My guess at the final 2 players:

- GoOdy (STATUS: NOT VERY LIKELY) - He may be the "Supply Block Terran" but he recently finished in the Ro16 Group Stage of HSC4 defeating Destiny and Ret 2 - 0 and losing in a close 2 - 1 series to Grubby, He also (unlike his teammate ClouD) actually managed to take a game off of JYP in the Ro16 group stage. Despite having painfully low APM, he is one of the best SC2 players, having placed 2nd in the Battle for Berlin beating TLO and Stephano. Unfortunately, if he were to be invited alongside dde who is obviously going due to the tradition of inviting 2nd place finishers to the next tourney, we'd have a Terran imbalance that only the GSL can match. Also, many players find it really fucking frustrating to play against a Mech player as skilled as GoOdy.

- Stephano (STATUS: SOMEWHAT LIKELY) - It would be ridiculous if TotalBiscuit ignored arguably Europe's greatest Zerg for a tournament that has been touted as "the hardest SCI yet.") Plus he won IPL3 and ESWC. How much more fucking qualified do you need to be?

- Fenix (STATUS: SOMEWHAT UNLIKELY) - Since joining IM, Fenix has slipped hugely off the radar, but what if he were to make his comeback in the SCI4? Also, TotalBiscuit promised players from the Americas and so far, the tournament lineup is all Europeans. A good reason why not him is because he'd be handicapped by the KR lag difference.

- GoSudde (STATUS: VIRTUALLY CERTAIN) - He placed 2nd in SCI3, is technically an American player, and would fill the void of American players TotalBiscuit promised in the tournament description (at least partially,) In every tournament, TotalBiscuit has always reinvited the 2nd place finisher from the last tournament. However, is TB inviting the 2nd place finisher this time around?

- qxc (STATUS: MODERATELY LIKELY) - He hasn't had great tournament results but he did all-kill Incredible Miracle including the God of Terran, IMMvp.

- BlinG (STATUS: VERY UNLIKELY) - BlinG appeared in the SCI2 and lost in the Ro8 3 - 1 to dde. His only significant result has been a Ro8 finish in WCG 2011, although to be fair to him, he lost 2 - 1 to IMMvp of all people, and he did take his reasonably tough group 6 - 0.

- MaNa (STATUS: VERY LIKELY) - There needs to be more Protoss representation in tournaments and MaNa's a very strong player.

larryandbob

United Kingdom5 Posts

January 11 2012 16:26 GMT

#266

gogogo ret

Darkfrog

Austria211 Posts

January 11 2012 16:29 GMT

#267

Sick lineup. Curious who the final two Players will be. My guesses are Nightend and Goody.

Flipshy

United States83 Posts

January 11 2012 16:30 GMT

#268

We NEED mana for this tourney!

Pimmeh

Netherlands120 Posts

January 11 2012 16:31 GMT

#269

I wish i would know of these things in advance. A barcraft for this tournament would be awesome, but there isn't enough time atm...

Clbull

United Kingdom1439 Posts

January 11 2012 16:31 GMT

#270

EDIT: Sorry, repost. Clicked Quote and not Edit.

mrafaeldie12

Brazil537 Posts

January 11 2012 16:36 GMT

#271

Nerchio and TLO?

Hondelul

1999 Posts

January 11 2012 16:39 GMT

#272

On January 12 2012 01:23 Clbull wrote:
My guess at the final 2 players:

- GoOdy (STATUS: VERY LIKELY) - He may be the "Supply Block Terran" but he recently finished in the Ro16 Group Stage of HSC4 defeating Destiny and Ret 2 - 0 and losing in a close 2 - 1 series to Grubby, He also (unlike his teammate ClouD) actually managed to take a game off of JYP in the Ro16 group stage. Despite having painfully low APM, he is one of the best SC2 players, having placed 2nd in the Battle for Berlin beating TLO and Stephano. Also, there needs to be more than two terrans.

- Stephano (STATUS: SOMEWHAT LIKELY) - It would be ridiculous if TotalBiscuit ignored arguably Europe's greatest Zerg for a tournament that has been touted as "the hardest SCI yet.")

- Fenix (STATUS: SOMEWHAT UNLIKELY) - Since joining IM, Fenix has slipped hugely off the radar, but what if he were to make his comeback in the SCI4? Also, TotalBiscuit promised players from the Americas and so far, the tournament lineup is all Europeans.

- GoSudde (STATUS: CERTAIN) - He placed 2nd, is technically an American player, and would fill the void of American players TotalBiscuit promised in the tournament description (at least partially)

Would love GoOdy and I think he´s quite exactly on the level of the other player, but with having already 2 Germans (and Cloud ) and only EU I think it´s unlikely.
"Rediculous" to "ignore" a player in a 7 man invitational? I think that´s a bit much. His results were not so good the last tourney too, but ofc he has good chances/is on par with the other ones.
Since you wrote "the hardest SCI yet." it seems to be a quote, but I think the "every group is a Group of Death" means more like he said that there are no absolute favourites and noone who looses for sure in the first round.
Isn´t Fenix in Korea? If so he can´t/would not participate
TB said "only the winner is reinvited", would be quite dumb to invite dde nonetheless as an normal invite

Edit: Ah, you edited many things while I wrote. Well with the "not" added by GoOdy I guess you are right. And yes TB said 2nd place isn´t reinvited to have more rotation of players, I think at the first player annoucement.

On January 12 2012 02:02 StarVe wrote:

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Don't know about TLO, he already played in the last one and wasn't very competitive.

Don´t think TLO was invited, too. Didn´t see his zerg on par with the other players. He lost a showmatch against White-Ra this week with 6-1 (ok, Nerchio lost too against White-Ra 0-4

).
He was invited as fan favourite the last SCI with Destiny etc, this SCI seems to be more competitive.

tessem

United States23 Posts

January 11 2012 16:40 GMT

#273

I always look forward to the Shoutcraft Invitational and adding one of my favorite players, Ret, will make it much better! Thank you TotalBiscuit for hosting these awesome tourneys!