You don't see the logic? Now come on, that's easy. This is is the round of 16, all of the players have already been assigned a pokemon due to their personality traits and play styles. Why would you list them again? you can just review the ro32 again and look it up. And assigning them another different pokemon defeats the purpose of doing this whole thing in the first place.

aRyuujin

United States5049 Posts

September 23 2013 05:13 GMT

#45

soulkey pls destroy this group

Daswollvieh

5553 Posts

September 23 2013 07:36 GMT

#46

The monkey king will eat up the monkey boy. DRG #1

DinosaurPoop

687 Posts

September 23 2013 07:45 GMT

#47

Soulkey was just temporarily sucking the starcraft essence out of DRG for a while.
But now DRG took it back and is on track now!

usethis2

2164 Posts

September 23 2013 07:50 GMT

#48

I never understood why people thought DRG was down earlier this year, because while he had lost quite a few games it looked clear that he still maintained his form. Most of his losses that I remember were from a few unfortunate misengagements or against high-caliber terrans (e.g. Innovation) when Terrans had Hellbats and Z did not know how to deal with Widow Mines. One could say his play did not look as confident as it used to be, but that doesn't erase the excellent form he showed even when he lost.

Said that, it kind of sucks that he is in a Zerg heavy group. I don't think it's his strongest match-up and currently ZvZ seems like a match up where a lesser-skilled player can beat higher-skilled players more often than not, for one reason or another. If he drops out from this round due to ZvZ, it'd be a travesty for we'd be robbed of amazing ZvT and ZvP he would showcase in later rounds.

Lumi

United States1616 Posts

September 23 2013 07:55 GMT

#49

^-- I agree with you about people overdoing the "DRG is/was in a slump" bit. Pretty silly. I'm not too worried about the ZvZ here. He's DRG, and the only bad match-up i think he ever had for a period of time was ZvP, and that was way back in WoL. His ZvP now looks so good.

On September 23 2013 16:36 Daswollvieh wrote:
The monkey king will eat up the monkey boy. DRG #1

LOLOL!!!!!!!!! That is fucking hilarious.

AxionSteel

United States7754 Posts

September 23 2013 08:00 GMT

#50

Soulkey and Dear.

usethis2

2164 Posts

September 23 2013 08:03 GMT

#51

Yah. And many of his losses were to surging-in Kespa players. Not that he played bad, but he often lost games that he had huge leads in, by playing too cautiously. It seemed to me that he was under a great pressure as a former champion and as the face of elite eSF players against the incoming Kespa players. His skills, however, never really went away.

Lumi

United States1616 Posts

September 23 2013 08:07 GMT

#52

On September 23 2013 17:03 usethis2 wrote:
His skills, however, never really went away.

Yeah. Anytime he has ever thrown up his personal stream, I am instantly given all the affirmation I need. I feel this distinct sensation or awareness that this is the best first person zerg play I have ever seen, by a margin. So sexy. Total unf stream.

lichter

1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts

September 23 2013 08:08 GMT

#53

Raw mechanical skill never goes away

Decision making, strategy and understanding of the metagame usually fluctuate for a lot of players

Arguably DRG's decision making (carelessly running into widow mines, bad engagement decisions, etc) was what was missing for a while