MLG Anaheim KeSPA Invitational Bracket - Page 7

Fantasy vs Soulkey
Fantasy played BW in proleague on 29th and OSL on 30th. Having being sent out for BW, he has to play SC2 in proleague on the 3rd. This give him more than 1 week of SC2 practice (31st to 8th) leading to MLG. Soulkey unlike Fantasy played SC2 in proleague on 29th and as such has to play BW in proleague on the 2nd (unless he is not registered to play). Moreover, he has to play in a OSL tiebreaker with 2 other Zergs on the 5th. Going by the amount of time to practice, Fantasy has a massive advantage. As for form and strategy wise, Fantasy won BByong in a unconvincing TvT while Soulkey is 1-1 against protoss. Fantasy to win in a close encounter, the question is whether he goes bio + Show Spoiler + or mech.

Flash vs Stork
Like Soulkey, Flash has a OSL tiebreaker to play on the same day and has to play BW in proleague. Stork is out of OSL and played BW in his last proleague game. LIke Fantasy, he has a whole week to focus only on SC2. Form wise, both are 0-1 against zerg. As of now, Flash looks ahead in his TvT matchup (He lost TvZ against an impressive Effort) but his TvP seems shaky judging from his comments and rumoured vod of him against desrow. Stork seemed clueless about late game protoss from his match against Zero and if we were to believe what Coach January has been saying about the level of SC2 in Samsung house, I give the edge to Flash unless Stork finds some cheese to punish his 14cc.

Bisu vs Calm
Bisu said if he had forcefields and he would never lose. He played a PvP against hero and lost, having his units trapped by forcefields and picked off. Both Bisu and Calm have no OSL to worry about and they do not have BW obligations in the next proleague match (Bisu played BW previously and Calm has not appeared since playing BW in opening day) and have all the time in the world to prepare for Anaheim. Too little match data as well. When in doubt, pick protoss.

Leta vs Jaedong
Expect cheese from Leta or at least 2 port banshee. CJ Entus seems ahead of the pack at the moment in terms of SC2 having won all 3 SC2 Bo3 (2-1, 2-0 and 2-1) and in Effort (who destroyed Flash), Leta has arguably the best TvZ practice partner available in Kespa right now. Jaedong came off to a slow start going 0-2 in SC2 against protoss and zerg before destroying Lizzy (rumoured to be the best SC2 player in the league right now). The potential is there but how will he do against a abusive terran? Leta is eligible to play SC2 in the next proleague match but Jaedong has to play BW and he will certainly practice and (unlike the other players mentioned above that are only eligible to play BW) he will most certainly appear for Team 8 because of their lack of depth. The odds are against Jaedong but just because he is the Tyrant I think he will prevail.