I think Scarlett has a good shot of making it out because MMA and Alive are pretty mediocre these days, but saying that Maru has a SLIGHT advantage vs Scarlett....give me a break. Maru is currently the reigning KR champion and you are going to tell me hes going to lose to a foreigner?

Waxangel

United States33597 Posts

August 22 2013 13:57 GMT

#88

On August 22 2013 21:39 sVnteen wrote:
I don't see any reason why you would predict the same match differently if it happens twice but I guess we kinda all want scarlett to advance

reminds me a little bit of liquid winning the best "foreign" team award in 2012 ^^

predicting the specific sequence of a dual tournament style group is basically a shot in the dark anyway D:

Weavel

Finland9223 Posts

August 22 2013 14:24 GMT

#89

MARUMARUMARUMARU

Melrik

United States2 Posts

August 22 2013 14:52 GMT

#90

Personally, I doesn't matter to me whom anyone says player A will beat player B. As a fan of StarCraft I can not think of 16 other players that I would rather see all play at the same time. I'm waiting anxiously to watch all these games.

andrewlt

United States7702 Posts

August 22 2013 15:02 GMT

#91

I like the hooded Maru on the front page pic. He can stand in as the new villain of the D3 expansion.

metroid composite

Canada231 Posts

August 22 2013 15:37 GMT

#92

On August 22 2013 22:50 Irre wrote:
but saying that Maru has a SLIGHT advantage vs Scarlett....give me a break. Maru is currently the reigning KR champion and you are going to tell me hes going to lose to a foreigner?

Aligulac is 52-48 on Maru vs Scarlett, for what it's worth. According to Aligulac, her odds look better against Maru's TvZ than they do against MMA's TvZ.

Also, does Scarlett really qualify as a foreigner right now? She's been living in Korea and training in a Korean team house for the last...what...six months? She tweets in Korean some percentage of the time. She hovers between 8th-16th on the Korean GM ladder. Not to mention she beat MVP, BBongBBonb, and GanZi on the GSL stage. Surely she at least has graduated from "foreigner" to "korean B teamer" by now....

Darthsanta13

United States564 Posts

August 22 2013 15:54 GMT

#93

On August 23 2013 00:37 metroid composite wrote:

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I feel that Aligulac sometimes doesn't handle significant changes in performance over a short period of time well, especially in Korea where Maru's entire rise has come in the space of ~30 games. From the start of Maru's run in OSL (June 20) he's played 32 games counted by Aligulac. MMA in the same time period has played 79 games, and Scalett has played 53, and neither Scarlett or MMA has exhibited the same jump in performance that Maru has. So I would be inclined to say that Maru is a bit underrated by Aligulac. I'm excited/hopeful to see how they match up if they end up playing each other.

balukaz

Belgium5 Posts

August 22 2013 16:09 GMT

#94

I just can't believe how many maru doubters there are. Personally I predict Maru to sweep the group 4-0, KR premier league(osl/gsl) is the hardest sc2 competetion there is. KR season 1, 2 and 3 will be the 3 hardest tournaments of 2013, the global finals will only come in 4th place.
As for 2nd place I pick MMA , seeing the atc cup finals I give him the edge above Scarlett in the match up, and Alive's recent history doesn't give him a lot of chance in my opninion.
On a side note: I really hope Maru plays with the OptimusPrime tag, that would be so awesome. That would technically also counter the artosis-curse if Dan predicts Maru to win, since there won't be a Maru :D

Misacampo

167 Posts

August 22 2013 16:11 GMT

#95

tbh I don't ever think I've seen tl predictions go AGAINST scarlett.

Muffloe

Sweden6061 Posts

August 22 2013 16:32 GMT

#96

On August 23 2013 01:11 Misacampo wrote:
tbh I don't ever think I've seen tl predictions go AGAINST scarlett.

Tbh it sounds like you are trying to expose some kind of propaganda..

lolfail9001

Russian Federation40190 Posts

August 22 2013 16:39 GMT

#97

On August 23 2013 01:09 balukaz wrote:
I just can't believe how many maru doubters there are. Personally I predict Maru to sweep the group 4-0, KR premier league(osl/gsl) is the hardest sc2 competetion there is. KR season 1, 2 and 3 will be the 3 hardest tournaments of 2013, the global finals will only come in 4th place.
As for 2nd place I pick MMA , seeing the atc cup finals I give him the edge above Scarlett in the match up, and Alive's recent history doesn't give him a lot of chance in my opninion.
On a side note: I really hope Maru plays with the OptimusPrime tag, that would be so awesome. That would technically also counter the artosis-curse if Dan predicts Maru to win, since there won't be a Maru :D

Maru is inconsistent. Heck, i won't wonder if he will bomb out in 3rd place from his GSL Ro32 group. Also, do not forget that on my memory it is one of first events outside of Korea Maru will attend. So you never know.