On March 17 2012 18:42 Heimatloser wrote:
next tournament to be "The Extreme Contest" aka IPL TEC? Or "Team Intelligence Competition" aka IPC TIC? just asking , you know, would fit perfectly... IPL TIC, TAC, TOC...

IPL Tournament for Interntional Competition actually, but you were close

CPTBadAss

United States594 Posts

March 21 2012 05:00 GMT

#162

Oh man....Select, Polt, Thorzain fightinggggggg

Catatonic

United States699 Posts

March 21 2012 06:07 GMT

#163

HerO, Polt, Jjakji, and Puma would be my favorites in this especially given the round one match ups

Edit: Having just seen the bracket an the road ahead for Puma gonna have to take him out of my list of pics lol

Grey8

Germany42 Posts

March 21 2012 06:23 GMT

#164

I dont understand the brackets... Some matches 3-4 games were played... but others it only says 1-0, compared to 3-0 or 3-1.. wtf?

theBALLS

Singapore2935 Posts

March 21 2012 06:30 GMT

#165

IGN I don't understand what you're thinking by fielding so many terrans.

Alex.IGN

United States1050 Posts

March 21 2012 07:44 GMT

#166

On March 21 2012 15:30 theBALLS wrote:
IGN I don't understand what you're thinking by fielding so many terrans.

It was the team's decision.

WombaT

Northern Ireland26225 Posts

March 21 2012 17:52 GMT

#167

Awesome, at least Hero gets a ton of PvT practice for this which will serve him well in GSL. Shame it's so Terran-filled but not as if that's IGN's fault

murtas

Portugal249 Posts

March 22 2012 00:25 GMT

#168

IGN could have avoided that if they added some rules.
For example since it was from a previous tournament, they could seed the teams for their final league result, with their picks to achieve a balanced race distribuition, IF the first 6 teams choosed terran, then terran players wouldn't be allowed to be picked anymore and so on.
The teams that placed worse would be left to pick a player of the least picked race.
Considering the teams that were in and their rosters, I believe the tournament would still be high level of skill and alot more fun to spectators, i'm Terran, but this much TvT .... it hurts everybody, starting by viewers.

On a second thought, looking at the list of the best players of the league, it could be directly atributed to the players that had more kills during the tournament, it would end up by 5T, 6P, 5Z by liquipedia stats. (edit: 1 by team ofc)

So, it could be avoided? Offcourse yes, just think first.

ragnorr

Denmark6097 Posts

March 22 2012 08:20 GMT

#169

On March 22 2012 09:25 murtas wrote:
IGN could have avoided that if they added some rules.
For example since it was from a previous tournament, they could seed the teams for their final league result, with their picks to achieve a balanced race distribuition, IF the first 6 teams choosed terran, then terran players wouldn't be allowed to be picked anymore and so on.
The teams that placed worse would be left to pick a player of the least picked race.
Considering the teams that were in and their rosters, I believe the tournament would still be high level of skill and alot more fun to spectators, i'm Terran, but this much TvT .... it hurts everybody, starting by viewers.

On a second thought, looking at the list of the best players of the league, it could be directly atributed to the players that had more kills during the tournament, it would end up by 5T, 6P, 5Z by liquipedia stats. (edit: 1 by team ofc)

So, it could be avoided? Offcourse yes, just think first.

That would just have been stupid. This tournement is suppose to be a tournement of "Champions"(Aka their best players). Just because they are terrans dont mean we should force the teams to pick their 2. best player instead

Neelia

Germany599 Posts

March 22 2012 08:32 GMT

#170

gogo SuperNoVa and SeleCT