EPTGSL Season 3 Code S Groups - Page 12
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Vindicare605
United States16121 Posts
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GuitarBizarre
United Kingdom332 Posts
On June 02 2012 00:27 Chunhyang wrote: Oh dear MKP. Parting just beat you. Symbol just whacked you. Yugioh just swatted you. I wish you the best. Edit: Group G. Gu, Oz, Let, Ru. Motherfucking Goddamn. I suspect MKP will rise to the occasion. | ||
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Flowjo
United States928 Posts
On June 01 2012 17:31 kaztal wrote: Couldn't help but noticing that as well, heh. I'll be over here rooting for Sweden. How surprising. Go Nestea  | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45383 Posts
On June 02 2012 00:56 Dodgin wrote: He also said he's only staying for one month, which is not long enough to compete in the entire tournament. Don't get your hopes up. I wonder why this is the case. Since he decided to stick around the scene for another year, I thought for sure he'd play some Code S rounds. As the top foreigner, he's proven himself in pretty much every tournament except for the premier one. And considering he can simply get seeded into Code S of the GSL, I don't see why he wouldn't do this. Perhaps he feels it would take away too much time from other tournaments, and that he could win more money traveling internationally? | ||
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TeeTS
Germany2762 Posts
Grp B: Creator, Nestea - Creator will make it 2-0 (in series), he is very good @ pvp and pvz (imo pvt may be his worst MU) and will overcome naniwa and nestea, and Nestea to beat TheSTC and Naniwa. Grp C: Squirtle, Gumiho - Gumiho has some good TvT Skills, he may even make first place. Grp D: Genius, MVP - I like Line, I like Zenex, but he is not Code S calibre. Happy will fall to MVP in the 5th series. Grp E: Supernova, Ganzi - MC looked more solid in PvT lately, but I honestly think, his builds and strategies are outdated and will be figured out due to the large preparation time for Supernova and Ganzi. Grp F: Marineking, Symbol - Sry Parting Bro! But one matchup won't carry you through this time! Grp G: DRG, Maru - Oz looked very shaky lately and this group is very hard. And for Violet, I don't think the GSL System with the amount of preperation time fits to him, don't expect too much here! Grp H: Ace, Leenock - I don't like Ace anymore after he showed to be a very bad loser (GSTL final) in his post-U/D Interview. But you have to accept that he might be the best player in this grp and showed to be mentally stable. Leenock will ride on his beastly ZvT to 2nd place. I think the player pool we have here is insane. Everyone is just really good, so each group is really hard to pedict and we will see a lot of surprises. | ||
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thrawn1020
United States32 Posts
On June 01 2012 20:37 Roarer wrote: Just like you said in an earlier post, Squirtle did not choose Keen... Squirtle is the runner up..so he is the one who pick Thorzain....cannot see why you are wrong...Am I missing sth ?.? Re: what I had meant earlier I had meant that I viewed Keen as a better choice than Thorzain. I had forgotten that Squirtle was required to pick a player from Tier 4. and Keen finds himself in Tier 3, if only barely. That leaves Thorzain or Ghostking as the two terran options, with Violet, Symbol, and Sniper as the remaining Zerg options. And IF Squirtle wanted to PvP for his first match, Creator and Ace would be the two choices. Given that the play of Ghostking is pretty scary, and that Violet/Symbol have done really well overseas, that leaves the real options as Thorzain or Sniper. But even Sniper has looked really scary over the last two seasons of Code A. Had MvP left Suhoshin, I would imagine Squirtle would have picked him. As it stands, I endorse the pick of Thorzain. | ||
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Dodgin
Canada39254 Posts
On June 02 2012 01:39 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: I wonder why this is the case. Since he decided to stick around the scene for another year, I thought for sure he'd play some Code S rounds. As the top foreigner, he's proven himself in pretty much every tournament except for the premier one. And considering he can simply get seeded into Code S of the GSL, I don't see why he wouldn't do this. Perhaps he feels it would take away too much time from other tournaments, and that he could win more money traveling internationally? That's probably it, you only really get a good amount of money ( compared to how long the season is and the time/practice commitment involved ) for coming top 2 in GSL and sure Stephano is good, but can he really just waltz into the GSL and get to the finals? doubtful. He knows it himself which is why he will continue to play at international weekend tournaments and make easy money. He has said himself he doesn't care about being the best player and he only wants to earn money, so winning the GSL has no meaning to him only the 45k he would get from it does. GSL is a huge time commitment and he can make comparable money to ro4 GSL in a single weekend by placing top 3 at an event. Hero made $4,455 for ro4 Code S last season, Stephano made $5,500 for placing third at the red bull battlegrounds. For time invested it seems like the obvious choice is to continue to wreck the weekend tournaments and ignore GSL. Of course this will leave fans upset and always with the question " What could have been? " It's unfortunate that he doesn't care enough to participate. Edit: Please don't confuse this as me saying GSL doesn't pay out enough money to participants, they pay every player in Code A/S which is amazing and their total prize pool for every season is huge. ( $147,920 ) | ||
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1st_Panzer_Div.
United States621 Posts
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45383 Posts
On June 02 2012 01:51 Dodgin wrote: That's probably it, you only really get a good amount of money ( compared to how long the season is and the time/practice commitment involved ) for coming top 2 in GSL and sure Stephano is good, but can he really just waltz into the GSL and get to the finals? doubtful. He knows it himself which is why he will continue to play at international weekend tournaments and make easy money. He has said himself he doesn't care about being the best player and he only wants to earn money, so winning the GSL has no meaning to him only the 45k he would get from it does. GSL is a huge time commitment and he can make comparable money to ro4 GSL in a single weekend by placing top 3 at an event. Hero made $4,455 for ro4 Code S last season, Stephano made $5,500 for placing third at the red bull battlegrounds. For time invested it seems like the obvious choice is to continue to wreck the weekend tournaments and ignore GSL. Of course this will leave fans upset and always with the question " What could have been? " It's unfortunate that he doesn't care enough to participate. I agree, and thank you for pointing out specific monetary amounts for comparison. Most players go where the money is (teams, tournaments, etc.), even over the chance at more prestige, and that totally makes sense because it's their career/ profession (even if for only a short amount of time). Can't blame Stephano if this is his reasoning, even if it does disappoint his fans (they'll get over it, and hopefully respect his choice). Kid's gotta earn a living, and he's already recognized as a fantastic player. | ||
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Smackzilla
United States539 Posts
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thrawn1020
United States32 Posts
On June 01 2012 22:15 Inflicted_ wrote: They don't get to choose their group location/number at all. It's: Group A - 1st in point ranking Group B - 4th in point ranking Group C - 3rd in point ranking Group D - 2nd in point ranking. I went back and checked, and you are right. Thanks for the clarification; I had forgotten that bit. | ||
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thezanursic
5497 Posts
On June 01 2012 17:00 Hypemeup wrote: I wonder if the zergs will actually play good this time around :x Lets go ThorZaIN! I am pretty sure Zergs will do great with the new buff. | ||
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blamekilly
466 Posts
On June 02 2012 01:51 Dodgin wrote: That's probably it, you only really get a good amount of money ( compared to how long the season is and the time/practice commitment involved ) for coming top 2 in GSL and sure Stephano is good, but can he really just waltz into the GSL and get to the finals? doubtful. He knows it himself which is why he will continue to play at international weekend tournaments and make easy money. He has said himself he doesn't care about being the best player and he only wants to earn money, so winning the GSL has no meaning to him only the 45k he would get from it does. GSL is a huge time commitment and he can make comparable money to ro4 GSL in a single weekend by placing top 3 at an event. Hero made $4,455 for ro4 Code S last season, Stephano made $5,500 for placing third at the red bull battlegrounds. For time invested it seems like the obvious choice is to continue to wreck the weekend tournaments and ignore GSL. Of course this will leave fans upset and always with the question " What could have been? " It's unfortunate that he doesn't care enough to participate. Edit: Please don't confuse this as me saying GSL doesn't pay out enough money to participants, they pay every player in Code A/S which is amazing and their total prize pool for every season is huge. ( $147,920 ) I don't know why people care so much about what he does. He has no long term plans when it comes to SC2 and probably won't even be around next year. He's just a player looking to make as much money as he can in a short period of time. You can't fault him for that, I certainly don't. It's not always about the money though. Some players(Naniwa and Jinro for example) want to prove to themselves and also to the world that they can compete with the very best. They're willing to give up the chance to make more money to do so. | ||
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GunPaladin
United States1205 Posts
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jobber123rd
United States501 Posts
On June 02 2012 00:40 Sankanyo wrote: Sick groups!!~ But wait, did Stephano deny his code s spot again? He'll arrive in Korea in August, likely to compete in Season 4 Code S. | ||
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FrostedMiniWheats
United States30730 Posts
On June 02 2012 02:38 GunPaladin wrote: I don't understand why people are voting for group F when Parting and MKP are obvious favorites. Because they're really not. If anyone in that group is a favorite, it's Symbol. MKP has been beaten by everyone in that group recently, and Parting while not bad at PvZ isn't anything exceptional either. | ||
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Dodgin
Canada39254 Posts
On June 02 2012 02:41 FrostedMiniWheats wrote: Because they're really not. If anyone in that group is a favorite, it's Symbol. MKP has been beaten by everyone in that group recently, and Parting while not bad at PvZ isn't anything exceptional either. If Parting plays like he did against Stephano at Red Bull he's going to get destroyed  | ||
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ragz_gt
9172 Posts
On June 02 2012 02:38 GunPaladin wrote: I don't understand why people are voting for group F when Parting and MKP are obvious favorites. This is so not true. PartinG's vs Z is mediocre, and could very well 0-2ed by Symbol and YugiOh. In fact, MKP might be the opponent PartinG who has best chance against. MKP lost to Symbol in Iron Squid and to YugiOh in code A R24. | ||
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JtoK
Germany232 Posts
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Adreme
United States5574 Posts
On June 02 2012 02:38 GunPaladin wrote: I don't understand why people are voting for group F when Parting and MKP are obvious favorites. MKP has lost to every single person in that group recently. Parting isnt as good at PvZ as he is at PvT and Symbol and Yugioh have looked really really good lately. | ||
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