I suggest top finnish players Naama and Satiini. Naama was top 1-2 troughout phase2 in euroladder, dropping few spots to around 5-6 after being inactive for last 3 days. Also he won viking cup, was one of the highest ranked europlayers in phase1. He is very good, very motivated and plays interesting games. Satiini won zotac, thats one of the biggest achievements there was for grabs so far.

Ouga

Finland645 Posts

July 25 2010 15:59 GMT

#142

Looking through the "already invited" list is a bit mindboggling even. How can you fill it with 50ppl without even trying to get all the best players in? Sure you may get the top30 players in by inviting just the clearest miscalls now, but this tournament definately can't be considered having even 45-50 best players in it. I'm not judging inviting big icons like D9, who probably isn't even among worst players. Huge _current_ SC2 icons deserve spots obviously. But now there are like 20 "icons" invited, who have made their names to invitelist from something else than current SC2 abilities.

All sides should profit if the tournament became more global. Be honest, US doesn't deserve nearly that many spots in the invitelist.

IefNaij

Canada291 Posts

July 25 2010 16:00 GMT

#143

You should have qualifiers so people such as myself have a chance at playing in this tourney

0neder

United States3733 Posts

July 25 2010 16:03 GMT

#144

Who's the guy that made a 10k bet match vs Idra? He still playing? Will he come out of hiding?

ChickenLips

2912 Posts

July 25 2010 16:06 GMT

#145

aka UnknownArt, WC3 Undead pro, Top Zerg on the EU servers with a 72.34% winrate over more than 140 games. Totally unknown could make for an absolute surprise.

Best oGs Terran. He 5-0'd Prime in the oGs vs. Prime Star2Gether Clan Invitational with the best micro ive seen in Starcraft 2 so far (and i watch A LOT of VODs), a heavily harass based style that is a lot of fun to watch. Crazy reaper micro that has to be seen to be believed.

I think you should go for more innovative and micro oriented players as they are more fun to watch than players that just mass till 200 and then a move.

Regards, I'm definitely looking forward to this tournament.

Headshot

United States1656 Posts

July 25 2010 16:08 GMT

#146

I cheered out loud when I opened TL and saw this thread. I can't wait! :D

jeddus

United States832 Posts

July 25 2010 16:10 GMT

#147

They should do a 128-man satellite tournament for the last few spots.

Like in the old days.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=36831

Zlasher

United States9129 Posts

July 25 2010 16:10 GMT

#148

In the end I can't COMPLETELY complain about who has been invited so far, obviously to expect HDH to invite the top 60 players without any debate is impossible. I would just like to a tournament that doesn't take 3.5-4 months to set up, start, and cast.

MadVillain

United States402 Posts

July 25 2010 16:11 GMT

#149

Yeah get more koreans, i would want to see ensnare and some more of ogs play. Also get cella from Werra clan. I remember seeing some replays that were really good from him. Plus he's zerg i think.

But yeah for this tourney to take a reasonable amount of time they are going to have to mass cast. I think a tourney this size should last about 2 weeks. But I'm confident HD/Husky can find a way to make it work. I can't wait to see what the prize pool will be. I'm gonna guess > $5000 easily if they can get more than 1 sponsor.

Krfstniper

Italy24 Posts

July 25 2010 16:11 GMT

#150

Maybe you could invite Tarson?

deL

Australia5540 Posts

July 25 2010 16:18 GMT

#151

On July 26 2010 00:17 FreshVegetables wrote:
So many players who dont deserve an invite.. Dont get me wrong but so many better players out there who would deserve it more. For example what has InControl achieved in the beta so far? Compare with Satiini for example who won a zotac.( just an example)

Going by that logic you might as well just invite Koreans as they are better than everyone. It's not all about giving the same people money every time it's about putting on a good show with a range of players to please every audience. We went through this in the first tourney...

Rakasha

Canada71 Posts

July 25 2010 16:18 GMT

#152

MoMaN is a great zerg player and give stream play in TL. Would be fun to watch him there.

Haemonculus

United States6980 Posts

July 25 2010 16:23 GMT

#153

Go Gretorp!!!

figq

12519 Posts

July 25 2010 16:24 GMT

#154

On July 26 2010 00:53 ReachTheSky wrote:

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actually that would be super awesome if he played. I've only seen the vods of him from the alpha version of sc2 (youtube battlereports). Would love to see how his gameplay evolved.

Yeah, if the tournament is going as planned, why not invite David Kim - at least try? He plays officially on the battle.net ladder; is still one of the best SC2 players in the world, and by now he doesn't really have significant internal advantage, from being a Blizzard employee.

It would make the tourney super epic if such mysterious figures get invited like David Kim, Upmagic, Madfrog(aka UnknownArt, currently #1 Phase 2 EU zerg), who have been almost impossible to see play competitively during the Beta. The other crazy idea - HD and Husky to play, is also not too far fetched. When one plays, only the other would cast; or if the cast is from replays they still could cast together. It's not like organizing the tournament would give you any advantage, and many people would find this to be fun.

Earll

Norway847 Posts

July 25 2010 16:27 GMT

#155

Having a Sattelite tournament or whatever with like 60ish spots or something would be pretty cool I guess. And give the top 3 or something a spot into the tournament. It would obviously be a small hassle to put this together, but I guess it wouldnt have to be as organized as well as this though. It only being a qualifier you can just make a signup thread -> make brackets and set a time, then have people play.

And people saying the invitational is about pleasing the crowd and a bunch of unskilled randoms is not good for the tournament or whatever. Assuming they had to get through 60 players to be invited then Obviously they wouldnt suck terribly. And obviously any crowd loves an "underdog" story so if any of the unknown sattelited players got past the first 2 rounds or whatever I think that would be good for the tournament/the spectators. Apart from that I am suprised kiwikaki is not invited.

Multis

Finland21 Posts

July 25 2010 16:31 GMT

#156

U just have to invite madfrog. This guy has a huge following from his wc3 days, would b really good for publicity.

Hautamaki

Canada1311 Posts

July 25 2010 16:35 GMT

#157

Madfrog was a great SCBW player too back in like 2000-2002ish I believe. Pretty sure he qualified for team Germany in the WCG in Starcraft at least 1 year.

SayTT

Sweden2158 Posts

July 25 2010 16:39 GMT

#158

On July 26 2010 01:35 Hautamaki wrote:
Madfrog was a great SCBW player too back in like 2000-2002ish I believe. Pretty sure he qualified for team Germany in the WCG in Starcraft at least 1 year.

He is from Sweden. But yea he played in wcg for scbw