Internationally recognized gaming event, the World Cyber Games 2012, released their Ro16 groups for the Korean players today for the game StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty.
The WCG 2012 Ro16 to Ro8 will begin on Thursday, August 30th, at 12:00pm KST and will be featured live every week during September on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at 13:00pm KST at the YongSan eSports stadium through OnGameNet, GOMTV, and the WCG Korean homepage (kr.wcg.com).
This WCG will feature OSL champion JangBi, BaBy, MarineKing, TaeJa, Polt, and fifteen other players who qualified through the preliminaries along with 2011 WCG gold medalist Mvp.
Ro16: 8/30 - Thursday 12:00pm KST (the schedule below say 13:00pm KST so it's either a typo or they'll do some sort of introduction for the 2012 WCG prolly for the first hour) 9/3 - Monday 13:00pm KST 9/5 - Wednesday 13:00pm KST 9/7 - Friday 13:00pm KST
I really hope the stream is better than last time. Last time they recorded the stream off of a laptop on 120p with a potato and then we saw the minecraft version of it.
On August 11 2012 03:53 graNite wrote: I really hope the stream is better than last time. Last time they recorded the stream off of a laptop on 120p with a potato and then we saw the minecraft version of it.
Excellent, a full TvX symposium except for Hyun vs Parting. Keep a notebook handy, Terran players.
A lot of good matches in here. MVP vs BaBy should be interesting considering it's one of the best GSL Terrans against one of the best KeSPA Terrans. It will be an interesting gauge of skill for the KeSPA players, and it is unfortunate that BaBy didn't get an easier opponent since he's looking good in SPL so far.
jjakji vs Taeja should be fun. Taeja is on fire recently, but jjakji is no pushover.
And of course we have Heart vs Jangbi, which should also be a fun match since it's one of the smaller names against Jangbi, who is reigning OSL champion and one of the stronger KeSPA SC2 players on a team full of strong KeSPA SC2 players like Reality and RorO.
On August 11 2012 06:14 Wroshe wrote: 4 Kespa players seems a bit much. Did they genuinely qualify or were they given wellfare seeds?
There was a separate qualifier for Kespa players, with 13 being selected to advance. Of those, 9 were eliminated in the final qualifier (some vs other Kespa players, some vs GSL players). Two of them advanced vs other Kespa players, with Baby and Paralyze winning over Finale and Vampire respectively.
I think JangBi is able to take a win there against Heart ! And For those who think's that PartinG's gonna win ... that's sooo not gonna happen ! HyuN's going to Crush him =DDDD
On August 11 2012 10:23 Picklebread wrote: Group 1: MVP, Keen to advance Group 2olt and YongHwa to advance Group 3: Marineking / Taeja to advance Group 4:Hyun / Heart to advance
On August 11 2012 06:14 Tchado wrote: Come on MVP ! Stomp the korean qualifier , then rape the grand finals !
Then my favorite player becomes to first sc2 player inducted into the wcg hall of fame :D
MVP FTW !
Err, you realize he already did that last year by winning both the korean nationals and the grand finals right?
Yeah and if does it again , he is inducted into the hall of fame , did I stutter ?????
I was just confused by the way you worded it, I have no idea how the " wcg hall of fame " works but I thought you were saying he could be the first sc2 champion for WCG.
Is it just me... or do we all feel that WCG has became redundant, ever since BlizzCon has changed to WCS? Even though they are different, but the end result would most likely be the same, isn't it?
On August 11 2012 14:52 plasmidghost wrote: MarineKing has a fairly decent chance of getting knocked out, especially if Jjakji and TaeJa play their best.
marineking has an great tvt record: more than 80% in korea with a winstreak of 14 (!!!) and is positive record against every terran he's played this year (granted he hasn't played mvp ahaha). guys, 80% is insane. Mvp's record in TvT in 2011 was 70% - and 80% is ten whole percent better
mkp's only lost like, four BoX the entire year i think? one to mma in starswar online qualifier (good series), one to taeja in gsl (derp moment), one to polt in FXO (lost in winner's bracket, then he came back to 3-0 polt in loser's bracket) and one to alive at ipl4 (proxy marauders lol)
On August 11 2012 14:52 plasmidghost wrote: MarineKing has a fairly decent chance of getting knocked out, especially if Jjakji and TaeJa play their best.
marineking has an insane tvt record: more than 80% in korea and is positive record against every terran he's played this year (granted he hasn't played mvp ahaha). he's only lost like, three series the entire year i think? one to mma in starswar online qualifier (good series), one to taeja in gsl (derp moment) and one to alive at ipl4 (marauders lol)
sure he is beatable but i'll be cheering hard for mkp :D
although from what i'm hearing, IPL5 will be on the same weekend as WCG... hrmmm
From what I've seen, he tends to lose to TaeJa when it matters , like in Season 2 of GSL (the second time) or during the IPL TAC a few weeks ago, and Jjakji seems pretty solid at the moment. I know basically nothing about Paralyze's SC2 skills.
On August 11 2012 14:52 plasmidghost wrote: MarineKing has a fairly decent chance of getting knocked out, especially if Jjakji and TaeJa play their best.
marineking has an insane tvt record: more than 80% in korea and is positive record against every terran he's played this year (granted he hasn't played mvp ahaha). he's only lost like, three series the entire year i think? one to mma in starswar online qualifier (good series), one to taeja in gsl (derp moment) and one to alive at ipl4 (marauders lol)
sure he is beatable but i'll be cheering hard for mkp :D
although from what i'm hearing, IPL5 will be on the same weekend as WCG... hrmmm
From what I've seen, he tends to lose to TaeJa when it matters , like in Season 2 of GSL (the second time) or during the IPL TAC a few weeks ago, and Jjakji seems pretty solid at the moment. I know basically nothing about Paralyze's SC2 skills.
marineking derps a lot, and taeja is definitely better now than he was before. i think it'll be a fun series, defn one to watch. still, i think marineking is a better TvT'er than almost anyone right now (unconventional as his games may look, haha)
Is the ro16 a group format? Or is it a single Bo3? I'm quite confused. Any more info on the production side of this? Is OGN gonna be broadcasting this? Or Gom? Gogogo PartinG and Yonghwa fighting~~~~~~ + Show Spoiler +
On August 11 2012 10:55 Vindicare605 wrote: HOW THE HELL DOES MARINEKING ALWAYS GET STUCK IN THE GROUP OF DEATH!!!!!
It's not that bad. Taeja will be hard to beat, but Paralyze should be an easy victory and Jjakji has never had good TvT.
The old "Jjakji has bad TvT" is an outdated adage. He defeated MVP, MMA, Gumiho, Bomber, aLive just in the last few weeks... It's likely not his best matchup, but it is definitely not bad. I agree on the result, though, MKP is a better TvTer overall.
On August 11 2012 03:25 F0rlorn wrote: Really tough match for Baby, hope he can pull off an upset.
MVP has wrist issues >_>, I don't think he'll be able to win against BaBy, since he's one of the KeSPA players who are good at SC2 and SC:BW.
MVP will be fine. People forget he was beating most of these "elephants" in broodwar before he switched to sc2. In fact, I think he beat Baby in an MSL bo3.
Yeah the wrist issue and inablility to practice is a bit of a concern, but I think MVP's tvt is really strong still.
On August 11 2012 03:25 F0rlorn wrote: Really tough match for Baby, hope he can pull off an upset.
MVP has wrist issues >_>, I don't think he'll be able to win against BaBy, since he's one of the KeSPA players who are good at SC2 and SC:BW.
MVP will be fine. People forget he was beating most of these "elephants" in broodwar before he switched to sc2. In fact, I think he beat Baby in an MSL bo3.
Yeah the wrist issue and inablility to practice is a bit of a concern, but I think MVP's tvt is really strong still.
I think if he ends up playing a long macro game in game 1 or 2, he'll probably start cheesing the next one or two games. And they'll probably be powerful cheeses too, since he'll be adjusting his play for his wrists accordingly.
I think Baby can take it. He was more successful in BW at age 14 than MVP ever was before he switched. For those who don't know, Baby is basically the original Leenock, except his feat was more impressive because getting BW proleague playing time was ridiculously hard. That match should be fun to watch no matter what.
EPT
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JangBi, 
BaBy, 
Monster(MVP) vs 
olt and YongHwa to advance
