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![[image loading]](http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/4812/fxois1title2.png) FXOpen is proud to announce the first 64-player invitational tournament in their latest series of invitational events, the  FXOpen Invitational Series. This new format sees yet another increase in the prizepool with $1500 cash up for grabs.
We took the time to talk to the defending champion ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tsld/images/flags/kr.png) TheStC from team oGs a bit about his performance in both of the tournaments and what it's like being a Korea playing in a foreign event. deL: What were your first thoughts about getting invited to the FXOpen Invitational?TheStC: Because this is the first tournament abroad, I was very excited to join this competition. deL: Do you enter tournaments like this on the Korean server?TheStC: I wish there are lots of this types of tournaments, but ever since GSL has come into effect, there is no other SC2 competitions other than GSL. However, I join every tournament available in Korea even though there are not a lot of them. deL: How does this tournament differ or compare to Korean tournaments?TheStC: It seems a bit different from SC2 tournaments in Korea. For example, you guys have double eliminations in the tournament. Also, the double eliminations prevent technical and skillful SC2 players to drop out of the tournament into preliminaries. In addition, in the losers' round, a person has time to control his or her mind before playing SC2. I love how this competition is being held with the double eliminations. deL: What do you like most about the FXOpen tournament?TheStC: As I mentioned earlier, I love double eliminations the most. deL: Korean players don't get a chance to represent their country very
often - how do you feel representing Korea in a foreign tournament?TheStC: Even though I am not they only Korean player, I tried to do my best to show that Korean players are not bad and I was really worried about representing Korea. deL: What is the play level of the foreign players in the FXOpen tournament?TheStC: To be honest, Korean players are a little bit better than foreign players for now. However, what I have noticed is that Korean players have similar styles of playing SC2 and that foreign players have different styles and techniques in their playing. deL: Are there different playstyles from foreign players compared to other oGs or Korean players that stand out to you?TheStC: All foreign SC2 players have different styles from OGS players, but I personally think the player "Select" is very hard to deal with and has his own freaking awesome styles! deL: Do you know or recognise any of the non-Korean players in the FXOpen invitational?TheStC: I have known players such as "Moonglade" who joined the last season and I personally know "Sen" and also know "Select" who was famous for War Hammer gamer. deL: You won the last FXOpen tournament. Do you think you can win now this time? Who will be your toughest opponent?TheStC: I am very confident in every game, but because of the latency problems, I cannot show the full skills of my SC2. Also, "Select" and "oGsHerO" are very hard to play against. deL: The oGs coach was watching the stream. What did your oGs coach say
about the games and tournament?TheStC: The coach, through this tournament, has caught my mistakes and helped me, and he was especially surprised at the higher level of SC2 players. deL: Do your teammates support you and oGsHerO in this event?TheStC: Of course! I practiced with all my team mates and TeamLiquid players helped me by telling me how foreign players play SC2. It was a lot easier to prepare once I heard important tips for dealing with foreign players. We thank TheStC for his time taken out from practice to answer these questions!
![[image loading]](http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/3846/fxois1players.png) Overall Results1st  oGs HerO ($900) 2nd  oGs TheStC ($400) 3rd dignitas SeleCT ($200) 4th ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tsld/images/flags/se.png)  Mill. LaLush5th ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tsld/images/flags/ca.png) FX OpTiKzErO and ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tsld/images/flags/us.png) ppg Bubbles7th FXO Sheth and ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tsld/images/flags/pl.png) mouz MaNa9th ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tsld/images/flags/au.png) FXO mOOnGLaDe, oGs SuperNova, REQ DarkCell and oGs JView the Brackets here+ Show Spoiler [Bracket image] ++ Show Spoiler [Invites] +![[image loading]](http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/1340/fxois1format.png) The tournament will be a three-day, 64 player invitational event with a $1500 prizepool, distributed 900/400/200. The 64 players will compete in a best-of-three double elimination competition. Round 1 matchups will be based on rough 'seedings' gathered from previous tournament events and other scene activity. Map determination will be via vetoe. Tournament UB and LB finals will be Bo5, and the final will be up to 2 x Bo5. ![[image loading]](http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/1691/fxois1schedule.png) Day 1 is over! See the VODs: Part 1 :: Part 2Day 1
Saturday, Feb 19 2:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)
UB Rounds 1-3
LB Rounds 1-4Day 2 is over! See the VODs: Part 1 :: Part 2Day 2
Sunday, Feb 20 2:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)
UB Rounds 4, 5 and UB Final
LB Rounds 5-8Day 3Saturday, Feb 26 2:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)LB Round 9 and LB Final Grand Final ![[image loading]](http://img806.imageshack.us/img806/8734/fxois1maps.png) Xel&MetalopolisScrap StationShakuras PlateauLost Temple![[image loading]](http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/2885/fxois1prizes.png) ![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/images2/1/10/Gold.png) First place takes $900![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/images2/0/0b/Silver.png) Second place takes $400![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/images2/f/f2/Bronze.png) Third place takes $200Prizes are in Australian Dollars ($AUD) which are roughly equivalent to US$![[image loading]](http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/2189/fxois1stream.png) ![[image loading]](http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/8981/englishcast.png) ![[image loading]](http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/7230/germancast.png) ![[image loading]](http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/6691/russiancast.png) ![[image loading]](http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/1184/chinesecast.png) VODsDay 1 Part 1 :: Part 2Day 2 Part 1 :: Part 2![[image loading]](http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/3725/fxois1sponsor.png) FXOpen is a forex trading company seeking to get more involved in the game they are passionate about - StarCraft 2. FXOpen currently sponsors MMA, drift car series and various other sporting events. http://www.fxopen.com
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I love how you guys provide multiple casts for different communities. You guys always put on great events so I'll watch.
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United Kingdom38255 Posts
Hell yeah, looks like yet another awesome event, can't wait ^_____^
You guys do such a great job, fingers crossed for no natural disasters hitting right before this time ^^
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United States7481 Posts
Awesome series FXO is putting on here, love that you guys get TheStC 
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looks like a great tournament. Congrats on getting TheStC! Looking forward to following him.
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is it gona be 64 invites or half invite half qual??
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Hope you guys do an open tournament soon but should be a good watch ^^
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Replays released of the last FXO tournament?
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This is going to be awesome. TheStC playing in it again is just too sick!
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No Liquid players invited?
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stop spamming the same thing in every thread
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Are they really not inviting Liquid players for the reason I think they didn't ...
Edit: might be wrong since there seem to be only 30 invitees listed out 64?
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On January 30 2011 08:54 Saechiis wrote:
Are they really not inviting Liquid players for the reason I think they didn't ...
The invite list is only 30 out of 64 be patient! it takes time to confirm with so many people
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On January 30 2011 08:56 Unstable87 wrote:Show nested quote +On January 30 2011 08:54 Saechiis wrote:
Are they really not inviting Liquid players for the reason I think they didn't ... The invite list is only 30 out of 64 be patient! it takes time to confirm with so many people
Yeah, spoke before thinking there.
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Not many zergs so far... 
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We have liquid players on the pending list.. I think all of them........ It all depends on whats going on in Korea (I am in Seoul at the moment, I will talk to people personally about it when I see them).
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On January 30 2011 09:02 FXOpen wrote:
We have liquid players on the pending list.. I think all of them........ It all depends on whats going on in Korea (I am in Seoul at the moment, I will talk to people personally about it when I see them).
Im curious if you extended an invite to dignitasKiller?, would really like to see how he stacks up in this type of tournament
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On January 30 2011 08:23 bLuR wrote:
is it gona be 64 invites or half invite half qual??
All invites for this one - look out for a qualification event coming up!
On January 30 2011 08:43 s.a.y wrote:
No Liquid players invited?
Liquid` just got a new player manager/planner to help out so they were waiting for the TL thread before discussing who can make the time! All liquid players will be invited to thank them for their help in getting in touch with some oGs members Some may not make the time or have GSL commitments of course.
On January 30 2011 09:04 shaunnn wrote:Show nested quote +On January 30 2011 09:02 FXOpen wrote:
We have liquid players on the pending list.. I think all of them........ It all depends on whats going on in Korea (I am in Seoul at the moment, I will talk to people personally about it when I see them). Im curious if you extended an invite to dignitasKiller?, would really like to see how he stacks up in this type of tournament
He was in the last tourney, but he's certainly on the cards this time! I just have a few players in mind who I want to secure first - there's still a long time until the tourney starts.
dignitasSjoW and VTSpades added to the confirmed invites list!
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TheStc to dominate everybody again? i think so too
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He lost a game every set... So he is beatable.. But he is also a beast
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EGiNcontrol as zerg? must be a mistake. A few more zergs in the tourney would be good haha. Looking forward to this
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Looking forward to this very very much! The last few FXO tournies were spectacular!
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Looks very good indeed! Will definitely be watching.
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Try to get more zergs! Like Ciara, MorroW, Machine or KilleR or perhaps some other good zergs.
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On January 30 2011 10:14 Seronei wrote:
Try to get more zergs! Like Ciara, MorroW, Machine or KilleR or perhaps some other good zergs.
We want more zergs just as much as the next person, but it's all subject to their availability for the tournament times. We're trying to make it happen though!
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I hope that Tyler and Huk plays in this event. I also hope that VODs will be released for this event. The previous 1 still does not have vods released.
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should be fun to watch
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On January 30 2011 09:05 deL wrote:Show nested quote +On January 30 2011 08:23 bLuR wrote:
is it gona be 64 invites or half invite half qual?? All invites for this one - look out for a qualification event coming up! Liquid` just got a new player manager/planner to help out so they were waiting for the TL thread before discussing who can make the time! All liquid players will be invited to thank them for their help in getting in touch with some oGs members Some may not make the time or have GSL commitments of course. Show nested quote +On January 30 2011 09:04 shaunnn wrote:On January 30 2011 09:02 FXOpen wrote:
We have liquid players on the pending list.. I think all of them........ It all depends on whats going on in Korea (I am in Seoul at the moment, I will talk to people personally about it when I see them). Im curious if you extended an invite to dignitasKiller?, would really like to see how he stacks up in this type of tournament He was in the last tourney, but he's certainly on the cards this time! I just have a few players in mind who I want to secure first - there's still a long time until the tourney starts. dignitasSjoW and VTSpades added to the confirmed invites list!
Thank you for the reply.
Its cool to see Liquid growing, can't wait for the next Liquid daily :D
The player list looks quite fantastic so far.
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This is gonna be awesome, these FXOpen tourneys always are. I'm pumped for this!
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First Liquid` invite is confirmed! LiquidHayprO joins to roster as well as FXOpen's Aussie Terran FXOFilthy.
If you know someone who wants to play in this event don't hesitate to have them PM or leave a comment as I am open to some suggestions!
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On January 30 2011 13:41 deL wrote:First Liquid` invite is confirmed! LiquidHayprO joins to roster as well as FXOpen's Aussie Terran FXOFilthy. If you know someone who wants to play in this event don't hesitate to have them PM or leave a comment as I am open to some suggestions!
You have probably sent invites already but im pretty sure mouz; morrow, naama, strelok, mana & hasu + whitera would all be interested and maybe sase's teammate xlord would be interested, tourney needs moar zerg:D
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On January 30 2011 13:49 shaunnn wrote:Show nested quote +On January 30 2011 13:41 deL wrote:First Liquid` invite is confirmed! LiquidHayprO joins to roster as well as FXOpen's Aussie Terran FXOFilthy. If you know someone who wants to play in this event don't hesitate to have them PM or leave a comment as I am open to some suggestions! You have probably sent invites already but im pretty sure mouz; morrow, naama, strelok, mana & hasu + whitera would all be interested and maybe sase's teammate xlord would be interested, tourney needs moar zerg:D
Naama is in already, MorroW and Strelok can't make the time. Waiting on a reply from HasuObs and XLorD! I think after that half a dozen or so more European invites should round that out considering the timeslot and then I will look at some more Korean and NA-based invites!
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Aussies to the front stage fighting! So good to see Aussie gamers and Aussie esports joining the international gaming scene.
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As deL said, many of the Europeans can't make the time. We're only half way through the invite list, still plenty more people to be confirmed
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Greetings from Korea.
I am hoping we get a truly global showing of our upcoming tournament. I am also hoping that battle.net reconsiders its server positions to fix lag. I know that players, even myself, plays better with 1 ping. SC2 is awesome in Korea because of that reason.
Due to lag issues and time delays, sometimes it hurts alot of players. But we hope to confirm as many as possible from around the globe
We also hope that a guest commentator that we all love will be joining unstable on his stream. But its not 100% confirmed yet
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inb4 TotalBiscuit as guest. Him or Jinro would be awesome. Really good to see FXOpen actively involved in tournies and stuff. Those shirts were looking good today!
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Invite ciara for zerg dominance! ^^
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I'm loving the player-list so far, this is going to be awesome.
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With this player-list.... I wonder if you could get some sponsorship, and therefore a bigger prize pool... surely the stream is going to have loads of viewers, as it looks like this tournament will be sick.
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This tourney is sick! Awesome invite list and MASSIVE props for offering stream/commentary in 3 languages! One of the first truly international tournaments so far. Awww yeah Aussies!
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So keen to cast this! better not be a natural disaster 12 hours before the event for me this time >.<
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This lineup looks really awesome i hope this goes so damn well !! Thank you FXOpen ! Keep up the good work!
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On January 31 2011 11:37 bkrow wrote:This lineup looks really awesome i hope this goes so damn well !! Thank you FXOpen ! Keep up the good work!
Thank you sir ^^
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No Lazarus players?
Needs more EG players.
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Hope you guys invite some vVv players and like the poster above me Lazarus ^^.
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Unstable's cast link sends you to my old stream, haha.
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the list of players is good, hyped about seeing TheStc. Never got to see him play much, and only recently found out he won one of these fxo tournaments in a pretty tough field of players. Looks great though can't wait to watch.
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More Korean invites! Only from oGs so far, but I will look into hopefully getting a handful from other clans too!
oGsJ
oGsHero
oGsVines (lost 1-2 to SEn in GSL3)
oGskkoma (aka LittleBoy, round 2 GSL3)
oGsSuperNova (aka  Dream.t)SaiR)
oGswant
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needs moar liquid, other than that it's looking to be pretty suave. love that you got nightend, he's such a baller.
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On January 31 2011 20:58 drooL wrote:
needs moar liquid, other than that it's looking to be pretty suave. love that you got nightend, he's such a baller.
Hopefully he gets a whole barrel of coffee, playing at 3 AM 
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Aussies sure know how to get it done!
Amazing lineup, congrats to the organizers.
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Multilingual casting = you guys fucking rock
Keep up the good work!!!!!
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On January 30 2011 21:22 m0ck wrote:
Invite ciara for zerg dominance! ^^
I like this idea, we've only seen him in the TL Opens and if it's the same guy as WC3 he should be pretty good.
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Yep Ciara is on the invite list it's just a pain to use relocaliser to check when he's online
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I am guessing not every euro player wants to play at this time of the day.^^
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As long as they don't need to spend $900 on coffee it should be worth it ;D
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No Idra? Sadface, but at least we have plenty of other great zergs playing! Love to see some guys from other teams, PainUser should definitely be considered, DeMuslim, kiwikaki, but I'm sure you've sent out plenty of invites, and already a huge pool of talent confirmed, can't wait.
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Seriously good line up, looking forward to see dde tearing it up again. And can't wait for the oGs guys that we don't get to see often to show their skills.
gl hf!
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Always a fan of tournaments that combine various continents, should be a lot of fun.
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LGPainUser, ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tsld/images/flags/ua.png) mTwDIMAGA and ROOTKiWiKaKi confirmed for the event!
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Here's hoping you will invite Steven Bonnell II
Might not be a pro, but his 1500+ daily viewers would definitely help FXO's fanbase... jussayin
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want to see sase and ogs rip it up! go deth
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This lineup is nuts......... Gonna be some good games :D
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Game casters are very important as well. Hope they are just as good as their european counterparts. Btw, I'm almost certain the Chinese Caster is of Taiwanese origin, he doesn't mind the flag? [-D
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Isn't naama Terran?
But insane lineup of players!
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Really excited for this tournament. Thank you for the work you guys are doing!
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On February 02 2011 06:28 Tonttu wrote:Isn't naama Terran? But insane lineup of players!
Yes he is, I think I confused him with elfi :3 Fixed.
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GOOD NEWS
Providing our event does not clash with GSL responsibilities.. Artosis will be commentating with unstable on one of the streams. We will release more details as they come
<3 Artosis
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On February 02 2011 14:55 FXOpen wrote:GOOD NEWS Providing our event does not clash with GSL responsibilities.. Artosis will be commentating with unstable on one of the streams. We will release more details as they come <3 Artosis
Wow thats awesome, really looking forward to this
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Only 14 places left after ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tsld/images/flags/it.png) MYMClouD and EGStrifeCro confirm their participation for the event!
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On February 02 2011 14:55 FXOpen wrote:GOOD NEWS Providing our event does not clash with GSL responsibilities.. Artosis will be commentating with unstable on one of the streams. We will release more details as they come <3 Artosis
Oh wow, i really hope this happens, would be so awesome :D
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artooosis awesome. i guess FXOBoss made an impression on him :D
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what about EG.demuslim, english terran ftw, or atn.Socke? both playing been tearing apart europe ^^
amazing job getting artosis to cast.... event is looking rock solid, truely cant wait for it :D FXOpen been doing some solid events for the community
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Good news! We will also have a German language stream provided by Khaldor of GameSports.de, you can check his stream out here: http://www.mystarcraft.de/de/live/khaldor
If you are thinking there are too many streams and it will crowd the games/lag the players don't worry as we will try to spread the casters around as much as possible and aside from the English stream only one caster is required per game. There are lots of good players from the countries that feature in each stream so at least at the start everyone should be following different players.
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How would one go about getting invited to an event such as this?
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On February 03 2011 06:35 Titan107 wrote:
How would one go about getting invited to an event such as this?
Bribes can be forwarded directly to my PayPal.
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Why do STC and Select have medals next to them? Is it from the last FXO tourney?
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On February 03 2011 08:53 Kazzabiss wrote:
Why do STC and Select have medals next to them? Is it from the last FXO tourney?
yes they got 1st and 2nd in the last event
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not sure if i overread something, but is it possible to apply for an invite spot to this somewhere :>?
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How are the people in the GSL gonna play this? and how is Artosis gonna cast when he has to commentate GSL?
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Yo unstable I will have been back in aus for a week by then if you want to invite me! ;P.
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On February 03 2011 09:00 Ftrunkz wrote:
Yo unstable I will have been back in aus for a week by then if you want to invite me! ;P.
On February 03 2011 08:57 DarKFoRcE wrote:
not sure if i overread something, but is it possible to apply for an invite spot to this somewhere :>?
You guys both have invites but I haven't been online at the same time as you to ask you Send me a PM with contact info / Bnet NA id.
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On February 03 2011 06:35 Titan107 wrote:
How would one go about getting invited to an event such as this?
By being in EG/LG/OGS/liquid/root/VT .
But should be a good tournament I will try to tune in to the good zergs playing ^^
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On February 03 2011 08:57 skrzmark wrote:
How are the people in the GSL gonna play this? and how is Artosis gonna cast when he has to commentate GSL?
theres only GSL team tournament this month and its only for a weeks so i guess artosis will have some time.
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GSL starts week of the 20th I believe.... I am not 100% sure. I did have the schedule but cant find it.
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This is one seriously good lineup!
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Would be nice to see oGsMC IMNestea and FoxerPrime
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On February 03 2011 16:08 Sobba wrote:
Would be nice to see oGsMC IMNestea and FoxerPrime
Indeed. It would be awesome to see how they do against some of the best that the foreign scene can offer. It might be a one way roflstomp, or it could be a major upset. Nevertheless, the more high-level players, the better.
I think MC has the highest chance of being one of the 14 spots left because oGs players are already on the list.
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On February 03 2011 16:08 Sobba wrote:
Would be nice to see oGsMC IMNestea and FoxerPrime
Until we increase the prizepool to GSL levels you probably won't see them compete during GSL season
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Clonze would like to participate! =(
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Did white-ra not accept the invitation or something?
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This is a truly awesome and international line-up! I mean, look at all those flags ...hell, I can't recognize half of them!
There even is a Romanian player!! (PraeNightEnD)
HAI ROMANIA!!!!
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Haha I kind of wanted a 2nd Romanian in DeathAngel too but the number of places left is running low with a few must-invite names still left out!
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oooopppssss sorry O.O (my post should be in the DreamHack Tournament) LAWL
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On February 03 2011 19:25 Licmyobelisk wrote:why is sweden so awesome? beautiful women, jinro, and big ass prized tournaments.
...wrong thread mate? o.O
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On February 03 2011 11:47 FXOpen wrote:
GSL starts week of the 20th I believe.... I am not 100% sure. I did have the schedule but cant find it.
I could swear I saw someone saying something about the 14th, but I also can no loniger find the schedule on the GOM site
On February 03 2011 19:33 deL wrote:Show nested quote +On February 03 2011 19:25 Licmyobelisk wrote:why is sweden so awesome? beautiful women, jinro, and big ass prized tournaments. ...wrong thread mate? o.O
I've deduced that he feels Jinro needs to be in one of these in the future...and that you need official FXOpen cheerleaders 
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On February 03 2011 19:53 Asha` wrote:I've deduced that he feels Jinro needs to be in one of these in the future...and that you need official FXOpen cheerleaders
I would draw your attention to here FXopen cheerleaders
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o m g
You're casting with Artosis? I want to be Unstable now.
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On February 03 2011 19:57 Unstable87 wrote:I would draw your attention to here FXopen cheerleaders
Also OMG.. Hahaha.
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hopefully HuK and White-ra have been ivnited!! Be late for white-ra but still!!
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On February 03 2011 19:57 Unstable87 wrote:Show nested quote +On February 03 2011 19:53 Asha` wrote:I've deduced that he feels Jinro needs to be in one of these in the future...and that you need official FXOpen cheerleaders I would draw your attention to here FXopen cheerleaders
hahahaha, that's phenomenal! I take my hat off to you for having all bases covered =p
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Artsosis swinging by for some commentary will be great, now to work out how to arrange my sleeping schedule for the dates in question!
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On February 03 2011 19:59 Tommylew wrote:
hopefully HuK and White-ra have been ivnited!! Be late for white-ra but still!!
HuK might be busy with GSL and doesn't like playing in tournaments outside of Korea due to the latency. I guess when you ladder as much as him it's even more noticable than to the rest of us
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Dear Gamers,
We understand there is some disappointment for some players not getting invited into our tournament.
That does not mean you have to contact all of our event organisers in order to try to get an invite. Our invite list is already established, with reserves. Note our list changes on a regular basis, so if you simply perform within the community, there is a strong chance you will get an invite.
Anyone who asks for an invite and gets a no response, then asks another one of our management staff the same question, for the same response, will be black listed from our tournaments.
We are sorting out an internal ranking system for invites, and will work on an up down system with qualifiers in our upcoming events.
Regards,
FXOBoSs
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I'm really excited to see Artosis cast with Unstable. Should be really epic! :D
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Thanks FXOpen for your continued support, looking forward to watching Artosis!
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On February 03 2011 21:55 FXOpen wrote:
Dear Gamers,
We understand there is some disappointment for some players not getting invited into our tournament.
That does not mean you have to contact all of our event organisers in order to try to get an invite. Our invite list is already established, with reserves. Note our list changes on a regular basis, so if you simply perform within the community, there is a strong chance you will get an invite.
Anyone who asks for an invite and gets a no response, then asks another one of our management staff the same question, for the same response, will be black listed from our tournaments.
We are sorting out an internal ranking system for invites, and will work on an up down system with qualifiers in our upcoming events.
Regards,
FXOBoSs
I think he means people who ask for an invite and get a negative response or are told they might be placed on a backup list, and then ask another staff member to get an invite - like a child denied candy - will ruin their chances of being considered.
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On February 03 2011 19:57 Unstable87 wrote:I would draw your attention to here FXopen cheerleaders
You guys are quickly becoming one of my favorite teams xD
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More invites! We're at 57/64 now.
![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tsld/images/flags/dk.png) ieS-Ciara
![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tsld/images/flags/de.png) aTnDarKFoRcE
Mill.LaLuSh
![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tsld/images/flags/fr.png) Mill.ToD
TAMSiPinder
aTnSocke
vVvTitan
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Getting more and more stacked every week, pretty much every eu and na pro in the tourney at this stage, cant wait for it!
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The second wave of Korean invites are announced!
Junwi
CheckPrime
ParkJongHyukPrime
HannibalPrime
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I really hope CheckPrime does well.
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On February 04 2011 17:14 Flaunt wrote:
I really hope CheckPrime does well.
Hardly something to worry about, I imagine
Hope to get the brackets up about a week out from the event at the latest. Also we will try to form a schedule for the casting as in the past we have missed out on some exciting matchups because so many were going on. We have more streams than ever this time!
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well even i am german i dont like khaldor enough to miss artosis
english stream i am coming
sry khal!!
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Line up getting more and more stacked...sweet that you've got so many oGs guys (as well as some Prime).
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Artosis casting? Alright!
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Interesting to see ToD there, he showed good results in the french CL so hopefully he ll do good.
that s a hell of a list!
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On February 05 2011 06:06 WGT-Baal wrote:
Interesting to see ToD there, he showed good results in the french CL so hopefully he ll do good.
that s a hell of a list!
Yeah I was a big fan of his from WC3 and didn't realise how well he was doing in SC2 after basically just starting until I saw his name mentioned in the TSL3 qualifier ladder.
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Will the brackets be set up completely random or is there some sort of "secret" seeding system behind it?
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On February 05 2011 12:51 TheBanana wrote:
Will the brackets be set up completely random or is there some sort of "secret" seeding system behind it?
It's hard to accurately seed all of those top players, but there will be some form of seeding process. Previously it took into account race just to minimise mirror matches early on but this time it might also take into account not only previous results but nationality as well seeing we have many streams that will be following their national heroes The greatest influence on your position in the bracket will be your skill/achievements though.
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On February 05 2011 13:22 deL wrote:Show nested quote +On February 05 2011 12:51 TheBanana wrote:
Will the brackets be set up completely random or is there some sort of "secret" seeding system behind it? It's hard to accurately seed all of those top players, but there will be some form of seeding process. Previously it took into account race just to minimise mirror matches early on but this time it might also take into account not only previous results but nationality as well seeing we have many streams that will be following their national heroes The greatest influence on your position in the bracket will be your skill/achievements though.
are you going to try and avoid having team kills early on?
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On February 05 2011 16:28 beat farm wrote:Show nested quote +On February 05 2011 13:22 deL wrote:On February 05 2011 12:51 TheBanana wrote:
Will the brackets be set up completely random or is there some sort of "secret" seeding system behind it? It's hard to accurately seed all of those top players, but there will be some form of seeding process. Previously it took into account race just to minimise mirror matches early on but this time it might also take into account not only previous results but nationality as well seeing we have many streams that will be following their national heroes The greatest influence on your position in the bracket will be your skill/achievements though. are you going to try and avoid having team kills early on?
Probably not seeing the team distribution is not even.
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On February 05 2011 16:31 deL wrote:Show nested quote +On February 05 2011 16:28 beat farm wrote:On February 05 2011 13:22 deL wrote:On February 05 2011 12:51 TheBanana wrote:
Will the brackets be set up completely random or is there some sort of "secret" seeding system behind it? It's hard to accurately seed all of those top players, but there will be some form of seeding process. Previously it took into account race just to minimise mirror matches early on but this time it might also take into account not only previous results but nationality as well seeing we have many streams that will be following their national heroes The greatest influence on your position in the bracket will be your skill/achievements though. are you going to try and avoid having team kills early on? Probably not seeing the team distribution is not even.
=( i dislike watching team kills.
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On February 05 2011 16:42 beat farm wrote:
=( i dislike watching team kills.
While it's a bit unfortunate whenever teammates have to knock each other out, it can be great to watch just because both players usually know each other so well.
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where are you slayers_cella
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On February 05 2011 16:44 velvetone wrote:
mill tod is that 4k ToD?
Yep it's the same ToD from WC3.
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this is going to be big!! moonglade fiightiiiiing !
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CutefOu from team MVP confirmed for the event!
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nice, he had some good wins in the zotac team league and just qualified for code A
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On February 11 2011 15:54 Antoine wrote:
nice, he had some good wins in the zotac team league and just qualified for code A
Yep, but I am running out of accounts to lend Koreans O_________O
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I would also like to be able to cover this if possible.
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On February 12 2011 06:01 Wolf wrote:
I would also like to be able to cover this if possible.
Yeah I think we are juggling quite a few streams, Unstable is writing up a rough schedule and I am sure you're going to be included in it so talk to Dan
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This is going to be so sick. Can't wait!!
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This great event and TSL within weeks of each other. Fortunate we are to have two really good international tournaments in succession.
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All players are listed in to OP now, and the brackets will be up soon accordingly! Keep checking on the thread to see when the brackets are up!
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On February 16 2011 14:52 deL wrote:
All players are listed in to OP now, and the brackets will be up soon accordingly! Keep checking on the thread to see when the brackets are up!
Gratz on getting such a sick line-up, looking forward to the event!
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BRACKETS ARE UP! CLICK HERE!
...no FXOpenis jokes please ;(
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On February 17 2011 10:45 deL wrote:BRACKETS ARE UP! CLICK HERE! ...no FXOpenis jokes please ;(
The brackets are stacked! Can't wait for it to start.
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Hope this tournament turns out well for FXO
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Seems like there might be a few teamkills early on, but it looks like the real standout players are well distributed.
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On February 17 2011 10:45 deL wrote:BRACKETS ARE UP! CLICK HERE! ...no FXOpenis jokes please ;(
FXOpen is huge.
I failed your request.
Can't wait for it to start, really looking forward to it.
Edit: Oh no, it's starts in the middle of the night, I'm going to fall asleep at the gym on saturday
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aww a lot of the koreans are really close on the brackets. oh well, hope for some amazing games!
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OH shit.
This is going to be an amazings.
Will miss the 2nd half of it though due to the Adelaide Fringe opening ;(
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On February 17 2011 18:54 Niick wrote:
OH shit.
This is going to be an amazings.
Will miss the 2nd half of it though due to the Adelaide Fringe opening ;(
Adelaide fighting!
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Oh god those brackets look amazing =)
can't wait
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This warrants more attention/hype.
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so lame that ill meet killer if i win and then select.....
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On February 17 2011 19:43 Naniwa wrote:
so lame that ill meet killer if i win and then select.....
I think they put you there because they know both of them will be good and even fights Naniwa.
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On February 17 2011 19:43 Naniwa wrote:
so lame that ill meet killer if i win and then select.....
Good thing it's double eliminitation so you don't have to knock eachother out of the tournament unless you meet in the L-bracket
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Can I get a working link to your site? I am actually currently looking for a forex broker, and I would love to support you guys! Please pm me!
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What a roster!
Congrats for getting so many good players
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On February 17 2011 19:14 bennyaus wrote:Show nested quote +On February 17 2011 18:54 Niick wrote:
OH shit.
This is going to be an amazings.
Will miss the 2nd half of it though due to the Adelaide Fringe opening ;( Adelaide fighting!
*brofists*
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On February 17 2011 19:54 rbkl wrote:
Can I get a working link to your site? I am actually currently looking for a forex broker, and I would love to support you guys! Please pm me!
There's a link in the OP at the bottom.
http://www.fxopen.com/
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On February 17 2011 19:43 Naniwa wrote:
so lame that ill meet killer if i win and then select.....
You should have made a request, we could have set you up vs Junwi or TheStC round 1
Oh well, that's what makes it exciting, and what double-elimination is for! GL HF!
EDIT: Ah shit that was meant to be an edit to the above post o.O time for bed.
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rS Fighting!!! Best of luck to all players in this event, I cant wait to see how this all plays out. A big shout out to rSMaker!!! Good luck buddy.
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I don't follow SC2 anymore, but Artosis&Unstable should be an interesting combination.
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This looks great, really diverse line-up!
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On February 17 2011 19:43 Naniwa wrote:
so lame that ill meet killer if i win and then select.....
Look at the brackets bro. No matter where you are, if you win. Second round you'll end up against someone of top calibre. Be it killer, select, glade, any oGs Member, Junwi.. Theres no escaping a challenge. Thats the beauty of it
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On February 17 2011 21:30 FXOpen wrote:Show nested quote +On February 17 2011 19:43 Naniwa wrote:
so lame that ill meet killer if i win and then select..... Look at the brackets bro. No matter where you are, if you win. Second round you'll end up against someone of top calibre. Be it killer, select, glade, any oGs Member, Junwi.. Theres no escaping a challenge. Thats the beauty of it
i think he meant team kills
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On February 17 2011 21:30 FXOpen wrote:Show nested quote +On February 17 2011 19:43 Naniwa wrote:
so lame that ill meet killer if i win and then select..... Look at the brackets bro. No matter where you are, if you win. Second round you'll end up against someone of top calibre. Be it killer, select, glade, any oGs Member, Junwi.. Theres no escaping a challenge. Thats the beauty of it
I don't think it's about the challenge.
Select and Killer are his Dignitas team-mates.
Edit: Superslow.
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oh my bad.. I didnt even pay attention to that ~_~ Mind you i didnt make the brackets. Too late anyway. I see a fair few team kills in the brackets.
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On February 17 2011 19:43 Naniwa wrote:
so lame that ill meet killer if i win and then select.....
In a field of this quality, team kills are unavoidable - it's just unfortunate that yours will perhaps come at a sooner time than others.
If mOOnGLaDe and allaboutyou both advance, they will face eachother after 2 games - the same with Axslav and iNcontroL, and LoWeLy and Max will face eachother in the second round if they both win. It's just bad luck, but on the plus side it is double elimination.
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Fxopen invitationals have one of the most incredible line up of korean and non-korean players sluggin it out! can't wait to watch this live! moonglade fighting!
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yeh double elim tends to ween out the complete TK's
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Sad that Ret is not featured in the lineup
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No White-Ra ? Thats not coolllll
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On February 17 2011 20:31 deL wrote:Show nested quote +On February 17 2011 19:43 Naniwa wrote:
so lame that ill meet killer if i win and then select..... You should have made a request, we could have set you up vs Junwi or TheStC round 1 Oh well, that's what makes it exciting, and what double-elimination is for! GL HF! EDIT: Ah shit that was meant to be an edit to the above post o.O time for bed.
Junwi or is stc is fine, ill take on either one
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On February 17 2011 21:30 FXOpen wrote:Show nested quote +On February 17 2011 19:43 Naniwa wrote:
so lame that ill meet killer if i win and then select..... Look at the brackets bro. No matter where you are, if you win. Second round you'll end up against someone of top calibre. Be it killer, select, glade, any oGs Member, Junwi.. Theres no escaping a challenge. Thats the beauty of it
the challenge is not the issue, the issue is that both are clanmates
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I am sure some of the 'missing' players are missing for a reason. I.e time zones, lag... etc... This is the players choice not our own personal discrimination
Sorry to disappoint, perhaps pressure these players to get involved in our events
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On February 17 2011 22:54 FXOpen wrote:I am sure some of the 'missing' players are missing for a reason. I.e time zones, lag... etc... This is the players choice not our own personal discrimination Sorry to disappoint, perhaps pressure these players to get involved in our events
How dare you put on an amazing tournament and allow us to watch it for free.
Who do you think you are.
*knocks over a magazine rack*
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kinda amazed that so many europeans are willing to play at 3 am :O
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On February 18 2011 00:13 Niick wrote:Show nested quote +On February 17 2011 22:54 FXOpen wrote:I am sure some of the 'missing' players are missing for a reason. I.e time zones, lag... etc... This is the players choice not our own personal discrimination Sorry to disappoint, perhaps pressure these players to get involved in our events How dare you put on an amazing tournament and allow us to watch it for free. Who do you think you are. *knocks over a magazine rack*
uuuuuuuh.......FXOpen?
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Great field of players, looking forward to Artosis & Unstable's casts.
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Don't assume that just because a player isn't on the lineup that FXOpen didn't invite them.
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On February 18 2011 00:37 mdma-_- wrote:
kinda amazed that so many europeans are willing to play at 3 am :O
If you can't wake up for $1500 you must spend a fortune on coffee.
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Sadly, we have to announce that Artosis will not be casting this event, as he doesn't have enough time.
Unstable and Wolf will still be providing the English cast, and all other casters are set to remain the same.
Also remember the tournament is tomorrow, results and certain replays will be constantly updated at www.twitter.com/FXOpenESports
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No white-ra?
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Reminder for players
There are a few things to remember before playing in the tournament.
1. The admins are FXOdeL and FXOfrequency, we will be in the chat channel FXOpen if you need to contact us. Contact us regarding any questions or disputes.
2. Maps are determined by vetoe - you each vetoe two maps from the list in the thread to determine the first map, and the loser picks from the 4 remaining.
3. Please be aware that there are a lot of casting teams for this event (for different languages) and you may be required to delay a game in order to accommodate them.
4. Walkover for the first round/s is set at 30 minutes. Let an admin know if your opponent is not there on time and then 30 minutes later if they are still not there you will recieve a walkover pending admin's discretion and circumstances. Later rounds are more flexible but the rule of thumb is that if it would significantly delay the tournament a walkover will be given.
5. "BM" or inappropriate behaviour, placing the sponsor/s or staff in bad light in public, abusive language or behaviour, cheating in any manner, or awarding your opponents a forfeit without what is deemed a good reason will result in disqualification from future, larger events.
6. Please supply your NA account information to me and/or MSN if you have not already so it is easier to get in touch with your opponents.
Regards,
FXOdeL
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Sadly VTAzz has had to withdraw from the tournament, and as a result REQDarkcell will take his place in the brackets.
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Wow, so many known players this is gonna be great. Featuring some good casters as well. Cant wait for this to start!
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REAAAAALLL Shame that Artosis can't make it.
Although he does an amazing job at keeping us in the loop of the Korean scene with good interview/tours etc. I feel he could push outside tourneys a bit more, and become more of a presence back home.
How is it decided who will cast what? And what will be casted where? If you're aware of the ROOT GAMING last tourney, they allowed people to vote on what games they most wanted to see in each time bracket..
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On February 17 2011 22:53 Naniwa wrote:Show nested quote +On February 17 2011 21:30 FXOpen wrote:On February 17 2011 19:43 Naniwa wrote:
so lame that ill meet killer if i win and then select..... Look at the brackets bro. No matter where you are, if you win. Second round you'll end up against someone of top calibre. Be it killer, select, glade, any oGs Member, Junwi.. Theres no escaping a challenge. Thats the beauty of it the challenge is not the issue, the issue is that both are clanmates
So just hope they don't beat their opponents and you have no worries. And Team kills are good sometimes you're guaranteed someone in your team in the next round.
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Can't wait for this. Probably best line-up in any recent foreign tourney (both on and off-line)
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A couple of last-minute pull-outs because of illness:
LiquidHayprO is not feeling well and may not participate
ROOTqxc is not feeling well and can not participate
Whether they are walkovers or replacements will be announced soon, but it is very late notice for replacements :o
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HayprO
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On February 19 2011 06:42 deL wrote:A couple of last-minute pull-outs because of illness: LiquidHayprO is not feeling well and may not participate ROOTqxc is not feeling well and can not participate Whether they are walkovers or replacements will be announced soon, but it is very late notice for replacements :o
Time to hit up your friends in North America. 9PM eastern and 6PM western should make players available for tonight and if they advance to Saturday, I'm sure they can find a way to be available.
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On February 19 2011 06:42 deL wrote:A couple of last-minute pull-outs because of illness: LiquidHayprO is not feeling well and may not participate ROOTqxc is not feeling well and can not participate Whether they are walkovers or replacements will be announced soon, but it is very late notice for replacements :o
Was really looking forward to haypro playing .
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lol i feel bad for axslav, having to play Goody in first round, losing all ur endurance first round T_T, id cheese the shit outta him if it was me. lets just hope he dosnt get Lost Temple -_-
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Pull in Idra for haypro
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Keeping the races for replacements:
Gretorp replaces QXC
DarkCell replaces HayprO
Attero replaces Azz
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hey deL i'm ToD r u the guy who contacted me on europe to play the tour ? i'm sorry but i don't think i can stay up that late today ( apparently tour starts at 3am ) as i ve been up since 8am this morning :/ Sorry, hope you can find a replacement easily
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Gonna be a lot of fun, can't wait!
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Good to see some aussies in there!
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On February 19 2011 07:46 ZeraToss wrote:
3 am CET? is that true?
Lol yes. Only VODs for us Euros I guess.
But when the tournament is played with people from NA, EU, Australia and Korea it simply has to suck for one group timewise. Nothing one can do about it.
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On February 19 2011 07:16 ToDoNtE wrote:
hey deL i'm ToD r u the guy who contacted me on europe to play the tour ? i'm sorry but i don't think i can stay up that late today ( apparently tour starts at 3am ) as i ve been up since 8am this morning :/ Sorry, hope you can find a replacement easily
pretty sad, you seemed on form aswell
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i cant play tonight cus i have to sleep early for the tlopen tomorrow, sry guys
kiwikaki also says that hes sick and cant play
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TT1 NrGSteve
KiWiKaKi NrGArcanne
NighTEnD
drewbie EGLzGaMeR
ToD
All out for various reasons like internet problems or illness - making replacements now but it has to be the same race. PM me with your or your player's NA account and MSN or realid details.
Any replacements not sorted 1 hour before the event will be walkovers instead
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in Europe u should find good T players. How about some Ukranian participation like white-ra, kas?
Or Grubby!! hehe
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Holy SHIT, this must be the most stacked tournament to date outside GSL. And Artosis commenting :D?? Why didn't this get any hype (normally I notice tournaments like this /sadface). GJ to FXO for settings this up. Can't wait for some of the match-ups.
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I poked bumblebee and mana's apparently interested in playing, hopefully they get in contact =)
Going to try stay up to catch a couple of matches before getting too sleepy heh
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Kas is playing, White-Ra and Grubby couldn't make the tourney but were given invites.
BTW because of the new patch I can't access the Euro server so if you see guys on there who should be here give them a buzz for me it would be appreciated! Similarly if there are EU players who want to replace someone they need to be on NA to let me know, PM your NA id to me here!
TT1 NrGSteve
KiWiKaKi NrGArcanne
NighTEnD MaNa
drewbie EGLzGaMeR
Naama Funkay
ToD
ZpuX Delphi
All out for various reasons like internet problems or illness - making replacements now but it has to be the same race. PM me with your or your player's NA account and MSN or realid details.
Any replacements not sorted 1 hour before the event will be walkovers instead
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Artosis ruined my dream tonight.
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1 more replacement space left for each race.
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On February 19 2011 09:32 deL wrote:
1 more replacement space left for each race.
deL, you're doing an excellent job managing the tournament. Keep up the good work .
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AWESOME ! Cheering for TheStC ! Hope he wins that one again but this time, without losing even 1 map!!
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Due to the number of international players, I will update a list of the shared accounts people are using!
mouzMaNa = mouzNova
funkay = fnaticMSIKR
oGsTheStC = riptide
oGsJ = LiquidJinro
oGsHerO = LiquidHayprO
oGsSuperNova = Plexa
oGskkoma = IntoTheWow
mouzHasu = mouzTosh
GGNaugrim = GosuGamersUS
...more to be updated
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pretty cool list of players, but I'm more excited about Artosis casting :D
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On February 19 2011 10:14 zerious wrote:
pretty cool list of players, but I'm more excited about Artosis casting :D
He had to pull out because of another event T______T frequency said it a little while back
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Great job keeping the list stacked del, the effort your putting into this is amazing and much appreciated
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On February 19 2011 10:16 deL wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 10:14 zerious wrote:
pretty cool list of players, but I'm more excited about Artosis casting :D He had to pull out because of another event T______T frequency said it a little while back
aww
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Forgive me if I missed it in the OP, but are replays going to be released?
Fantastic list of players, by the way. Looking forward to seeing how the Koreans match up with the Europe/NA styles of play.
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On February 19 2011 10:19 city42 wrote:
Forgive me if I missed it in the OP, but are replays going to be released?
Fantastic list of players, by the way. Looking forward to seeing how the Koreans match up with the Europe/NA styles of play.
They have released replay packs for past events so I'd presume they will again ^^
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so psyched to see the.stc dominate again
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On February 19 2011 10:19 city42 wrote:
Forgive me if I missed it in the OP, but are replays going to be released?
Fantastic list of players, by the way. Looking forward to seeing how the Koreans match up with the Europe/NA styles of play.
We will do our best to get players to send replays, but while our own site is not up yet we won't have a check-in and compulsory replay upload system, it depends mostly on whether players are too lazy to send them or not
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Yes, we'll be releasing a replay pack at the end of the event (as deL said, as long as the players send them!), and we'll be releasing individual replays of good matchups on our Twitter (www.twitter.com/FXOpenESports).
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Wow, I didn't even realize this tournament was going to happen. XD
Glad I did, though, looks amazing! I will definetely spend the night awake watching the stream.
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Any updates on whether Haypro's playing? As far as I can see the last info was that the might have to pull out.
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Wow, what other tournament is Artosis casting that he can't cast this one?
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On February 19 2011 10:44 StyLeD wrote:
Wow, what other tournament is Artosis casting that he can't cast this one?
I think the TLOpen tomorrow
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Go Swedes!
Where's Vin Diesel?
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Is unstable the guy who did the first FXopens?, the aussie with the problem because of flooding and the really chilled voice, if so I actually dont mind that artosis cant make it because this guy was quite good if i remember right
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Wow so many european players starting a tournament at 3-4am
I wonder how much it will effect performance. 
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Wolf Casting?
Nice.....!!!
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This will be good, hope theres lots of coverage! Some one should update the post prior to gametime with which stream is covering which match
dde, vibe, steve, arcanne fighting~
but gl all~ :D
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Nice.
*Getting snacks*
I'm ready!
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why you wrote dKiller instead of dignitasKiller ??????
That's kind of BM.
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mouzMaNa = mouzNova
funkay = fnaticMSIKR
oGsTheStC = riptide
oGsJ = LiquidJinro
oGsHerO = LiquidHayprO
oGsSuperNova = Plexa
oGskkoma = IntoTheWow
mouzHasu = mouzTosh
GGNaugrim = GosuGamersUS
ieS-Ciara = Eizcaj
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On February 19 2011 11:03 Stra-toss wrote:
why you wrote dKiller instead of dignitasKiller ??????
That's kind of BM.
That's his ID
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On February 19 2011 11:03 Stra-toss wrote:
why you wrote dKiller instead of dignitasKiller ??????
That's kind of BM.
Killer ID is dKiller not dignitasKiller
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On February 19 2011 11:08 Burn2Memory wrote:
Wheres english caster?
Apparently Khaldor's german has replaced the need for an english cast.
I jest of course.
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in fact the url is not good (it kinda is, but it added fr. because i'm in France)
The good url is the one in OP, so you'll have a server in your country :
http://www.justin.tv/fxopenesports
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So much good matchs in round 1, will be hard to see everything :o
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The russian stream is streaming Dota atm :p
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On February 19 2011 11:09 antilyon wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 11:03 Stra-toss wrote:
why you wrote dKiller instead of dignitasKiller ??????
That's kind of BM. Killer ID is dKiller not dignitasKiller
and dignitas Selct id is Selct not dignitas Select, same for Sjow and naniwa.
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so ? he uses the "d" for dignitas...
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No Artosis? Argh...guess I'll skip this event.
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On February 19 2011 11:16 Corrupted wrote:
No Artosis? Argh...guess I'll skip this event.
http://www.justin.tv/fxopenesports
edit : he was there before the match >< Or I mistaked his voice for another ? My world is falling appart, sorry about that, my mistake ><
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Why would khaldor/ the tourney provide a german stream for this? It's freaking 3:17 am around here. ^.^
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On February 19 2011 11:16 Corrupted wrote:
No Artosis? Argh...guess I'll skip this event.
You seriously watch events for the casters?, I can understand if it was a small tournament with only a few top players but this is the most international tournament to date tbh, first koreans v foreigners in a while, not interested to see where the rest of the world stands to them?
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Can't believe people would pass up on watching the best non GSL tournament (aside from TSL 3) just because a caster had a scheduling conflict (particularly not when Wolf is a more than awesome replacement too).
Hero vs Lowely on the FXOpen stream, Mana vs Fenix apparently coming up on Khaldors
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On February 19 2011 11:05 deL wrote: mouzMaNa = mouzNova funkay = fnaticMSIKR oGsTheStC = riptide oGsJ = LiquidJinro oGsHerO = LiquidHayprO oGsSuperNova = Plexa oGskkoma = IntoTheWow mouzHasu = mouzTosh GGNaugrim = GosuGamersUS ieS-Ciara = Eizcaj
Is this true?
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Dunno why but I'm really pumped for this and I don't get why it wasn't hyped. :/ Price money is not everything.
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On February 19 2011 11:20 Miragee wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 11:05 deL wrote: mouzMaNa = mouzNova funkay = fnaticMSIKR oGsTheStC = riptide oGsJ = LiquidJinro oGsHerO = LiquidHayprO oGsSuperNova = Plexa oGskkoma = IntoTheWow mouzHasu = mouzTosh GGNaugrim = GosuGamersUS ieS-Ciara = Eizcaj Is this true?
Looking at the source, yes.
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On February 19 2011 11:20 Miragee wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 11:05 deL wrote: mouzMaNa = mouzNova funkay = fnaticMSIKR oGsTheStC = riptide oGsJ = LiquidJinro oGsHerO = LiquidHayprO oGsSuperNova = Plexa oGskkoma = IntoTheWow mouzHasu = mouzTosh GGNaugrim = GosuGamersUS ieS-Ciara = Eizcaj Is this true?
The player is on the left, and the account he uses on the right (I think that's why you were confused ?)
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Can really notice the lag hero is having, popping guardian shield when he though he had gateways selected, really late FF when he pushed letting all the lings and blings in:/
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Is this live? I cant see anything on the JTV english stream...
This tournament is huge. Great work del.
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On February 19 2011 11:28 RJau wrote:
Is this live? I cant see anything on the JTV english stream...
This tournament is huge. Great work del.
It's working for me. Try a refresh?
oGsHero vs LoWeLy at the moment.
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Hmm, a strange mech play by Fenix. MaNa just knew exactly what to do against it.
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Wow mana vs fenix was ridiculous..... boring -.-. Wtf was Fenix thinking???
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I feel like I understand German because of all the mouse pointing from Khaldor. This is great.
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On February 19 2011 11:25 deL wrote: oGsVines = aussiescum
This is hilarious on so many levels.
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On February 19 2011 11:31 PartyBiscuit wrote:This is hilarious on so many levels.
Oh man.
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yo im here TT soon will be its patching sorry for so delay.
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Are all the 1-0s walkovers?
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On February 19 2011 11:31 PartyBiscuit wrote:This is hilarious on so many levels.
Glad I wasn't the only one giggling at that =p
Hero did some really nice stuff in that first game, pulled Lowely all around the map
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Nice blink micro from hero.
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Anyone know what happened with khaldors stream, had his one on mute while listening to the english one?
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On February 19 2011 11:39 shaunnn wrote:
Anyone know what happened with khaldors stream, had his one on mute while listening to the english one?
he dropped out of the game
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Very interesting sim city by hero
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how come on the bracket some people advanced 1-0 and others 2-0/2-1??
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The 1-0 are probably default victory
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Walkovers, looks like lots of people didn't show up
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OgsVines cannonrushing Hasu.
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On February 19 2011 11:45 Azarkon wrote:Walkovers, looks like lots of people didn't show up
A lot of that is because of the path ruining my relocalizer - I couldn't fit it in time to get confirmations or reminders to the European players ;( Also several players were sick I guess it's winter in the northern hemisphere or something.
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On February 19 2011 11:46 TheBanana wrote:
OgsVines cannonrushing Hasu.
and hasu cannonrushing back even better ^^
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Yeah, nice counter by Hasu.
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On February 19 2011 11:31 PartyBiscuit wrote:This is hilarious on so many levels.
It's kind of fitting with the bracket URL too
http://challonge.com/fxopenis1
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sjow v hero will be amazing i think
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Had a feeling lots of people wouldn't show up. There was no standby list?
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Hero dominated lowely so hard everywhere, as much as I like Sjow I don't see him winning vs hero in the next round
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Looking forward to seeing how moonglade goes against supernova. Should be a good warm up to code a for him
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Even on equal macro it is incredibly hard for zerg to beat a good protoss.
When a protoss gets 200/200 when you are 170/200, you know you are fucked :O
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Wow epic sentry timing hasu!
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haha, I love khaldor. i don't understand anything but he;s amazing
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not looking good for hasuobs sigh, rooting for foreigners
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Ugh Hasuobs. It seems a common issue with foreigners that they try to tech during a stale mate and the Korean players just keep pressuring and they die.
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On February 19 2011 12:04 Doraemon.doraemon wrote:
not looking good for hasuobs sigh, rooting for foreigners
lol that game is ridiculous
edit: Does Khaldor look like a male pornstar to anyone else? :\
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How did he lose that fight when he had equal gateway numbers but 1 more colos:/
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Hasuobs giving the Korean the win in the last game.
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Thought Hasu was in a good position with 2 collossus vs 1 but I guess micro let him down.
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On February 19 2011 12:04 Azarkon wrote:
Ugh Hasuobs. It seems a common issue with foreigners that they try to tech during a stale mate and the Korean players just keep pressuring and they die.
Hasu had the advantage when he defended the first attack, then he overextended and was suddenly down to almost half of Vines supply. I think that his counterattack was where he lost the game.
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cast in english
i guess hasu micro is heavyli affected by the time
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Moonglade vs SuperNova starting up on Unstables stream (official fxopen stream)
Ciara vs Sase on Midnight
Khaldor between games
Really looking forward to this moonglade/supernova game =)
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Shoutout right back at Khaldor, can't understand him, but he is good. And a lot of times I am pretty sure I know what he is saying.
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Khaldor: german casting ftw!
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There's an english cast anyway, don't think you need to switch languages
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Someone tell khaldor its hero playing not haypro!
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Khaldor.
HayprO = oGs.HERO
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That's not Haypro khaldor. ^^
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On February 19 2011 12:08 Asha` wrote:
Moonglade vs SuperNova starting up on Unstables stream (official fxopen stream)
Ciara vs Sase on Midnight
Khaldor between games
Really looking forward to this moonglade/supernova game =)
Hoping for Sjow vs OgsHero on Khaldors stream.
Yes!
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Rofl midnights stream is like the taiwanese version of khaldors so much energy:D
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khaldor,: "let's get ready to rumble party time!"
I love this guy!
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Khaldor says that HayprO (Hero) is talking swedish, lol :D
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Haypro and Jinro are teaching their teammates? :D
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why did some first games ended with 1-0 record? did they decide to play bo1, or just mistake in the grid?
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Lol moonglade killing his own extractor. He really needed muta's to deal with tanks
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On February 19 2011 12:19 krisss wrote:
why did some first games ended with 1-0 record? did they decide to play bo1, or just mistake in the grid?
those were no-shows.
Anywho- Moonglade being pwned
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On February 19 2011 12:19 krisss wrote:
why did some first games ended with 1-0 record? did they decide to play bo1, or just mistake in the grid?
Some players probably didn't show up.
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On February 19 2011 12:19 krisss wrote:
why did some first games ended with 1-0 record? did they decide to play bo1, or just mistake in the grid?
They didn't show up.
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Jeez, I love moonglade but he just got ripped apart
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On February 19 2011 12:19 krisss wrote:
why did some first games ended with 1-0 record? did they decide to play bo1, or just mistake in the grid?
All walkovers are marked as 1:0.
Edit: Goody vs Axslav longest game in round 1 xD why am I not surprised? xD
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On February 19 2011 12:19 krisss wrote:
why did some first games ended with 1-0 record? did they decide to play bo1, or just mistake in the grid?
Forfeits/no shows
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Oh whew. I thought Haypro switched to Protoss. That would have been like another loss from the swarm.
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Sjow about to lose his 1st game. 45 harvesters to 14 scvs. Crazy!
Koreans taking this by the storm.
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On February 19 2011 12:24 StyLeD wrote:
Sjow about to lose his 1st game. 45 harvesters to 14 scvs. Crazy!
Koreans taking this by the storm.
It's a really good game though. Sjow didn't need to sac all his scvs.
Also, I think i'm learning German.
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Can't believe supernova hasn't qualiied for a gsl...
Just unlucky in qualifying?
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SjoW played that surprisingly well despite losing.
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Was a close game, those drops were amazing and listening to khaldor woohoo at them was even more amazing
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Awesome game by Sjow vs oGsHero so far (best one yet--and I have 3 streams open in 3 languages ;-))
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ahh so close sjow. i thought he might make a comeback there. pretty amazing forcefields by the toss, he knew exactly how and where to place them
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On February 19 2011 12:24 StyLeD wrote:
Sjow about to lose his 1st game. 45 harvesters to 14 scvs. Crazy!
Koreans taking this by the storm.
Very nice play by SjoW diminishing the advantage step by step though, untill he was attacked head on.
The hidden expo by Hero won the game.
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lol at khaldor just getting in so many games, it's great
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Sjow vs Hero game 1 was awesome =)
Select vs Nani in round 3 should be sick, so many teamkills for Dignitas though TT
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Wow, the results of this are pretty suprising.
It really shows how even though we perceive koreans to be on that "extra level", they really are on the same playing field(with the exception of the tip top such as nes tea and immvp, but thats through pure dedication.)
EG strifeco beats check prime, incontrol beats junwi, and heck previously check prime had lost a game to Nrg_steve, a relative unknown.
Perhaps its the lag, but at the very least it shows that really, foreigners have a chance.
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On February 19 2011 12:30 Asha` wrote:
Sjow vs Hero game 1 was awesome =)
Select vs Nani in round 3 should be sick, so many teamkills for Dignitas though TT
Idd, really wanna see this game:D
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On February 19 2011 12:27 Biggo wrote:
Can't believe supernova hasn't qualiied for a gsl...
Just unlucky in qualifying?
He has qualified.
On February 19 2011 12:31 Pandain wrote:
Wow, the results of this are pretty suprising.
It really shows how even though we perceive koreans to be on that "extra level", they really are on the same playing field(with the exception of the tip top such as nes tea and immvp, but thats through pure dedication.)
EG strifeco beats check prime, incontrol beats junwi, and heck previously check prime had lost a game to Nrg_steve, a relative unknown.
Perhaps its the lag, but at the very least it shows that really, foreigners have a chance.
You are very badly informed. The only Korean to loose is ogs coma, the 1-0 victory means they did not show up.
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khaldor = boss
and i do not understand a word he is saying
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On February 19 2011 12:31 Pandain wrote:
Wow, the results of this are pretty suprising.
It really shows how even though we perceive koreans to be on that "extra level", they really are on the same playing field(with the exception of the tip top such as nes tea and immvp, but thats through pure dedication.)
EG strifeco beats check prime, incontrol beats junwi, and heck previously check prime had lost a game to Nrg_steve, a relative unknown.
Perhaps its the lag, but at the very least it shows that really, foreigners have a chance.
I think all of them were no shows.
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On February 19 2011 12:31 Pandain wrote:
Wow, the results of this are pretty suprising.
It really shows how even though we perceive koreans to be on that "extra level", they really are on the same playing field(with the exception of the tip top such as nes tea and immvp, but thats through pure dedication.)
EG strifeco beats check prime, incontrol beats junwi, and heck previously check prime had lost a game to Nrg_steve, a relative unknown.
Perhaps its the lag, but at the very least it shows that really, foreigners have a chance.
Those are all walkover wins. You can't honestly think that incontrol would beat junwi.
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On February 19 2011 12:31 Pandain wrote:
Wow, the results of this are pretty suprising.
It really shows how even though we perceive koreans to be on that "extra level", they really are on the same playing field(with the exception of the tip top such as nes tea and immvp, but thats through pure dedication.)
EG strifeco beats check prime, incontrol beats junwi, and heck previously check prime had lost a game to Nrg_steve, a relative unknown.
Perhaps its the lag, but at the very least it shows that really, foreigners have a chance.
i think... i think.... junwi and check both are forfeits
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On February 19 2011 12:31 Pandain wrote:
Wow, the results of this are pretty suprising.
It really shows how even though we perceive koreans to be on that "extra level", they really are on the same playing field(with the exception of the tip top such as nes tea and immvp, but thats through pure dedication.)
EG strifeco beats check prime, incontrol beats junwi, and heck previously check prime had lost a game to Nrg_steve, a relative unknown.
Perhaps its the lag, but at the very least it shows that really, foreigners have a chance.
They were default loses, i.e they didnt show up
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On February 19 2011 12:31 Pandain wrote:
Wow, the results of this are pretty suprising.
It really shows how even though we perceive koreans to be on that "extra level", they really are on the same playing field(with the exception of the tip top such as nes tea and immvp, but thats through pure dedication.)
EG strifeco beats check prime, incontrol beats junwi, and heck previously check prime had lost a game to Nrg_steve, a relative unknown.
Perhaps its the lag, but at the very least it shows that really, foreigners have a chance.
Strifecro's and Inc's wins were walkovers. Kkoma's actually the only player who's dropped a series so far.
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On February 19 2011 12:31 Pandain wrote:
Wow, the results of this are pretty suprising.
It really shows how even though we perceive koreans to be on that "extra level", they really are on the same playing field(with the exception of the tip top such as nes tea and immvp, but thats through pure dedication.)
EG strifeco beats check prime, incontrol beats junwi, and heck previously check prime had lost a game to Nrg_steve, a relative unknown.
Perhaps its the lag, but at the very least it shows that really, foreigners have a chance.
Incontrol got a walkover, strifeco got 2-0'd, steve got a walkover
kkoma = onyl korean to lose, and that was to the mighty seleCT
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On February 19 2011 12:31 Pandain wrote:
Wow, the results of this are pretty suprising. It really shows how even though we perceive koreans to be on that "extra level", they really are on the same playing field.
You're mistaken. The 1-0 victories in the bracket are walk-overs, where opponent didn't show.
Just wait a few more rounds, and the Koreans will have lots of spots (is my guess).
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On February 19 2011 12:31 Pandain wrote:
EG strifeco beats check prime, incontrol beats junwi, and heck previously check prime had lost a game to Nrg_steve, a relative unknown.
Those were all no-show default victories, were they not?
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On February 19 2011 12:31 Pandain wrote:
Wow, the results of this are pretty suprising.
It really shows how even though we perceive koreans to be on that "extra level", they really are on the same playing field(with the exception of the tip top such as nes tea and immvp, but thats through pure dedication.)
EG strifeco beats check prime, incontrol beats junwi, and heck previously check prime had lost a game to Nrg_steve, a relative unknown.
Perhaps its the lag, but at the very least it shows that really, foreigners have a chance.
lol this is hilarious
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On February 19 2011 12:34 StyLeD wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 12:31 Pandain wrote:
Wow, the results of this are pretty suprising.
It really shows how even though we perceive koreans to be on that "extra level", they really are on the same playing field(with the exception of the tip top such as nes tea and immvp, but thats through pure dedication.)
EG strifeco beats check prime, incontrol beats junwi, and heck previously check prime had lost a game to Nrg_steve, a relative unknown.
Perhaps its the lag, but at the very least it shows that really, foreigners have a chance. lol this is hilarious
Especially me and ten other people replied at once to it.
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mOOnGLaDe, you have my heart, sir!
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On February 19 2011 12:31 Pandain wrote:
Wow, the results of this are pretty suprising.
It really shows how even though we perceive koreans to be on that "extra level", they really are on the same playing field(with the exception of the tip top such as nes tea and immvp, but thats through pure dedication.)
EG strifeco beats check prime, incontrol beats junwi, and heck previously check prime had lost a game to Nrg_steve, a relative unknown.
Perhaps its the lag, but at the very least it shows that really, foreigners have a chance.
the 1-0 results were no shows.
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Who is using Huk's account? I'm watching the Chinese stream, but don't know who's playin on those shared accounts.
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On February 19 2011 12:33 Asha` wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 12:31 Pandain wrote:
Wow, the results of this are pretty suprising.
It really shows how even though we perceive koreans to be on that "extra level", they really are on the same playing field(with the exception of the tip top such as nes tea and immvp, but thats through pure dedication.)
EG strifeco beats check prime, incontrol beats junwi, and heck previously check prime had lost a game to Nrg_steve, a relative unknown.
Perhaps its the lag, but at the very least it shows that really, foreigners have a chance. Incontrol got a walkover, strifeco got 2-0'd, steve got a walkover kkoma = onyl korean to lose, and that was to the mighty seleCT
Mighty Select...the korean.
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Haha, woops.
You see, we just have to make them get sick and forget about playing!
Also, I thought Haypro is playing, but don't see him in the bracket. Is he playing?
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haaa,, khaldor skipped sjow game 2
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Also incontrol in the brackets is axslav!
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Ohhh shit...
LT on close positions TvZ.... Siiiiigh.
GL GL glade
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Did most of the Koreans not understand they would have 3 matches today?
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Correct. Prime players didn't show up I am sure there is a good reason because I was talking with the manager (who is really nice!) and he had confirmed it yesterday.
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Oh god. i can't choose what to watch -.-
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Did you guys hear iNc beat Junwi? Let's talk about that.
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On February 19 2011 12:36 shaunnn wrote:
Also incontrol in the brackets is axslav!
Isn't axslav...axslav? Whoever is on Axslav just lost 2-0 vs mana at any rate.
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On February 19 2011 12:38 _Darwin_ wrote:
Did you guys hear iNc beat Junwi? Let's talk about that.
It was a forfeit by Junwi because he didn't show up.
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OgsHero with another hidden expo.
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I'm confused, did Junwi 2-0 Oxygen and then proceed to leave the tournament? o.o
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sad that so much players didnt show up, but some good games so far.
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Sjow forgot his combat shield ...
edit: ok, it's 4:44 am in Sweden, so I can't blame him to much
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hmm. supernova with the strike cannons vs baneling/ling.
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On February 19 2011 12:37 deL wrote:
Correct. Prime players didn't show up I am sure there is a good reason because I was talking with the manager (who is really nice!) and he had confirmed it yesterday.
Check is playing Huk on ladder right now.^^
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Supernova had 2 tanks with 25 banelings running at them... if he had controlled the tanks and forced them to fire once on the banes that attack would not have worked
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All I heard was "Sjow sandwich" and the game was over
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On February 19 2011 12:38 Asha` wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 12:36 shaunnn wrote:
Also incontrol in the brackets is axslav! Isn't axslav...axslav? Whoever is on Axslav just lost 2-0 vs mana at any rate.
ye sorry, got confused thought incontrol dropped out and was replaced by axslav
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Nice international cast of players. good games. Thanks FXO
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mana rocks pretty hard. didnt expect that.
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gosh incontrol way to lose a game which u already had won...
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Moonglade is playing very well. I can't help but think that this game would've been over 10 minutes ago if it wasn't LT close positions, though.
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I can't believe how passive this terran is. He sees 40+ mutas and he has maybe 30 marines and 0 thors...
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On February 19 2011 12:54 Severian wrote:
Moonglade is playing very well. I can't help but think that this game would've been over 10 minutes ago if it wasn't LT close positions, though.
yea, really nice engagements by him.
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On February 19 2011 12:54 Fa1nT wrote:
I can't believe how passive this terran is. He sees 40+ mutas and he has maybe 30 marines and 0 thors...
his thor building factory was sniped twice. But yes he's still very passive, that's what 40 muta do
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Honestly Moonglade should have moved his tech to the 9 o clock area... Why continue to plant it close positions...
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Well, it's cross positions now, lol
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did he sac his main on purpose? seems like he could have defended it if he wanted to.
But now we have a cross position LT game suddenly ^^
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Wow, Khaldor's a hard working dude. Two PCs switching between em to try to bring us games without downtime. gotta respect
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Sjow-oGsHero was as exciting as Moonglade-Supernova is boring
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jesus... that attack didnt finish supernova?
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wow that was impressive patience and contain by moonglade. Dude is looking good.
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supernova threw the game. he was so passive. you don't let the zerg get 58 fricken mutas.
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42 minutes for LT close positions. Nice effort
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mOOnGLaDe defeats Supernova on LT close positions!
Pretty impressive game! It swayed for a long time there for both players
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awesome play by moonglade. really good.
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Goddamn that moonglade-supernova series was good. Cannot believe how that played out from close spawn LT positions.
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Poor mana indeed, last game he makes the fatal mistake of expanding first in pvp, then this game he manners his own zealot in between pylons and gateways xD
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Hahaha bad start by Mana vs Inc:
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i def agree supernova choked
I really think the bunkers are unnecessary - just a few thors protecting the tanks should do IMO
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On February 19 2011 13:06 1Eris1 wrote:
supernova threw the game. he was so passive. you don't let the zerg get 58 fricken mutas.
Is someone going to say this every time a Korean loses to a foreigner?
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On February 19 2011 13:09 Severian wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 13:06 1Eris1 wrote:
supernova threw the game. he was so passive. you don't let the zerg get 58 fricken mutas. Is someone going to say this every time a Korean loses to a foreigner?
to be fair, they both played terrible
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On February 19 2011 13:04 dizzy101 wrote:
Sjow-oGsHero was as exciting as Moonglade-Supernova is boring
So, not at all?
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lol
anyone notice FXO'penis' (invitational series-IS)... i'm so mature >_>
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On February 19 2011 13:09 chonkyfire wrote:
i def agree supernova choked
I really think the bunkers are unnecessary - just a few thors protecting the tanks should do IMO
He never ATTACKED.
50 muta mean absolutely nothing when a terran gets 3/3 marines and 3/0 thors out, they die almost instantly. The entire point of the marine/tank/thor slow push is that it can't be attacked easily without brood lords, but he was so afraid to leave his base that ge just let the zerg take 5 more bases and roll him 30 mins later.
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FXOMoonGlade we love you and can't wait to see you in code A! That was such an edge-of-my-seat-holy-shit-I'm-starving-but-can't-miss-this game against Supernova!
FXO fighting
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Incontrol destroyed by Mana despite the bad start. Mana goes Blink Stalkers while Incontrol quick techs to Colossus.
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On February 19 2011 13:09 Severian wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 13:06 1Eris1 wrote:
supernova threw the game. he was so passive. you don't let the zerg get 58 fricken mutas. Is someone going to say this every time a Korean loses to a foreigner?
What no? I thought be played brillantly in the 1st game. Moonglade played great, an excellent recovery. But supernova just kinda sat there and let moonglade stock resources and mutas
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oGsTheStC vs oGswant on the fxopen (Unstale87) stream right now.
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man i love mana's pvt and pvp style so much
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Why Incontrol? Whyyyyyy? Seems like blink stalker is a good way to go for PvP these days.
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Mana's blink stalker play is really nice, happy to see him advance given how much of a toss up PvP can be. Likely to have to try his PvP vs Hero next though ><
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On February 19 2011 13:13 _Darwin_ wrote:
Is StC tester?
StC is StC. -_-
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On February 19 2011 13:11 Fa1nT wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 13:09 chonkyfire wrote:
i def agree supernova choked
I really think the bunkers are unnecessary - just a few thors protecting the tanks should do IMO He never ATTACKED. 50 muta mean absolutely nothing when a terran gets 3/3 marines and 3/0 thors out, they die almost instantly. The entire point of the marine/tank/thor slow push is that it can't be attacked easily without brood lords, but he was so afraid to leave his base that ge just let the zerg take 5 more bases and roll him 30 mins later.
Did you even watch the whole game? Doesn't seem like it.
He did an extremely strong early attack which got crushed by superb timing and unit comp from moonglade just like game 2, then he followed it up with a tank ledge drop and attempted a slow push but was constantly pressured by mutalisk and he was never ahead enough to actually attack head on into glade.
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On February 19 2011 13:11 1Eris1 wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 13:09 Severian wrote:On February 19 2011 13:06 1Eris1 wrote:
supernova threw the game. he was so passive. you don't let the zerg get 58 fricken mutas. Is someone going to say this every time a Korean loses to a foreigner? What no? I thought be played brillantly in the 1st game. Moonglade played great, an excellent recovery. But supernova just kinda sat there and let moonglade stock resources and mutas
So you just meant that he played poorly? No objection here, then. I just thought you meant that he deliberately lost, which is what I think "to throw a game" commonly means, and what I've seen a lot of people claim in similar situations. No harm done if that's not what you meant.
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Well, Supernova did attack. actually. He attacked both the expo and main and destroyed everything there. moonglade just didn't fight with the muta ball and there was no way he can get his thors and tanks across the map without having his base wrecked.
His earlier push got destroyed by the mass lings and banelings. He also lost his depot and wall to the baneling bust earlier and had to focus on defending his natural
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On February 19 2011 13:14 jalstar wrote:StC is StC. -_-
Oh, tester is SKS. Meh.
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On February 19 2011 13:13 Inky87 wrote:
Why Incontrol? Whyyyyyy? Seems like blink stalker is a good way to go for PvP these days.
It's good if the other protoss skips Immortals for faster Colossi.
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select 2-1 over naniwa o 0, wish it was casted
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Needs more TL.net mods accounts used tbh :D
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On February 19 2011 13:14 Paz wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 13:11 Fa1nT wrote:On February 19 2011 13:09 chonkyfire wrote:
i def agree supernova choked
I really think the bunkers are unnecessary - just a few thors protecting the tanks should do IMO He never ATTACKED. 50 muta mean absolutely nothing when a terran gets 3/3 marines and 3/0 thors out, they die almost instantly. The entire point of the marine/tank/thor slow push is that it can't be attacked easily without brood lords, but he was so afraid to leave his base that ge just let the zerg take 5 more bases and roll him 30 mins later. Did you even watch the whole game? Doesn't seem like it. He did an extremely strong early attack which got crushed by superb timing and unit comp from moonglade just like game 2, then he followed it up with a tank ledge drop and attempted a slow push but was constantly pressured by mutalisk and he was never ahead enough to actually attack head on into glade. Don't make factually incorrect statements to support your argument.
Being constantly pressured by mutalisks is now an excuse to sit on your base the rest of the game waiting until your opponent comes with 15 brood lords?? Sitting there won't ever let you win. GSL level terrans know how to attack and defend their base with very few units.
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On February 19 2011 13:15 vdale wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 13:13 Inky87 wrote:
Why Incontrol? Whyyyyyy? Seems like blink stalker is a good way to go for PvP these days. It's good if the other protoss skips Immortals for faster Colossi.
Against blink stalkers? Doesn't seem like it, not that I'm trying to argue or anything. I've just never seen anything lose to 4 gate blink stalkers except 4 gate blink stalkers ^_^
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On February 19 2011 13:18 Inky87 wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 13:15 vdale wrote:On February 19 2011 13:13 Inky87 wrote:
Why Incontrol? Whyyyyyy? Seems like blink stalker is a good way to go for PvP these days. It's good if the other protoss skips Immortals for faster Colossi. Against blink stalkers? Doesn't seem like it, not that I'm trying to argue or anything. I've just never seen anything lose to 4 gate blink stalkers except 4 gate blink stalkers ^_^
its 3gate
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Sick sick game by Moonglade.
We're expecting great things from you, Andy! :D
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What's with all the non-ogs koreans all not-showing for their 2nd/3rd matches?
Just don't want to deal with NA lag? - Lunch time in Korea?
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On February 19 2011 13:18 Inky87 wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 13:15 vdale wrote:On February 19 2011 13:13 Inky87 wrote:
Why Incontrol? Whyyyyyy? Seems like blink stalker is a good way to go for PvP these days. It's good if the other protoss skips Immortals for faster Colossi. Against blink stalkers? Doesn't seem like it, not that I'm trying to argue or anything. I've just never seen anything lose to 4 gate blink stalkers except 4 gate blink stalkers ^_^
if inc hadnt skipped his immortal, which wasnt exactly a wrong decision just an unlucky one, he probably would have been able to hold off the push. it would have still been close but i think he would have came out with the victory there
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On February 19 2011 13:16 shaunnn wrote:
select 2-1 over naniwa o 0, wish it was casted
Naniwa teamkilled by Select and then if Sjow wins 2 games in LB it's Sjow vs Naniwa.
Dignitas really unlucky with the brackets.
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European Protoss - the bane of inControl.
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On February 19 2011 13:18 Fa1nT wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 13:14 Paz wrote:On February 19 2011 13:11 Fa1nT wrote:On February 19 2011 13:09 chonkyfire wrote:
i def agree supernova choked
I really think the bunkers are unnecessary - just a few thors protecting the tanks should do IMO He never ATTACKED. 50 muta mean absolutely nothing when a terran gets 3/3 marines and 3/0 thors out, they die almost instantly. The entire point of the marine/tank/thor slow push is that it can't be attacked easily without brood lords, but he was so afraid to leave his base that ge just let the zerg take 5 more bases and roll him 30 mins later. Did you even watch the whole game? Doesn't seem like it. He did an extremely strong early attack which got crushed by superb timing and unit comp from moonglade just like game 2, then he followed it up with a tank ledge drop and attempted a slow push but was constantly pressured by mutalisk and he was never ahead enough to actually attack head on into glade. Don't make factually incorrect statements to support your argument. Being constantly pressured by mutalisks is now an excuse to sit on your base the rest of the game waiting until your opponent comes with 15 brood lords?? Sitting there won't ever let you win. GSL level terrans know how to attack and defend their base with very few units.
He didnt just sit there. He was dropping, and trying to drop all over the place, but most of the drops got denied by the mutas. He also attacked the main and took it out. He also tried to expand several times. Did he just sit there? No he didn't but the threat of the mutas denied him from moving out. If he went across the map the mutas would destroy all his production facilites and he would be vulnerable to banelings. He would never have won a baserace in that situation.
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On February 19 2011 13:16 shaunnn wrote:
select 2-1 over naniwa o 0, wish it was casted
Just for you I uploaded the replays on twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/FXOpeneSports
On February 19 2011 13:16 Deyster wrote:
Needs more TL.net mods accounts used tbh :D
I agree! It's quite a novelty to see Plexa win a game!
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On February 19 2011 13:20 FrankWalls wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 13:18 Inky87 wrote:On February 19 2011 13:15 vdale wrote:On February 19 2011 13:13 Inky87 wrote:
Why Incontrol? Whyyyyyy? Seems like blink stalker is a good way to go for PvP these days. It's good if the other protoss skips Immortals for faster Colossi. Against blink stalkers? Doesn't seem like it, not that I'm trying to argue or anything. I've just never seen anything lose to 4 gate blink stalkers except 4 gate blink stalkers ^_^ if inc hadnt skipped his immortal, which wasnt exactly a wrong decision just an unlucky one, he probably would have been able to hold off the push. it would have still been close but i think he would have came out with the victory there
Just the nature of PvP. I had all the scouting I could muster (REALLY fast obs) and he just coin flipped better
It's ok! I didn't lose to a 4 gate so I am not mad He played well.
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the stc man, you think he's going to die and then he turns around and rolls his oppenent
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Can't believe STC pulled that out.
Want just over extended himself after he cleaned up the middle
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LaLush just 2-0'd Naugrim
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On February 19 2011 13:22 iNcontroL wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 13:20 FrankWalls wrote:On February 19 2011 13:18 Inky87 wrote:On February 19 2011 13:15 vdale wrote:On February 19 2011 13:13 Inky87 wrote:
Why Incontrol? Whyyyyyy? Seems like blink stalker is a good way to go for PvP these days. It's good if the other protoss skips Immortals for faster Colossi. Against blink stalkers? Doesn't seem like it, not that I'm trying to argue or anything. I've just never seen anything lose to 4 gate blink stalkers except 4 gate blink stalkers ^_^ if inc hadnt skipped his immortal, which wasnt exactly a wrong decision just an unlucky one, he probably would have been able to hold off the push. it would have still been close but i think he would have came out with the victory there Just the nature of PvP. I had all the scouting I could muster (REALLY fast obs) and he just coin flipped better It's ok! I didn't lose to a 4 gate so I am not mad He played well.
quite sad you have to play strifecro in your next round. the second teamkill of the day again, unlucky eg :/
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For some reason, the upload says it's SeleCT vs kkoma
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Is it just me reading the brackets wrong, or are there tons and tons of walkover wins in the tournie? Both in the winners and loosers brackets?
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SelecT 2-0'ing a GSL terran then beating Naniwa, he looks in fine form!
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On February 19 2011 13:26 Finrod1 wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 13:22 iNcontroL wrote:On February 19 2011 13:20 FrankWalls wrote:On February 19 2011 13:18 Inky87 wrote:On February 19 2011 13:15 vdale wrote:On February 19 2011 13:13 Inky87 wrote:
Why Incontrol? Whyyyyyy? Seems like blink stalker is a good way to go for PvP these days. It's good if the other protoss skips Immortals for faster Colossi. Against blink stalkers? Doesn't seem like it, not that I'm trying to argue or anything. I've just never seen anything lose to 4 gate blink stalkers except 4 gate blink stalkers ^_^ if inc hadnt skipped his immortal, which wasnt exactly a wrong decision just an unlucky one, he probably would have been able to hold off the push. it would have still been close but i think he would have came out with the victory there Just the nature of PvP. I had all the scouting I could muster (REALLY fast obs) and he just coin flipped better It's ok! I didn't lose to a 4 gate so I am not mad He played well. quite sad you have to play strifecro in your next round. the second teamkill of the day again, unlucky eg :/
Your observer by my count looking around in game (I was the other obs) was about ~5 seconds shy of seeing the original blink down onto the lower ground. Awesome set of games though!!!
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Damn, theStC is a blast to watch. Superb micro and super abusive, but awesome play.
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Sase fighting an uphill battle against ogsJ
Intense game!
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:O Killer 2-0'd Kkoma and Goody 2-0'd Vines.
TheSTC is so good to watch
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Fuck Yeah STC =)
Worth staying up for
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On February 19 2011 13:35 Asha` wrote:
:O Killer 2-0'd Kkoma and Goody 2-0'd Vines.
TheSTC is so good to watch
Yeah, he's really really good.
Looks a lot better than he did the last FXOpen, and he won that.
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theStC with solid terran play. I can see him getting first place again.
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Scary thing is, this is theStC without much practice. Just imagine how he is going to be when he plays full time.
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STC looks like he could eventually match MVP.
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STC is in army isn't he?
When does his conscription finish?
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On February 19 2011 13:46 Azarkon wrote:
STC looks like he could eventually give MVP a run for best Terran in Korea.
Bold thing to say. I think oGsTOP has a better chance.
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On February 19 2011 13:47 Biggo wrote:
STC is in army isn't he?
When does his conscription finish?
May 25(I think?)
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Idra and Artosis are calling the 2 base colossus void ray imbalanced, but on maps where P can actually get a third and even a fourth doing (Shakuras, meta cross spots, I'd assume the GSL maps) it it just becomes ridiculous. I'd be extremely surprised if ogsJ manages to win this.
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On February 19 2011 13:51 Orome wrote:
Idra and Artosis are calling the 2 base colossus void ray imbalanced, but on maps where P can actually get a third and even a fourth doing (Shakuras, meta cross spots, I'd assume the GSL maps) it it just becomes ridiculous. I'd be extremely surprised if ogsJ manages to win this.
With the amount of voidrays he has, he doesnt have that big a ground army. With enough mutalisks, he should be able to take them down.
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On February 19 2011 13:40 ptbl wrote:
theStC with solid terran play. I can see him getting first place again.
He's looking more solid than last time imo, which is a scary thought! However, there are a lot of players who are really on fire, like SeleCT, mOOnGLaDe, MaNa!
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On February 19 2011 13:54 Inky87 wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 13:51 Orome wrote:
Idra and Artosis are calling the 2 base colossus void ray imbalanced, but on maps where P can actually get a third and even a fourth doing (Shakuras, meta cross spots, I'd assume the GSL maps) it it just becomes ridiculous. I'd be extremely surprised if ogsJ manages to win this. With the amount of voidrays he has, he doesnt have that big a ground army. With enough mutalisks, he should be able to take them down.
If you're on 3 or more bases, you max out with stalkers instead of zealots and mutas melt ridiculously fast. Khaldor's just wrong on this.
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wow he hardlt lost anything and completely owned oGsJ's everything
that is some bullshit composition
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On February 19 2011 13:51 Orome wrote:
Idra and Artosis are calling the 2 base colossus void ray imbalanced, but on maps where P can actually get a third and even a fourth doing (Shakuras, meta cross spots, I'd assume the GSL maps) it it just becomes ridiculous. I'd be extremely surprised if ogsJ manages to win this.
I think the good answer to this is what July did in GSTL : open with corruptors. But you have to scout well, before if you go corruptors blindly and the P 6 gates, it's hard xD
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On February 19 2011 13:54 Orome wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 13:54 Inky87 wrote:On February 19 2011 13:51 Orome wrote:
Idra and Artosis are calling the 2 base colossus void ray imbalanced, but on maps where P can actually get a third and even a fourth doing (Shakuras, meta cross spots, I'd assume the GSL maps) it it just becomes ridiculous. I'd be extremely surprised if ogsJ manages to win this. With the amount of voidrays he has, he doesnt have that big a ground army. With enough mutalisks, he should be able to take them down. If you're on 3 or more bases, you max out with stalkers instead of zealots and mutas melt ridiculously fast. Khaldor's just wrong on this.
No you cant, even vs Muta/ling from the very start it is very tricky getting the exact Stalker numbers, and eventually you HAVE to tech to Storm to deal with muta, let alone trying to get enough stalkers when you have dumped 70% of your gas into Voidrays and Colossus
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Wasn't Haypro wasn't supposed to be playing in this Tourney? Why is Hero playing on his account and he's not even in the bracket?
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On February 19 2011 13:54 Orome wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 13:54 Inky87 wrote:On February 19 2011 13:51 Orome wrote:
Idra and Artosis are calling the 2 base colossus void ray imbalanced, but on maps where P can actually get a third and even a fourth doing (Shakuras, meta cross spots, I'd assume the GSL maps) it it just becomes ridiculous. I'd be extremely surprised if ogsJ manages to win this. With the amount of voidrays he has, he doesnt have that big a ground army. With enough mutalisks, he should be able to take them down. If you're on 3 or more bases, you max out with stalkers instead of zealots and mutas melt ridiculously fast. Khaldor's just wrong on this.
Zerg needs higher tech units than hydras and roaches against 3/4-base Protoss play. Ultras + mutas + infestors do quite well vs. this composition. Can dump the rest of the minerals going into zerglings.
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On February 19 2011 13:59 StutteR wrote:
Wasn't Haypro wasn't supposed to be playing in this Tourney? Why is Hero playing on his account and he's not even in the bracket?
It was said a few times he was feeling sick
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On February 19 2011 13:57 MrCon wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 13:51 Orome wrote:
Idra and Artosis are calling the 2 base colossus void ray imbalanced, but on maps where P can actually get a third and even a fourth doing (Shakuras, meta cross spots, I'd assume the GSL maps) it it just becomes ridiculous. I'd be extremely surprised if ogsJ manages to win this. I think the good answer to this is what July did in GSTL : open with corruptors. But you have to scout well, before if you go corruptors blindly and the P 6 gates, it's hard xD
I've been trying this a bit recently, going corruptor roach and trying to deny the third. It's really really hard though and corruptors aren't a long-term solution vs 2 stargate chronoed void rays.
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Strifeco ahead despite botching the ling runby.
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On February 19 2011 14:00 shaunnn wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 13:59 StutteR wrote:
Wasn't Haypro wasn't supposed to be playing in this Tourney? Why is Hero playing on his account and he's not even in the bracket? It was said a few times he was feeling sick
kk sorry. didn't see that. was looking forward to seeing him play. Its been a while!
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On February 19 2011 14:00 Azarkon wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 13:54 Orome wrote:On February 19 2011 13:54 Inky87 wrote:On February 19 2011 13:51 Orome wrote:
Idra and Artosis are calling the 2 base colossus void ray imbalanced, but on maps where P can actually get a third and even a fourth doing (Shakuras, meta cross spots, I'd assume the GSL maps) it it just becomes ridiculous. I'd be extremely surprised if ogsJ manages to win this. With the amount of voidrays he has, he doesnt have that big a ground army. With enough mutalisks, he should be able to take them down. If you're on 3 or more bases, you max out with stalkers instead of zealots and mutas melt ridiculously fast. Khaldor's just wrong on this. Zerg needs higher tech units than hydras and roaches against 3/4-base Protoss play. Ultras + mutas + infestors do quite well vs. this composition.
Yeah I know that's a nice composition, but look at the gas cost for each of those units.
I'm guessing stuff like this will become viable on the GSL maps where Zerg can get a ridiculous number of bases, but it's pretty damn hard to get more than 4 bases up on meta.
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On February 19 2011 14:00 Azarkon wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 13:54 Orome wrote:On February 19 2011 13:54 Inky87 wrote:On February 19 2011 13:51 Orome wrote:
Idra and Artosis are calling the 2 base colossus void ray imbalanced, but on maps where P can actually get a third and even a fourth doing (Shakuras, meta cross spots, I'd assume the GSL maps) it it just becomes ridiculous. I'd be extremely surprised if ogsJ manages to win this. With the amount of voidrays he has, he doesnt have that big a ground army. With enough mutalisks, he should be able to take them down. If you're on 3 or more bases, you max out with stalkers instead of zealots and mutas melt ridiculously fast. Khaldor's just wrong on this. Zerg needs higher tech units than hydras and roaches against 3/4-base Protoss play. Ultras + mutas + infestors do quite well vs. this composition. Can dump the rest of the minerals going into zerglings.
lol do you know how much gas that is
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On February 19 2011 14:02 ccHaZaRd wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 14:00 Azarkon wrote:On February 19 2011 13:54 Orome wrote:On February 19 2011 13:54 Inky87 wrote:On February 19 2011 13:51 Orome wrote:
Idra and Artosis are calling the 2 base colossus void ray imbalanced, but on maps where P can actually get a third and even a fourth doing (Shakuras, meta cross spots, I'd assume the GSL maps) it it just becomes ridiculous. I'd be extremely surprised if ogsJ manages to win this. With the amount of voidrays he has, he doesnt have that big a ground army. With enough mutalisks, he should be able to take them down. If you're on 3 or more bases, you max out with stalkers instead of zealots and mutas melt ridiculously fast. Khaldor's just wrong on this. Zerg needs higher tech units than hydras and roaches against 3/4-base Protoss play. Ultras + mutas + infestors do quite well vs. this composition. Can dump the rest of the minerals going into zerglings. lol do you know how much gas that is
Do you know how much gas VR+colossus is?
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Yea, but you can support it off of 4 bases.
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On February 19 2011 13:59 Dommk wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 13:54 Orome wrote:On February 19 2011 13:54 Inky87 wrote:On February 19 2011 13:51 Orome wrote:
Idra and Artosis are calling the 2 base colossus void ray imbalanced, but on maps where P can actually get a third and even a fourth doing (Shakuras, meta cross spots, I'd assume the GSL maps) it it just becomes ridiculous. I'd be extremely surprised if ogsJ manages to win this. With the amount of voidrays he has, he doesnt have that big a ground army. With enough mutalisks, he should be able to take them down. If you're on 3 or more bases, you max out with stalkers instead of zealots and mutas melt ridiculously fast. Khaldor's just wrong on this. No you cant, even vs Muta/ling from the very start it is very tricky getting the exact Stalker numbers, and eventually you HAVE to tech to Storm to deal with muta, let alone trying to get enough stalkers when you have dumped 70% of your gas into Voidrays and Colossus
You already have 2 stargates up for phoenix. Yes, a muta switch can be good if it catches the toss at unawares, but I don't think it's a stable solution.
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Haha and it's Shakuras cross positions next. I'm guessing we'll see exactly the same thing as last game with exactly the same result.
I don't want to derail this thread too much btw, I'm not claiming imbalance just yet, I just think it's really really hard for Z to deal with from my own experience and watching a LOT of pro games. I haven't seen a Z having any good solutions for it yet (except hydra drop before the first colossus is out, but that's not a very stable solution either).
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I think what a lot of zergs fail to do is keep the protoss tech unit numbers down or abuse the immobility.
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Well you can't really use that battle as an example since Strife gave his Brood Lords away for nothing.
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Someone needs to invent a way to display which games being shown on which streams. I'm trying to think of a way to get this to work.
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WOW strifecro.... how to throw a game away 101 right here :|
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What's StrifeCro doing? Mass ling/infestor without NP against colossi?
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If he did an ultra switch instead of remaxing with lings?
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I whip my hair back and forth!
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On February 19 2011 14:08 Inky87 wrote:
I think what a lot of zergs fail to do is keep the protoss tech unit numbers down or abuse the immobility.
Morrow is phenomenal @ constantly exchanging units but watch his craftcup games today vs seiplo.
Protoss is WAY more mobile then zerg.
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Not going to lie, the strife v incontrol series was pretty depressing :b
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why dosent zerg use drops more often?
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Why is oGsJ splitting his army? From the minimap and supply it looks like he's only attacking with half of it.
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OgsJ showing how to play ZvP when you're ahead in bases. Traded armies, multiprong attacks.
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On February 19 2011 14:17 StUfF wrote:
OgsJ showing how to play ZvP when you're ahead in bases. Traded armies, multiprong attacks.
I guess that explains it lol
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Whooo, really glad ogsJ proved me wrong and won. Sase didn't exactly play perectly though. :p
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Great two-pronged harass from oGsJ. Wonder if that can be done on any other map...
Also, who is J? Haven't heard of him before. Someone change their name?
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oGsJ takes down SaSe 2-1 after a brilliant feint attack on the rocks, keeping 4-5 roaches attacking the rocks and as a result SaSe's entire army guarding his 2nd expansion while oGsJ takes his entire army minus the 4 roaches and attacks SaSe's opposite expansion.
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YAY go SeleCT , @damncats yea it was but strife should know better then to go infestor against protoss unlesss they have a lot of zealots or your mind controling collosus and void rays.
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Oh man, the reason for the Prime players not showing is that the manager read the time as 11:00PM KST instead of 11:00AM! He apologises on behalf of the team and hopefully we can see some of the Prime player's in-game next time!
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On February 19 2011 14:23 deL wrote:
Oh man, the reason for the Prime players not showing is that the manager read the time as 11:00PM KST instead of 11:00AM! He apologises on behalf of the team and hopefully we can see some of the Prime player's in-game next time!
Wow, that really sucks ):
I really wanted to see Check play too.
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On February 19 2011 14:23 deL wrote:
Oh man, the reason for the Prime players not showing is that the manager read the time as 11:00PM KST instead of 11:00AM! He apologises on behalf of the team and hopefully we can see some of the Prime player's in-game next time!
wow that sucks :/ Would've loved to see the Prime players in this tourney.. Shit happens
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On February 19 2011 14:23 deL wrote:
Oh man, the reason for the Prime players not showing is that the manager read the time as 11:00PM KST instead of 11:00AM! He apologises on behalf of the team and hopefully we can see some of the Prime player's in-game next time!
Wow, thats a real blunder. What a pity...
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SaSe goes collosus, holds off blink stalkers. Nice change of pace for a pvp
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Don't worry it was a genuine accident from Prime so they will be invited back to next tourney.
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Is anyone watching miDnight's stream? As it seems now, someone with the ID DignitasKiller (or something along those lines) was watching his stream while killer played against Sheth. Does anyone think that's the real killer, or no?
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What happened between Killer vs Sheth?
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yamato we are investigating.
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On February 19 2011 14:33 ineedadrink wrote:
What happened between Killer vs Sheth?
+ Show Spoiler +Sheth won 2-0, last win on Scrap Station with better macro/more roaches + hydra against killer's only-roach force.
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What would he have to gain? The knowledge that he needs to build and upgrade roaches faster? Too lazy to use an overseer to see if spire going up? I don't get it ;b
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That was the most hilarious play by bubbles ever omg...
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On February 19 2011 14:17 Orome wrote:
Whooo, really glad ogsJ proved me wrong and won. Sase didn't exactly play perectly though. :p
edit: nvm
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SaSe is very impressive :D
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He told us he was luvsic.. Infact, I met him in Korea..
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On February 19 2011 14:37 StyLeD wrote:
SaSe is very impressive :D
yeah definitely ^^
He was really good in WC3 until he sort of faded into the background. Real nice to see him back in the pro gaming scene again by dishing out some total ownage in SC2. :D
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i also liked sases wc3 style. now hes going up again :D
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That was funday-monday level.
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On February 19 2011 14:34 FXOpen wrote:
yamato we are investigating.
That's good. I hope this is just some mix-up and not a real problem. I'd hate for you guys to have to deal with cheating on the first day.
Thanks for putting on such a good show, by the way. I love the bracket. Should make for some great games.
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Great Cup, it´s good to see players from Asia, Europe and the US in one Cup. There were some interessting games so far.
Khaldor does a great job, it´s fun to watch and so I don´t need sleep this night :D
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Khaldor is currently casting in english right now. In case you didn't know, Khaldor is a german caster who is very energetic and amazing. I sometimes even watch him over English casters even though I have no idea what he's saying
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Khaldors english casting was as amazing as his german casting..... crazy good.
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On February 19 2011 14:52 NoXiS wrote:
Khaldor is currently casting in english right now. In case you didn't know, Khaldor is a german caster who is very energetic and amazing. I sometimes even watch him over English casters even though I have no idea what he's saying
Even when he casts in German, he casts in Denglish so he uses a lot of English phrases and unit names.
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GoOdy vs mOOnGLaDe on Khaldors stream
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On February 19 2011 15:01 CEPEHDREI wrote:
GoOdy vs mOOnGLaDe on Khaldors stream
On all three streams actually lol
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GoOdy vs mOOnGLaDe will be tense, GLaDe playing in 1 second delay from Korea, and GoOdy has been solid this tourney!
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Not going to lie I love Khaldors stream, he even shows statistics for the match ups.
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For those wondering about the situation with KiLLeR, it appears to be a big misunderstanding which only results in a warning and a reminder to all other players.
KiLLeR was just watching the previous game on the stream, and paused the stream when he had to play. He was streaming (which is against the rules, but ironic enough this is what saved him) and we can see by looking at the archive he didn't do anything wrong.
For all players in our future events - please read the rules and when we tell you not to stream, don't. Also, remember to close your other streams! ^^
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Felt bad for moonglade, delay in ZvZ is a really really annoying situation to be in ><
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kkoma I am disappointed
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Lol, it's games like Goody vs MoonGlade that makes me glad I chose Protoss at beta instead of Zerg
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On February 19 2011 15:11 Dommk wrote:
Lol, it's games like Goody vs MoonGlade that makes me glad I chose Protoss at beta instead of Zerg
It's games like Goody vs Moonglade that make me cry myself to sleep for choosing zerg and trying to stick to it.
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Damn.... counter attack by MoonGlade soo good. Down drones? Who cares lol
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On February 19 2011 15:11 Dommk wrote:
Lol, it's games like Goody vs MoonGlade that makes me glad I chose Protoss at beta instead of Zerg
You don't like winning? ^^
Edit: looked good for a bit at least.
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Moonglade beasting! Banelings take out all of Goody's scv's at his natural. close positions meta
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Moonglade is just WOW! I would have died about 15 times so far If he turns this around, i will start believing in God - Moonglade!
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Terrans keep failing at the baneling all-in moonglade does when he gets behind...
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Moonglade has just survived so many times in this match.
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I don't understand why we don't see more mech play like goody. Thor/tank is very hard to break, and blue flame helions allow for major harassing options. It's only moonglades great multitasking thats keeping ihm alive
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Seems like nobody knows how to deal with mass muta play n__n
IdrA will have a field day
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This game is pretty crazy, but this Chinese commentator makes it crazier.
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The reason you don't see more mech play is because of what you just saw - 6 thors dying to ~20 mutas and then your entire tank line gets sniped.
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Muta and zergling eat them I guess. especially the lack of AA in marines. Moonglade looks as if he's struggling because his muta micro isn't stellar.
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When in doubt, trust your mutas.
mOOnGLaDe has had excellent muta control since beta, people should always prepare for it.
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nooo mOOnGLaDe What a great game though!
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What an epic hold on close positions metalopolis. Nice try Glade.
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I'm watching both Khaldor and FXOpen's stream.
It seems like Khaldor likes focusing more on the Terran and Unstable on the zerg.
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just <3 goody and that he sticks to his style
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WHAAAAAT? How is that even possible? Moonglade, why so good?
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wonder why Goody didn't pick Lost Temple
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On February 19 2011 15:29 udgnim wrote:
wonder why Goody didn't pick Lost Temple
I wondered the same thing :o Guess he thought he couldn't get good positions 3 maps in a row!
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poor nani... he has to play teammates 3 rounds in a row
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On February 19 2011 15:24 Babaganoush wrote:
I'm watching both Khaldor and FXOpen's stream.
It seems like Khaldor likes focusing more on the Terran and Unstable on the zerg.
Well would make sense the Australian/FXOpen guys have a little bit of bias onto their own player.
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I missed game 2 of mOOnGLaDe vs. GoOdy. D:
What happened?
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Sick Sick defense by moonglade. Seems like he plays so calm and collected.
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Sick defense by mOOnGLaDe
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pretty bad micro (or rather barely any) by Goody there
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banelings so cost effective
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Proxy rax on Shakuras, Moonglade pulls all of his drones, denies the bunker and Goody gg's.
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did he lost any scvs? lol didn't look like much..
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I really have the impression Goody is playing worse the longer the tourney goes. Probably tired and Moonglade really on the top of his game
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On February 19 2011 15:40 Zocat wrote:I really have the impression Goody is playing worse the longer the tourney goes. Probably tired and Moonglade really on the top of his game
Yeah, the proxy rax and 2 base push seems to reflect that.
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Man Glade played damn awesome...
well done son
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It really feels like the Glade just wore Goody down. Close positions Metalopolis was an incredibly long game and Glade never quite seemed down and out and after it he maintained his edge while Goody probably felt pressured and tired, and wanted to end the games quickly as we saw in Games 2 and 3.
Really unfortunate that the psychological aspect got to Goody, but that's Starcraft and god knows Day9 has talked about this more than often. <3 Glade, please win against Destination!
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First time I've seen moonglade play and I have to say I am impressed. They way he held off that cheese on Shakuras and his game sence of what to expect has shown me he is defintely code A material :D. Will be cheering him on during the GSL :D
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Goody got worse each game. Glade has been amazing throughout this tournament though. He has really pulled off some amazing holds/comebacks. If the.stc wasn't in I would say glade is the favorite right now
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For anyone wondering about the two missing lower bracket spots:
dignitasSjoW and dignitasNaNiwa will play tomorrow, since it was like 6am for them when they had to play, FXOFilthy will also face Naugrim tomorrow.
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hehe its unfortunate I didnt get to watch many games, cos I am in India... But i love the comments and am looking forward to catching up on replays Some huge games to come tomorrow..
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Why are some of the match results 1-0?
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I guess some players didn't show up. Quite a few actually
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There was a time problem.
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of course there was a problem when you let the europeans play at 3 am, how should they play at that time without losing concentration??
bad organized
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On February 19 2011 15:45 Rampager wrote:
It really feels like the Glade just wore Goody down. Close positions Metalopolis was an incredibly long game and Glade never quite seemed down and out and after it he maintained his edge while Goody probably felt pressured and tired, and wanted to end the games quickly as we saw in Games 2 and 3.
Really unfortunate that the psychological aspect got to Goody, but that's Starcraft and god knows Day9 has talked about this more than often. <3 Glade, please win against Destination!
Its probably more the time (was it 5 or 6 am) than some "psychological aspect" that wore him down.
He just could not play his usual turtle style due to time and had to try to end it quickly.
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On February 19 2011 18:48 ZeraToss wrote:
of course there was a problem when you let the europeans play at 3 am, how should they play at that time without losing concentration??
bad organized
I'm sorry, is there a better way to host a world-wide tournament? Please, enlighten us.
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On February 19 2011 18:48 ZeraToss wrote:
of course there was a problem when you let the europeans play at 3 am, how should they play at that time without losing concentration??
bad organized
1. The tournament has players from EVERY region of the world, no time is perfect
2. The players would have been well aware of t he time of the tournament when accepting invites
3. The tournament ran smoothly with a ton of streams in different languages and non stop games being played of the highest quality
A tournament with a player pool this diverse was always going to have a chunk of no-shows for various reasons, these were made worse by the Prime team manager misreading AM and PM but it was definitely not "bad organized" and I challenge you to come up with a better time to run a multi national tournament
I have nothing to do with FXO but I have the utmost respect for people putting on these huge big money tournaments and attracting the best talent from around the world for us to watch for free, if there was actually anything worth complaining about I would be right there with you but this just seems like whining for the sake of whining.
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On February 19 2011 18:48 ZeraToss wrote:
of course there was a problem when you let the europeans play at 3 am, how should they play at that time without losing concentration??
bad organized
Lol you are an idiot badmouthing the organizer like that. So far everybody has said the tourney was organized greatly.
The time this tournament is related to the fact that it has players from all over the globe, what does that have to do with organisation?
Yeah it sucks for Europeans, put if they cant play at that time they should not have accepted invites in the first place.
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On February 19 2011 18:48 ZeraToss wrote:
of course there was a problem when you let the europeans play at 3 am, how should they play at that time without losing concentration??
bad organized
Obviously one of the four main timezones is going to get the short straw, it is too bad and cannot be avoided.
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On February 19 2011 19:05 weaknurse wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 18:48 ZeraToss wrote:
of course there was a problem when you let the europeans play at 3 am, how should they play at that time without losing concentration??
bad organized Obviously one of the four main timezones is going to get the short straw, it is too bad and cannot be avoided.
Yeah, I don't see this guy complaining that all the go4sc/zotac/tl opens start at midnight in Australia, they must all be bad organized right!
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any VOD's of this ? for us in the CET timezone the tournement starts at 3 am ...
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sry about that bad organized thing, i shouldn't write that, yea that was whining, but just because im usually rooting for the europeans who are invited too. They just couldn't just play that well, like Goody
somebody know where vods are?
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On February 19 2011 19:15 Apoo wrote:any VOD's of this ? for us in the CET timezone the tournement starts at 3 am ...
Yeah! I wantz VODs!
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There is always going to be someone upset. Our players have to tolerate TSL timezones, and do not complain about it. They play at 4am and other weird times for that tournament. Its part of being a pro gamer..
It is not hard to set yourself up to have enough sleep for such a tournament time. It just takes discipline.
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I just found some VOD's from justin.tv if you click the English cast with Artosis and Unstable.
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replays are on the fxopen esports twitter, I'm sure frequency will show you the link.
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We haven't uploaded many as of yet, but all of the replays will be available for download at the conclusion of the tournament (assuming everyone sent their replays).
www.twitter.com/fxopenesports has links to maybe 6 or 7 of todays games.
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On February 19 2011 19:00 Paz wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 18:48 ZeraToss wrote:
of course there was a problem when you let the europeans play at 3 am, how should they play at that time without losing concentration??
bad organized 1. The tournament has players from EVERY region of the world, no time is perfect 2. The players would have been well aware of t he time of the tournament when accepting invites 3. The tournament ran smoothly with a ton of streams in different languages and non stop games being played of the highest quality A tournament with a player pool this diverse was always going to have a chunk of no-shows for various reasons, these were made worse by the Prime team manager misreading AM and PM but it was definitely not "bad organized" and I challenge you to come up with a better time to run a multi national tournament I have nothing to do with FXO but I have the utmost respect for people putting on these huge big money tournaments and attracting the best talent from around the world for us to watch for free, if there was actually anything worth complaining about I would be right there with you but this just seems like whining for the sake of whining.
To the question, "is there a perfect timing to play a worldwide tournament" the answer is no.
To the question, is there a better timing than this, for instance not including the largest group of players, or any other large group of players, having to play from 03:00 to 06:30, I'm sorry but the answer is undoubtebly yes.
Great tournament overall, but don't try to obscure a real issue which semt obvious for quite a lot of European players...
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United Kingdom38255 Posts
Pleasantly surprised to see both Lalush and DarkCell making it so far in the upper bracket, though I think the winner of Mana vs Hero will probably come out on top there. STC vs SeleCT rematch is a mouth watering prospect if J or OptikZero don't conjure up an unpset =)
Also go Sheth, he always puts in good performances at the fxo's heh
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Euro fans could do with stopping and thinking about what time an Australian tournament is likely to run at, particularly given the fact it has a truly global scope where one of the key points to how awesome it is, is that they are able to have top name Korean players involved.
If you're a progamer, and you wish to participate in a tourament like this you adjust for it; either sleep early and set an alarm, or adjust your sleeping schedule steadily a few days in advance so you are wide awake when the tournament comes around. It's not like most of the top eu guys are otherwise employed to have to worry about adjusting their sleeping hours for gaming.
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On February 19 2011 21:06 Asha` wrote:Euro fans could do with stopping and thinking about what time an Australian tournament is likely to run at, particularly given the fact it has a truly global scope where one of the key points to how awesome it is is that they are able to have top name Korean players involved
Well said. Some pretty ignorant stuff being said in this thread. FXOpen is an Australian group iirc, what makes you think they will run the tournament at a European favoured time when the majority of players are Korean/US/Australian.
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On February 19 2011 21:03 TeWy wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 19:00 Paz wrote:On February 19 2011 18:48 ZeraToss wrote:
of course there was a problem when you let the europeans play at 3 am, how should they play at that time without losing concentration??
bad organized 1. The tournament has players from EVERY region of the world, no time is perfect 2. The players would have been well aware of t he time of the tournament when accepting invites 3. The tournament ran smoothly with a ton of streams in different languages and non stop games being played of the highest quality A tournament with a player pool this diverse was always going to have a chunk of no-shows for various reasons, these were made worse by the Prime team manager misreading AM and PM but it was definitely not "bad organized" and I challenge you to come up with a better time to run a multi national tournament I have nothing to do with FXO but I have the utmost respect for people putting on these huge big money tournaments and attracting the best talent from around the world for us to watch for free, if there was actually anything worth complaining about I would be right there with you but this just seems like whining for the sake of whining. To the question, "is there a perfect timing to play a worldwide tournament" the answer is no. To the question, is there a better timing than this, for instance not including the largest group of players, or any other large group of players, having to play from 03:00 to 06:30, I'm sorry but the answer is undoubtebly yes. Great tournament overall, but don't try to obscure a real issue which semt obvious for quite a lot of European players...
No, it is rather hard to set up a time. Remember, it has to be an acceptable time for Australia, since it is a tournament from an Australian company, and then you have to accommodate for Korea, NA and Europe, which, as you know, is all across a lot of different timezones. It would have been very difficult to set up an acceptable time for everyone, it's not hard to see that.
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On February 19 2011 21:03 TeWy wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 19:00 Paz wrote:On February 19 2011 18:48 ZeraToss wrote:
of course there was a problem when you let the europeans play at 3 am, how should they play at that time without losing concentration??
bad organized 1. The tournament has players from EVERY region of the world, no time is perfect 2. The players would have been well aware of t he time of the tournament when accepting invites 3. The tournament ran smoothly with a ton of streams in different languages and non stop games being played of the highest quality A tournament with a player pool this diverse was always going to have a chunk of no-shows for various reasons, these were made worse by the Prime team manager misreading AM and PM but it was definitely not "bad organized" and I challenge you to come up with a better time to run a multi national tournament I have nothing to do with FXO but I have the utmost respect for people putting on these huge big money tournaments and attracting the best talent from around the world for us to watch for free, if there was actually anything worth complaining about I would be right there with you but this just seems like whining for the sake of whining. To the question, "is there a perfect timing to play a worldwide tournament" the answer is no. To the question, is there a better timing than this, for instance not including the largest group of players, or any other large group of players, having to play from 03:00 to 06:30, I'm sorry but the answer is undoubtebly yes. Great tournament overall, but don't try to obscure a real issue which semt obvious for quite a lot of European players...
? What's a better time then? Australians are playing at 3am every international tournament.
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On February 19 2011 21:25 Flaunt wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 21:03 TeWy wrote:On February 19 2011 19:00 Paz wrote:On February 19 2011 18:48 ZeraToss wrote:
of course there was a problem when you let the europeans play at 3 am, how should they play at that time without losing concentration??
bad organized 1. The tournament has players from EVERY region of the world, no time is perfect 2. The players would have been well aware of t he time of the tournament when accepting invites 3. The tournament ran smoothly with a ton of streams in different languages and non stop games being played of the highest quality A tournament with a player pool this diverse was always going to have a chunk of no-shows for various reasons, these were made worse by the Prime team manager misreading AM and PM but it was definitely not "bad organized" and I challenge you to come up with a better time to run a multi national tournament I have nothing to do with FXO but I have the utmost respect for people putting on these huge big money tournaments and attracting the best talent from around the world for us to watch for free, if there was actually anything worth complaining about I would be right there with you but this just seems like whining for the sake of whining. To the question, "is there a perfect timing to play a worldwide tournament" the answer is no. To the question, is there a better timing than this, for instance not including the largest group of players, or any other large group of players, having to play from 03:00 to 06:30, I'm sorry but the answer is undoubtebly yes. Great tournament overall, but don't try to obscure a real issue which semt obvious for quite a lot of European players... ? What's a better time then? Australians are playing at 3am every international tournament.
I guess (i'm not absolutely sure about timezone) that if the tournament had started at 16:00 - 18:00 in Australia/South korea, then it would have started at 07:00-09:00 in Europe and 23:00-00:00 for central/east America, 01:00-02:00 in west america.
So of course west america has it bad, but 1). They have it less bad than Europeans starting at 03:00AM and 2). They are a minority compared to Europeans.
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we typically time for US AUS/ASIA and KOR.. Europeans get the short end of the straw.... for now. Dont need further discussion on this matter.
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On February 19 2011 22:02 TeWy wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 21:25 Flaunt wrote:On February 19 2011 21:03 TeWy wrote:On February 19 2011 19:00 Paz wrote:On February 19 2011 18:48 ZeraToss wrote:
of course there was a problem when you let the europeans play at 3 am, how should they play at that time without losing concentration??
bad organized 1. The tournament has players from EVERY region of the world, no time is perfect 2. The players would have been well aware of t he time of the tournament when accepting invites 3. The tournament ran smoothly with a ton of streams in different languages and non stop games being played of the highest quality A tournament with a player pool this diverse was always going to have a chunk of no-shows for various reasons, these were made worse by the Prime team manager misreading AM and PM but it was definitely not "bad organized" and I challenge you to come up with a better time to run a multi national tournament I have nothing to do with FXO but I have the utmost respect for people putting on these huge big money tournaments and attracting the best talent from around the world for us to watch for free, if there was actually anything worth complaining about I would be right there with you but this just seems like whining for the sake of whining. To the question, "is there a perfect timing to play a worldwide tournament" the answer is no. To the question, is there a better timing than this, for instance not including the largest group of players, or any other large group of players, having to play from 03:00 to 06:30, I'm sorry but the answer is undoubtebly yes. Great tournament overall, but don't try to obscure a real issue which semt obvious for quite a lot of European players... ? What's a better time then? Australians are playing at 3am every international tournament. I guess (i'm not absolutely sure about timezone) that if the tournament had started at 16:00 - 18:00 in Australia/South korea, then it would have started at 07:00-09:00 in Europe and 23:00-00:00 for central/east America, 01:00-02:00 in west america. So of course west america has it bad, but 1). They have it less bad than Europeans starting at 03:00AM and 2). They are a minority compared to Europeans.
People have the option of not playing in the tournament. Plus, as a professional gamer you always have time to adjust your sleeping pattern to fit the tournament time-zone better. Either by making sure you wake up at 2AM or stay up and go to bed at 8AM (or whenever the tournament finishes for the day).
If the players refused to play during those times they simply would've opted out of the tournament. No one is forcing anyone to play at a certain time because they don't have to play in this tournament if they don't want to. Crying on behalf of players who knowingly accepted the invite completely aware of the times is absolutely ridiculous. If anyone should be doing the crying it's the players, and even then it's absolutely ridiculous because they knew what they were getting into.
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It would be great if you guys could upload the replays directly to http://challonge.com/fxopenis1
Challonge allows file uploads on every match and it will make specific replays much easier to find imo.
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Uploading some of the replays from Day 1 and releasing them on twitter now! Unfortunately not many people sent them in, but Day 2 should see more replays!
http://twitter.com/#!/FXOpeneSports
Day 2 broadcast to start in about 1 hour! Check the TL stream list/calendar or the OP for the stream listing!
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oGsTheStC fighting, he will take his 2nd FXOpen-title :-)
his terran play is just beautiful
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On February 19 2011 22:02 TeWy wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2011 21:25 Flaunt wrote:On February 19 2011 21:03 TeWy wrote:On February 19 2011 19:00 Paz wrote:On February 19 2011 18:48 ZeraToss wrote:
of course there was a problem when you let the europeans play at 3 am, how should they play at that time without losing concentration??
bad organized 1. The tournament has players from EVERY region of the world, no time is perfect 2. The players would have been well aware of t he time of the tournament when accepting invites 3. The tournament ran smoothly with a ton of streams in different languages and non stop games being played of the highest quality A tournament with a player pool this diverse was always going to have a chunk of no-shows for various reasons, these were made worse by the Prime team manager misreading AM and PM but it was definitely not "bad organized" and I challenge you to come up with a better time to run a multi national tournament I have nothing to do with FXO but I have the utmost respect for people putting on these huge big money tournaments and attracting the best talent from around the world for us to watch for free, if there was actually anything worth complaining about I would be right there with you but this just seems like whining for the sake of whining. To the question, "is there a perfect timing to play a worldwide tournament" the answer is no. To the question, is there a better timing than this, for instance not including the largest group of players, or any other large group of players, having to play from 03:00 to 06:30, I'm sorry but the answer is undoubtebly yes. Great tournament overall, but don't try to obscure a real issue which semt obvious for quite a lot of European players... ? What's a better time then? Australians are playing at 3am every international tournament. I guess (i'm not absolutely sure about timezone) that if the tournament had started at 16:00 - 18:00 in Australia/South korea, then it would have started at 07:00-09:00 in Europe and 23:00-00:00 for central/east America, 01:00-02:00 in west america. So of course west america has it bad, but 1). They have it less bad than Europeans starting at 03:00AM and 2). They are a minority compared to Europeans.
How long did the first day go for? 4-5 hours? If you start that for Australia, it will be about 11.00PM before it finishes. Unfortunatly, as it is an Australian tournament, it has to be optimal times for Australia, and not for other time zones. Same thing happens when you host a tournament in any other time zone.
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Is Artosis able to cast today?
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Was nani v sjow played already or will it be played straight away?
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On February 20 2011 10:46 BatCat wrote:
Is Artosis able to cast today?
I would like to know this as well
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On February 20 2011 10:49 shaunnn wrote:
Was nani v sjow played already or will it be played straight away?
It hasn't been played yet.
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On February 20 2011 10:46 BatCat wrote:
Is Artosis able to cast today?
He is not responding to anyone.
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United Kingdom38255 Posts
Nice first match to start off, go go SeleCT! Cross pos meta should hopefully make for a great first game
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I dont know any better time for EU. U come home and tourneys are rdy to start.. Perfect for a weekend. better than in the early evening where u have better stuff to do. Exept ur actually a player who needs to focus..
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Artosis already didn't sleep from casting TLOpen, I don't think he'd cast at all.
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Glad I know German. Khaldor really is one of the better casters out there
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SeleCT very dominant in game 1, really abused optik expanding straight to the gold
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The winner will face sTc/oGsJ, this could be a rematch of the last FXO final.
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DT+warp prism for optikzero, 1techrax expand for Select.
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ALLEYCAT BLUES50121 Posts
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Holy shit! Select drop control so good!
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wow, select is playing ultra abusive right now, optik is in panic mode.
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Damn Select is so abusive with his drops and micro, he really is running over optikzero even after the bad start with the dt drop
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Awesome game. Drops with 280 apm are insane !
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ALLEYCAT BLUES50121 Posts
Constant harassment from select optickzero really taking so much hurt!
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United Kingdom38255 Posts
SeleCT is so awesome, I'll be really upset if he doesn't manage to squeeze into TSL3 because he's definitely one of the very best players currently outside of Korea.
Seems like Sheth 2-0'd Incontrol, nicely done by him =)
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Optikzero might not be a top tier opponent, but damn Select is impressive.
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I don't understand what Khaldor is saying but he's excitement is just awesome.
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ALLEYCAT BLUES50121 Posts
GG from OptikZero
impressive play from select!
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On February 20 2011 11:24 Asha` wrote:
SeleCT is so awesome, I'll be really upset if he doesn't manage to squeeze into TSL3 because he's definitely one of the very best players currently outside of Korea.
Seems like Sheth 2-0'd Incontrol, nicely done by him =)
I know and it doesn't look like he's going to get into tsl unless he gets far next week ><
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Build stalkers next time Optikzero, please! All you had to do is kill those medivacs and you would've been golden.
But SeleCT abused the fuck out of it so well done to him, really well played.
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SeleCT played that so so well, particularly after getting caught completely off guard by Optik's fast DT/Warp Prism build
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no wonder why incontrol called select the octopus terran
hes everywhere at once!
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Wow Selects multitask is so good. Great comeback by him. Also kudos to khaldor for casting so much yesterday and today even tho I dont speak German the passion is his commentaries is contagious
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On February 20 2011 11:24 Asha` wrote:
SeleCT is so awesome, I'll be really upset if he doesn't manage to squeeze into TSL3 because he's definitely one of the very best players currently outside of Korea.
Seems like Sheth 2-0'd Incontrol, nicely done by him =)
I'm actually gonna cry myself to sleep if we don't get to see that talent in TSL3.
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On February 20 2011 11:28 Nick_54 wrote:
Wow Selects multitask is so good. Great comeback by him. Also kudos to khaldor for casting so much yesterday and today even tho I dont speak German the passion is his commentaries is contagious
he does english sometimes 
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On February 20 2011 11:29 Vorlik wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2011 11:28 Nick_54 wrote:
Wow Selects multitask is so good. Great comeback by him. Also kudos to khaldor for casting so much yesterday and today even tho I dont speak German the passion is his commentaries is contagious he does english sometimes
Yeah Khaldor has also become one of my favourite casters, I prefer him over the english stream although I don't understand a word of German.
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Select is definetely a top 5 foriegner terran. I just wished he played in more tournies. And major props to sheth in 2-0ing incontrol in pvz. Thats not an easy feat
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Hrm, seems Sjow got a def. win over Nani.
I've not seen a whole lot of bubbles, but I saw him play in the first jtv invitational a while back and thought he showed some nice stuff, so this should be interesting =)
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GOD I LOVE KHALDOR!!! and he has fluent english, he should do a mix of english german casting, hitting both german and english speakers at the same time!
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is select really at risk of not making tsl through points? didnt he finish top4 for 2 times already or something like that?
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He was in korea and didn't enter / missed a lot of TSLs
He has 1 TSL to qualify, by getting top 8 or better
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incontrol still doesn't deliver in tournaments, saddens me :<
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WP by SjoW
But the game was pretty random :-D
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On February 20 2011 11:37 dacthehork wrote:
He was in korea and didn't enter / missed a lot of TSLs
He has 1 TSL to qualify, by getting top 8 or better
does he really have to make top 8 or is this just a theoretical worst case scenario where all his competition for the point qualification also gets far? ie, might ro16 be enough aswell?
damn, im a huge select fan. i was already a fan of him in my/his dawn of war days... anyways, thestc vs J and the winner of that vs select is gonna be great. awesome start into day2 so far^^
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On February 20 2011 11:38 Elefanto wrote:
incontrol still doesn't deliver in tournaments, saddens me :<
He beat LZ and StrifeCo, lost to Mana and Sheth, it's hardly a disappointing performance imo.
Hero 2-0'd Mana, I thought that one might have been a little more competitive.
Lalush 2-0'd Darkcell!
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RE: Select and TSL 3.
He's currently something like #10 on the points list, meaning he's 2 places outside of the qualifiers so has to get at least some kind of points scoring placing next weekend to even have a shot.
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On February 20 2011 11:40 Asha` wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2011 11:38 Elefanto wrote:
incontrol still doesn't deliver in tournaments, saddens me :< He beat LZ and StrifeCo, lost to Mana and Sheth, it's hardly a disappointing performance imo. Hero 2-0'd Mana, I thought that one might have been a little more competitive. Lalush 2-0'd Darkcell!
He's a middle tier protoss, but that doesn't take away from the fact that he's a funny guy and is no doubt living an amazing life ;D
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What, I'm off screen for 5 minutes and sjow is 1-0 already, what happened ?
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On February 20 2011 11:39 Black Gun wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2011 11:37 dacthehork wrote:
He was in korea and didn't enter / missed a lot of TSLs
He has 1 TSL to qualify, by getting top 8 or better does he really have to make top 8 or is this just a theoretical worst case scenario where all his competition for the point qualification also gets far? ie, might ro16 be enough aswell? damn, im a huge select fan. i was already a fan of him in my/his dawn of war days... anyways, thestc vs J and the winner of that vs select is gonna be great. awesome start into day2 so far^^
Best case scenario, top 8 will make him tie for 8th with Strelok, so he'll have to play a play off for his spot, but most likely he'll have to make top 4 to qualify.
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On February 20 2011 11:42 MrCon wrote:
What, I'm off screen for 5 minutes and sjow is 1-0 already, what happened ?
Standard 4-gate, but Sjow managed to push right after his opponent warped in 4 units on the opposite side of the map, so it became a base race, and we all know which race tends to win that one.
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On February 20 2011 11:42 MrCon wrote:
What, I'm off screen for 5 minutes and sjow is 1-0 already, what happened ?
MEtalopolis
bubbles 4 gate
SjoW pushes bubbles before the 4 gate kicks in. Bubbles was already on the way to SjoW's base using the other path. Bubbles then pushes SjoW's base but SjoW has a bunker and is able to defend with workers + a few units while completely destroying bubble's economy.
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On February 20 2011 11:42 Orome wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2011 11:39 Black Gun wrote:On February 20 2011 11:37 dacthehork wrote:
He was in korea and didn't enter / missed a lot of TSLs
He has 1 TSL to qualify, by getting top 8 or better does he really have to make top 8 or is this just a theoretical worst case scenario where all his competition for the point qualification also gets far? ie, might ro16 be enough aswell? damn, im a huge select fan. i was already a fan of him in my/his dawn of war days... anyways, thestc vs J and the winner of that vs select is gonna be great. awesome start into day2 so far^^ Best case scenario, top 8 will make him tie for 8th with Strelok, so he'll have to play a play off for his spot, but most likely he'll have to make top 4 to qualify.
Which really sucks, because I have no doubt in my mind that Select can beat many of the top 8. He just doesn't do too well in long tournaments I guess, because he always falls out ro64-ro32
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On February 20 2011 11:42 MrCon wrote:
What, I'm off screen for 5 minutes and sjow is 1-0 already, what happened ?
They both went for pushes at the same time, running around metalopolis the opposite way to each other xD
Bubbles waited on warp ins while Sjow went straight up his ramp and started trashing his base, that meant Bubbles had to warp in at home while trying to push Sjows base but Sjow got a bunker up and held off pretty easily and Bubbles just gg'd since his main was still taking a beating.
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holy shit sjow is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO bad
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Just toying with those pylons.
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On February 20 2011 11:51 oursblanc wrote:
Just toying with those pylons.
Think he wanted to drop both of them into red before destroying them so the stalkers couldn't close the distance and kill him, but the colossus was too much and he had to back off.
Don't think Bubbles will lose this
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sjow...your vikings weren't in that battle till your bio was dead. whyyyy
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Looks like Sjow fell asleep halfway through that match. Don't blame him, but lol.
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On February 20 2011 11:53 1Eris1 wrote:
sjow...your vikings weren't in that battle till your bio was dead. whyyyy
yeah, that was just -___-
wouldn't surprise me if he's a little tired having played TLOpen, GCPL, and now this.
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Khaldor still seems totally baller after casting TLOpen though
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On February 20 2011 11:55 Asha` wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2011 11:53 1Eris1 wrote:
sjow...your vikings weren't in that battle till your bio was dead. whyyyy yeah, that was just -___- wouldn't surprise me if he's a little tired having played TLOpen, GCPL, and now this.
I think so too. Yesterday Sjow played until 9am in FXO (europe time), then TLOpen at 12, and now day 2 of FXO, I guess he hasn't slept for like 36 hours minimum.
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Hero vs Lalush on Unstable (official eng stream)
Bubbles vs Sjow Game 3 on Khaldor
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Nooo Sjow. should have went the long way round with the hellion.
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Sigh, second proxy stargate build Sjow loses to today
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Haha, Sjow vs Bubbles was hilarious
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what happened to the sjow who defeated white-ra ...
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On February 20 2011 12:08 Asha` wrote:Sigh, second proxy stargate build Sjow loses to today
lol yeah..I was thinking in my head..didn't I see this already? Then I remembered it was GCPL earlier today.
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imho sjow could have won that with better micro/multitasking. very unimpressive game by him....
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On February 20 2011 12:09 Corvi wrote:
what happened to the sjow who defeated white-ra ...
That felt like a build order loss, dealing with a quick voidray without stim or a decent marine count is hard. Seemed like Bubbles knew exactly what he was doing (maybe he has seen Sjow do it before?)
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How is Haypro playing Protoss?
He doesnt ZvZ?
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^ It's Hero using his account.
I think Bubbles just knows what he has to do against SjoW.
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might have been due to lag, but that collossi positioning to take down gold rocks was horrible
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That's a lot of void rays.
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why corrupter hydras, that wont do it -_-
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How was that a brilliant defense? He just a-moved colossus/VR into badly controlled hydras...
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Was that a drop or did lalush ragequit for some bizarre reason?
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On February 20 2011 12:18 Telcontar wrote:
Was that a drop or did lalush ragequit for some bizarre reason?
Knowing lalush, probably a ragequit. Don't blame him either. That was brutal
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Lalush doesn't gg when he loses. Never had, never will. Get used it.
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Speaking as a Protoss...mass Voidrays doesn't just only counter Hydra/Corruptor, they counter EVERYTHING :/ (except maybe mass Marine), the unit is so dumb, there seems to be no middle ground. A few void rays are bad but a ton of them are ridiculous
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He rage quitted after throwing away his entire army against the void rays + colossi.
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On February 20 2011 12:19 Dommk wrote:
Speaking as a Protoss...mass Voidrays doesn't just only counter Hydra/Corruptor, they counter EVERYTHING :/ (except maybe mass Marine), the unit is so dumb, there seems to be no middle ground. A few void rays are bad but a ton of them are ridiculous
Mass Void Rays lose to mass mutas or mass hydras, cost for cost. The colossi are key to this composition for getting rid of hydras, and Lalush was doing well sniping the colossi until he just decided to a-move his corrupters and hydras into void rays and 3 colossi, which lost him the game.
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either snipe the collosi with corruptors and kill the rest with hydras, or play mass mutas.
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I guess if you never gg, it's not considered ragequitting, lol. I doubt lalush rages every single lost game.
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Yep I feel you have to focus down the colossus asap - the catch of course is that generally that gives the void rays time to charge up and the P can get some good forcefields off ;P
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I thought lalush was going for an interesting infestor/muta tech switch with good flyer upgrades. I'm assuming he got the greater spire for upgrades not blords.
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Khaldor is always talking about mass mutas. But I don't think that will work either against Voidray/collossi. Maybe in very late game if you remax only with mutas after your army died.
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unless Lalush goes for some timing attack, I won't be surprised if the Protoss repeats what he did in the previous game and turtles while massing up VR / collossi
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On February 20 2011 12:23 dragoonier wrote:
Khaldor is always talking about mass mutas. But I don't think that will work either against Voidray/collossi. Maybe in very late game if you remax only with mutas after your army died.
it does, the only games i saw seeing zerg beat that army composition, was with massiv muta usage
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On February 20 2011 12:24 Elefanto wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2011 12:23 dragoonier wrote:
Khaldor is always talking about mass mutas. But I don't think that will work either against Voidray/collossi. Maybe in very late game if you remax only with mutas after your army died. it does, the only games i saw seeing zerg beat that army composition, was with massiv muta usage
Judging from I've seen Zerg pros say, Mass Mutas work great the problem is actually getting to that mass because of the timing window it opens.
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I guess zergs are avoiding the muta switch because they fear the protoss will just pump phoenixes to shut that down. However, when you have infestor tech like lalush did that game, I think it could work. You just have to smooth out the transition to make sure you don't die during the switch. Something to be explored definitely.
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Hmm Select v TheStC rematch coming up!
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Eh, I hate when PvZ ends up with this unstoppable protoss ball despite whatever advantage zerg may have. Seems once Protoss hits 200.200 its impossible to beat them
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Lalush's theorycrafting is better than his playing >_>
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Ugh. heros play looks so scary. mass muta beats the vr/colossi ball, but he adds in a few phoenixes and it changes everything.
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Ahh man.. Hero is looking pretty scary :/
Lol.. swarm overpowers you
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Hahahah, all the phoenixes lifting drones made me laugh.
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On February 20 2011 12:27 PartyBiscuit wrote:
Hmm Select v TheStC rematch coming up!
Just a comment on this for those wondering why last event's 1st and 2nd are playing each other: we eventually want to use an internal ELO or ranking for seeds and invite choices but there were too few tournaments run at this stage. Because of this, seeding included such players are Junwi and other top Europeans who had not played in the events yet and it would be unfair to give someone like Junwi no seeding! Eventually the previous tournaments will have a lot of weighting on invites and seeding, though
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not taking down the nat expo might end up being pretty huge
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Poor decision by Lalush to not just focus the natural expo.
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Why didn't you focus the nexus Lalush!?
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Oh, that's oGsHero with Haypro account. Nevermind my question.
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Man those dark templar shredded through that army :/ such sick damage
On February 20 2011 12:38 KahunaNui wrote:
Why is Haypro playing Protoss?
it is oGsHero playing on his account if i am correct..
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On February 20 2011 12:38 KahunaNui wrote:
Why is Haypro playing Protoss?
It's oGsHero in Haypro's account.
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On February 20 2011 12:19 GenoZStriker wrote:
Lalush doesn't gg when he loses. Never had, never will. Get used it.
He's not so bad.
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lol khaldor is so awesome.. that was a gg to watch.
and to repeat.. its not haypro.. its ogs hero using his account to play.
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Wow, lalush losing despite "winning".
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Seems like Khaldor hates koreans
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khaldooooooor :D
lalush seemed intimidated he shouldn't have gg yet
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i was actually impressed by lalush, didnt know he was capable of playing at all, only ever seen him QQ.
khaldor's enthusiasm is overwhelming :D
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Mana taking down Supernova? Very nice =)
oh shit, SeleCT vs theSTC is going to be so so sick
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Hero played a great game there, his multitasking being the best aspect of his play. Attacking on one front while defending natural while constantly harassing with phoenixes while keeping his money low at all times, extremely well played, completely outplayed lalush
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On February 20 2011 12:40 Asha` wrote:
Mana taking down Supernova? Very nice =)
oh shit, SeleCT vs theSTC is going to be so so sick
1st vs 2nd rematch.. i'd call that epic
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Sry guys what happend to Haypro?
Afaik OGsHero played Lalush on Hayprors Acc.
Is Haypro out of the tourney?
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On February 20 2011 12:42 Delicious.Cake wrote:
Sry guys what happend to Haypro?
Afaik OGsHero played Lalush on Hayprors Acc.
Is Haypro out of the tourney?
Haypro was ill and had to withdraw yesterday
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TheStC plays at a level somewhat near MVP, so will be interesting to see how SelecT can go vs one of the very best terrans.
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On February 20 2011 12:43 Asha` wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2011 12:42 Delicious.Cake wrote:
Sry guys what happend to Haypro?
Afaik OGsHero played Lalush on Hayprors Acc.
Is Haypro out of the tourney? Haypro was ill and had to withdraw yesterday
Thx a lot
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On February 20 2011 12:43 AxionSteel wrote:
TheStC plays at a level somewhat near MVP, so will be interesting to see how SelecT can go vs one of the very best terrans.
But his military service may have gotten in the way? Isn't that why he has been a bit absent recently?
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Why isn't wolf using a scoreboard overlay?
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On February 20 2011 12:43 AxionSteel wrote:
TheStC plays at a level somewhat near MVP, so will be interesting to see how SelecT can go vs one of the very best terrans.
Calm down, bro.
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Zerg all ins are strong when you only make 1 Gateway on 2 base
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On February 20 2011 12:43 AxionSteel wrote:
TheStC plays at a level somewhat near MVP, so will be interesting to see how SelecT can go vs one of the very best terrans.
If by somewhat you mean at a completely different(worse) level, then yeah, I agree.
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On February 20 2011 12:50 zerious wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2011 12:43 AxionSteel wrote:
TheStC plays at a level somewhat near MVP, so will be interesting to see how SelecT can go vs one of the very best terrans. Calm down, bro.
Yeah, I've never understood all the hype going around TheStC.
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Don't worry, i'm very calm. Been watching thestc on Xeph's stream lately and he's exceptional, beating mvp a couple of times as well as many others. Ask any Korean and they'd tell you how good he is.
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Moonglade busts a 2base air protoss and pushes with queen hydra for the win. Moonglade 1-0 OptikZero
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On February 20 2011 12:52 Vorlik wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2011 12:43 AxionSteel wrote:
TheStC plays at a level somewhat near MVP, so will be interesting to see how SelecT can go vs one of the very best terrans. If by somewhat you mean at a completely different(worse) level, then yeah, I agree.
He has beaten MVP before on stream, so I wouldn't say he's much worse. He probably still is a level lower than MVP from what I've seen since, MVP's macro and decision making still outshines his.
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On February 20 2011 12:52 Daozzt wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2011 12:50 zerious wrote:On February 20 2011 12:43 AxionSteel wrote:
TheStC plays at a level somewhat near MVP, so will be interesting to see how SelecT can go vs one of the very best terrans. Calm down, bro. Yeah, I've never understood all the hype going around TheStC.
He is overrated, but you should really check out some of his beta replays. His multitasking was amazing
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On February 20 2011 12:53 susySquark wrote:
Moonglade busts a 2base air protoss and pushes with queen hydra for the win. Moonglade 1-0 OptikZero
a very.......slow..........p..
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On February 20 2011 12:52 Daozzt wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2011 12:50 zerious wrote:On February 20 2011 12:43 AxionSteel wrote:
TheStC plays at a level somewhat near MVP, so will be interesting to see how SelecT can go vs one of the very best terrans. Calm down, bro. Yeah, I've never understood all the hype going around TheStC.
I dont mean this in an insulting way but that probably means you didnt watch during the early stages of the game around beta/early release and before TheStC had to do the army.. he was easily one of the top 3 Terrans in the world..
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Looks like Stc gonna take Game 1
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I feel as if select does so much micro that his macro slips ><
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On February 20 2011 12:53 netherDrake wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2011 12:52 Vorlik wrote:On February 20 2011 12:43 AxionSteel wrote:
TheStC plays at a level somewhat near MVP, so will be interesting to see how SelecT can go vs one of the very best terrans. If by somewhat you mean at a completely different(worse) level, then yeah, I agree. He has beaten MVP before on stream, so I wouldn't say he's much worse. He probably still is a level lower than MVP from what I've seen since, MVP's macro and decision making still outshines his.
The game where MVP went for the fast gold expand on LT? lol
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On February 20 2011 12:57 zerious wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2011 12:53 netherDrake wrote:On February 20 2011 12:52 Vorlik wrote:On February 20 2011 12:43 AxionSteel wrote:
TheStC plays at a level somewhat near MVP, so will be interesting to see how SelecT can go vs one of the very best terrans. If by somewhat you mean at a completely different(worse) level, then yeah, I agree. He has beaten MVP before on stream, so I wouldn't say he's much worse. He probably still is a level lower than MVP from what I've seen since, MVP's macro and decision making still outshines his. The game where MVP went for the fast gold expand on LT? lol
Yeah.
edit: yeah it was abit ridiculous but mvp clawed his way back to an even game and stc won that if i rmb correctly
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On February 20 2011 12:54 StyLeD wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2011 12:53 susySquark wrote:
Moonglade busts a 2base air protoss and pushes with queen hydra for the win. Moonglade 1-0 OptikZero a very.......slow..........p.. .. ..u ....s ....h.........
'could you just wait 10 minutes man? I gotta send my units over to kill you.'
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Bubbles took down SjoW.. iNcontrol downed Junwi ..dde downing Dimaga.. some crazy matchups --> so impressed with this tournament so far lots of big names :D
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On February 20 2011 12:55 bkrow wrote:
he was easily one of the top 3 Terrans in the world..
he's still pretty much up there, not as good as Mvp but he's up there with all the other korean terrans.
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On February 20 2011 13:00 bkrow wrote:Bubbles took down SjoW.. iNcontrol downed Junwi ..dde downing Dimaga.. some crazy matchups --> so impressed with this tournament so far lots of big names :D
The latter 2 were walkovers
Bubbles impressive run through the lower bracket continues however with a 2-1 win over darkcell
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On February 20 2011 12:55 bkrow wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2011 12:52 Daozzt wrote:On February 20 2011 12:50 zerious wrote:On February 20 2011 12:43 AxionSteel wrote:
TheStC plays at a level somewhat near MVP, so will be interesting to see how SelecT can go vs one of the very best terrans. Calm down, bro. Yeah, I've never understood all the hype going around TheStC. I dont mean this in an insulting way but that probably means you didnt watch during the early stages of the game around beta/early release and before TheStC had to do the army.. he was easily one of the top 3 Terrans in the world..
Yeah, I've seen his play during beta and he was clearly one of the best then. But right now, it seems like he still gets a lot of undeserved hype, even though he hasn't really accomplished much due to better T's catching up (and him being in the army). It's kind of like  TesteR, who's pretty much fallen off the radar since beta.
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On February 20 2011 13:00 bkrow wrote:Bubbles took down SjoW.. iNcontrol downed Junwi ..dde downing Dimaga.. some crazy matchups --> so impressed with this tournament so far lots of big names :D
inc vs junwi and dde vs dimaga were def-wins, no? which is the biggest "meh" of the tournament... so many def wins ;/ the games that were played have been quite entertaining, though.
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On February 20 2011 13:01 Daozzt wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2011 12:55 bkrow wrote:On February 20 2011 12:52 Daozzt wrote:On February 20 2011 12:50 zerious wrote:On February 20 2011 12:43 AxionSteel wrote:
TheStC plays at a level somewhat near MVP, so will be interesting to see how SelecT can go vs one of the very best terrans. Calm down, bro. Yeah, I've never understood all the hype going around TheStC. I dont mean this in an insulting way but that probably means you didnt watch during the early stages of the game around beta/early release and before TheStC had to do the army.. he was easily one of the top 3 Terrans in the world.. Yeah, I've seen his play during beta and he was clearly one of the best then. But right now, it seems like he still gets a lot of undeserved hype, even though he hasn't really accomplished much due to better T's catching up (and him being in the army). It's kind of like TesteR, who's pretty much fallen off the radar since beta.
With respect, Tester is probably still a top 3 protoss is the world considering he just madde ro.8 in the GSL.
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banshee micro from korea
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TheStC is still a monster. While watching him on Xeph's stream about a week ago it was pretty apparent he still is pretty ridiculous. While he isn't MVP, nobody is.
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TheSTC is handicapped man,hes playing so well even under mandatory service.....but I think he gets out in May.
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:| lose all your sentries to burrowed banes, know zerg has burrow, clearly that's when you keep attacking! le sigh
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On February 20 2011 13:05 BLinD-RawR wrote:
TheSTC is handicapped man,hes playing so well even under mandatory service.....but I think he gets out in May.
I seriously doubt his 21 months is up in may.
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Thanks for putting this on FXO, great turny with some very exciting matches.
Bubbles fighting!
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On February 20 2011 13:05 BLinD-RawR wrote:
TheSTC is handicapped man,hes playing so well even under mandatory service.....but I think he gets out in May.
Maybe he gets out on good behavior? xD
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Anyone having trouble loading the Own3d stream? Just keeps showing me the loading circle indefinitely when I click on play.
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Nice job by SelecT to tie it up! 1-1
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stc's military service is done may 25th 2011, i have it straight from his fingers
the reason for his hype is that he's a top 5 terran despite being in the military, so we can only be excited about how good he'll be once he's out.
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On February 20 2011 13:09 Alphaes wrote:
Anyone having trouble loading the Own3d stream? Just keeps showing me the loading circle indefinitely when I click on play.
same
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Bubbles loves the Koreans, doing an MC void push on Sjow and doing Inca's rush on the maps they were both done on.
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yeah PvP is a whole lot more idiotic than ZvZ
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On February 20 2011 13:14 Antoine wrote:
stc's military service is done may 25th 2011, i have it straight from his fingers
the reason for his hype is that he's a top 5 terran despite being in the military, so we can only be excited about how good he'll be once he's out.
Is that so? I always assumed he went into service just before the first GSL. I guess that makes his play back the in beta all the more impressive. Really looking forward to seeing what this guy will do with full-time training.
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On February 20 2011 13:14 Antoine wrote:
stc's military service is done may 25th 2011, i have it straight from his fingers
the reason for his hype is that he's a top 5 terran despite being in the military, so we can only be excited about how good he'll be once he's out.
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Spread some creep for your hydras yo.
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For anyone who has been confused, the 1-0 wins actually represent no-shows/forfeits, e.g. IMJunwi.
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why is Moonglade not spreading any creep?
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gateway units just melt to everything in this game, god damnit this is so sad to see that protoss has to death ball all the time
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moonglade vs optikzero is entertaining to watch but that's because optikzero is trying to do lategame protoss with just gateway units
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On February 20 2011 13:26 Elefanto wrote:
gateway units just melt to everything in this game, god damnit this is so sad to see that protoss has to death ball all the time
You mean use t2 and t3 in the lategame? yeah...
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PvP is hideous. Bubbles beats Mana 2-1 winning both his games with mass cannon rushing :/
Good effort from Select, but STC was just too strong
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On February 20 2011 13:29 udgnim wrote:
moonglade vs optikzero is entertaining to watch but that's because optikzero is trying to do lategame protoss with just gateway units
Those +3 weapons DT's are friggin scary though 60DMG A SWIPE!
StC and SeleCT FIGHTING!
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On February 20 2011 13:29 udgnim wrote:
mOOnGLaDe vs OpTiKzErO is entertaining to watch but that's because OpTiKzErO is trying to do lategame protoss with just gateway units
It's viable, because getting 2 colossi forces ~12 corrupters, Which chew up supply. And mOOnGLaDe reacted very badly to DT's; he could very easily have had a spore and a spine at each base so that DT's would have been detected and sniped instead of having been allowed to Kill everything. mOOnGLaDe was so far ahead before that happened...
Oh, and the 3/3 helped a lot.
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those dts who sniped 2 bases completely flipped the game around. Reminded me of artosis' game in the gsl
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Was oGsJ a no show today?
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Great games in this tourney. I wish Khaldor would cast in English because he's such an awesome caster.
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On February 20 2011 13:37 Burpies wrote:
Was oGsJ a no show today?
Not a no-show, he was no longer at the oGs house and he had technical problems with the patch/relocalizer - Sheth and StC were nice enough to try let him fix it for 90 minutes (he tried at a PC bang too) but it was no use and we had to forfeit him ;(
Hopefully he will be back next time!
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Dragon Z in German via Khaldor
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Rofl is this the german version of the opening to Dragonball Z? (Head cha-la)
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Khaldor singing along with Duke Nukem.
Shits amazing.
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On February 20 2011 13:41 tgun wrote:
Khaldor singing along with Duke Nukem.
Shits amazing.
Didn't know this guy even existed until today. He's hilarious.
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On February 20 2011 13:44 Defacer wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2011 13:41 tgun wrote:
Khaldor singing along with Duke Nukem.
Shits amazing. Didn't know this guy even existed until today. He's hilarious.
He's also an awesome caster, I always tune into his casting even though I know minimal german.
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Hahahah what is Khaldor smoking?
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Koreans taking over the WB final chat!
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lol Khaldor does a great Day-impersonating-zerg-units impression
On February 20 2011 13:46 Telcontar wrote:
Hahahah what is Khaldor smoking?
Day9 made those noises some time back in his dailies xD Khaldor prob referring to Day9
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On February 20 2011 13:39 deL wrote:Not a no-show, he was no longer at the oGs house and he had technical problems with the patch/relocalizer - Sheth and StC were nice enough to try let him fix it for 90 minutes (he tried at a PC bang too) but it was no use and we had to forfeit him ;( Hopefully he will be back next time!
Come on, stupid technical problem!! But at least now its impossible to have 1st-3rd place all for koreans
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On February 20 2011 13:45 Entropic wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2011 13:44 Defacer wrote:On February 20 2011 13:41 tgun wrote:
Khaldor singing along with Duke Nukem.
Shits amazing. Didn't know this guy even existed until today. He's hilarious. He's also an awesome caster, I always tune into his casting even though I know minimal german.
His production values are great. Not sure how I feel about how shiny he is.
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On February 20 2011 13:47 godemperor wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2011 13:39 deL wrote:On February 20 2011 13:37 Burpies wrote:
Was oGsJ a no show today? Not a no-show, he was no longer at the oGs house and he had technical problems with the patch/relocalizer - Sheth and StC were nice enough to try let him fix it for 90 minutes (he tried at a PC bang too) but it was no use and we had to forfeit him ;( Hopefully he will be back next time! Come on, stupid technical problem!! But at least now its impossible to have 1st-3rd place all for koreans
SeleCT...
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sheth needs to keep his overlords away from his army
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damn so sheths out`? bummer
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grumbegrumble should have won against bubbles /grumbegrumble
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Wow, this Khaldor guy is hilarious.
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oGsHero defended all that harass VERY well, minimal to no losses.
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Literally laughed at loud at Khaldors response to TheSTC leaving.
"Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?"
*looks at camera, puts up his hands like "i dont know"*
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On February 20 2011 13:49 deL wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2011 13:47 godemperor wrote:On February 20 2011 13:39 deL wrote:On February 20 2011 13:37 Burpies wrote:
Was oGsJ a no show today? Not a no-show, he was no longer at the oGs house and he had technical problems with the patch/relocalizer - Sheth and StC were nice enough to try let him fix it for 90 minutes (he tried at a PC bang too) but it was no use and we had to forfeit him ;( Hopefully he will be back next time! Come on, stupid technical problem!! But at least now its impossible to have 1st-3rd place all for koreans SeleCT...
Lol lol, koreas for top 3...still possible.
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lawl that gg was the best i ever saw XD
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i dont get sheth, if he actually goes aggressiv and kills the zealot, rally new lings there, sentries are _terrible_ at holding that tiny point
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StC playing sloppily with that weird attack into 5~6 sentries and late repair on the bunkers. Very strange how he just broke apart so easily.
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These games are NUTS.
StC vs Hero.
Hero showing us HOW TO FORCEFIELD.
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On February 20 2011 14:08 Telcontar wrote:
StC playing sloppily with that weird attack into 5~6 sentries and late repair on the bunkers. Very strange how he just broke apart so easily.
The failed attack pretty much screwed him over. There was almost no way for him hold with two bunkers of units when the protoss has both sentries and immortals with constantly warp-in reinforcements.
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Closepos again for Sheth? Zergs and their luck today...
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yeah cannon rushing such high level play
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On February 20 2011 14:15 Alphaes wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2011 14:08 Telcontar wrote:
StC playing sloppily with that weird attack into 5~6 sentries and late repair on the bunkers. Very strange how he just broke apart so easily. The failed attack pretty much screwed him over. There was almost no way for him hold with two bunkers of units when the protoss has both sentries and immortals with constantly warp-in reinforcements.
I disagree. I think he could've held it (perhaps barely) had he not lost that middle bunker due to the very late SCV pull. Hero didn't have that many FFs at his disposal and StC had decent production up himself. Not sure why the repair was so late though since he clearly saw what Hero was doing with that scouting SCV.
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On February 20 2011 13:59 GrazerRinge wrote:
lawl that gg was the best i ever saw XD
damn i missed it. what happened.
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On February 20 2011 14:19 Telcontar wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2011 14:15 Alphaes wrote:On February 20 2011 14:08 Telcontar wrote:
StC playing sloppily with that weird attack into 5~6 sentries and late repair on the bunkers. Very strange how he just broke apart so easily. The failed attack pretty much screwed him over. There was almost no way for him hold with two bunkers of units when the protoss has both sentries and immortals with constantly warp-in reinforcements. I disagree. I think he could've held it (perhaps barely) had he not lost that middle bunker due to the very late SCV pull. Hero didn't have that many FFs at his disposal and StC had decent production up himself. Not sure why the repair was so late though since he clearly saw what Hero was doing with that scouting SCV.
It was either - yeah I can hold this no need for repair OR "shit" I'm screwed moment"
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ogshero played amazingly, was great to watch
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On February 20 2011 14:19 Telcontar wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2011 14:15 Alphaes wrote:On February 20 2011 14:08 Telcontar wrote:
StC playing sloppily with that weird attack into 5~6 sentries and late repair on the bunkers. Very strange how he just broke apart so easily. The failed attack pretty much screwed him over. There was almost no way for him hold with two bunkers of units when the protoss has both sentries and immortals with constantly warp-in reinforcements. I disagree. I think he could've held it (perhaps barely) had he not lost that middle bunker due to the very late SCV pull. Hero didn't have that many FFs at his disposal and StC had decent production up himself. Not sure why the repair was so late though since he clearly saw what Hero was doing with that scouting SCV.
Maybe. But I feel that if the protoss sees that and just waits for another immortal and another round of units, he can still break it easily. Would just be delaying the inevitable.
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lmao wonder how this is going to turn out between optikzero & sheth
optik is going to DC
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...seriously, bnet, seriously?
Thing is, OptikZero had no army, and Sheth could arguably have busted him. I'd give Optik an advantage, but it wasn't an impossible game. I hope FXO has a clear rule set for a mess like this...
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Optikzero lags out just as Sheth brings his army of hydra over to take care of Optik's phoenixes... hm
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On February 20 2011 14:26 imareaver3 wrote:
...seriously, bnet, seriously?
why is this bnet's fault? it's not like they're in the same physical place, no matter what they have to go over the internet.
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United Kingdom16710 Posts
I wasn't watching that game. Was optik in a dominating position or was it closer?
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On February 20 2011 14:26 hiyo_bye wrote:
Optikzero lags out just as Sheth brings his army of hydra over to take care of Optik's phoenixes... hm
Say what? Zerg was screwed that game.
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On February 20 2011 14:26 hiyo_bye wrote:
Optikzero lags out just as Sheth brings his army of hydra over to take care of Optik's phoenixes... hm
That looked much better for optik than it did for sheth, it was pretty much an all in for sheth and optik had chargelots vrays and like 6 cannons at his front?
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Sheth had slim to no chance of coming back from that.
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On February 20 2011 14:27 Antoine wrote:why is this bnet's fault? it's not like they're in the same physical place, no matter what they have to go over the internet.
Just so I can rant
But ISP's are harder to bash...
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On February 20 2011 14:27 Telcontar wrote:
I wasn't watching that game. Was optik in a dominating position or was it closer?
optik was way ahead economically
not sure how much ground army he had though but he had a wall & 4-5 cannons and tons of phoenix
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On February 20 2011 14:28 Orpheusz wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2011 14:26 hiyo_bye wrote:
Optikzero lags out just as Sheth brings his army of hydra over to take care of Optik's phoenixes... hm That looked much better for optik than it did for sheth, it was pretty much an all in for sheth and optik had chargelots vrays and like 6 cannons at his front?
Sheth was aiming to do damage, that much was sure.
Remember, from afar those hydras can take out those gateways/forges without being hit by cannons.
Furthormore, the majority of optiks' army as far as I could tell were phoenixes, and just started getting other stuff.
I think he could've won.
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Oh man, I don't envy the admins for having to make a decision between their own 2 players.
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it was actually pretty smart play by optik, go mass phoenix to force many hydras, then go chargelots + void rays, voidrays to demolish the small roach army and chargelots to slaugther hydras
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On February 20 2011 14:29 Pandain wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2011 14:28 Orpheusz wrote:On February 20 2011 14:26 hiyo_bye wrote:
Optikzero lags out just as Sheth brings his army of hydra over to take care of Optik's phoenixes... hm That looked much better for optik than it did for sheth, it was pretty much an all in for sheth and optik had chargelots vrays and like 6 cannons at his front? Sheth was aiming to do damage, that much was sure. Remember, from afar those hydras can take out those gateways/forges without being hit by cannons. Furthormore, the majority of optiks' army as far as I could tell were phoenixes, and just started getting other stuff. I think he could've won.
I'm pretty sure he had a ton of chargelots and vrays back there, was looking at the production tab throughout the game.
edit: typo
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On February 20 2011 14:26 hiyo_bye wrote:
Optikzero lags out just as Sheth brings his army of hydra over to take care of Optik's phoenixes... hm
Bullshit, Phoenixes and 3 more VRs on the way are more than enough to end the game already
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On February 20 2011 14:29 Pandain wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2011 14:28 Orpheusz wrote:On February 20 2011 14:26 hiyo_bye wrote:
Optikzero lags out just as Sheth brings his army of hydra over to take care of Optik's phoenixes... hm That looked much better for optik than it did for sheth, it was pretty much an all in for sheth and optik had chargelots vrays and like 6 cannons at his front? Sheth was aiming to do damage, that much was sure. Remember, from afar those hydras can take out those gateways/forges without being hit by cannons. Furthormore, the majority of optiks' army as far as I could tell were phoenixes, and just started getting other stuff. I think he could've won.
No, he was going to get mercilessly slaughtered. Protoss had 7 gates and VRs/lots, with phoenixes to pick up hydras.
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Regame! Close air positions.
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On February 20 2011 14:26 imareaver3 wrote:
...seriously, bnet, seriously?
Thing is, OptikZero had no army, and Sheth could arguably have busted him. I'd give Optik an advantage, but it wasn't an impossible game. I hope FXO has a clear rule set for a mess like this...
As they are teammates it's easier - the manner option is to regame. Had they not agreed to something like that the replay would be viewed and it had to be CLEARLY in favour of one player (as in, you could replace them with a platinum player and they'd still win it) to award a win.
I feel giving a win before the game is over is the greater evil than taking an advantage away from a player in most cases. The point is to determine the better player so if the person with an advantage can't do it again they may not have deserved the first win (doesn't apply when they are cheesed out of course )!
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LOL Khaldor's WPM spiking like crazy.
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a little question: am i right that sheth vs optikzero and the winner of that vs lalush are the last games to be played today?
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On February 20 2011 14:38 Black Gun wrote:
a little question: am i right that sheth vs optikzero and the winner of that vs lalush are the last games to be played today?
Yes you are correct ^_^. Then next weeks the finals I believe.
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On February 20 2011 14:39 blade55555 wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2011 14:38 Black Gun wrote:
a little question: am i right that sheth vs optikzero and the winner of that vs lalush are the last games to be played today? Yes you are correct ^_^. Then next weeks the finals I believe.
ok thx, then i can go to bed now. 6:40am here in europe, and i as a terran player am not really interested in pvz....
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Oh, I didn't realise they were doing the LB semis and onwards a week from now. A little strange but whatever. Good night folks!
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On February 20 2011 14:42 Telcontar wrote:
Oh, I didn't realise they were doing the LB semis and onwards a week from now. A little strange but whatever. Good night folks!
It's because it'd finish at like 3 or 4AM for Americans and worse for Europeans, hindsight kind of makes me realise we could have played it all today because basically only Koreans are left anyway
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Every FF a protoss player drops breaks my heart a little. 80 supply ahead and absolutely no chance of even touching Optik's army...
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He killed all the collosus at least ;D
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Sheth's infestor control could use a little work :o he ran like 4 of them straight into his army and only got 1 fungal off.
and whoops there goes another one.
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Who is this oGs.Hero, he is such a freaken beast.
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Khaldor's been pretty funny today
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On February 20 2011 14:57 IAttackYou wrote:
Who is this oGs.Hero, he is such a freaken beast.
ex-BW pro Hero[shield]
From memory, FXOSheth took him out last tourney!
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Just deserts for cannon rushing~
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M...o...r...e...S...l...o...w...P...u...s...h by hydra and queen of creep.
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I hope OptikZero gets taken out I hate his cannon expand
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woohoo a Zerg that teched to Hive and has Broodlords out by the 18 minute mark
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Nice job by Lalush, pretty sick game with the broodlords.
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That's it for today! Tune in next weekend at the same time as today on the Friday for NA and Saturday for Korea/Europe to see the following matches:
LB Preliminary Final
dignitasSeleCT vs lalush [Bo3]
LB Final
oGsTheStC vs LB Preliminary Final Winner [Bo5]
Grand Final
oGsHero vs LB Final Winner [2x Bo5]
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On February 20 2011 15:31 deL wrote: oGsHero vs LB Final Winner [2x Bo5]
Wait, what? Do you mean that because this is a double elimination tournament it may end up being two Bo5's as the person coming from WB has to be eliminated twice in order to lose, or are you saying that the one from LB has to win four Bo5 sets in order to win?
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OptikZero choked his own cannon pretty hard lol
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On February 20 2011 15:31 deL wrote:That's it for today! Tune in next weekend at the same time as today on the Friday for NA and Saturday for Korea/Europe to see the following matches: LB Preliminary Final dignitasSeleCT vs lalush [Bo3] LB Final oGsTheStC vs LB Preliminary Final Winner [Bo5] Grand Final oGsHero vs LB Final Winner [2x Bo5]
So Hero has to win 1 bo5 and the LB winner has to win 2?
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On February 20 2011 15:33 SolHeiM wrote:Wait, what? Do you mean that because this is a double elimination tournament it may end up being two Bo5's as the person coming from WB has to be eliminated twice in order to lose, or are you saying that the one from LB has to win four Bo5 sets in order to win?
Pretty sure if it's the former - would be rather pointless to play more than two BoX series when you can just increase the number of games instead.
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Hero has to win 1 Bo5 in the grand finals, Lalush/Select/StC has to win two Bo5 in the grand final.
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On February 20 2011 12:49 Telcontar wrote:
Why isn't wolf using a scoreboard overlay?
I don't like them. Not only do they look tacky, but all of the overlays I've found have restricted my mouse movement in some way or another.
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Dear FXOpen event viewers/supporters/players/etc
We are going to be announcing a few things between the 3rd and 5th of March (When I get back from India).
These things are going to include more events, and something other than money for players to fight for Of course money as well...
As soon as its all ready, I will be providing further insight.
Regards,
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Nothing I like more than an announcement of an announcement =P
seriously though, if the fxopen event so far are any indication, this upcoming stuff is going to be awesome!
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If you are in india why don't you come and tell me what is up?instead of making me wait a week.
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Come to Varkala and maybe I will But probably best you wait until I get to Kuala Lumpur.
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VODs will take some time - you can access them on our english stream's jtv channel though. In the meanwhile I will upload replays via twitter!
http://twitter.com/FXOpeneSports
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On February 20 2011 16:04 FXOpen wrote:
We are going to be announcing a few things between the 3rd and 5th of March (When I get back from India).
Your teamhouse in Malaysia and the GSL-sized LAN?
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Got the VOD links, though it's just on justin.tv at the moment. Eventually they will be uploaded to youtube.
VODs
Day 1 Part 1 :: Part 2
Day 2 Part 1 :: Part 2
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We already announced teamhouse + lan.. Specifics on both are still on the boiler, as things need to be done just right. The rest of the stuff is closer to present date.
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Sounds like you've got lots more interesting stuff in the pipeline =)
Time to go catch up with the upper bracket finals, looking forward to this!
also have to say I'm also rather impressd with how well Lalush has done here ^^
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On February 20 2011 15:57 Wolf wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2011 12:49 Telcontar wrote:
Why isn't wolf using a scoreboard overlay? I don't like them. Not only do they look tacky, but all of the overlays I've found have restricted my mouse movement in some way or another.
How are they tacky if they're useful? You don't need a fancy one, just a simple overlay(can be small) indicating who's playing and the score. It's very useful for people tuning in instead of relying on a caster to say a name or click a unit, and even then they won't know the current results. It's simply unprofessional to dismiss the basics over petty mouse nuisances.
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On February 21 2011 06:10 Vorlik wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2011 15:57 Wolf wrote:On February 20 2011 12:49 Telcontar wrote:
Why isn't wolf using a scoreboard overlay? I don't like them. Not only do they look tacky, but all of the overlays I've found have restricted my mouse movement in some way or another. How are they tacky if they're useful? You don't need a fancy one, just a simple overlay(can be small) indicating who's playing and the score. It's very useful for people tuning in instead of relying on a caster to say a name or click a unit, and even then they won't know the current results. It's simply unprofessional to dismiss the basics over petty mouse nuisances.
These petty mouse nuisances affect the quality of the camera control and hence casting, which is probably more important than a fancy overlay. However, I am sure there's space on the screen somewhere for an overlay down the bottom to show playernames.
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On February 21 2011 06:10 Vorlik wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2011 15:57 Wolf wrote:On February 20 2011 12:49 Telcontar wrote:
Why isn't wolf using a scoreboard overlay? I don't like them. Not only do they look tacky, but all of the overlays I've found have restricted my mouse movement in some way or another. How are they tacky if they're useful? You don't need a fancy one, just a simple overlay(can be small) indicating who's playing and the score. It's very useful for people tuning in instead of relying on a caster to say a name or click a unit, and even then they won't know the current results. It's simply unprofessional to dismiss the basics over petty mouse nuisances.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll try to sort out the issues and have a score screen ready for next time.
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On February 21 2011 07:28 Wolf wrote:Show nested quote +On February 21 2011 06:10 Vorlik wrote:On February 20 2011 15:57 Wolf wrote:On February 20 2011 12:49 Telcontar wrote:
Why isn't wolf using a scoreboard overlay? I don't like them. Not only do they look tacky, but all of the overlays I've found have restricted my mouse movement in some way or another. How are they tacky if they're useful? You don't need a fancy one, just a simple overlay(can be small) indicating who's playing and the score. It's very useful for people tuning in instead of relying on a caster to say a name or click a unit, and even then they won't know the current results. It's simply unprofessional to dismiss the basics over petty mouse nuisances. Thanks for the feedback. I'll try to sort out the issues and have a score screen ready for next time.
I'm one of the people that does enjoy your lack of overlay Wolf, but perhaps to go hand in hand with that you need to increase mentions to the previous games in the series / say the names of the players alot more than other casters (ie, HuK, instead of the protoss, as a lot of casters do)
I'm normaly half asleep when I watch the casts though, so you might have already taken this into account, but I say if it's how you roll, stick with it.
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On February 20 2011 16:04 FXOpen wrote:Dear FXOpen event viewers/supporters/players/etc We are going to be announcing a few things between the 3rd and 5th of March (When I get back from India). These things are going to include more events, and something other than money for players to fight for Of course money as well... As soon as its all ready, I will be providing further insight. Regards,
Oh great, more announcements of announcements...!
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On February 22 2011 01:18 Alphaes wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2011 16:04 FXOpen wrote:Dear FXOpen event viewers/supporters/players/etc We are going to be announcing a few things between the 3rd and 5th of March (When I get back from India). These things are going to include more events, and something other than money for players to fight for Of course money as well... As soon as its all ready, I will be providing further insight. Regards, Oh great, more announcements of announcements...!
When will people understand that in most things (business world, sports, ESPORTS), there are always questions that lead to the answer of "We will announce that later" ? It's always going to happen. How could it not?
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On February 22 2011 01:43 Wolf wrote:Show nested quote +On February 22 2011 01:18 Alphaes wrote:On February 20 2011 16:04 FXOpen wrote:Dear FXOpen event viewers/supporters/players/etc We are going to be announcing a few things between the 3rd and 5th of March (When I get back from India). These things are going to include more events, and something other than money for players to fight for Of course money as well... As soon as its all ready, I will be providing further insight. Regards, Oh great, more announcements of announcements...! When will people understand that in most things (business world, sports, ESPORTS), there are always questions that lead to the answer of "We will announce that later" ? It's always going to happen. How could it not?
Yes, and this does not qualify as an announcement of an announcement. It's okay to say you have an announcement in the future, but at that point in the future you cannot announce an announcement else it'll become an "announcement of an announcement".
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On February 22 2011 00:56 Niick wrote:Show nested quote +On February 21 2011 07:28 Wolf wrote:On February 21 2011 06:10 Vorlik wrote:On February 20 2011 15:57 Wolf wrote:On February 20 2011 12:49 Telcontar wrote:
Why isn't wolf using a scoreboard overlay? I don't like them. Not only do they look tacky, but all of the overlays I've found have restricted my mouse movement in some way or another. How are they tacky if they're useful? You don't need a fancy one, just a simple overlay(can be small) indicating who's playing and the score. It's very useful for people tuning in instead of relying on a caster to say a name or click a unit, and even then they won't know the current results. It's simply unprofessional to dismiss the basics over petty mouse nuisances. Thanks for the feedback. I'll try to sort out the issues and have a score screen ready for next time. I'm one of the people that does enjoy your lack of overlay Wolf, but perhaps to go hand in hand with that you need to increase mentions to the previous games in the series / say the names of the players alot more than other casters (ie, HuK, instead of the protoss, as a lot of casters do) I'm normaly half asleep when I watch the casts though, so you might have already taken this into account, but I say if it's how you roll, stick with it.
Yeah maybe when it's not a mirror match you can say the player name instead of the race half the time.
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SOOOOOOOOOOOO many players I wanted to see just forfeit....
What a huge disappointment from them ='[
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Its ok, they will come again some other time.
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On February 25 2011 14:52 Shinta) wrote:
SOOOOOOOOOOOO many players I wanted to see just forfeit....
What a huge disappointment from them ='[
Some couldn't help it due to the relocalizer problems, so don't be quick to blame them!
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We took the time to talk to the defending champion TheStC from team oGs a bit about his performance in both of the tournaments and what it's like being a Korea playing in a foreign event.
deL: What were your first thoughts about getting invited to the FXOpen Invitational?
TheStC: Because this is the first tournament abroad, I was very excited to join this competition.
deL: Do you enter tournaments like this on the Korean server?
TheStC: I wish there are lots of this types of tournaments, but ever since GSL has come into effect, there is no other SC2 competitions other than GSL. However, I join every tournament available in Korea even though there are not a lot of them.
deL: How does this tournament differ or compare to Korean tournaments?
TheStC: It seems a bit different from SC2 tournaments in Korea. For example, you guys have double eliminations in the tournament. Also, the double eliminations prevent technical and skillful SC2 players to drop out of the tournament into preliminaries. In addition, in the losers' round, a person has time to control his or her mind before playing SC2. I love how this competition is being held with the double eliminations.
deL: What do you like most about the FXOpen tournament?
TheStC: As I mentioned earlier, I love double eliminations the most.
deL: Korean players don't get a chance to represent their country very
often - how do you feel representing Korea in a foreign tournament?
TheStC: Even though I am not they only Korean player, I tried to do my best to show that Korean players are not bad and I was really worried about representing Korea.
deL: What is the play level of the foreign players in the FXOpen tournament?
TheStC: To be honest, Korean players are a little bit better than foreign players for now. However, what I have noticed is that Korean players have similar styles of playing SC2 and that foreign players have different styles and techniques in their playing.
deL: Are there different playstyles from foreign players compared to other oGs or Korean players that stand out to you?
TheStC: All foreign SC2 players have different styles from OGS players, but I personally think the player "Select" is very hard to deal with and has his own freaking awesome styles!
deL: Do you know or recognise any of the non-Korean players in the FXOpen invitational?
TheStC: I have known players such as "Moonglade" who joined the last season and I personally know "Sen" and also know "Select" who was famous for War Hammer gamer.
deL: You won the last FXOpen tournament. Do you think you can win now this time? Who will be your toughest opponent?
TheStC: I am very confident in every game, but because of the latency problems, I cannot show the full skills of my SC2. Also, "Select" and "oGsHerO" are very hard to play against.
deL: The oGs coach was watching the stream. What did your oGs coach say
about the games and tournament?
TheStC: The coach, through this tournament, has caught my mistakes and helped me, and he was especially surprised at the higher level of SC2 players.
deL: Do your teammates support you and oGsHerO in this event?
TheStC: Of course! I practiced with all my team mates and TeamLiquid players helped me by telling me how foreign players play SC2. It was a lot easier to prepare once I heard important tips for dealing with foreign players.
We thank TheStC for his time taken out from practice to answer these questions!
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awesome interview with my favorite terran, hope he can pull it out!
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Good interview deL!
Will there be any replays released after the event is over?
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StC interview is epic
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On February 26 2011 08:18 MassHysteria wrote:
Good interview deL!
Will there be any replays released after the event is over?
Unfortunately until we get a website (which is in the works but lower down the priority list for now) it is hard to get every single replay. We realise this and so during the event we have been releasing some choice replays via our twitter (http://twitter.com/FXOpeneSports). Without a website where you report results and upload replays, the replays rely on the players taking the time to send them to our email and so many forget or don't save them at all and you can only remind them so many times!
Big thanks to the players who do send the replays in, and you can find them all on our twitter in older tweets! http://twitter.com/FXOpeneSports
Added our TheStC interview to a blog: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=196359
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Awesome interview! A little over an hour til' this resume of this Tournament! :D
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Can anyone confirm that the relocaliser for the Korean server works with the latest patch?
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Cool interview with TheStC, thanks for that!
Will we see the awesome GSL Bar casting overlay in action today, Wolf? :D
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LB Preliminary Final (Maps by vetoe)
dignitas.SeleCT vs Mill.lalush [Bo3]
LB Final (Metalopolis first, loser picks)
oGsTheStC vs LB Preliminary Final Winner [Bo5]
Grand Final (Metalopolis first, loser picks set 1, Xel'Naga Caverns first, loser picks set 2)
oGsHero vs LB Final Winner [2x Bo5]
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Losers finals gets a walkover.. ugh. Why not see if one of the losers can play in his place?
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On February 26 2011 11:19 Fzero wrote:
Losers finals gets a walkover.. ugh. Why not see if one of the losers can play in his place?
Not really fair, especially on SeleCT if he loses to a last-minute replacement he hasn't practiced for because of something completely out of his control.
Going live now with SeleCT vs TheStC in the LB final (bo5)! No-shows must have been contagious but we can't be too quick to blame with all of these patches recently ruining second installs and relocalisers!
Next time we will try our best to reduce the number of no-shows but as always the quality of games should be top notch!
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... And the last foreigner in the tournament fails to show up.
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Anyone having problem with the English stream?
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On February 26 2011 11:28 Azarkon wrote:
... And the last foreigner in the tournament fails to show up.
Select is at least half forienger. at least half
and yay 666th post
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On February 26 2011 11:31 Hunterai wrote:
Anyone having problem with the English stream?
Working fine for me.
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select looking really strong so far!
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On February 26 2011 11:34 deL wrote:Show nested quote +On February 26 2011 11:31 Hunterai wrote:
Anyone having problem with the English stream? Working fine for me.
Having lots of lag with it...
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On February 26 2011 11:43 APurpleCow wrote:Show nested quote +On February 26 2011 11:34 deL wrote:On February 26 2011 11:31 Hunterai wrote:
Anyone having problem with the English stream? Working fine for me. Having lots of lag with it...
Previously refreshing until you get a good stream has worked, though I have no idea on these kind of technical problems o.O I'll get the casters to take a look.
You can try lowering the quality on your end.
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Amazing play from both SeleCT and theStC.
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On February 26 2011 11:52 Yusername wrote:
Amazing play from both SeleCT and theStC.
Yeah. This is how you play SC2. I'm praying select gets into tsl at tomorrows open
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United Kingdom38255 Posts
Great first game, very exciting back and forth action!
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nice game. Select had trouble spending all his money because of the heavy pressure of thestc. Awesome how stc nearly made a comeback after loosing half of his scvs. Also great drops by Select in the beginning.
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STC Blue flame hellion (no damage) into Siege tank timing push.
Select had no tanks no marauders no banshees because of his banshee/marine/fast expansion opening and instantly dies.
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really need some sleep now. just want to say that it was a very good tourney and i enjoyed watching it on khaldors stream.
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On February 26 2011 12:22 Rylaji wrote:
So this is the final?
Lower Bracket final - the winner here will play oGsHerO (P) in up to two BO5s.
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Man, Select is good. Hope we see a lot more of him in tourneys this year. Look out MLG and NASL
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Uh, he's not really impressive at all. StC outclasses him by far, and the entire series pales in comparison to Jinro's TvT.
It's like 4 games of running into each others' siege lines trying to get 1 more shell out than the other guy, with Select pulling SCVs into it like 3 times per game.
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On February 26 2011 12:38 Talin wrote:
Uh, he's not really impressive at all. StC outclasses him, and the entire series pales in comparison to Jinro's TvT.
It's like 4 games of running into each others' siege lines trying to get 1 more shell out than the other guy, with Select pulling SCVs into it like 3 times per game.
What? He pales in comparisson to arguably the best Terran player in the world? He must be terrible.
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United States7481 Posts
this game on xelnaga is awesome
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GG's but Select was kinda outclassed.
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On February 26 2011 12:32 theqat wrote:
Man, Select is good. Hope we see a lot more of him in tourneys this year. Look out MLG and NASL
just wait until STC is done with his military service
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What a sick series, very entertaining stuff!
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game 4 is great. so many things going on at once
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On February 26 2011 12:43 deL wrote:Show nested quote +On February 26 2011 12:38 Talin wrote:
Uh, he's not really impressive at all. StC outclasses him, and the entire series pales in comparison to Jinro's TvT.
It's like 4 games of running into each others' siege lines trying to get 1 more shell out than the other guy, with Select pulling SCVs into it like 3 times per game. What? He pales in comparisson to arguably the best Terran player in the world? He must be terrible.
Mvp is pretty much indisputably the best t in the world even though he got eliminated early this season
Select and STC put on an a pretty good series though, very entertaining and up to higher level GSL standard.
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So what's the format for the Grand Final since Hero knocked STC to LB?
just wait until STC is done with his military service
yeah, I'm looking forward to that too
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Thanks for watching so far guys! oGsHerO vs oGsTheStC coming right up, TheStC is just giving HerO a call to let him know the game is ready!
Replays of the LB Final were uploaded on twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/FXOpeneSports
Grand Final
oGsHerO vs oGsTheStC (Metalopolis, Bo5 loser picks, 2nd Bo5 if TheStC wins the 1st)
Note there will be no 'extended series' shenanigannery or anything of that sort
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On February 26 2011 12:48 deL wrote:Thanks for watching so far guys! oGsHerO vs oGsTheStC coming right up, TheStC is just giving HerO a call to let him know the game is ready! Replays of the LB Final were uploaded on twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/FXOpeneSportsGrand Final oGsHerO vs oGsTheStC (Metalopolis, Bo5 loser picks, 2nd Bo5 if TheStC wins the 1st) Note there will be no 'extended series' shenanigannery or anything of that sort
the links are problematic deL. 2 of them has same link. and I thought there were 5 games played
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On February 26 2011 12:46 cuppatea wrote:
GG's but Select was kinda outclassed.
I don't agree. It came really down to the one hidden expo. If Select had scouted it early, the game would probably have been closer. Also in the Lost Temple game i think it might have been a scouting problem too, but the timing attack was very strong. The shakuras game was just bad from Select.
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Shouldn't this be played on KR? I guess not all of the observers have access to it
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On February 26 2011 12:53 Ludwigvan wrote:Show nested quote +On February 26 2011 12:46 cuppatea wrote:
GG's but Select was kinda outclassed. I don't agree. It came really down to the one hidden expo. If Select had scouted it early, the game would probably have been closer. Also in the Lost Temple game i think it might have been a scouting problem too, but the timing attack was very strong. The shakuras game was just bad from Select.
The gap wasn't huge but TheStC looked like the better player in every game imo, including the one Select won (the failed drop + counter drop gave Select a HUGE lead but then he spent the rest of the game clinging on to it for dear life).
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Hopefully oGsTheStC wins the first series so we gets an obscene amount of games :-D
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STC needs to hurry up with military and come back to gsl to roflstomp some nubs.
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On February 26 2011 12:55 theqat wrote:Shouldn't this be played on KR? I guess not all of the observers have access to it
you asked, you answered. you are a circuit, why so unhappy?
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Really like the casting duo on the Unstable stream, could listen to them all day ;D STC fighting!
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oh wow, new respect for warp prism there
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That's some of the most evil warp prism play I've ever seen. I love it!
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What an absolutely sick bit of play from Hero, my god that's just dirty haha
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Rofl Im gonna steal that:D
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Baller move. Very easy to fail that, but I guess Hero knows StC too well.
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That move was amazing. He must know exactly how Stc plays to pull that build off.
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Woah, that was SO COOL and I don't even play protoss.
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I haven't seen warp prison and sentries used that way. Pretty neat.
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On February 26 2011 13:09 Anuzi wrote:
Really like the casting duo on the Unstable stream, could listen to them all day ;D STC fighting!
It's Australian caster Unstable and American caster Wolf for those wondering n_n both quite well known on their respective servers.
All my P brothers who want to try and copy that build, I have posted the replay up on twitter ;D http://twitter.com/#!/FXOpeneSports
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Fast expand into 3rd CC? Nice :-D
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United Kingdom16710 Posts
Bad bad reaction to the DT harass by StC and very sloppy to engage with just a small portion of his bio force, losing all of his medivacs. Uncharacteristically bad.
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These commentators are great. What's their names?
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United Kingdom38255 Posts
Hero's got some supermagicvoodoopowers or something like that, really seems to have theStC's number. That's now 5 straight o_O
On February 26 2011 13:34 Yusername wrote:
These commentators are great. What's their names?
Unstable (aus) and Wolf (usa), both are awesome imo.
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hero is really good. I wouldn't be surprised if he qualifies for Code A next time.
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good storms, and dt harass. Can't imagine thinking about how the changes of next patch would have altered that match, with storm. Still though good to see more of the lesser seen ogs play.
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I just tuned in >< what did Hero do to StC that impressed everyone?
Also, I don't get the format, BO5 but if StC wins is there another BO5?
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On February 26 2011 13:37 Resolve wrote:
I just tuned in >< what did Hero do to StC that impressed everyone?
Also, I don't get the format, BO5 but if StC wins is there another BO5?
See replays of them here: http://twitter.com/#!/FXOpeneSports
It's because oGsHerO won the upper bracket final so was never technically relegated tot he lower bracket - that's what the first Bo5 represents, TheStC has to take HerO down to the Lower Bracket.
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On February 26 2011 13:37 Resolve wrote:
I just tuned in >< what did Hero do to StC that impressed everyone?
Also, I don't get the format, BO5 but if StC wins is there another BO5?
dropped sentrys into his main and forcfielded the terra army out
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On February 26 2011 13:37 Resolve wrote:
I just tuned in >< what did Hero do to StC that impressed everyone?
Also, I don't get the format, BO5 but if StC wins is there another BO5?
Hero opened Sentry heavy on close pos meta while theStC went 2 rax expand, Hero got a warp prism to drop all his sentries into theStC's base and permanantly locked him out with ff's on the ramp while using the warp prism to warp in masses of zealots. Really awesome.
As for the format, Hero won the upper bracket finals so has yet to lose a match, the tournament is double elimination so the play who comes through the lower bracket to the grand finals has to win 2 series (So Hero is eliminated twice), while Hero has to win one.
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On February 26 2011 13:38 deL wrote:Show nested quote +On February 26 2011 13:37 Resolve wrote:
I just tuned in >< what did Hero do to StC that impressed everyone?
Also, I don't get the format, BO5 but if StC wins is there another BO5? See replays of them here: http://twitter.com/#!/FXOpeneSportsIt's because oGsHerO won the upper bracket final so was never technically relegated tot he lower bracket - that's what the first Bo5 represents, TheStC has to take HerO down to the Lower Bracket.
Ok thanks!
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wow that was some good micro from Stc
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SeleCT with the self shoutout :D
Come on StC, hoping this goes to 5 games. As much as protoss pisses me off, Hero does look very strong. Certainly stronger than some of the protosses in the GSL. That move in game 1 was awesome, never seen it before.
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On February 26 2011 13:49 deerpark87 wrote:
wow that was some good micro from Stc
Haha this seems so understated! "That control from TheStC was quite satisfactory indeed!".
His micro basically won him the game there! Top stuff and doubly impressive with up to 1 second delay from KR to NA!
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Holy shit those forcefields were just sick sick perfect
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Thought 100 percent hero would lose that first engagement then he goes and cuts off the maruader army with ff's twice. Really sweet protoss play.
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United States7481 Posts
Congrats to Hero[Shield]! very wp, a good mix of solid fundamentals and creative ideas.
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Massive congratulations to Hero, some absolutely brilliant play across the tournament!
Thanks so much FXOpen for hosting another amazing event, and to Unstable and Wolf for casting it.
Looking forward to the next one already! =p
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Very entertaining games today. Congratulation to oGsHero really well play.
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ogs.hero=god unit control
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Overall Results
1st oGsHerO ($900)
2nd oGsTheStC ($400)
3rd dignitasSeleCT ($200)
4th Mill.LaLush
5th FXOpTiKzErO and ppgBubbles
7th FXOSheth and mouzMaNa
9th FXOmOOnGLaDe, oGsSuperNova, REQDarkCell and oGsJ
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Fantastic tournament as always! FXO events have been really impressive .
I was really impressed by Hero's play, but also by how close Lalush came to beating him .
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Is a replay pack going to be released?
Would be awesome.
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So does anyone know what happened to Lalush?
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Looks like TheStC's TvP isn't quite up to par with his other matchups. Great games!
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