Quite sure he's put all of us Moon fans in a bad light by now =/ Not that it'd stop either of us. Think the hate of Moon himself would be countered anyway by the amazing results he's had in GSTL.

Sumahi

Guam5609 Posts

August 04 2012 06:24 GMT

#86

I'm cheering for either Mana or Moon!

Lambertus

South Africa980 Posts

August 04 2012 06:29 GMT

#87

ForGG! GoGo!

GhandiEAGLE

United States20754 Posts

August 04 2012 06:33 GMT

#88

Liquid has the worst Teamkill luck in the world... rofl

Taeja gonna take the tournament, nobody can stop him right now

Talin

Montenegro10532 Posts

August 04 2012 06:37 GMT

#89

On August 04 2012 15:33 GhandiEAGLE wrote:
Liquid has the worst Teamkill luck in the world... rofl

Taeja gonna take the tournament, nobody can stop him right now

Hero can and Hero will... again.

IPA

United States3206 Posts

August 04 2012 06:43 GMT

#90

Moon 4 - Taeja 3

Let's do this

y0su

Finland7871 Posts

August 04 2012 06:44 GMT

#91

Setting my alarm to wake up early - I miss being on site

Aerisky

United States12129 Posts

August 04 2012 06:49 GMT

#92

Aw.....teamkill with Taeja and Hero

I can see it now. MC's gonna take this :3

Lovedoll

Japan540 Posts

August 04 2012 07:09 GMT

#93

Moon vs Taeja would make such a great finals!

Orome

Switzerland11984 Posts

August 04 2012 07:14 GMT

#94

MC seems like the obvious pick for upper bracket, but this is more tricky than it seems and all 4 players probably have some chance of making it through to the finals. MC's the obvious favourite over Mana, but Mana's a very tricky opponent and has extremely solid PvP. If MC goes through to the semis, I don't think either of the Zergs are good enough to beat him, but if Mana somehow pulls through, this side of the bracket is suddenly extremely open.

Moon's the favourite over SortOf, but not overwhelmingly so. All we've seen of Moon's ZvZ this weekend was the series vs Idra and while he played well, I'm not convinced he'll mop the floor with SortOf. Either of them have a chance to beat Mana, but both will be big underdogs vs MC. SortOf beating Hero is promising, but MC plays an entirely different style than Hero PvZ and won't let SortOf get comfortable in lategame.

Taeja vs Hero... Bleh. Hero seems very shaky this tournament. His play's been occasionally brilliant, but he made things unecessarily hard for himself going to even bigger extremes than usual with his PvZ. His PvT too looked much less precise than usual, with a lot of bad engagements and questionable decisions. It's a mark of how much I expect from Taeja that his play too has seemed more sloppy than usual. While he hasn't lost a series yet, the series vs Idra was much closer than the reuslt indicates, he was in trouble once or twice vs Harstem (although I think that might've been from showing off lol) and only barely managed to edge out Mana. Still, in equal positions his play looked quite a bit better than Mana's and with how Hero's been playing I'd expect Taeja to take the win comfortably.

TheSTC vs forgg who knows. Both really good Terrans, both have been out of the spotlight for a bit, both have played well here so far. TheSTC has always had great TvT so I wouldn't be surprised if he manages to edge out forgg.

Predictions:
MC 3-2 Mana
Moon 3-1 SortOf
Taeja 3-0 Hero
TheSTC 3-2 fOrGG

MC 3-0 Moon
Taeja 3-2 TheSTC

MC 4-2 Taeja

Really rooting for Taeja though and I don't think anyone can stop him if he turns up today with the sort of play he's shown online over the past 4 weeks.

scypio

Poland2127 Posts

August 04 2012 08:22 GMT

#95

I predict it's gonna be all upset day

Ro8
Mana 3-0 MC
SortOf 3-0 Moon
Hero 3-0 Taeja
ForGG 3-0 TheSTC

Ro4
SortOf 3-0 Mana
ForGG 3-0 Hero

Finals
SortOf 4-0 ForGG

Azhrak

Finland1198 Posts

August 04 2012 08:28 GMT

#96

All the places in the groups and bracket were decided before the tournament (i.e. which group plays which). I too don't like racial balance in the bracket, but I sure don't want anyone "tuning" the tournament either. The initial seeds and the earned seeds from the groups stages should be respected.