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GTR
51412 Posts
9/19 1:10pm KST  sC vs  RevivaL Alicia vs SeleCTMC vs MonsterKyrix vs GuMiho9/19 6:10pm KST YuGiOh vs lOvShinyStarviOlet vs Liquid`HerOSniper vs CuriousMaka vs SjoW9/20 1:10pm KST FruitDealer vs SaSeJYP vs JookToByun vs TwilightTassadar vs SUPERSTAR9/21 1:10pm KST TesteR vs DreamLucky vs NaNiwaCheck vs WeekendIMYoda vs Sage
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Maplestory
United States23 Posts
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iyoume
2501 Posts
byun vs oz should be a really good first-round matchup. also go SC! <3 hope he's feeling great and has had enough time to practice | ||
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Beardedclam
United States839 Posts
GSL October group nominations is on later just so people know. :D | ||
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GreyKnight
United States4720 Posts
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tmIntoTheFruitro
United States76 Posts
edit: also, bye bye kyrix. it's been real, it's been fun. it hasn't been real fun. | ||
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ch33psh33p
7650 Posts
On September 15 2011 12:48 GreyKnight wrote: whelp MC and Hero have easy ro32 opponents so im not too worried about them dropping out phew. viOlet is by no means an easy opponent. He just sucks at ZvT, and Hero is not T no matter what the op suggets =D | ||
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ElusoryX
Singapore2047 Posts
On September 15 2011 12:46 Maplestory wrote: looks easy for foreigners you obviously don't watch GSL naniwa seems to have the easiest Ro32. gl to sase and sjow! | ||
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Ruscour
5233 Posts
On September 15 2011 12:46 Maplestory wrote: looks easy for foreigners Maka & Lucky are really good. SjoW has great TvT but I would be very fearful for NaNiwa. | ||
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Decelea
Australia92 Posts
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babylon
8765 Posts
On September 15 2011 12:48 tmIntoTheFruitro wrote: Kinda feel bad for select. Doesn't Alicia generally have pretty decent PvT? I guess I'm not up to date on Select's TvP though. Before the 1/1/1 era, Alicia getting dropped into a group of Terrans was considered very good for him. He's been slumping lately though, and doesn't really have the best attitude towards the match-up now. (What Protoss does?) | ||
Shellshock
United States97276 Posts
On September 15 2011 12:46 Maplestory wrote: looks easy for foreigners What? I don't think it looks easy. Fruitdealer is probably the easiest game. Maybe Sjow vs Maka | ||
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CTangent
United States125 Posts
On September 15 2011 12:48 tmIntoTheFruitro wrote: Kinda feel bad for select. Doesn't Alicia generally have pretty decent PvT? I guess I'm not up to date on Select's TvP though. edit: also, bye bye kyrix. it's been real, it's been fun. it hasn't been real fun. SeleCT has a really solid PvT, he 2-0'd Hero and TricksteR at MLG Raleigh... he's got a decent chance of knocking out Alicia here, I think. | ||
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tmIntoTheFruitro
United States76 Posts
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bone577
Australia65 Posts
On September 15 2011 12:48 tmIntoTheFruitro wrote: Kinda feel bad for select. Doesn't Alicia generally have pretty decent PvT? I guess I'm not up to date on Select's TvP though. SeleCT has godly TvP. | ||
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chipmonklord17
United States11944 Posts
Nani/Select should make it out of ro32 | ||
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bucckevin
858 Posts
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Grubby
Netherlands318 Posts
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babylon
8765 Posts
On September 15 2011 12:51 CTangent wrote: SeleCT has a really solid PvT, he 2-0'd Hero and TricksteR at MLG Raleigh... he's got a decent chance of knocking out Alicia here, I think. 2-0ing Trickster isn't really notable. >.> I think it's 50/50. If Alicia buckles down and SeleCT doesn't 1/1/1 him, Alicia should be good. But SeleCT will probably 1/1/1 him unless the maps are favorable -- please let the maps be favorable for Protoss, GOM -- in which case we should see some very good games. Definitely one to watch, whoever wins. | ||
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Dexington
Canada7276 Posts
Select has beaten A LOT of Korean Protosses now, so he has a chance against Alicia. Naniwa is probably not gonna win. I'd love for Sase to get rid of Fruitdealer, just so we don't have to hear from his fan boys about how he is still a valid competitor. Also, my personal wish is for MC to drop down to code B. | ||
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sitromit
7051 Posts
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IMNotMvp
Korea (South)530 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + sC Alicia MC Kyrix Yugioh violet curious maka fruitdealer JYP byun tassadar tester nani check sage | ||
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Peksi
Finland169 Posts
 Maka Fruitdealer I want foreigners to advance but it means these guys will drop down to code B. | ||
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Spacekyod
United States818 Posts
Maka vs. Sjow, Hero vs. Violet, I can't choose winners in these games! (please skip these in liquibet =) GoGoGo Sage!! Yoda is gonna cheese the hell out of him =( | ||
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GreyKnight
United States4720 Posts
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Telcontar
United Kingdom16710 Posts
Oh and you have HerO down as a Terran. XD | ||
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mrRoflpwn
United States2618 Posts
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Cel.erity
United States4890 Posts
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slicknav
1409 Posts
The race distribution looks pretty good. Less TvT's the better. | ||
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skrzmark
United States1528 Posts
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RoboBob
United States798 Posts
Sjow might have a shot at beating Maka because his TvT is really good. But I don't see him getting any further than that. I'm not sure about Sase, haven't watched him play. Honestly though I gotta root for FD. Naniwa...I dunno. I want to believe, but I don't see him doing any better than 1 round...kinda like Sjow. | ||
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chocolatebunny
301 Posts
I want to say the same for alicia (I like protoss  )but then select will drop out of code A. T.T well hopefully hero has as good showing! go liquid | ||
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00Visor
4337 Posts
But just by names their bracket (including Ro16) look doable, for Sjow as well. Hoping for at least one foreigner in up&downs. New foreigner blood in Code S would be really good. | ||
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Whisperkill
Canada76 Posts
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sitromit
7051 Posts
On September 15 2011 12:56 Cel.erity wrote: Ouch. Two of my favorites, Sage and HerO, got really tough round 1 opponents. Code A is getting really beastly nowadays. Sage yes but Hero got an easy draw. Violet has been playing really bad lately and he just left his team. | ||
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corpsepose
1678 Posts
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Caesarion
Australia8332 Posts
MC, Hero and JYP all facing Zergs, Hero should have the toughest first match but his ZvP is amazing. Sase should be able to beat Fruitdealer easily. I'm quite worried for Sage though. Yoda has shown that he's very willing to 1/1/1. Oh, and no mirror matches! Hurray! Oh, except Sniper vs Curious. Edit: Maka vs Sjow too. Don't know how I missed that. Should be interesting, Sjow's TvT is his best matchup. | ||
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Sandro
897 Posts
On September 15 2011 13:03 corpsepose wrote: wow, every single terran in code a is a monster this season. I thought all the good terran were already in Code S? That said I'm so happy to see such racial diversity in Code A. Hopefully the casters won't ruin it for me trying to pretend they're Tastosis. | ||
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HentaiPrime
Canada85 Posts
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Caesarion
Australia8332 Posts
On September 15 2011 13:06 HentaiPrime wrote: i'm having some difficulty finding thorzain's name in that list, isn't he the strongest foreigner? Afaik, he's already left Korea. | ||
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ranjutan
United States636 Posts
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Itsmedudeman
United States19229 Posts
will have to see who's in the up and downs though | ||
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ninjamyst
United States1903 Posts
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SaBxyz
Taiwan80 Posts
The right TLPD for Song Hyeon Duk would be HerO. | ||
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YipCraft
United States216 Posts
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yawnoC
United States3704 Posts
anyway there are, as expected, a lot of interesting matches. Should be a good season. | ||
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Yoshi Kirishima
United States10318 Posts
darn foreginers are up agaoinst tought players or players that are favorites of many | ||
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Shinta)
United States1716 Posts
Seems like the best matches will all be the earliest ones. | ||
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tsuxiit
1305 Posts
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babylon
8765 Posts
Group 2: Sjow and HerO got very good draws. Maka's been irrelevant for such a long time, and his TvT just isn't that solid, esp. compared to Sjow's "Code S TvT." Meanwhile, viOlet is not only teamless but can't play anything but ZvZ. As for the other two, I think Curious should take down Sniper if nerves don't get to him, as Curious's ZvZ is pretty darn good. Not sure about YGO vs. ShinyStar though. Group 3: How is SaSe's PvZ anyways? I thought it was pretty unimpressive. I know FD's ZvP has historically been atrocious -- though in the ST, he cleaned it up a lot vs. Ace (and almost won), but that was a while ago. Should be interesting to see what shape it's in nowadays. Match should be something of an entertaining trainwreck from either player (or from both!). JYP got a good draw, I feel. Not sure how I feel about the rest of the group. We all know that Byun can TvT it up like nothing else and his TvP's not atrocious, but with his responsibilities to his puppy lately, I dunno. And I have no idea how Superstar's ZvP is at all. Group 4: I actually think all the Protoss in this group are kind of screwed. Dream's really solid and isn't shy about cheesing, Naniwa can't PvZ all that well, Check's been getting into form lately, and Yoda's kind of like Dream re: the cheese department and definitely isn't afraid to pull out the 1/1/1. | ||
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Fubi
2228 Posts
Select is godly in TvP and gets Alicia who's been in a huge slump lately Sjow gets Maka who is one of the weaker Terran there Sase gets Fruitdealer who's also been on a big slump lately And Naniwa gets Lucky, one of the easier opponent in code A as well | ||
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SenorChang
Australia4729 Posts
Fruitdealer vs SaSe :< Nani and Sjow should win their respective matches - at least I hope they do! | ||
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bokchoi
Korea (South)9498 Posts
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Maghetti
United States2429 Posts
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blade55555
United States17423 Posts
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ImmortalTofu
United States1254 Posts
Select, I feel has a chance against the falling alicia (though it hurts me to say that), and SaSe I think can deal with FD (again... Hurts me... I dream of the day our fruitman returns to form. Always has, and always will be one of my favorite non-ogs non-protoss players...) And WOW! Shiny made it through again? This kid's gonna make it big soon... And he doesn't even have a team O.o | ||
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KanoCoke
Japan863 Posts
sC vs RevivaL = sC, only slightly because RevivaL has been on a tear lately, though sC has gone toe-to-toe against the greatest Zerg player of SCII Alicia vs SeleCT = SeleCT, Alicia is too depressed and constantly whining on twitter instead of thinking up new strategies and builds vs Terran, and SeleCT iirc is very good at TvP. MC vs Monster = MC, unless he decides to not take it seriously. Kyrix vs GuMiHo = GuMiHo. He trains with Leenock, enough said. Bye Kyrix. YuGiOh vs lOvShinyStar = No data on ShinyStar, so I'll go with YuGiOh, who is very consistent at reaching ro16. viOlet vs Liquid`Hero = Hero has been doing great lately, despite losing to MKP. When Hero is allowed to play a macro game, he is a monster. Sniper vs Curious = Curious is actually really really good, but guys like Tastosis like bashing him because of his weak performances in the GSTL. They should be watching the ESV weeklies instead. Maka vs SjoW = SjoW. He can give Bomber a run for his money, so he's really good at TvT. Fruitdealer vs SaSe = SaSe. I love cheering for Fruitdealer, but he always disappoints. JYP vs JookTo = JYP ezpz. He's got the skill to get into Code S. Byun vs Oz = Byun. Oz is a solid player, but Byun's been there against the best players and won. Tassadar vs SUPERSTAR = SUPERSTAR. Oh Tassadar, how low you have fallen. You looked really great getting into the finals of your first Code A run, then you just slipped off entirely. Did Puzzle take your soul? Tester vs Dream = Tester. Unless he decides to go for a weird wonky build, he should take this easy. Lucky vs NaNiWa = NaNiWa. He's promised us that the deconstruction and reconstruction of his gameplay by staying in Korea is progressing really well. He should show us great games this time around. Check vs Weekend = Check, he's a Code S level Zerg player and is solid in every match-up. IMYoda vs Sage = Sage. Sage's hard contain strats against Terran players is so scary (look what he did to sC). If Yoda shows up with very interesting builds to catch Sage offguard, he might win a game, but Sage is known as the scouting master. | ||
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babylon
8765 Posts
On September 15 2011 13:19 ImmortalTofu wrote: And WOW! Shiny made it through again? This kid's gonna make it big soon... And he doesn't even have a team O.o ShinyStar's parents won't let him join a team. It's a shame, because he's clearly very talented, but I can totally understand his parents' POV here. | ||
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tuho12345
4482 Posts
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Gh86
646 Posts
Fruitdealer vs Sase would be interesting depending on which Fruitdealer shows up, the inspiring one that we see from time to time or the other one. Lucky vs Naniwa doesn't look too good for Naniwa, since Lucky is actually quite good. Select vs Alicia is hard to predict on either side. sC vs Revival though is probably the match I'm looking forward to the most, since Revival has been quite on form lately and sC has always been a solid terran, hopefully he's healed up enough to compete and practice for Revival. On the other hand, I feel like Trickster may actually fall out of code A. MVPDream isn't a bad player, but Trickster seems to hang in there when he needs it most though. All in all, it seems like good matches all around and am looking forward to them. On September 15 2011 13:22 tuho12345 wrote: Only 1 mirror MU is TvT. Nice to see less T next ss lol 2 actually, ZvZ between MVPSniper and STCurious | ||
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sitromit
7051 Posts
On September 15 2011 13:17 babylon wrote: Group 1: Matches to see include sC vs. Revival and Alicia vs. SeleCT. Other two should by all rights be roflstomps, though Kyrix might cling to Code A a little longer just to spite everyone; he actually played fairly well against Happy in the Code S group stages last time, so I wouldn't be totally surprised if he took out Gumiho. Group 2: Sjow and HerO got very good draws. Maka's been irrelevant for such a long time, and his TvT just isn't that solid, esp. compared to Sjow's "Code S TvT." Meanwhile, viOlet is not only teamless but can't play anything but ZvZ. As for the other two, I think Curious should take down Sniper if nerves don't get to him, as Curious's ZvZ is pretty darn good. Not sure about YGO vs. ShinyStar though. Group 3: How is SaSe's PvZ anyways? I thought it was pretty unimpressive. I know FD's ZvP has historically been atrocious -- though in the ST, he cleaned it up a lot vs. Ace (and almost won), but that was a while ago. Should be interesting to see what shape it's in nowadays. Match should be something of an entertaining trainwreck from either player (or from both!). JYP got a good draw, I feel. Not sure how I feel about the rest of the group. We all know that Byun can TvT it up like nothing else and his TvP's not atrocious, but with his responsibilities to his puppy lately, I dunno. And I have no idea how Superstar's ZvP is at all. Group 4: I actually think all the Protoss in this group are kind of screwed. Dream's really solid and isn't shy about cheesing, Naniwa can't PvZ all that well, Check's been getting into form lately, and Yoda's kind of like Dream re: the cheese department and definitely isn't afraid to pull out the 1/1/1. I just want to say I think this is pretty much spot on, though I'm not so sure about Kyrix and Sjow. | ||
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Strausticles
United States113 Posts
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FuRong
New Zealand3089 Posts
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asaed
United States1412 Posts
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HQuality
2682 Posts
GO SAGE anyway | ||
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Blasphemi
United Kingdom980 Posts
It's good for a foreigner. MC destroys him routinely though and it wasn't long ago most people considered Alicia to have the best PvT in the world. | ||
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Ventor
United States336 Posts
On September 15 2011 12:53 Grubby wrote: I actually think all 3 Swedes can take a win here oO Swedish people are hyped too much. They just are not on the same level as koreans. My guess is that only naniwa makes it to the ro32. | ||
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HQuality
2682 Posts
On September 15 2011 13:32 Blasphemi wrote: It's good for a foreigner. MC destroys him routinely though and it wasn't long ago most people considered Alicia to have the best PvT in the world. most people?  alicia is struggling hard in every match up except pvp in his last sets | ||
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mprs
Canada2933 Posts
SelecT vs. Alicia: Alicia is the best player that any of the foreigners have to go through, but I think if anyone can take him down, it is SelecT. Sase vs. Fruitdealer: I think Sase has this, but I wouldn't mind seeing a triumphant return for our zerg hero. I don't think we will see it though. Naniwa vs. Lucky: Lucky isn't Korea's best from what I've seen, so I think Naniwa is actually the favorite here. HerO vs. Violet: HerO has this, but Violet is actually still pretty good. HerO is a Code S-level Protoss, and I'm not sure the same can be said about Violet. Other notable Matchups: sC vs RevivaL: Should be a great match. sC getting practice with DRG since his move to MVP should help him. MC vs Monster: MC huge favorite here. Kyrix vs GuMiho: I'll go with Kyrix. YuGiOh vs lOvShinyStar: Yugioh, easy. Sniper vs Curious: Curious JYP vs JookTo: JYP, easy Byun vs Twilight: Byun Tassadar vs SUPERSTAR: Tassadar TesteR vs Dream: Tester Check vs Weekend: Check IMYoda vs Sage: Sage I think we will see a huge Protoss turn out in the ro16 | ||
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Blasphemi
United Kingdom980 Posts
On September 15 2011 13:17 Fubi wrote: Looks really easy for foreigners. Select is godly in TvP and gets Alicia who's been in a huge slump lately Sjow gets Maka who is one of the weaker Terran there Sase gets Fruitdealer who's also been on a big slump lately And Naniwa gets Lucky, one of the easier opponent in code A as well People said this last month, then all the foreigners lost convincingly. | ||
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lizzard_warish
589 Posts
2-0 (T)sC vs (Z)RevivaL (P)Alicia vs (T)SeleCT 2-0 2-0 (P)MC vs (Z)Monster 2-1 (Z)Kyrix vs (T)GuMiho 9/19 6:10pm KST 2-1 (Z)YuGiOh vs (P)lOvShinyStar (Z)viOlet vs (T)Liquid`HerO 2-1 (Z)Sniper vs (Z)Curious 2-1 (T)Maka vs (T)SjoW 2-0 9/20 1:10pm KST (Z)FruitDealer vs (P)SaSe 2-1 2-0(P)JYP vs (Z)JookTo 2-0(T)Byun vs (P)Twilight 2-0 (P)Tassadar vs (Z)SUPERSTAR 9/21 1:10pm KST (P)TesteR vs (T)Dream 2-1 (Z)Lucky vs (P)NaNiwa 2-0 2-0 (Z)Check vs (P)Weekend 2-0(T)IMYoda vs (P)Sage On September 15 2011 13:35 Blasphemi wrote: Last time the foreingers had been there like less than a day, travel fatigue much?People said this last month, then all the foreigners lost convincingly. On September 15 2011 13:04 Sandro wrote: I thought all the good terran were already in Code S? That said I'm so happy to see such racial diversity in Code A. Hopefully the casters won't ruin it for me trying to pretend they're Tastosis. They will dude...they will | ||
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michielbrands
Netherlands1146 Posts
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babylon
8765 Posts
On September 15 2011 13:25 sitromit wrote: I just want to say I think this is pretty much spot on, though I'm not so sure about Kyrix and Sjow. Yeah, I just rethought it and realized that Maka might give Sjow a run for his money. I just had a flashback to the Dream vs. Maka series, which was by no means bad; it was actually a pretty damn nice TvT from both players. If Maka brings his A-game, it should be a good series. Kyrix does things to spite people -- lol, picking MMA to give NesTea nightmares about multipronged drops -- and he's nowhere near as bad as some people say. For the Code S group stage, he actually looked low-tier Code S or high-tier Code A in ZvZ and ZvT -- definitely not Code B by any means. But Gumiho's pretty good, man. I dunno. My secret, somewhat realistic hope is to have Curious win Code A, because he's actually really, really good. My secret, unrealistic hope is to see FD smash nerds left and right and make it back to Code S. | ||
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Oktyabr
Singapore2234 Posts
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Ansinjunger
United States2451 Posts
Thankfully MC not vs a terran. He can pwn them later rounds but I don't wanna see 1/1/1 bring down the mighty kratoss. Other than that, I don't particularly care other than to see foreigners generally do well. Hero is sexy too. | ||
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supdubdup
United States916 Posts
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Blasphemi
United Kingdom980 Posts
On September 15 2011 13:37 lizzard_warish wrote: My predictions: 2-0 (T)sC vs (Z)RevivaL (P)Alicia vs (T)SeleCT 2-0 2-0 (P)MC vs (Z)Monster 2-1 (Z)Kyrix vs (T)GuMiho 9/19 6:10pm KST 2-1 (Z)YuGiOh vs (P)lOvShinyStar (Z)viOlet vs (T)Liquid`HerO 2-1 (Z)Sniper vs (Z)Curious 2-1 (T)Maka vs (T)SjoW 2-0 9/20 1:10pm KST (Z)FruitDealer vs (P)SaSe 2-1 2-0(P)JYP vs (Z)JookTo 2-0(T)Byun vs (P)Twilight 2-0 (P)Tassadar vs (Z)SUPERSTAR 9/21 1:10pm KST (P)TesteR vs (T)Dream 2-1 (Z)Lucky vs (P)NaNiwa 2-0 2-0 (Z)Check vs (P)Weekend 2-0(T)IMYoda vs (P)Sage Last time the foreingers had been there like less than a day, travel fatigue much? Only Thorzain and Naniwa. Fenix, Jinro and Sase had been there longer. It's all crap excuses anyway. At an MLG where you're playing all day fair enough but was one Bo3. All foreigners will lose in the Ro32 again. Sase has the best shot but his PvZ is maybe even worse than FD's so maybe not. | ||
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Wrathsc2
United States2025 Posts
On September 15 2011 12:51 bucckevin wrote: I fear for Alicia.....1/1/1 inc. i dont think select 1/1/1s, he just has amazing tvp | ||
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Hall0wed
United States8486 Posts
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tuho12345
4482 Posts
On September 15 2011 13:44 radiantshadow92 wrote: i dont think select 1/1/1s, he just has amazing tvp If SeleCT doesn't 1/1/1 I don't think he has a slightest chance against Alicia. We all know Alicia is pretty damn good with his HTs and vs Terran bio( he beat most of Terrans by this way). | ||
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Sandro
897 Posts
On September 15 2011 13:44 radiantshadow92 wrote: i dont think select 1/1/1s, he just has amazing tvp Didn't he 1/1/1 vs HuK in the NA BNET invitational? | ||
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Belisarius
Australia6225 Posts
Alicia is definitely not making the U&D, though he might get through Select. I really hope MC does. I also think people are underestimating Revival. Hope Hero, Sage and JYP get up as well, for Aiur, obviously. Hero's group is probably the easiest. | ||
Hunted
Australia337 Posts
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ssg
United States1770 Posts
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Pervect
1280 Posts
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IPA
United States3206 Posts
Gonna be pulling for viOlet, Check, Nani and SeleCT. | ||
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CuSToM
United States1478 Posts
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`MemoRY
United States80 Posts
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Mioraka
Canada1353 Posts
*sunglasses* Lucky | ||
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darkest44
United States1009 Posts
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Cassel_Castle
United States820 Posts
2. MC to Code B? Monster is actually pretty decent and MC's been inconsistent PvZ. 3. Poor ShinyStar keeps qualifying for Code A and no team will pick him up. 4. It's too bad that Thorzain's gone, the rest of the Swedes are really good too but Thorzain had an extra something special. | ||
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MrMotionPicture
United States4327 Posts
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babylon
8765 Posts
On September 15 2011 14:09 Cassel_Castle wrote: 1. Select could go far here, also I could see him growing SC2 in Korea with his looks alone. Korean SC2 is lacking in top handsome players. 2. MC to Code B? Monster is actually pretty decent and MC's been inconsistent PvZ. 3. Poor ShinyStar keeps qualifying for Code A and no team will pick him up. 4. It's too bad that Thorzain's gone, the rest of the Swedes are really good too but Thorzain had an extra something special. I feel like I'll have to repeat this a lot, but ShinyStar apparently has gotten multiple team offers. It's just that his parents won't let him join a team. They probably don't want him progaming. How is Monster's ZvP? I know that his ZvT is supposed to be very good according to DRG, though I haven't been too impressed lately. Wondering if you have more info about this kid. | ||
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zhurai
United States5660 Posts
On September 15 2011 12:44 GTR wrote: Source: http://www.playxp.com/sc2/news/view.php?article_id=3389541 9/19 1:10pm KST sC vs RevivaLAlicia vs SeleCTMC vs MonsterKyrix vs GuMiho9/19 6:10pm KST YuGiOh vs lOvShinyStarviOlet vs Liquid`HerOSniper vs CuriousMaka vs SjoW9/20 1:10pm KST FruitDealer vs SaSeJYP vs JookToByun vs TwilightTassadar vs SUPERSTAR9/21 1:10pm KST TesteR vs DreamLucky vs NaNiwaCheck vs WeekendIMYoda vs Sageo.O Liquid`Hero's not a Terran ... | ||
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PartyBiscuit
Canada4525 Posts
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Merany
France890 Posts
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PuercoPop
Peru277 Posts
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DTrain
Australia64 Posts
I have a feeling Code A is going to be more interesting that Code S this season. | ||
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red4ce
United States7313 Posts
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GGPope
Australia367 Posts
I'm worried for Sage, playing vs Yoda in the ro32 | ||
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jjmmtt
Australia995 Posts
Hero over Violet (although, would not be surprised if Violet won either). Maka over Sjow (pretty even match though). FD over Sase (Sase is rubbish). Naninwa over Lucky (not much of a challenge imo). | ||
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pinball777
United States134 Posts
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tuho12345
4482 Posts
On September 15 2011 14:21 GGPope wrote: For those panicking about SelecT in the ro32, SelecT has some of the best TvP in the world, koreans and foreigners included. Can't wait for that matchup. I'm worried for Sage, playing vs Yoda in the ro32 Yeah I'm worry about Sage too. Still remember how terrible Yoda was last time vs Tassadar. Keeping all his unit in 1 hotkey, lost horribly in the first game. 1/1/1 the last 2, and he just keep all-in after fail all-in. That was a really depressing time for me lol. | ||
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Olinim
4044 Posts
On September 15 2011 14:21 GGPope wrote: For those panicking about SelecT in the ro32, SelecT has some of the best TvP in the world, koreans and foreigners included. Can't wait for that matchup. I'm worried for Sage, playing vs Yoda in the ro32 By foreigner standards his TvP is good but there are tons of better TvPers in Korea. I mean, come on the guy is 1-8 vs MC in a heavily terran favored matchup, even at a time when MC is struggling. Wouldn't be surprised if Alicia beat him. | ||
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dgwow
Canada1024 Posts
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ShootingStars
1475 Posts
People who say Sase is rubbish are insane... see his stream :> | ||
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babylon
8765 Posts
On September 15 2011 14:21 GGPope wrote: For those panicking about SelecT in the ro32, SelecT has some of the best TvP in the world, koreans and foreigners included. Can't wait for that matchup. I'm worried for Sage, playing vs Yoda in the ro32 How does SeleCT compare to, say, Polt, Bomber, Puma, Taeja, Jjakji, and MVP in TvP? | ||
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Olinim
4044 Posts
On September 15 2011 14:28 babylon wrote: How does SeleCT compare to, say, Polt, Bomber, Puma, Taeja, Jjakji, and MVP in TvP? He pales in comparison. | ||
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IPA
United States3206 Posts
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Indrium
United States2236 Posts
LOL it linked to Froz. That's classic ^_^ | ||
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forsooth
United States3648 Posts
On September 15 2011 12:54 Dexington wrote: Also, my personal wish is for MC to drop down to code B. How could anyone possibly wish this? | ||
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Azzur
Australia6255 Posts
On September 15 2011 12:44 GTR wrote: Source: http://www.playxp.com/sc2/news/view.php?article_id=3389541 9/19 1:10pm KST sC vs RevivaLAlicia vs SeleCTMC vs MonsterKyrix vs GuMiho9/19 6:10pm KST YuGiOh vs lOvShinyStarviOlet vs Liquid`HerOSniper vs CuriousMaka vs SjoW9/20 1:10pm KST FruitDealer vs SaSeJYP vs JookToByun vs TwilightTassadar vs SUPERSTAR9/21 1:10pm KST TesteR vs DreamLucky vs NaNiwaCheck vs WeekendIMYoda vs SageHightlighted the players I want to win. If none highlighted, that means I'm indifferent to that result. | ||
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Azzur
Australia6255 Posts
I wish for that too! | ||
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Olinim
4044 Posts
On September 15 2011 14:37 Azzur wrote: Hightlighted the players I want to win. If none highlighted, that means I'm indifferent to that result. Wouldn't it have been more efficient just to say "I want no protoss players in GSL and I want them all to lose and have more gomtvt, completely ruining the entertainment value."? . | ||
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iMonAhorsE
Germany275 Posts
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Dommk
Australia4865 Posts
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AxionSteel
United States7754 Posts
I really want SjoW to do well, and it's a good matchup for him since his tvt is really strong, but Maka is such a cool guy!FruitDealer vs SaSe should be really interesting, no idea what will happen there. Maybe it looks like NaNiwa got a good match, but it's zerg so I'm not at all confident he'll win. Select vs Alicia should be awesome, Select is really good TvP, Alicia will have to work pretty hard here! sC vs RevivaL is a pretty epic clash to start off the tournament, and TesteR should finally be removed from the GSL, along with Kyrix | ||
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Azzur
Australia6255 Posts
On September 15 2011 14:40 Olinim wrote: Wouldn't it have been more efficient just to say "I want no protoss players in GSL and I want them all to lose and have more gomtvt, completely ruining the entertainment value."? .LOLOL I would've said that if that were completely true but there are a few exceptions. For instance, my dislike of FD overrides the dislike of Protoss, so I'm only neutral in FD vs Sase. | ||
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warcralft
Singapore609 Posts
Sage > Yoda Naniwa > Lucky Hero > violet Sjow > Maka | ||
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DerMeister
United States57 Posts
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havox_
Germany442 Posts
... maybe we can say "bye, bye" to fruitdealer?^^ (tbh: no idea how SaSe's vZ is, but he did beat Stephano some weeks ago? then fd is easy  )... MC will at least not lose Code A Status... | ||
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Dommk
Australia4865 Posts
:o Sooooo many Code S level Protoss in Code A atm T_T | ||
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GP
United States1056 Posts
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Halcyondaze
United States509 Posts
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Drake
Germany6146 Posts
and why people want mc in code b ? are you crazy ? this guy is so much fun to watch and so nice for the scene its bullshit to want him out of television gaming | ||
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human_ko
Russian Federation676 Posts
for even Jinro beat fruitdealer | ||
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GP
United States1056 Posts
On September 15 2011 14:50 Halcyondaze wrote: It is still so mindblowing to me that people think Sjow can play at a Code A, GSL level. He is going to get slaughtered in his best match up against a slightly better than decent Korean Terran. Yes, the person who took a game off of MMA and almost a series from Bomber, slaughtered by Maka. :| | ||
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babylon
8765 Posts
On September 15 2011 14:50 Halcyondaze wrote: It is still so mindblowing to me that people think Sjow can play at a Code A, GSL level. He is going to get slaughtered in his best match up against a slightly better than decent Korean Terran. He's gotten a bit of hype for his TvT after Bomber made a comment to Milkis during Raleigh about how Sjow's TvT is Code S level. Something to note, of course, is that Bomber went bio (IIRC) against Sjow in their series, not mech. | ||
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Azzur
Australia6255 Posts
On September 15 2011 14:50 Halcyondaze wrote: It is still so mindblowing to me that people think Sjow can play at a Code A, GSL level. He is going to get slaughtered in his best match up against a slightly better than decent Korean Terran. Actually, I think he's advanced far enough to give the Code A's a good run for their money. However, since this will be his first time in the GSL booth, he's probably going to get slaughtered. Many people forget how nerve wracking doing something like this for the first time can be. | ||
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dgwow
Canada1024 Posts
Alicia vs SeleCT MC vs Monster Kyrix vs GuMiho YuGiOh vs lOvShinyStar viOlet vs Liquid`HerO Sniper vs Curious Maka vs SjoW FruitDealer vs SaSe JYP vs JookTo Byun vs Twilight Tassadar vs SUPERSTAR TesteR vs Dream Lucky vs NaNiwa Check vs Weekend IMYoda vs Sage Rooting for all the foreigners but this is what I predict. | ||
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Drake
Germany6146 Posts
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AxionSteel
United States7754 Posts
On September 15 2011 14:50 Halcyondaze wrote: It is still so mindblowing to me that people think Sjow can play at a Code A, GSL level. He is going to get slaughtered in his best match up against a slightly better than decent Korean Terran. Yet he's been very competitive with Code S Terrans, Bomber and MMA. | ||
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human_ko
Russian Federation676 Posts
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GP
United States1056 Posts
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Dommk
Australia4865 Posts
On September 15 2011 14:50 Halcyondaze wrote: It is still so mindblowing to me that people think Sjow can play at a Code A, GSL level. He is going to get slaughtered in his best match up against a slightly better than decent Korean Terran. TvT i probably the most forgiving match up for low APM player with so-so mechanics, it is more about decision making and Sjow seems to have that in bounds. Besides, Maka is like the bottom of the barrel of Korean Terrans, if he can take games of Bomber then Maka should be a push over | ||
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babylon
8765 Posts
On September 15 2011 14:54 CoR wrote: cant see anyone think hero will easy run over violet, vio is very strong and i see him stronger then hero It's because viOlet can't really consistently play any match-up well except for ZvZ. Also because he no longer has a team, apparently has health problems to contend with, and has given thought to retiring. | ||
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Xacalite
Germany533 Posts
How did that happen? | ||
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Dommk
Australia4865 Posts
On September 15 2011 14:54 CoR wrote: cant see anyone think hero will easy run over violet, vio is very strong and i see him stronger then hero Hero's PvZ pushed DRG to 7games at MLG, even more impressive was that he lost 0-2 to him and then went 3-2 in the extended series. That and hopefully the patch hits before his game and Voilets mass infestor style will be rendered ineffective against someone who has a strong PvZ as Hero | ||
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Sworn
Canada920 Posts
On September 15 2011 12:51 chipmonklord17 wrote: I feel like Kyrix and Byun are going to be out of the GSL. Fruitdealer/Sase and Maka/Sjow should be interesting. Nani/Select should make it out of ro32 I actually burst out laughing when you though Byun would lose to Oz. Chances are Byun will completely truck him. Also Pce Fruitdealer he should have been out by season 3 of the Open tournaments. | ||
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AxionSteel
United States7754 Posts
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dapierow
Serbia1316 Posts
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lorkac
United States2297 Posts
sC vs RevivaLAlicia vs SeleCTMC vs MonsterKyrix vs GuMihoYuGiOh vs lOvShinyStarviOlet vs Liquid`HerOSniper vs CuriousMaka vs SjoWFruitDealer vs SaSeJYP vs JookToByun vs TwilightTassadar vs SUPERSTARTesteR vs DreamLucky vs NaNiwaCheck vs WeekendIMYoda vs Sage | ||
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jmbthirteen
United States10734 Posts
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ladyumbra
Canada1699 Posts
MC should be fine, he's struggling to be consistent against zergs but he's bound to be in top shape for this important match. That and i wouldn't put it past him to cheese his way to ro16 just to be safe. I hope Shinystar wins and goes far this tournament so his parents have no choice but to let him join a team. Sjow vs Maka could go to either player. I'm hoping for Sjow to win but it may just be too soon for him, I feel like he needs to refine his playstyle a bit more before he can be a boss terran. Given his placement at mlg raleigh he should be qualified for the next code a season as well so if he fails this time he can just stay, practice and hope to be ready for next time. Sase vs fruitdealer = ??? I have no idea what the state of either players skills is at in PvZ. Gogo Byun !, He needs good showing for himself before they take his puppy away lol. Naniwa is my favourite player but I think he's boned this season, PvZ continues to be the bane of his existence and until he fixes that he's going to be stuck right where he is. He needs to be well rounded before he can progress any further and right now his PvP and PvT are decent but his PvZ is just not going to cut it in korea. Still rooting for him though ^-^. | ||
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Maghetti
United States2429 Posts
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Dingobloo
Australia1903 Posts
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rave[wcr]
United States1166 Posts
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desRow
Canada2654 Posts
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Cassel_Castle
United States820 Posts
On September 15 2011 15:26 ladyumbra wrote: I'm torn on Select vs Alicia, on the one hand I want Select to win and his TvP is pretty strong, on the other hand I kinda want alicia to win because protoss seems so desperate for wins right now. Given that Select doesn't tend to 1/1/1 and plays more straight up I'm just going to assume the overall better player will win that match. It's all about whether Alicia has the multitasking to handle Select's drops. I don't remember how fast Alicia is but very few players, foreign or Korean, can keep up with Select. Seems like most wins against Select are when he's forced to go on the defensive. | ||
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OdiousTea
Australia357 Posts
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RPR_Tempest
Australia7798 Posts
MAKA VS SJOW?! DAMN YOU BRACKETS, DAMN YOU TO HEEEEEEELLLLLL!! Oz and FruitDealer going out sucks too. Though I'm happy for SaSe and Byun. | ||
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bittman
Australia8759 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + [b]sC[/b] vs RevivaLAlicia vs [b]SeleCT[/b][b]MC[/b] vs MonsterKyrix vs [b]GuMiho[/b][b]YuGiOh[/b] vs lOvShinyStarviOlet vs [b]Liquid`HerO[/b]Sniper vs [b]Curious[/b]Maka vs [b]SjoW[/b][b]FruitDealer[/b] vs SaSe[b]JYP[/b] vs JookTo[b]Byun[/b] vs TwilightTassadar vs [b]SUPERSTAR[/b]TesteR vs [b]Dream[/b]Lucky vs [b]NaNiwa[/b][b]Check[/b] vs WeekendIMYoda vs [b]Sage[/b]Expectation on being disappointed by favourite players: + Show Spoiler + sC vs [b]RevivaL[/b][b]Alicia[/b] vs SeleCT[b]MC[/b] vs Monster[b]Kyrix[/b] vs GuMiho[b]YuGiOh[/b] vs lOvShinyStar[b]viOlet[/b] vs Liquid`HerOSniper vs [b]Curious[/b][b]Maka[/b] vs SjoW[b]FruitDealer[/b] vs SaSe[b]JYP[/b] vs JookTo[b]Byun[/b] vs Twilight[b]Tassadar[/b] vs SUPERSTAR[b]TesteR[/b] vs Dream[b]Lucky[/b] vs NaNiwa[b]Check[/b] vs Weekend[b]IMYoda[/b] vs SageP.S.Formatting took a nose dive...but I can't be bothered fixing it. Been a long day =/ | ||
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InvictusRage
United States230 Posts
On September 15 2011 14:50 Halcyondaze wrote: It is still so mindblowing to me that people think Sjow can play at a Code A, GSL level. He is going to get slaughtered in his best match up against a slightly better than decent Korean Terran. MMA lost a game to Sjow at Columbus and nearly lost game 3, and afterward was quoted as saying Sjow had code-S TvT. | ||
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Zealot Lord
Hong Kong746 Posts
On September 15 2011 15:02 Xacalite wrote: Only 8/32 in code A are terran. But in code S we have 20/32. How did that happen? er.. because all the code A terrans went to code S? lol =p | ||
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Canucklehead
Canada5074 Posts
I like alicia, but select more, so hope he wins. Hope MC gets back to code s! I heard he might go to mlg orlando. Would be a good way to get code s there too. | ||
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Jayrod
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Neelia
Germany599 Posts
On September 15 2011 14:53 GP wrote: Yes, the person who took a game off of MMA and almost a series from Bomber, slaughtered by Maka. :| He kinda had the series against MMA and lost in a odd base trade to some small mistakes. If he brings his A-Game he should be able to take Maka down imo, but it'll be close anyway. | ||
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SaikOuLighT
Canada742 Posts
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gustavohmp
Brazil139 Posts
JYP vs JookTo in the first round? The fuck? Both are great players, why put them on the first god damn round to fight each other Also Yoda vs Sage. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT GOM Both could very well be Code A champions but nope, lets make them meet in the first round Sigh... Hopefully our Brotoss brethren will survive until the round of 8. Some Zergs is cool too. | ||
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DaRKMaTT3r
Brazil553 Posts
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tree.hugger
Philadelphia, PA10406 Posts
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Adebisi
Canada1637 Posts
On September 15 2011 16:36 tree.hugger wrote: Wow. These look like absolutely perfect brackets for the foreigners and HerO. So many tough players in Code A and to a large extent, the foreigners dodged them all. Yeah, I think they're all likely candidates for getting to the up down matches for sure, although sC might be hard for SeleCT. | ||
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Alejandrisha
United States6565 Posts
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jmbthirteen
United States10734 Posts
On September 15 2011 16:38 Adebisi wrote: Yeah, I think they're all likely candidates for getting to the up down matches for sure, although sC might be hard for SeleCT. depends on how healthy sC is. He had his surgery not too long ago and he might not be in game shape. | ||
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Juliette
United States6003 Posts
my two favorites for this season | ||
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brachester
Australia1786 Posts
this one is gonna be hard for revival | ||
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Blasphemi
United Kingdom980 Posts
On September 15 2011 16:38 Adebisi wrote: Yeah, I think they're all likely candidates for getting to the up down matches for sure, although sC might be hard for SeleCT. If Sjow makes it past Maka he won't make it past Curious. Curious is one of those amazing players who should be Code S but isn't (see Bomber, DRG, MMA, Ganzi) and Sjow is pretty weak vs Zerg. Naniwa should take Tester and Dream if he beats Lucky. But given that Naniwa is extremely weak vs Zerg and Zerg generally beats Protoss no problem in Korea right now he's heading for Code B. Sase should beat Fruitdealer but I wouldn't guarentee it. I don't see him beating Jookto or JYP though. He will probably keep his Code A spot but fail to reach Up/Downs. Select is a good player but he won't be Alicia, and if he does he won't beat sC or Revival. All three are really good players. I think Sjow is the worst foreigner in Code A but the brackets are such he probably has the best chance alongside Naniwa of making up and downs. None of them have much shout of winning Code A or making the finals. | ||
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robih
Austria1086 Posts
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s3183529
Australia707 Posts
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FunnelC4kes
Ireland462 Posts
sC vs. Revival HerO vs. viOlet Maka vs. Sjow Holy sweet-ass match-ups! This season looks epic! | ||
Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51463 Posts
News to me... Nice brackets, code A getting good every month! | ||
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zYwi3c
Poland1811 Posts
e; oh i didnt see Sjow. Maka is a beast in TvT. | ||
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Drygioni
Japan379 Posts
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Latty
Germany567 Posts
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BobMcJohnson
France2916 Posts
Sase is imo the one with the biggest chances of advancing, considering FD's current shape. The part where I am scared is that Hero and Naniwa will play at Dreamhack Valencia 3days before their match, hope jetlag wont destroy them... edit; actually 2days for hero :/ | ||
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FrostedMiniWheats
United States30730 Posts
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krneki
Norway237 Posts
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JiYan
United States3668 Posts
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AxionSteel
United States7754 Posts
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-UMADIMSTYLIN-
Cuba292 Posts
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TUski
United States1258 Posts
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Lt.Roosevelt
Sweden84 Posts
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Koshi
Belgium38797 Posts
I predict 2/4 to make it through. | ||
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51463 Posts
Top 3 favorites to take this down will be MC or SC winning it with. Sage and Byun coming from the lower bracket i think. | ||
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EvOr
France48 Posts
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Darkthorn
Romania912 Posts
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Uncultured
United States1340 Posts
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goldendwarf
Canada170 Posts
On September 15 2011 17:33 EvOr wrote: Sadly, code A seems far more interesting than code S with much more races, foreigners, and bo3 since day1. Hopefully, we will see the foreigners advance ! yup, gotta agree with this, im gonna be watching code a way more since there isnt 20 terrans and we can finally see other matchups, im so tired of tvx. | ||
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Uncultured
United States1340 Posts
On September 15 2011 17:31 Pandemona wrote: Also for those who scream imbalance and GSL = Terran only theres 8 Terran, 12 Zerg, 12 Protos in Code A so i say that theres awesome Terrans in GSL code S and the rest are average? Hense theres more P and Z in Code A than up and coming Terrans. Top 3 favorites to take this down will be MC or SC winning it with. Sage and Byun coming from the lower bracket i think. Uhh, I think what you're seeing is all the zerg and toss from code S dropping down to code A while the terrans from code A went up to code S. | ||
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Asha
United Kingdom38194 Posts
- Sick match to kick off Code A, I'm leaning towards Revival given sC's time out after injury and Revival's been generally on an upswing lately...well, bar ZvZ -__- (P)Alicia vs (T)SeleCT - Well this just gets better and better! Amazing match to follow up. Can Alicia break the shackles of his slump, will SeleCT just 1/1/1 him, or will we get a couple of spectacultar TvP's? (P)MC vs (Z)Monster - Got to lean towards MC, but I've not really got any idea of what Monster is capable of in ZvP outside of the fact he took down Squirtle in the last qualifiers. (Z)Kyrix vs (T)GuMiho - Might well be the end of the road for Kyrix, Gumiho is a great player. Only worry I have is Gumi doing some funky strategy and walking into trouble, seen him do pure bio still sometimes and that worries me. (Z)YuGiOh vs (P)lOvShinyStar - Err...I don't really know what to say on this one. I heard ShinyStar is really good but can't get on a team because his parents don't want him to? Still going with yugiOh though. (Z)viOlet vs (T)Liquid`HerO - Was pleasantly surprised with viOlet's ZvP in the up & down matches, but I still think he'll lose here. In some ways Hero and JYP both PvZ in similar styles and I think viOlet will get picked apart again. (Z)Sniper vs (Z)Curious - Curious has sick ZvZ, if he doesn't win here I'm just going to cry (fanboy) (T)Maka vs (T)SjoW - Wowow, Sjow couldn't have asked for better imo. Not that Maka is bad, but Sjow has a great TvT and Maka's probably not the strongest opponent he could have drawn. (Z)FruitDealer vs (P)SaSe - Amazing chance for Sase here, I really expect him to win this. FD is washed up and Sase is on the rise. (P)JYP vs (Z)JookTo - This will be another of the great first round matches, book it. Hoping for JYP but Jookto has some good ZvP. (T)Byun vs (P)Twilight - Byun should win this without too much trouble, still not sold on Oz. (P)Tassadar vs (Z)SUPERSTAR - Oh man, Superstar is actually awesome at Zerg despite the cape and and all caps. Tassadar has probably gone from being happy to see Terrans to incredibly thankful that he's finally avoiding them. Not sure who I favour here. (P)TesteR vs (T)Dream - Dream! was super impressed he instantly requalified for Code A after falling out, I think he has what it takes to get rid of the Trickster problem once and for all =p (Z)Lucky vs (P)NaNiwa - Very interesting match, Lucky seems to be pretty good in general, while it's going to be time to answer the question of whether or not Nani has evolved his play enough to compete now (though I guess Dreamhack might answer that too) (Z)Check vs (P)Weekend - Poor poor Check, so close to Code S and now hovering dangerously over the abyss of Code B. Weekend only dropped a game in qualification to our beloved Jinro, but I think Check is going to handle him just fine. (T)IMYoda vs (P)Sage - Dear Yoda, if you 1/1/1 Sage I will personally find you and break your keyboard ¬_¬ Had the pleasure of watching Sage play Jinro in 20+ games the other day on Jinro's stream, it was a pretty masterful display of Protoss play. If he doesn't get cheesed out I expect him to win. | ||
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Xcobidoo
Sweden1871 Posts
What excites me the most though is the amount of new blood combined with the amount of good players falling down from Code S, this could be one of the best seasons in Code A yet! | ||
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Jetaap
France4814 Posts
I think it's going to be tougher for Naniwa, his opponent is a slightly better zerg, and pvz is in a weird state at the moment. Sjow vs maka: sjow has a chance, but sjow will lack preparation in korea. Overall I think it's a good draw for the foreigners, drawing zergs for protosses is probably better than terrans, and sjow has good TvT. The only better thing would have been to have some PvP I think. | ||
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Zeon0
Austria2995 Posts
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Clicker
United States1012 Posts
On a more personal note, I'm working third shift now and I'll get home right before GSL starts. Awww yeahh. | ||
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Chodes
Canada212 Posts
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Talin
Montenegro10532 Posts
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iamlafore
Japan40 Posts
On September 15 2011 12:46 Maplestory wrote: looks easy for foreigners If history has shown us anything, its that that statement has always turned out to be false. | ||
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bobwhiz
United States725 Posts
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Gladiator6
Sweden7024 Posts
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kvn4444
1510 Posts
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ReaperX
Hong Kong1758 Posts
On September 15 2011 12:54 Dexington wrote: Looks easy for Sjow at least. He gave Bomber a run for his money, so Maka shouldn't be much of a problem. Select has beaten A LOT of Korean Protosses now, so he has a chance against Alicia. Naniwa is probably not gonna win. I'd love for Sase to get rid of Fruitdealer, just so we don't have to hear from his fan boys about how he is still a valid competitor. Also, my personal wish is for MC to drop down to code B. Don't hate on the bosstoss! | ||
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Haze.884
New Zealand192 Posts
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Vaelone
Finland4400 Posts
Some pretty tough match ups however. | ||
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ReaperX
Hong Kong1758 Posts
My predictions: sC vs RevivaL Alicia vs SeleCT MC vs Monster Kyrix vs GuMiho YuGiOh vs lOvShinyStar viOlet vs Liquid`HerO Sniper vs Curious Maka vs SjoW FruitDealer vs SaSe JYP vs JookTo Byun vs Twilight Tassadar vs SUPERSTAR TesteR vs Dream Lucky vs NaNiwa Check vs Weekend IMYoda vs Sage | ||
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Nifel
706 Posts
sC vs RevivaL Alicia vs SeleCT MC vs Monster Kyrix vs GuMiho YuGiOh vs lOvShinyStar viOlet vs Liquid`HerO Sniper vs Curious Maka vs SjoW FruitDealer vs SaSe JYP vs JookTo Byun vs Twilight Tassadar vs SUPERSTAR TesteR vs Dream Lucky vs NaNiwa Check vs Weekend IMYoda vs Sage | ||
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Lumi
United States1612 Posts
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Skillig
Belgium141 Posts
Alicia vs SeleCT MC vs Monster Kyrix vs GuMiho YuGiOh vs lOvShinyStar viOlet vs Liquid`HerO Sniper vs Curious Maka vs SjoW FruitDealer vs SaSe JYP vs JookTo Byun vs Twilight Tassadar vs SUPERSTAR TesteR vs Dream Lucky vs NaNiwa Check vs Weekend IMYoda vs Sage | ||
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nufcrulz
Singapore934 Posts
Alicia vs SeleCT MC vs Monster Kyrix vs GuMiho YuGiOh vs lOvShinyStar viOlet vs Liquid`HerO Sniper vs Curious Maka vs SjoW FruitDealer vs SaSe JYP vs JookTo Byun vs Twilight Tassadar vs SUPERSTAR TesteR vs Dream Lucky vs NaNiwa Check vs Weekend IMYoda vs Sage | ||
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nam nam
Sweden4672 Posts
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Djagulingu
Germany3605 Posts
On September 15 2011 12:54 Dexington wrote: Also, my personal wish is for MC to drop down to code B. Yeah, my wishlist is: - Alicia - MC - Kyrix - YuGiOh - HerO - Curious - Maka - Sase - JookTo - Twilight - Tassadar - TesteR - Weekend - Yoda in code b. | ||
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Ambarella
Canada75 Posts
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Neelia
Germany599 Posts
On September 15 2011 21:38 Ambarella wrote: Don't know if this was mentioned, but how come the tlpd information for LiquidHero is a white guy? Because there was a white guy called Froz who had the id Liquid`Hero in BW and the OP linked the wrong Hero. | ||
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Ammanas
Slovakia2166 Posts
Second worst matchup is Naniwa - Lucky, Lucky is pretty good and I don't think Naniwa's PvZ is that strong. Of course, we didn't really see, what his play is like after month (or almost two months) in Korea. Guess we will see @ Dreamhack Valencia. I hope he makes it through. Sjow's best matchup is probably TvT (Code S level, according to Bomber :p), so I hope he can make it into at least ro16. And finally SaSe, he is tearing it up on the Korean ladder lately, he trains so much, and Fruitdealer isn't really looking good at all lately (even Jinro managed to beat him), I just hope SaSe will make at least up and downs. Favourite to win it all? Probably MC (of course), but I can see my favourite player winning - Sage. Also hoping for Tassadar/JYP and of course all the foreigners (SaSe in particular). sC vs RevivaL Alicia vs SeleCT MC vs Monster Kyrix vs GuMiho YuGiOh vs lOvShinyStar viOlet vs Liquid`HerO Sniper vs Curious Maka vs SjoW FruitDealer vs SaSe JYP vs JookTo Byun vs Twilight Tassadar vs SUPERSTAR TesteR vs Dream Lucky vs NaNiwa Check vs Weekend IMYoda vs Sage | ||
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RPR_Tempest
Australia7798 Posts
SlayerS_Alicia oGsMC LiquidHerO ST.Curious TSL.JYP ZeNEXByun Dignitas.NaNiwa NSHoSeoSage | ||
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laguu
Finland278 Posts
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Oktyabr
Singapore2234 Posts
On September 15 2011 16:13 gustavohmp wrote: This brackets are bullshit JYP vs JookTo in the first round? The fuck? Both are great players, why put them on the first god damn round to fight each other Also Yoda vs Sage. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT GOM Both could very well be Code A champions but nope, lets make them meet in the first round Sigh... Hopefully our Brotoss brethren will survive until the round of 8. Some Zergs is cool too. Something about Yoda and Code A champion in the same line kind of baffles me. Don't get me wrong, because Yoda's decent. But he's not getting there this particular season. | ||
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Benjef
United Kingdom6921 Posts
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cablesc
United States1540 Posts
On September 15 2011 21:45 RPR_Tempest wrote: Who I think will make up and downs: SlayerS_Alicia oGsMC LiquidHerO ST.Curious TSL.JYP ZeNEXByun Dignitas.NaNiwa NSHoSeoSage This would be awesome if it happened. Then kick out a couple terrans from Code S and put some of these guy in. | ||
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emc
United States3088 Posts
Advance: sC - this guy is sick good and I can't believe he is in code A, should make it back to code S if not out right win code A. SelecT - I'm not going to list every foreigner. I simply want select to advance because I like him. yugioh - I'm a fan of Slayers zerg players, something about them... Hero - I actually don't really like team liquids players all that much but I want to see how a korean on a foreigner team will do. Fruitdealer - sorry sase, but I think with FD being on ST now I think he will be a lot better this season. I think code A will finally motivate FD and hopefully we'll see him shine again. Tester - in the same boat as FD but has already improved a ton since joining ST. Check - Always been a fan of his tactics coming from WC3 and have followed him since open season 1 Eliminate: MC - I just don't like the guy. He is funny, a huge troll but I just don't like him. He basically abuses a ton of shit in the game and came up with the mass sentry aggression style that everyone loved to hate. Personally, I'd like to see him lose and have to make his way back into code A, if he can do that then I'll gain some respect for the guy. Hell, maybe he'll actually come back to MLG to earn that spot, I'd like to see that happen. Kyrix - fuck you kyrix, seriously. I didn't even bother to watch the guy during the regular season but when I saw him in the up and down matches I wanted to puke. It's been a good run but there are much better zergs out there than you. Sjow - Not really a fan of this guy and there is nothing notable about his play style except he uses minimal APM. It will be fun seeing him lose to Maka who is fun to watch and might beat sjow on multi-tasking alone. Tassadar - nothing against the guy, but he's been in code A forever now and almost won code A one time in an absolute snooze fest of a PvP. I think it's time he gets knocked out and we see better players replace him. | ||
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Choboo
Sweden2088 Posts
On September 15 2011 20:15 ReaperX wrote: This looks promising for Zerg and Protoss compared to Code S. I think we can all expect next season's GSL to have more higher level Protoss and Zerg players although Code S Zergs all seem pretty strong. My predictions: IMYoda vs Sage noo | ||
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HQuality
2682 Posts
On September 15 2011 21:45 RPR_Tempest wrote: Who I think will make up and downs: SlayerS_Alicia oGsMC LiquidHerO ST.Curious TSL.JYP ZeNEXByun Dignitas.NaNiwa NSHoSeoSage pretty much agree i'd say SlayerS_Alicia/revival/sc oGsMC/gumiho LiquidHerO ST.Curious/maka TSL.JYP ZeNEXByun Dignitas.NaNiwa NSHoSeoSage | ||
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naux
Canada738 Posts
On September 15 2011 22:07 emc wrote: I'm not gonna predict, I'm just going to list who I want to advance in code A or get into Code S and who I want to see get eliminated. Advance: sC - this guy is sick good and I can't believe he is in code A, should make it back to code S if not out right win code A. SelecT - I'm not going to list every foreigner. I simply want select to advance because I like him. yugioh - I'm a fan of Slayers zerg players, something about them... Hero - I actually don't really like team liquids players all that much but I want to see how a korean on a foreigner team will do. Fruitdealer - sorry sase, but I think with FD being on ST now I think he will be a lot better this season. I think code A will finally motivate FD and hopefully we'll see him shine again. Tester - in the same boat as FD but has already improved a ton since joining ST. Check - Always been a fan of his tactics coming from WC3 and have followed him since open season 1 Eliminate: MC - I just don't like the guy. He is funny, a huge troll but I just don't like him. He basically abuses a ton of shit in the game and came up with the mass sentry aggression style that everyone loved to hate. Personally, I'd like to see him lose and have to make his way back into code A, if he can do that then I'll gain some respect for the guy. Hell, maybe he'll actually come back to MLG to earn that spot, I'd like to see that happen. Kyrix - fuck you kyrix, seriously. I didn't even bother to watch the guy during the regular season but when I saw him in the up and down matches I wanted to puke. It's been a good run but there are much better zergs out there than you. Sjow - Not really a fan of this guy and there is nothing notable about his play style except he uses minimal APM. It will be fun seeing him lose to Maka who is fun to watch and might beat sjow on multi-tasking alone. Tassadar - nothing against the guy, but he's been in code A forever now and almost won code A one time in an absolute snooze fest of a PvP. I think it's time he gets knocked out and we see better players replace him. u hate mc because his funny? i would hate being stuck in a elevator with u | ||
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pewpew444
United States121 Posts
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habeck
1120 Posts
BELIEVE ME ! | ||
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Gotmog
Serbia899 Posts
On September 15 2011 22:15 naux wrote: u hate mc because his funny? i would hate being stuck in a elevator with u Thats not what he said.....read again. | ||
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McFeser
United States2458 Posts
On September 15 2011 22:07 emc wrote: Fruitdealer - sorry sase, but I think with FD being on ST now I think he will be a lot better this season. I think code A will finally motivate FD and hopefully we'll see him shine again. . Fruitdealer won't advance. Sase is one of the highest ranked protosses on ladder (13th GM) and last night alone he beat IMMvp twice in row. | ||
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snowroller1
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Choboo
Sweden2088 Posts
On September 15 2011 23:26 McFeser wrote: Fruitdealer won't advance. Sase is one of the highest ranked protosses on ladder (13th GM) and last night alone he beat IMMvp twice in row. Yeah but Sase isn't exactly confident vs Zerg... They just drone up like crazy and there's not anything you can do about it. And don't even get me started on ling/muta or rather drone/muta T__T | ||
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chocopaw
2072 Posts
I'm almost more pumped for Code A this time than for Code S. Oo | ||
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clusen
Germany8702 Posts
Very few Terrans and many Z/P <3 | ||
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hahaimhenry
Canada368 Posts
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napo
Romania622 Posts
Go Go foreigners - the more the merrier! | ||
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QTIP.
United States2113 Posts
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RPR_Tempest
Australia7798 Posts
On September 15 2011 23:34 snowroller1 wrote: SaSe made it thru code b? No, Jinro turned down his seed so they gave it to SaSe. | ||
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Wildsound
United Kingdom144 Posts
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Trezeguet
United States2656 Posts
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chipmonklord17
United States11944 Posts
On September 15 2011 23:43 RPR_Tempest wrote: No, Jinro turned down his seed so they gave it to SaSe. What was Jinro getting a seed for? Did he do that well at MLG (I missed almost the entire thing)? | ||
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SadMachine
United States98 Posts
Sjow has it way tougher than most people think. Maka's best MU is TvT, and he made it pretty deep in the Supertournament, almost beating Polt in a TvT. He's also re-qualified for code A twice note IIRC, and that proves that he's still got tons of skill! I think Sjow can do it, but he's definitely the underdog here. I've been watching Sase's stream a bunch lately, and honestly I think he's going to rip FD a new one! Granted I've mostly seen him play vT and vP, but he's been playing unbelievably well as evidenced by his ridiculously high ladder ranking on the KOR server (was 18 last I saw). Naniwa shouldn't have much trouble w/ Lucky, though it is one of his weaker MUs... I just don't think Lucky is that great, and Naniwa showed some great play in the team league. If he's been practicing hard in Korea since then I think he's the favorite here. | ||
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Blasphemi
United Kingdom980 Posts
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SgtPepper
United States568 Posts
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Derez
Netherlands6068 Posts
Hoping for Select/Nani/Sjow to do well, I'll cheer for anything dignitas for sure. | ||
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hugman
Sweden4644 Posts
On September 15 2011 14:22 jjmmtt wrote: Select over Alicia (Select ftw). Hero over Violet (although, would not be surprised if Violet won either). Maka over Sjow (pretty even match though). FD over Sase (Sase is rubbish). Naninwa over Lucky (not much of a challenge imo). SaSe is not rubbish That is all | ||
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fraktoasters
United States617 Posts
On September 15 2011 23:26 McFeser wrote: Fruitdealer won't advance. Sase is one of the highest ranked protosses on ladder (13th GM) and last night alone he beat IMMvp twice in row. He beats people on the ladder? He must be the next bonjwa then. | ||
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garlicface
Canada4196 Posts
On September 15 2011 23:40 hahaimhenry wrote: why is liquid hero froz?! am i missing something? Froz's old tag was Liquid`Hero. Oh, and I think SeleCT has the best chance to advance of the foreigners. | ||
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McFeser
United States2458 Posts
On September 16 2011 03:14 fraktoasters wrote: He beats people on the ladder? He must be the next bonjwa then. It's still better than Fruitdealer, who doesn't beat people at all | ||
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Katowice25012 Posts
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Shinobi1982
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Zion9
Romania347 Posts
(P)Alicia vs (T)SeleCT - SeleCT has a decent PvT, even if Alicia is a heavy opponent, SeleCT can take this (P)MC vs (Z)Monster - At first sight it seems an easy MC win, but looking back at other GSL winners history or Top8 players like FruitDealer, MKP, Jinro etc. everyone has its bad period, who knows this will be MC's ? Still i think MC will take this (Z)Kyrix vs (T)GuMiho - Goodybe Kyrix no doubt (Z)YuGiOh vs (P)lOvShinyStar - I'm not really sure but if I remember correctly ShinyStar is a pretty unexperienced new players so it shouldn't be a problem for YugiOh (Z)viOlet vs (P)HerO - Hard match, still HerO looks good nowadays and its time for him to shine! (Z)Sniper vs (Z)Curious - Don't know well the two players tbh so I'm not gonna make a statement (T)Maka vs (T)SjoW - A past good players against a rising EU T. If I remember correctly someone stated (a korean) that SjoW definetly has a Code S TvT. Lets See ! (Z)FruitDealer vs (P)SaSe - Story of the fallen star. SaSe here is your chance ! (P)JYP vs (Z)JookTo - Pretty even.... (T)Byun vs (P)Twilight - Seems even aswell but Twilight needs some results to be back on track (P)Tassadar vs (Z)SUPERSTAR - EN TARO TASSADAR ! 9/21 1:10pm KST (P)TesteR vs (T)Dream - Tester, YES. Tester. No doubt (Z)Lucky vs (P)NaNiwa - I cantt see NaNiwa loosing this... (Z)Check vs (P)Weekend - Check mate (T)IMYoda vs (P)Sage - The force be with you! | ||
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k!llua
Australia895 Posts
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Valikyr
Sweden2653 Posts
Whoever thinks SaSe is rubbish doesnt know SC2 lol. | ||
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fortheGG
United Kingdom1002 Posts
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Mortal
2943 Posts
Well poop, I wanted both of them to go far. | ||
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JerKy
Korea (South)3013 Posts
Cant wait to see my favorite terran do work ^_^ Gonna be an epic game between him and alicia, gl to both | ||
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ma70
253 Posts
(T)sC (P)Alicia (P)MC (Z)Kyrix 9/19 6:10pm KST (P)lOvShinyStar (P)Liquid`HerO (Z)Curious (T)Maka 9/20 1:10pm KST (Z)FruitDealer (P)JYP (T)Byun (P)Tassadar 9/21 1:10pm KST (P)TesteR (Z)Lucky (Z)Check (P)Sage Those are my hopes/bets for winning. | ||
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adalcim
Germany166 Posts
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MIKster
Germany333 Posts
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TemplarCo.
Mexico2870 Posts
Yoda vs Sage I want to see if this kid (Sage) is as good as people claim he is, a good challenge tbh. On the HerO case I think we can see him in Code A for at least another season. And MC is not leaving Code A in any possible way imo. | ||
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Vapaach
Finland994 Posts
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dgwow
Canada1024 Posts
On September 16 2011 06:09 ma70 wrote: 9/19 1:10pm KST (T)sC (P)Alicia (P)MC (Z)Kyrix 9/19 6:10pm KST (P)lOvShinyStar (P)Liquid`HerO (Z)Curious (T)Maka 9/20 1:10pm KST (Z)FruitDealer (P)JYP (T)Byun (P)Tassadar 9/21 1:10pm KST (P)TesteR (Z)Lucky (Z)Check (P)Sage Those are my hopes/bets for winning. Traitor! | ||
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StimiLant
United States534 Posts
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gehgrfhgrh
Germany294 Posts
On September 15 2011 12:46 Maplestory wrote: looks easy for foreigners Remember last GSL? All Foreigners will have a hard time. Lucky vs NaNi is a hard matchup for NaNi. His PvZ is pretty bad and Lucky is a great upcoming Zerg. | ||
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Cosmos
Belgium1077 Posts
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knyttym
United States5797 Posts
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Cosmos
Belgium1077 Posts
(P)Alicia (P)MC (T)GuMiho (Z)YuGiOh (Z)viOlet (Z)Sniper (T)Maka (P)SaSe (P)JYP (T)Byun (P)Tassadar (P)TesteR (P)NaNiwa (Z)Check (T)IMYoda vs (P)Sage I'm very sad about that one, I feel Sage will win but Yoda is such an innovative player and I hope to see more of him, especially TvZ. | ||
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Pervect
1280 Posts
On September 16 2011 06:19 Cosmos wrote: and people whine about many terrans in code S? There are none in code A -_- It's 12p/12z/8t in Code A.... that's an alright spread as it'll rarely be a fully even distribution, especially compared to 20t/7z/5p in Code S. I think it's the first time Terran's had less than 12 in any Code S or Code A, while P/Z rarely have had double digits in round of 32 in Code S/Code A. I don't understand how any Terran could possibly be like "omg no terrans in code a." Should be saying "omg same amount of terrans in code a as protoss/zerg have had on average in every code a before this." | ||
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ZergX
France436 Posts
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poorcloud
Singapore2748 Posts
Yoda's playstyle is also very unorthodox. | ||
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RusHXceL
United States1004 Posts
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Bobster
Germany3075 Posts
When Fruitdealer is considered the easiest opponent, you know the bracket's trouble. On September 16 2011 06:19 Cosmos wrote: and people whine about many terrans in code S? There are none in code A -_- That's because they're all in Code S! :p | ||
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Amui
Canada10567 Posts
9/19 1:10pm KST (T)sC vs (Z)RevivaL Revival plays roach based ZvT from what I've seen, and sC can abuse that (P)Alicia vs (T)SeleCT Alicia just seems to not beat Terrans who don't make many mistakes. Partially his mindset, sometimes otherwise. (P)MC vs (Z)Monster It's MC. (Z)Kyrix vs (T)GuMiho I've always thought Gumiho was a pretty good terran 9/19 6:10pm KST (Z)YuGiOh vs (P)lOvShinyStar Sorry but the eternal Code A player must stay Code A forever (Z)viOlet vs (P)Liquid`HerO Hero has pretty strong PvZ from what I've seen of his games. (Z)Sniper vs (Z)Curious (T)Maka vs (T)SjoW When maka's playing better, Sjow doesn't stand a chance I would think. 9/20 1:10pm KST (Z)FruitDealer vs (P)SaSe Fruitdealer has just looked pretty bad in recent times (P)JYP vs (Z)JookTo JYP must shine the light for the other Protoss to follow (T)Byun vs (P)Twilight Oz hasn't really impressed me THAT much, he's pretty good and all but meh. (P)Tassadar vs (Z)SUPERSTAR Startale needs to get this guy into Code S along with a huge T-shirt with the ST logo =). Then he can actually be SUPERSTAR 9/21 1:10pm KST (P)TesteR vs (T)Dream Tester sometimes looks like an idiot, and other times like a genius. I'm going to go with idiot this time around (Z)Lucky vs (P)NaNiwa NaNiwa is going to have practiced his heart out for this. After all his goal is to win, not come in second or 3rd. (Z)Check vs (P)Weekend Didn't get to see weekend play so idk (T)IMYoda vs (P)Sage All I really remember from Yoda is hellions. Lot's and lots of hellions. | ||
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sixfour
England11061 Posts
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Kazeyonoma
United States2912 Posts
Sase vs FD is doable too, FD has been on the decline more and more, and Sase has had a month+ to practice in korea. SjoW's TvT is good, even bomber said he's code S level TvT. I'm glad to see Maka back in it, but I think SjoW has a legitimate shot at proceeding past Maka Nani vs Lucky is going to be rough. Lucky is good, like, really good, and ZvP is in a bad place for Protoss right now. Lets hope Nani's movie watching at the startale house paid off! Foreigners Fighting! Dignitas Fighting!!! | ||
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Grettin
42381 Posts
I'd say pretty good chances for all the foreigners and HerO to advance. | ||
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Chrian
United States1472 Posts
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Nazeron
Canada1046 Posts
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Fighter
Korea (South)1531 Posts
On September 16 2011 06:39 Kazeyonoma wrote: gonna have to say the foreigners have good draws. select TvP is his best matchup, so despite alicia being our forgotten hero of months past, I think select has a good chance at this. Sase vs FD is doable too, FD has been on the decline more and more, and Sase has had a month+ to practice in korea. SjoW's TvT is good, even bomber said he's code S level TvT. I'm glad to see Maka back in it, but I think SjoW has a legitimate shot at proceeding past Maka Nani vs Lucky is going to be rough. Lucky is good, like, really good, and ZvP is in a bad place for Protoss right now. Lets hope Nani's movie watching at the startale house paid off! Foreigners Fighting! Dignitas Fighting!!! I'd say this is a pretty good assessment. Personally, Naniwa is one of my favorite players, but you've gotta beat the best to become the best. Lucky might be tough, but he's just a stepping stone. Naniwa hwaiting! | ||
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Nihilnovi
Sweden696 Posts
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Krehlmar
Sweden1149 Posts
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ArchDC
Malaysia1996 Posts
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CeriseCherries
6170 Posts
I really hope protoss like Alicia and MC can get back into Code S. -.- I miss you Alicia | ||
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Alpino
Brazil4390 Posts
On September 16 2011 06:45 Fighter wrote: I'd say this is a pretty good assessment. Personally, Naniwa is one of my favorite players, but you've gotta beat the best to become the best. Lucky might be tough, but he's just a stepping stone. Naniwa hwaiting! Naniwa hwaintiiiing mate! :D | ||
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fraktoasters
United States617 Posts
On September 16 2011 06:19 Cosmos wrote: and people whine about many terrans in code S? There are none in code A -_- it's because they all advanced into Code S... | ||
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Takuah
United States76 Posts
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Laneir
United States1160 Posts
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Khalleb
Canada1909 Posts
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cellblock
Sweden206 Posts
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IMLyte
Canada714 Posts
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Gusenbauer
Austria19 Posts
MC, Sage, sC and Byun plus the foreigners...also great matches in the first round. Gonna buy a ticket for Code A only...^^ | ||
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Mcleod21
Jamaica29 Posts
On September 16 2011 06:35 Amui wrote: 9/19 1:10pm KST (T)sC vs (Z)RevivaL Revival plays roach based ZvT from what I've seen, and sC can abuse that (P)Alicia vs (T)SeleCT Alicia just seems to not beat Terrans who don't make many mistakes. Partially his mindset, sometimes otherwise. (P)MC vs (Z)Monster It's MC. (Z)Kyrix vs (T)GuMiho I've always thought Gumiho was a pretty good terran 9/19 6:10pm KST (Z)YuGiOh vs (P)lOvShinyStar Sorry but the eternal Code A player must stay Code A forever (Z)viOlet vs (P)Liquid`HerO Hero has pretty strong PvZ from what I've seen of his games. (Z)Sniper vs (Z)Curious (T)Maka vs (T)SjoW When maka's playing better, Sjow doesn't stand a chance I would think. 9/20 1:10pm KST (Z)FruitDealer vs (P)SaSe Fruitdealer has just looked pretty bad in recent times (P)JYP vs (Z)JookTo JYP must shine the light for the other Protoss to follow (T)Byun vs (P)Twilight Oz hasn't really impressed me THAT much, he's pretty good and all but meh. (P)Tassadar vs (Z)SUPERSTAR Startale needs to get this guy into Code S along with a huge T-shirt with the ST logo =). Then he can actually be SUPERSTAR 9/21 1:10pm KST (P)TesteR vs (T)Dream Tester sometimes looks like an idiot, and other times like a genius. I'm going to go with idiot this time around (Z)Lucky vs (P)NaNiwa NaNiwa is going to have practiced his heart out for this. After all his goal is to win, not come in second or 3rd. (Z)Check vs (P)Weekend Didn't get to see weekend play so idk (T)IMYoda vs (P)Sage All I really remember from Yoda is hellions. Lot's and lots of hellions. i agreed up until the superstar/ tassadar match. sorry but it think tassadar is gunna win that one, he's just really good | ||
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windsupernova
Mexico5280 Posts
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sjschmidt93
United States2518 Posts
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ellirc
Sweden3286 Posts
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McFeser
United States2458 Posts
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Meigas
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Vindicare605
United States16056 Posts
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Striding Strider
United Kingdom787 Posts
On September 16 2011 06:19 Cosmos wrote: and people whine about many terrans in code S? There are none in code A -_- Can't tell if serious.. | ||
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Mexxell
Canada11 Posts
I don't know who to root for | ||
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mrbamboo
United States415 Posts
sC vs RevivaL Alicia vs SeleCT MC vs Monster Kyrix vs GuMiho YuGiOh vs lOvShinyStar viOlet vs Liquid`HerO Sniper vs Curious Maka vs SjoW FruitDealer vs SaSe JYP vs JookTo Byun vs Twilight Tassadar vs SUPERSTAR TesteR vs Dream Lucky vs NaNiwa Check vs Weekend IMYoda vs Sage | ||
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
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RezChi
Canada2368 Posts
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Drolla
United Kingdom389 Posts
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OhMyGawd
United States264 Posts
On September 16 2011 07:02 fraktoasters wrote: it's because they all advanced into Code S... I found this mildly amusing....and so true. | ||
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hugman
Sweden4644 Posts
On September 16 2011 08:02 Drolla wrote: Apart from Naniwa the forgeigner's all have favourable draws. I really think that SjoW will crush Maka. :} Agreed I'm a bit worried for nani | ||
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Shelke14
Canada6655 Posts
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GenesisX
Canada4267 Posts
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risk.nuke
Sweden2825 Posts
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Paraietta
United Kingdom130 Posts
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MrCon
France29748 Posts
xD The future of code S is not that bad when you see this code A lineup... | ||
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Cyanocyst
2222 Posts
On September 15 2011 18:12 Asha` wrote: + Show Spoiler + (T)sC vs (Z)RevivaL - Sick match to kick off Code A, I'm leaning towards Revival given sC's time out after injury and Revival's been generally on an upswing lately...well, bar ZvZ -__- (P)Alicia vs (T)SeleCT - Well this just gets better and better! Amazing match to follow up. Can Alicia break the shackles of his slump, will SeleCT just 1/1/1 him, or will we get a couple of spectacultar TvP's? (P)MC vs (Z)Monster - Got to lean towards MC, but I've not really got any idea of what Monster is capable of in ZvP outside of the fact he took down Squirtle in the last qualifiers. (Z)Kyrix vs (T)GuMiho - Might well be the end of the road for Kyrix, Gumiho is a great player. Only worry I have is Gumi doing some funky strategy and walking into trouble, seen him do pure bio still sometimes and that worries me. (Z)YuGiOh vs (P)lOvShinyStar - Err...I don't really know what to say on this one. I heard ShinyStar is really good but can't get on a team because his parents don't want him to? Still going with yugiOh though. (Z)viOlet vs (T)Liquid`HerO - Was pleasantly surprised with viOlet's ZvP in the up & down matches, but I still think he'll lose here. In some ways Hero and JYP both PvZ in similar styles and I think viOlet will get picked apart again. (Z)Sniper vs (Z)Curious - Curious has sick ZvZ, if he doesn't win here I'm just going to cry (fanboy) (T)Maka vs (T)SjoW - Wowow, Sjow couldn't have asked for better imo. Not that Maka is bad, but Sjow has a great TvT and Maka's probably not the strongest opponent he could have drawn. (Z)FruitDealer vs (P)SaSe - Amazing chance for Sase here, I really expect him to win this. FD is washed up and Sase is on the rise. (P)JYP vs (Z)JookTo - This will be another of the great first round matches, book it. Hoping for JYP but Jookto has some good ZvP. (T)Byun vs (P)Twilight - Byun should win this without too much trouble, still not sold on Oz. (P)Tassadar vs (Z)SUPERSTAR - Oh man, Superstar is actually awesome at Zerg despite the cape and and all caps. Tassadar has probably gone from being happy to see Terrans to incredibly thankful that he's finally avoiding them. Not sure who I favour here. (P)TesteR vs (T)Dream - Dream! was super impressed he instantly requalified for Code A after falling out, I think he has what it takes to get rid of the Trickster problem once and for all =p (Z)Lucky vs (P)NaNiwa - Very interesting match, Lucky seems to be pretty good in general, while it's going to be time to answer the question of whether or not Nani has evolved his play enough to compete now (though I guess Dreamhack might answer that too) (Z)Check vs (P)Weekend - Poor poor Check, so close to Code S and now hovering dangerously over the abyss of Code B. Weekend only dropped a game in qualification to our beloved Jinro, but I think Check is going to handle him just fine. (T)IMYoda vs (P)Sage - Dear Yoda, if you 1/1/1 Sage I will personally find you and break your keyboard ¬_¬ Had the pleasure of watching Sage play Jinro in 20+ games the other day on Jinro's stream, it was a pretty masterful display of Protoss play. If he doesn't get cheesed out I expect him to win. Really nice write up dude. I agree with out most everything you've said. One thing that might change my opinions is when blizzard implements the patch. Sort of feel like they intend to do it soon. | ||
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Cyanocyst
2222 Posts
On September 16 2011 08:21 GenesisX wrote: oh shit violet vs hero Pretty easy for hero. I think violet is a talented pro-gamer, however until he focuses on Sc2 full time he won't be able to keep up. | ||
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Capped
United Kingdom7236 Posts
On September 15 2011 20:26 Nifel wrote: The foreigners have like a month of effective practice in Korea, at best. That won't be enough to break into Code A. I applause their devotion however. Once they go back to the foreign scene they'll wreck things. Eh, yellow made a decent effort after 1 month of SC2, forgieners are pro gamers, playing at the top (ish). They have plenty chance IMO. | ||
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Atlas247
Canada318 Posts
Select's TvP is godly SJow's TvT is really good (supposedly S class) Sase and Naniwa have a decent chance against those zergs i think. | ||
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Xation
Canada147 Posts
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hugman
Sweden4644 Posts
On September 16 2011 09:13 Xation wrote: Yooo Where is ThorZain? D:. Sad he isn't gonna be there, he has brilliant play. And I kind of hope MC doesn't crush everyone and everything. He went back home already | ||
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Divination
United States139 Posts
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Olinim
4044 Posts
On September 16 2011 08:52 Atlas247 wrote: Foreigners have a good chance here IMO. Select's TvP is godly SJow's TvT is really good (supposedly S class) Sase and Naniwa have a decent chance against those zergs i think. Selects TvP is pretty good, but it's not "godly", not any better than most code S terran(some code A) terrans. Let's not forget hes 1-8 vs MC, and this is a time where PvT is heavily T favored. | ||
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Mutt_Boi
United States30 Posts
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Sarang
Australia2363 Posts
On September 16 2011 09:13 Xation wrote: Yooo Where is ThorZain? D:. Sad he isn't gonna be there, he has brilliant play. And I kind of hope MC doesn't crush everyone and everything. I kinda hope he does, at least for the first two rounds. MC in Code B ... no, just no. Hopefully the foreigners can put up a better showing this season (that won't be too difficult. >.>) | ||
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NotSorry
United States6722 Posts
(T)sC vs (Z)RevivaL (P)Alicia vs (T)SeleCT (P)MC vs (Z)Monster (Z)Kyrix vs (T)GuMiho 9/19 6:10pm KST (Z)YuGiOh vs (P)lOvShinyStar (Z)viOlet vs (P)Liquid`HerO (Z)Sniper vs (Z)Curious (T)Maka vs (T)SjoW 9/20 1:10pm KST (Z)FruitDealer vs (P)SaSe (P)JYP vs (Z)JookTo (T)Byun vs (P)Twilight (P)Tassadar vs (Z)SUPERSTAR 9/21 1:10pm KST (P)TesteR vs (T)Dream (Z)Lucky vs (P)NaNiwa (Z)Check vs (P)Weekend (T)IMYoda vs (P)Sage | ||
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duckTemplar
United States153 Posts
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Pervect
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On September 16 2011 10:13 duckTemplar wrote: Bye bye gsl season one champion? Rainbow s waiting. Yeah... imo Sase is the biggest favorite out of the foreigners. He's going to crush Fruitdealer. | ||
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KimJongChill
United States6429 Posts
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HEROwithNOlegacy
United States850 Posts
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Sabu113
United States11047 Posts
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Xaerkar
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Mattchew
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babylon
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Camail
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Orcasgt24
Canada3238 Posts
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Fig
United States1324 Posts
Monster's last win vs Protoss was in GSL Open Season 3, where he beat GUMIHO! Gumiho used to play toss! I thought Byun was the only one who switched. Well now we have two examples of two players who did badly with toss and switched to become great terrans... The plot thickens. | ||
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Oktyabr
Singapore2234 Posts
On September 16 2011 11:28 Fig wrote: Hey I just looked up Monster's ZvP since he is playing MC, and guess what I found. Monster's last win vs Protoss was in GSL Open Season 3, where he beat GUMIHO! Gumiho used to play toss! I thought Byun was the only one who switched. Well now we have two examples of two players who did badly with toss and switched to become great terrans... The plot thickens. Gumiho was a random player. But yes, he did switch to Terran. | ||
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babylon
8765 Posts
On September 16 2011 11:29 Oktyabr wrote: Gumiho was a random player. But yes, he did switch to Terran. Yeah, I'm pretty sure Gumiho randomed Protoss in GSL3 for the match against Monster. Just double-checked; he randomed Protoss one game and Terran the other. | ||
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Fig
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BarbieHsu
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On September 15 2011 12:44 GTR wrote: Source: http://www.playxp.com/sc2/news/view.php?article_id=3389541 9/19 1:10pm KST sC vs RevivaLAlicia vs SeleCTMC vs MonsterKyrix vs GuMiho9/19 6:10pm KST YuGiOh vs lOvShinyStarviOlet vs Liquid`HerOSniper vs CuriousMaka vs SjoW9/20 1:10pm KST FruitDealer vs SaSeJYP vs JookToByun vs TwilightTassadar vs SUPERSTAR9/21 1:10pm KST TesteR vs DreamLucky vs NaNiwaCheck vs WeekendIMYoda vs SageLook at the first group. I can absolutely see Revival, Monster and Select advancing, knocking out SC, MC and Alicia. In the case of Revival, I actually expect him to win. Monster, I give him a fifty fifty. Zergs are more dangerous than advertised. | ||
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ZOMGitsTHEEND
Canada202 Posts
On September 16 2011 11:33 BarbieHsu wrote: Look at the first group. I can absolutely see Revival, Monster and Select advancing, knocking out SC, MC and Alicia. In the case of Revival, I actually expect him to win. Monster, I give him a fifty fifty. Zergs are more dangerous than advertised. i think MC will beat Monster. However Alicia will probably fall down to code B | ||
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stangstang
Canada281 Posts
Alicia MC Hero JYP Sage if these protoss's make it to code S, code S will be crazy good. | ||
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Mutt_Boi
United States30 Posts
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Fig
United States1324 Posts
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zaii
Guam2611 Posts
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Olinim
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On September 16 2011 11:33 BarbieHsu wrote: Look at the first group. I can absolutely see Revival, Monster and Select advancing, knocking out SC, MC and Alicia. In the case of Revival, I actually expect him to win. Monster, I give him a fifty fifty. Zergs are more dangerous than advertised. Why does Monster have a 50/50 shot against MC, the dude has a 35 percent winrate and 2 recorded ZvPs lol. | ||
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AxionSteel
United States7754 Posts
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Olinim
4044 Posts
On September 16 2011 11:58 AxionSteel wrote: Because it's ZvP? If he's good at ZvP he's a good chance of Knocking out MC, who is weak in that matchup. He has 2 games played. He might be horrible in ZvP which is why it's silly to give him 50/50 against an overall far superior player. | ||
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AxionSteel
United States7754 Posts
Hard to say with such little data. Will be an interesting series I think! | ||
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ScootyPuffJr.
United States31 Posts
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Ciel
Hungary289 Posts
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KoTakUEurO
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sC > Revival Alicia > SeleCT Monster > MC GuMiho > Kyrix ShinyStar > YuGiOh HerO > viOlet Curious > Sniper SjoW > Maka SaSe > FruitDealer JYP > JookTo Byun > Oz Superstar > Tassadar Dream > TesteR (DREAM FIGHTING!!!!) NaNiwa > Lucky Weekend > Check Sage > YoDa | ||
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ticktack
United Arab Emirates874 Posts
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Olinim
4044 Posts
On September 16 2011 12:06 AxionSteel wrote: Yeh, well...50% chance he sucks, which is doubtful since he got through Code B, and 50% chance he is good Hard to say with such little data. Will be an interesting series I think!Just a random though but it makes me sad that we're doubtful about MC winning vs a random code a zerg with a 35 percent winrate, and MC is still probably 1st or second best PvZ in the world...the state of protoss makes me /wrists. (Who doesn't have a weak PvZ? lol) | ||
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sitromit
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Demonace34
United States2493 Posts
(P)Alicia < (T)SeleCT (P)MC v>(Z)Monster (Z)Kyrix < (T)GuMiho (Z)YuGiOh ??? (P)lOvShinyStar (Z)viOlet < (P)Liquid`HerO (Z)Sniper ??? (Z)Curious (T)Maka < (T)SjoW 9/20 1:10pm KST (Z)FruitDealer < (P)SaSe (P)JYP > (Z)JookTo (T)Byun < (P)Twilight (P)Tassadar > (Z)SUPERSTAR 9/21 1:10pm KST (P)TesteR ??? (T)Dream (Z)Lucky < (P)NaNiwa (Z)Check ??? (P)Weekend (T)IMYoda < (P)Sage No idea on some of them. Most of the ones I did pick are from my heart pick. I'm just glad there are less Terrans in Code A then Code S. | ||
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babylon
8765 Posts
On September 16 2011 12:12 Olinim wrote: Just a random though but it makes me sad that we're doubtful about MC winning vs a random code a zerg with a 35 percent winrate, and MC is still probably 1st or second best PvZ in the world...the state of protoss makes me /wrists. (Who doesn't have a weak PvZ? lol) HongUn, apparently. God, I never thought I'd see the day where I could say, "HongUn probably has the best PvZ in the GSL right now," and be taken somewhat seriously. @ Demonace34: Curious's ZvZ is actually really good. He took out Cezanne in the qualifiers. | ||
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Olinim
4044 Posts
On September 16 2011 12:21 babylon wrote: HongUn, apparently. God, I never thought I'd see the day where I could say, "HongUn probably has the best PvZ in the GSL right now," and be taken somewhat seriously. @ Demonace34: Curious's ZvZ is actually really good. He took out Cezanne in the qualifiers. Why hongun? dude is on like a 5 game losing streak vs Z lol. Statistically MC is still the best PvZ in GSL I believe(correct me if I'm wrong), and in international events he has a 73 percnet winrate as well. He had some poor games lately but I think it's partly a result of the matchup just destroying protoss players minds in korea. | ||
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babylon
8765 Posts
On September 16 2011 12:25 Olinim wrote: Why hongun? dude is on like a 5 game losing streak vs Z lol. Statistically MC is still the best PvZ in GSL I believe(correct me if I'm wrong), and in international events he has a 73 percnet winrate as well. He had some poor games lately but I think it's partly a result of the matchup just destroying protoss players minds in korea. I was just poking fun at HongUn. He said during the selection that his PvZ is unbeatable right now. ^^; I actually don't think it's just metagame or "imbalance" right now that's been giving MC a hard time in PvZ. Moon beat MC at a LAN in Beijing just a few weeks ago, and he wasn't doing anything groundbreaking or new. Wasn't even using the favored ling/infestor style. (I mean, MC lost on close spawn Metalopolis, which is. Um. Yeah. So it's not just metagame or the ling/infestor combo or what-not. I think his PvZ is legitimately slumping.) | ||
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Raigeki
Hong Kong207 Posts
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Yareq
United States39 Posts
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AxionSteel
United States7754 Posts
On September 16 2011 12:25 Olinim wrote: Why hongun? dude is on like a 5 game losing streak vs Z lol. Statistically MC is still the best PvZ in GSL I believe(correct me if I'm wrong), and in international events he has a 73 percnet winrate as well. He had some poor games lately but I think it's partly a result of the matchup just destroying protoss players minds in korea. Most of those wins and that win percentage were inflated in the old days where he used to be unbeatable at pvz. His play against LosirA in the recent Up/Down was pretty weird and he's lost a string of zvps lately, even at international events he's looked very mortal against mediocre zergs, whilst still winning against strong international TvP players like select. Personally I think Jyp looks really good vs zerg, but it's hard to say who the best PvZ player is these days as they mostly struggle. | ||
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Yamulo
United States2096 Posts
On September 15 2011 12:54 Dexington wrote: Looks easy for Sjow at least. He gave Bomber a run for his money, so Maka shouldn't be much of a problem. Select has beaten A LOT of Korean Protosses now, so he has a chance against Alicia. Naniwa is probably not gonna win. I'd love for Sase to get rid of Fruitdealer, just so we don't have to hear from his fan boys about how he is still a valid competitor. Also, my personal wish is for MC to drop down to code B. Your an evil person....... >.> What do you want 21 terrans in code s??!?!? jk, but seriously why? Protoss can't afford to be dropping more players into code b | ||
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Samiz
Canada165 Posts
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DarkRise
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I wished tastosis would cast it =/ Select has a good chance, he's TVP is one of the best (foreign wise ofc) so he can win unless he just choke and play badly. Not really a bad bracket for foreigners | ||
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FidoDido
United States1292 Posts
it's sad but seeing how well Monster did in the prelims, MC might fall to code B | ||
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AxionSteel
United States7754 Posts
On September 16 2011 12:48 Samiz wrote: My goodness, there are no TvT's in the ro32. In fact there is only one mirror matchup, and it's ZvZ :O SjoW vs Maka | ||
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Tweleve
United States644 Posts
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Olinim
4044 Posts
On September 16 2011 12:40 AxionSteel wrote: Most of those wins and that win percentage were inflated in the old days where he used to be unbeatable at pvz. His play against LosirA in the recent Up/Down was pretty weird and he's lost a string of zvps lately, even at international events he's looked very mortal against mediocre zergs, whilst still winning against strong international TvP players like select. Personally I think Jyp looks really good vs zerg, but it's hard to say who the best PvZ player is these days as they mostly struggle. Idk, no protoss does well in PvZ in GSL, but MC has never lost a series vs a foreign zerg at a lan which is pretty damn impressive with the amount of games hes played(series vs idra ended 4-2 so it doesn't count IMO :D.) He's still up there in PvZ but protoss is simply so exploitable and predictable korean zergs just tear them apart(like naniwa said). I guess we'll see how he does vs Monster and Nestea maybe he can bring something new. | ||
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phANT1m
South Africa535 Posts
Select vs Alicia first round will be really intense, seeing as Alicia is a PvT king but if Select plays like a super baller can win hopefully. Sase vs Fruitdealer shouldnt be to hard: Btw how did Fruitdealer get in? Wasnt he knocked out and I dont think i saw him qualify via the Code A quals ( i could be mistaken). Maka vs Sjow is TvT so hopefully Sjow should be able to maybe take Maka out. Naniwa vs Curious is what has me curious. I wonder if he will hopefully be able to take him down and at least advance this time. | ||
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babylon
8765 Posts
On September 16 2011 13:06 phANT1m wrote: Hoping the foreigners all go through first stage but Select vs Alicia first round will be really intense, seeing as Alicia is a PvT king but if Select plays like a super baller can win hopefully. Sase vs Fruitdealer shouldnt be to hard: Btw how did Fruitdealer get in? Wasnt he knocked out and I dont think i saw him qualify via the Code A quals ( i could be mistaken). Maka vs Sjow is TvT so hopefully Sjow should be able to maybe take Maka out. Naniwa vs Curious is what has me curious. I wonder if he will hopefully be able to take him down and at least advance this time. FD wasn't knocked out last time. He roflstomped Maru into the ground 2-0 last Code A in the ro32. It was kind of painful to watch. Also, correction: Not Naniwa vs. Curious, but Naniwa vs. Lucky. If it was Naniwa vs. Curious, chances are Naniwa wouldn't advance, lol. | ||
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hmunkey
United Kingdom1973 Posts
On September 15 2011 12:46 Maplestory wrote: looks easy for foreigners It looked even easier last time and we know what happened then... | ||
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Adreme
United States5574 Posts
On September 16 2011 12:48 Samiz wrote: My goodness, there are no TvT's in the ro32. In fact there is only one mirror matchup, and it's ZvZ :O Its because the qualifiers had the absolute worst possible map selection for terran so only 1 I think made it thru the qualifiers (I watched all but I think2 qualifiers so if a terran made it thru in one of those I missed it) and that all the really top tier terrans are in code S. | ||
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BarbieHsu
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AxionSteel
United States7754 Posts
On September 16 2011 13:28 hmunkey wrote: It looked even easier last time and we know what happened then... Nah It didn't. Was always going to be hard as they all got their worst matchups, and had just arrived in Korea the day before. Anyone who thought Naniwa had even a slight chance against Check really didn't understand the game well enough. I still doubt it will go well for the foreigners, but I hope one or two will get through this time | ||
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red4ce
United States7313 Posts
sC vs RevivaL Alicia vs SeleCT MC vs Monster Kyrix vs GuMiho YuGiOh vs lOvShinyStar viOlet vs Liquid`HerO Sniper vs Curious Maka vs SjoW FruitDealer vs SaSe JYP vs JookTo Byun vs Twilight Tassadar vs SUPERSTAR TesteR vs Dream Lucky vs NaNiwa Check vs Weekend IMYoda vs Sage | ||
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Insomniac22
United States907 Posts
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Gravity3
Bulgaria17 Posts
On September 15 2011 12:46 Maplestory wrote: looks easy for foreigners ROFL Koreans that qualified for code A are better than foreigners. | ||
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Yaki
France4234 Posts
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GMonster
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On September 16 2011 13:55 Gravity3 wrote: ROFL Koreans that qualified for code A are better than foreigners. Most foreigners but Naniwa, huk, and SeleCt are on a Korean level as far as being able to take games off. | ||
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itkovian
United States1763 Posts
And of course, go naniwa! I feel like foreigners have a good shot in the first round. But that might just be because I don't recognize the names of Naniwa's or Sjow's opponents... XD | ||
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Blaec
Australia4289 Posts
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DisaFear
Australia4074 Posts
Naww, it's making me choose between Select and Alicia | ||
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ContactKilla
United States194 Posts
And I honestly think Maka will beat Sjow | ||
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Blasphemi
United Kingdom980 Posts
On September 16 2011 14:58 GMonster wrote: Most foreigners but Naniwa, huk, and SeleCt are on a Korean level as far as being able to take games off. Select has a really poor record vs Koreans. Naniwa has not done well in Korea so far and is weak vs Zerg. | ||
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ladyumbra
Canada1699 Posts
2-1 over killer at iem 0-3 loss to MC at iem 2-0 over trickster at mlg 2-0 over liquid hero at mlg I'd say he has a shot at Alicia, it's not a given that he'll win but it's also not a given that he'll just fail completely. How he'd do if he got past Alicia is a complete mystery however. | ||
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Chrisattack
Australia50 Posts
MC and HERO HWAITING ! | ||
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Mr.Brightside
Australia317 Posts
Edit: I should add that the foreigners seem to have decent chances in the ro32, however I doubt any of them will get to up & down matches, maybe SaSe if he doesn't have nerves. Select has picked up his form recently and with him and NaNiwa being on the same team perhaps they have been training well and we might be in for a surprise. | ||
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GreyKnight
United States4720 Posts
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Tommylew
Wales2717 Posts
Select though :S Hope the best but Alaicia can be so good at times!!! | ||
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_vladimir_
Serbia530 Posts
On September 16 2011 13:28 hmunkey wrote: It looked even easier last time and we know what happened then... Yup. Just another mindlessly overhyping, reminds me back when people were talking for every half decent foreigner, "Ah well if he just could go to Korea, he would do great in GSL" , if i got quarter every time i heard that... But anyhow, lets just hope we will get good games, with alot of actions, and not much blunders. And whoever plays better win. Some interesting matches incoming, and nice to see not so many terrans there, considering they all migrated to Code S lol, and Code A got stacked with people getting thrown away from Code S by terrans : / | ||
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LeopoldStotch
United States158 Posts
No he doesn't. Select's win ratio vs P is 61%, his vT and vZ are both 60%. He is definitely solid vs any match up though. Godly would be Nestea's vZ at 92% and vP at 87%. | ||
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hatespam
Romania161 Posts
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CeThoR
Germany53 Posts
On September 16 2011 18:15 LeopoldStotch wrote: No he doesn't. Select's win ratio vs P is 61%, his vT and vZ are both 60%. He is definitely solid vs any match up though. Godly would be Nestea's vZ at 92% and vP at 87%. If i remember correctly select himself said that he feels very confident at TvP right now since thats pretty much the only matchup he practiced at all during the last weeks and therefore he is not as confident in TvZ. | ||
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Wrath586EU
Denmark27 Posts
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Hemula
Russian Federation1849 Posts
I fear for Naniwa. Although I fear for every goddamn protoss now... Either way it's promising to be somewhat interesting start. I might catch some of the games. | ||
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KinQuh
Finland810 Posts
On September 16 2011 13:38 Insomniac22 wrote: go shinystar~! IOvShinyHorse fighting... | ||
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hugman
Sweden4644 Posts
On September 16 2011 20:01 Hemula wrote: Do you guys still counter SelecT as a *foreigner*? I mean, he is indeed under the *foreign* training, but I can't think of him as of a *foreigner* somehow... :O I fear for Naniwa. Although I fear for every goddamn protoss now... Either way it's promising to be somewhat interesting start. I might catch some of the games. He's representing NA at Blizzcon, he's been in the NA SC2 scene since the game came out | ||
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Gladiator6
Sweden7024 Posts
sC vs RevivaLAlicia vs SeleCTMC vs MonsterKyrix vs GuMihoYuGiOh vs lOvShinyStarviOlet vs Liquid`HerOSniper vs CuriousMaka vs SjoWFruitDealer vs SaSeJYP vsJookToByun vs TwilightTassadar vs SUPERSTARTesteR vs DreamLucky vs NaNiwaCheck vs WeekendIMYoda vs Sage | ||
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B.I.G.
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idkju
Canada51 Posts
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ShallNoiseUpon
United States311 Posts
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kittensrcute
United States617 Posts
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Tarschi
Sweden185 Posts
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Wrathsc2
United States2025 Posts
On September 16 2011 16:40 ladyumbra wrote: Select vs Korean protoss in the last month or so 2-1 over killer at iem 0-3 loss to MC at iem 2-0 over trickster at mlg 2-0 over liquid hero at mlg I'd say he has a shot at Alicia, it's not a given that he'll win but it's also not a given that he'll just fail completely. How he'd do if he got past Alicia is a complete mystery however. You forgot about him wrecking huk at blizzcon | ||
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asdfOu
United States2089 Posts
On September 15 2011 12:48 GreyKnight wrote: whelp MC and Hero have easy ro32 opponents so im not too worried about them dropping out phew. Yea top 3 ladder zerg for hero should be pretty ez. Dont underestimate violet | ||
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asdfOu
United States2089 Posts
On September 16 2011 20:18 eYeball wrote: My Predictions: sC vs RevivaLAlicia vs SeleCTMC vs MonsterKyrix vs GuMihoYuGiOh vs lOvShinyStarviOlet vs Liquid`HerOSniper vs CuriousMaka vs SjoWFruitDealer vs SaSeJYP vsJookToByun vs TwilightTassadar vs SUPERSTARDefinetly not sjow over makaprime..... TesteR vs DreamLucky vs NaNiwaCheck vs WeekendIMYoda vs Sage | ||
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
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Hassybaby
United Kingdom10823 Posts
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[F_]aths
Germany3947 Posts
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ZAiNs
United Kingdom6525 Posts
On September 16 2011 23:38 [F_]aths wrote: Fruitdealer should win versus Sase. Sase got his seed through invitation. Sase doesn't yet got much of korean practice. He's at least Top 10 in most ladder games played in Korean GM... | ||
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ladyumbra
Canada1699 Posts
On September 16 2011 23:06 radiantshadow92 wrote: You forgot about him wrecking huk at blizzcon lol I didn't forget about the NA invitational, I just didn't want to start the is Huk a korean or not debate again. ^-^ Honestly he's down well against korean trained protoss right now so a possible win shouldn't be counted out. I am totally rooting for him but it wouldn't totally surprise me if Alicia pulled out the stops and showed that he is still a code s caliber player. TBH I think select is using code a as an excuse to practice lag free in korea before blizzcon. He actually can't stay in the country more than few months without losing his greencard and/or ending up available for military duty. I do wonder if he and Nani practice against each other or if they know each other's style too well for it to be effective anymore. | ||
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Sabu113
United States11047 Posts
On September 16 2011 22:29 kittensrcute wrote: Haha and to think I was just complaining about Code S being hard to predict. I'm excited for the increasing number of foreigners participating in Code A, I wonder if any of them will ever make it to Code S, it seems nearly impossible with the amount of solid Korean players who are unfortunately stuck in Code A or B. I shouldn't complain too much because I guess that means the level of play increases --> better games! bwahaha. I found this post amusing with your icon waving the liquibet winner trophy above your head. | ||
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57 Corvette
Canada5941 Posts
I simply can't wake up at 5am on a day that I absolutely don't need to (only need to tuesday/friday) | ||
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SeaSwift
Scotland4486 Posts
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so_Sisu
United States46 Posts
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Blasphemi
United Kingdom980 Posts
On September 16 2011 18:02 _vladimir_ wrote: Yup. Just another mindlessly overhyping, reminds me back when people were talking for every half decent foreigner, "Ah well if he just could go to Korea, he would do great in GSL" , if i got quarter every time i heard that... But anyhow, lets just hope we will get good games, with alot of actions, and not much blunders. And whoever plays better win. Some interesting matches incoming, and nice to see not so many terrans there, considering they all migrated to Code S lol, and Code A got stacked with people getting thrown away from Code S by terrans : / "Thorzain could easilly get to a Code S finals". They were funny times my friend. | ||
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Aquilla
69 Posts
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Huggerz
Great Britain919 Posts
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Daralii
United States16991 Posts
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wintergt
Belgium1335 Posts
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Noktix
United States492 Posts
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QTIP.
United States2113 Posts
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amazingoopah
United States1925 Posts
Select also has a shot but Alicia probably can still rebound from his slump and could give the surprise.... Nani and Sjow are not gonna make it through I fear, but let's not lose hope. Hero vs Sage in the finals yo | ||
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FrostedMiniWheats
United States30730 Posts
On September 16 2011 23:38 [F_]aths wrote: Fruitdealer should win versus Sase. Sase got his seed through invitation. Sase doesn't yet got much of korean practice. Look at Fruitdealer, now look at Sase, now back to fruitdealer, now back to Sase. Sadly he isn't Sase but he could play like him if he wasn't so lazy. No but seriously Fruit is going to get smashed. He's always been pretty weak against toss and has played terrible game after terrible game lately. Sase on the other hand might ladder for upwards of 12 hours and has gotten as high as top 20 GM. Like Kiwikaki he seems to generally be a pretty intelligent player and isn't afraid to try something unique so not only can he beat fruit straight up he'll probably have a few tricks to throw him off. | ||
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murtas
Portugal249 Posts
Kyrix vs Gumiho and Yoda vs Sage pumps me up too. | ||
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babylon
8765 Posts
On September 17 2011 02:09 FrostedMiniWheats wrote: Look at Fruitdealer, now look at Sase, now back to fruitdealer, now back to Sase. Sadly he isn't Sase but he could play like him if he wasn't so lazy. No but seriously Fruit is going to get smashed. He's always been pretty weak against toss and has played terrible game after terrible game lately. Sase on the other hand might ladder for upwards of 12 hours and has gotten as high as top 20 GM. Like Kiwikaki he seems to generally be a pretty intelligent player and isn't afraid to try something unique so not only can he beat fruit straight up he'll probably have a few tricks to throw him off. The only terrible game he's played lately is actually against Jinro. Before that, he looked solid against Ganzi and smashed Maru so hard into the ground it wasn't even funny. Before that, he looked hopeless in the Up/Down groups and his last GSL Code S group. But then before that, his ZvP looked quite strong against Ace and had it not been for one dumb decision that spiraled out of control, he would've made it past the first round of the ST. And before that ... he played against NesTea? So it's less "he is always terrible all the time" but "his play seems to suffer from peaks and valleys." I'm going to assume he practices when he's got a tournament engagement to keep, but doesn't practice otherwise. Still, you're sort of right. Sase should by all rights be able to take him just based on how much practice he's been doing lately. But then again, his PvZ is pretty terrible. Just like FD's ZvP. So it should be a facepalmingly bad-but-entertaining trainwreck of a game, I feel. :D | ||
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Ghostface_Killa
United States168 Posts
Mark my words. | ||
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FrostedMiniWheats
United States30730 Posts
On September 17 2011 02:32 babylon wrote: The only terrible game he's played lately is actually against Jinro. Before that, he looked solid against Ganzi and smashed Maru so hard into the ground it wasn't even funny. Before that, he looked hopeless in the Up/Down groups and his last GSL Code S group. But then before that, his ZvP looked quite strong against Ace and had it not been for one dumb decision that spiraled out of control, he would've made it past the first round of the ST. And before that ... he played against NesTea? So it's less "he is always terrible all the time" but "his play seems to suffer from peaks and valleys." I'm going to assume he practices when he's got a tournament engagement to keep, but doesn't practice otherwise. Still, you're sort of right. Sase should by all rights be able to take him just based on how much practice he's been doing lately. But then again, his PvZ is pretty terrible. Just like FD's ZvP. So it should be a facepalmingly bad-but-entertaining trainwreck of a game, I feel. :D Smashing Maru isn't much of an accomplishment, Maru is very good for being so young but he's got ways to go. The series against Ganzi was kinda bad by both players but fruit threw away a lead in game 1 and proceeded to get demolished in game 2 so I wouldn't call that solid. Also, I said terrible games lately. Going back all the way to May was the last time fruit looked anything close to a code S level zerg when he lost to nestea. It's hard to gauge Sase's current pvz since he hasn't played too many zerg in tournaments lately. Can't take a lot from ladder games, but he's looked pretty solid even against zerg when I've watched his stream. It's clearly his weakest but it will be more than enough to take fruit. | ||
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Madera
Sweden2672 Posts
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WArped
United Kingdom4845 Posts
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Saronix
Canada73 Posts
Also is it sad that I am fearful for MC??? Monster is not even the favourite in the match and it makes me worried -- but at least he did not get IMYoda (Can you imagine MC's rage if he was 1/1/1'd twice in a Bo3 -- he looked pretty mad when Puma did it to him at his last foreign tournament although that was not a Bo3) | ||
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OhThatDang
United States4685 Posts
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Insomniac22
United States907 Posts
On September 17 2011 04:29 Ghostface_Killa wrote: I'll be sad to see Alicia, Fruitdealer and Tester all going to Code B. Mark my words. dont forget MC xD | ||
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WeMadeFoxer
Finland51 Posts
On September 16 2011 07:56 mrbamboo wrote: Let's see. sC vs RevivaL Alicia vs SeleCT MC vs Monster Kyrix vs GuMiho YuGiOh vs lOvShinyStar viOlet vs Liquid`HerO Sniper vs Curious Maka vs SjoW FruitDealer vs SaSe JYP vs JookTo Byun vs Twilight Tassadar vs SUPERSTAR TesteR vs Dream Lucky vs NaNiwa Check vs Weekend IMYoda vs Sage 7/12 now, but yeah, results have been kinda surprises, had 30euros bet on SaSe taking fruitdealer down, but he played totally awfully. at least have still made good money picking select, gumiho, hero, curious, sjow, jyp, twilight, max, (dream, naniwa and sage) | ||
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