On March 09 2012 14:24 red4ce wrote: Prime are such beasts in teamleagues recently. 2nd in GSTL4, 1st in KSL, 1st in IPL TAC2. It's very encouraging to see that at least one Korean team takes teamleagues seriously.
I'd say all the Korean teams take team-leagues seriously, with maybe the exception of IM. SlayerS, recently hasn't been fielding their A team every time, but I think that's more because of players travelling than it is how they view the competition.
You also have to take into account that these teams all tend to have incredibly deep rosters (especially SlayerS) and internal rankings don't always reflect past results. Some of these "B-Teamers" are incredibly scary players, and in practice might be even scarier. You never know when one of the "ace players" might be having an off day, or is ill, etc. (especially in games played online with undisclosed dates of play).
I think the only team you can look at from IPL TAC 2 and say they didn't give it their all is coL.MVP, and you can't fault them because it's not that they weren't trying. They're trying to promote the Complexity side of the partnership more, as evidenced here, in NASTL, and EG's MCSL, something I have huge respect for them for.
So, IGN, when can Clash try to qualify for Team Arena Challenge 3?
ssome people are so dumb if it was extended series just imagine mouzsports in the final how are they gonna play extended if they only have like what 6-7 players on there team?
Prime won again =D. They are so ridiculously strong it's not even funny, props to Jjakji for managing to take the first set by beating the 3 aces. I hope though that their zergs still do well in internal rankings, weird that they didn't use them
Wow, looks like an awesome series. Congrats to Prime, they really are very very strong lately.
Happy that NSHS managed to take it to the second bo9, Jjakji running through Prime's ace line up at the tail end of that series was a nice thing to wake up to. Shame he couldn't repeat the performance hehe.
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Thanks IPL for a SICK event, going to have to catch the rebroadcast for sure =)
Next time (if there is a third of these) I'd love it if you could space the final couple of series a little bit so we can get some more HYPE for these, it has felt as though the conclusion very suddenly arrived with the games all being back to back to back.
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