[IEM] World - Day 2 @ CeBIT - Page 163

On March 08 2012 05:42 tuho12345 wrote:

Well Violet just beat herO couple days ago so can't underestimate him though.

Also watching restream where IdrA premature gg in like every game lol.

On March 08 2012 05:56 Ice Climber wrote:
Any Feast games worth watching or is he just a 2 base all-in 'toss?

On March 08 2012 04:30 jmbthirteen wrote:

Puma still regularly beats Code A/S level players from all 3 races. Yes, he has lost to some non code A/S Zergs. Pretty much every player has. You know MVP just lost to Ret too. And some of those losses you listed were in bo1's or cross server play.

Puma's TvZ is far better than JYP's PvT. His weakest match up is still stronger than a lot of GSL players weakest match ups. Every player has a weak match up. MMA isnt good against Protoss, yet has won a GSL championship.

On March 08 2012 06:09 Dexington wrote:
Soooo MMA, Puma, MC are pretty much guaranteed in the semis.

On March 08 2012 06:16 SeaSwift wrote:


Yup. Looks like we're going to have a 2T, 2P semifinal. Pretty interesting turnout, although not unexpected given the proportions of race that attended the tournament and the best players there being T and P.

On March 08 2012 06:48 HyunA wrote:
why isn't there a day3 in upcoming events? day3 isn't tomorrow? :o

On March 08 2012 07:10 nath wrote:
What i dont get is, mana, select and dimaga were 1-4 as well as Idra, but only "IdrA is trash/garbage/sucked/got owned" spammed in the thread.

idra 2-1'ing supernova isn't too bad. I felt like vs misread Feast's builds, i dont feel like he tilted much at all, especially compared to before. His mental game was much stronger. Feast just had weird builds that tricked IdrA, so props to him for that; the forge gate into 4gate build looked like a super early allin and idra stayed on a low drone count, feast was up almost 20 probes after his initial attack, then continued to pressure and slowly but surely kill idra who had 3/5 of his econ and no time to drone most of the game.

On another note, Feast really does remind me of Grubby, and he has even before Grubby did his 'mentorship' thing. The way feast plays is very much like how i would see a better version of grubby ideally playing (stylistic, aggressive, active on the map with most of army all the time, army over economy without being allin)

Quite honestly i think idra was 2 very close games away from taking darkforce's spot. Not that i think he would have made it past ro16, because that is very unlikely.

On March 08 2012 07:10 nath wrote:
What i dont get is, mana, select and dimaga were 1-4 as well as Idra, but only "IdrA is trash/garbage/sucked/got owned" spammed in the thread.

idra 2-1'ing supernova isn't too bad. I felt like vs misread Feast's builds, i dont feel like he tilted much at all, especially compared to before. His mental game was much stronger. Feast just had weird builds that tricked IdrA, so props to him for that; the forge gate into 4gate build looked like a super early allin and idra stayed on a low drone count, feast was up almost 20 probes after his initial attack, then continued to pressure and slowly but surely kill idra who had 3/5 of his econ and no time to drone most of the game.

On another note, Feast really does remind me of Grubby, and he has even before Grubby did his 'mentorship' thing. The way feast plays is very much like how i would see a better version of grubby ideally playing (stylistic, aggressive, active on the map with most of army all the time, army over economy without being allin)

Quite honestly i think idra was 2 very close games away from taking darkforce's spot. Not that i think he would have made it past ro16, because that is very unlikely.

On March 08 2012 07:24 illsick wrote:


look at the groups

IdrA is favored against everyone in his group besides maybe supernova ironically. TL's recap explains it pretty well:

Having lifted trophies on the IEM stage earlier this season, top foreigners mouz.MaNa, mTw.DIMAGA, Kas, and IdrA all turned in disappointing performances at the World Championship. DIMAGA and MaNa's troubles were more understandable, as they had the misfortune of being placed into a group with three Koreans (possibly four, depending on one's assessment of SeleCT). On the other hand, Kas and IdrA were considered favorites going into their group, with only SuperNoVa presenting a real threat on paper. In the end, they were unable to swim through Europe's formidable depth, and were washed away to early exits.

Plus, IdrA always is in the spotlight of this scene.

On March 08 2012 07:35 CeriseCherries wrote:

Well thats not really taking into consideration that IdrA has been slumping, Kas will always play well, doesn't cause exclamation but never poorly, Feast is REALLY good... like watching him at Kiev was enough to convince me he was pretty darned good. If anything supernova should have beaten IdrA tho...