A referee has made a terrible mistake. We cannot undo that - an undeserving player is in a situation which should not have happened.
Gatored got wrongly seeded into the tournament bracket as the #1 seed instead of DRG who received the #2 player's seed in the bracket. As a result, the two players were placed in the wrong part of the bracket and TT1 played a player he was not supposed to. Unfortunately the error was discovered during the match and not before. The result cannot stand.
I deeply regret that such a mistake happened at such a time, but we cannot undo it. We canceled the match and fixed the bracket layout. Nothing else could be done.
All I can do right now on my behalf and on behalf of the referee is apologise to the players involved in the match, their teams and the fans that followed the match. This should not have happened and I will do everything for this to never happen again.
I regret this has happened and I apologise.
Michał "Carmac" Blicharz P.S. TT1 will receive prize money for placing top 4 regardless of his result in the replayed quarterfinal.
IEM started the TOP vs Gatored quarter-final match ahead of schedule without giving forward notice
4:30 PM: DRG wins 3-0 as well, surprisingly close showing from KiLLeR. Turns out he is pretty good.
3:45 PM: FD wins his series 3-0 over Gatored, then gives an interview saying he is worried about finals because his ZvZ is very bad. Then he immediately gets on his PC and starts playing League of Legends.
2:29 PM: I guess Mr.Bitter says that we'll be on in about 30 mins from now?
1:55 PM: Carmac says the semis will be on as soon as the LoL match on right now is over, whee.
1:47 PM: Well, that's it for quarter-finals. Now to wait and see when they're gonna show the semi-finals... Schedule says 3:00, but they've changed times without prompting more than once this tournament. Also, Carmac got his first autograph request of the tournament, sitting next to TSL_Killer!
12:36 PM: SC2 is on the small-stage for now, I guess we don't get back on the main stage until the semi-finals. On a side note, it was cute to see some LOL pros watching the SC2 match instead of the LOL match!
11:56 AM: Caught up with Gatored and caught a quick interview! Check it in the miscellaneous section of this post.
11:20 AM: Stole someone's LAN cable because there aren't any more connections in the press room. Gatored beat top 3-0 while I was wasting time looking for internet -_-
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You beat TOP 3-0, in the semi-finals, how do you feel?
Really good because TOP is a Code S level Terran, and he was a finalist last season, so beating him is a big accomplishment - Especially in a lan setting, so I feel raelly good.
You were defeatd 3-0 by TT1 last night, and then told the brackets were wrong. How did you feel when you heard you had a second chance against TOP?
PvP is my worst match-up, so losing to TT1 was expected because he has pretty good PvP. After finding out I was back in, I was like 'wow, this is happening?' It was pretty unreal, I dont think this has happened before in a major touranment, so it was pretty nice. PvT is my best matchup, so even though Koreans are very good I still felt more confident against him.
So, walk us through the games.
Game one was a macro game on Tal'Darim, where I went quick double forge and he went for three rax expand. I won the big fight in the middle pretty easily because I had the better upgrades from double forge. Game two I knew what he would do because he played MaNa on that map, and he did the same marine-hellion elevator into 1/1/1 build. I held off the drop pretty easily, and the 1/1/1 transition too. The last game I four gated, and I knew it would work because his build didn't have enough marines, even though he had two bunkers.
Your next opponent is FruitDealer, how do you feel going into that matchup? Were you impressed with his play against TSL_Killer yesterday?
My PvZ is not as good as my PvT, but it's still a pretty good matchup of mine. I like to forge FE and he likes to punish that, so we'll see how that goes. I thought he played really well vs Killer, but I don't think Killer played it right. I think I can beat him.
Assuming you make it through to the finals, who would you like to face from the other side of the bracket?
I want to face elfi, even tho ughit's a pvp, because he's not confident in the matchup and I know his style, so I think I can beat him.
There's been a lot talk about how Americans are bad, but they've been doing really well in this tournament?
I think the Americans are the worst out of EU/KR/NA because they don't put in the practice or the effort. But I've put in a lot of practice for this tournament, so I think I deserve to be I am in this tournament.
The last month I've been practicing a lot on the KR server and I feel like I've gotten a lot better because of it. In the two weeks leading up to this tournament, I practiced about eight hours or so a day. If I wouldn't have practiced so much on KR, I don't think I would have gotten this far.
Maybe if they had teamhosues in the US and they put in more effort, they'd do better
So, what are your tournament plans for the rest of the year?
I'll be competing at MLG Providence. I've taken a semester off school right now, and we'll see how things go in the upcoming months. If things go well, maybe I'll keep focusing on gaming, we'll see. school.
Alright, thanks for the interview. Any shoutouts?
Thanks to our sponsors NE-SE and Maxx Integration, and a big thanks to my fans!
this is such an emberrasing thing to happen and totally unprofessional first its a joke that a referee makes a mistake like that second its ridicolous that they dont have a system that automatically shows the group in the right order after the matches were played (if they do its even more of a mistake from the ref) third its also not understandable that this wasnt discovered before, i mean is there litteraly one guy checking who advances and none looks deeper into it???
On October 15 2011 22:56 robih wrote: this is such an emberrasing thing to happen and totally unprofessional first its a joke that a referee makes a mistake like that second its ridicolous that they dont have a system that automatically shows the group in the right order after the matches were played (if they do its even more of a mistake from the ref) third its also not understandable that this wasnt discovered before, i mean is there litteraly one guy checking who advances and none looks deeper into it???
There were probably one referee for each group, you suggest there should be more? It would be ridiculous for real if they had a new referee or several even for every match...
On October 15 2011 22:56 robih wrote: this is such an emberrasing thing to happen and totally unprofessional first its a joke that a referee makes a mistake like that second its ridicolous that they dont have a system that automatically shows the group in the right order after the matches were played (if they do its even more of a mistake from the ref) third its also not understandable that this wasnt discovered before, i mean is there litteraly one guy checking who advances and none looks deeper into it???
"Avant de dire quelque chose, il faut s'assurer que le silence ne soit pas plus important." Marcel Marceau
Which gives you in english : "Before saying something, you have to make sure that silence is not more important"
On October 15 2011 23:44 Meatnose wrote: Why is the stream not listed "On Air" on the right of the Teamliquid page? I think there would be more viewers if they had the stream listed.
Not on the calendar either, I guess they don't want too many viewers.
On October 15 2011 23:44 Meatnose wrote: Why is the stream not listed "On Air" on the right of the Teamliquid page? I think there would be more viewers if they had the stream listed.
Not on the calendar either, I guess they don't want too many viewers.
On October 15 2011 23:44 Meatnose wrote: Why is the stream not listed "On Air" on the right of the Teamliquid page? I think there would be more viewers if they had the stream listed.
Not on the calendar either, I guess they don't want too many viewers.
On October 15 2011 23:44 Meatnose wrote: Why is the stream not listed "On Air" on the right of the Teamliquid page? I think there would be more viewers if they had the stream listed.
Not on the calendar either, I guess they don't want too many viewers.
On October 15 2011 23:44 Meatnose wrote: Why is the stream not listed "On Air" on the right of the Teamliquid page? I think there would be more viewers if they had the stream listed.
Not on the calendar either, I guess they don't want too many viewers.
Because the stream is down
Good point, they probably knew the stream would be broken so they didn't bother putting the tournament on the calendar or upcoming events.
On October 15 2011 23:44 Meatnose wrote: Why is the stream not listed "On Air" on the right of the Teamliquid page? I think there would be more viewers if they had the stream listed.
Not on the calendar either, I guess they don't want too many viewers.
wow TOP transferred a bunch of SCVs into the Protoss army.
Getting an error from that and the streams from the esl page are down for me as well. With like 2k viewers on a saturday afternoon for IEM, yes, there appears something to be wrong.
On October 16 2011 00:02 duck.fit wrote: what happened in game 1? I missed it
I missed the first 5-10 mins but Gatored just defended like an absolute boss against multiple drops, went twilight tech first against ghosts but still kept the advantage consistently, when they were both about maxed he just crushed the 4th, then managed to get a perfect concave when moving back across the map and destroyed the army too. From there he just played super safe, pylons and vision everywhere, not letting TOP expand for ages and not letting him saturate when he finally did, using defensive DTs.
Took him a while to deal the killing blow but he played very well, I am most impressed.
Everyone loves to see 1-1-1 get crushed. I'll defend playing to win till my dying breath, but I will still root for the player not sticking to one base.
Still waiting for people to say that Top is jetlagged on Day 3 of a tourney, or that he's not an "elite" Korean. Then we can all laugh and make fun of them.
man, wtf is going o with this gatored guy?! beating dongraegu 2:1 and now leading 2:0 against top while even beating the oh-so-mighty korean 111. really impressing me!
On October 16 2011 00:23 Toxi78 wrote: what happens if TT1 meets gatored in the finals?
I'm sure TT1 would destroy him.
I'm confident gatored has bronze level PvP, because his other match-ups seem like he is like one of the world's best players. That has to be holding him back.
I'm watching on http://tv.esl.eu/de/ without any problems. And I usually have big lag issues with JTV (on 20 Mbit internet). Dunno what's going on that some people can't watch.
On October 16 2011 00:24 Swiv wrote: what? i did not get a working stream -.-.-.-.-.-
Again. Download ultrasurf and enjoy the stream. Ultrasurf isnt big and you dont have to install something. And most of the time it works if streams dont like you.
On October 16 2011 00:25 27raven wrote: I'm watching on http://tv.esl.eu/de/ without any problems. And I usually have big lag issues with JTV (on 20 Mbit internet). Dunno what's going on that some people can't watch.
I'm just getting a still picture of whatever was on the stream the moment the page loaded. I usually don't have any problem.
Thank you so much! This works while everything else doesn't work (other streams just give a static low quality picture, also didn't try ultrasurf - that might work too, but I dislike proxies for streams).
Gatored showing some great play thus far. Fruit Dealer's had good results, but it's not like he's untouchable. I think the American has a legit chance to win this.
Why do we not have ingame sounds but some sound of people talking on the back ground? Looking at this game is so boring because of the NON sc2 sounds, or is it just me?
On October 16 2011 00:57 chocopaw wrote: Just heard the news over twitter. So much for TOP>Puma. *rolleyes* Gogo DRG take another tournament.
Well TOP is under the GSL finalist curse. Anybody who loses to MVP/Nestea gets their soul crushed so badly they go into a bad bad slump. Inca (to code B) MKP (to code A, though hes back in code S) Rain (to Up & Downs) Losira (to Up & Downs) Top (to Up & Downs)
2 days ago I saw that Xeris invited Gatored for NASL Semi Open and I was like "omfg random NA nap I don't even know" and now he rapes DRG and TOP, wtf is this lol
On October 16 2011 01:06 Ragoo wrote: 2 days ago I saw that Xeris invited Gatored for NASL Semi Open and I was like "omfg random NA nap I don't even know" and now he rapes DRG and TOP, wtf is this lol
TT1 getting 4th place money regardless of how things pan out seems like a good result. He gets credit for his win, but everyone else doesn't get screwed over due to the one misplayed series.
On October 16 2011 01:16 Zzoram wrote: TT1 getting 4th place money regardless of how things pan out seems like a good result. He gets credit for his win, but everyone else doesn't get screwed over due to the one misplayed series.
On October 16 2011 01:16 Zzoram wrote: TT1 getting 4th place money regardless of how things pan out seems like a good result. He gets credit for his win, but everyone else doesn't get screwed over due to the one misplayed series.
The interview with Gatored took place after this second Quarterfinal match (he had two quarterfinal matches, the first one being the mistake against TT1)... right? Currently the post says after his semi-final match.
On October 16 2011 01:27 Smurphy wrote: The interview with Gatored took place after this second Quarterfinal match (he had two quarterfinal matches, the first one being the mistake against TT1)... right? Currently the post says after his semi-final match.
I don't know what's more impressive, that he beat TOP at all, or that he did it 3-0. You would think a player like TOP has the chops to adapt and win at least a game.
On October 16 2011 01:44 Nocteo wrote: Wow, I wonder if this means foreign PvT is better than Korean PvT or if it would just be this game alone.
Well, considering TOP just beat arguably the best foreign PvT'er in MaNa yesterday (with neither of them playing very well), it could just be an anomaly.
On October 16 2011 01:44 Nocteo wrote: Wow, I wonder if this means foreign PvT is better than Korean PvT or if it would just be this game alone.
Well, considering TOP just beat arguably the best foreign PvT'er in MaNa yesterday (with neither of them playing very well), it could just be an anomaly.
TOP didn't play well, while Gatored did. Period.
I would still put Korea's PvT as better than foreigners', but it's the closest matchup to the Koreans.ON the other hand, Korea's TvX is just sooooo much better than anyone else's.
Wow, been watching MLG and now I hear that Gatored takes out TOP? Awesome. Now he only has to play FruitDealer and then a rematch vs DRG. Hard to think of a more difficult road to 1st place in this tourney.
When I try to watch the stream it looks like its offline but says its alive, just has a picture of middle of a starcraft match thats really blurry and doesnt take up the full screen.
On October 16 2011 01:55 Denizen[9] wrote: When I try to watch the stream it looks like its offline but says its alive, just has a picture of middle of a starcraft match thats really blurry and doesnt take up the full screen.
On October 16 2011 01:55 Denizen[9] wrote: When I try to watch the stream it looks like its offline but says its alive, just has a picture of middle of a starcraft match thats really blurry and doesnt take up the full screen.
Wow Gatored. It is so good to see some fresh faces emerging in the NA scene. With him , Trimaster last MLG and the recent resurgence of Idra, things seem to be getting better over there, which is great
TT1 was so far ahead... and still lost. Muta play really suits up DRG well vs protoss, he is known for perfect muta control, can do with them a lot of damage.
Stream is LAGGING HARD for me but anyway I catched some action here and there and again DRG going mutas vs protoss. I watched a lot of him in last couple of months and he never went with them zvp... thats nice that he is trying new things to work for him.
TT1 dropped 3 proxy gateways, but DRG sees em all with that sixth sense scout. TT1's move was more or less deduced when he cancelled his own gate in his main.
Wow Elfi almost beat Killer, and Gatored going 3-0 over TOP is insane. He never shows up to tournaments (other than the WCG online qualifier from what I've seen, which he did qualify for) but he is taking down top korean players (no pun intended). Now we will either have fruitdealer, or a completely random foreigner in the finals. That's pretty exciting.
On October 16 2011 02:34 Chicane wrote: Wow Elfi almost beat Killer, and Gatored going 3-0 over TOP is insane. He never shows up to tournaments (other than the WCG online qualifier from what I've seen, which he did qualify for) but he is taking down top korean players (no pun intended). Now we will either have fruitdealer, or a completely random foreigner in the finals. That's pretty exciting.
On October 16 2011 02:36 redloser wrote: if DRG advances to the semis, who is he gonna face?
and when would it be broadcasted?
The Chilean Zerg Killer, and it's at 4am KST.
On October 16 2011 02:39 usethis2 wrote: Totally unreasonable situation with the stream here. I assume the 4th game is over by now? Does anyone know who won?
DRG has 5 hatches against TT1's 2 base, and TT1 is making his final push.
On October 16 2011 02:39 usethis2 wrote: Totally unreasonable situation with the stream here. I assume the 4th game is over by now? Does anyone know who won?
DRG has 5 hatches against TT1's 2 base, and TT1 is making his final push.
On October 16 2011 02:47 usethis2 wrote: more updates appreciated. Stream has been dead for a while here.
DRG 3 - 1 TT1.
game 1 : DRG 6 pools, TT1 scouts at once and fends it off at his nat, but then DRG transitions into mutas and TT1 kinda screws up both his attack and his defense. DRG wins.
game 2 : DRG makes zergling runby against TT1's FFE, and the game pretty much ended afterwards. TT1 made some aggressions, but ended up losing to mutas anyway.
game 3 : DRG 6 pools, and the stream crashed for me too, but later it seemed to be base race with zerglins and zealots, and TT1 barely wins.
game 4 : DRG makes another zergling runby against TT1's FFE, and pushes back the first attack by TT1 with roach-hydra, and TT1 builds up a few collosi and attempts to attack again, which turned out quite well, but still got crushed by DRG's reinforcements
On October 16 2011 02:47 usethis2 wrote: more updates appreciated. Stream has been dead for a while here.
DRG 3 - 1 TT1.
game 1 : DRG 6 pools, TT1 scouts at once and fends it off at his nat, but then DRG transitions into mutas and TT1 kinda screws up both his attack and his defense. DRG wins.
game 2 : DRG makes zergling runby against TT1's FFE, and the game pretty much ended afterwards. TT1 made some aggressions, but ended up losing to mutas anyway.
game 3 : DRG 6 pools, and the stream crashed for me too, but later it seemed to be base race with zerglins and zealots, and TT1 barely wins.
game 4 : DRG makes another zergling runby against TT1's FFE, and pushes back the first attack by TT1 with roach-hydra, and TT1 builds up a few collosi and attempts to attack again, which turned out quite well, but still got crushed by DRG's reinforcements
thank you. What's up with DRG and his 6 pools? He really isn't very confident against toss, it seems.
On October 16 2011 02:47 usethis2 wrote: more updates appreciated. Stream has been dead for a while here.
DRG 3 - 1 TT1.
game 1 : DRG 6 pools, TT1 scouts at once and fends it off at his nat, but then DRG transitions into mutas and TT1 kinda screws up both his attack and his defense. DRG wins.
game 2 : DRG makes zergling runby against TT1's FFE, and the game pretty much ended afterwards. TT1 made some aggressions, but ended up losing to mutas anyway.
game 3 : DRG 6 pools, and the stream crashed for me too, but later it seemed to be base race with zerglins and zealots, and TT1 barely wins.
game 4 : DRG makes another zergling runby against TT1's FFE, and pushes back the first attack by TT1 with roach-hydra, and TT1 builds up a few collosi and attempts to attack again, which turned out quite well, but still got crushed by DRG's reinforcements
thank you. What's up with DRG and his 6 pools? He really isn't very confident against toss, it seems.
6 Pooling against Protoss is almost standard on some maps in Korea where it is assumed that the protoss will FFE like Tal darim. they are very efficient at transitioning out teching up being ahead on bases and just winning.
On October 16 2011 02:47 usethis2 wrote: more updates appreciated. Stream has been dead for a while here.
DRG 3 - 1 TT1.
game 1 : DRG 6 pools, TT1 scouts at once and fends it off at his nat, but then DRG transitions into mutas and TT1 kinda screws up both his attack and his defense. DRG wins.
game 2 : DRG makes zergling runby against TT1's FFE, and the game pretty much ended afterwards. TT1 made some aggressions, but ended up losing to mutas anyway.
game 3 : DRG 6 pools, and the stream crashed for me too, but later it seemed to be base race with zerglins and zealots, and TT1 barely wins.
game 4 : DRG makes another zergling runby against TT1's FFE, and pushes back the first attack by TT1 with roach-hydra, and TT1 builds up a few collosi and attempts to attack again, which turned out quite well, but still got crushed by DRG's reinforcements
thank you. What's up with DRG and his 6 pools? He really isn't very confident against toss, it seems.
I think he just 6 pools depending on maps... game 1 and 3 were TDA and Terminus.
On October 16 2011 02:47 usethis2 wrote: more updates appreciated. Stream has been dead for a while here.
DRG 3 - 1 TT1.
game 1 : DRG 6 pools, TT1 scouts at once and fends it off at his nat, but then DRG transitions into mutas and TT1 kinda screws up both his attack and his defense. DRG wins.
game 2 : DRG makes zergling runby against TT1's FFE, and the game pretty much ended afterwards. TT1 made some aggressions, but ended up losing to mutas anyway.
game 3 : DRG 6 pools, and the stream crashed for me too, but later it seemed to be base race with zerglins and zealots, and TT1 barely wins.
game 4 : DRG makes another zergling runby against TT1's FFE, and pushes back the first attack by TT1 with roach-hydra, and TT1 builds up a few collosi and attempts to attack again, which turned out quite well, but still got crushed by DRG's reinforcements
thank you. What's up with DRG and his 6 pools? He really isn't very confident against toss, it seems.
6 Pooling against Protoss is almost standard on some maps in Korea where it is assumed that the protoss will FFE like Tal darim. they are very efficient at transitioning out teching up being ahead on bases and just winning.
I thought those are supposed to be more like 8~10 pools? As seen in Game 1, DRG got quite behind after his 6 pool was scouted and countered with a single cannon. It was TT1's game to lose from there on. (and he went on to lose, lol)
On October 16 2011 02:47 usethis2 wrote: more updates appreciated. Stream has been dead for a while here.
DRG 3 - 1 TT1.
game 1 : DRG 6 pools, TT1 scouts at once and fends it off at his nat, but then DRG transitions into mutas and TT1 kinda screws up both his attack and his defense. DRG wins.
game 2 : DRG makes zergling runby against TT1's FFE, and the game pretty much ended afterwards. TT1 made some aggressions, but ended up losing to mutas anyway.
game 3 : DRG 6 pools, and the stream crashed for me too, but later it seemed to be base race with zerglins and zealots, and TT1 barely wins.
game 4 : DRG makes another zergling runby against TT1's FFE, and pushes back the first attack by TT1 with roach-hydra, and TT1 builds up a few collosi and attempts to attack again, which turned out quite well, but still got crushed by DRG's reinforcements
thank you. What's up with DRG and his 6 pools? He really isn't very confident against toss, it seems.
6 Pooling against Protoss is almost standard on some maps in Korea where it is assumed that the protoss will FFE like Tal darim. they are very efficient at transitioning out teching up being ahead on bases and just winning.
I thought those are supposed to be more like 8~10 pools? As seen in Game 1, DRG got quite behind after his 6 pool was scouted and countered with a single cannon. It was TT1's game to lose from there on. (and he went on to lose, lol)
8~10 pools can always be defended at protoss's natural. 6 pool, on the other hand, cannot be defended on protoss's natural if it doesn't get scouted first time.
On October 16 2011 04:04 Kreb wrote: Its quite terrible they cant get a working stream even though they had the whole day...
yeah, and in this stage every other tour would stall the tournament for a while to fix it... oh well, i guess this tournament isn't all about sc2 and this is why they don't do it. they'd probably have about 5 or more times more viewers
Always thought phoenixes are bad. Seems like air weapon upgrades are still quite unexplored. He would have been in great shape if he turtled with more cannons instead of that many zealots.
Game 2: 6 vs 9 Shattered Temple. Gatored opens stargate expo vs pool first, no real damage done. FD takes the gold quickly, makes hydras. Gatored moves into colossus, FD makes the same mid-game muta switch hes been doing all tournament and wins with them by picking apart Gatored's base slowly.
I wish I could watch this event finish off too... so much bandwith and things going today :< Thanks a lot for the LR'n though Wax, I really appreciate it.
lol Game 3: Spine Crawler rush on Xel'Naga. Gets super fast lair and kills the nat nexus with 4 crawlers, they die to a void ray but hydra followup pushes in and kills the nat and tiny army of Gatored for a second time.
Too bad most people can`t see FD teaching kids how to play Starcraft. Been waiting for this for such a long time and have kept him as my favorite player every since season 1.
On October 16 2011 04:33 eoLithic wrote: Too bad most people can`t see FD teaching kids how to play Starcraft. Been waiting for this for such a long time and have kept him as my favorite player every since season 1.
Maybe a win at IEM would motivate him to start trying... I still feel he is a smart player, I just feel he kind of won and then gave up a bit :/ Then again, maybe I am wrong.
On October 16 2011 05:09 kickazs wrote: is the stream down?
I can't seem to get it to work either (tried it in every browser, and from TL, Twitch and esl site). Apparantly it works for others though, so I dunno.
edit: Got it to work by using the 'pop out window' option.
I'll be honest guys, I have been enjoying this more than MLG. Free quality stream, awesome casting. Just want to thank the organizers for such an amazing tourney.
On October 16 2011 05:20 windsupernova wrote: I'll be honest guys, I have been enjoying this more than MLG. Free quality stream, awesome casting. Just want to thank the organizers for such an amazing tourney.
On October 16 2011 05:20 windsupernova wrote: I'll be honest guys, I have been enjoying this more than MLG. Free quality stream, awesome casting. Just want to thank the organizers for such an amazing tourney.
LOL DRG with 9 pool
IEM has Fruitdealer, it is bound to be better :p
I am pretty happy to see FD do so well in this.
And wow Killers Roaches must have more HP because he has pulled so many miracle defenses
At least I got to watch the last DRG games after the streaming fiasco. Congrats to both DRG and Fruitdealer for advancing to the finals. Did DRG play any Terran in this tournament, btw?
bleh after those amazing defenses I thought killer could get the hang of the game but the two midgame attacks were clearly his doom, He should have been more patient I think. but well. nice 2nd and 3rd matches.
Gator is the MVP of this IEM for sure. Beating two of the Korean favorites after the drawing drama. Poor TT1 but he fought well against DRG and I felt like TT1 certainly would have a chance if he meets DRG again. TT1 just needs some more practice against the 6 pool. XD But seriously mad props for TT1 putting up a valiant effort against DRG after showing off his awesome PvP skills (which unfortunately did not count) It must have been really shitty after he thought he was in Ro4.
I don't know who to cheer for in the final.... I like DRG but FD.. who could forget his first GSL run?
On October 16 2011 05:54 HowardRoark wrote: How come this tournament isn't all over the place? Only 19 pages so far, and earlier IEM's used to reach several hundreds?
Everyone's watching the bigger tournament, MLG. There's not nearly as many prolific players at this tournament.
Just bad timing, that's all.
Anyway, I'm a huge DRG fan, but I'll be happy if FD wins. Show everyone why you were the original Zerg hero!
On October 16 2011 06:00 seansye wrote: My god, Top doesn't even bother to spread his engages, while he lets Gator spread. lol. He'll prob end up in Code A just like InCa.
yeah its not like top has been one of the most consisten terrans in code s ever since he joined it.. he's not even one of those " only win 1 match to stay in code S" guys since he regulary makes it out of the group stages, stop judging him because he lost one series if you have no clue, top is one of the best macro terrans.
On October 16 2011 06:00 seansye wrote: My god, Top doesn't even bother to spread his engages, while he lets Gator spread. lol. He'll prob end up in Code A just like InCa.
yeah its not like top has been one of the most consisten terrans in code s ever since he joined it.. he's not even one of those " only win 1 match to stay in code S" guys since he regulary makes it out of the group stages, stop judging him because he lost one series if you have no clue, top is one of the best macro terrans.
3:45 PM: FD wins his series 3-0 over Gatored, then gives an interview saying he is worried about finals because his ZvZ is very bad. Then he immediately gets on his PC and starts playing League of Legends.
Hi guys, I don't know where to put this and i didn't want to start a new thread but there was a little behind the scenes challenge by carmac to TSL Killer. Nothing serious of course. I didn't get the beginning of how it began but basically, we were saying hi to sangho and carmac came by so we were all talking for a bit, Then killer looked at carmacs jersey, and pointed at the part that says liverpool football club. Carmac says what? and killer responds by going thats not a GSL badge, you have no gsl badge. This goes on for a bit with carmac responding and then killer basically kept saying you should have a gsl badge on that jersey. So carmac finally says to sangho, let me borrow your jacket then. Sangho says what? my jacket? carmac says yes let me borrow your jacket and wear it on stream. Sangho turns him down going no i can't take it off and give it to someone, then something about him giving it to people and the coach getting mad, though he was probably joking. Carmac then says it's okay youre a *** (you'll see in video i don't want to get in trouble on the site.) Sangho goes what's that? i dont understand. Carmac points to his pants and goes, do you have boy parts or girl parts, you have girl parts youre a **** Sangho goes nooo im not a ***. So carmac goes okay then you'll let me borrow jacket? It goes back and forth a bit and then i finally started the video since it was hilarious. Heres the link, I dont know if you can hear the rest of the audio too well but hope you guys enjoy a little behind the scenes shenanigans.
It's all good man i'm just glad you can kinda hear what they're saying with all the backround noise going on lol, sorry about the fruit dealer pic Hope you got to take one later on if not i'll try to help you do it tomorrow if the opportunity comes around. I'll be around tomorrow for the finals, then probably go to that nyc barcraft event for the rest of mlg if there is still time.
Even though its exciting to see fruitdealer play, its a big disheartening and concerning that he was pretty much playing LoL all weekend after his matches.
Having the Dignitas LoL team choose to watch SC2 with us on the side stage rather than watch the semifinals of LoL on the main stage made up for some of that though.
Game 1 builds mostly marauders vs zealot archon Game 2 1/1/1 all in but putting marines infront of scvs so they all die Game 3 doesnt scout and even after he realize hes being 4 gated he continues building svc instead of units.
On October 17 2011 11:35 aintz wrote: can somebody show me to way to gatored vs top replay or vods. i want to see how he managed to 3-0 somebody who came in 2nd in the last gsl
Game 1 builds mostly marauders vs zealot archon Game 2 1/1/1 all in but putting marines infront of scvs so they all die Game 3 doesnt scout and even after he realize hes being 4 gated he continues building svc instead of units.
On October 18 2011 08:04 Auross wrote: DRG, Y U no come to mlg???
Because he is seeded for providence and IEM new york had 6500 for winning where as MLG had 5k. He decided to take the almost guaranteed 6500$ where as MLG he isn't as guaranteed to win with all the sick players in it and if he did would be 5k.
Also the fruitdealer saying he's worried because his zvz is bad then goes on a pc and goes to play LoL made me laugh rofl.
One of the best parts of IEM (besides DRG winning it all) was when Wax ended up eating an apple right behind the casting stage while DRG was being interviewed. Caught a picture of the main screen using my phone. It was hilarious.
PS. who was wearing the TL esports t-shirt that was joking around with me when that remote controlled robot with a dudes face on screen came rolling by us.
On October 16 2011 06:00 seansye wrote: My god, Top doesn't even bother to spread his engages, while he lets Gator spread. lol. He'll prob end up in Code A just like InCa.
yeah its not like top has been one of the most consisten terrans in code s ever since he joined it.. he's not even one of those " only win 1 match to stay in code S" guys since he regulary makes it out of the group stages, stop judging him because he lost one series if you have no clue, top is one of the best macro terrans.
On October 19 2011 12:01 pHaRSiDE wrote: Was a fun event, DRG has some crazy hands! I got some video of it while I was sitting behind him on stage, and I'll upload it later.
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