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United States530 Posts
On September 22 2011 03:59 Ownos wrote:
The pic would hint that open bracket players are seeded at the other end of the bracket. An open player will likely not face any invitees until the finals. The open bracket players are likely seeded based on their finish too.
If you follow any real life sports, you will know seeding means a lot and yes people do lose on purpose to get a different seed (but of course they will hide this fact and mostly just finger pointing by fans).
This is all correct. The open bracket winner (aka the STRONGEST open player) will be facing one of the four LOWEST group players. The group winners will be facing the 13, 14, 15, 16 seeds from the open bracket, which could easily be mid-tier players.
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United States7481 Posts
wow group 4 is a group of death
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Thorzain, Idra, HerO FIGHTING!!!
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China6327 Posts
best stream coverage EVER
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Pretty sick list of sponsors!
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On September 22 2011 03:58 Joshy.IGN wrote:
My personal opinion on the groups for seeding.
If you were invited to come play in a 32-man single elimination event, would you be comfortable playing someone out of the open bracket for your tournament life? I feel that the group play will at least give them a sense that they came and showed some good games.
Consider the NASL live event where players flew around the world just to come lose a single best of 3 and be done for the weekend. At least with group play, these players will have a chance to play against some of the world's best players and know that they are totally in control of where they will end up in the championship bracket. Winning your group ensures that you will not face the other three "best group players" until far later in the championship bracket.
I think it's better for the players, not to mention the viewers who get to enjoy these insanely awesome matchups. =)
Well its still feels very meh, that I am guranteed to have acses to watch the top 16 players play atleast 4 best of 3s each, out of them 3 are bacicly pointless. I really think that if you wanted to avoid the NASLs "I flied 20hours here to play total of 10minutes", you should have still made group play that actually matters.
Example: You could have invited 10 + 10 from qualifiers and made 4 groups of 5, out of which top 4 continue.
On September 22 2011 03:59 Ownos wrote:
If you follow any real life sports, you will know seeding means a lot and yes people do lose on purpose to get a different seed (but of course they will hide this fact and mostly just finger pointing by fans).
I follow a lot of real sports and other competive stuff, and I have never seen this everyone out of every group advances into same round of final bracket.
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This event looks amazing! I hope thee are no technical difficulties, because if all goes well I think this should end up being one of the best tournaments to date!
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amazing tournament, hope tb gets to go so he can see his family 
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MMA vs. Idra rematch! Kill the CC, get a GG!
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Have you guys thought about offering a package for just the subscriber streams for the event and the goody bag? A bit of something for people who cannot make it either do to religious reasons (You scheduled it on Yom Kipper) or cause of costs/distance?
Just keeps getting better and better.
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cant wait will be a exciting event for sure
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I hope the stream for the LoL tournament is going to be listed in the TL calendar otherwise im most likely to miss it :/
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United States2822 Posts
Can't wait to see you there!
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Excited for the event.
I agree that the formatting is a little bit weird. I wish the players in groups had a little bit more to play for than a somewhat arbitrary seeding. It may produce good games, but (IMO) they'd be even better games if more was on the line!
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Probably the best run and organized SC2 tournament to date - and by some stretch too. I only wish I had the spare change laying around to visit the U.S. around this time, I would definitely go.
Thumbs up to IGN and their IPL, all the crew involved and everyone playing. Since IPL I've been a fan of your production value, IPL 2 demonstrated that you could even draw the talent, and now with the massive amount of amazing games from the IPL 3 qualifiers, I'm positive this can't go wrong. So thank you, to Alex and all the other IGN crew members who visit this board, for putting all of this together.
I might even stay up late as all hell just to watch all of these games. VODs just don't give the same excitement, and man am I ever hyped for this.
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wow IPL will stomped NASL so bad
Koreans vs no Koreans
LOL vs HON
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Is all group play the first day, October 6th? I ask because MMA and Ryung's ro16 GSL matches are October 5th o.O.
Taken from the Liquipedia page
Live Qualifier: October 6-7 (Top 16 advance to Championship Bracket)
The page doesn't say whether group play is on those days or if they are only doing the live qualifier.
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Please excuse me as I pick up my jaw form the floor and clean up all the drool...
This is going to be so crazy!!!
Groups look soooo good and really hard to call.
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ye dont even bother sorting out TB visa. He is horrible anyways. I rather mute the stream than listening to him.
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EPT
