On December 24 2012 08:51 IronSquid wrote: Here's the bracket : Bracket
It was a random draw (1st vs 2nd and two players from the same group can't face each other before the grand finals)
HerO - MarineKing MC - viOLet Mvp - Goswser Life - Leenock PartinG - NesTea Scarlett - Symbol Stephano - MMA DongRaeGu - Creator
ho damn that prime draw. will be exciting.
Creator's going down!!!!
still has a sick h2h with DRG even when DRG peaked early this year ;D
i love when these two guys play though. Its always good games and you can never predict who is going to win.
haha, i'm gonna still say creator is a bit favoured if we get a normal DRG. but if we get god of the world drg, he's gonna take it. pretty much depends on what DRG turns up, creator's pretty consistent otherwise
well DRG's ZvZ looked better than leenock's in Blizzard cup and Iron Squid and better than Life's except he decided to engage terribly. If DRG beats Creator, he could win it all if his ZvZ is as good as it was last week. Im mostly worried about his ZvT at the moment but MMA will lose to Stephano 3-0 so it doesnt matter.
DRG and Leenock split macro games, and he took a game on an early pool, we can't say much there~ Life's ZvZ looked excellent in the RO4
On December 24 2012 08:51 IronSquid wrote: Here's the bracket : Bracket
It was a random draw (1st vs 2nd and two players from the same group can't face each other before the grand finals)
HerO - MarineKing MC - viOLet Mvp - Goswser Life - Leenock PartinG - NesTea Scarlett - Symbol Stephano - MMA DongRaeGu - Creator
ho damn that prime draw. will be exciting.
Creator's going down!!!!
still has a sick h2h with DRG even when DRG peaked early this year ;D
i love when these two guys play though. Its always good games and you can never predict who is going to win.
haha, i'm gonna still say creator is a bit favoured if we get a normal DRG. but if we get god of the world drg, he's gonna take it. pretty much depends on what DRG turns up, creator's pretty consistent otherwise
well DRG's ZvZ looked better than leenock's in Blizzard cup and Iron Squid and better than Life's except he decided to engage terribly. If DRG beats Creator, he could win it all if his ZvZ is as good as it was last week. Im mostly worried about his ZvT at the moment but MMA will lose to Stephano 3-0 so it doesnt matter.
DRG and Leenock split macro games, and he took a game on an early pool, we can't say much there~ Life's ZvZ looked excellent in the RO4
Life, Leenock and DRG often trade ZvZ series, it really depends on their form and a little bit on their luck in the choice of build orders I guess.
Life seems to have the best micro in early game, but DRG often pulls out great strategies in the early game too. I had the impression that Leenock looked better in late macro game ZvZ but he can also cheese so I'm not sure of any results involving those three
Recent history of Leenock vs Life 2-0 Leenock GSL code A S3 (little bit older) 4-3 Life MLG 2-0 Leenock IPL 5 3-1 Life Blizzard Cup
So... many... zergs. I hope the final four are not all zerg, otherwise I'll regret my ticket to the finals. ZvZ is fun when it's not all you have to watch.
Least Mvp got through, but meeting any old zerg in the next round isn't good. Hope he can get through! MMA is almost certainly losing to Stephano and MKP will struggle vs HerO, although if he plays at his best he has some kind of chance. Mvp needs to hit god mode!
Really excited for MKP vs HerO, those two are monsters at the matchup and both hyper aggressive. It'll either be a super sick series... or HerO vs Taeja-esque early wins. Hoping for sick series though. As for everything else... tough matchups for the non-zergs, I guess Parting and Mvp have the best shot at going through. Though goswer is good so anything could happen really.
At least MKP avoided a zerg! I have confidence in his tvt and tvp, just not his tvz. He's beaten hero pretty routinely in the past too, so if he plays up to his standard, hero shouldn't be a problem for him.
I think there's a good chance of at least one non-Zerg in the semis. Mvp, MC, HerO, PartinG, Creator, Marine King - any of these is good enough to advance through the ro16 (we've got at least one non-Zerg guaranteed in the quarterfinals). And then? Theoretically there might be zero Zergs in the semis. This is a utopia, to say the least, but my prediction is that there will be at least one P/T in the semis, maybe even two (most likely MC and/or Parting).
Nestea seems to be sort of player that can solve WonWonWon, though his late game ZvP is rather sketchy ATM Scarlett might actually be favored against Symbol
Other than Stephano over MMA, can't really call any match
On December 25 2012 09:22 AceHigh. wrote: I think there's a good chance of at least one non-Zerg in the semis. Mvp, MC, HerO, PartinG, Creator, Marine King - any of these is good enough to advance through the ro16 (we've got at least one non-Zerg guaranteed in the quarterfinals). And then? Theoretically there might be zero Zergs in the semis. This is a utopia, to say the least, but my prediction is that there will be at least one P/T in the semis, maybe even two (most likely MC and/or Parting).
MC is definitly not good enough at the moment to make it far, if 2 players had to be chosen on that list, id say parting/HerO or parting/creator, however HerO's PvZ is his weakest MU atm, so creator should have a higher chance of making it far, Parting is tbh almost guaranteed to make it at least quarters and very likely semis cause his oppponents are pretty meh, especially with Nestea being his ro16 opponent
EPT
HerO - MarineKing 
