every match-up to not get screwed. The top Korean players + Sen have demonstrated this in every series so far. Others, not so much.

Skyze

Canada2324 Posts

May 20 2010 15:55 GMT

#840

On May 21 2010 00:51 epik640x wrote:
Idra is better than Dimaga, he just had a tougher group. Both went 1-2 but Dimaga's group had 2 other guys who also went 1-2 and he was able to squeeze through.

Will get rolled by the next korean player like he got rolled against the 1 korean player in that first group.

I dont agree with that. DIMAGA is very talented and adapts very well in games. He has been the top europe zerg player since the first week of beta, which is hard to say for just about anyone over any region, to stay on top the whole beta.

I wonder how big his TSL2 blunder hurt his reputation.. cause really DIMAGA is playing at white-ra levels lately.. which I think we all can argue White-Ra is top 3 Protoss player in the world at SC2, along with being the top foreign BW player for the past 2ish years.