ASUS ROG reveals half of the 32 invited players for the upcoming $20 000 USD Starcraft II Tournament at 24.-25.February at ASSEBMLY Winter 2012.
One month to go until the third ASUS ROG StarCraft II Tournament launches in Helsinki, Finland. We have sent out more invites for the players who showed their interest by applying for the tournament. In addition, the schedule overlap with MLG Winter Arena forced us to re-comfirm every existing invite to prevent further surprises. As a result, two out of the eight announced names, Grubby and Sheth, respectfully gave up their spot in the tournament for the chance to qualify for the MLG event.
The roster for ASUS ROG StarCraft II Tournament has lost two players but at the same time gained ten more and it is looking awesome already. Todays announced invites are:
This adds up to 16 invited players which means we are half way in completing the line-up. We are still accepting applications for the tournament, see instructions below. Furthermore, because of the MLG overlapping schedule, we are sparing the last eight slots in the tournament to be decided after the North American MLG Winter Arena qualifier. This gives the EU and NA players an opportunity to qualify for MLG and still have a chance for a slot in the ASUS ROG StarCraft II Tournament.
Players - How to apply To play in the tournament, an invite must be requested by sending an email to info@peliliiga.fi with the subject of “ASUS ROG StarCraft II” and details describing at least the full name, nationality, player name and achievements of the applicant. Applications will be received until the end of January 2012. Note that a player may only be granted a slot in the tournament, no expenses are covered.
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Why wouldn't grubby and sheth attend though, Winter Arena is Top 8 Providence, but other 24 are all from qualifiers... Why give up a sure spot at Assembly when you dunno if you'll even make it through qualifiers for MLG :O
As expected Stephano going for the easy money instead of the competition... sadface but understandable. Damn really wanted to see Kas vs the best koreans
On January 25 2012 07:21 Waxangel wrote: Why wouldn't grubby and sheth attend though, Winter Arena is Top 8 Providence, but other 24 are all from qualifiers... Why give up a sure spot at Assembly when you dunno if you'll even make it through qualifiers for MLG :O
Actually if they manage to qualify, they have a sure spot and get an all-expenses paid trip to New York City to participate in MLG Pro Circuit Winter Arena.
Edit : My bad, I misread your post, so mine is irrelevant...
On January 25 2012 07:21 Waxangel wrote: Why wouldn't grubby and sheth attend though, Winter Arena is Top 8 Providence, but other 24 are all from qualifiers... Why give up a sure spot at Assembly when you dunno if you'll even make it through qualifiers for MLG :O
You actually believe they want to go through the open brackets?
On January 25 2012 07:26 careohx wrote: As expected Stephano going for the easy money instead of the competition... sadface but understandable. Damn really wanted to see Kas vs the best koreans
Easy money ? How is that ? I can see already 4 or 5 players who can beat him in ASUS ROG Winter, even if I root for him... Easier maybe, but not easy.
Props to the organizers, you're handling the scheduling conflicts in the best way possible!
And the invited players are great, too - I'd certainly watch it live if I didn't go on a skiing holiday that weekend! That way, I'll have to watch the VODs the following week.
On January 25 2012 07:26 careohx wrote: As expected Stephano going for the easy money instead of the competition... sadface but understandable. Damn really wanted to see Kas vs the best koreans
Easy money ? How is that ? I can see already 4 or 5 players who can beat him in ASUS ROG Winter, even if I root for him... Easier maybe, but not easy.
5 players, where? I can only see one that might be able to beat Stephano. Hero.
Great players! Also like the idea for the qualifier tournament. Too bad sheth and grubby have withraved though, would have love to see them here in finland.
On January 25 2012 07:26 careohx wrote: As expected Stephano going for the easy money instead of the competition... sadface but understandable. Damn really wanted to see Kas vs the best koreans
Easy money ? How is that ? I can see already 4 or 5 players who can beat him in ASUS ROG Winter, even if I root for him... Easier maybe, but not easy.
5 players, where? I can only see one that might be able to beat Stephano. Hero.
Well, HerO is one of them, even if he doesn't seem to be in pretty good shape since few weeks. MaNa can beat him (he is 9v-8d against Stephano, TLPD says), even if Stephano is favoured against him imho. Kas too, and Polt definitely.
On January 25 2012 07:26 careohx wrote: As expected Stephano going for the easy money instead of the competition... sadface but understandable. Damn really wanted to see Kas vs the best koreans
Polt, Kas, MaNa, HerO and possibly Moon depending on how good he's become could all beat Stephano.
Polt vs Kas would be a really interesting match-up. Also, Satiini's games are fun to watch, I hope that he can do well.
On January 25 2012 07:26 careohx wrote: As expected Stephano going for the easy money instead of the competition... sadface but understandable. Damn really wanted to see Kas vs the best koreans
Easy money ? How is that ? I can see already 4 or 5 players who can beat him in ASUS ROG Winter, even if I root for him... Easier maybe, but not easy.
5 players, where? I can only see one that might be able to beat Stephano. Hero.
Hero can beat Stephano Polt can beat Stephano Kas can beat Stephano Mana can beat Stephano Moon might but nobody really knows his state at the moment
On January 25 2012 07:26 careohx wrote: As expected Stephano going for the easy money instead of the competition... sadface but understandable. Damn really wanted to see Kas vs the best koreans
Polt, Kas, MaNa, HerO and possibly Moon depending on how good he's become could all beat Stephano.
Polt vs Kas would be a really interesting match-up. Also, Satiini's games are fun to watch, I hope that he can do well.
Not nearly as scary as Mvp,Nestea,MMA,Leenock,DRG,Naniwa,HuK,MC
On January 25 2012 07:26 careohx wrote: As expected Stephano going for the easy money instead of the competition... sadface but understandable. Damn really wanted to see Kas vs the best koreans
Polt, Kas, MaNa, HerO and possibly Moon depending on how good he's become could all beat Stephano.
Polt vs Kas would be a really interesting match-up. Also, Satiini's games are fun to watch, I hope that he can do well.
Not nearly as scary as Mvp,Nestea,MMA,Leenock,DRG,Naniwa,HuK,MC
MMA and Nestea are not yet at MLG Arena, but Idra and HayprO are. Nevertheless, no one is saying that level at Winter Assembly will be as high as at MLG Arena, for sure. And I too would have love to see Stephano playing against the best players of the world, but he'll not be far better than other player at Helsinki, that's the point.
On January 25 2012 07:21 Waxangel wrote: Why wouldn't grubby and sheth attend though, Winter Arena is Top 8 Providence, but other 24 are all from qualifiers... Why give up a sure spot at Assembly when you dunno if you'll even make it through qualifiers for MLG :O
Why would ASUS ROG give invites to players who are trying to qualify for the MLG Winter Arena? If they manage to get in, ASUS ROG will lose them. Safer to let them go now, and invite them later if there's still room and they didn't qualify for the MLG.
On January 25 2012 07:26 careohx wrote: As expected Stephano going for the easy money instead of the competition... sadface but understandable. Damn really wanted to see Kas vs the best koreans
Easy money ? How is that ? I can see already 4 or 5 players who can beat him in ASUS ROG Winter, even if I root for him... Easier maybe, but not easy.
5 players, where? I can only see one that might be able to beat Stephano. Hero.
Hero can beat Stephano Polt can beat Stephano Kas can beat Stephano Mana can beat Stephano Moon might but nobody really knows his state at the moment
I think you are severely underrating Moon. Moon has placed highly and very nearly won huge tournaments like NASL 1, Dreamhack Summer and PPSL beating players like Bomber, Fruitdealer, and almost Huk while still playing WC3 full-time.
Would've liked Polts chances to make it out of the KR qualifiers for MLG so sad to see him miss out. Then again would love to see him take out another tournament win which is more likely here
On January 25 2012 07:26 careohx wrote: As expected Stephano going for the easy money instead of the competition... sadface but understandable. Damn really wanted to see Kas vs the best koreans
nothing about easy money but its an european tournament. The first top internationaL tournament stephano played well in ofcourse he gonna attend.
MLG had known this for like 6 months . It really suck the best foreigner players wont attend MLG
I do think its strange Select chosed Asus rog over MLG
On January 25 2012 07:26 careohx wrote: As expected Stephano going for the easy money instead of the competition... sadface but understandable. Damn really wanted to see Kas vs the best koreans
Easy money ? How is that ? I can see already 4 or 5 players who can beat him in ASUS ROG Winter, even if I root for him... Easier maybe, but not easy.
5 players, where? I can only see one that might be able to beat Stephano. Hero.
dont get me wrong i would like to see jinro and tlo winning, but i think they will get roflstomped ( especially jinro ) but lets hope for the best TLO GOGO .....and jinro aswell^^
OMG! This line up looks AWESOME! (And there's still another 16 players!) I was expecting Sheth to drop out and am pleased grubby was the only other player to drop so far. Lots of representatives of TL and Korea (still going to be at least one more from the ESV TV partnership). Can't wait!
On January 25 2012 21:56 sVnteen wrote: jinro and TLO?
tournaments still not getting it....
So if someone is doing bad right now they shouldn't be able to go to tournaments and maybe give themselves a boost to get back to their level.. Right.
It is not all about players current skill level.. Tournaments need players who have fanbase that'll give tournament more viewers..
yeah... lots of fans excited about moon playing. I haven't seen him perform recently either but he deserves a shot.
Well, even though he still played WC3, he got second place at the PPSL/IPL4 Pacific qualifier in November where he only lost to MarineKing, and also placed second in the "China 1st 3d Electronic Games" in September, beating MC and Nada.
So it's kind of safe to say that he's still very good,that he has performed recently and has much better results than both TLO and Jinro.
On January 25 2012 21:56 sVnteen wrote: jinro and TLO?
tournaments still not getting it....
I missed the part where they said only players with great results lately will be invited. The invites are note made up by performance, i thought everyone knows this by now.
On January 25 2012 21:56 sVnteen wrote: jinro and TLO?
tournaments still not getting it....
So if someone is doing bad right now they shouldn't be able to go to tournaments and maybe give themselves a boost to get back to their level.. Right.
It is not all about players current skill level.. Tournaments need players who have fanbase that'll give tournament more viewers..
yeah... lots of fans excited about moon playing. I haven't seen him perform recently either but he deserves a shot.
Well, even though he still played WC3, he got second place at the PPSL/IPL4 Pacific qualifier in November where he only lost to MarineKing, and also placed second in the "China 1st 3d Electronic Games" in September, beating MC and Nada.
So it's kind of safe to say that he's still very good,that he has performed recently and has much better results than both TLO and Jinro.
Oh awesome! Didn't realize he'd been that active! Makes his appearance that much better.
On January 25 2012 21:56 sVnteen wrote: jinro and TLO?
tournaments still not getting it....
I missed the part where they said only players with great results lately will be invited. The invites are note made up by performance, i thought everyone knows this by now.
Well, TLO is universally loved person, and also incredibly funny guy, so regardless of his results he is remembered from the events. Jinro - Gorilla Terran, sc2 mascot for like 50% of population, and top4 Code S at his day. Same can be said about Incontrol who for quite a long time gets 1-6 record in major tourneys, and still is popular thanks to his character and sense of humor. I mean, I agree it would be better if player levels were the highest possible, but it's the popularity value that has to be taken into account as well when planning such an event. Just like David Beckham playing for LA Galaxy - not best player on the planet for a while, but incredible marketing impact. Before he went there, noone in Europe knew LA Galaxy even exists.
People reaally need to stop acting surprised whenever an underperforming Team Liquid player is invited to anything. I can't even tell if you really are that naive that you don't see the benefits of having them in your tournament whether they'll make it out of the groups or not, or that you just think noone else notices that they aren't performing as well as other potential invites (that nobody cares about).
On January 28 2012 19:06 y0su wrote: Strange to see that a Polt and ToD have still accepted invitations for the MLG winter classic qualifiers...
Always good to have a plan B
I don't think it is fair to tournaments to have that attitude.
If Polt and ToD get through the qualifiers for MLG, either way you spin it they are screwing someone over by not going to MLG or not going to Assembly.
On January 28 2012 19:06 y0su wrote: Strange to see that a Polt and ToD have still accepted invitations for the MLG winter classic qualifiers...
Always good to have a plan B
I don't think it is fair to tournaments to have that attitude.
If Polt and ToD get through the qualifiers for MLG, either way you spin it they are screwing someone over by not going to MLG or not going to Assembly.
Yeah, these 3 players (I missed nightend earlier) need to commit to one or the other.
I want Polt, Hero, select, or Moon to win, but unfortunately I think Stephano will crush my hopes. Well it's Stephano, he deserves as much college money as possible. Do they have financial aid on France?
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Grubby and 
Sheth, respectfully gave up their spot in the tournament for the chance to qualify for the MLG event.
Jinro
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I wonder if the next 16 invites will even it out... Still great players - Stephano Fighting!
