Not sure what you imply by not "easy" ?
Its math ... to give everyone an equal oppurtunity you would want to spread the 90 GMs evenly in the bracket.

So if you have 512 players, 90 of who are GM: going from top to bottom in a ro512 bracket, you place 1 GM player after every 5 non-GM.

This way, all the way up to ro128, non-GM players have to play AT MOST 1 GM player. sounds like a fair way to do it I think.

Megiddosc

United States966 Posts

May 12 2011 18:46 GMT

#163

Honestly, I'm not all that impressed by Grandmasters League. It just seems like a first-come-first-serve basis for the 200 people that ladder-whored the most and then after that as long as you're somewhat active you're still in it. It's not like it's all-that competitive, just luck of the draw really. There are plenty of Masters players that impress me more than some of the GM players,

EDIT: Looking at the matches quickly I can see the lalush (GM) lost to FXOSLoG (M), NrGMalice (GM) lost to Paranoid (M), Noctis (GM) and Maker (GM) both lost to SCDPride (M). And we know from the Ro32 results that Sterling (GM) lost to ROOTDestiny (M).

AskJoshy

United States1625 Posts

May 12 2011 19:32 GMT

#164

Yeah, and shouldn't the objective of a tournament be to show that you're the best player in the tournament anyway? You should have to face good players to be rewarded. =)

Mkengyn

Canada66 Posts

May 12 2011 21:29 GMT

#165

Darkforce is no Masters player dude. He just made an new account to play in the IPL

Megiddosc

United States966 Posts

May 12 2011 21:48 GMT

#166

He can use his European account info, so why didn't he? That's what Nerchio did at least.

Oh, then Darkforce (GM) lost to coLRyze (M)

ptell

United States103 Posts

May 12 2011 22:31 GMT

#167

Hey Alex if you can present this information in the form of a bracket (here or on the IPL website) that would be really nice.

On May 11 2011 11:35 Alex.IGN wrote:
Hey everyone, since we're only casting two days this week (Thursday and Friday) instead of our normal four days starting next week, we've decided to go ahead and release the information on who made it through round of 32 to the round of 16. As you all know, the round of 16 is incredibly important because the winner of that round is qualified for IPL Season Two! All further games past the round of 16 is simply for seeding spots.

Round of 32

VPDaedalus vs Theory
MouzMana vs coLRyze
Paranoid vs MYMCloud
LiquidRet vs Nerchio
ROOTCatZ vs Iefnaij
FnaticFenix > Gensulitor
FnaticMSITTI > FXOmOoNaN
MillDieStar > fkcXions
SixjaxViBE > Virus
NrGdde < MouzHasuObs
MillTarson > Serp
EGLzGaMeR > ROOTDdoro
ROOTDestiny > Sterling
Edge < Holder
XxElitexX < FnaticNightend
coLstalife > RevShadow

This of course leaves for the Round of 16 the following matches...

VPDaedalus vs MouzMana
MYMCloud vs LiquidRet
Iefnaij vs FnaticFenix
FnaticMSITTOne vs MillDieStar
SixjaxViBE vs MouzHasuobs
MillTarson vs EGLzGaMeR
ROOTDestiny vs Holder
FnaticNightend vs coLstalife

Our broadcast schedule for this week will be broadcasting the following games (all of which are Best of 5):

IPL Qualifier Thursday with AskJoshy, starting at 3 PM PDT

FnaticMSITTOne vs

MillDieStar

MillTarson vs

EGLzGaMeR

SixjaxViBE vs

MouzHasuobs

IPL Qualifier Friday with Raelcun, starting at 3 PM PDT

Iefnaij vs

FnaticFenix

MYMCloud vs

LiquidRet

FnaticNightend vs

coLstalife

Depending on the time and interest level, we may broadcast more games, but those are the ones guaranteed for us to show you all. All games will be broadcast on the IPL Justin.TV channel and you can tune in at http://www.ign.com/ipl - hope everyone enjoys seeing who makes it in!

ScyHigh

United Kingdom53 Posts

May 13 2011 01:29 GMT

#168

When will we find out the results of Destiny vs Holder and VPDaedalus vs Mana which are not being cast?

Alex.IGN

United States1050 Posts

May 13 2011 01:36 GMT

#169

On May 13 2011 10:29 ScyHigh wrote:
When will we find out the results of Destiny vs Holder and VPDaedalus vs Mana which are not being cast?

Tomorrow after the broadcast

CPTHammer.464

United States37 Posts

May 13 2011 01:40 GMT

#170

Why not cast Destiny? You have something against more viewers? /sarcasm

bkrow

Australia8532 Posts

May 13 2011 01:51 GMT

#171

Any chances of using a bracket instead of free text typing!? It makes things so much easier and aesthetically pleasing. Challonge.com is a great resource

puzzl

United States263 Posts

May 13 2011 03:27 GMT

#172

Still no bracket updates? What even happened today? Please keep the brackets updated on z33k, or *somewhere*, at least. I kind of wish the results of this thing were just posted, even if you plan on casting some of the qualifier games.

Alex.IGN

United States1050 Posts

May 13 2011 03:29 GMT

#173

On May 13 2011 12:27 puzzl wrote:
Still no bracket updates? What even happened today? Please keep the brackets updated on z33k, or *somewhere*, at least. I kind of wish the results of this thing were just posted, even if you plan on casting some of the qualifier games.

The results on the first page of this thread is updated and you can also check the live thread: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=222267

Raelcun

United States3747 Posts

May 13 2011 20:41 GMT

#174

Just for the record I was given some "bonus footage" that I was given the option to cast beyond the first three matches. And I do intend to do as much of it as I can. So plan on sticking around for some extra matches after the first three.

Alex.IGN

United States1050 Posts

May 14 2011 01:09 GMT

#175

Who qualified? Find out here: http://www.ign.com/ipl/news/2011/05/13/congratulations-to-our-qualified-players-from-the-first-ipl-season-two-qualifier

odder

United States405 Posts

May 14 2011 04:29 GMT

#176

Are we going to see how they ended up placing or do we have to wait after the 4th qualifier finishes?

Alex.IGN

United States1050 Posts

May 14 2011 04:35 GMT

#177

We didn't get a chance to finish on Sunday because of lag issues from Saturday pushing back the schedule, and due to travel we haven't been able to finish everything. I'm not hiding it on purpose, as soon as it's done I will reveal it.

Demosthen3s

Netherlands73 Posts

May 14 2011 13:33 GMT

#178

Can we expect vods of the Qualification tournament broadcasts?

Alex.IGN

United States1050 Posts

May 14 2011 16:50 GMT

#179

Vods are up here: http://www.justin.tv/ignproleague/videos

Siphyo

Netherlands121 Posts

May 15 2011 10:53 GMT

#180

Why is it so hard to get the results posted? First z33k.com doesn't update at all, now it says 'result hidden' everywhere. Some of the games are posted in this thread, but not on the bracket. I understand you want to broadcast some stuff later on but people who don't want spoilers should be smart enough to not search for results. Hiding information really doesn't increase the viewer count to those broadcasts.