[DreamHack] Bucharest Day 1 Group Stages 2014 - Page 43

On April 27 2014 00:26 Waise wrote:

haha thanks :D it's only my bday in korea though i think (4/27)

i'm going to be 24, so i guess in korean years that's 83?

On April 27 2014 00:30 ejozl wrote:
GSL Format groups don't work so well in these early group stages. Say there are 1 Korean super player, 2 good European players and 1 totally unknown in the group. This is the case for a lot of them. The first match doesn't really decide anything, since the winner gets beaten by the strong korean and the other player gets a free win vs the total unknown.

no matter what the format is, some players are going to be luckier than others. i know a lot of people care a lot about formats, but i honestly don't. i think the players/fans should just approach any tournament with the mindset that if you want to succeed, just win games. if the other players don't want to face koreans, why did they bother qualifying for the tournament?

also, "free"(?) wins against unknowns in the early stages makes perfect sense to me, because that's usually how seeding works. strong players should play weak players in the earliest stages to avoid having shitty matchups in later stages or having two good players eliminate each other while one mediocre player advances over a bad player etc. no matter how you format it, luck will be involved. but the one constant is that to succeed, you must win. so win!