Extremely close on paper, should be good to watch, especially if the Mouz players bring their A-Game. I won't call anything because chances are that I'll be incredibly wrong ^-^"

aurum510

United States229 Posts

December 14 2011 22:50 GMT

#46

Mouz has 6 eligible participants... Slayers just has to take it to a game 7 and Mouz forfeits, right?

StarVe

Germany13591 Posts

December 14 2011 22:51 GMT

#47

On December 15 2011 07:50 aurum510 wrote:
Mouz has 6 eligible participants... Slayers just has to take it to a game 7 and Mouz forfeits, right?

Every team can only field five players in a match, it's BO9.

aurum510

United States229 Posts

December 14 2011 23:38 GMT

#48

On December 15 2011 07:51 StarVe wrote:

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Every team can only field five players in a match, it's BO9.

Ah, that's right. Nevermind.

TheDougler

Canada8302 Posts

December 14 2011 23:57 GMT

#49

I think 5-3 or 5-4 Slayers depending on when slayers decides to field a protoss. I refuse to believe Hasu isn't a gosu PvP king and that's why he's beaten HuK at two major tournaments.

If they field a Protoss after Hasu is out tho then 5-4 Slayers.

Mouze even has a chance of taking it but somebody has to get on a bit of a roll. Can't just go punch for punch with slayers.

Derez

Netherlands6068 Posts

December 14 2011 23:58 GMT

#50

On December 15 2011 04:53 Bagration wrote:

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This morning, huh? Than I guess we won't be seeing MMA play, since I would assume he would be spending all his time preparing for MVP and Blizzard Cup. Still might see Ganzi, since he has no Up/Downs to prepare for, as well as Puzzle.

Ganzi prepping MMA I'd guess. I'd like me some Puzzle tho!

Bagration

United States18282 Posts

December 15 2011 00:07 GMT

#51

On December 15 2011 08:58 Derez wrote:

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Ganzi prepping MMA I'd guess. I'd like me some Puzzle tho!

Honestly though, I would expect to see Slayers open with Golden or Crank, or maybe Brown. Golden and Crank may be B-teamers, but they are still capable of taking down any of Mouz's roster. We might see Puzzle and Alicia as well.

I will say that last time they met, Morrow played extremely well, taking out Ryung and Lots. Thorzain is a very strong player and him beating Coca was not an upset.

Here's how I see it: It will depend on guys like Hasuobs, Mana, and Morrow to make kills and weaken the Slayers juggernaut. Very few people in the world can all-kill Slayers if Slayers takes it seriously, and they will take this match seriously. Thorzain can get a kill or two, but probably no more than that, so he needs team support.

Slayers just needs to play safe: Take this team as a legitimate threat, and do not hesitate to use even the top A-teamers. Slayers' zerg lineup is relatively weak with the loss of Coca and Sleep, so save Golden, and do not throw him out needlessly. Slayers has much more depth, so it can play a game of attrition and snipe down Mouz's major players (sorry bigs).

Go Slayers!

MyTHicaL

France1070 Posts

December 15 2011 00:13 GMT

#52

I think it depends heavilly on if slayers can (and i believe this is the case) chose ANY1 from their roster at ANY time (ie they don't have to "declare" to ipl admins their 5 possible players pre-clan war- if this were the case they may lose due to over-confidence). They will, most probably start off by fielding their B team; depending on the results they might get a little shock (0-2ish) and bring out the big guns. Regardless; Slayers has to be called the favourites and should take this.
However I will predict a 5-4 for Mouz because; foreigners fighting~~ xd. I think that Mouz's biggest problems will be the insanely high level of TvT that slayers can bring to the board. The other match ups can go either way; but I can imagine thorzain unable to take more than 1 game- something that Mouz will be relying on rather heavilly IMO. (Slayers will just send in 1 of their many tvt bosses to snipe him...). Although Slayers being Slayers, they pose a threat in any match up...
On a side note: I'd love to see Dragon play; his stream/ physical reaction to things are just awesome

In any case this is a great match up to situate (yet again...) where foreigners match up to the top koreans... I'm really looking forward to this particular venue since, well, come on people its freaking Slayers vs Mouz xD.
Just an awesome event in general and I personally really enjoy listening to hd/painuser (nothing against cats, i just don't think he's as good, but thats probably just a personal preference thing;
Keep ''em comin'!

Also would love to see his highness play, but im sure the emperor won't make an appearance before the finals ;o.

yoshi245

United States2969 Posts

December 15 2011 00:19 GMT

#53

As much as I love SlayerS, and MMA too. I want Thorzain to all-kill. Do it T-zain! I figure SlayerS would be proud if Thorzain managed something like that since he stayed and trained with them not too long ago.

aintz

Canada5624 Posts

December 15 2011 00:35 GMT

#54

no member of mouz is capable of a all-kill of slayers....

zestzorb

Thailand776 Posts

December 15 2011 00:38 GMT

#55

I think Slayers B-teamers would suffice to win as long as they don't die to all-in shenanigans as they did vs Uhen.

StarVe

Germany13591 Posts

December 15 2011 00:42 GMT

#56

On December 15 2011 09:35 aintz wrote:
no member of mouz is capable of a all-kill of slayers....

If qxc can all-kill IM, any member of mouz can all-kill SlayerS. It's just that it'll happen once in 200 matches. And 200 is probably even an understatement.

Alex.IGN

United States1050 Posts

December 15 2011 01:01 GMT

#57

Here we go!

Xoronius

Germany6362 Posts

December 15 2011 01:02 GMT

#58

On December 15 2011 09:35 aintz wrote:
no member of mouz is capable of a all-kill of slayers....

Well, if someone can beat Taeja, one of mouzes Protosses could, with a bit of luck, all-kill Slayers. MMA and Ryung arent that good against P, Coca is not there and European PvP is pretty good. But they will need a lot of luck to do this.