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Disarmed
Austria721 Posts
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Darkhorse
United States23455 Posts
On March 13 2015 04:14 y0su wrote: Yeah, but what other sports' don't have single elimination? I'm really a big fan of these single bracket tournaments! I think having a loser's bracket also takes the hype and intensity out of day 1 (as well as makes it a degree harder to follow). I have little to no sympathy for someone who feels it's hard to follow a double elimination tournament. Sure you can try to sell me on intensity of single elimination and I don't dispute that but my god what a terrible circumstance it is that your first round matchup can vary between the reigning GSL champ/world's best Terran and that guy who PvP'd out sOs at a Dreamhack two years ago by the margin of one two rax and that is YOUR ENTIRE TOURNAMENT. Doesn't matter if you are the best Zerg in the world, you got screwed by seeding and there is no way to recover. On March 13 2015 04:16 DarkLordOlli wrote: I don't, they qualified for this through other events they already got WCS points for I don't know if this matters but some of the players got 2014 WCS points for their IEMs and some of them got 2015 WCS points | ||
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Darkhorse
United States23455 Posts
You know you make a big stink about me being a jerk and here's you being confrontational | ||
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Big J
Austria16289 Posts
This discussion kind of reminds me about the "WCS Premier players cannot be considered good" thread... Life might be the best or one of the very best players in the world right now, but that doesn't mean tournaments should seed him into finals. If he loses he loses, plain as that. Time to focus on the other players left. Who is going to stop Winnovation? Maru or herO or some dark horse like Dark or | ||
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pure.Wasted
Canada4701 Posts
Kaelaris even pointed this out after the fight was over and he looked at the supply and he was like "I'll have to rewatch that game, something weird happened." If anyone's figured it out or rewatches the series and has a theory, please reply here or PM me, I'm super curious. | ||
Shellshock
United States97276 Posts
On March 13 2015 04:19 Big J wrote: Guys, give it a rest. People lose, even if they are really good. Especially if they play against very good players. This discussion kind of reminds me about the "WCS Premier players cannot be considered good" thread... Life might be the best or one of the very best players in the world right now, but that doesn't mean tournaments should seed him into finals. If he loses he loses, plain as that. Time to focus on the other players left. Who is going to stop Winnovation? Maru or herO or some dark horse like Dark or Clearly Fantasy came to play at this tournament. | ||
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The_Red_Viper
19533 Posts
On March 13 2015 04:19 Darkhorse wrote: You know you make a big stink about me being a jerk and here's you being confrontational I don't think i said you are a jerk. But i think i interpreted your comment here wrongly (that's why i already edited my reply  ) | ||
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Darkhorse
United States23455 Posts
On March 13 2015 04:21 Shellshock wrote: Clearly Fantasy came to play at this tournament. Finally. This is actually pretty exciting. | ||
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Makro
France16890 Posts
On March 13 2015 04:18 Disarmed wrote: holy fuck Cs:GO is popular....250k? Wow. nop 500k with the GO TV | ||
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SetGuitarsToKill
Canada28396 Posts
On March 13 2015 03:47 swag_bro wrote: Life throwing game after game after game. He could have easily won if he did not play so greedy and throw away so much of his army. Life is tiers ahead of Innovation in terms of skill, so it is Life's loss more than Innovation's win. Innovation is a very good player, but Life is just better. I am sure that Life is jet lagged and is focusing more on his GSL games than IEM. He can care less about IEM or NSL because GSL is the most prestigious tournament in SC2. If Life cared at all, like Taeja, he would have beaten Dream in NSL and Innovation now. No excuses, just the truth. Life lost to the time zones, not the player. User was temp banned for this post. RIP | ||
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Megafather
138 Posts
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KtJ
United States3514 Posts
noooooo | ||
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pure.Wasted
Canada4701 Posts
Unlikely. | ||
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The_Red_Viper
19533 Posts
On March 13 2015 04:19 Big J wrote: Guys, give it a rest. People lose, even if they are really good. Especially if they play against very good players. This discussion kind of reminds me about the "WCS Premier players cannot be considered good" thread... Life might be the best or one of the very best players in the world right now, but that doesn't mean tournaments should seed him into finals. If he loses he loses, plain as that. Time to focus on the other players left. Who is going to stop Winnovation? Maru or herO or some dark horse like Dark or They shouldn't "seed him into finals", but they should seed so we have a high chance of the 4 best players meeting in the semis. WCS points would be ideal if every player would actually play in the big ones. As i said before, i think tennis kinda works like that (not a big tennis follower, only grand slams), somebody else surely knows more about that | ||
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Disarmed
Austria721 Posts
500000 people watching? and im sure those aren't the finals yet? i had no idea...is this bigger than LoL? | ||
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Elentos
55555 Posts
On March 13 2015 04:19 pure.Wasted wrote: In g5, Life takes a huge engagement at his fourth. At the start of this engagement, Inno is maxed and banking over 1k minerals. Cut to the end of the fight, he's still sitting at 1k minerals and he's down like 30 supply despite the fight looking more or less even. If it were any other player, I'd just assume they failed to macro and be satisfied with that, but this is Innovation, forgetting to build Marines while he's attacking with Marines isn't really a thing that happens to him. Kaelaris even pointed this out after the fight was over and he looked at the supply and he was like "I'll have to rewatch that game, something weird happened." If anyone's figured it out or rewatches the series and has a theory, please reply here or PM me, I'm super curious. I rewatched the vod, he never stopped building marines during the fight, I would assume Life managed to resupply faster with a lot of larva but I'm not sure. | ||
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Penev
28503 Posts
On March 13 2015 04:25 The_Red_Viper wrote: They shouldn't "seed him into finals", but they should seed so we have a high chance of the 4 best players meeting in the semis. WCS points would be ideal if every player would actually play in the big ones. As i said before, i think tennis kinda works like that (not a big tennis follower, only grand slams), somebody else surely knows more about that Tennis works like that | ||
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Disarmed
Austria721 Posts
but how do you decide, if not by WCS points, who the top 4 are? | ||
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CruelZeratul
Germany4588 Posts
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Makro
France16890 Posts
On March 13 2015 04:26 Disarmed wrote: 500000 people watching? and im sure those aren't the finals yet? i had no idea...is this bigger than LoL? i don't know really, but counter strike has always been for a very long time the cutting edge of west esport, it is taking back his throne | ||
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