On April 16 2023 01:29 Elentos wrote:
So can anyone explain how Classic, Bunny, Cure and DRG got seeded into the second round and neither Maru nor herO did? Not that the EPT seeds make any more sense.

Stage two is like an extra losers' bracket, it's not better than stage one.

Kreuger

Sweden694 Posts

April 15 2023 17:05 GMT

#22

That looked easy
Think special will qualify tomorrow though

Elentos

55510 Posts

April 15 2023 17:08 GMT

#23

On April 16 2023 01:49 Sent. wrote:

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Stage two is like an extra losers' bracket, it's not better than stage one.

I see. Although in that case I don't really understand why we need 2 stages. But their tournament I guess.

mintyminmus

Australia127 Posts

April 15 2023 17:38 GMT

#24

So can anyone explain how Classic, Bunny, Cure and DRG got seeded into the second round and neither Maru nor herO did? Not that the EPT seeds make any more sense.

The second round is essentially a lower-lower bracket. If you go through in 1st round you are already qualified and the losers of round 1 drop down and get another chance in 2nd round. So yeah, the players in lower seeds are in round 2 to start with.

Sent.

Poland9175 Posts

April 16 2023 13:13 GMT

#25

Being able to pause or rewind the stream whenever you want is great, I don't get why the youtube stream has only like 100 viewers compared to ~4.5k of the twitch stream.

wuschj

1 Post

April 16 2023 16:26 GMT

#26

Guys guys remember that time, when your favorite streamer invited a Journalist into their home, and ended up torturing and dismembering them and didnt really care that anyone knew? Khashoggi family remembers....

Kreuger

Sweden694 Posts

April 16 2023 17:44 GMT

#27

Lets go Oliviera

Kreuger

Sweden694 Posts

April 16 2023 18:18 GMT

#28

Reynor crushing it :p

Pandain

United States12989 Posts

April 16 2023 18:22 GMT

#29

Time getting crushed several times post-IEM makes his IEM run even more memorable. It truly was just a moment where a "good" player became, for that one day, the best player in the world. It wasn't like he was on that level for a while and we just hadn't recognized it yet.

We might have only 2, 1, or 0(!) protosses in the main event D:

Kreuger

Sweden694 Posts

April 16 2023 18:33 GMT

#30

That wasnt much to a series, Reynor dominated

dysenterymd

1198 Posts

April 16 2023 19:15 GMT

#31

On April 17 2023 03:22 Pandain wrote:
Time getting crushed several times post-IEM makes his IEM run even more memorable. It truly was just a moment where a "good" player became, for that one day, the best player in the world. It wasn't like he was on that level for a while and we just hadn't recognized it yet.

We might have only 2, 1, or 0(!) protosses in the main event D:

Time's been playing pretty well, I feel like losing 0-3 to Gabe is his only "unforgiveable" loss. If he straight up doesn't qualify for GAMERS8, or he doesn't win Asia regionals, then we can start asking bigger questions.

I expect Time to settle down at the level of players like Solar/Byun/Ragnarok, who probably won't win tournaments but are always threats, but with us always asking "will he randomly pop off again?"

mintyminmus

Australia127 Posts

April 16 2023 19:20 GMT

#32

Oliveria's strength is always very hard to judge

davidoliver

1 Post

April 16 2023 19:28 GMT

#33

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Antithesis

Germany1152 Posts

April 16 2023 19:33 GMT

#34

Totally agree. It was one of those rare moments aptly described by the phrase that the stars aligned for Oliveira on that particular day.

tigera6

3341 Posts

April 16 2023 20:27 GMT

#35

On April 17 2023 04:20 mintyminmus wrote:
Oliveria's strength is always very hard to judge

imo, hes on the 2nd tier of Terran players, which include him and like 6-7 other Terran players not name Maru. On the overall ranking, hes probably at the bottom top 10 to top 15 players.

Waxangel

United States33337 Posts

April 17 2023 01:08 GMT

#36

The top 10-ish players are very closely matched in terms of skill right now. Even when I see a 3-0 in a single BO5, I feel like it coulda gone the other way on a different day.

Kreuger

Sweden694 Posts

April 20 2023 18:58 GMT

#37

Brackets for tomorrow is out:

https://twitter.com/gwbps/status/1649080486097223680?cxt=HHwWgIDUveD92uItAAAA

"Once again - two brackets, sixteen players, and only eight tickets to Riyadh - who'll we be seeing later this year at
@Gamers8GG

Tune in this Friday and find out!"

Yoshi Kirishima

United States10324 Posts

April 21 2023 02:35 GMT

#38

Man, i really want Creator to win, and he was playing really well vs Maru and Dark (99% of the time), but dang he's gonna have to go up against herO probably. If he gets knocked out, it's cus he had to fight Maru, Dark, herO to qualify. How unfortunate.

Z.Gu

19 Posts

April 21 2023 03:51 GMT

#39

I hope that the host will have Oliveira's match played first in the world brackets as long as there is a match of his. The matches will be on at the golden time of Europe since KST 12:00 pm means CET 4:00 pm. But Oliveira typically plays his match at the same time as the Korean players. Therefore, his match can even extend to 2:00 am in the morning, which seems unfriendly to him.

Likewise, if Astrea is to play, it is better to push back his game since he lives in California. 12:00 pm KST means 9:00 am Pacific time, and he may have just got up and finished his breakfast. The time also seems unfriendly to him if he is the first to play in the world bracket.

As a Chinese fan, I really want to see Oliveira playing the game with a more friendly schedule. I think the host can always set up an appropriate schedule so that all players can play their games in their 'golden hours', typically in the afternoons and evenings. If a player has to wake up really early or stay up really late, this will seriously impact their performance in the games.