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 ESEA 4 group play starts this week and several exciting match-ups are already here. You can look at the Upcoming Matches here. Let's take a look!
Under Rated Gaming vs Impressive PlayAlthough Under Rated Gaming is a newly formed team and therefore quite easily may be "under rated", they've got an impressive lineup nonetheless. This will be their debut match, and this match will allow us to see how strong they really are as they face off against the seasoned team, Impressive Play. Impressive Play, in my opinion, a middle of the road strong team - they are consistent and only barely missed the cutoffs for playoffs last season. I think this is the perfect opportunity to gauge the relative strengths of both teams. I will have to give the benefit of the doubt here to Impressive Play, since we are more familiar with them, and predict a 3-2 win for them. Ruxin and Tbeezy from Under Rated Gaming are the two players I recognize and they are very good players, so I think in any case this match will be extremely close!
Flow Gaming vs Team Legion ![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/images2/c/ce/Teamlegionlogo_std.png) Again, we have a new team on the scene facing off against an experienced team. Flow Gaming is participating for the first time in ESEA and will be facing off against last season's 5th/6th place Team Legion. However, despite Legion's experience, they are also starting relatively anew this season as well! Their staple Korean lineup of Boss, Mystic, and ChiTa has left, but in their stead are Gix, Kane, and Karmy. This match is interesting both in that we will get to see how strong Flow Gaming is, as well as who Team Legion decides to run in their lineup. I predict a 3-1 victory for Team Legion but I have yet to see the caliber of Flow Gaming's skill, so this could go any way!
KEYD TEAM vs LighT eSports ![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/images2/e/e8/Lightesportslogo_std.png) This will be a nice match between two teams that have both participated in ESEA before. We have KEYD Team who barely missed playoffs last season by coming in ninth place, and we have LighT eSports who came in third place last season. I made a prediction of 4-0 for LighT, as they have always been a strong team and now with the addition of Golden are even stronger, but I think a 3-1 situation is likely or even perhaps a 3-2, as KEYD's Everize and Maker are both two strong Terran players that could perhaps take a game or two.
![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/images2/c/c8/Checksixlogo_std.png) CheckSix Gaming vs Nightmares ![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/images2/1/14/Nmx_std.png) Last season's second place CheckSix Gaming is facing against last season's seventh/eighth place, Nightmares. Last season these two teams had some pretty close matches and we could see that again here. CheckSix has added Sleep though, and that will make the match a lot tougher for Nightmares. NMxMaSa has been consistently strong however, and read more . . .
For the rest of the match previews and predictions, a power ranking list, and list of times of matches that are going to be casted, go to: http://news.esea.net/sc2/index.php?s=news&d=comments&id=10991
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If anyone would like to suggest their own 10 team power ranking, just post it here and I may include it in future update articles  Current one is previous season's standings.
Could a mod change the title [ESEA] to [ESEA S11] please? Thanks
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Wooooooo great coverage! Gogo LgN ranked number 5 lets go to number 1
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great job Suppy! Lets have some good matches
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Great coverage :D! looking forward to bopping some nerds this season ;D
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CheckSix FIGHTING! I want to see Sleep play!
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Fun writeups! We are really looking forward to participating this season, and getting the opportunity to play such great Starcraft 2 teams!
Btw- PMS|H2O is a co-ed organization, with female players carrying the PMS tag and male players carrying the H2O tag.
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Thanks Suppy! Convergence Gaming gonna prove ourselves this season. Good luck everyone!
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On April 10 2012 13:40 Arbee wrote:Fun writeups! We are really looking forward to participating this season, and getting the opportunity to play such great Starcraft 2 teams! Btw- PMS|H2O is a co-ed organization, with female players carrying the PMS tag and male players carrying the H2O tag.
Ah thanks! Sorry I think you already wrote that last time but I forgot to include it. Send me a PM if you want me to include certain interesting information / whatever you want us to know about your team! I'm really excited to see how PMS|H2O does!
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Always good writing from suppy~
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Wow tough 1st week for us lol x.x Nice writeup glad to see you're doing it on esea now
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love the power rankings addition haha
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Some great matches so far being streamed by Kibbelz and KeyD!
Stay tuned in for tomorrow's matches:
Impressive Play vs Underrated Gaming - Wednesday 6:00PM PST / 8:00PM CST / 9:00PM EST casting by Zanderfever @ http://www.twitch.tv/zanderfever
Quantic Gaming vs Area 51 Gaming - Wednesday 5:30PST / 7:30CST / 8:30EST - Casted by Axel @ http://www.twitch.tv/axeltoss
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Whoa haha nice Keyd casting Potiguar just won a really weird game vs Golden haha nice!
Anybody got the results so far to post? Wasn't able to watch since I was in a tournament
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your prediction was spot on for Infinty Seven vs. coL.Academy (3-1, with Goswser taking the only win for coL.A)
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Did Crazymoving play today? If he did, will there be VODs available?
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I do not think he played today
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nice, we got vods ^_^ what happened to keyd vs light?
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On April 11 2012 12:46 redloser wrote:
Did Crazymoving play today? If he did, will there be VODs available?
he did not play, but he will be playing in ipl tac 3 hopefully this weekend~
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On April 12 2012 00:48 tuxedomask wrote:
nice, we got vods ^_^ what happened to keyd vs light?
+ Show Spoiler +
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Wow
+ Show Spoiler +Potiguar 2-0 Golden! I wanna see what happened in those games (I saw the one on Cloud Kingdom)! Looks like it was a pretty nice match overall though, surprised Everize wasn't in the lineup for Keyd
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On April 12 2012 03:04 Superiorwolf wrote:Wow + Show Spoiler +Potiguar 2-0 Golden! I wanna see what happened in those games (I saw the one on Cloud Kingdom)! Looks like it was a pretty nice match overall though, surprised Everize wasn't in the lineup for Keyd
+ Show Spoiler +not sure where vods/replays are, but g1 golden took the P's nat with a hatch and died to a 4 gate. g2 the protoss did 7gate +1 and beat golden straight up.
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Thx for whatching our stream, portuguese is weird for american guys but its nice i think lol
Light is very powerfull and deserve this win, GG
but we will traind hard for next round
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EPT
Axslav 0 - 2 gowswer 
Pyre 2 - 0 NoCreativity 
binski 2-0 lamp 
heavens 2-0 maker 
