[MLG] Day 2 Winter Championship - Page 6

On March 16 2013 21:24 sc2holar wrote:

luckily that is not all! there will be some R16 too afaik.

On March 16 2013 21:28 Milvus wrote:
Creator vs. Polt is gonna be so sick!

It is only normal that the players with the best fundamentals are more likely to perfrom well quickly in a new game.
And when it comes to fundamentals there simply are more top players in korea.

Foreigners will catch up again to WoL levels at some time. In the mean time, enjo the games by the quality of play and not by the origin of players!

On March 16 2013 21:28 warmus wrote:


Yeye i know. Was just saying that the first half of the day will be a very one sided affair, much like yesterday

On March 16 2013 21:45 SoSexy wrote:
Can someone explain me the sense of having the vods on twitch for subscribers only while on the mlg sites they are for free??

On March 16 2013 21:33 sc2holar wrote:

but if you look at the schedule, what happened to R16? it seems like they are going straight from round 32 to round 8. i guess its a typo and is supposed to say R16?

On March 16 2013 21:54 nihlon wrote:

If you mean the schedule in the op it's clearly just mislabeled. It even says eight matches (obviously 16 players).

On March 16 2013 22:15 Qikz wrote:


Excellent. Hopefully Flash plays early because I'm not sure I could handle staying awake until 5AM again :p

On March 16 2013 22:39 Ryps wrote:
I hope this day games wont be so onesided, day 1 was awful not one good series. (unless you count koreans raping everything)

On March 16 2013 19:37 sc2holar wrote:
this tournament has great production value and all that but first off all i think they should have re-shuffled their cards and tried again instead of going with this R32 lineup. kinda sucks when all top tier protoss players have to play mirror matches against each others in the round of 32, ensuring that only half will make it to the second series, and that so many of my favourite foreigners had to face off against two or three time GSL champions in their first series.

This is probably the first MLG where i was legitimately wishing for a losers bracket with extended series. having a single elimination tournament right after a new expansion is released and players arent too familiar with all the new units and builds dont make much sense, since good players are likely to lose and get knocked out early because of some wierd timing builds they havent seen before. In a double elimination format you would be able to see these players adapt to that sort of jazz and have potential for some epic comebacks once a player finally figures out how to beat the build or unit composition that knocked him down in the first place.

TLDR: this is the first major hots tournament after HOTS release. players havent figured out the new units yet and there are tons of "cheap" timings out there that top tier players simply have not seen before. cut the players some slack, make it double elemination so we dont have to see fan favourites and top tier players get knocked out because of some new cute timing push that someone just invented. it would be much more fun and educating to watch if they got a second chance to come up with some answer and make an epic comeback against the odds of extended series. Also, mirror matches between some of the best players in the world is the last thing i want to see when a new expansion is out and everybody wants to see how the matchups and meta-game has changed.

On March 16 2013 22:52 nooboon wrote:
Last day ends with Flash vs Bly. This day starts with Mvp vs Feast.

On March 16 2013 22:52 nooboon wrote:
Last day ends with Flash vs Bly. This day starts with Mvp vs Feast.

On March 16 2013 23:16 Salient wrote:
Is the KESPA Hero very good? MC's PvP ranges from brilliant to just good depending on the day. It doesn't bode well for MC that his teammate and (probably) training partner lost a PvP 0-3.