Great writeup, Really good hype for this tournament. All the players that are in it right now(Excluding Thebest) have shown some amazing play and should provide a good finals. Go Alicia/MMA/Ryung!

HolyArrow

United States7116 Posts

June 09 2011 22:36 GMT

#202

Great writeup. If it's Alicia vs. MMA/Ryung in the finals I'd almost die of awesomeness. Or at least, a SlayerS player winning it all. SlayerS hwaiting!

zyzq

United States3123 Posts

June 09 2011 22:36 GMT

#203

TheBest will shock the world

Viciousvx

United States83 Posts

June 09 2011 22:49 GMT

#204

i wonder what dustin browder has to say about this.

MarineKing Vs Polt Finals
The Winner shall Have the All Spark.

godemperor

Belgium2043 Posts

June 09 2011 22:50 GMT

#205

Hoping for a good solid TvT final between TOP and MarineKing.

JayConn

United States408 Posts

June 09 2011 22:55 GMT

#206

I love seeing Slayers do so well. GOGO Slayers!

nAgeDitto

United States428 Posts

June 09 2011 22:56 GMT

#207

On June 10 2011 07:18 skrzmark wrote:

Show nested quote +

I dunno when it was Season 2 I expected NesTea to win, but this was my method of choice, I said to my friend the person to win this season would be NesTea because he had the coolest name.

The coolest name was babybyebye (killer's id at the time lol )

Lazy_89

United States87 Posts

June 09 2011 23:00 GMT

#208

Great write up I would like to see Marineking win a finals for once. He such a great player he deserves a championship. If he can't do then Alicia would be good too biased I'm a protoss but he really is really good.

Engore

United States1916 Posts

June 09 2011 23:10 GMT

#209

Good job on this. Read the whole thing and thought my eyes were going to start bleeding but it was very enjoyable. MMA or MKP lets gooo! Terran baby yeah.

Ziggy Starport

United States70 Posts

June 09 2011 23:16 GMT

#210

Great read, thanks for posting.

Tachion

Canada8573 Posts

June 09 2011 23:19 GMT

#211

MMA MKP and Alicia are all kinda popular/special in their own way, but the rest of the players are just.....there. Nothing is particularly special about them or their play style, aside from Thebest being freakin awful. I mean yea a newcomer like Line beat Jinro and Nada to make a name for himself, but none of those games were particularly memorable. The most memorable part of TOP vs Nestea were Nestea's own baneling mines, and not TOP's play. So while these guys may have had challenging roads into the Ro8, hardly any of them were actually interesting.
I hope we get MMA or MKP in the finals vs Alicia.

Fantastic write up btw.

Elite__

Canada976 Posts

June 09 2011 23:23 GMT

#212

HAHA thebest fits the villian role so perfectly with that picture XD he looks like hes mustering up a plan to take the tournament or something

MERLIN.

Canada546 Posts

June 09 2011 23:24 GMT

#213

Guys who write articles like this should instantly be placed into either TL staff or some type of position having to do with article quality, it really hits home with humour and it makes me feel like I want to watch GSL now.

loazis

Netherlands381 Posts

June 09 2011 23:24 GMT

#214

Great read man, well done

IVN

534 Posts

June 09 2011 23:24 GMT

#215

5 GSLs in a row with NO terrans in the Ro8. Thats something I would pay a lot of money to see. Blizz and GOM, plz make this possible.

Happy Frog

Australia490 Posts

June 09 2011 23:25 GMT

#216

Awesome read!

twiitar

Germany372 Posts

June 09 2011 23:40 GMT

#217

I want Ryung to win but MKP in the finals means more of his sister ;_; so hardddd

Indrium

United States2236 Posts

June 09 2011 23:42 GMT

#218

POLT FIGHTING!

I've loved this guy since season 1 and he's finally getting the results he deserves. ^^

Markwerf

Netherlands3728 Posts

June 09 2011 23:50 GMT

#219

The top 8 is fine imo. Sure MC, MVP and nestea are missing but we do have MKP, MMA, Alicia. Only the best and line are a bit crap out of these imo and line isn't even that bad though he had a fairly easy path to ro8 so far (all his opponents played below level really).

Sc2 is just a little too fluky for tournaments with just bo3s. It's less macro and more tactical then sc1 making it so much easier to win games by cheese. Most tournament formats in sc2 just suck major balls, why don't the tournaments just have a pool with bo3s instead of bo1 to start out with? Or why isn't there some proper seeding at the tournaments? The ranking system for GSL sucks really as points gotten five GSLs ago count as strong as points gotten recently leading to retarded matchups early in the tournament like MC vs Alicia round 1 and to a lesser extent Bomber vs Nestea round 2.

The disapointing finals are a little bit the result of the flawed tournament format giving bad players too big a chance to get far based on gimmicky play. On the other hand you can't blame GSL too much for it, finals are dissapointing in lots of sports. There is often too much on the line for players leading to less spectacular play.

Sc2 tournaments just need to drastically improve their tournament formats, would really help the quality of competition making it easier for the top players to consistently do well. NASL is best setup of the big tournaments so far but it's a big too long perhaps.

rjT.

Italy295 Posts

June 09 2011 23:51 GMT

#220

awesome write up! gratz mate!
I will cheer for slayers guys, they're so talented!