On October 12 2012 21:57 KarlKaliente wrote: I called this when IPL announced they were hosting the Season 5 quarters semis and finals. Stephano has tended to avoid longer tournaments in favor of weekend ones, where he is much more successful. A compacted season + ro8 and onwards all in one weekend gives the highest chance of a foreigner code S champion.
On October 12 2012 22:03 Mackus wrote: The fact he's flying to Incheon tells me he's moving in with TLO, HuK, HerO and Supernova unless that's the only major airport around Seoul it's still a logical guess
On October 12 2012 21:54 nimdil wrote: How does exactly GSL WC is going to look like (link if possible) as I totally missed the information it will be held at IPL5.
Regarding someone saying that GOM should invite every winner of Premier Tournament in 2012 for Blizzard Cup - obviously it's not going to happen. That's simply to many players.
I hope Stephano will come back to defend his ESWC title... and later to fight for DreamHack winter title.
3pm saturday is match 1 3pm sunday is match 2
one match will be allkill style, the other one is PL style
if the two sides split the matches evenly, then there is a super ace match
also, yeah, there are a lot of premier tourney winners, but there's only 5 who aren't already in kr
Also wow - this year there are only 4 players from outside Korea with a premier title to their name: Stephano (en route to Korea), Mana (in Korea?), Nerchio (not in Korea) and ThorZaIN (not in Korea).
On October 12 2012 21:54 nimdil wrote: How does exactly GSL WC is going to look like (link if possible) as I totally missed the information it will be held at IPL5.
Regarding someone saying that GOM should invite every winner of Premier Tournament in 2012 for Blizzard Cup - obviously it's not going to happen. That's simply to many players.
I hope Stephano will come back to defend his ESWC title... and later to fight for DreamHack winter title.
3pm saturday is match 1 3pm sunday is match 2
one match will be allkill style, the other one is PL style
if the two sides split the matches evenly, then there is a super ace match
also, yeah, there are a lot of premier tourney winners, but there's only 5 who aren't already in kr
Also wow - this year there are only 4 players from outside Korea with a premier title to their name: Stephano (en route to Korea), Mana (in Korea?), Nerchio (not in Korea) and ThorZaIN (not in Korea).
On October 12 2012 21:41 Irre wrote: maybe he will go and try to qualify for Code A...nah jk foreigners have to be seeded...even though Stephano COULD qualify.
foreigners dont have to be seeded even TLO almost did it (got second)
Getting 2nd in the qualifiers still places you below dead last in Code A.
For people moaning about "economy" (which he seems happy enough about, why should you fuss?) its a lot cheaper, a Paris-Seoul connection flight isn't cheap as it is. I'm sure he'd rather the extra money to spend during his stay.
Also, if he was even bothered about it I'm sure he'd have upgraded using his well, nice amount of winnings.
On October 12 2012 21:54 nimdil wrote: How does exactly GSL WC is going to look like (link if possible) as I totally missed the information it will be held at IPL5.
Regarding someone saying that GOM should invite every winner of Premier Tournament in 2012 for Blizzard Cup - obviously it's not going to happen. That's simply to many players.
I hope Stephano will come back to defend his ESWC title... and later to fight for DreamHack winter title.
3pm saturday is match 1 3pm sunday is match 2
one match will be allkill style, the other one is PL style
if the two sides split the matches evenly, then there is a super ace match
also, yeah, there are a lot of premier tourney winners, but there's only 5 who aren't already in kr
Also wow - this year there are only 4 players from outside Korea with a premier title to their name: Stephano (en route to Korea), Mana (in Korea?), Nerchio (not in Korea) and ThorZaIN (not in Korea).
Mana is back from Korea. He is playing in the GD Studio Invitational this weekend. He was scheduled to play against Stephano tomorrow but Stephano pulled out to fly to Korea today.
On October 12 2012 22:20 nkr wrote: why are people surprised that he has to first travel to amsterdam to go to korea? it's not like there's a direct plane to seoul from every airport
For people asking about the Amsterdam stops - KLM is one of the cheaper (but non-lowcost) airlines that you can find seats on such a short notice. I travel between Paris-Asia quite often and if I want to book something like Qatar or Emirates (which is my preferred airlines in terms of service offered), you'll have to be ahead by months to even find a seat. KLM for some reason, seems to always have seats for you up until the last minute. This is probably why he chose this flight. Direct flights between countries is usually only offered by the airlines of the two countries (in this case: Air France and Korean Air which are both ridiculously expensive). Everyone else will stop by at their respective hubs to change planes. This is how airplane works everywhere in the world.
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