On September 16 2012 06:04 TheDougler wrote: Lucifron did drop one game against happy though, contrary to what Redeye said. Redeye's been awesome all day though so we'll forgive him that.
he meant in total series including the Spain nationals
On September 16 2012 06:06 IMoperator wrote: Why is reddit exploding about every grubby win, did they even see Happy's lower bracket run? Ziktomini, Slivko, Titan and Socke...
Because more people like grubby and his style to happy. Scarlett got so much more attention for taking a map off a code S player while illusion beat 3.
On September 16 2012 06:04 TheDougler wrote: Lucifron did drop one game against happy though, contrary to what Redeye said. Redeye's been awesome all day though so we'll forgive him that.
Wasn't he talking about the nationals finals of France and Spain ? both Stephano and Lucifron were undefeated there if i remember correctly
On September 16 2012 05:39 4ZakeN87 wrote: No Swed left... seems weird that no Swedish player will represent EU... being patriotic is painful sometimes. No Ukrainian either, partly because the qualification to EU finals was heavily influenced by population numbers. The fact that Sweden got 3 and Ukraine only got 2 slots while Germany had 4 players qualifying, In addition to have one player direct qualifying to World final. That is actually bullshit, Germany is well behind in the SC2 scene and should have been happy to get even equal amount of slots to Sweden or Ukraine. And to be fair it seems EU will have pretty good representation regardless.
On the other hand is the fact that NA gets even amount of slots to EU even worse. Naniwa got 4th in Sweden and was knocked out, period. While Huk got 10th in Canada and 9th in NA and still managed to go to Shanghai. Lucky for Huk that Blizzard is based in NA when the skill fails.
Yeah NA getting so many more spots kinda sucks, top EU players are so much better than top NA players outside of Scarlett.
I don't agree Dodgin. I think its very important that the NA scene is well represented.
On what grounds?
EU has a population of 740 million, NA has a population of 528 million. Skill wise I'd argue they're not on par.
But then I kind of agree as a lot of the viewers and money comes from NA so.
Erm how did NA get a population of 528 million.
Because NA isn't only USA...
Well he like me probably divide American continents into North, Central and South America.
really? NA = North =/= USA. And there is no "central america" if youd take the whole of america, you get A SHITTON MORE than 528 million. 528 million IS only NorthAmerica.
On September 16 2012 06:07 Rubber wrote: Apollo and Kaelaris handled that veto scenario better than Tastosis, good on them.
They're just a bit more used to it, I guess. ESL events all had this and Dreamhack took it up as well after seeing the positive reactions and Apollo and Kaelaris casted a ton of WCS stuff.