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On October 14 2010 15:42 Rikstah wrote:Show nested quote +On October 14 2010 15:22 Kishkumen wrote:On October 14 2010 14:51 Hrrrrm wrote:
I'm sure the brackets are random from the perspective of individual matchups. GSL probably did some filtering though which I don't mind to evenly distribute the races among the brackets. In the end as long as they didn't favor keeping X player away from Y player specifically, it really doesn't affect anything. Yes, it just magically happened that the two players with the most fans and potential to draw viewership for the GSL2 are in the easiest bracket. The people at GOM knew what they were doing. They know Boxer and NaDa will draw far more viewers than anyone besides maybe fruitdealer, and so they put them together in the easiest bracket. It's business. They're trying to grow their brand and their tournament. Yeah thats true, or it could be alot of those people we don't recognise are beastly. At any rate id really like to see boxer and nada qualify for S or A rank next year so we can see them playing on a regular basis hehe
same... if they get seeded now for s or a rank for next season, I'll be a happy camper :D..
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Ouch, TLO draws Sangho first round. Hope he puts his game face on because word on the street is that they man who loves Brittany Spears and TL is the best toss in the tournament, maybe the world.
IdrA also has a hard-ass group. I can't imagine a guy named chilencombo would be that good, but i'm expecting zenio, mvp, and gon to all make it to the round of 32. No reason why IdrA can't beat any of those guys, but it won't be easy.
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Niiiiiice brackets... some thoughts.
TVL vs SangHO - without a doubt the most interesting R64 match for me.
Group B looks like a nightmare to get out of, sooo many great players.
Group C looks the opposite, I think seeded to help Boxer and Nada along.
I have already started sketching on how I think Top-8 will look, doubt TLO will get there but Idra has a decent chance in that group, MVP will be a big hurdle tho.
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On October 14 2010 15:44 BraveGhost wrote:Show nested quote +On October 14 2010 15:42 Rikstah wrote:On October 14 2010 15:22 Kishkumen wrote:On October 14 2010 14:51 Hrrrrm wrote:
I'm sure the brackets are random from the perspective of individual matchups. GSL probably did some filtering though which I don't mind to evenly distribute the races among the brackets. In the end as long as they didn't favor keeping X player away from Y player specifically, it really doesn't affect anything. Yes, it just magically happened that the two players with the most fans and potential to draw viewership for the GSL2 are in the easiest bracket. The people at GOM knew what they were doing. They know Boxer and NaDa will draw far more viewers than anyone besides maybe fruitdealer, and so they put them together in the easiest bracket. It's business. They're trying to grow their brand and their tournament. Yeah thats true, or it could be alot of those people we don't recognise are beastly. At any rate id really like to see boxer and nada qualify for S or A rank next year so we can see them playing on a regular basis hehe same... if they get seeded now for s or a rank for next season, I'll be a happy camper :D..
TLO will draw the largest viewership from the foreign community (the people who actually have to pay to watch) as well as a very larger audience in Korea, and he has one of the toughest players in the tournament first round.
Not saying he draws a larger audience than Fruitdealer, Nada, or Boxer, but I have a hard time believing that they are fixing brakets when the two foreigners both have difficult groups. Furthermore, most of those players are unknown, which means that there is just as much chance that they are very good as very bad, we simply don't know until the tournament starts.
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Really hope Sangho isn't good enough to touch TLO!
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People keep saying bracket B is stacked which it is, but 4 of the best players are facing each other first round while HongUn, Ensnare, and Cool are all separate in bracket A, they're probably gonna clear that group easily then rematch of HongUn vs Ensnare then Cool vs one of them. That's the scary bracket. I mean Ensnare only lost to Rainbow in the semis and HongUn lost to Ensnare in quarters in S1. Also if anyone saw oGs vs Prime, Ensnare is fucken scary - I think he can stop Cool from getting out of that bracket.
With that said bracket B will probably have a lot of sick games. Check will have to get through Rainbow or Flint probably after having to face sanzenith or a hyperdub with more experience than first season while Clide vs Tankboy then winner of that will most likely face Inca - should be some amazing games.
Can't wait to see real boxer and nada though, so nostalgic seeing them in tournaments together.
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On October 14 2010 15:54 KiLL_ORdeR wrote:Show nested quote +On October 14 2010 15:44 BraveGhost wrote:On October 14 2010 15:42 Rikstah wrote:On October 14 2010 15:22 Kishkumen wrote:On October 14 2010 14:51 Hrrrrm wrote:
I'm sure the brackets are random from the perspective of individual matchups. GSL probably did some filtering though which I don't mind to evenly distribute the races among the brackets. In the end as long as they didn't favor keeping X player away from Y player specifically, it really doesn't affect anything. Yes, it just magically happened that the two players with the most fans and potential to draw viewership for the GSL2 are in the easiest bracket. The people at GOM knew what they were doing. They know Boxer and NaDa will draw far more viewers than anyone besides maybe fruitdealer, and so they put them together in the easiest bracket. It's business. They're trying to grow their brand and their tournament. Yeah thats true, or it could be alot of those people we don't recognise are beastly. At any rate id really like to see boxer and nada qualify for S or A rank next year so we can see them playing on a regular basis hehe same... if they get seeded now for s or a rank for next season, I'll be a happy camper :D.. TLO will draw the largest viewership from the foreign community (the people who actually have to pay to watch) as well as a very larger audience in Korea, and he has one of the toughest players in the tournament first round. Not saying he draws a larger audience than Fruitdealer, Nada, or Boxer, but I have a hard time believing that they are fixing brakets when the two foreigners both have difficult groups.
This just makes no sense...we foreigners pay a one time fee to watch the games. Any rational person that is planning on paying for this tournament will do so at the start so that we get to watch the most games in hq, etc. Once we have paid the results afterward do not matter one bit to how much money gom tv makes on us. They wouldn't care about where they put TLO or other popular foreigners, as once they have our money...they have it.
Boxer and nada, on the other hand, the longer they are in this tournament the more coverage it will get across Korea so it is in their best interest to keep those two in the tournament for as long as possible.
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On October 14 2010 15:56 FabledIntegral wrote:
Really hope Sangho isn't good enough to touch TLO!
same, TLO to the ro16!!!!
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On October 14 2010 12:37 Maynarde wrote:Few more Zerg in the Ro64 in GSL2  Happy happy happy
No theres not. 16 made it last time. only 15 this time around.
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tlo vs sangho round 1 sucks, I wanted to see both players get some great games in.
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a fruit dealer to win it
u heard it here again for the 200th time
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what happened to all the WeRRa and Prime guys?
I only see a handful here lol
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O M G SangHo vs TLO I don't know who to cheer for. SangHo BW protoss hero or TLO hmmm.
Group C seems to be set up for Boxer and NaDa but who cares as long as we see more games of them :D hope they do well.
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Babywerra is different from the scbw by.baby right? is babywerra a youngin?
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On October 14 2010 15:54 KiLL_ORdeR wrote:Show nested quote +On October 14 2010 15:44 BraveGhost wrote:On October 14 2010 15:42 Rikstah wrote:On October 14 2010 15:22 Kishkumen wrote:On October 14 2010 14:51 Hrrrrm wrote:
I'm sure the brackets are random from the perspective of individual matchups. GSL probably did some filtering though which I don't mind to evenly distribute the races among the brackets. In the end as long as they didn't favor keeping X player away from Y player specifically, it really doesn't affect anything. Yes, it just magically happened that the two players with the most fans and potential to draw viewership for the GSL2 are in the easiest bracket. The people at GOM knew what they were doing. They know Boxer and NaDa will draw far more viewers than anyone besides maybe fruitdealer, and so they put them together in the easiest bracket. It's business. They're trying to grow their brand and their tournament. Yeah thats true, or it could be alot of those people we don't recognise are beastly. At any rate id really like to see boxer and nada qualify for S or A rank next year so we can see them playing on a regular basis hehe same... if they get seeded now for s or a rank for next season, I'll be a happy camper :D.. TLO will draw the largest viewership from the foreign community (the people who actually have to pay to watch) as well as a very larger audience in Korea, and he has one of the toughest players in the tournament first round. Not saying he draws a larger audience than Fruitdealer, Nada, or Boxer, but I have a hard time believing that they are fixing brakets when the two foreigners both have difficult groups. Furthermore, most of those players are unknown, which means that there is just as much chance that they are very good as very bad, we simply don't know until the tournament starts.
I think GOM views foreigners as basically just a periphery bonus market. They care about the Korean market above anything else. That's why they've made the brackets to favor the popular ex-BW pros, because the Korean market is by far the most important. No matter what, their most lucrative and important market is the Korean market, which will tune in to watch their favorites like Boxer and NaDa. I don't think IdrA and TLO's brackets being difficult is a good argument that they're not adjusting the brackets. Think about the Olympics. Who do most people root for in the Olympics? The players from their own country. That's why the Korean ex-BW pros like Boxer and NaDa have had their brackets made incredibly easy, because they will attract Korean fans and viewership. Take a look at bracket C and tell me it wasn't designed to make sure at least one of Boxer and NaDa advances far in the tournament.
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These groups look amazing, It'll be so exciting following this... that said I'm disappointed and excited about a lot of the match ups at the same time, really wanna see the matches but don't want either player to fall out of the tournament :/
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On October 14 2010 16:23 Kishkumen wrote:Show nested quote +On October 14 2010 15:54 KiLL_ORdeR wrote:On October 14 2010 15:44 BraveGhost wrote:On October 14 2010 15:42 Rikstah wrote:On October 14 2010 15:22 Kishkumen wrote:On October 14 2010 14:51 Hrrrrm wrote:
I'm sure the brackets are random from the perspective of individual matchups. GSL probably did some filtering though which I don't mind to evenly distribute the races among the brackets. In the end as long as they didn't favor keeping X player away from Y player specifically, it really doesn't affect anything. Yes, it just magically happened that the two players with the most fans and potential to draw viewership for the GSL2 are in the easiest bracket. The people at GOM knew what they were doing. They know Boxer and NaDa will draw far more viewers than anyone besides maybe fruitdealer, and so they put them together in the easiest bracket. It's business. They're trying to grow their brand and their tournament. Yeah thats true, or it could be alot of those people we don't recognise are beastly. At any rate id really like to see boxer and nada qualify for S or A rank next year so we can see them playing on a regular basis hehe same... if they get seeded now for s or a rank for next season, I'll be a happy camper :D.. TLO will draw the largest viewership from the foreign community (the people who actually have to pay to watch) as well as a very larger audience in Korea, and he has one of the toughest players in the tournament first round. Not saying he draws a larger audience than Fruitdealer, Nada, or Boxer, but I have a hard time believing that they are fixing brakets when the two foreigners both have difficult groups. Furthermore, most of those players are unknown, which means that there is just as much chance that they are very good as very bad, we simply don't know until the tournament starts. I think GOM views foreigners as basically just a periphery bonus market. They care about the Korean market above anything else. That's why they've made the brackets to favor the popular ex-BW pros, because the Korean market is by far the most important. No matter what, their most lucrative and important market is the Korean market, which will tune in to watch their favorites like Boxer and NaDa. I don't think IdrA and TLO's brackets being difficult is a good argument that they're not adjusting the brackets. Think about the Olympics. Who do most people root for in the Olympics? The players from their own country. That's why the Korean ex-BW pros like Boxer and NaDa have had their brackets made incredibly easy, because they will attract Korean fans and viewership. Take a look at bracket C and tell me it wasn't designed to make sure at least one of Boxer and NaDa advances far in the tournament.
Just because Sangho is an ex-BW programmer , people are getting way too hyped up.
Remember , july zerg couldn"t even qualify for the tourney ,what"s to say Sangho is as good with SC2 as he is with BW.
Just wait and watch the tourney please.
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Damn I expect TLO didn't play seriously against TT1 otherwise I really don't see him get through 
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Cannot wait.
Also, whats the predictions on how many ZvZ's we'll see in Ro32?
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that actually looks like a good bracket for idra... COME ON GREG!
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