EPTOh wait..
seriously though, I enjoy many TvTs a lot. Its so much about positioning and area control.
[IEM] European Championship Finals - Kiev, Ukraine - Page 7
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Madsquare
Germany157 Posts
Oh wait.. seriously though, I enjoy many TvTs a lot. Its so much about positioning and area control. | ||
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7mk
Germany10157 Posts
On January 18 2011 07:01 Carmac wrote: To anyone that's unfamiliar with the Intel Extreme Masters: The European Championship has started a few months ago with 24 players competing in it in an online group stage (before that we had national and international qualification). There were several Zerg and Protoss players in here, many others have failed to qualify this far: http://www.esl-world.net/masters/season5/europe_sc2/ This is what a "natural selection" of players throughout the tournament has brought us: 10 Ts and 2 Ps. While we would prefer a more balanced race distribution, those are the best players in the tournament so far. Each of those 12 players has played 5 or more matches to get to the live final. Like it or not, this reflects the state of the game in Europe over the months that have gone by. We would rather wait for the balance of the game to change than to discriminate against players who have earned their place among the 12 best in the continent fair and square. The way the race distribution ended up being is pretty sad but I 100% agree with this. This was a good way to do it, it's just that europe has been entirely dominated by terrans, only recently protoss has been doing well too. I'm sure next year with the exact same system the race distribution will be much better. | ||
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Bobster
Germany3075 Posts
Also, is it true that the Gom people are looking at IEM results to determine some of the GSL Code A invitees? Because that'd would up the ante considerably, even with the big prize pool as-is. In any case, good luck to all the players! I'll definitely be watching. :D | ||
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Socke
Germany451 Posts
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mierin
United States4943 Posts
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Jakalo
Latvia2350 Posts
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Redox
Germany24794 Posts
On January 19 2011 04:16 Socke wrote: having kulas and desert instead of jungle shak in the mappool also helped in lowering the z and p numbers for sure Well isnt desert a much better map for zerg than jungle? I think what played a bigger role was that the first qualification rounds were played before the zerg buff (4 range roach and stuff). But even if played now there probably wouldnt be much more zergs. I could only see Dimaga and Morrow having a chance, others would need a lot of luck. | ||
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resilve
United Kingdom678 Posts
On January 17 2011 23:33 Liquid`Nazgul wrote: gl socke and white-ra. How long till you add socke to TL roster??? On a more serious note, he must surely place at least top 2 since he can only loose in PvP! Socke fighting! | ||
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Saiwa
Germany789 Posts
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Leviance
Germany4079 Posts
On January 19 2011 04:57 resilve wrote: How long till you add socke to TL roster??? haha Liquid'Socke that would be awesome :D | ||
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smileyyy
Germany1816 Posts
On January 19 2011 05:02 Leviance wrote: haha Liquid'Socke that would be awesome :D TL needs more Terrans !!1 Jinro alone is not enough =). Also Kas and White-Ra hwaiting. My bet we will see them both in the finals | ||
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On_Slaught
United States12190 Posts
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Jakalo
Latvia2350 Posts
On January 19 2011 05:25 On_Slaught wrote: Most of the good Eu players are going to be playing here. Really excited to see this one (tho Whitera is the heavy fav prob). Well at least most of the good EU terrans for sure. No Zerg makes me sad though. | ||
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Punkstar
Slovakia522 Posts
On January 18 2011 21:52 nkr wrote: Bleh, I for one will not watch this  Same here, way to kill a tourney before it even starts :s | ||
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FliedLice
Germany7494 Posts
On January 18 2011 07:01 Carmac wrote: To anyone that's unfamiliar with the Intel Extreme Masters: The European Championship has started a few months ago with 24 players competing in it in an online group stage (before that we had national and international qualification). There were several Zerg and Protoss players in here, many others have failed to qualify this far: http://www.esl-world.net/masters/season5/europe_sc2/ This is what a "natural selection" of players throughout the tournament has brought us: 10 Ts and 2 Ps. While we would prefer a more balanced race distribution, those are the best players in the tournament so far. Each of those 12 players has played 5 or more matches to get to the live final. Like it or not, this reflects the state of the game in Europe over the months that have gone by. We would rather wait for the balance of the game to change than to discriminate against players who have earned their place among the 12 best in the continent fair and square. Quoting so that whiners might see it. :| I mean it's kinda shitty how it turned out, but it's 100% fair... shit happens. Go Socke! | ||
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sleepingdog
Austria6145 Posts
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MarCoon
Germany493 Posts
We need to get custom maps into the big leagues to be able to see more of the other races. | ||
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Benjef
United Kingdom6921 Posts
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Nizaris
Belgium2230 Posts
On January 19 2011 07:22 FliedLice wrote: Quoting so that whiners might see it. :| I mean it's kinda shitty how it turned out, but it's 100% fair... shit happens. Go Socke! A tournament with Kulas ravine in the map pool 100% fair? plz! hopefully they get a better map pool next time! Don't think i'll be watching maybe the finals if WhiteRa makes it  | ||
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Ingruz
Italy380 Posts
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