[WCS] IEM Katowice - Day 4

Musicus

Germany23580 Posts

March 04 2016 21:27 GMT

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Semi Finals
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Polt vs Nerchio

Snute vs Hydra

Grand Finals
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Polt vs Snute

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Polt <Lerilak Crest> (Z)

Nerchio
Polt <Central Protocol> (Z)

Nerchio
Polt <Prion Terraces> (Z)

Nerchio
~~Polt <> Nerchio~~
~~Polt <> Nerchio~~
Polt wins 3-0 & advances to Grand Finals!

(Z)

Snute <Prion Terraces> Hydra
Snute <Lerilak Crest> (Z)

Hydra
Snute <Dusk Towers> (Z)

Hydra
Snute <Ruins of Seras> (Z)

Hydra
~~Snute <> Hydra~~
Snute wins 3-1 & advances to Semi Final!

Grand Finals
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Polt <Lerilak Crest> Snute
Polt <Orbital Shipyard> (Z)

Snute
Polt <Prion Terraces> (Z)

Snute
Polt <Central Protocol> (Z)

Snute

Polt <Ulrena> Snute
Polt <Ruins of Seras> (Z)

Snute
~~Polt <> Snute~~

Polt wins 4-2 & is your IEM Katowice CHAMPION!

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Poll: Recommend Polt vs Nerchio Game 1?

★★★★ - Highly recommended game (17)

68%

★★★ - Good game (5)

20%

★★★★★ - One of the best games this season (3)

12%

★★ - Not recommended unless you have nothing better to do (0)

0%

★ - Do not see this game no matter what (0)

0%

25 total votes

Your vote: Recommend Polt vs Nerchio Game 1?

(Vote): ★★★★★ - One of the best games this season
(Vote): ★★★★ - Highly recommended game
(Vote): ★★★ - Good game
(Vote): ★★ - Not recommended unless you have nothing better to do
(Vote): ★ - Do not see this game no matter what

Poll: Recommend Polt vs Nerchio Game 2?

★★★★ - Highly recommended game (10)

53%

★★★ - Good game (6)

32%

★★★★★ - One of the best games this season (2)

11%

★★ - Not recommended unless you have nothing better to do (1)

5%

★ - Do not see this game no matter what (0)

0%

19 total votes

Your vote: Recommend Polt vs Nerchio Game 2?

Poll: Recommend Polt vs Nerchio Game 3?

★★★ - Good game (7)

54%

★★ - Not recommended unless you have nothing better to do (3)

23%

★★★★★ - One of the best games this season (2)

15%

★ - Do not see this game no matter what (1)

8%

★★★★ - Highly recommended game (0)

0%

13 total votes

Your vote: Recommend Polt vs Nerchio Game 3?

Poll: Recommend Polt vs Nerchio Game 4?

★★★★ - Highly recommended game (6)

67%

★ - Do not see this game no matter what (2)

22%

★★★★★ - One of the best games this season (1)

11%

★★★ - Good game (0)

0%

★★ - Not recommended unless you have nothing better to do (0)

0%

9 total votes

Your vote: Recommend Polt vs Nerchio Game 4?

Poll: Recommend Polt vs Nerchio Game 5?

★★★ - Good game (6)

75%

★★★★★ - One of the best games this season (1)

13%

★ - Do not see this game no matter what (1)

13%

★★★★ - Highly recommended game (0)

0%

★★ - Not recommended unless you have nothing better to do (0)

0%

8 total votes

Your vote: Recommend Polt vs Nerchio Game 5?

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Poll: Recommend Snute vs Hydra Game 1?

★★ - Not recommended unless you have nothing better to do (9)

82%

★★★ - Good game (1)

9%

★ - Do not see this game no matter what (1)

9%

★★★★★ - One of the best games this season (0)

0%

★★★★ - Highly recommended game (0)

0%

11 total votes

Your vote: Recommend Snute vs Hydra Game 1?

Poll: Recommend Snute vs Hydra Game 2?

★★★★ - Highly recommended game (11)

65%

★★★ - Good game (4)

24%

★★★★★ - One of the best games this season (1)

6%

★★ - Not recommended unless you have nothing better to do (1)

6%

★ - Do not see this game no matter what (0)

0%

17 total votes

Your vote: Recommend Snute vs Hydra Game 2?

Poll: Recommend Snute vs Hydra Game 3?

★★★★ - Highly recommended game (16)

64%

★★★★★ - One of the best games this season (6)

24%

★★★ - Good game (2)

8%

★★ - Not recommended unless you have nothing better to do (1)

4%

★ - Do not see this game no matter what (0)

0%

25 total votes

Your vote: Recommend Snute vs Hydra Game 3?

Poll: Recommend Snute vs Hydra Game 4?

★★★★ - Highly recommended game (13)

52%

★★★★★ - One of the best games this season (10)

40%

★★★ - Good game (2)

8%

★★ - Not recommended unless you have nothing better to do (0)

0%

★ - Do not see this game no matter what (0)

0%

25 total votes

Your vote: Recommend Snute vs Hydra Game 4?

Poll: Recommend Snute vs Hydra Game 5?

★★★★★ - One of the best games this season (8)

53%

★★★ - Good game (5)

33%

★★★★ - Highly recommended game (2)

13%

★★ - Not recommended unless you have nothing better to do (0)

0%

★ - Do not see this game no matter what (0)

0%

15 total votes

Your vote: Recommend Snute vs Hydra Game 5?

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Poll: Recommend Polt vs Snute Game 1?

★★★ - Good game (17)

55%

★★ - Not recommended unless you have nothing better to do (7)

23%

★★★★★ - One of the best games this season (3)

10%

★★★★ - Highly recommended game (3)

10%

★ - Do not see this game no matter what (1)

3%

31 total votes

Your vote: Recommend Polt vs Snute Game 1?

Poll: Recommend Polt vs Snute Game 2?

★★★ - Good game (11)

61%

★★★★ - Highly recommended game (4)

22%

★★ - Not recommended unless you have nothing better to do (2)

11%

★★★★★ - One of the best games this season (1)

6%

★ - Do not see this game no matter what (0)

0%

18 total votes

Your vote: Recommend Polt vs Snute Game 2?

Poll: Recommend Polt vs Snute Game 3?

★★ - Not recommended unless you have nothing better to do (9)

47%

★ - Do not see this game no matter what (5)

26%

★★★★ - Highly recommended game (3)

16%

★★★★★ - One of the best games this season (2)

11%

★★★ - Good game (0)

0%

19 total votes

Your vote: Recommend Polt vs Snute Game 3?

Poll: Recommend Polt vs Snute Game 4?

★★★★ - Highly recommended game (10)

33%

★ - Do not see this game no matter what (7)

23%

★★★ - Good game (5)

17%

★★ - Not recommended unless you have nothing better to do (5)

17%

★★★★★ - One of the best games this season (3)

10%

30 total votes

Your vote: Recommend Polt vs Snute Game 4?

Poll: Recommend Polt vs Snute Game 5?

★★★ - Good game (12)

60%

★★★★ - Highly recommended game (5)

25%

★★ - Not recommended unless you have nothing better to do (2)

10%

★★★★★ - One of the best games this season (1)

5%

★ - Do not see this game no matter what (0)

0%

20 total votes

Your vote: Recommend Polt vs Snute Game 5?

Poll: Recommend Polt vs Snute Game 6?

★★★★ - Highly recommended game (9)

39%

★★★★★ - One of the best games this season (7)

30%

★★★ - Good game (4)

17%

★★ - Not recommended unless you have nothing better to do (2)

9%

★ - Do not see this game no matter what (1)

4%

23 total votes

Your vote: Recommend Polt vs Snute Game 6?

Poll: Recommend Polt vs Snute Game 7?

★★★★★ - One of the best games this season (10)

59%

★ - Do not see this game no matter what (4)

24%

★★★★ - Highly recommended game (1)

6%

★★★ - Good game (1)

6%

★★ - Not recommended unless you have nothing better to do (1)

6%

17 total votes

Your vote: Recommend Polt vs Snute Game 7?

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Musicus

Germany23580 Posts

March 04 2016 21:27 GMT

Polt vs Nerchio

Poll: Head?

Polt (65)

67%

Nerchio (32)

33%

97 total votes

Your vote: Head?

(Vote): Polt
(Vote): Nerchio

Poll: Heart?

Polt (52)

58%

Nerchio (38)

42%

90 total votes

Your vote: Heart?

(Vote): Polt
(Vote): Nerchio

Snute vs Hydra

Poll: Head?

Snute (43)

51%

Hydra (41)

49%

84 total votes

Your vote: Head?

(Vote): Snute
(Vote): Hydra

Poll: Heart?

Snute (66)

79%

Hydra (18)

21%

84 total votes

Your vote: Heart?

(Vote): Snute
(Vote): Hydra

Poll: The winner of the WCS Winter Championship at IEM Katowice will be ...?

Polt! (50)

45%

Snute! (26)

23%

Nerchio! (22)

20%

Hydra! (13)

12%

111 total votes

Your vote: The winner of the WCS Winter Championship at IEM Katowice will be ...?

(Vote): Polt!
(Vote): Nerchio!
(Vote): Snute!
(Vote): Hydra!

Shellshock

United States97277 Posts

March 04 2016 21:28 GMT

wish Polt vs Nerchio was the final

Musicus

Germany23580 Posts

March 04 2016 21:31 GMT

On March 05 2016 06:28 Shellshock wrote:
wish Polt vs Nerchio was the final

Yeah, that would've been the dream.

magicallypuzzled

United States588 Posts

March 04 2016 21:32 GMT

polt would never get past hydra if he was on hydras side of the bracket I could see nerchio beating hydra though so I suppose it could of happened maybe.

Hider

Denmark9448 Posts

March 04 2016 21:51 GMT

Hydra-snute: 60-40. Hydra showed he could take out Elazer, and Snute usually losses to Elazer, so Hydra should be a clear favourite.

Polt-Nerchio: 50/55-50/45. Should be close.

ZigguratOfUr

Iraq16955 Posts

March 04 2016 22:21 GMT

On March 05 2016 06:51 Hider wrote:
Hydra-snute: 60-40. Hydra showed he could take out Elazer, and Snute usually losses to Elazer, so Hydra should be a clear favourite.

Polt-Nerchio: 50/55-50/45. Should be close.

As the Polt-MMA-Mvp triangle has shown us, player transitivity is such a good way to figure out favourites...

Hider

Denmark9448 Posts

March 04 2016 22:34 GMT

On March 05 2016 07:21 ZigguratOfUr wrote:

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As the Polt-MMA-Mvp triangle has shown us, player transitivity is such a good way to figure out favourites...

Meh, you take what information you can get to estimate who is the favourite. Hydra in general is ofc also a better player so that's the major factor.

xtorn

4067 Posts

March 04 2016 22:46 GMT

go snutie, go <3

Soularion

Canada2764 Posts

March 04 2016 22:51 GMT

#10

Hydra's shown way more mortality than I expected him to show, and Snute's been at the highest level he's been at in a WCS event.. pretty much ever, so I think Hydra vs Snute could actually be an upset. Still, Hydra is the favorite- he's the monster, he's the beast who everyone fears, and that reputation held up against Elazer. Hydra 3-2 Snute

Polt vs Nerchio is madness. They've both shown really strong games, they've both shown a general gap in terms of knowledge compared to their opponents, they're both big favorites to take the event- 50/50. I will say that Polt matches up well against Nerchio stylistically, but I have faith. This is the match of the tournament in my eyes. Nerchio 3-2 Polt

Snute vs Nerchio is the dream finals, Nerchio vs Hydra is the 'expected' finals (in my eyes), Polt vs Hydra is the expected finals (in the 'realistic' sense) and Polt vs Snute is just.. weird. I'd say Nerchio > Hydra > Polt > Snute in the finals, generally.

Hider

Denmark9448 Posts

March 04 2016 23:05 GMT

#11

Snute's been at the highest level he's been at in a WCS event.. pretty much ever

Dno, Snute has a fantastic TvZ and his victories against Masa and Major were fully expected. Violet isn't a great player, and I don't think we should emphasize his victory over Marinelord too much. Marinelord would probably win that bo5 7-8/10 times. So Snute beating Violet wasn't the biggest surprise ever. Point being that I don't think we can extrapolate that Marinelord < Violet < Snute.

Hydra on the other hand is a level above Violet and historically he is better than Snute and I think his recent form in ZvZ indicates that as well. If you look at Snute's ZvZ on the other hand, it's very unstable.

[PkF] Wire

France24239 Posts

March 04 2016 23:12 GMT

#12

Dream semifinals !

Polt 3-2 (Z)

Nerchio (I hope the series is excellent)
Hydra 3-1 (Z)

Snute

Polt 4-2 (Z)

Hydra

On March 05 2016 06:28 Shellshock wrote:
wish Polt vs Nerchio was the final

agree

Soularion

Canada2764 Posts

March 04 2016 23:44 GMT

#13

On March 05 2016 08:05 Hider wrote:

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I totally agree with your points! But this is still his highest placement, and one of his very best runs considering his general failures in the WCS systems. I think MajOr and MaSa, despite being hugely disadvantaged on paper, still showed up enough to bring the ZvT master out of Snute, and I thought his ZvZ win over viOLet was a very noteworthy success. Probably his best win in WCS ever, with the maybe exception of his 2-1 over jjakji in WCS Season 1 2014. This is his chance to shine in a WCS system that hasn't really brought much success to him, and if he's able to take Hydra down - big if - it'll be his first finals appearance (in a big tournament, not counting WEC) in almost three years. That's noteworthy.

Of course Nerchio's success is just as noteworthy, but as soon as he beat ShoWTimE the rest was more or less expected so it's less dramatic

IceBerrY

Germany220 Posts

March 04 2016 23:46 GMT

#14

On March 05 2016 08:12 [PkF] Wire wrote:
Dream semifinals !

Polt 3-2 (Z)

Nerchio (I hope the series is excellent)
Hydra 3-1 (Z)

Snute

Polt 4-2 (Z)

Hydra

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agree

Would go with the exact same stats. Little bit sad there is such a zerg domination, i still can´t apreciate
ZvZ, compared to the others.

stardog

556 Posts

March 04 2016 23:51 GMT

#15

On March 05 2016 07:51 Soularion wrote:
I will say that Polt matches up well against Nerchio stylistically, but I have faith. This is the match of the tournament in my eyes.

You're right, Nerchio seems to be very uncomfortable with the constant drops style, his record vs MMA shows that. But when you're in great shape, you can just brute force through your matches.

Polt's advantage is in mentality, he's one of those guys who always deliver on a big stage. If it was an online cup, even on NA server, I would bet on Nerchio but tomorrow Polt is the favourite.

StreaK

Canada580 Posts

March 05 2016 01:05 GMT

#16

korea owning it again

ZerOCoolSC2

9066 Posts

March 05 2016 06:11 GMT

#17

I hope Snute channels his inner Life and pulls off some of the best ZvT vs Polt in the finals and takes the whole thing. I've never met the guy, but I hope he does make it to the finals since he seems like such a nice and likable person.

But my head says Polt vs Hydra and Polt winning 4-1 before he rides off into the sunset.

OtherWorld

France17333 Posts

March 05 2016 07:43 GMT

#18

SIGBET ENTHUSIASTS, THIS IS FOR YOU

I'm willing to take up to 3 sigbets for the Nerchio v Polt series. If :

Nerchio wins 3-0 : I own the entirety of your sig for 3 months
Nerchio wins 3-1 : I own the entirety of your sig for 2 months
Nerchio wins 3-2 : I own the entirety of your sig for 1 month
Polt wins 3-2 : you own the entirety of my sig for 1 month
Polt wins 3-1 : you own the entirety of my sig for 2 months
Polt wins 3-0 : you own the entirety of my sig for 3 months

In addition to these terms, the following rules applies : should the series end on any other score, then the bet is void and null ; should any proven case of matchfixing, cheating, treachery, etc, affect any of the games of this event (IEM Katowice), then the bet is void and null.
Of course, if I lose and there"s more than one people having bet with me, you'll have to wait to get your turn at controlling my sig.