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The time has come for the Contender group matches of the IGN Pro Team League 2013 Season 1!
Upcoming Premier Matches:
Acer v Fnatic - Dec 13th
NsHoSeo v inFDreamteam Gaming - Dec 14th
TSL v ROOT - Dec 20th
FXO EU v coL - Dec 21st
When: Thursday, Dec 20 11:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) (we will also rebroadcast repeatedly afterwards!)
Format
Contender Division Group A is made up of four teams: Fnatic, Acer, NsHoSeo, and inFDreamteam Gaming. Group B contains TSL, ROOT, FXO EU, and Complexity. Both groups will play round robin against each other team in their group. When group stages are over, the top two teams from each Group will have a chance in the Up and Down matches to join Premier Division.
![[image loading]](http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/4717/tslicon.png) Team SCV LifePolt Symbol HyuN Value Punisher Shine RagnaroK Venus Mamuri Center ![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/images2/thumb/a/a5/RootGaming_Logo_Transparent.png/300px-RootGaming_Logo_Transparent.png) ROOT GamingSlush ViBE TT1 LeiYa MaSa Drewbie CatZ RotterdaM KiWiKaKi Fayth Fitzyhere DdoRo theognis
This match of the IPTL Contender Division Group B is on Thursday, Dec 20 11:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) (we will also rebroadcast repeatedly afterwards!)
Poll: Who will win?TSL (36) 69% ROOT (16) 31% 52 total votes Your vote: Who will win? (Vote): TSL
(Vote): ROOT
Results!+ Show Spoiler [TSL vs ROOT Results] + RagnaroK < Abyssal City > ViBE
RagnaroK < Entombed Valley > TTOne
RagnaroK < Antiga Shipyard > MaSa
ValuE < Cloud Kingdom > MaSa
ValuE < Ohana > DdoRo
ValuE < Daybreak > LeiYa
Map List
IPLMap Atlantis Spaceship
IPLMap Antiga Shipyard
IPLMap Daybreak
IPLMap Whirlwind
IPLMap Cloud Kingdom
IPLMap Metropolis
IPLMap Ohana
IPLMap Entombed Valley
**Abyssal City**
The first map will be on a set rotation, and then it is loser's pick.
Casters
Today's games will be commentated by Kevin Knocke and Kibbelz!
NOTE: We have changed the naming schema for this season of IPTL. We will now be naming our seasons by year (though I know you were all excited for IPTL XXVI). This will be IPTL 2013 Season 1.
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Root gaming, ever the underdog. Break a leg guys!
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TSL will put their B-team on the field, expect Center to come out.
Also Revival and inori left TSL (the first one for EG, the second one retired)
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On December 21 2012 04:36 Otolia wrote:
TSL will put their B-team on the field, expect Center to come out.
Also Revival and inori left TSL (the first one for EG, the second one retired)
Thanks for the roster updates! I knew about Revival (duh) but not Inori!
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Destiny and ToD are no longer on ROOT. Edit: Also theognis and DdoRo joined ROOT recently. Fitzyhere is also missing from that roster.
Anyways, ROOT4ROOT. Tough opponent for their first contender match.
Edit 2: Thanks for updating the roster!
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If Polt, HyuN or Symbol come out, its lights out for ROOT honestly. But I think TSL is likely to send out Center, RagnaroK and Shine, so ROOT might get a few kills until the TSL Trio comes out.
TSL 5-2 ROOT
Actually, TSL 5-1 ROOT
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I will ROOT4ROOT but they have next to no chance...
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will be surprised if root can take a game
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Ragnarok all kill incoming.
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I remember from some interview that Punisher retired (I think it was HyuN or RagnaroK). Are the line-ups updated?
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Root gon' get smashed. Wouldn't be surprised to see an all kill.
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Does kiwikaki still play? Never heard of him in ages..
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On December 21 2012 07:42 ibo422 wrote:
Does kiwikaki still play? Never heard of him in ages..
No, but he might come back for HotS.
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This is not played live, is it? So there is next to no chance that majOr is playing, since he got back probably after the match? Even with his inclination for leaving, he seems to be the strongest player on the team.
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go go gadget guestimator!
Ragnarok<Vibe
Venus<Vibe
Punisher/Shine<Vibe
Polt>Vibe
Polt>Fayth
Polt>Masa
Polt>Leiya
Polt>FitzyH
VibevZ fighting!~
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On December 21 2012 08:19 GTPGlitch wrote:
go go gadget guestimator!
Ragnarok<Vibe
Venus<Vibe
Punisher/Shine<Vibe
Polt>Vibe
Polt>Fayth
Polt>Masa
Polt>Leiya
Polt>FitzyH
VibevZ fighting!~
You must really want Polt to succeed in a team league for once with an all-kill.
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On December 21 2012 08:50 PhoenixVoid wrote:Show nested quote +On December 21 2012 08:19 GTPGlitch wrote:
go go gadget guestimator!
Ragnarok<Vibe
Venus<Vibe
Punisher/Shine<Vibe
Polt>Vibe
Polt>Fayth
Polt>Masa
Polt>Leiya
Polt>FitzyH
VibevZ fighting!~ You must really want Polt to succeed in a team league for once with an all-kill.
Yeah ^^
And ROOT is a team without koreans, so he has a chance <3
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On December 21 2012 05:46 aRyuujin wrote:
will be surprised if root can take a game
Yea, seems silly that they got invited to this.
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On December 21 2012 08:55 decado90 wrote:Show nested quote +On December 21 2012 05:46 aRyuujin wrote:
will be surprised if root can take a game Yea, seems silly that they got invited to this.
Invited? They fought their way from the Amateur Division last season, and the only reason they are facing TSL is because TSL lost in the Premier Division. It is fine to say ROOT will lose horribly to TSL, but saying they don't deserve to be invited is ridiculous.
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On December 21 2012 09:02 Sated wrote:
ROOT4ROOT!
If TSL do that thing Korean teams sometimes do where they completely disrespect their opponents, as in sending out several "B" team players before sending out Hyun/Symbol/Polt, then I feel like this will be an entertaining series. Just hoping for good games :D
They probably will, either to give their b-teamers some experience, or simply screw around and not let their Trio out unless they truly need them. As a TSL fan, I think their b-team is enough 
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This chat couldn't be more annoying.
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Damn, was hoping Vibe would have a chance in ZvZ
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i hope major was on root for this, he's about their only chance against TSL with vibe out
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If ragnarok all kills on the 21st it would be perfect.
Also ragnarok no.1 god power you know your shit kibblez.
On December 21 2012 09:19 chipmonklord17 wrote:
i hope major was on root for this, he's about their only chance against TSL with vibe out
Don't underestimate masa he could make something happen.
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I think you guys should start only using replays from one of the people playing in the game. We don't need to see the observer chat.
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On December 21 2012 09:22 Fusilero wrote:If ragnarok all kills on the 21st it would be perfect. Also ragnarok no.1 god power you know your shit kibblez. Show nested quote +On December 21 2012 09:19 chipmonklord17 wrote:
i hope major was on root for this, he's about their only chance against TSL with vibe out Don't underestimate masa he could make something happen.
MaSa has potential, he actually went toe-to-toe against Polt early-game in NASL.
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why doesn't IPL remove chat from replays?
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This is literally the Infestor/Spine build into BLs.
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On December 21 2012 09:27 PhoenixVoid wrote:Show nested quote +On December 21 2012 09:22 Fusilero wrote:If ragnarok all kills on the 21st it would be perfect. Also ragnarok no.1 god power you know your shit kibblez. On December 21 2012 09:19 chipmonklord17 wrote:
i hope major was on root for this, he's about their only chance against TSL with vibe out Don't underestimate masa he could make something happen. MaSa has potential, he actually went toe-to-toe against Polt early-game in NASL.
A cross server game he still get 2-0'd in?
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Wow RagnaroK -_-
Please upgrade something RagnaroK, you are completely ahead.
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On December 21 2012 09:34 PhoenixVoid wrote:
Wow RagnaroK -_-
Please upgrade something RagnaroK, you are completely ahead.
Who needs upgrades when you got banelings? ;P
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Yeah, RagnaroK all-kill incoming, and even if he gets stopped, Polt, HyuN and Symbol are waiting.
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On December 21 2012 09:31 cosine wrote:
why doesn't IPL remove chat from replays?
It's live.
Edit:
Someone in chat with an IPL tag thing next to their name said it was live so I believed them, but that just means that they subscribed not that they work for IPL. It's not live.
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On December 21 2012 09:40 yankjenets wrote:Show nested quote +On December 21 2012 09:31 cosine wrote:
why doesn't IPL remove chat from replays? It's live.
Yeaaah, sure.
(No, it isn't.)
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This must have been quite a while if Revival is still part of the team.
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Yeah, Masa delayed 2-2 for so long, now Ragnarok already overtook him.
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RagnaroK has some pretty sloppy TvZ.
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My sound just died... that happen to anyone else?
Also, I really like that Monstercat song (it's called Turn Around by Rundfunk of anyone is interested ^_^) but I am already SO SICK of this damn Age of Wushu ad.
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Seriously hope Root loses so I don't have to watch Catz be obnoxious (about Ragnarok that has already won twice, and is probably running a little exhausted.)
Also, TSL go!
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On December 21 2012 10:07 plogamer wrote:
Seriously hope Root loses so I don't have to watch Catz be obnoxious (about Ragnarok that has already won twice, and is probably running a little exhausted.)
Also, TSL go!
Understandably, they are teammates and probably having some fun, but it does get to the point where CatZ just sounds annoying and rude about it.
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Go dDoRo! Though the last time I watched him play he got absolutely smashed by Sea. But this is PvP! GO dDoRo!
EDIT: Wow, dat Value micro
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You should put Major in that roster uh?  gl ROOT btw
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On December 21 2012 10:27 Sated wrote:
Wow, that was a sick hold from Value. Pushes like that from Ddoro, with a single Colossus to stomp Force Fields whilst pushing in with Gateways units and Immortals, are actually incredibly strong before you've got a good number of Colossi to defend with... but Value absolutely crushed that with the Warp Prism micro. Without that micro, Value loses for sure.
And they're sending out LeiYa? I don't know about that, I don't think her PvP is that strong from what I've seen on her stream...
ValuE seemed to know that this push was common on Ohana, and made a specialized response to it.
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TSL seemed far more prepared and simply better than ROOT.
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TSL taking it no real suprise there, loots of pvp action at the end was kinda fun to watch thou
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On December 21 2012 11:01 Sated wrote:
No surprise at the result, although I was hoping ROOT could force out one of the big guns from TSL.
It would have been funny if the TSL Trio would say, "This isn't even my final form!" and proceed to destroy ROOT.
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I just realized what root4root meant. WTF was I doing all of my life.
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On December 21 2012 12:24 decado90 wrote:
Smashed by B teamers XD
Didn't expect more, didn't expect less. It would have been worse seeing ROOT face the TSL Trio, would have been a literal massacre.
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On December 21 2012 12:27 PhoenixVoid wrote:Didn't expect more, didn't expect less. It would have been worse seeing ROOT face the TSL Trio, would have been a literal massacre.
our whole lu except for leiya is inactive, everyones taking a small break before hots so we wernt really prepared for this match.
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On December 22 2012 04:24 ROOTT1 wrote:Show nested quote +On December 21 2012 12:27 PhoenixVoid wrote:On December 21 2012 12:24 decado90 wrote:
Smashed by B teamers XD Didn't expect more, didn't expect less. It would have been worse seeing ROOT face the TSL Trio, would have been a literal massacre. our whole lu except for leiya is inactive, everyones taking a small break before hots so we wernt really prepared for this match.
Nonetheless a serious TSL would have been too much for Root to handle with ViBE going down first. I don't really understand that choice :/
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On December 22 2012 04:24 ROOTT1 wrote:Show nested quote +On December 21 2012 12:27 PhoenixVoid wrote:On December 21 2012 12:24 decado90 wrote:
Smashed by B teamers XD Didn't expect more, didn't expect less. It would have been worse seeing ROOT face the TSL Trio, would have been a literal massacre. our whole lu except for leiya is inactive, everyones taking a small break before hots so we wernt really prepared for this match.
A break? Seriously? Have you guys just given up on ever being competitive pro players?
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huh? the next tours are in march and theyre going to be hots tourneys
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