Oh man I am looking forward to this. Squirtle, Bomber, Ace, and JULYZERG, and TORCH! Everyone playing today has made the GSL or at least code A before. Highest level competition since the GSTL finals for sure.

Diamond

United States10796 Posts

February 22 2011 01:00 GMT

#143

Repost of today's games and poll:

Brackets

Bracket 1:

Bomber vs.

Curious

Ace vs.

Squirtle

Bracket 2:

TorcH vs.

August

JulyZerg vs.

Virus

Poll: Who will win the tournament?

Bomber (182)

30%

Squirtle (178)

29%

JulyZerg (155)

25%

Ace (38)

6%

TorcH (35)

6%

Virus (9)

1%

August (7)

1%

Curious (6)

1%

610 total votes

Your vote: Who will win the tournament?

(Vote): Bomber
(Vote): Curious
(Vote): Ace
(Vote): Squirtle
(Vote): TorcH
(Vote): August
(Vote): JulyZerg
(Vote): Virus

red4ce

United States7313 Posts

February 22 2011 01:06 GMT

#144

IMO bomber is the best player on startale, but Squirtle's PvT is too godly. The biggest threat to Squirtle is in the first match where he has to PvP against Ace. July has shown very strong ZvP in the GSTL so if he makes it to the finals he could give Squirtle some trouble too.

Diamond

United States10796 Posts

February 22 2011 01:08 GMT

#145

Ok the matches are going LIVE now on iCCup TV on Ustream!!!

Talin

Montenegro10532 Posts

February 22 2011 01:19 GMT

#146

Bomber is the new Marine King. xD

Gentso

United States2218 Posts

February 22 2011 01:20 GMT

#147

Looks like Zerg can't get a third against Terran in that position. o_O

Telcontar

United Kingdom16710 Posts

February 22 2011 01:21 GMT

#148

Is it me or did the rush distance seem pretty short in those positions?

Zeon0

Austria2995 Posts

February 22 2011 01:21 GMT

#149

stream lags for me, plz offer low quality stream. gg good night for today

Diamond

United States10796 Posts

February 22 2011 01:21 GMT

#150

On February 22 2011 10:20 Gentso wrote:
Looks like Zerg can't get a third against Terran in that position. o_O

Well Bomber was pretty all in there. If Curious could have held off any longer Bomber was almost mined out.

tree.hugger

Philadelphia, PA10406 Posts

February 22 2011 01:24 GMT

#151

Neo Enigma feels really small. Curious also seemed to have disadvantageous spawn positions; he probably should broken down the rocks to his third early on and then taken his base there. Those rocks actually seem really key, because they shorten the rush distance by a lot.

Still, neat map. Neat game.

Ragoo

Germany2773 Posts

February 22 2011 01:25 GMT

#152

On February 22 2011 10:20 Gentso wrote:
Looks like Zerg can't get a third against Terran in that position. o_O

He never tried to take his normal third in this position and destroy his rocks tho, that would have made it much easier than trying to take the gold or the other base that was too far away to defend.

Diamond

United States10796 Posts

February 22 2011 01:27 GMT

#153

Yeah I just looked at the replay and Bomber only had 865 minerals left and he would have been mined out 0.o

Gorlin

United States2753 Posts

February 22 2011 01:40 GMT

#154

Curious GGs, Bomber wins 2-0!

prodiG

Canada2016 Posts

February 22 2011 01:40 GMT

#155

Crazy action so far! Be sure to tune in and check out the players and maps! These games so far have been pretty wicked and I'm really liking this :D

www.ustream.tv/iccuptv

Angelbelow

United States3728 Posts

February 22 2011 01:41 GMT

#156

Watching now, not gonna lie, JP during Day9s king of the beta was a HORRIBLE announcer (nerve issues mainly). Since then hes been absolutely fantastic. Props to JP for the vast improvement.

Aegeis

United States1619 Posts

February 22 2011 01:42 GMT

#157

I really wanted to watch this but the quality is too high for my internet.

Diamond

United States10796 Posts

February 22 2011 01:43 GMT

#158

On February 22 2011 10:42 Aegeis wrote:
I really wanted to watch this but the quality is too high for my internet.

VOD's will be up on Youtube very quickly after these matches and I will link them here for you!

Miragee

8709 Posts

February 22 2011 01:43 GMT

#159

Very agressive play from Bomber.

@The Casters: One of you was a bit in the future.^^ But beside from that you are really really awesome. Sorry that I never heard of you before but that first 2 game casts are impressing me more than the most of the casters which are out there. Go on to do your great job.

//also I cannot believe I'm still awake. Almost 3 o'clock and in a few hours is gsl.^^

tree.hugger

Philadelphia, PA10406 Posts

February 22 2011 01:44 GMT

#160

Testbug is such a quality map. I feel like it could do with a couple walls in the mid-map, but it follows the golden rule of BW map making; wide open middle, constricted sides.