Called team building, guys. IM sitting pretty in standings and facing a team MVP or NesTea can possibly reverse all-kill or at least get 2-3 points. Coach obviously feels he would rather develop his rookie players against a fairly-strong opponent on the real stage. Gives them some experience so they can have a bit more confidence in future gsl qualifiers and team games.

Itsmedudeman

United States19229 Posts

July 22 2011 10:19 GMT

#1003

So sad we're not seeing IM's best play in this teamleague. Maybe once they finally play ST they'll put out their best, but god damn. At least I'll get to see MVP play a lot of games in MLG.

Ribbon

United States5278 Posts

July 22 2011 10:19 GMT

#1004

Even if Dreamer all-kills, IM has already done worse against FXO than any other team in the Venus league. That means that every other team has one or two points against IM. Their insistence on sending out untested players is starting to hurt them.

I mean, Nestea can probably reverse all-kill, but 4 wins is a lot and it's very tiring. Do you want to bet your teams honor on that?

DEN1ED

United States1087 Posts

July 22 2011 10:20 GMT

#1005

Just because you aren't MVP/Losira/neastea doesn't mean you're a B teamer. I'm sure IM felt confident in the players they sent out but they just underestimated QXC.

Shellshock

United States97277 Posts

July 22 2011 10:20 GMT

#1006

On July 22 2011 19:19 namste wrote:

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Well considering that the rest of the team is full of complete jobbers, yeah he is the strongest in FXO right now when Sheth is gone.

He did the best in the Code A prelims so I think saying QXC is the strongest is a fair assumption. Oz is probably the second best player

Icekommander

Canada483 Posts

July 22 2011 10:20 GMT

#1007

On July 22 2011 19:18 EnderCraft wrote:
Just a bit of background on QXC. QXC went to to toe with DRG in the code A qualifiers and took him down to a game 3. QXC can beat imMVP or imNestea. Never under estimate QXC...

No he didn't. He went two very close games, but DRG took both of them.

hYdrA-MeNo

Mexico344 Posts

July 22 2011 10:20 GMT

#1008

i sence a 4-1 vic for FXO with qxc killing 3 then sc killing nestea

Skyze

Canada2324 Posts

July 22 2011 10:20 GMT

#1009

On July 22 2011 19:17 MenSol[ZerO] wrote:

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actually the main is just so small in xel naga that you have to start putting stuff down your ramp

Its small but QXC had at least a half screen left empty.. remember when that Collosus was on the highground when tasteless said "Thats not your base!".. He was still not even in range of any buildings, that was a lot of extra space in the main.

Either way; if he consciously thought of building rax's outside his main (like I assume) or not, its clear that method really saved his ass when PPi pushed back. He had a 2-way flank due to his rax placement, one side being covered by a planetary and other side being covered by a bunker/highground. Thats smart playing.

Nightmare1795

United States222 Posts

July 22 2011 10:20 GMT

#1010

Well MVP is almost definitely going to be the ace. I think they want Nestea and Losira to rest and hide their builds because they're both in Ro4 in the individual league.

acrimoneyius

United States983 Posts

July 22 2011 10:20 GMT

#1011

On July 22 2011 19:14 BobMcJohnson wrote:
IM probably hasn't heard of QXC

hahahaha, well said

Lysanias

Netherlands8351 Posts

July 22 2011 10:20 GMT

#1012

Qxc is not good enough for an all kill, he's already getting cocky. IM knows that, they have the talent to get back and easily win this.

Haydin

United States1481 Posts

July 22 2011 10:20 GMT

#1013

Weren't two of the games 68 and 45 minutes too? I remember hearing that QXC might have been a big reason why DRG didn't get into code a this season.

hmunkey

United Kingdom1973 Posts

July 22 2011 10:20 GMT

#1014

On July 22 2011 19:19 DrNK.Zeal wrote:
Called team building, guys. IM sitting pretty in standings and facing a team MVP or NesTea can possibly reverse all-kill or at least get 2-3 points. Coach obviously feels he would rather develop his rookie players against a fairly-strong opponent on the real stage. Gives them some experience so they can have a bit more confidence in future gsl qualifiers and team games.

That's great and all, but when you're down 0-2 team building is pretty stupid.

namste

Finland2292 Posts

July 22 2011 10:20 GMT

#1015

On July 22 2011 19:19 Probe1 wrote:

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I think that defines the overconfidence they have that they can lose three games and come back to win 4-3. It doesn't make any sense though, they're in second place and need every point they can get

They still value normal GSL more, and they kinda should probably. They want their players to have experience in the booth.

Bobble

Australia1493 Posts

July 22 2011 10:20 GMT

#1016

On July 22 2011 19:18 Eufouria wrote:

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They had 2 games to test him out. It seems a big risk to put 3 fairly unknown players out. Even if they send out Nestea he can still lose to blind cheese.

even then, if QXC wins this, then no matter who IM send out, they are going to be tired as hell trying to win 4 in a row. Not to mention FXO can just wear him out with going for longer games, then send in the specific sniper. It's never good just relying on the ace winning it all.

Sinedd

Poland7052 Posts

July 22 2011 10:20 GMT

#1017

he is a terran player, so we will see how QXC is doing in all the matchups

so far he is looking pretty damn good

go go go !!!

Dragonmaster26

Australia311 Posts

July 22 2011 10:20 GMT

#1018

Think they're gonna use Yoda last.

BlindKill

Australia1508 Posts

July 22 2011 10:20 GMT

#1019

On July 22 2011 19:17 hYdrA-MeNo wrote:

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Yep but why not just send out immvp? lol

lol good question, i think his in a bit of a slump lately though so he might not feel very confident about it (been losing a damn lot of games he should of won man)