Innovation has the best chance of advancing out of those terrans. TvT is the matchup he wants.

Interesting that all the Kespa players got picked last.

MC and DRG understand the selection process. DRG gets to only practice TvZ and MC has the weakest group. Why Life picked Parting is anyone's guess. Dumb decision.

CrazyBirdman

Germany3509 Posts

February 02 2013 16:28 GMT

#964

On February 03 2013 01:19 vesicular wrote:
Innovation has the best chance of advancing out of those terrans. TvT is the matchup he wants.

Interesting that all the Kespa players got picked last.

MC and DRG understand the selection process. DRG gets to only practice TvZ and MC has the weakest group. Why Life picked Parting is anyone's guess. Dumb decision.

Well, Life is arguably the best player in the world. Maybe he is so sure of himself that he wants to intimidate the other players by picking and than beating PartinG.

neptunusfisk

2286 Posts

February 02 2013 16:29 GMT

#965

Hahah, DRG suiciding as always

Lasbike

France2888 Posts

February 02 2013 16:43 GMT

#966

DRG with 3 terrans in his group... I feel he's going to 4-0.

CruelZeratul

Germany4588 Posts

February 02 2013 17:06 GMT

#967

Everytime Terran does not have the most players in Ro32/16 I feel like something strange is happening. I can't believe I miss the old days, but TvT is just the best matchup. Super stacked lineup though, it's hard to predict anything.

Azurues

Malaysia5612 Posts

February 02 2013 17:09 GMT

#968

i can only say both DRG and Parting must be smiling a lot after nomination

Slardar

Canada7593 Posts

February 02 2013 17:20 GMT

#969

DRG is confident versus Terran so he set himself up accordingly. Nonetheless..........this has to be the MOST stacked RO16 I can remember.

Group A Death, Group B, Double Death. Best believe I'll be staying up to watch these.

2muchSWAG

76 Posts

February 02 2013 17:25 GMT

#970

Group A:
DongRaeGu
Bomber
TaeJa
INnoVation (Bogus)

DRG and Bomber are the clear favorites here. Innovation is overrated and for some reason people treat him like Flash in BW when he beat (rofl) Stephano, who was the weakest in the Ro32 after Huk and had to solely rely on crucial game losing mistakes from Hack to win. As for Taeja, he's super overrated. He's been irrelevant since summer, ditching proleague and all.

Group B:
Squirtle
Symbol
MarineKing
Soulkey

I love all of these players and they are all very good but I feel Squirtle is going to rock EG tags and win and Symbol is MKP's rival. But I can see Soulkey and MKP making it out.

Group C:
MC
Curious
GuMiho
LosirA

MC just shows super crisp innovative play and solid micro. No questions there. Gumiho is one of the fastest most entertaining Terrans to watch when he is on point. Hopefully he can make another semifinal run. Curious has that Ro16 wall that makes him look Code A Noobphano level in the Ro16. As for Losira, his Ro32 win was a fluke as he's been irrelevant and Seed/Jjakji/Sniper like. One of those obscure players who randomly win something here and there.

Group D:
Life
PartinG
BBoongBBoong
RorO

This group doesn't even need any explanations on who will make it out. Parting will Soul Push™ and destroy overrated and BBoongBBoong and inconsistent Roro. Life will be the only person who will stop Parting's Soul Push™ and will 4-0 the group destroying Roro who will destroy BBoongBBoong, who got one of those Losira fluke Ro32 wins.

Black Gun

Germany4482 Posts

February 02 2013 17:35 GMT

#971

damn, group A so hard. and difficult for the terrans: they have to practice the hell out of tvt, but also need to be prepared for drg. drg, on the other hand, has to prepare only one matchup. and due to this tactical situation in the group, he can expect a lot of cheese from his terran opponents.

well, we are thus guaranteed at least one non-zerg player in the ro8. *notbad.jpg*

group D and, to a lesser extend, B are also quite tough. C is by far the easiest group.

Alryk

United States2718 Posts

February 02 2013 18:29 GMT

#972

On February 03 2013 02:25 2muchSWAG wrote:
Group A:
DongRaeGu
Bomber
TaeJa
INnoVation (Bogus)

DRG and Bomber are the clear favorites here. Innovation is overrated and for some reason people treat him like Flash in BW when he beat (rofl) Stephano, who was the weakest in the Ro32 after Huk and had to solely rely on crucial game losing mistakes from Hack to win. As for Taeja, he's super overrated. He's been irrelevant since summer, ditching proleague and all.

Group B:
Squirtle
Symbol
MarineKing
Soulkey

I love all of these players and they are all very good but I feel Squirtle is going to rock EG tags and win and Symbol is MKP's rival. But I can see Soulkey and MKP making it out.

Group C:
MC
Curious
GuMiho
LosirA

MC just shows super crisp innovative play and solid micro. No questions there. Gumiho is one of the fastest most entertaining Terrans to watch when he is on point. Hopefully he can make another semifinal run. Curious has that Ro16 wall that makes him look Code A Noobphano level in the Ro16. As for Losira, his Ro32 win was a fluke as he's been irrelevant and Seed/Jjakji/Sniper like. One of those obscure players who randomly win something here and there.

Group D:
Life
PartinG
BBoongBBoong
RorO

This group doesn't even need any explanations on who will make it out. Parting will Soul Push™ and destroy overrated and BBoongBBoong and inconsistent Roro. Life will be the only person who will stop Parting's Soul Push™ and will 4-0 the group destroying Roro who will destroy BBoongBBoong, who got one of those Losira fluke Ro32 wins.

Stephano was the weakest? He had better play than Nestea and Huk just to name 2. And he beat Hack pretty badly. I'm not trying to defend him; he definitely didn't deserve Ro16 (lost to so many stupid things he shouldn't have, couldn't close out games), but he certainly wasn't the second worst person in ther Ro32.

I agree with most of your choices though. Taeja might beat out Bomber and Innovation... Bomber might choke, and Innovation might feel nervous with the need to live up to last season. I could see Losira making it out over MC, or Curious, but both of them will probably feel nervous as neither has gotten to the Ro8 in a long time iirc.

Elite_

United States4259 Posts

February 02 2013 19:21 GMT

#973

So guys... Who remembers DRG vs. Bomber from IPL5? Group A match 1 best match.

PhoenixVoid

Canada32740 Posts

February 02 2013 19:41 GMT

#974

On February 03 2013 04:21 Elite_ wrote:
So guys... Who remembers DRG vs. Bomber from IPL5? Group A match 1 best match.

I hope we get more games like 2 and 3, those renewed my faith in TvZ.

StarVe

Germany13591 Posts

February 02 2013 19:47 GMT

#975

Told you someone would pick Curious early. MC is smart.

opterown

Australia54784 Posts

February 02 2013 19:56 GMT

#976

On February 02 2013 23:12 Epamynondas wrote:
So... whatever Terran comes out of group A will win code S? I'm okay with that.

UNLESS it's Bomber, in which case he'll chocke after being 4:0 up in the finals, i guess.

Or two of them go through well... I guess my point stands unless its Taeja and Innovation. If that happens they will both be eliminated next round because fuck that don't mess with my predictions.

if bomber goes up 4:0 in finals the only things he'd be choking on are tears of joy, lol

ChrysaliS_

United States261 Posts

February 02 2013 20:37 GMT

#977

Not necessarily. Life and Parting used to practice a lot together, and in GSL World Cup Life demonstrated that the only way Parting has a shot versus him is immortal all-in, and yet Parting only went 2-2 using this build. Perhaps what we don't know is that Life is actually very comfortable against Parting because he knows him so well and because of well, you know, zerg.