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We will see how good Nice and Reynor are before NW 
Gogo Maru and TIME
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Will reynor live up to his hype?
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France12912 Posts
Maru and Elazer should take this easily but I feel there will be an upset in that group
Reynor should beat pucK for sure
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I love that Lowko is one of the casters. Nice job on Day 1!
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On March 14 2018 05:18 Fango wrote:
Will reynor live up to his hype?
All he has to do is beat puCK to make it to the next stage. That's doable, especially with the state of ZvP. Assuming he makes it through, Group Stage 2 is where we'll really see where he stands. I'm not sure he's one of the 8 best players, but there are groups I think he could get out of.
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hopefully today's groups are more interesting than yesterday, the Bly Nerchio series was hilarious yesterday
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Gogo Semper & Maru 
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On March 14 2018 05:36 Poopi wrote:
Maru and Elazer should take this easily but I feel there will be an upset in that group
Reynor should beat pucK for sure
Elazer's ZvT is not very good so honestly I doubt he's favoured against Time. Maru is a sure bet obviously, and then honestly Time/Elazer is very 50/50.
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I put the O/U on this series at 10 minutes.
edit:
10 minutes play time. Not technical issue time.
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On March 14 2018 12:28 D-light wrote:
Nice effort by Nice.
His chasing those roaches rather than pouncing on the natural wasn't a nice play.
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For all the production issues, the highlight reel is pretty good
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Dark looked like he didn't care going into that series and it showed in his play. He'd never bring that level of effort against Neeb, ShoWTimE, or Classic, but if he somehow did, he'd lose and lose badly.
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Canada8989 Posts
Having a chinese add of a chinese tourist in a canoe with a native ameran with feathers and war painting is probably what the fall of the american empire looks like lol
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Elazer's ZvT is not very good so honestly I doubt he's favoured against Time. Maru is a sure bet obviously, and then honestly Time/Elazer is very 50/50.
This did not look even remotely close. 2:0 which made an impression of 10:0 Elazer is 2 levels above Time
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On March 14 2018 13:56 Carminedust wrote:
Its TIME FOR TIME !!!!
TIME to die.
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Semper - Elazer 2-1
Hmmmmmm...
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dark lost a game to a foreigner?
brought shame to family
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On March 14 2018 14:29 D-light wrote:
Semper - Elazer 2-1
Hmmmmmm...
i <3 Semper. He's Super Duper GOod
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On March 14 2018 14:29 D-light wrote:
Semper - Elazer 2-1
Hmmmmmm...
semper is really good. just a low radar player thats underestimated
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On March 14 2018 14:46 Obamarauder wrote:semper is really good. just a low radar player thats underestimated
with a hardcore girlfirend who's underself
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Only 2 drones on one of the gasses in the main for Dark.
Absolute garbage.
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Dark mass overseers...
hmm
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What the heck you doing, Dark.
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Mass contaminate really doesn't sound worth it especially when there's no engagements going on and uThermal's almost maxed, making it so it wouldn't even matter if you froze all his production for two minutes.
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Uthermal could have won if he transitioned to ravens fter he killed the fourth the first time
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On March 14 2018 15:08 AUGcodon wrote:
Uthermal could have won if he transitioned to ravens fter he killed the fourth the first time
Yeah. Or ghosts. But instead he's trying to show us how to counter brood lords with siege tanks and hellions.
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On March 14 2018 15:08 AUGcodon wrote:
Uthermal could have won if he transitioned to ravens fter he killed the fourth the first time
He was already so greedy. Building ravens would've simply been too unfair.
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United States33597 Posts
uthermal playing the long-con cuz he knows balance team is watching 
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On March 14 2018 15:13 Waxangel wrote:uthermal playing the long-con cuz he knows balance team is watching
didnt make ravens tho
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On March 14 2018 15:11 ZigguratOfUr wrote:Show nested quote +On March 14 2018 15:08 AUGcodon wrote:
Uthermal could have won if he transitioned to ravens fter he killed the fourth the first time Yeah. Or ghosts. But instead he's trying to show us how to counter brood lords with siege tanks and hellions.
Maybe the overseers messed him up.
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Is...is Dark gonna lose..?
edit: No. The world still makes sense
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Way to throw the game, Elazer
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On March 14 2018 15:56 Durnuu wrote:
Way to throw the game, Elazer
Just another day at the office for Elazer
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Man, Elazer ZvT is so terrible:D But I hope he will get back to shape soon
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France12912 Posts
I predicted correctly the Elazer - Semper upset nice
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So are the tie breakers calculated with map score first or h2h?
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On March 14 2018 17:09 FrkFrJss wrote:
So are the tie breakers calculated with map score first or h2h?
Two player ties are h2h, three player ties are map score
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On March 14 2018 17:11 Fango wrote:Show nested quote +On March 14 2018 17:09 FrkFrJss wrote:
So are the tie breakers calculated with map score first or h2h? Two player ties are h2h, three player ties are map score
Has WESG announced whether Elazer or Semper got through?
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On March 14 2018 17:48 FrkFrJss wrote:Show nested quote +On March 14 2018 17:11 Fango wrote:On March 14 2018 17:09 FrkFrJss wrote:
So are the tie breakers calculated with map score first or h2h? Two player ties are h2h, three player ties are map score Has WESG announced whether Elazer or Semper got through?
Not sure, but based on the rules it would be Elazer. He had the better map score and TIME and Semper
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Does Wesg have a youtube channel(i couldnt find any with starcraft2) or only twitch?
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On March 14 2018 18:44 kajtarp wrote:
Does Wesg have a youtube channel(i couldnt find any with starcraft2) or only twitch?
They have vods in youtube. Here's the youtube playlist for the group stage. They also make a good job adding vods in Twitch highlights as matches are there right after they finish.
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On March 14 2018 17:55 Fango wrote:Show nested quote +On March 14 2018 17:48 FrkFrJss wrote:On March 14 2018 17:11 Fango wrote:On March 14 2018 17:09 FrkFrJss wrote:
So are the tie breakers calculated with map score first or h2h? Two player ties are h2h, three player ties are map score Has WESG announced whether Elazer or Semper got through? Not sure, but based on the rules it would be Elazer. He had the better map score and TIME and Semper
Right, I forgot about TIME. it's unfortunate. Semper was one map win away.
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On March 14 2018 18:31 Heartland wrote:
Kevin looks a bit sick
It would be news if he actually didn't.
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On March 14 2018 18:31 Heartland wrote:
Kevin looks a bit sick
He got sick after I told him that Zerg is the hardest race
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Pretty neat 2nd game in Reynor vs puck.
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How do they select the groups?
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I suppose it is a random draw with two 1st place finishers and two 2nd place finishers in each group, while the group can not contain players originating from the same old group.
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When will they announce the groups?
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That is a very concrete answer!
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On March 14 2018 21:57 rapidtransit247 wrote:
SoonTM
In the next 13 hours and 50 mins hopefully.
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Taking this long to rig the groups is strange. Is it random draw or based of some sort of seeding from previous events?
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On March 14 2018 22:42 Fango wrote:
Taking this long to rig the groups is strange. Is it random draw or based of some sort of seeding from previous events?
They are probably letting iAsonu choose his group.
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SCarlett maru showtime me
never lucky
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On March 14 2018 22:42 Fango wrote:
Taking this long to rig the groups is strange. Is it random draw or based of some sort of seeding from previous events?
When you have to decide which two Koreans should be in the same group.
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On March 14 2018 22:47 Nerchio wrote:
SCarlett maru showtime me
never lucky
Just be luckier next time.
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On March 14 2018 22:47 Nerchio wrote:
SCarlett maru showtime me
never lucky
Among the players who finished first Scarlett is probably one of the best you could get (Neeb, Serral, or the 3 KR players are not guys you wanted there), but among the players who finished second Showtime is the worst player you could get, so not that lucky, even though you got Scarlett there.
If Scarlett wins Showtime, and all of you lose to Maru, then it can be a 1-2 draw for the three of you, and then the map score can play a significant role.
Though I hope one of you will beat Maru.
Showtime wasn't at his beast yesterday, so perhaps you can do it. You did it in Barcelona...
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On March 14 2018 23:02 bulya wrote:Among the players who finished first Scarlett is probably one of the best you could get (Neeb, Serral, or the 3 KR players are not guys you wanted there), but among the players who finished second Showtime is the worst player you could get, so not that lucky, even though you got Scarlett there. If Scarlett wins Showtime, and all of you lose to Maru, then it can be a 1-2 draw for the three of you, and then the map score can play a significant role. Though I hope one of you will beat Maru. Showtime wasn't at his beast yesterday, so perhaps you can do it. You did it in Barcelona...
Showtime is the strongest 2nd for sure, Maru the strongest 1st and could be Dark/Classic but still group of death again 
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On March 14 2018 22:47 Nerchio wrote:
SCarlett maru showtime me
never lucky
Ouch. Real group of death there. I'd still favour you over scarlett and showtime to get out in second though. At least if you do you can't face Maru until the final (?)
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Is there a link to the groups? Liquipedia is not up to date :|
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Why does Serral get the easiest group in every tournament? lol
Group C is definitely the GOD, only group where all four players have potential to go very far imo.
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Thanks for this.
So we have our most probably quarter finalist in:
Dark
Special
Classic
Neeb
Maru
Scarlett
Serral
Elazer
After the group stages, wonder if they draw the players again or not. Also, in RO8 I guess besides Maru, the other 2 koreans are beatable from some foreigners, Dark can be beaten by Elazer, Neeb, Serral, Scarlett.
Classic can also lose to some zergs if he is sitll off because of the finals against Rogue.
Anyhow, I`m hopping for a KR vs NKR final, but also for good matches, may the best player win.
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On March 14 2018 23:16 Fango wrote:
Why does Serral get the easiest group in every tournament? lol
Group C is definitely the GOD, only group where all four players have potential to go very far imo.
It's weird that his group luck went 180 at some point.
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On March 14 2018 23:21 jarodtou wrote:Also, in RO8 I guess besides Maru, the other 2 koreans are beatable from some foreigners, Dark can be beaten by Elazer, Neeb, Serral, Scarlett. Classic can also lose to some zergs if he is sitll off because of the finals against Rogue.
It's a shame Dark lost his status as the #1 foreigner killer. He had a 35 series winstreak or something crazy before Elazer last year.
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group C is really tough to predict, cheering for godchio of course!
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group c will be fun to watch
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It'll be interesting to see which Korean gets the easy path to the finals. Though, that being said, Dark might be beatable in ZvZ, and his series vs Trap wasn't exactly convincing.
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On March 14 2018 22:45 Boggyb wrote:Show nested quote +On March 14 2018 22:42 Fango wrote:
Taking this long to rig the groups is strange. Is it random draw or based of some sort of seeding from previous events? They are probably letting iAsonu choose his group.
seems like they thought otherwise...
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On March 14 2018 22:45 Boggyb wrote:Show nested quote +On March 14 2018 22:42 Fango wrote:
Taking this long to rig the groups is strange. Is it random draw or based of some sort of seeding from previous events? They are probably letting iAsonu choose his group.
Actually my apologies, none of the groups look easy at this stage. IAsonu chose to retire at the beginning of the year and him being the only one to go this far is a actually quite sad thing for the Chinese sc2 community.
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On March 15 2018 00:11 busyghost wrote:Show nested quote +On March 14 2018 22:45 Boggyb wrote:On March 14 2018 22:42 Fango wrote:
Taking this long to rig the groups is strange. Is it random draw or based of some sort of seeding from previous events? They are probably letting iAsonu choose his group. Actually my apologies, none of the groups look easy at this stage. IAsonu chose to retire at the beginning of the year and him being the only one to go this far is a actually quite sad thing for the Chinese sc2 community.
iAsonu group is just one-sided, Dark and Special with almost effortlessly advanced
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On March 15 2018 00:11 busyghost wrote:Show nested quote +On March 14 2018 22:45 Boggyb wrote:On March 14 2018 22:42 Fango wrote:
Taking this long to rig the groups is strange. Is it random draw or based of some sort of seeding from previous events? They are probably letting iAsonu choose his group. Actually my apologies, none of the groups look easy at this stage. IAsonu chose to retire at the beginning of the year and him being the only one to go this far is a actually quite sad thing for the Chinese sc2 community.
Too bad about TIME, he always looks good but can never pull through at the important moments. iAsonu's group was also very easy.
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