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Asha
United Kingdom38257 Posts
Mostly interested in seeing how his vP works since that seems to have been his achilles heel recently. I'm suspecting there'll be mutas. On October 06 2011 20:32 Montana[TK] wrote: sad to see that groupplay is kinda pointless I dunno, the difference between playing Puma and playing Machine in the first round of the actual knockout tournament is pretty big? | ||
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StarVe
Germany13591 Posts
On October 06 2011 20:46 Lyter wrote: Why isn't this on the calendar? There's a countdown in the upper right of the site header. Unfortunately I'll be missing the HuK and Stephano games due to football practice, I hope the VODs are up quickly. Also I do think that the seeding makes a world of a difference. There are not that many really good players playing in the Open Bracket, so there will be a huge skill difference between the first and the last seed from the Open Bracket. If you win your group it basically almost ensures you that you'll make it to the next round and earn double the money. | ||
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turamn
United States1374 Posts
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JKira
Canada1002 Posts
On October 06 2011 20:40 Olinim wrote: First round exits in Assembly, IEM cologne, and Dreamhack. Yeah he got to ro8 GSL but who did he beat? Sangho and NaDa. Not exactly godlike. This season he lost twice to virus. Seems like he just gets by in GSL by getting lucky/picking people with horrible vP. Everybody knows the travel schedule he had for those bad tournament finishes he had, and if people try to say that travel fatigue is an excuse then they've obviously never flown to another continent. He also finished as the top foreigner in MLG Raleigh in the middle of those, which for some reason people seem to disregard. Everyone gave Sjow props for finishing 8th but seem to forget who 2-0'ed him for 7th. Also HuK is undefeated in his NASL group, which considering the latency disadvantage is also impressive, but I can see how that gets overlooked because it's an online league and doesn't have as many viewers as last season. Frankly I believe HuK is still a top foreigner, it's just that with the metagame of Protoss in Korea you're not gonna be excited for any Code S Protoss. I know Code A tosses have put up some fresh and exciting games but honestly none of them have faced a great Terran yet (or even any Terran). | ||
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Bane_
United Kingdom494 Posts
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Ariovist
Germany430 Posts
Besides that, I am sooooooo hyped!!! | ||
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Olinim
4044 Posts
On October 06 2011 20:51 JKira wrote: Everybody knows the travel schedule he had for those bad tournament finishes he had, and if people try to say that travel fatigue is an excuse then they've obviously never flown to another continent. He also finished as the top foreigner in MLG Raleigh in the middle of those, which for some reason people seem to disregard. Everyone gave Sjow props for finishing 8th but seem to forget who 2-0'ed him for 7th. Also HuK is undefeated in his NASL group, which considering the latency disadvantage is also impressive, but I can see how that gets overlooked because it's an online league and doesn't have as many viewers as last season. Frankly I believe HuK is still a top foreigner, it's just that with the metagame of Protoss in Korea you're not gonna be excited for any Code S Protoss. I know Code A tosses have put up some fresh and exciting games but honestly none of them have faced a great Terran yet (or even any Terran). I'm just saying losing in the group stages of assembly and IEM is just pretty bad. It's not like I'm just writing him off because he doesn't do amazingly in Code S. | ||
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Malinor
Germany4732 Posts
Do I understand correctly that matches from the Open Bracket are gonna be stramed live from the Bally's stage? Then I am definitely watching that stream. Well, I'll turn in anyway since I have no other things planned today. At least following the Open Bracket should be fun. And the real excitement begins on Saturday then. | ||
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Corrik
United States1416 Posts
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Maenander
Germany4926 Posts
On October 06 2011 21:08 Ariovist wrote: WHy is this STILL not in the calender?? We need every single viewer for this!!!! Besides that, I am sooooooo hyped!!! It's sad to see that the calendar is often neglected lately, it's the only way to keep up with the plethora of tournaments :o | ||
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GreyArrow
United States157 Posts
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Olinim
4044 Posts
On October 06 2011 21:10 Malinor wrote: I am extremely looking forward to this. But I just learned about the tournament-system and there is just no excitement in watching basically meaningless games, and that is what Pool Play is in this case the Open Bracket will also be useless after you have reached WB quarter-finals and guaranteed yourself a place in the main bracket. Although the rounds beforehand in the WB and the deciding rounds of the LB should be exciting). Do I understand correctly that matches from the Open Bracket are gonna be stramed live from the Bally's stage? Then I am definitely watching that stream. Well, I'll turn in anyway since I have no other things planned today. At least following the Open Bracket should be fun. And the real excitement begins on Saturday then. I don't think that's true. Obviously players won't reveal their full strategies, but finishing low in your group could mean you play PuMa first round etc. Getting first in the open bracket could be the difference between playing MC and playing Sleep. It's not life or death, but it has importance. | ||
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Chanted
Norway1001 Posts
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Linwelin
Ireland7554 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/DS7NC.png) I think this screenshot is needed for some people | ||
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IM_Megan
Netherlands744 Posts
On October 06 2011 21:16 Linwelin wrote: I think this scrrenshot is needed for some people That red is the new banner of teamliquid? Looks like they just used a paint brush.. | ||
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Malinor
Germany4732 Posts
On October 06 2011 21:14 Olinim wrote: I don't think that's true. Obviously players won't reveal their full strategies, but finishing low in your group could mean you play PuMa first round etc. Getting first in the open bracket could be the difference between playing MC and playing Sleep. It's not life or death, but it has importance. Well, I just disagree. There is just too much uncertainty in this whole thing. Being the seed #23 could mean you play a foreigner, #24 you play a korean and #25 you play your worst matchup, while #26 gives you your strongest one. And you probably have no way of knowing what it is gonna be beforehand. But ok, in tendency it should be better to be at the top of the open bracket than at the low end of seeding, so I guess you are right. I just don't believe it will make me enjoy the games much more because I don't believe there is enough incentive to really try hard in the Pool Play (Open Bracket of course is another story, so I will watch those games if I can). | ||
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Tears.Of.The.Moon
Slovenia715 Posts
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Maenander
Germany4926 Posts
On October 06 2011 21:16 Linwelin wrote: I think this screenshot is needed for some people That doesn't mean the calendar shouldn't be updated in my opinion. | ||
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Funkydonky
950 Posts
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IM_Megan
Netherlands744 Posts
On October 06 2011 21:21 hrvoje07 wrote: Show starts at 16 cest, and first game starts at 17 cest. correct? 1 hour of watching what?  | ||
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