im calling it now, Stephano to pull an alicia and be eliminated in the open bracket.
Stephano will easily make it into pool play.
Easily.
most people probbably said that about alicia when he went to mlg.
i dont think we can predict this until they show us the brackets.
alicia probably benefitted more from coaching and preparation in the GSL. stephano admits he doesnt practice as much as other progamers and he has his epic ladder run, so its less likely that he'll be upset than alicia.
yea, but Alicia plays protoss, and played PvP mirror against another progamer. ZvZ isnt nearly as volatile as PvP, especially back during (Anaheim?) last patch, which was like, 4gate 4gate 4gate ~~
im calling it now, Stephano to pull an alicia and be eliminated in the open bracket.
Stephano will easily make it into pool play.
Easily.
most people probbably said that about alicia when he went to mlg.
i dont think we can predict this until they show us the brackets.
alicia probably benefitted more from coaching and preparation in the GSL. stephano admits he doesnt practice as much as other progamers and he has his epic ladder run, so its less likely that he'll be upset than alicia.
thats a good point lol. let me rephrase that. there is possibility that stephano doesn't make it into pool play and a smaller one that he doesn't make it out of the open bracket. but as you said it all depends on the brackets.
On October 13 2011 09:31 sitromit wrote: Stephano beat a Code B Terran and a Code A Zerg and all of a sudden people are comparing him to Nestea... Isn't it a bit too much? He lost very decisively against Alive.
Stephano is the Tim Tebow of Starcraft 2.
Pretty sure thats Destiny. Or the Adam Morrison, havent figured out yet.
Adam Morrison doesnt have a fanbase that believes in his talent.
im calling it now, Stephano to pull an alicia and be eliminated in the open bracket.
Stephano will easily make it into pool play.
Easily.
most people probbably said that about alicia when he went to mlg.
I didn't expect Alica to dominate in Anaheim. Did I expect him to lose round 1 of open bracket ? of course not. Did I expect him to smash through easily? Not really.
Also how can you compare Stephano to Alicia, going into Anaheim Alicia had actually been losing a fair amount clearly looking pretty outclassed in code S... O_o
personally I like MKP to make it into pool play and even to win the whole thing. He's been doing deep runs in tourneys throuhgout SC2 and since there's no MVP, Nestea, Ryung, Taeja (COH 2-0'd MKP), or Ganzi i don't see many people who can beat MKP. possibly polt and bomber would def have a chance, personally i think MKP can beat everyone else.
plus there's motivation, we all saw what bomber did with fan support at MLG. and MKP will definately feed off of the fans. with the exetion of MC and maybe Hongung, if he plays up and down and falls to code a before mlg i haven't actually seen the date of that, MKP will have the best motivation.
plus every MLG thats been attended by a 3 letter terran staring with M has won it.
im calling it now, Stephano to pull an alicia and be eliminated in the open bracket.
Stephano will easily make it into pool play.
Easily.
most people probbably said that about alicia when he went to mlg.
I didn't expect Alica to dominate in Anaheim. Did I expect him to lose round 1 of open bracket ? of course not. Did I expect him to smash through easily? Not really.
Also how can you compare Stephano to Alicia, going into Anaheim Alicia had actually been losing a fair amount clearly looking pretty outclassed in code S... O_o
Uhh no that wasn't until after. Pre-Anaheim = Alicia is protoss hope because he was only protoss in ro8 of Super Tournament.
On October 13 2011 13:27 karis wrote: personally I like MKP to make it into pool play and even to win the whole thing. He's been doing deep runs in tourneys throuhgout SC2 and since there's no MVP, Nestea, Ryung, Taeja (COH 2-0'd MKP), or Ganzi i don't see many people who can beat MKP. possibly polt and bomber would def have a chance, personally i think MKP can beat everyone else.
plus there's motivation, we all saw what bomber did with fan support at MLG. and MKP will definately feed off of the fans. with the exetion of MC and maybe Hongung, if he plays up and down and falls to code a before mlg i haven't actually seen the date of that, MKP will have the best motivation.
plus every MLG thats been attended by a 3 letter terran staring with M has won it.
As MKP's number 1 fanboy, I hope MKP makes it into pool play, but it's going to be tough. His greatest enemy is himself. He has this july zerg switch that goes off in him to do an all-in game when he shouldn't. Perfect example was the gstl finals, when he decided to do an all-in during such a crucial game. Also, mkp's kryptonite is banshees/blue flame hellions. I've seen him lose countless games to them.
On October 12 2011 15:33 thepuppyassassin wrote: I hate trimaster because I hate his friends. Check out some videos on youtube... biggest douches ever...
after Jinro loses.. "That's what's up! That's what's up!"
While a clearly distraught Jinro is banging his head on the keyboard.
please don't assume that tri is a horrible person just because the people around him were/are douches. Saying you hate someone based on their friends is just wrong. He's a really cool guy in person (was on his CSL team). TRIMASTER FIGHTING!
On October 13 2011 13:54 alexlw92 wrote: also, alicia was on a downturn at that time. his results around that time
RO8 in ST RO32 code S GSL july, third in group MLG anaheim RO32 code S GSL august, fourth in group RO32 code S GSL october, knocked out of code A
after ST, in GSL, he went 2-8. so MLG anaheim shouldnt really have been too much of a surprise
thank you for pointing this out, while he did good in super tournament I remember right before anaheim he got 3-0'd by polt and then lost GSL code S games...I know I wasn't going insane...