Hero vs Taeja in and epic final that goes in Hero's favor with a 4-3 score? The other way around would be awesome too.
There is too much Liquid epicness coming the next weeks.

Yeah 4-3 for HerO would be awesome. Taeja got to win MLG, now it's HerO's time to shine!

Vapaach

Finland994 Posts

July 26 2012 12:58 GMT

#42

Group predictions:

1: MC, and Babyknight. MC is the obvious 1st here, but the 2nd spot is hard to predict. I will go for Babyknight because he seems to have a very strong pvp in a 3-toss group.

2: This group is tricky. Violet should be 1st in this group, but I wouldn't necessarily say that moon is surely going to advance as well. Demu has great tvz so he could take a set from Violet and/or Moon and Welmu seems to be on the rise as well. I'll go for Violet and Demuslim here.

3: Mana has weak pvz, but if he is able to beat Jonnyrecco he should be through. On the other hand, Fraer is a bit of a mystery here so he could be the dark horse here. I'll go for ForGG and Mana anyway.

4: Taeja should go 3-0 here, but the 2nd spot is tricky to predict; Protosser has seemed strong lately beating a lot of players, Pomi is a solid protoss and Idra's performances fluctuate quite a bit. I think Idra should be able to barely make it through, so Taeja and Idra.

5: I don't know a lot about Sortof, but for sure he can't beat HerO, right? Socke beat DRG not too long ago and Elfi's pvz nowadays is seeming better, so I bet that HerO goes 3-0 and SortOf 0-3. But who will take the 2nd spot, Socke or Elfi? Considering how strong Elfi's pvp is, I would have to go for Elfi here. I could see him even upsetting HerO if he plays on top of his game. HerO and Elfi.

6: I don't know a lot about Seiplo but I don't see him getting through here. So what do we have left? The unpredictable Naama, HuK, who has shown weak performances lately and STC, who seems to be quite solid but not stellar. STC should go through here, beating at least 2 of the 3 other players in the group, but the 2nd spot is quite the contest. I'll go for HuK just by a hair. STC and HuK.

7. What an interesting group. Suppy is strong but I predict he'll lose to Kas and Ret and will not advance from the group. Cytoplasm is good, but is he good enough to beat Kas and/or Ret? I'm not sure. I think Ret and Kas should advance here.

8. This is also a group with one korean and 3 foreigners, but this time the korean doesn't seem so dominant at all. SaSe has beat top koreans, including Puma, in the past. Bratok seems the obvious 0-3 player here, but the rest should be a very tight competition. Puma hasn't seemed so strong lately, and I would go as far to call SaSe the favorite against him. Nightend has been training in korea for quite a while and could upste Puma. SaSe should beat Nightend with his sexy pvp, but will Nightend beat Puma, and will Puma beat SaSe? Who knows. I'll go for SaSe and Puma here, but I wouldn't be surprised to see the 2 protosses advance here.

Mackus

England1681 Posts

July 26 2012 13:03 GMT

#43

Seiplo the PvP king and a well-known Terran in the same group as HuK, could easily be an early exit for him, he needs to beat either 1 of these 2 to progress but the odds are stacked against him.

Can see 2 EG players going out infact, violet and Moon have shown amazing ZvT and ZvZ play very recently, DeMu will need to sneak a 2nd place.

Tonttu

Finland606 Posts

July 26 2012 13:08 GMT

#44

Please keep in mind that these groups will be played GSL style so everything can happen!

Wampaibist

United States478 Posts

July 26 2012 13:17 GMT

#45

idra and elfi finals! ogogoggo

cndaks

United States95 Posts

July 26 2012 13:23 GMT

#46

MC vs Taeja FINALS~

StarGalaxy

Germany744 Posts

July 26 2012 13:24 GMT

#47

So sick line up!

But so few good zergs.

My Predictions:
MC,Titan
viOLet, DeMusliM
MaNa, fraer
TaeJa, IdrA
HerO, Socke
StC, HuK
Ret, Kas
SaSe, PuMa

Olinim

4044 Posts

July 26 2012 13:28 GMT

#48

gogo MC!

ichnaschekot

380 Posts

July 26 2012 13:31 GMT

#49

BO5 group stages? Wat

soulist

United States932 Posts

July 26 2012 13:37 GMT

#50

There are a lot of really interesting story lines going on here. Can violet still be as dominate without a team? How strong is Moon atm, is he improving? forGG's first foreigner tournament. Many others of course. Really interesting tournament.

KapsyL

Sweden704 Posts

July 26 2012 13:38 GMT

#51

taeja mc finals where taeja 4-3, its said
sweet groups also !!

TheDougler

Canada8323 Posts

July 26 2012 13:43 GMT

#52

OMFG these groups are SOOOO good! Tuning into this one for sure!

FairForever

Canada2392 Posts

July 26 2012 13:50 GMT

#53

On July 26 2012 22:17 Wampaibist wrote:
idra and elfi finals! ogogoggo

Idra will say that his semifinal match against Suppy was the real finals.

Habaru

Romania1 Post

July 26 2012 13:51 GMT

#54

Looking forward to some of these matches.
Nightend FTW :D

StarVe

Germany13591 Posts

July 26 2012 14:03 GMT

#55

Alright, I'll do some predictions, assuming 1. plays 2. and 3. plays 4. in the GSL style format .

Group 1:

MC > BabyKnight
TitaN > LiveZerg
MC > TitaN
LiveZerg > BabyKnight
TitaN > LiveZerg

Group 2:

viOlet > DeMusliM
MooN > Welmu
viOlet > Moon
Welmu > Demuslim
Welmu > Moon

Group 3:

fOrGG > JonnyREcco
fraer > MaNa
fraer > fOrGG
MaNa < JonnyREcco
fOrGG > JonnyREcco

Group 4:

Taeja > Pomi
IdrA > Protosser
Taeja > IdrA
Pomi > Protosser
Pomi > IdrA

Group 5:

HerO > Socke
SortOf > Elfi
HerO > SortOf
Elfi > Socke
Elfi > SortOf

Group 6:

theStC > Seiplo
Naama > HuK
StC > Naama
Seiplo > HuK
Naama > Seiplo

Group 7:

Cytoplasm > Ret
Kas > Suppy
Cytoplasm > Kas
Ret > Suppy
Ret > Kas

Group 8:

SaSe > NightEnD
Puma > BRAT_OK
Puma > SaSe
NightEnd > BRAT_OK
SaSe > NightEnD

Probably got everything wrong, but I'm very interested to see how it all pans out.

babybell

776 Posts

July 26 2012 14:05 GMT

#56

No Nani or Stephano or Grubby?
Meh my top 3 are missing

Edit: Nerchio too...

Catatonic

United States699 Posts

July 26 2012 14:08 GMT

#57

Oh yea IdrA should definitely make it out of group easy with only Taeja blocking the number one spot though I don't expect IdrA to take first. He should definitely make it out in second though so I'm quite happy to see that.