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supersoft
Profile Joined April 2010
Germany3729 Posts
March 01 2011 20:34 GMT
#161
I wait for ST_Bomber to become the first Bonjwa.
phisku
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Belgium864 Posts
March 01 2011 20:36 GMT
#162
I think new player will raise and now i'm definitly rooting for NaDa and Jinro :D
PartyBiscuit
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada4525 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-01 20:36:54
March 01 2011 20:36 GMT
#163
On March 01 2011 23:25 BLinD-RawR wrote:
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On March 01 2011 23:14 bennyaus wrote:
The winner of oGsMC and Jinro in the round of 8 will be the winner of this tournament, without a doubt.


3 words

God of War.

this is probably because the players still need more time to get used to these maps.

I would like to wager thousands of liquibettable cash on that, July has shown an extremely middling results as of, his entire sc2 career. He's shown some sparks of brilliance, the victory over Mvp in the first match I'll give to him, the second was an all-in luck (which can work once in a while as seen against Bomber in the Startale ICCUP battle when he did the same bust 5 times...and it worked once).

His other victories have mostly been mediocre and is definitely a situation where I think Tastosis' bias plays more than it should. In other words, I think he is like a poor man's Fruitdealer - even more volatile with even less solid mechanics in the late game. That being said, he has a shot at beating Clide - but I can almost guarantee the win he will get involves a baneling bust.

Edit:

On March 02 2011 05:19 Turgid wrote:
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On March 02 2011 05:17 zYwi3c wrote:
I blame bo1.

GOM should back to BO3 games, it was a lot better


Why? What's your evidence? This worked beautifully in January. BEAUTIFULLY. It also worked beautifully in BW starleagues. As far as I'm concerned, it worked beautifully here. There were upsets because players lost their games, not because a system tainted with the stink of unfairness forced them to lose the 2 games necessary for getting knocked out.

I'm perfectly fine with upsets, I didn't mind that Nestea/Boxer went out to San (deservedly so), but when the vast majority of all up/down players from last make it to the Round of 16 this time and essentially reverse with everyone...it's a bit much, it's not just an upset, it's confusing.

A star player going is one thing...when the Detective, the King, the Emperor, and the Genie drop like flies it's another.
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.Enigma.
Profile Joined January 2011
Sweden1461 Posts
March 01 2011 20:38 GMT
#164
On March 01 2011 23:14 KristianJS wrote:
If Jinro can just get past MC then he has a great shot at winning this


Especially now with MKP and MVP out of the way!
"Jupiters c*ck!" - Quintus Lentulus Batiatus
barkles
Profile Joined May 2010
United States285 Posts
March 01 2011 20:42 GMT
#165
When Flash went out early in the Starleagues this year people flipped their shit too. Where is he now? On top of the power ranking and probably the most dominant player in winner's league right now.

Even the best players lose sometimes, especially in the type of format the GSL has chosen. The truly good players will be just fine.
theherder2
Profile Joined September 2010
United States538 Posts
March 01 2011 20:44 GMT
#166
On March 02 2011 04:19 Offhand wrote:
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On March 01 2011 23:17 Zephirdd wrote:
Well, I'd be overreacting if, and only if, these guys who went out had lost due to a gimmicky/stupid strategy, but they were just plain overplayed.

although...
+ Show Spoiler +
sanZenith won that game thanks to warp-in storms for harass and an archon toilet. 1.3 anyone?


He didn't do an archon toilet. Although Tasteless and Artosis were yelling at him to do it the whole time. He only vortex'd half the army and then just cleaned it up with the archons.

SanZenith straight up outplayed his whole group, which no one was expecting. Seeing Ensnare make it out of the group wasn't as big of a deal. No one expected NesTea and Boxer to be 0-2 for sure.


I think a lot of people missed it... but he vortexed all the overseers so the ultras couldn't see the archons and attack them, which is why most of the ultras disappeared by the time the units were released from vortex.
theherder2
Profile Joined September 2010
United States538 Posts
March 01 2011 20:51 GMT
#167
And on topic, I'm looking at the list of eliminated and safe players, and honestly if there weren't labels and i didn't watch GSL, either of those lists could be safe. Players are considered the best because they perform consistently. Honestly the only bolds in my opinion would be july/thewind in safe and nestea in eliminated. Everyone else who survived pretty much did it straight up with the talent that we all know they have. Just because they beat the fan favorites doesn't mean the system is broken, it just shows that there is more skill in the mid tiers than we thought.
dragoonier
Profile Joined January 2011
Germany154 Posts
March 01 2011 20:59 GMT
#168
I don't know why so many people are complaining. This is by far the best season. Sure it is sad that some of the fan favourites leave the tournament early. But doesn't the overall better quality outweigh this?
QTIP.
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States2113 Posts
March 01 2011 21:07 GMT
#169
On March 02 2011 05:59 dragoonier wrote:
I don't know why so many people are complaining. This is by far the best season. Sure it is sad that some of the fan favourites leave the tournament early. But doesn't the overall better quality outweigh this?


I agree with you 100%, my OP wasn't to complain about what's going on. It's simply an observation based on what we've seen so far this season: Stunning upsets, and higher-level play than any other GSL!
"Trash Micro but Win. Its Marin." - Min Chul
kvn4444
Profile Joined September 2010
1510 Posts
March 01 2011 21:08 GMT
#170
I like the upsets, give us new faces and stars to cheer for. Also forces the old stars to practice more or change their game or face elimination into code A. If i recall correctly most of the top names went out not too cheese but by getting outplayed. Except game2 of mvp/july i suppose which was a 2 base baneling/ling bust.
Yoshi Kirishima
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States10366 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-01 21:21:01
March 01 2011 21:18 GMT
#171
What do you mean Jinro vouched? Also jinro lost? Now that I think of it his ro32 was just recently, wasn't it. Thought he went to ro16 heh...

Glad Kyrix won. It was like a rematch from the semifinals of GSL 2 =O


Edit: Oh, MVP actually beat Kyrix but Kyrix beat 2 others to get to the top. Nice

Hurray Tester! Hurry Kyrix!

Poor Genius Poor Fruitdealer


Glad that Kyrix vs MVP was set 1, so I can watch And seems to be all of Kyrix's games were entertaining :D
Mid-master streaming MECH ONLY + commentary www.twitch.tv/yoshikirishima +++ "If all-in fails, all-in again."
godemperor
Profile Joined October 2010
Belgium2043 Posts
March 01 2011 21:22 GMT
#172
On March 02 2011 06:18 Yoshi Kirishima wrote:
What do you mean Jinro vouched? Also jinro lost? Now that I think of it his ro32 was just recently, wasn't it. Thought he went to ro16 heh...

Glad Kyrix won. It was like a rematch from the semifinals of GSL 2 =O


Edit: Oh, MVP actually beat Kyrix but Kyrix beat 2 others to get to the top. Nice

Hurray Tester! Hurry Kyrix!

Poor Genius Poor Fruitdealer


Glad that Kyrix vs MVP was set 1, so I can watch And seems to be all of Kyrix's games were entertaining :D

What? Jinro got 1st in his group.
Yoshi Kirishima
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States10366 Posts
March 01 2011 21:22 GMT
#173
Idk, I looked in the OP and according to it Jinro lost... checked later, and Jinro got into Ro16 Yay!

Oh no too bad Rainbow what happened man? You used to be so good
Mid-master streaming MECH ONLY + commentary www.twitch.tv/yoshikirishima +++ "If all-in fails, all-in again."
QTIP.
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States2113 Posts
March 01 2011 21:26 GMT
#174
On March 02 2011 06:22 Yoshi Kirishima wrote:
Idk, I looked in the OP and according to it Jinro lost... checked later, and Jinro got into Ro16 Yay!

Oh no too bad Rainbow what happened man? You used to be so good


lol what are you smoking... ^^
"Trash Micro but Win. Its Marin." - Min Chul
Clare
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States372 Posts
March 01 2011 21:27 GMT
#175
On March 02 2011 06:18 Yoshi Kirishima wrote:
What do you mean Jinro vouched? Also jinro lost? Now that I think of it his ro32 was just recently, wasn't it. Thought he went to ro16 heh...

Glad Kyrix won. It was like a rematch from the semifinals of GSL 2 =O


Edit: Oh, MVP actually beat Kyrix but Kyrix beat 2 others to get to the top. Nice

Hurray Tester! Hurry Kyrix!

Poor Genius Poor Fruitdealer


Glad that Kyrix vs MVP was set 1, so I can watch And seems to be all of Kyrix's games were entertaining :D

Btw, it was MKP that was playing against kyrix, not Mvp lol.
The dashboard melted but we still had the radio.
TheBanana
Profile Joined December 2010
Norway2183 Posts
March 01 2011 21:47 GMT
#176
On March 02 2011 01:23 QTIP. wrote:
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On March 02 2011 01:22 jaiBing wrote:
as soon as i saw this i knew marineking got knock out today.....


To be fair, I put spoiler in the title.


I know what he means, I immediately knew too without ever clicking on the thread.
It's the wording and the timing that does it.
When you know people like Nestea, MVP are out and see the title of this thread you know how the sentence ends. The timing tells you that there was at least one more big upset today, and then you know MKP is out.
If you're not getting better faster than everybody else, you're getting worse.
Novalisk
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Israel1818 Posts
March 01 2011 21:52 GMT
#177
The group play is fine. Round of 32 in previous seasons had BO3, this is the same as a BO3 except more interesting.

If there is a problem it's in the match-ups. If you end up in a group with only terrans, it's easy to prepare as it's just one match-up. If you end up in a group with all 3 races, it's a lot harder to prepare, and you are at a disadvantage.
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peidongyang
Profile Joined January 2009
Canada2084 Posts
March 01 2011 21:54 GMT
#178
WMF LYN FOR THE GSL!!!!
the throws never bothered me anyway
TheTenthDoc
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States9561 Posts
March 01 2011 21:57 GMT
#179
I don't agree with everything Idra says, but I think he was right when, ages ago, he was asked about the best other Z's and said that Fruitdealer was not super fantastic and tended to make all-innish decisions. Fruit's results since then have proved him right.
tyCe
Profile Joined March 2010
Australia2542 Posts
March 01 2011 22:09 GMT
#180
Can't believe you put July in the upset category.

I'll vote option 1 and 3.

Sure, there were some upsets, like NesTea and MVP. But seriously, who expected FD and MKP to go through in dominating fashion? What have those two players even done recently or what matches have those two played recently to suggest they are still the top of the top? Same with RainbOw, Genius, Zenio and InCa. With players like NaDa and July, they have already shown their champion mentality in the past with their BW achievements, so it was always likely IMO that they would be able to step it up a notch with every GSL. BoxeR was an emotional upset, not really an unexpected upset IMO as one can't really expect him to compete at the very top with the amount of other engagements he has nowadays.
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