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[IPL4] Open Bracket Released - Page 16

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Mrvoodoochild1
Profile Joined June 2011
United States1439 Posts
April 04 2012 21:00 GMT
#301
Go Samaripanda!!
"let your freak flag fly"
Complete
Profile Joined October 2009
United States1864 Posts
April 04 2012 21:01 GMT
#302
Who is casting IPL?
Eufouria
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United Kingdom4425 Posts
April 04 2012 21:02 GMT
#303
On April 05 2012 04:58 Asha` wrote:
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On April 05 2012 04:26 dragonborn wrote:
its sad to see IdrA in pool play...

90% of open bracket players are better than him.


I don't think it's sad, I like that IPL are trying to honour their past tournament winners, though I do think it's a bit odd since IPL 1 was a NA only tournament which rather limited the competitive player pool.

I'm sad that Lucky wasn't invited. Surely 2nd place at IPL3 was enough to warrant an invite. I mean maybe his play at IPL3 was a little cheesy (and he ruined the MMA vs Stephano final) but recently his play has been really strong. He's probably one of the top 5 Zergs in Korea atm.
CryMore
Profile Joined March 2010
United States497 Posts
April 04 2012 21:03 GMT
#304
On April 04 2012 23:05 Eufouria wrote:
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On April 04 2012 23:03 ZenithM wrote:
How scary is it when you're a random Protoss player in the open bracket, you don't follow the scene very much, and your first opponent is a Korean Terran player named GhostKing?

Probably not as scary as if you're a random Protoss player in the open bracket and you know who GhostKing is.


Fuck you guys that's me =_____=
"What wins? 3-base Protoss or 2-base Zerg?" "1-base Terran"
dAPhREAk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Nauru12397 Posts
April 04 2012 21:14 GMT
#305
that is a shit ton of koreans.
Randobob
Profile Joined April 2011
United States9 Posts
April 04 2012 21:17 GMT
#306
Can't wait to watch the action in person. Fly out tomorrow! Huk appears to have a good draw, hopefully he makes it to group play.
The crows seemed to calling his name thought Caw
ninjamyst
Profile Joined September 2010
United States1903 Posts
April 04 2012 21:27 GMT
#307
On April 05 2012 06:17 Randobob wrote:
Can't wait to watch the action in person. Fly out tomorrow! Huk appears to have a good draw, hopefully he makes it to group play.


when does he not have a good draw? haha
SiguR
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada2039 Posts
April 04 2012 21:32 GMT
#308
I almost had an opportunity to be in vegas for this for an entirely unrelated reason. I'll definitely be tuning in from home though! Should be a great weekend.
Nazeron
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada1046 Posts
April 04 2012 21:46 GMT
#309
brackets look insane, GL to anyone competing in them
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Lunit
Profile Joined July 2010
United States183 Posts
April 04 2012 21:58 GMT
#310
Holy bracket, so many top players this is going to be amazing!
amazingoopah
Profile Joined January 2010
United States1925 Posts
April 04 2012 22:02 GMT
#311
so many koreans.... looking good.
Wolvmatt.
Profile Joined April 2011
205 Posts
April 04 2012 22:03 GMT
#312
I love Huk. Glad to see he has a relatively easy path to winning his bracket.
Derez
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Netherlands6068 Posts
April 04 2012 22:07 GMT
#313
Hoping to see MVP/Nestea to do well.
Bumblebee
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
3237 Posts
April 04 2012 22:07 GMT
#314
On April 05 2012 05:25 Xeris wrote:
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On April 05 2012 02:07 Bumblebee wrote:
On April 05 2012 00:26 Cascade wrote:
Wow, kindof stacked, yes! :o

On April 04 2012 21:55 Bumblebee wrote:
I don't really have a refined opinion on team kills in such brackets. It's sort of just tough luck, but I wonder if there can't be done something to prevent it at least for a while or not "that many". If you look over the bracket, we - Team Liquid - kill eachother very early all over the bracket. It's just not worthwhile business for us to send so many players to such events if they're going to eliminate eachother that early. I'm not saying we can prevent teamkills all the way until the bracket finals - or we almost can, but I don't expect it. I'm just simply thinking if there isn't a fair way to draft so that we won't have 2-3 teamkills in the third round?

What are your opinions out there? Do you think it'd be fair to put what team people are on into such an equation?

It would be nice in a way, if you put it last, after you spread out all your seeds and whatever ranking the tourney is using. Then you could imagine that the random placing that is left got the extra constraint of trying to not make team kills.

Problem however, is that it would then be beneficial to be on a team with many other good players. For example, if Hero goes to a pretty small tourney (as favourite to win) but that doesn't have much previous seeds or ranking, most players would be very happy to be placed far away from hero, and would thus get an (imo unfair) advantage by being on liquid. And also the opposite, if another team with a lot of bad players went to the tourney, they would run a higher risk of being matched with a strong opponent. The bad players would be better of being teamless.

Imo, we don't need to make the strong teams even stronger, so I do not think this should be implemented. It sucks for liquid, I feel you, but I don't think it would work in the long run to take team into account when making brackets.

Ah, this is a very good point.



Also... Liquid has 9 players. You can't really expect them to avoid each other in a 128 man bracket, its a consequence of having so many players on your team. I'm sure if the IPL staff specifically made their bracket to put Liquid players farthest away from each other, you could avoid a teamkill until Round 3, but that wouldn't be fair to anyone else.


Ah, I definitely agree that of course we will never see a perfect scenario. I'm just curious as to what people think about tournaments at least having it in mind. But I like the point of the guy who said that we don't want to make the strongest teams even stronger..
There is no difference between a knight and any other man aside from what he wears. @robinnymann
Proseat
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
Germany5113 Posts
April 04 2012 23:28 GMT
#315
This will be a great Easter weekend.

Will also be interesting to see how the losers brackets will shape up. I hope players drop down to face players from the other brackets to make it more interesting. I take it there will be no extended series shenanigans.

Anyhow, crossing my fingers for Liquid and a few fan favorites. Hwaiting!
The Rise and Fall of SlayerS -- a timeline: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=378097
pdd
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Australia9933 Posts
April 04 2012 23:56 GMT
#316
I was going to do a prediction of favourites of each brackets, then I realized the brackets are so fucking stacked.
TI4 Champions: EE-Sama | B7-God | A-God_2000 | Kappa Lord | pieliedie
ZenithM
Profile Joined February 2011
France15952 Posts
April 05 2012 01:47 GMT
#317
On April 05 2012 06:03 CryMore wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 04 2012 23:05 Eufouria wrote:
On April 04 2012 23:03 ZenithM wrote:
How scary is it when you're a random Protoss player in the open bracket, you don't follow the scene very much, and your first opponent is a Korean Terran player named GhostKing?

Probably not as scary as if you're a random Protoss player in the open bracket and you know who GhostKing is.


Fuck you guys that's me =_____=

Haha no insult intended, good luck man, I'll root for you :D.
Pro-tip: that guy probably knows how to use ghosts.
nufcrulz
Profile Joined February 2010
Singapore934 Posts
April 05 2012 02:00 GMT
#318
So looks like this ipl will basically b an inter team tournament between startale and prime with a few other Foreign team Koreans sprinkled on the side and the occasional foreigner (I.e idra, huk, stephano, white ra). don't see anyone else making it to group stage.

Meh, was considering buying the pass but after looking at the brackets I think I'll pass..
Kerwin
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
United States220 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-05 02:06:15
April 05 2012 02:05 GMT
#319
On April 05 2012 11:00 nufcrulz wrote:
So looks like this ipl will basically b an inter team tournament between startale and prime with a few other Foreign team Koreans sprinkled on the side and the occasional foreigner (I.e idra, huk, stephano, white ra). don't see anyone else making it to group stage.

Meh, was considering buying the pass but after looking at the brackets I think I'll pass..

Ouch my brain hurts... You're not buying a pass because there's too many good people? If I get an brain aneurysm, I'm totally suing you. There's never been a more stacked open bracket than this and you're complaining? Some people...
Shellshock
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States97276 Posts
April 05 2012 02:08 GMT
#320
On April 05 2012 06:03 CryMore wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 04 2012 23:05 Eufouria wrote:
On April 04 2012 23:03 ZenithM wrote:
How scary is it when you're a random Protoss player in the open bracket, you don't follow the scene very much, and your first opponent is a Korean Terran player named GhostKing?

Probably not as scary as if you're a random Protoss player in the open bracket and you know who GhostKing is.


Fuck you guys that's me =_____=

lol good luck!
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