EPTMLG Summer Arena [Day 1] - Page 5
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ShakkaFL
Norway647 Posts
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aRyuujin
United States5049 Posts
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MrMotionPicture
United States4327 Posts
He's my favorite player ever | ||
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Benjamin99
4176 Posts
On July 19 2012 04:36 Rhaegar_tar wrote: Another 10k to ze bank for Stephano...He's by far the best player in the bracket. To many zergs for Stephano to win. Yes if he is very lucky not to face any ZvZ then he can win but els I highly doubt it | ||
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TheSir
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Aegeis
United States1619 Posts
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revel8
United Kingdom3022 Posts
On July 19 2012 10:18 TheSir wrote: so i guess this will be like the championships and only a part of the tournament will be free to watch or? This Arena is free to watch. | ||
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revel8
United Kingdom3022 Posts
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Havik_
United States5585 Posts
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stardog
556 Posts
On July 19 2012 09:56 Benjamin99 wrote: To many zergs for Stephano to win. Yes if he is very lucky not to face any ZvZ then he can win but els I highly doubt it It's not like his ZvZ is weak, it's just a bit... random. Imo he still has ~50% chances to beat top zvz zergs and is definitely favored against weaker ones. | ||
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Dagobert
Netherlands1858 Posts
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opterown
Australia54784 Posts
On July 20 2012 00:07 Dagobert wrote: I don't get it.. what's going on on MLG Live right now? Is this Summer Arena already? Liquipedia shows no results (not even filled-in brackets) and the tournament tracker doesn't even have SA listed. WTF? rebroadcast of a previous arena | ||
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MCDayC
United Kingdom14464 Posts
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okcall
Taiwan28 Posts
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VirgilSC2
United States6151 Posts
On July 20 2012 00:09 MCDayC wrote: The way MLG does these events is dumb, the qualy system was ridiculous, and like Idra pointed out on Inside the Game, the double double bracket system, while nice because it give a balanced finals, can actually be unfair, if one person goes through his bracket without dropping into loosers, and the other scrapes through on loosers, yet gets no disadvantage. Not terrible, but a cheap way to enhance the finals. It actually makes a lot of sense. AFAIK in the Bracket 1 and Bracket 2 finals the person coming from the loser's bracket does face a disadvantage. The reason the Grand Finals is on even footing is because it doesn't matter what games you won/lost in your bracket, you won the bracket plain and simple. | ||
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MCDayC
United Kingdom14464 Posts
On July 20 2012 00:38 VirgilSC2 wrote: It actually makes a lot of sense. AFAIK in the Bracket 1 and Bracket 2 finals the person coming from the loser's bracket does face a disadvantage. The reason the Grand Finals is on even footing is because it doesn't matter what games you won/lost in your bracket, you won the bracket plain and simple. Yup, but that still means that one person could have been in loosers, won bracket 1 from loosers, and the other could have won bracket 2 from winners, and yet get no advantage from it. Its not a true double elim, and while it makes the finals better compared to normal double elim, Single Elim would have better hype leading up to the finals. They had 32 players, why not just 2 group stages, down to 8 players, and then just play out a single elim... And they still have extended series. It just feels like MLG refuse to have normal tournament formats, just to be different. | ||
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sparklyresidue
United States5523 Posts
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KalWarkov
Germany4126 Posts
On July 19 2012 09:56 Benjamin99 wrote: To many zergs for Stephano to win. Yes if he is very lucky not to face any ZvZ then he can win but els I highly doubt it he beat nerchio at dreamhack pretty easily. | ||
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Poilon
France139 Posts
The extended serie is not. In that way, you would have to lose twice normal serie to be eliminated. And in the grand final, you would have to win two final if you come from the loser bracket. It's what we use in super smash bros, and it's the best. Single elim bracket is not fair at all. Let's imagine you are the best player of the tournament, and at the second round of this tournament, you are going to play against your dark horse, the man that beat you but is not as good as you otherwise. You'll be eliminated, without a chance to come back. The loser bracket is a second chance that is great in a video game tournament. See Leenock at providence, he was the best player out there, and he lost badly to DRG who was good too, but it was kind coin flip matches. DRG lost later to naniwa and then Leenock won back and took the championship. So entertaining ! | ||
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Zambrah
United States7376 Posts
That being said, I've got a set of ribs I plan to make for this occasion... MLG and ribs, aw yea. | ||
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