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On September 12 2016 06:34 Diabolique wrote: 2. Snute - he is strong mentally and has great skill, so unless he has to play against TY, he should play excellent series against Koreans and could get to RO8. What if ByuN?
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On September 12 2016 06:35 FueledUpAndReadyToGo wrote: Nooo is Uthermal blizzcon dream dead now?
yes unless he wins kespa cup, against the best Koreans
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On September 12 2016 06:35 FueledUpAndReadyToGo wrote: Nooo is Uthermal blizzcon dream dead now? All the Blizzcon dreams still live thanks to K E S P A
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On September 12 2016 06:35 FueledUpAndReadyToGo wrote: Nooo is Uthermal blizzcon dream dead now?
If he qualifies for KeSPa Cup and gets out of his group he still can qualify for Blizzcon I think, or he'd maybe have to win the ro8 match too.
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On September 12 2016 06:36 Corwinus wrote:Show nested quote +On September 12 2016 06:35 FueledUpAndReadyToGo wrote: Nooo is Uthermal blizzcon dream dead now? If he qualifies for KeSPa Cup and gets out of his group he still can qualify for Blizzcon I think, or he'd maybe have to win the ro8 match too. As long as PtitDrogo, Elazer and viOlet don't also get into KeSPA Cup all thermy has to do is qualify, he's like 80 points behind 8th place.
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third place bo5, they really wanna kill the hype
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On September 12 2016 06:38 The_Red_Viper wrote: third place bo5, they really wanna kill the hype It's nice they give Snute extra time to rest. Also if they show their intro enough times the meta might change and ravager/ling/bane might get figured out before the finals start.
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On September 12 2016 06:36 Fango wrote:Show nested quote +On September 12 2016 06:35 FueledUpAndReadyToGo wrote: Nooo is Uthermal blizzcon dream dead now? yes unless he wins kespa cup, against the best Koreans
On September 12 2016 06:37 Elentos wrote:Show nested quote +On September 12 2016 06:36 Corwinus wrote:On September 12 2016 06:35 FueledUpAndReadyToGo wrote: Nooo is Uthermal blizzcon dream dead now? If he qualifies for KeSPa Cup and gets out of his group he still can qualify for Blizzcon I think, or he'd maybe have to win the ro8 match too. As long as PtitDrogo, Elazer and viOlet don't also get into KeSPA Cup all thermy has to do is qualify, he's like 80 points behind 8th place. Hmm to Korea we go then
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On September 12 2016 06:34 Diabolique wrote: From all the non Korean foreigners, we will see to fight at BlizzCon against the Koreans:
1. Neeb - I think, he is the best. He has the best skill, if he doesn't have some mental block, he should be able to play good series against Koreans and maybe get to the RO8. 2. Snute - he is strong mentally and has great skill, so unless he has to play against TY, he should play excellent series against Koreans and could get to RO8. 3. ShowTime - he is great, he can beat every other foreigner or koreigner, but I think, he is not mentally strong enough to play against Koreans. He would get destroyed. 4. Nerchio - good skill, good mental strength, but he put himself into a very difficult spot by trashtalking about the Koreans, so he will be quite under some pressure and he will break under this pressure and be destroyed by Koreans.
Historically Koreans view foreigners as so bad they don't even prepare for them. I remember Life vs Lilbow at blizzcon last year. Life was saying he didn't even prepare for Lilbow because he's a foreigner, still beat him 3-0 in around 20 minutes (to win 3 games in 20mins in HoTS is ridiculous).
Soooo, this means there is a chance if Koreans disregard Nerchio etc and don't prepare. But it's unlikely given the players have nothing else to practice for other than Blizzcon. I think Koreans respect Neeb as they play him on ladder, as well as Polt and True. But idk about others.
Edit: I know some fans be waiting to see Nerchio lose his group 4-0 after his trashtalking of a few Korean players.
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On September 12 2016 06:41 Fango wrote:Show nested quote +On September 12 2016 06:34 Diabolique wrote: From all the non Korean foreigners, we will see to fight at BlizzCon against the Koreans:
1. Neeb - I think, he is the best. He has the best skill, if he doesn't have some mental block, he should be able to play good series against Koreans and maybe get to the RO8. 2. Snute - he is strong mentally and has great skill, so unless he has to play against TY, he should play excellent series against Koreans and could get to RO8. 3. ShowTime - he is great, he can beat every other foreigner or koreigner, but I think, he is not mentally strong enough to play against Koreans. He would get destroyed. 4. Nerchio - good skill, good mental strength, but he put himself into a very difficult spot by trashtalking about the Koreans, so he will be quite under some pressure and he will break under this pressure and be destroyed by Koreans. Historically Koreans view foreigners as so bad they don't even prepare for them. I remember Life vs Lilbow at blizzcon last year. Life was saying he didn't even prepare for Lilbow because he's a foreigner, still beat him 3-0 in around 20 minutes (to win 3 games in 20mins in HoTS is ridiculous). Soooo, this means there is a chance if Koreans disregard Nerchio etc and don't prepare. But it's unlikely given the players have nothing else to practice for other than Blizzcon. I think Koreans respect Neeb as they play him on ladder, as well as Polt and True. But idk about others. Life clearly prepared though, he build order killed Lilbow exactly. Besides that, Nerchio, Snute and ShoWTimE will generally just go standard and Neeb plays on KR ladder so he is the easiest to prepare for.
Also Life was Life.
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this is like swagbro talking to swagbro
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On September 12 2016 06:43 Ej_ wrote: this is like swagbro talking to swagbro Swag_bro should have made an alt account with a super inconspicuous name. Like swa_gbro.
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Everything fell apart for uThermal real fast there.
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On September 12 2016 06:36 Elentos wrote:Show nested quote +On September 12 2016 06:34 Diabolique wrote: 2. Snute - he is strong mentally and has great skill, so unless he has to play against TY, he should play excellent series against Koreans and could get to RO8. What if ByuN? Hard to say ... but he lost to TY after he has beaten the GSL and SSL champions and we all hoped for his victory at IEM ...
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Why are third place matches still a thing
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On September 12 2016 06:42 Elentos wrote:Show nested quote +On September 12 2016 06:41 Fango wrote:On September 12 2016 06:34 Diabolique wrote: From all the non Korean foreigners, we will see to fight at BlizzCon against the Koreans:
1. Neeb - I think, he is the best. He has the best skill, if he doesn't have some mental block, he should be able to play good series against Koreans and maybe get to the RO8. 2. Snute - he is strong mentally and has great skill, so unless he has to play against TY, he should play excellent series against Koreans and could get to RO8. 3. ShowTime - he is great, he can beat every other foreigner or koreigner, but I think, he is not mentally strong enough to play against Koreans. He would get destroyed. 4. Nerchio - good skill, good mental strength, but he put himself into a very difficult spot by trashtalking about the Koreans, so he will be quite under some pressure and he will break under this pressure and be destroyed by Koreans. Historically Koreans view foreigners as so bad they don't even prepare for them. I remember Life vs Lilbow at blizzcon last year. Life was saying he didn't even prepare for Lilbow because he's a foreigner, still beat him 3-0 in around 20 minutes (to win 3 games in 20mins in HoTS is ridiculous). Soooo, this means there is a chance if Koreans disregard Nerchio etc and don't prepare. But it's unlikely given the players have nothing else to practice for other than Blizzcon. I think Koreans respect Neeb as they play him on ladder, as well as Polt and True. But idk about others. Life clearly prepared though, he build order killed Lilbow exactly. Besides that, Nerchio, Snute and ShoWTimE will generally just go standard and Neeb plays on KR ladder so he is the easiest to prepare for.
Life ling rushed him every game, that's Life's most standard play so I doubt he prepared anything specific. He probably just thought "this guy is foreign i'll just cheese him and get easy wins".
It's usual for players like Maru, Life, Zest etc to just cheese players that aren't as good as them because they know they'll win. That's my fear for Blizzcon, I can imagine Zest being too ego and just cheesing every match.
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no vikings against colli uh...
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On September 12 2016 06:45 FueledUpAndReadyToGo wrote:Why are third place matches still a thing  It's to boost the Dutch egos.
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On September 12 2016 06:46 Elentos wrote:Show nested quote +On September 12 2016 06:45 FueledUpAndReadyToGo wrote:Why are third place matches still a thing  It's to boost the Dutch egos. Copa doing their best MLG impression
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defending is easier than attacking
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