I think July just sandbagged this match. He has already stated that he doesn't care about winning the Code A tournament. He has done enough to get into the Up and Down matches and probably doesn't want to reveal too much of his ZvT.
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SergioCQH
United States143 Posts
I think July just sandbagged this match. He has already stated that he doesn't care about winning the Code A tournament. He has done enough to get into the Up and Down matches and probably doesn't want to reveal too much of his ZvT. | ||
QTIP.
United States2113 Posts
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hoovehand
United Kingdom542 Posts
psychology plays a huge part and is probably the whole difference between playing like a pro and making stupid careless errors like a platinum player on ladder. | ||
mierin
United States4938 Posts
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TheBanana
Norway2183 Posts
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FLuE
United States1012 Posts
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nvs.
Canada3609 Posts
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ThaZenith
Canada3116 Posts
On January 18 2011 21:49 Fa1nT wrote: Because whoever won that match gets money? =| Really, throwing games in code A past Ro16 makes sense, considering the money increase is negligible. The code A winner gets the same as a code S Ro32 loser. That's just silly. The prize for winning code A should be enticing at least, say $10,000 us dollars. That's still way below code S prize, but high enough that code A guys will fight hard to get it. As it is now, you may as well say they get nothing for winning code A, so why would they fight hard? Most likely why all the code A games kinda failed last night. | ||
Shifft
Canada1085 Posts
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McMonty
Canada379 Posts
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noD
2230 Posts
cezanne v sc game #1 was awesomely good and it still received a shitload of nos =( | ||
JoeCrow
United States167 Posts
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GeneticToss
Canada188 Posts
And having that much money for overcoming such low level players (for the most part) seems kinda stupid. Anyways Moon I am disappoint Hope he was just playing that way because he was facing Lyn and he can show us better games in the up and down matches ^^ | ||
Asha
United Kingdom38056 Posts
On January 19 2011 05:24 ThaZenith wrote: Really, throwing games in code A past Ro16 makes sense, considering the money increase is negligible. The code A winner gets the same as a code S Ro32 loser. That's just silly. The prize for winning code A should be enticing at least, say $10,000 us dollars. That's still way below code S prize, but high enough that code A guys will fight hard to get it. As it is now, you may as well say they get nothing for winning code A, so why would they fight hard? Most likely why all the code A games kinda failed last night. So everyone complains that Code A is soooo awful compared to most of Code S. Then we suggest giving the winner of Code A as much money as for getting to like the semis of Code S? >__< The incentive for winning Code A is a pretty big one really, picking your own matches is an absolutely giant advantage for the promotion/demotion series. If you win through that you double your money and get the big reward, Code S. The winner of Code A is likely to fit into that Ro32 loser bracket skillwise, particularly when things start to balance out. I don't really have much of an issue with being part of Code S rewarding you as much as winning in the division below. | ||
mousepad
United States136 Posts
On January 19 2011 02:32 SergioCQH wrote: The way July lost and how badly he played was inexplicable. To not put down a single creep tumor in Set 1 was just mystifying. There is no way a professional gamer like July would fail at something so simple. He showed incredible ZvT in GSL 3, and to play so horribly this time? I think July just sandbagged this match. He has already stated that he doesn't care about winning the Code A tournament. He has done enough to get into the Up and Down matches and probably doesn't want to reveal too much of his ZvT. Yeah, I'm starting to think that as well. There were lots of points where I felt like he was throwing away units and playing around with banneling drops. | ||
palookieblue
Australia326 Posts
Not a very nice birthday pressie. ): | ||
bkrow
Australia8532 Posts
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Corvette
United States433 Posts
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TheBanana
Norway2183 Posts
On January 19 2011 03:17 FLuE wrote: I think end of the month is when a lot of the up/down matches will go on and qualifiers. There is a calendar somewhere on the GOM site which lays a lot of it out. I checked the calendar, didn't see anything about it. A vs S is there but nothing about qual or "code B" if that's even a thing. | ||
Awesomeness
Germany1361 Posts
Lyn played solid and that 1-marine-medivac-micro was actually sick. I really enjoyed those games, don't know why they criticise the players all the time for stuff like preemptive auto turrets. | ||
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