good groups. A and B are awfully stacked, C a bit weaker and D looks to be very uneven (the Koreans should dominate). Still looking forward to all those ggs.

pvsnp

7676 Posts

February 28 2017 19:49 GMT

#772

Some pretty stacked groups all told. Group A looks the hardest though. Group B will be interesting, since TY is strong but the other two Terrans aren't as good as Stats or Neeb. C is weaksauce. Group D is gonna be the grave of foreigners. Dark and Inno gonna roflstomp so hard.

Guessing herO, TY, Zest, and Inno in first.

Elentos

55555 Posts

February 28 2017 19:49 GMT

#773

C was the weakest group from the start.

Oh boy we're in for a lot of mirrors this week.

[PkF] Wire

France24233 Posts

February 28 2017 19:51 GMT

#774

On March 01 2017 04:49 Elentos wrote:
C was the weakest group from the start.

Oh boy we're in for a lot of mirrors this week.

quite hard to avoid with round robin groups of 6 players
but yeah the B and C groups with their 3 mus better produce some good games and generate suspense, otherwise they'll become boring pretty fast

fezvez

France3021 Posts

February 28 2017 20:18 GMT

#775

Hey, my boi PiliPili can luck out in 3rd place! Woohoo, rejoice!

SidianTheBard

United States2474 Posts

February 28 2017 20:23 GMT

#776

Group A:

1) Byun
2) herO
3) Ryung
4) Snute
5) Solar
6) HeroMarine

Byun and hero ahead of Ryung?! Blasphemy! But nope, it's going to happen. This map pool is a lot different from the GSL map pool and I believe both Byun and hero play on it better. Snute will also be very close to beating Ryung for 3rd place but will probably lose out in the head to head. I do really want to place Snute at 3rd though but in this group it too hard to do. Sorry HeroMarine.

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Group B:

1)Stats
2)TY
3)Harstem
4)Alive
5)Jjakji
6)Neeb

The hell is this? Herstem...3rd? I believe! Stats and TY both won't lose to anyone else until Stats beats TY in their games. Harstem is looking stronger than Neeb currently and I think will out PvP him. This just leaves Harstem beating both Jjakji and Alive...do I sound crazy yet? Believe my brothers! Honestly, Alive will probably be 3rd in this group but I'll be rooting for Harstem to pull through. =)

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Group C:

1)Zest
2)Nerchio
3)True
4)Patience
5)Serral
6)Pilipili

Zest is best. Strong protoss that can out PvP and PvZ everybody in this group. Nerchio stands a good chance against Zest but in the end, Zest can get abusive which will get into Nerchio's head. Nerchio can out ZvZ both True & Serral and shouldn't have problem with Pilipili. Patience could out edge True but I think with the current map pool (and the correct map bans!) True should be able to beat Patience. Although I wouldn't be surprised to see Patience instead of True for 3rd.

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Group D:

1)Innovation
2)Dark
3)Mana
4)Gumiho
5)Showtime
6)Uthermal

I want to place somebody else at 1st, I really do...but I can't. Innovation is too good to bet against. I'm taking a calculated risk with Mana taking 3rd in this group. It will come down to him and Gumiho but I believe Mana can out edge Gumiho by the slightest of margins. Showtime, as much as he rocks, will unfortunately bomb out of this group. But at least he'll beat uThermal! <3

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Musicus

Germany23576 Posts

February 28 2017 20:32 GMT

#777

On March 01 2017 05:23 SidianTheBard wrote:
Group A:

1) Byun
2) herO
3) Ryung
4) Snute
5) Solar
6) HeroMarine

Byun and hero ahead of Ryung?! Blasphemy! But nope, it's going to happen. This map pool is a lot different from the GSL map pool and I believe both Byun and hero play on it better. Snute will also be very close to beating Ryung for 3rd place but will probably lose out in the head to head. I do really want to place Snute at 3rd though but in this group it too hard to do. Sorry HeroMarine.

Not bad, but you totally underestimate Showtime

.

Edit: And sadly overestimate Harstem, especially in this group full of Terrans. I feel bad for him.

Elentos

55555 Posts

February 28 2017 20:32 GMT

#778

My in depth, well presented and completely objective (

) thoughts on each group:

A:
+ Show Spoiler +

ByuN >

Solar

ByuN ≤

herO

ByuN >

HeRoMaRinE
(T)

ByuN ≥

Ryung

ByuN >

Snute

Solar <

herO

Solar >

HeRoMaRinE
(Z)

Solar ≤

Ryung

Solar ≥

Snute

herO >

HeRoMaRinE
(P)

herO >

herO >

HeRoMaRinE < (T)

HeRoMaRinE ≤ (Z)

Ryung ≤

Snute

ByuN and herO fight for 1st, fight for 3rd between Solar, Ryung and possibly Snute. Heromarine is kinda rekt here. Note: I'm not indicating exact results, just likelihood of winning.

B:
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Neeb <

Neeb ≤

Neeb ≤

Neeb >

Neeb ≤

TY >

TY ≥

TY >

TY >

aLive <

aLive >

aLive =

Stats >

Harstem

Stats >

jjakji

Harstem <

jjakji

If actual TY shows up, Stats is his only competitor for 1st place but he's still the favorite. If foreign tournament TY shows up, he's gonna have to fight for top 2. Still Stats and TY should be top 2. aLive looks to be the favorite for 3rd but he's not really been doing great at offline events so he could get upset. Harstem... Harstem never asked for this. He never asked for any of this.

C:
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Zest ≥

Zest >

Zest ≥

Zest ≥

Zest >

Serral <

Serral <

Serral ≤

Serral >

TRUE ≤

TRUE ≥

TRUE >

Patience ≥ (Z)

Patience > (P)

Nerchio >

PiLiPiLi

Zest is the favorite but shouldn't underestimate Patience and TRUE if he wants 1st place. Nerchio has a decent shot at advancing but needs to work on his ZvP confidence. Serral has to really, really show up if he wants to have a chance and PiLiPiLi seems fucked.

D:
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Dark >

ShoWTimE

Dark ≤

INnoVation
(Z)

Dark >

uThermal

Dark >

GuMiho

Dark >

MaNa

ShoWTimE < (T)

INnoVation
(P)

ShoWTimE ≥ (T)

ShoWTimE ≤ (T)

ShoWTimE > (P)

INnoVation > (T)

INnoVation > (T)

GuMiho

INnoVation > (P)

MaNa

uThermal < (T)

GuMiho

uThermal > (P)

MaNa

GuMiho >

MaNa

Inno and Dark are the obvious favorites, Dark beating Inno is probably the only way Inno doesn't get first. Could see a decent fight for 3rd between Gumi, Showtime and perhaps uThermal. But even with the home crowd advantage I don't see much hope for MaNa.

PS: Sidian's predictions are crazy