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TaKe's Penthouse Party 4 is an online/offline event held on October 5-7, 2018 in Krefeld, Germany. Much is yet to be announced but in essence, 32 players will participate with most playing online while a few players will join NarutO, TaKe, RotterdaM and Wardi in the TaKeTV studio to play their matches. The party is sponsored by Sennheiser, MAXNOMIC and Twitch.
The event was announced on September 19 in TaKeTV Facebook. I did not see a topic yet so here it is. I'll update the info once it's available.
Info
- Time: Oct 5--7, 2018
- Place: Online / Offline
 Krefeld
- Players: 32
- Prizes: $4350
- Format: 2 Group Stages + Double Elimination
- Streams: English & others
- Liquipedia: TaKe's Penthouse Party 4
- Official results: TBA
Prizes
$4350 with distribution detailed below:
1. $1600
2. $900
3. $500
4. $400
5-6. $300
7-8. $175 Players
Streams
Schedule
Each tournament day starts around 11:00 GMT (+00:00) and ends roughly at midnight.
Event is played on Fri-Sun, October 5-7, 2018.
Groups & Playoffs
Links
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Italy3419 Posts
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Oh, created yesterday already. Thanks! 
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I'm probably asking a stupid question but what's the practical difference between this, and a HomeStory Cup? The prize pool size? I'm sure it'll be sweet though so I'm tuning in.
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Italy3419 Posts
...prize pool and only a few players a physically there, the others play online...
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Thanks, I guess I should learn to read announcements. But I typically don't with TaKeTV stuff since I'm gonna watch it without worrying about details.
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I think the language of the main stream is also going to be german.
I'm looking forward to it, these are always fun and I hope Bunny and Solar being in points towards them being at HSC aswell!
€: actually since it says Wardii and Rotterdam are gonna be there maybe there's gonna be an english main stream?
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Italy3419 Posts
Serral confirmed and yay Reynor!!!
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On September 25 2018 22:59 DBooN wrote:
I think the language of the main stream is also going to be german.
I'm looking forward to it, these are always fun and I hope Bunny and Solar being in points towards them being at HSC aswell!
€: actually since it says Wardii and Rotterdam are gonna be there maybe there's gonna be an english main stream?
I believe Wardi mentioned on his stream that the main stream would be in English.
The initial announcement on Facebook seems to confirm this:
RotterdaM08 and Wardi TV will cast this Penthouse Party together with Dennis Gehlen and Silvano 'NarutO' Bovo on our twitch channel:
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Wow, that is 4 beastly players right there
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I watched the previous ones on the main channel and i can't remember if they casted in english or german, languages melt together in my brain when watching sc2 :D
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On September 26 2018 06:15 MrWayne wrote:
I watched the previous ones on the main channel and i can't remember if they casted in english or german, languages melt together in my brain when watching sc2 :D
It used to be in German, this one will be in English
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On September 26 2018 06:44 WardiTV wrote:Show nested quote +On September 26 2018 06:15 MrWayne wrote:
I watched the previous ones on the main channel and i can't remember if they casted in english or german, languages melt together in my brain when watching sc2 :D It used to be in German, this one will be in English
Great news, I imagined it would be the case when they talked about it during the last HSC.
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btw, Inno and more join the fun!
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Innovation, nice. I wonder which players will be there, since there should be huge lags for some players considering where they are from.
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I wouldn’t be too shocked if the Koreans got flown to Krefeld.
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On September 27 2018 05:46 Duceman wrote:
I wouldn’t be too shocked if the Koreans got flown to Krefeld.
I would, considering the prize pool.
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More players announced: Neeb, MCanning, Lambo, Zanster.
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Any news for the last eight players?
Looking forward to this Friday already.
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INnoVation cancelled, but GuMiho is taking his place so all is well.
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Got an update that Serral is not playing either. No info regarding the replacement.
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Groups: https://challonge.com/TPP4live
We are starting like following:
Group A: Lambo vs Gerald | Bly vs PtitDrogo
Group B: uThermal vs Kas | Zanster vs Shadown
all of those games will be at the same time. We decided to do match 1 & 2 of the groups at the same time. Following will be winners match > elimination match > decider match.
Groups: https://challonge.com/TPP4live
Plan is to do: A/B > C/D > E/F and G/H will either start at 8PM or a bit earlier depending on how quick we are.
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Thanks for the update, NarutO. At which time will you start each day? Same as last time, around 10:00 GMT (+00:00)?
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On October 04 2018 19:57 Azhrak wrote:
Got an update that Serral is not playing either. No info regarding the replacement.
That's super sad but I'm glad at the same time. Dude should better prepare for Blizzcon.
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Starting in ~1 hour, 11:00 GMT (+00:00).
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I hope Shiek advances alongside Bunny, since I might not have time to watch their matches today!
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Looks like I somehow submitted  Zanster vs  ShoWTimE on the event calendar, while it actually was ShaDoWn who played. Well, at least the event is on the calendar.
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Got home 2 hours early today and Penthouse Party is live, what great start to the weekend!
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No english stream? 
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On October 05 2018 23:34 Harris1st wrote:No english stream?
The TaKeTV stream is the English stream.
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Rotti being a big man defending EonBlu. Clearly the peoples' champ.
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Canada8989 Posts
On October 06 2018 00:03 intotheheart wrote:
Rotti being a big man defending EonBlu. Clearly the peoples' champ.
Didn't EonBlu use to do funday monday back in the day?
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I don't remember that far back, goes to show the depth of my passion.
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EonBlu used to do Funday Mondays.
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Canada8989 Posts
On October 06 2018 00:11 intotheheart wrote:
I don't remember that far back, goes to show the depth of my passion.
I'm somewhat terrified that I can remember that honestly
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On October 04 2018 22:46 HolydaKing wrote:Show nested quote +On October 04 2018 19:57 Azhrak wrote:
Got an update that Serral is not playing either. No info regarding the replacement. That's super sad but I'm glad at the same time. Dude should better prepare for Blizzcon.
Good guy Serral wants to let someone else win for once.
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Gumiho sending the reapers across the map while getting proxied into loss...
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Man, Group Stage 2 will be very competitive.
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On October 06 2018 00:10 Nakajin wrote:Show nested quote +On October 06 2018 00:03 intotheheart wrote:
Rotti being a big man defending EonBlu. Clearly the peoples' champ. Didn't EonBlu use to do funday monday back in the day?
Day9 did funday monday
Where is he at btw? Long time no hear
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I hope you guys enjoy the event. Please let us know problems you experience and we will try to better the experience
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This has a pretty great lineup but man, it feels like it came out of nowhere and there was no hype built up for it. Maybe it was just me not paying attention though
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Hm, Neeb was too confident I guess.
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Yeah, no way Neeb can advance from his BC group stage if he can't beat Bunny LUL
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Main stream is in English this time around, but it's listed as German on here. Could anybody fix that maybe?
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Wow, Nerchio is out already.
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Germany339 Posts
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Group A and D look very interesting. Prediction:
A: Reynor, Lambo
B: Gumiho, Solar
C: Bunny, uThermal
D: Neeb, HeroMarine
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On October 06 2018 03:05 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
This has a pretty great lineup but man, it feels like it came out of nowhere and there was no hype built up for it. Maybe it was just me not paying attention though
What more can you do? Nobody upvotes tournament posts on r/starcraft - there was already a TL thread, TakeTV announced players a few at a time via Twitter, me and Rotti talked about it while streaming.
The only thing that wasn't done I think was perhaps TL Calendar. Barely any online SC2 events find themselves with enough "presence" anymore.
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On October 06 2018 08:29 Wardi wrote:Show nested quote +On October 06 2018 03:05 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
This has a pretty great lineup but man, it feels like it came out of nowhere and there was no hype built up for it. Maybe it was just me not paying attention though What more can you do? Nobody upvotes tournament posts on r/starcraft - there was already a TL thread, TakeTV announced players a few at a time via Twitter, me and Rotti talked about it while streaming. The only thing that wasn't done I think was perhaps TL Calendar. Barely any online SC2 events find themselves with enough "presence" anymore.
I'm not so sure about that. I enjoy watching Olimoleague and BTSL. What surprises me is more people don't watch Ballistix Brawl even though it airs every week when the season happens. I think people just moved onto other games now when it's not GSL or WCS or big LAN events. Maybe I'm burnt out with SC2 but I really enjoy watching CS:GO and LoL right now.
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On October 06 2018 08:29 Wardi wrote:Show nested quote +On October 06 2018 03:05 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
This has a pretty great lineup but man, it feels like it came out of nowhere and there was no hype built up for it. Maybe it was just me not paying attention though What more can you do? Nobody upvotes tournament posts on r/starcraft - there was already a TL thread, TakeTV announced players a few at a time via Twitter, me and Rotti talked about it while streaming. The only thing that wasn't done I think was perhaps TL Calendar. Barely any online SC2 events find themselves with enough "presence" anymore.
I heard about it from the TeamLiquid thread (don't use Twitter). Adding it to the TL calendar would help for quickly checking when it starts. I forgot when it started but tuned in when I saw the TakeTV channel I follow was live with Rotti and yourself in the preview.
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I'm not sure who or how TL calendar and Liquipedia are updated but I'm surprised that I cannot find this pretty stacked tournament in the calendar section for today & no recent results of the group stage. Am i missing something?
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On October 06 2018 15:40 Rojam wrote:
I'm not sure who or how TL calendar and Liquipedia are updated but I'm surprised that I cannot find this pretty stacked tournament in the calendar section for today & no recent results of the group stage. Am i missing something?
The results are available on Liquipedia. According to TakeTV's Twitch channel, it will start today at 12:30pm (GMT+2)
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So much Terran for a change and only 4 zergs left. At least 1 very strong zerg will be eliminated in group A as well.
I guess we will have a Solar vs Terran final. I would like Bunny to win it all!
 TaKe%27s Penthouse Party 4
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On October 06 2018 13:52 geokilla wrote:Show nested quote +On October 06 2018 08:29 Wardi wrote:On October 06 2018 03:05 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
This has a pretty great lineup but man, it feels like it came out of nowhere and there was no hype built up for it. Maybe it was just me not paying attention though What more can you do? Nobody upvotes tournament posts on r/starcraft - there was already a TL thread, TakeTV announced players a few at a time via Twitter, me and Rotti talked about it while streaming. The only thing that wasn't done I think was perhaps TL Calendar. Barely any online SC2 events find themselves with enough "presence" anymore. I'm not so sure about that. I enjoy watching Olimoleague and BTSL. What surprises me is more people don't watch Ballistix Brawl even though it airs every week when the season happens. I think people just moved onto other games now when it's not GSL or WCS or big LAN events. Maybe I'm burnt out with SC2 but I really enjoy watching CS:GO and LoL right now.
Ballistix Brawl starts at like 2 or 3 am for Europeans, so it's unwatchable for us.
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On October 06 2018 15:54 JustPassingBy wrote:Show nested quote +On October 06 2018 15:40 Rojam wrote:
I'm not sure who or how TL calendar and Liquipedia are updated but I'm surprised that I cannot find this pretty stacked tournament in the calendar section for today & no recent results of the group stage. Am i missing something? The results are available on Liquipedia. According to TakeTV's Twitch channel, it will start today at 12:30pm (GMT+2)
Thanks, I totally missed the 2nd group stage on Liquipedia. Next time I'll drink my morning coffee BEFORE checking results
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The fact that day 1 wasn't listed earlier on the calendar was because there was zero time schedule. I'm pretty sure the 13:00 CEST starting time, which was first displayed at the challonge.com bracket (afaik), was posted less than 24h before the tournament. Shortly after I saw that I submitted the event to the calendar and Rich was pretty fast at adding it.
As for day 2 not yet on the calendar, yesterday there was no info aside from maybe on the stream itself which I didn't see. I submitted it just now, but now it's maybe too late to get added in time and would mostly be for people that know about it anyway.
edit: Nvm, pretty much instantly approved. ^^ I'm not sure about the time though, readmore.de says 13:30 CEST. I put in 12:30 which would be even more wrong than the 13:00 that somehow went through.
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It was also mentioned in "this week in starcraft" on the pylon show.
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On October 06 2018 17:28 HolydaKing wrote:
The fact that day 1 wasn't listed earlier on the calendar was because there was zero time schedule. I'm pretty sure the 13:00 CEST starting time, which was first displayed at the challonge.com bracket (afaik), was posted less than 24h before the tournament. Shortly after I saw that I submitted the event to the calendar and Rich was pretty fast at adding it.
As for day 2 not yet on the calendar, yesterday there was no info aside from maybe on the stream itself which I didn't see. I submitted it just now, but now it's maybe too late to get added in time and would mostly be for people that know about it anyway.
edit: Nvm, pretty much instantly approved. ^^ I'm not sure about the time though, readmore.de says 13:30 CEST. I put in 12:30 which would be even more wrong than the 13:00 that somehow went through.
NarutO told me 1 PM CEST so I changed your pending event.
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1 PM is correct, the stream will go live at 12:30, but they will just show big Gabe dancing until the show starts.
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We start with group B.
B > A > C > D
Match 1/2 same time
Winners/Losers same time
Decider
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Starting at 1PM with
GuMiho vs Soul
Solar vs PtitDrogo
Best of 5.
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Gumi vs Solar now. That's a good one!
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3PM > Quarterfinal 1&2
4PM > Quarterfinal 3&4
5PM > Semifinal 1 & LB Round1 - 1
6PM > Semifinal 2 & LB Round1 - 2
7PM > LB Round 2 1/2
8PM LB Round 3
9PM Winners Final
10PM Losers Final
11PM Grand Finals
This is a rough mockup - we will probably run LB R3 and winners final at the same time depending on schedule and how quick we are . So tomorrow start is 3PM
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That was a great game 1 between Solar and Gumiho. Woah.
Also wouldn't have thought that souL wins against Drogo.
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Jesus, white font on yellow like on the stream is unreadable.
No surprise in group B, although souL was better than I expected and I thought Solar would win the group.
Oh jeez... Elazer 3-0 Lambo
and now 2-0 against Reynor, such a ZvZ pro.
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I just want to say that i love Take's events. Keep up the good job!
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Uh oh, is Elazer going to lose the series now?
Niiice, well deserved 3-2 for Elazer.
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Great event as usual!
Minor issue, GameHeart isn't being consistently used so we aren't always seeing the workers lost count roll up on the left.
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On October 07 2018 01:06 Zzoram wrote:
Great event as usual!
Minor issue, GameHeart isn't being consistently used so we aren't always seeing the workers lost count roll up on the left.
On the right 
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Another minor observer issue, player colours keep changing between games in a series, which can be confusing for mirror match ups.
Great show!
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Got 5000 viewers, but a dead LR. What?
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I've never seen so many throws in a single game.
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On October 07 2018 06:43 geokilla wrote:
Got 5000 viewers, but a dead LR. What?
It seems a lot of people do their live game watching chatting in the Twitch chat or on various Discord channels these days.
Also, there was some bot spamming anyone in Twitch chat for a while that might've discouraged chat activity.
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It's incredibly hard to pick one of the players to win the tournament... pretty even matched playoffs tbh.
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Would love to see something else than "coming back soon" still image during a break. Here's a suggestion, add one camera pointing to some random location which has movement (players/casters/outside), and have the video feed heavily blurred as a background for the break graphics. It would give a bit more life to the stream as a long still image can be mistaken as an offline stream.
Other than the late schedule and player announcements this event has been great so far. Keep it up, and let's hope for a great playoffs matchups.
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Uthermal with the xD after losing again
Neeb's bad luck with widow mines continues
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I really hate how muta ling bane is meta in ZvZ now.
Buff infestors!
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On October 07 2018 23:15 Ej_ wrote:
I really hate how muta ling bane is meta in ZvZ now.
Buff infestors!
Is it? I'm pretty sure Serral played only roaches and a few times roach into some mutas at the last WCS. Or at very least most of the games.
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On October 07 2018 23:23 HolydaKing wrote:Show nested quote +On October 07 2018 23:15 Ej_ wrote:
I really hate how muta ling bane is meta in ZvZ now.
Buff infestors! Is it? I'm pretty sure Serral played only roaches and a few times roach into some mutas at WCS.
Serral really loves playing the super safe/standard ling/bane with +1 range, but most, if not all, foreign Zergs mix in ling bane muta.
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Wow what a misread by Neeb in game 2 ;o
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Neeb's ability to absolutely dominate one game and throw the next is remarkable
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France12886 Posts
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XD^2, wow uthermal bringing it up
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On October 07 2018 23:27 sudete wrote:
Neeb's ability to absolutely dominate one game and throw the next is remarkable
like Neeb vs Heromarine game 2 was a real big wtf and then he smashed him in the other 3 games
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Germany3367 Posts
GuMiho's Hellion masses are reaching ForGG levels, burning everything from drones to roaches.
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god damn game 5 gumi vs reynor is siiiiick
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I think people wouldn't be so upset if neeb was just "falling apart" in games. It's much more that he uses good micro/decision-making to get good, sometimes massive, leads and methodically throws them away.
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lol why did Solar take that fight
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nearly 11K viewers with all stream, not bad for online tournament right?
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xD to replace gg for all future end games
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On October 08 2018 02:11 Mun_Su wrote:
nearly 11K viewers with all stream, not bad for online tournament right?
I think so too. The casters being there is nice and entertaining, but it's still an online tournament. And a great one
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holy fuck solar vs gumiho. taketv spoils us
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On October 08 2018 02:45 BretZ wrote:
holy fuck solar vs gumiho. taketv spoils us
hope you saw reynor vs gumi game 5, that was a cool match
did heromarine forget his army somewhere? he had so much more supply, but not at his attack at neeb.
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Germany3367 Posts
On October 08 2018 02:48 HolydaKing wrote:Show nested quote +On October 08 2018 02:45 BretZ wrote:
holy fuck solar vs gumiho. taketv spoils us hope you saw reynor vs gumi game 5, that was a cool match did heromarine forget his army somewhere? he had so much more supply, but not at his attack at neeb.
Yeah perhaps he set his rallies back to his base to deal with the stalkers cutting his supply line and then missed setting them back/getting the reinforcements.
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How could it possibly be the same neeb who looked so inspired vs TY
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really fun tournament so far, damn Heromarine is such a boring player lmao
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Canada8989 Posts
Blizcon 2017 > Blizcon 2019
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so many ro16 group stage rematches now lol
Gumiho vs Solar again
Neeb vs Heromarine again
Reynor vs Elazer
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I think Gumiho might be too tired to win another bo5 today. Elazer should go to the final.
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That's a partial foreigner right there. Not Tefel-level, but certainly less than ideal
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On October 08 2018 03:23 starkiller123 wrote:
really fun tournament so far, damn Heromarine is such a boring player lmao
Naaah , he is super entertaining - you gotta know him a bit :D
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its really a shame that Solar couldn't pull through to make Blizzcon, seems like he is on a hot streak right now
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On October 08 2018 05:11 starkiller123 wrote:
its really a shame that Solar couldn't pull through to make Blizzcon, seems like he is on a hot streak right now
He's only won vs 1 Blizzcon player this tournament
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On October 08 2018 05:53 Ej_ wrote:Show nested quote +On October 08 2018 05:11 starkiller123 wrote:
its really a shame that Solar couldn't pull through to make Blizzcon, seems like he is on a hot streak right now He's only won vs 1 Blizzcon player this tournament
This entire tournament has been all about the players who just missed out on Blizzcon.
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Well deserved win Solar. Elazer would've deserved it too though, great tournament. Thanks for hosting this tournament Take!
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Germany339 Posts
On October 08 2018 05:56 ZigguratOfUr wrote:Show nested quote +On October 08 2018 05:53 Ej_ wrote:On October 08 2018 05:11 starkiller123 wrote:
its really a shame that Solar couldn't pull through to make Blizzcon, seems like he is on a hot streak right now He's only won vs 1 Blizzcon player this tournament This entire tournament has been all about the players who just missed out on Blizzcon.
there were several players, who will play in blizzcon: neeb, heromarine, nerchio, lambo
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On October 08 2018 07:36 hjpalpha wrote:Show nested quote +On October 08 2018 05:56 ZigguratOfUr wrote:On October 08 2018 05:53 Ej_ wrote:On October 08 2018 05:11 starkiller123 wrote:
its really a shame that Solar couldn't pull through to make Blizzcon, seems like he is on a hot streak right now He's only won vs 1 Blizzcon player this tournament This entire tournament has been all about the players who just missed out on Blizzcon. there were several players, who will play in blizzcon: neeb, heromarine, nerchio, lambo
too bad the winner wasn't lul
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On October 08 2018 07:36 hjpalpha wrote:Show nested quote +On October 08 2018 05:56 ZigguratOfUr wrote:On October 08 2018 05:53 Ej_ wrote:On October 08 2018 05:11 starkiller123 wrote:
its really a shame that Solar couldn't pull through to make Blizzcon, seems like he is on a hot streak right now He's only won vs 1 Blizzcon player this tournament This entire tournament has been all about the players who just missed out on Blizzcon. there were several players, who will play in blizzcon: neeb, heromarine, nerchio, lambo
I'm aware. The point is that they were beaten by a bunch of players who barely missed Blizzcon: Elazer, Solar, GuMi.
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