The French Qualifiers ended in a surprising fashion with MiNiMaTh winning over NeOAnGeL. Dayshi, Millenium's new recruit didn't live up to the expectation but I think he is still the best non-Stephano french SC2 players. Adelscott failed once again to perform and his career may be at its dusk. CENSURE et KleeneX reached the semi-finals confirming their place in the amateur scene.
But now is the time for the big guns to appear, although MLG's players list is ridiculously good - it's an MLG after all - most of the players here qualified in their home country to have their travel expenses paid. A good portion of the EU scene is present this year with 2 Korean guests : Squirtle and ForGG. The former was supposed to win the IeSF but didn't even reached the finals losing a PvP against a foreigner but the latter won against Stephano and barely lost again the at-time-on-a-roll TaeJa in DH Valencia. Last year winner and homecrowd favorite Stephano is present and ready to take back his crown. The first day will be quiet like a normal EU Open tournament (except it's an qualified + invites this time) but you can expect some upset as some groups contain relatively close players.
Don't forget that aside from the SC2 tournament, you can also watch CS:GO, CS:GO Girls, Shootmania, DotA2 (English and French) and LoL, Fifa 13, TrackMania:Nations, TrackMania:Canyons and Tekken Tag Tournament 2 (French only)
AlaStOr and French Spot #1 take the seed of XiGua and Xy who couldn't attend due to visa issues (unconfirmed), TitaN takes sLivko seed due to visa issues (confirmed) and the former French Spot #1 is now French Spot #2 .
Group B : Harstem and StarNaN are up and coming players who performed well at DH events. They meet here with TitaN a russian protoss who is very solid. I'm going with a bold prediction and say that Titan will fall. Even though he is the more established players he can have troubles in Group Stage. PvP being what it is, I see him lose to both Harstem and StarNaN
Group D : PandaTank is a lovable character in the community and not the bad player everyone expects him to be. He can win against most non-top EU players. Hawk will be his main opponent but I think the US player will defend his country's name (at least for this stage) and advance with DIMAGA.
Group H : ForGG just came back to France after being force to travel back to Korea in order to get a visa. On paper he is stronger than both Feast and TargA ... except TargA seems to have ForGG's number and Feast has already shown he can take out korean terrans before. This and the fact that Feast don't possess PartinG's soul when doing immortal all-ins makes me think TargA will advance first with ForGG. But it could go differently.
2. Terrans. Only one of which is good enough to make it out of group stage -_-
Considering the disparity in skill between top and bottom players in this tournament, the group placements actually have some potential for upsets. Mana and Nightend have to play their worst matchup PvZ twice. Stephano, Bly and Titan have lots of volatile mirror matchups. ForGG is in the only group with 2 players actually capable of taking down a known Korean. Squirtle got the luckiest group draw with 2 players who don't even have a liquipedia page.
On November 02 2012 20:09 opterown wrote: nice OP!
nice LR ressources
I'm going to class soon, don't forget to edit the LP with the official results (and broadcasted results as well). Also you can access the schedule here.
Apparently DeathAngel is out because TomikuS 3-0'ed his group. You read that right. That nobody who isn't the most famous czech player just beat both DeathAngel and MaNa. And you guess well if you say he is zerg.
On November 02 2012 20:33 Otolia wrote: Apparently NightEnD is out because TomikuS 3-0'ed his group. You read that right. That nobody who isn't the most famous czech player just beat both NightEnD and MaNa. And you guess well if you say he is zerg.
On November 02 2012 20:33 Otolia wrote: Apparently NightEnD is out because TomikuS 3-0'ed his group. You read that right. That nobody who isn't the most famous czech player just beat both NightEnD and MaNa. And you guess well if you say he is zerg.
On November 02 2012 20:55 GrIdL0cK wrote: Any updates on Dimaga vs Hawk?
Hawk won so PandaTank is through and DIMIGA is out.
Upsets all over the place, which is cool to see and makes us forget about the disastrous organisation that is ESWC.
On November 02 2012 21:03 BigLighthouse wrote: Ahhh I'd forgotten how well ESWC does events. Feels like the good old days
The events are somewhat cheesy for the hardcore gamers that populate TL but the live event is good. The online part however ... It's clearly not up to part with the current SC2 scene. It might make CS:GO and Shootmania communities happy but we shouldn't be with that quality.
On November 02 2012 20:47 Fusilero wrote: So any Aussies want to inform us on this Petraeus shall we have any expectations of him?
First thing's first he is from New Zealand not Australia!
Secondly, he is only 16 years old, plays SC2 on top of school.
Thirdly, he came third in his qualifying tournament and wasn't expecting to get into ESWC, but the 1st and 2nd place players opted to attend MLG instead, so Petraeus took their places.
All in all, he is certainly not expected to advance from his group which contains Stephano and SortOf. Nevertheless, he is capable of causing an upset.
On November 02 2012 23:01 Fusilero wrote: So neither of the Pakistani players showed up? Does anyone know what happened at least the Libyans turned up. OH GOD MY EYES BRIGHT MUCH TOO BRIGHT.
Saw one player playing without hotkeys so i guess it was a libyan or pakistani players. I think all the Libyans are here afaik.
On November 02 2012 21:09 m0ck wrote: ESWC was so epic back in the 1.6 days. I'll forgive them for pretty much anything.
ESWC 2006 and 2007 were the best esports events ever made, everyone who were there can agree on that.
I loved ESWC 2004 myself, with FoV, Sweet, Madfrog, HeMan, FaTC etc owning it up in wc3. As a WC3 fan back in the day, ESWC and WCG were always the highlights of the year.
On November 03 2012 20:14 PandaTank wrote: "(P)PandaTank is a lovable character in the community and not the bad player everyone expects him to be" LOL, thanks OP
You are welcome, and it was a sincere praise of your level. Congratulations on you performance, you have nothing to be ashamed of.
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Dayshi, Millenium's new recruit didn't live up to the expectation but I think he is still the best non-Stephano french SC2 players. 
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