The groups with Nani Lucifron and Bly is the group of death. At least if you re Naniwa. Lucifron and Bly are beasts vs Protoss.
+ uzer has shown great play in the Challenger League. If Nani manages to qualify I think he can win it all.

Darkhorse

United States23455 Posts

June 14 2013 00:09 GMT

#42

B C and G are all very interesting.

PVJ

Hungary5221 Posts

June 14 2013 01:13 GMT

#43

gogo Mvp.

ColtraneL

France248 Posts

June 14 2013 01:35 GMT

#44

I really feel the group D is full of talent, I've seen Dayshi perform for too long of a time, he's kind of the new Lucifron from when he returned into the scene (around DH Valencia) and Finale had a very good performance back in the EG team leagues playing only online, he has been good for a long time, reached code S a couple of time I think, if he can play live he is going to be tough.

Otherwise, according to recent forms, I'm feeling group G, E and H as some of the hardest to predict and probably the more interesting. Too many players from group B and C have been out of form lately though they could make a comeback. But I feel like group A and F have too big disparities in level

Zarahtra

Iceland4053 Posts

June 14 2013 01:39 GMT

#45

C and G will be interesting. The only groups where I feel anyone can make it through. B is probably next in line, but the rest have clear favourites.

On June 14 2013 07:47 FearAndSurprise wrote:

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Has ToD been doing that well lately? I just know that TitaN and SortOf have both gotten far in big Euro tournaments before so it doesn't seem like they are at all behind him in skill level unless he's been training really hard!

Edit: I thought sLivko was in that group, being Russian like Happy... Happy probably least likely to get out of that group

You do realize that Happy is #37 on aligulac and #7 on TLPD? He also ended up in 8th spot I believe in WCS EU. I'm not really a fan of his, but he's the #1 favourite out of that group.

GTPGlitch

5061 Posts

June 14 2013 01:53 GMT

#46

ForGG and Bunny face off again?XD

FearAndSurprise

Canada48 Posts

June 14 2013 01:59 GMT

#47

On June 14 2013 10:39 Zarahtra wrote:
You do realize that Happy is #37 on aligulac and #7 on TLPD? He also ended up in 8th spot I believe in WCS EU. I'm not really a fan of his, but he's the #1 favourite out of that group.

Haha I did not realize! I have never really seen him do that well in tournaments, cool though

I am not sure how accurate TLPD is in terms of the actual skill of players, but looking at his recent results he seems to be doing pretty well lately, make the group even more interesting

Edit: I just remember him as the Banshee guy

lichter

1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts

June 14 2013 02:01 GMT

#48

Groups look pretty strong and well contested! Which is a good thing. Moving forward I think WCS is helping a lot in improving the competitiveness of EU. So maaaaaybe this whole thing might work out after all

trada

Germany347 Posts

June 14 2013 02:03 GMT

#49

loving this already!

I hope they can get apollo to cast again

ShowTheLights

Korea (South)1689 Posts

June 14 2013 02:22 GMT

#50

Uhh.. Bagration, where are you? Do you SEE MMA's group?!

-.-

Ace1123

Philippines1187 Posts

June 14 2013 02:37 GMT

#51

MVP for a 2 peat please!!!!!!!

winthrop

Hong Kong956 Posts

June 14 2013 02:41 GMT

#52

Jurgen for the win

Hunterai

Thailand842 Posts

June 14 2013 02:42 GMT

#53

LOL at Mvp with 93% of finishing in top 2
Almost never seen that good odd from aligulac before

Boucot

France15997 Posts

June 14 2013 02:45 GMT

#54

On June 14 2013 08:14 StarVe wrote:

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A and E are at about the same level as the weaker two groups imo. A only has Mvp and then everyone is very beatable. D is underrated for me, it's pretty damn scary considering Dayshi's shape lately and Dimaga's tendency to perform well offline. I feel like HasuObs has also done relatively well for himself recently (I thought his early HotS results were not that good at all) and Finale is a very solid run-of-the-mill Korean although he'll probably play with lag once again.

And H really is not thaaat easy, if you compare them to A, Mvp is better than ToD, but I'd say Happy>Beasty, SortOf>Tefel and TitaN>elfi, also ToD>elfi if you want to switch that.

@juicyjames: uzer is teamless afaik and there's no teamless logo in your team listings, you sure you didn't confuse him with Fuzer, because Fuzer is the one who just rejoined Menace iirc

Yeah, group E, I didn't really pay attention to this one but indeed, it's not really scary. You're right about group A vs H but I don't know, Mvp's name by himself makes the group harder for me. :D

About group D, yes Dayshi is an absolute beast right now, yes DIMAGA is always strong offline but I don't find HasuObs and finale particularly scary. OK finale is a Protoss from MVP but he didn't qualify easily for the Challenger League and even in Challenger he only finished 2nd in a group with Bunny, KrasS and Harstem. It's very possible that Dayshi finishes first in this group. I hope so. :p

Frankon

3054 Posts

June 14 2013 04:02 GMT

#55

Sort of happy for Tod. He might have a chance

Liquid`Snute

Norway839 Posts

June 14 2013 04:03 GMT

#56

Group E breaks my heart

Littlesheep

Canada217 Posts

June 14 2013 04:30 GMT

#57

wait.... they still haven't region locked it?

Emkan

Sweden2 Posts

June 14 2013 04:31 GMT

#58

What happend to the qualifiers? i have been keeping my eyes open for the eu qualifiers but I havent seen anything anounced

Azhrak

Finland1196 Posts

June 14 2013 04:33 GMT

#59

On June 14 2013 07:01 juicyjames wrote:
Four players per group. GSL/Dual Tournament/Swiss format. Best of threes. Online.

It's not really a Swiss system as far as I know, since in a Swiss system players play each other only once, and in a Dual Tournament format the last match can be a rematch.