Haha I wonder if MLG just enjoys watching iNcontrol play Machine. I feel bad for the Zergs of that group both iNcontrol and TLO are incredible against Z.

Also nothing against Gret0rp but how did he get top 16? Oh well gratz to him! Hopefully he has got a chance to play more since the last MLG.

ptz

Romania251 Posts

May 18 2011 14:28 GMT

#422

group C yo, that's gonna be some sick games. I can see my liquibet shattering already.

Dhays9

United States51 Posts

May 18 2011 14:32 GMT

#423

On May 18 2011 17:40 TheHova wrote:

Once you're in that pool play, the system is in such a way that it's REALLY hard to lose your spot. You're pretty much guaranteed at least top 25 every event. Which is just retarded, meanwhile other players have to play about 3times the games in very difficult qualifiers to be on an equal footing. I've been in competitive gaming for a long time, i played CS 1.6 competitively and went to lots of lans/events up until around 2008. So i've seen my fair share of stupid systems that people have tried to come up with. But this has got to be one of the most flawed.

How are you guaranteed a top 25 every event? If you get out of the top 16, you have to go through open the next event, possibly getting knocked out of open. If people do not show up then you get bumped. It just so happened that Gretrop AND Sheth got lucky (yet no one has mentioned Sheth) and got bumped up or else they would be going through the qualifier.

price

United States297 Posts

May 18 2011 14:35 GMT

#424

jesus group C ... i am guessing this was random insanity

aruken

France348 Posts

May 18 2011 14:45 GMT

#425

hope they get sound proof booths else it will suck balls, just saying

DeepBlu2

United States975 Posts

May 18 2011 14:46 GMT

#426

Group B and especially C look crazy. Those games are going to be amazing. Will be interested to see how the Koreans perform against the foreigners.

intrigue

Washington, D.C9934 Posts

May 18 2011 14:48 GMT

#427

go liquid!

champy

Sweden33 Posts

May 18 2011 14:50 GMT

#428

Idra vs Tyler is going to be sick! Also sad face at machine and incontrol hwaiting

Dandel Ion

Austria17960 Posts

May 18 2011 14:58 GMT

#429

Incontrol getting a safe second place in his group, Losira will prob. take first, He's pretty good at ZvP like that.

Nani got a relatively easy group, got this ezpz.

MMA gonna smash through group B, but predicting group C is... harder.

I wonder who's gonna come through the open brackets though. And which of them gets fed to the super-nerds in group C. gonna be pretty sick~

lrofd

United States187 Posts

May 18 2011 14:58 GMT

#430

On May 18 2011 23:32 Dhays9 wrote:

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yeah its lucky for sheth but sheth WAY deserves his spot.

Juanald

United States354 Posts

May 18 2011 14:58 GMT

#431

anyone else feel discusted with all the hate on group a players ? their are 2 ROOT players in that group dont count them out they can easily win the whole thing . root is arguably the top team outside of korea i always say they are the foreign foU.

ProxyKnoxy

United Kingdom2576 Posts

May 18 2011 15:07 GMT

#432

Gretorp to not lose a game.

/jk but seriously these pools aren't very even.

Corrik

United States1416 Posts

May 18 2011 15:07 GMT

#433

On May 18 2011 22:47 zook wrote:

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Why is the third line 9 10 11 12 if the rest is descending besides the first line? I don't understand this system lol. I thought it was suppose to look like this
A B C D
1 2 3 4
8 7 6 5
12 11 10 9
so on and so forth

Because it is supposed to Snake. Meaning it starts on one side and then alternates starting on the other side next.

A B C D
1 2 3 4
8 7 6 5
9 10 11 12
16 15 14 13

The reason you are confused is because they added 4 koreans. So it goes in the same direction twice with...

20 19 18 17

The only reason it does this is because it's not normally a part of the group... and they wanted the weakest Korean in the best group. Not the proper way to do it... but hard to do it properly with an awkward number.

Properly it should look something like...

A B C D
1 2 3 4
8 7 6 5
9 11 12 10
15 14 13 16
20 19 18 17

To even it out for 20. However, it gets tricky.

Nizzy

United States839 Posts

May 18 2011 15:12 GMT

#434

Very cool seedings. I'm still in shock that I will be able to see spirit_moon in person.

Circos

United Kingdom115 Posts

May 18 2011 15:15 GMT

#435

Oh man, that Group C.

Sorry to say that I think the Liquid'Slump may continue. I have more faith in Ret to make it out of that group.

Vasili

Australia125 Posts

May 18 2011 15:17 GMT

#436

On May 18 2011 11:42 SimDawg wrote:
Also...Idra has pretty bad luck with pools, doesn't he? Dallas, NASL, Columbus. They're all so tough.

But apparently on a state of the game he is better than them all, so it's all good!

I'm looking forward to watching Naniwa play! :D

Kznn

Brazil9072 Posts

May 18 2011 15:24 GMT

#437

Is huk going to columbus?

eGo.SiGns

Germany48 Posts

May 18 2011 15:27 GMT

#438

I'm wondering, what will happen with Socke?

I know that he isnt able to participate in this MLG because of the ESL-Finals, but will he lose any "points" he has earned until now for the next MLG after Columbus?

Casablancas

Denmark145 Posts

May 18 2011 15:38 GMT

#439

Why not invite top Europeans aswell as Koreans? Not more expensive for them to travel to MLG. And although they are good, its not the best koreans.

Would like to see Dimaga, WhiteRa, Thorzain, HasuObs, BratOK Kas and so on. Really weak European field, but understandable i guess, expensive trip. Takes a lot away from MLG that only the weakest of the three best servers have their top players at the event.

Sneddo

United States277 Posts

May 18 2011 15:39 GMT

#440

Wow at Group C, I hope we get to see a lot of those games.

MLG is looking good!