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On April 20 2013 05:42 StarVe wrote:Show nested quote +On April 20 2013 05:37 Shellshock1122 wrote: Are all of the games played live or are they casting replays? I'm obviously not 100% sure but I'd bet most of my belongings on it being live, can't imagine ESL being that stupid. Hopefully. just wanted to be sure
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I love the 3 or 4 group of death polls. Maybe we should add them all up for an even more accurate poll!!!!
Definitely think the groups are pretty well-balanced. Not too many where I think two players will obviously come out on top and that's that (except maybe that MVP group......). Really excited for Groups A, E, H though. Love to see Naniwa / Sase / MMA play, especially with such solid players in the groups.
Also, having seen SortOf and Mana play, I definitely think H is the toughest group. I'd say Feast also a possibility of winning the group having seen him play (relatively) consistently in the qualifiers and other matches.
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Really happy for ToD ! Congratz !
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On April 20 2013 05:46 Blargh wrote: I love the 3 or 4 group of death polls. Maybe we should add them all up for an even more accurate poll!!!!
Definitely think the groups are pretty well-balanced. Not too many where I think two players will obviously come out on top and that's that (except maybe that MVP group......). Really excited for Groups A, E, H though. Love to see Naniwa / Sase / MMA play, especially with such solid players in the groups.
Also, having seen SortOf and Mana play, I definitely think H is the toughest group. I'd say Feast also a possibility of winning the group having seen him play (relatively) consistently in the qualifiers and other matches. they're all the same poll id. it was just people editing their post to move it further up the page
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how awasome would it be if no korean moved to the next round ^^
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Mvp got a really easy group ;o
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On April 20 2013 05:47 Shellshock1122 wrote:Show nested quote +On April 20 2013 05:46 Blargh wrote: I love the 3 or 4 group of death polls. Maybe we should add them all up for an even more accurate poll!!!!
Definitely think the groups are pretty well-balanced. Not too many where I think two players will obviously come out on top and that's that (except maybe that MVP group......). Really excited for Groups A, E, H though. Love to see Naniwa / Sase / MMA play, especially with such solid players in the groups.
Also, having seen SortOf and Mana play, I definitely think H is the toughest group. I'd say Feast also a possibility of winning the group having seen him play (relatively) consistently in the qualifiers and other matches. they're all the same poll id. it was just people editing their post to move it further up the page Ya, just teasing ^^
On April 20 2013 05:47 Vertitto wrote: how awasome would it be if no korean moved to the next round ^^ While I severely doubt that any of them except for maybe Shuttle will fail to go through, I think it'd really do well for the EU scene. If the players are able to beat people like MMA and MVP, then I think that would give a lot of European players more enthusiasm for it? Or something like that. Eh, who knows, probably won't happen anyway ^_^.
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On April 20 2013 05:29 StarVe wrote:Show nested quote +On April 20 2013 04:59 TumNarDok wrote:Keep in mind that the predictions in % are not equal to the predicted outcome of the dual tournament structure Plus, some players will better prepare for specific opponents than others wich will change the predicitons in unknown ways. + Show Spoiler + Group A has
ForGG > Bunny Sase< slivko
ForGG > slivko Bunny > Sase
slivko < Bunny
ForGG and Bunny advance
Updated to reflect matchup predictions! :D Keep in mind that as long as you do the swiss prediction entry correct, the system will take into account who meets who in what round
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I'm so hyped ^_^ Too bad they can't bring all the players in a studio Korean like . :d
Go Stephani, go Dayshii, go Feast ! ~
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my prediction: Group A (April 23rd) (T)ForGG (P)SaSe
Group B (April 24th) (T)LucifroN (T)Happy
Group C (April 30th) (Z)Ret (T)ThorZaIN
Group D (May 1st) (T)Mvp (P)Socke
Group E (May 2nd) (P)NaNiwa (T)Shuttle
Group F (May 7th) (Z)Nerchio (T)Dayshi
Group G (May 8th) (Z)Stephano (P)BabyKnight
Group H (May 9th) (T)MMA (P)MaNa
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On April 20 2013 05:54 Blargh wrote:Show nested quote +On April 20 2013 05:47 Shellshock1122 wrote:On April 20 2013 05:46 Blargh wrote: I love the 3 or 4 group of death polls. Maybe we should add them all up for an even more accurate poll!!!!
Definitely think the groups are pretty well-balanced. Not too many where I think two players will obviously come out on top and that's that (except maybe that MVP group......). Really excited for Groups A, E, H though. Love to see Naniwa / Sase / MMA play, especially with such solid players in the groups.
Also, having seen SortOf and Mana play, I definitely think H is the toughest group. I'd say Feast also a possibility of winning the group having seen him play (relatively) consistently in the qualifiers and other matches. they're all the same poll id. it was just people editing their post to move it further up the page Ya, just teasing ^^ Show nested quote +On April 20 2013 05:47 Vertitto wrote: how awasome would it be if no korean moved to the next round ^^ While I severely doubt that any of them except for maybe Shuttle will fail to go through, I think it'd really do well for the EU scene. If the players are able to beat people like MMA and MVP, then I think that would give a lot of European players more enthusiasm for it? Or something like that. Eh, who knows, probably won't happen anyway ^_^. Well, two mvp koreans that were poised to quallify with ease did not make it having 4 chances. Do not say Euro-only Ro16 is impossible ; )
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On April 20 2013 05:32 Zenbrez wrote: I'm amazed people think H is best
What? I am amazed someone thinks anything else ^.^
MMA has been crushing it as of late, Scarlett which have sick good ZvT have said she cannot beat him in practice. For me MMA is the favorite to take the tournament, I hope not, but I am not sure who is going to stop him. Mana might be the best performing foreigner so far in HotS, going 9-2 in ATC against Koreans only recently.
Feast looked solid as hell in the qualifier and SortOf is insanely underrated. The guy beat like 7-8 pro Koreans in succession to grab a spot in last NASL final. In which he btw defeated Hyun 3-0 only a few weeks before Hyun was in the GSL final.
So yeah (cough) I say that it is a pretty good group
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Personally haven't been that impressed by ForGG, HasuObs, ThorZAiN, TITAN, or Nerchio lately. With that in mind:
Group A: + Show Spoiler +
Group B + Show Spoiler +
Group C + Show Spoiler +
Group D + Show Spoiler +
Group E + Show Spoiler +
Group F + Show Spoiler +
Group G + Show Spoiler +
Group H + Show Spoiler +
I'm expecting a really good run from NaNiwa. Say what you want about his numerous attitude issues, but between his ability to take games off of any Korean in PvT and PvP and the fact that most Zergs are going to die early in the tournament (It's probably true), I think he'll do well. Plus, NaNiwa is the most successful foreigner in a Code S style tournament now that Jinro has retired.
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Very nice race distribution, going to be fun to watch this. I wonder if ESL did that when they picked the groups so it's impossible to get more than 2players of the same race in one group. Anyone know?
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On April 20 2013 05:48 Dodgin wrote: Mvp got a really easy group ;o Gonna laugh if Mvp doesn't advance XD
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GOGO Mvp!!!
Wish the casters were better though.
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On April 20 2013 06:09 Shinta) wrote:Gonna laugh if Mvp doesn't advance XD
It's possible if he tries to play from korea, hope he doesn't throw away such an important tournament by doing that.
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On April 20 2013 06:05 DavoS wrote: Personally haven't been that impressed by ForGG, HasuObs, ThorZAiN, TITAN, or Nerchio lately.
ForGG beat HerO and TaeJa twice today, I don't think that Bunny is better than TaeJa.
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After all the handwringing about the new WCS its pretty good to see a GSL Europe emerge.
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