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On June 27 2012 18:11 Hiea wrote: I don't understand the reasoning behind giving seeds some pros have more fans than others, so giving seeds = more viewers
also it promotes seniority and consistency. Why bother to attend OSL if it means working your ass off when you can go GSL where they seed you into the bracket
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On June 27 2012 17:59 MyFirstProbe wrote:Show nested quote +On June 27 2012 17:58 Amokoma wrote:On June 27 2012 17:55 phANT1m wrote: carn and naniwa are the only foriegners in OSL?
Thought maybe Jinro or some of others from TL might have also tried to get in or something. TLO is in group D and Jinro in group I And ThorZaIN is in there too! SLoG as well.
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I wonder if they really went by "best" as in "most established" which would be Nestea MC MVP obviously, at least for the GSL (which is considered the highest level).
Or if part of the reason they picked those 3 was because those are the 3 you think of when you think protoss zerg and terran . And of course DRG seems to be better than Nestea currently but they used the reason that they wanted to pick 1 player who was doing well recently? xD
WTF HONGUN? Is that old or is he not retired from SC2? That tweet of his had bad english anyway.
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i think they chose the absolute right seeds, with the qualifiers there is enough chance to bring in new talents, but it is also good to have the best players from the old sc2 in the tournament (as ironic as this may sound, they are the sc2 elephants xD)
this way for the first season, we will have a grand opening, and hopefully a surge of new fans for both GSL and OSL and sc2 in general!
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hahaha Oh man, I spent 5 minutes looking through all the groups looking for MC, Nestea, MVP and then I finally realized, they were seeded. XD
I feel dumb
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Group C is the scariest group... overall all the groups are pretty stacked, but there are some that seem very weak in comparison to others.
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Some of these groups are so stacked then their is others that hardly have a noteable top player
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why not MKP not been invited???
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OSL, big competition with great history. Can't wait to see over-the-top HYPE video's and those awesome intro movies. I'm excited.
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I hope naniwa and ThorZaIN makes it.
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Why is MC still getting seeds based on over a year ago GSL wins and virtually nothing this year in foreign tournament wins?
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On June 27 2012 19:53 Fermats_last wrote: Why is MC still getting seeds based on over a year ago GSL wins and virtually nothing this year in foreign tournament wins?
He's already won three big foreign tournaments this year (Homestory, IEM WC, Red Bull) and four smaller ones.
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I still can't believe how foolish OGN is. They are taking a massive gamble for no reason.
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On June 27 2012 19:59 J1.au wrote: I still can't believe how foolish OGN is. They are taking a massive gamble for no reason. companies don't take this kind of risks unless last resort. you don't think they're giving up broodwar for shits and giggles right?
obviously they are going to bankrupt at the rate if they show broodwar only, so this is their last ditch effort
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On June 27 2012 19:27 Eee wrote: I hope naniwa and ThorZaIN makes it.
Don't forget about Jinro!!
Sweden fighting :D
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http://leveltory.com/osl1 http://leveltory.com/osl2 http://leveltory.com/osl3
^ graphical representations of the brackets
my picks: A: I think Seed, NaNiwa, MMA and Life are probably the bigger names in this bracket. Would not be surprised to see any of the four make it, but I think Seed will do well here.
B: Squirtle, Creator, YongHwa, and Symbol are probably the favourites, of which Squirtle is probably most likely to advance.
C: MarineKing, Polt, and Bomber are the big names here. MarineKing is probably the favourite?
D: This is not that strong a group, and the standouts are probably Happy and Genius. Genius probably will take this one out.
E: Leenock, HyuN or July are the biggest names here. I think HyuN's actually favoured here despite the God of War and God of War jr, as he can take out both in ZvZ (he's pretty good at that lately). TheStC can do a good run too, but it depends on how he practices his vsZ haha.
F: HerO, Tear, Tassadar, viOLet, ByuN, TAiLS and Ryung are the bigger names here - group of death? I would hazard a guess at ByuN taking it out, since he beat HerO pretty recently and has a strong vsP and vsT. We'll see exactly how strong next week though with his Code S group.
G: Pretty interesting group, with jjakji, LosirA, YuGiOh, Monster, and Maru the more notable players. I think LosirA takes this out with TvZ trends of late, and his pretty solid ZvZ stats. Would not put it past Monster or Maru to surprise though haha.
H: So we have GuMiho, Sage, Zenio, GanZi. This isn't that strong a group I feel, difficult to say. I would guess GuMiho if he can get his act up a bit and reach Code S RO4 skill levels again. Otherwise hard to tell.
I: SuperNoVa, CoCa, JYP, BBoongBBoong and aLive hrmmm. Probably SuperNoVa or aLive, whoever is feeling better on the day. They're both pretty good, maybe SuperNoVa is a bit better.
J: We have Oz, ThorZaIN, AcE, ForGG, Annyung and Keen. I think AcE is actually favoured here, he's playing better than the old AcE lately.
K: PartinG, ByuL, sC, Lucky, and Puzzle are here. I think Puzzle is likely to take this?
L: Pretty good group, with Curious, Moon, PuMa and TaeJa. If TaeJa plays well to his potential, this is probably his group. Curious or Moon definitely could do well too.
I will probably be able to maintain a LR discussion thread for these qualifiers :D Is it worth it though? ie will we get live updates/ghetto stream/coverage from people there? haha =]
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On June 27 2012 20:01 iky43210 wrote:Show nested quote +On June 27 2012 19:59 J1.au wrote: I still can't believe how foolish OGN is. They are taking a massive gamble for no reason. companies don't take this kind of risks unless last resort. you don't think they're giving up broodwar for shits and giggles right? obviously they are going to bankrupt at the rate if they show broodwar only, so this is their last ditch effort Their mistake is not in the transition away from BW, that's an inevitability. Rather that they are throwing the established BW players under the bus by forcing them to compete with the SC2 pros. They aren't ready for that, and instead of working with them in the transition OGN/KeSPA has been forcing them to play two games at once.
A finals without either a BW player or any these guys: MVP, NesTea, MC, DRG, would be a total disaster for OGN. So why take the risk and allow all these unknown SC2 players to participate? Should've at least just invited the famous SC2 pros only.
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Is it one person from each of them 12 groups ?
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Go MoOk
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