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RoyalFlush
Canada109 Posts
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Belisarius
Australia6233 Posts
Inviting such a spread of random tournaments gives you a pretty high chance that a good but not completely amazing player can push through a finals due to a weak pool. Idra won IEM, for example, and while he's really, really good, I don't think he's quite top 10. Those are all in the GSL, and there's a reasonable chance they might miss out depending how many tournaments MVP attends... Speaking of which, the alternative danger is that MVP will clean house at every foreigner event, and you'll end up inviting two thirds of your pool on opaque metrics. | ||
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snowbird
Germany2044 Posts
On October 07 2011 10:08 Belisarius wrote: I'm not so sure on this. I feel like the GSL could be represented more heavily; even though the finals obviously have a history of failing, slumps and peaks seem to come out in the wash such that the top10 GSL would probably be a pretty accurate measure of the top10 in the world. I suggest watching GSL November then  | ||
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Wroshe
Netherlands1051 Posts
On October 07 2011 09:48 sjschmidt93 wrote: Why fanboy? He's far and away the best player in the world. Claiming that a player is going to win pretty much every single tournaments that he enters and even ones that he does not even play in makes it more likely that you are dealing with a fanboy then a realistic observer. I by the way do agree that MVP is extremely likely to qualify through GSL points and can see him winning MLG Providence/BlizzCon. I do find that claiming he will win pretty much every single tournament he enters however does not look very realistic. | ||
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Tezzick
Canada187 Posts
And to reiterate what everyone is saying. THANKS FOR BEING AWESOME MR. CHAE. | ||
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red4ce
United States7313 Posts
On October 07 2011 10:13 Wroshe wrote: Claiming that a player is going to win pretty much every single tournaments that he enters and even ones that he does not even play in makes it more likely that you are dealing with a fanboy then a realistic observer. I by the way do agree that MVP is extremely likely to qualify through GSL points and can see him winning MLG Providence/BlizzCon. I do find that claiming he will win pretty much every single tournament he enters however does not look very realistic. Don't confuse being a fanboy with being wrong. The IPL3 thing was just a simple mistake. I honestly do believe MVP will win the rest though. Blizzcon basically comes down to MVP vs Nestea and we all know how that usually ends. Providence has more Koreans, but ones MVP has already beaten many times before. | ||
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nemahsys
Canada457 Posts
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sjschmidt93
United States2518 Posts
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Flonomenalz
Nigeria3519 Posts
On October 07 2011 10:43 sjschmidt93 wrote: I can't see any Terran or Zerg outside of Drg beating MVP. A really good Pvt'er could beat him but there are no Korean Protosses good enough going to any of these events. Yeah, and a few months ago people were saying the same thing about Nestea. And before that it was MC. And before that it was etc etc etc | ||
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Jacko11
China146 Posts
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BigPain
United States10 Posts
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thopol
Japan4560 Posts
This tournament looks amazing. Thank you guys. | ||
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TheGiftedApe
United States1243 Posts
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TheRealPaciFist
United States1049 Posts
Secondly... kinda sad they're accepting IEM NYC winner instead of Guangzhou. Yeah it makes sense to use the more recent tourney, but it'd have been fun to see Idra (and the competition in IEM NYC doesn't seem that great to me... I don't know. 8 American players is kind of a lot) | ||
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xiaominmyo
United States4 Posts
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DarkRise
1644 Posts
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Azarkon
United States21060 Posts
On October 07 2011 01:21 Canucklehead wrote: WCG has koreans in it. The games have been airing on OGN every friday/saturday night the past few weeks at 9pm PST. TBH it looks like a Korean only tournament, which would be fine for GOMTV on one hand, since it means less travel fees to pay for and more money kept within the Korean pro community, and not fine on another, since it means less foreigner fans might actually watch. We'll see, though. I imagine at least IdrA would get an invite if they don't get an unique player for every other qualification criteria, since he won IEM Guangzhou. | ||
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Black Gun
Germany4482 Posts
On October 07 2011 11:39 thopol wrote: The thing that GOM is best at is improving. There isn't a thing about the GSL that hasn't gotten better over the past year. The play, casting, and production is all the standard that the industry looks to as an example. This tournament looks amazing. Thank you guys. i agree except for one tiny thing that has gotten worse during the last year: that tastosis dont cast all gsl games anymore.  | ||
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weeA
India442 Posts
On October 06 2011 18:14 voy wrote: it's basically World Cup 2011 World cup 2011, but 7 Koreans? | ||
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nanoscorp
United States1237 Posts
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