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Dzerzhinsky
Profile Joined March 2011
Scotland327 Posts
March 24 2012 08:27 GMT
#101
On March 24 2012 17:19 Nocteo wrote:
Wow I hope they stream Idra vs Jinro, so long since we've seen the gorilla terran vs the gracken.

It's advertised to be shown on one of the premium streams.
"All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things coincided directly."
Tailss
Profile Joined November 2010
Sweden233 Posts
March 24 2012 08:55 GMT
#102
Come on Jinro! You can do it!
Shellshock
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States97276 Posts
March 24 2012 08:55 GMT
#103
With round 4 complete, i think it looks like the players getting into groups are:
Polt, aLive, symbol (this could go to a couple people depending on how Rain and killer play. would be surprised to see drewbie advance seeing as symbol is pretty good against terrans), either JYP or Jinro probably, Heart, Golden (Puma's TvZ strikes again!), Crazymoving, and winner of Bling and Thorzain
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Robson13
Profile Joined February 2012
United Kingdom248 Posts
March 24 2012 09:50 GMT
#104
On March 24 2012 17:55 Shellshock1122 wrote:
With round 4 complete, i think it looks like the players getting into groups are:
Polt, aLive, symbol (this could go to a couple people depending on how Rain and killer play. would be surprised to see drewbie advance seeing as symbol is pretty good against terrans), either JYP or Jinro probably, Heart, Golden (Puma's TvZ strikes again!), Crazymoving, and winner of Bling and Thorzain

Puma's TvZ is still sick good and I'd give idra the edge over jinro then jyp will dismantle him. Most favourites will make it out of the open bracket though so ...... :D
AIOL!
Profile Joined January 2011
France962 Posts
March 24 2012 09:53 GMT
#105
The guy who mades the seeds of the open bracket should be .... Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy ?? Why would you draw a bracket where the two best players of your tournament meet so early ?
Stephano!!!!!!/Nerchio/Mana/Hasuobs/Grubby/Kas/Tarson/Sarens/Goody/BeastyCury
TheMexican
Profile Joined September 2010
Germany96 Posts
March 24 2012 09:56 GMT
#106
On March 24 2012 18:53 AIOL! wrote:
The guy who mades the seeds of the open bracket should be .... Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy ?? Why would you draw a bracket where the two best players of your tournament meet so early ?

i don't get it either, that was just sad.
RPR_Tempest
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Australia7799 Posts
March 24 2012 10:00 GMT
#107
On March 24 2012 18:53 AIOL! wrote:
The guy who mades the seeds of the open bracket should be .... Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy ?? Why would you draw a bracket where the two best players of your tournament meet so early ?

So in other words they should rig the bracket to ensure Stephano and Polt aren't in the same bracket?

Right.
Soundwave, Zerg player from Canberra, Australia. @SoundwaveSC
mememolly
Profile Joined December 2011
4765 Posts
March 24 2012 10:03 GMT
#108
On March 24 2012 19:00 RPR_Tempest wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 24 2012 18:53 AIOL! wrote:
The guy who mades the seeds of the open bracket should be .... Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy ?? Why would you draw a bracket where the two best players of your tournament meet so early ?

So in other words they should rig the bracket to ensure Stephano and Polt aren't in the same bracket?

Right.


they should use common sense and implement seeding so they don't have to rig anything, stephano and polt meeting in round 4 is just dumb
RPR_Tempest
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Australia7799 Posts
March 24 2012 10:07 GMT
#109
On March 24 2012 19:03 mememolly wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 24 2012 19:00 RPR_Tempest wrote:
On March 24 2012 18:53 AIOL! wrote:
The guy who mades the seeds of the open bracket should be .... Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy ?? Why would you draw a bracket where the two best players of your tournament meet so early ?

So in other words they should rig the bracket to ensure Stephano and Polt aren't in the same bracket?

Right.


they should use common sense and implement seeding so they don't have to rig anything, stephano and polt meeting in round 4 is just dumb

THERE WERE ALREADY CHANCES FOR THEM TO BE SEEDED.

If they wanted a seed they should have qualified (Polt) or tried to qualify (Stephano) for Winter Arena. Your suggestion that every person who enters the Open Bracket being given a seed is beyond retarded. If it wasn't Stephano vs Polt, it would have been Polt vs Symbol or Polt vs aLive or another such unfortunate match. When so many good players enter the open bracket, this is the kind of thing that happens and there's nothing anyone can do about it. Deal with it.
Soundwave, Zerg player from Canberra, Australia. @SoundwaveSC
TeTrodoToxIn
Profile Joined November 2011
United States18 Posts
March 24 2012 10:08 GMT
#110
they should use common sense and implement seeding so they don't have to rig anything, stephano and polt meeting in round 4 is just dumb


It is dumb that they met so early in the tournament, but at least we got some good games from it. At least Stephano isn't entirely out of the tournament so we will probably get to see more of him this weekend.
Nouar
Profile Joined May 2009
France3270 Posts
March 24 2012 10:22 GMT
#111
On March 24 2012 19:07 RPR_Tempest wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 24 2012 19:03 mememolly wrote:
On March 24 2012 19:00 RPR_Tempest wrote:
On March 24 2012 18:53 AIOL! wrote:
The guy who mades the seeds of the open bracket should be .... Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy ?? Why would you draw a bracket where the two best players of your tournament meet so early ?

So in other words they should rig the bracket to ensure Stephano and Polt aren't in the same bracket?

Right.


they should use common sense and implement seeding so they don't have to rig anything, stephano and polt meeting in round 4 is just dumb

THERE WERE ALREADY CHANCES FOR THEM TO BE SEEDED.

If they wanted a seed they should have qualified (Polt) or tried to qualify (Stephano) for Winter Arena. Your suggestion that every person who enters the Open Bracket being given a seed is beyond retarded. If it wasn't Stephano vs Polt, it would have been Polt vs Symbol or Polt vs aLive or another such unfortunate match. When so many good players enter the open bracket, this is the kind of thing that happens and there's nothing anyone can do about it. Deal with it.


MLG isn't the only tournament in the world, other tournaments use seedings from elsewhere , why couldn't they? This IS dumb, there is no way around it.
NoiR
Ruscour
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
5233 Posts
March 24 2012 10:27 GMT
#112
Rooting for Jinro so hard!
X3GoldDot
Profile Joined August 2011
Malaysia3840 Posts
March 24 2012 10:31 GMT
#113
its sad being a steph fan when you see how other steph fans are so dumb, Polt and steph arent the top 2 of this god damn stacked tourny, no matter what way u put it...
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jmbthirteen
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States10734 Posts
March 24 2012 10:31 GMT
#114
On March 24 2012 19:22 Nouar wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 24 2012 19:07 RPR_Tempest wrote:
On March 24 2012 19:03 mememolly wrote:
On March 24 2012 19:00 RPR_Tempest wrote:
On March 24 2012 18:53 AIOL! wrote:
The guy who mades the seeds of the open bracket should be .... Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy ?? Why would you draw a bracket where the two best players of your tournament meet so early ?

So in other words they should rig the bracket to ensure Stephano and Polt aren't in the same bracket?

Right.


they should use common sense and implement seeding so they don't have to rig anything, stephano and polt meeting in round 4 is just dumb

THERE WERE ALREADY CHANCES FOR THEM TO BE SEEDED.

If they wanted a seed they should have qualified (Polt) or tried to qualify (Stephano) for Winter Arena. Your suggestion that every person who enters the Open Bracket being given a seed is beyond retarded. If it wasn't Stephano vs Polt, it would have been Polt vs Symbol or Polt vs aLive or another such unfortunate match. When so many good players enter the open bracket, this is the kind of thing that happens and there's nothing anyone can do about it. Deal with it.


MLG isn't the only tournament in the world, other tournaments use seedings from elsewhere , why couldn't they? This IS dumb, there is no way around it.

actually, they were seeded since they had previous mlg points they both ended up having bye's in the first round. its just how the seeding worked.

Oh and they certainly arent the two best players in the tournament. DRG and MKP have that title
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Shardz
Profile Joined August 2010
United States349 Posts
March 24 2012 10:38 GMT
#115
On March 24 2012 19:31 X3GoldDot wrote:
its sad being a steph fan when you see how other steph fans are so dumb, Polt and steph arent the top 2 of this god damn stacked tourny, no matter what way u put it...


People aren't saying that Polt and Stephano are top 2 in the entire tourny. But 2 of the strongest in the open bracket meeting so early is pretty crappy =(.
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Fatmofo
Profile Joined May 2011
Australia14 Posts
March 24 2012 10:43 GMT
#116
Jesus christ Steph fans are so self centered, the tournament is not setup around just one player you know?
There're plenty of other top level players in the tournaments, and there other players with bad draws. That's just how it works out, and others just deal with it.
If steph won over Polt none of you guys would be in here protesting how "unfair" this is.
leo23
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States3075 Posts
March 24 2012 10:48 GMT
#117
On March 24 2012 19:07 RPR_Tempest wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 24 2012 19:03 mememolly wrote:
On March 24 2012 19:00 RPR_Tempest wrote:
On March 24 2012 18:53 AIOL! wrote:
The guy who mades the seeds of the open bracket should be .... Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy ?? Why would you draw a bracket where the two best players of your tournament meet so early ?

So in other words they should rig the bracket to ensure Stephano and Polt aren't in the same bracket?

Right.


they should use common sense and implement seeding so they don't have to rig anything, stephano and polt meeting in round 4 is just dumb

THERE WERE ALREADY CHANCES FOR THEM TO BE SEEDED.

If they wanted a seed they should have qualified (Polt) or tried to qualify (Stephano) for Winter Arena. Your suggestion that every person who enters the Open Bracket being given a seed is beyond retarded. If it wasn't Stephano vs Polt, it would have been Polt vs Symbol or Polt vs aLive or another such unfortunate match. When so many good players enter the open bracket, this is the kind of thing that happens and there's nothing anyone can do about it. Deal with it.


i understand your point of view, but polt vs stephano needs to be a semifinal match (they can't be in the same bracket) but of course this is impossible since they did not go to winter arena
banelings
Nouar
Profile Joined May 2009
France3270 Posts
March 24 2012 10:52 GMT
#118
On March 24 2012 19:43 Fatmofo wrote:
Jesus christ Steph fans are so self centered, the tournament is not setup around just one player you know?
There're plenty of other top level players in the tournaments, and there other players with bad draws. That's just how it works out, and others just deal with it.
If steph won over Polt none of you guys would be in here protesting how "unfair" this is.


?? I'd have been equally hurt to have Polt in the loser's bracket in round 4. Don't speak bullshit.

I still find it dumb to only seed open bracket on account of MLG points, completely disregarding every other event in the world, ever. Like... code S/A players in the Open bracket could get some seeds to make sure they don't meet early on, seeing the previous MLG/GSL partnership.
It maybe wouldn't have mattered this time, and avoided neither polt/stephano, not Sleep/Symbol in r2 (WTF), but it could help eventually.

Or maybe the winners of previous tournaments, though that would be more difficult.

I'm just pissed by the "only our results matter and the rest of the world we don't give a shit about"-style of MLG.
NoiR
Xoronius
Profile Joined July 2011
Germany6362 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-24 10:56:52
March 24 2012 10:54 GMT
#119
On March 24 2012 19:31 jmbthirteen wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 24 2012 19:22 Nouar wrote:
On March 24 2012 19:07 RPR_Tempest wrote:
On March 24 2012 19:03 mememolly wrote:
On March 24 2012 19:00 RPR_Tempest wrote:
On March 24 2012 18:53 AIOL! wrote:
The guy who mades the seeds of the open bracket should be .... Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy ?? Why would you draw a bracket where the two best players of your tournament meet so early ?

So in other words they should rig the bracket to ensure Stephano and Polt aren't in the same bracket?

Right.


they should use common sense and implement seeding so they don't have to rig anything, stephano and polt meeting in round 4 is just dumb

THERE WERE ALREADY CHANCES FOR THEM TO BE SEEDED.

If they wanted a seed they should have qualified (Polt) or tried to qualify (Stephano) for Winter Arena. Your suggestion that every person who enters the Open Bracket being given a seed is beyond retarded. If it wasn't Stephano vs Polt, it would have been Polt vs Symbol or Polt vs aLive or another such unfortunate match. When so many good players enter the open bracket, this is the kind of thing that happens and there's nothing anyone can do about it. Deal with it.


MLG isn't the only tournament in the world, other tournaments use seedings from elsewhere , why couldn't they? This IS dumb, there is no way around it.

actually, they were seeded since they had previous mlg points they both ended up having bye's in the first round. its just how the seeding worked.

Oh and they certainly arent the two best players in the tournament. DRG and MKP have that title


I think he meant the open bracket, as it was the only thing, where this seeding has an effect. And they are two of the best three players in the open bracket (third one is aLive). And if two of the best three players in the open bracket collide in round 4, whereas guys like Glon, Nony, RuFF or wbc have an easy bracket to get in round 5, the seeding is bad.
Nouar
Profile Joined May 2009
France3270 Posts
March 24 2012 10:59 GMT
#120
Additionnally, not mixing up players when you have EIGHT brackets, IE meaning in the LB you meet the guys who were in your WB section is dumb as well.
NoiR
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