EU Finals Day 4 thread (stream links)

Results & Standings

Intel Extreme Masters - European Championship Finals

CyberSport Arena Kiev, Ukraine - January 20th - 23rd, 2011

Group A

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White-Ra

DeMusliM

Naama

Kas

Tarson

meRz

Group B

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Socke

SjoW

SarenS

PredY

GoOdy

ClouD

http://www.esl-world.net/masters/season5/kiev/schedule/

"I just arrived here in Kiev and must say this netcafe, cyberarena is freaking cool ;D, prolly best netcafe i've visited and I went to many in my life :D, gonna meet a few players soon and tomorrow it kicks off, gonna be a great event dispite 10 terrans, im sure of that!" - Rotterdam

Who's the favorite?
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Poll: Who's the favorite?

White-Ra (196)

49%

SjoW (39)

10%

Socke (34)

8%

DeMusliM (33)

8%

Kas (31)

8%

Tarson (23)

6%

Naama (19)

5%

PredY (12)

3%

merz (6)

1%

SarenS (4)

1%

GoOdy (4)

1%

ClouD (3)

1%

404 total votes

Your vote: Who's the favorite?

(Vote): Kas
(Vote): merz
(Vote): White-Ra
(Vote): Tarson
(Vote): Naama
(Vote): DeMusliM
(Vote): Socke
(Vote): SjoW
(Vote): SarenS
(Vote): PredY
(Vote): GoOdy
(Vote): ClouD

Who's the "dark horse"?
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Poll: Who's the "dark horse"?

Kas (57)

28%

PredY (28)

14%

GoOdy (23)

11%

Naama (17)

8%

Tarson (15)

7%

SjoW (15)

7%

merz (14)

7%

DeMusliM (14)

7%

ClouD (6)

3%

Socke (5)

2%

SarenS (5)

2%

White-Ra (3)

1%

202 total votes

Your vote: Who's the "dark horse"?

(Vote): Kas
(Vote): merz
(Vote): White-Ra
(Vote): Tarson
(Vote): Naama
(Vote): DeMusliM
(Vote): Socke
(Vote): SjoW
(Vote): SarenS
(Vote): PredY
(Vote): GoOdy
(Vote): ClouD

Caster: Rotterdam, $7,500 for 1st place, Top 4 advance to the World Championship

http://www.esl-world.net/masters/season5/kiev/

MadZ

Denmark111 Posts

January 17 2011 14:13 GMT

hoping for some extreme long epic tvt's!!! its ectually an awesome matchup..

kazansky

Germany931 Posts

January 17 2011 14:14 GMT

Wow, almost exlusively Terran.
How were the slots filled? Based on EPS results, qualification, invite or a combination? I can remember the past IEMs slots were given away differently.

arctics86

Germany797 Posts

January 17 2011 14:18 GMT

I think there were several qualification rounds in October/November last year

Seeing so many terrans was a let down at first, but TvT is actually very nice to watch and there won't be any balance discussions afterwards^^

frequency

Australia1901 Posts

January 17 2011 14:19 GMT

On January 17 2011 23:14 kazansky wrote:
Wow, almost exlusively Terran.
How were the slots filled? Based on EPS results, qualification, invite or a combination? I can remember the past IEMs slots were given away differently.

All qualification afaik.

Also, I sure as hell won't be watching this bore of a tournament. They better be showing lots of QuakeLive or I'm gonna be pissed.

preZzle

Germany223 Posts

January 17 2011 14:19 GMT

i will laugh my ass off it is a pvp final

hoping for some gg's. socke, demuslim and SjoW FIGHTIIINg !

willeesmalls

United States477 Posts

January 17 2011 14:21 GMT

no zerg?

s.a.y

Croatia3840 Posts

January 17 2011 14:21 GMT

wow, no zergs at all?

Quite sad

Pixel.

Netherlands287 Posts

January 17 2011 14:27 GMT

There are good players in there, But TvT is so boring . And why no zerg

lacho_u

Bulgaria535 Posts

January 17 2011 14:33 GMT

#10

lol 2 toss 10 terrans is really annoying.. what is the prize pool ?

Liquid`Nazgul

22427 Posts

January 17 2011 14:33 GMT

#11

gl socke and white-ra.

zere

Germany1287 Posts

January 17 2011 14:35 GMT

#12

On January 17 2011 23:14 kazansky wrote:
Wow, almost exlusively Terran.
How were the slots filled?

Multiple national cups, 2 more qualification rounds, and finally a groupstage out of which the top2 of each group advanced to the final.
All 4 remaining Zerg (Dimaga, DeathAngel, Skruf, Morrow) did not get out of the group stage

See Liquipedia for more detailed coverage

ParasitJonte

Sweden1768 Posts

January 17 2011 14:35 GMT

#13

Lol. Let's play TvT

bmml

United Kingdom962 Posts

January 17 2011 14:36 GMT

#14

Like someone else said I hope they show lots of QL (and they really better because its one of the best tourney lineups for QL I've seen in a long time) or I think I'll just fall asleep, 20% toss 80% terran just thinking of all the TvT is making me snore.

Malinor

Germany4727 Posts

January 17 2011 14:39 GMT

#15

Is there a timetable anywhere? I looked on the official page earlier this morning for a good ten minutes, but I couldn't find anything. Depending on when it starts on friday, I wanna take a day of vacation then

I really love tvt, so that's a plus, but damn, this will probably even too much for me. Goody's group especially, each series with Goody in it will probably take around 1h30.

arctics86

Germany797 Posts

January 17 2011 14:39 GMT

#16

I assume they will focus on Socke and White-Ra in the groupstage

Scoop

Finland482 Posts

January 17 2011 14:39 GMT

#17

Nice race distribution.

.Enigma.

Sweden1461 Posts

January 17 2011 14:39 GMT

#18

Is there a reason why Dimaga is not in this?

gnutz

Germany666 Posts

January 17 2011 14:43 GMT

#19

Wonder if anybody will watch many games. Nearly only TvTs and no TLO or Brat_OK for making even TvT awesome.

I think Protoss have a good chance. Because the Terran will more likely train TvT.

PredY

Czech Republic1731 Posts

January 17 2011 14:45 GMT

#20

on one hand i'm extremely happy i can be part of this but on the other hand im really sad that it's almost all terrans, because it's not really what viewers want and playing all matchups would be way more fun than playing 4x TvT which is very, very tiring (especially with goody in your group). i believe rotti and TLO will make the cast fun! looking forward to meeting everyone