I seriously doubt so. You can not draw conclusions from previous MLG events and this tournament.

First few of the koreans here are top top Koreans, none of the players are in MVP, Bomber or Nestea caliber imo. Most of these Koreans has also been beaten by foriegners recently, Stephano defeated both Ryung and MMA just a couple of weeks ago and Puma lost 2 matches straight to Mana, Thorzain took down Hero etc.

And another big difference between this tournament and MLG, the foreigners attending IPL 3 are actually the best performing as of this time.

Some top foreigners are missing like Sen, Mana, Fenix, Sase etc, but still a lot better players then in MLG. A korean will probably take it still, probably be 2 Koreans in the final too but beyond that im not so sure. Stephano defently has a real shoot at it with his current performance and players like Thorzain, HuK, IdrA, Ret and DeMuslim are not far behind.

MLG system looks like it is designed to make foreign scene look bad.
Like, yeah, lets invite some koreans, we take Bomber, Losira, MC, MMA and MVP. Thats look good. And then we put them in pool play against our top seeded foreigners Incontroll, Drewbie, TLO, Haypro and Machine.

No shit koreans bet the crap out of foreigners in every MLG!

Remaker12

United States105 Posts

October 03 2011 10:21 GMT

#126

I thought Destiny was going to come? No?

Paladia

802 Posts

October 03 2011 10:40 GMT

#127

Half of those "notable" players I wouldn't call notable at all.

Looking forward to it though but it feels sad that there are hardly any European players. Makes me think there wasn't any EU qualifier for some reason.

Scribble

2077 Posts

October 03 2011 11:11 GMT

#128

On October 03 2011 19:40 Paladia wrote:
Half of those "notable" players I wouldn't call notable at all.

Looking forward to it though but it feels sad that there are hardly any European players. Makes me think there wasn't any EU qualifier for some reason.

If you know them well enough to question their notability, they're notable.

SolidMustard

France1515 Posts

October 03 2011 11:12 GMT

#129

Poll: Most dangerous player from open qualifier ?

PuMa (37)

44%

DeMusliM (18)

21%

Socke (8)

10%

Sheth (5)

6%

Lucky (5)

6%

Artist (3)

4%

Kiwikaki (2)

2%

Inori (2)

2%

Catz (2)

2%

TT1 (1)

1%

Minigun (1)

1%

Other (0)

0%

84 total votes

Your vote: Most dangerous player from open qualifier ?

(Vote): DeMusliM
(Vote): Artist
(Vote): Socke
(Vote): PuMa
(Vote): Sheth
(Vote): Kiwikaki
(Vote): Lucky
(Vote): Inori
(Vote): TT1
(Vote): Catz
(Vote): Minigun
(Vote): Other

Sorry if your favourite is not in that list ;-)

Shellshock

United States97276 Posts

October 03 2011 11:17 GMT

#130

No leenock

Sith Inquisitor

Germany113 Posts

October 03 2011 11:41 GMT

#131

I hope Gordon prepares some cheezy All-Ins :D

johnnywup

United States3858 Posts

October 03 2011 11:55 GMT

#132

coLMinigun

wat

hiyo_bye

United States737 Posts

October 03 2011 12:06 GMT

#133

go mini!

Eufouria

United Kingdom4425 Posts

October 03 2011 12:13 GMT

#134

On October 03 2011 20:12 SolidMustard wrote:

Poll: Most dangerous player from open qualifier ?

PuMa (37)

44%

DeMusliM (18)

21%

Socke (8)

10%

Sheth (5)

6%

Lucky (5)

6%

Artist (3)

4%

Kiwikaki (2)

2%

Inori (2)

2%

Catz (2)

2%

TT1 (1)

1%

Minigun (1)

1%

Other (0)

0%

84 total votes

Your vote: Most dangerous player from open qualifier ?

(Vote): DeMusliM
(Vote): Artist
(Vote): Socke
(Vote): PuMa
(Vote): Sheth
(Vote): Kiwikaki
(Vote): Lucky
(Vote): Inori
(Vote): TT1
(Vote): Catz
(Vote): Minigun
(Vote): Other

Sorry if your favourite is not in that list ;-)

I can't believe Lucky only has one vote, he's probably the second best player on the list after PuMa.

VTJRaen

United Kingdom238 Posts

October 03 2011 12:19 GMT

#135

PuMa, Spanishiwa and MMA? Oh my!

DuB phool

United States1003 Posts

October 03 2011 12:33 GMT

#136

HuK, HerO, and MC in one place. WEEEE! Oh, and Gordon Hayward.

This is gonna be insaaane.

Redox

Germany24794 Posts

October 03 2011 12:40 GMT

#137

Wow, so you basically only need to win 2 rounds in the open qualifier and you earn 1000$. Pretty crazy.

More people should have taken advantage of this.

btw, how is the seeding in the bracket of the open qualifier determined?

Bulkers

Poland509 Posts

October 03 2011 12:57 GMT

#138

On October 03 2011 21:40 Redox wrote:
Wow, so you basically only need to win 2 rounds in the open qualifier and you earn 1000$. Pretty crazy.

More people should have taken advantage of this.

btw, how is the seeding in the bracket of the open qualifier determined?

I dont think you understand this correctly, open bracket is 256 players after 4 rounds 16 players will advanced to championship bracket to join 16 people from invitees and online qualifiers. (its double elimination so sometimes even more than 4x bo4)

That means to win 1000$ you need to win 4 x bo3 (or more because of double elimiation system) to get into top 16... and in open bracket you got at least 25+ well known players like:

coLCatZ, coLTriMaster, RGNSpades, RGNslush, aTnSocke, EGDeMusliM, EGiNcontroL, EGPuMa, EGMachine, colminigun, LiquidHayprO, LiquidSheth, RGNKiwikaki, vileSpanshwa, FnaticMSIKR, FnaticMSITTI

So chances that we will see a new face in 32man championship bracket are equal to zero... so no easy 1000$ for everyone.

firehand101

Australia3152 Posts

October 03 2011 13:02 GMT

#139

Puma and Demuslim, the two most feared open bracket players, and the two most feared terrans from EG. amazing work