In the round of 32 there are only 2 "choices" and they go to the previous season's finalists. Sniper was 1st so he gets 1st pick. HyuN was second so he gets 2nd pick. The players are broken into 4 tiers (1st tier previous season top 8, tier 2 8 highest GSL points, tier 3 next 8 in GSL points, tier 4 bottom 8 in GSL points). The 2 previous finalists can choose a tier 4 player only. Then the rest of the groups are randomly selected with 1 player from each tier so that the first games are Tier 1 vs Tier 4 and Tier 2 vs Tier 3.

PonceDeLEGABE

United States117 Posts

January 14 2013 21:23 GMT

#444

Oh man the MKP vs MVP match up

red_

United States8474 Posts

January 14 2013 21:27 GMT

#445

HuK picked into a group with the best vP in the world, and 3 of the top 11 vPs, all of whom are playing really well lately(although for Bomber that means a massive fall is imminent =p)... there's unfortunate and then there's that.

k3n705

Canada134 Posts

January 14 2013 21:28 GMT

#446

On January 15 2013 06:19 Shellshock1122 wrote:

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Oohhh, got it thanks. I must have been confusing round of 32 and 16.

Shellshock

United States97277 Posts

January 14 2013 21:29 GMT

#447

On January 15 2013 06:28 k3n705 wrote:

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Oohhh, got it thanks. I must have been confusing round of 32 and 16.

Yeah Round of 16 is where they pick each other all the way until the end.

SolarJto

United States260 Posts

January 14 2013 21:31 GMT

#448

A group with the most zergs is obviously the group of death, and that I mean death for creator

neptunusfisk

2286 Posts

January 14 2013 21:33 GMT

#449

13 zergs in round of 16 gogo!

Koerage

Netherlands1220 Posts

January 14 2013 21:37 GMT

#450

so many people to doubt MVP, i recall the last season counted him out... there are some epic finals possible but i hope MVP or another terran wins it (MVP for G5L throphy)

LimeNade

United States2125 Posts

January 14 2013 21:44 GMT

#451

On January 15 2013 06:37 Koerage wrote:
so many people to doubt MVP, i recall the last season counted him out... there are some epic finals possible but i hope MVP or another terran wins it (MVP for G5L throphy)

Yea but hes also been injured for so long now and hasn't taken off time to recover. So I think most people are skeptical for this reason and are rightly so justified. If he was in as much pain as it sounded like he was during last season I can't imagine its any better this season.

Luepert

United States1934 Posts

January 14 2013 21:48 GMT

#452

Hey Byul welcome to code S! Damn creator symbol life, that's tough. All other IM players have ok to good shots of making it I think.

On January 15 2013 06:44 LimeNade wrote:
Yea but hes also been injured for so long now and hasn't taken off time to recover. So I think most people are skeptical for this reason and are rightly so justified. If he was in as much pain as it sounded like he was during last season I can't imagine its any better this season.

More of this please, the more MVP doubt we can muster the better chance he gets. When he has no chance, he owns parting, squirtle and rain, when he's favored, he dies to life and MMA.

Schelim

Austria11528 Posts

January 14 2013 21:53 GMT

#453

MVP vs MKP finals again imo. it's been a while.

Tobblish

Sweden6404 Posts

January 14 2013 21:54 GMT

#454

Really stacked and a good choice of players for the last ever SC2 season.
Even if I would have liked some KeSPA guys not to be there instead of deserving players.

Good that Taeja got a pretty late group so he can fully recoup from his treatment.

TheDougler

Canada8324 Posts

January 14 2013 21:59 GMT

#455

On January 15 2013 05:30 Schelim wrote:

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technically it's possible since there is a group selection in the round of 16 and the bracket could end up working out in a way where they wouldn't meet before the finals (if they make it thorugh the ro32 first).

it would indeed be epic as fuck, but i don't think it's very likely =/

MKP vs MVP with a 7 game series would be the perfect way to end WoL I think.

Or MKP vs Nestea with MKP winning.

Honestly there's plenty of good possibilities, I'd love to see Keen take the whole thing and do a ceremony

Atrbyg

United States513 Posts

January 14 2013 22:02 GMT

#456

Dang all the groups are so stacked. Nice to see new maps though. Wonder what Icarus is like.

Herect

Brazil216 Posts

January 14 2013 22:03 GMT

#457

Where is the source for the new Map Pool? I can't find it anywhere.

Grobyc

Canada18410 Posts

January 14 2013 22:09 GMT

#458

Honestly I think group D is a lot stronger than a number of the other groups, can't see why it's got the least votes. But then again I don't really follow the pro scene as much as everyone else [image loading]

Shellshock

United States97277 Posts

January 14 2013 22:11 GMT

#459

On January 15 2013 07:09 Grobyc wrote:
Honestly I think group D is a lot stronger than a number of the other groups, can't see why it's got the least votes. But then again I don't really follow the pro scene as much as everyone else [image loading]

People are underrating B4 and YoDa probably