EPTRet's probably Europe's best hope. Socke's great but thats a horrible group to fight through. Maybe the liquids TLO, Haypro and Jinro (presuming he attends through open) can raise there game. And theres always hope demuslim can blitz his way into pool play.
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Asymmetric
Scotland1309 Posts
Ret's probably Europe's best hope. Socke's great but thats a horrible group to fight through. Maybe the liquids TLO, Haypro and Jinro (presuming he attends through open) can raise there game. And theres always hope demuslim can blitz his way into pool play. | ||
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akalarry
United States1978 Posts
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RedDragon571
United States633 Posts
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ssartor
United States129 Posts
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Asymmetric
Scotland1309 Posts
Both these players are renowned for there ZvT and aggressive playstyle, but neither of them have shown to be particuarly stellar in ZvZ | ||
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HoldenR
Netherlands256 Posts
Seriously, I want to know why this is so retardedly stacked. I feel like the people from MLG need someone with a better feel for current player level when they decide on these groups. Especially since the pools still meet eachother later in the bracket, without ever meeting people from the other pools unless they make it to top 6+ (A faces D exclusively and C faces B exclusively, right?) | ||
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two.watup
United States371 Posts
Not to call out any names, but when pretty much non-competitive players were being seeded into pool play, it just made the games look terrible. Now we can expect everyone to pretty much play well, and anyone who doesn't is in danger of losing their spot to someone noticably better. Look at these brackets and tell me it isn't hard to pick a top 8. You've got Bomber, DRG, Puma, MC, July, HuK, Boxer, Rain, HongUn, Ret, Socke, Kiwi, IdrA, and everyone else who consistently places well. I definitely think the skill gap is closing, would have loved to have Thorzain back, after how amazing he played at Dreamhack. It's inspiring to see foreigners play that well, after an age of Korean isolationism. On September 18 2011 22:18 HoldenR wrote: Who the hell decides that 3 Koreans, a code S foreigner and one of the top foreigner get in one pool, while pool A is a guy recovering from an injury, someone in a total slump, one fan favorite Korean, a guy with no results in SC2 at all and drewbie who hasn't performed since 2011? Seriously, I want to know why this is so retardedly stacked. I feel like the people from MLG need someone with a better feel for current player level when they decide on these groups. Especially since the pools still meet eachother later in the bracket, without ever meeting people from the other pools unless they make it to top 6+ (A faces D exclusively and C faces B exclusively, right?) They're decided by seed. Have you never watched an MLG before? | ||
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AWakefield
Canada420 Posts
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HoldenR
Netherlands256 Posts
On September 18 2011 22:19 two.watup wrote: The fact that more and more Koreans are showing up means that the competition is getting that much more serious. Not to call out any names, but when pretty much non-competitive players were being seeded into pool play, it just made the games look terrible. Now we can expect everyone to pretty much play well, and anyone who doesn't is in danger of losing their spot to someone noticably better. Look at these brackets and tell me it isn't hard to pick a top 8. You've got Bomber, DRG, Puma, MC, July, HuK, Boxer, Rain, HongUn, Ret, Socke, Kiwi, IdrA, and everyone else who consistently places well. I definitely think the skill gap is closing, would have loved to have Thorzain back, after how amazing he played at Dreamhack. It's inspiring to see foreigners play that well, after an age of Korean isolationism. They're decided by seed. Have you never watched an MLG before? Yes, I have. But the way they've decided their seeds makes no sense. Scroll up to see the A1 > B2 > C3 > D4 > D5 > C6 > B7 > A8 one. Either way, the MLG seeding system is completely broken. This is destroying pool play, because the fact is the games in group D are two levels above group A. | ||
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haitike
Spain2712 Posts
On September 18 2011 20:56 akalarry wrote: how were the pools created? i looked at the seeding, and if they based it off that, it looks kind of random... then again i'm not too familiar with different kinds of ways you can create pools from rankings. There is nothing random in the seeds. RowA: 3 4 5 8 RowB: 13 11 10 9 ETC. A normal seed by Ranking Position. You must quit the player that dont participate (1 Naniwa, 2 MMA, 6 Sjow, 7 Select, 12 MVP, etc.). So each group have one player from 3-8 ranking, one player from 9-13 ranking, etc. In both directions for a equally difficult. | ||
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choopakabra
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Gh86
646 Posts
On September 18 2011 22:36 haitike wrote: There is nothing random in the seeds. RowA: 3 4 5 8 RowB: 13 11 10 9 ETC. A normal seed by Ranking Position. You must quit the player that dont participate (1 Naniwa, 2 MMA, 6 Sjow, 7 Select, 12 MVP, etc.). So each group have one player from 3-8 ranking, one player from 9-13 ranking, etc. In both directions for a equally difficult. Also, separate the Korean invites, they are seeded via GSL points, A to D, lowest to highest respectively. | ||
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decotta
Argentina43 Posts
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voy
Poland348 Posts
we gonna see korean bracket again though | ||
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s4life
Peru1519 Posts
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BatCat
Austria630 Posts
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resilve
United Kingdom678 Posts
On September 17 2011 08:57 jmbthirteen wrote: because EG's money has anything to do with MLG's point system How does sending your whole roster to every event to pick up valuable seeding points (when there are no koreans), in a system that rewards consistent attendence, not equate a team's wealth to MLG points? | ||
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akalarry
United States1978 Posts
On September 18 2011 22:36 haitike wrote: There is nothing random in the seeds. RowA: 3 4 5 8 RowB: 13 11 10 9 ETC. A normal seed by Ranking Position. You must quit the player that dont participate (1 Naniwa, 2 MMA, 6 Sjow, 7 Select, 12 MVP, etc.). So each group have one player from 3-8 ranking, one player from 9-13 ranking, etc. In both directions for a equally difficult. well incontrol is rank 12/seeded 8 (while haypro is rank 13/seeded 9). by what you're saying, incontrol should be in row b, and not row c in addition sheth, seeded 11th (rank 16 mlg) is in the fourth row, which I would think goes to ppl seeded 13-16th that's why it looks random to me | ||
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akalarry
United States1978 Posts
On September 18 2011 22:39 Gh86 wrote: Also, separate the Korean invites, they are seeded via GSL points, A to D, lowest to highest respectively. koreans are seeded via mlg points, except for july/hongun as they came through invites and don't have high enough mlg points. | ||
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MonDeW
Denmark369 Posts
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