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IEM New York Players Announced
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IntelEM
Germany128 Posts
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gingerfluffmuff
Austria4570 Posts
DRG San Life sOs Hero Its on :D. Edit: Long live DRG! | ||
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rave[wcr]
United States1166 Posts
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Killmouse
Austria5700 Posts
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lichter
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
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Olli
Austria24422 Posts
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Aeromi
France14461 Posts
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Xoronius
Germany6362 Posts
On September 29 2013 02:29 rave[wcr] wrote: y no innovation? Probably wants to practise. You can´t play every tournament, flying every weekend is not to good for your physical condition and Acer does´nt have infinite money to fly him around either. I prefer to see him practise and rest for a bit and then see him at his best shape at Blizzcon. I´m a bit sad about the invites; IEM has said at the beginning of the season, that they base the invites on WCS points and now we have Hyun at 1900, Stardust at 1600, Life at 1075 and Flash at 900 and the stage-2 invite is not the one with the most points, but with the loudest fanboys. | ||
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Aeromi
France14461 Posts
On September 29 2013 02:42 Xoronius wrote: Probably wants to practise. You can´t play every tournament, flying every weekend is not to good for your physical condition and Acer does´nt have infinite money to fly him around either. I prefer to see him practise and rest for a bit and then see him at his best shape at Blizzcon. I´m a bit sad about the invites; IEM has said at the beginning of the season, that they base the invites on WCS points and now we have Hyun at 1900, Stardust at 1600, Life at 1075 and Flash at 900 and the stage-2 invite is not the one with the most points, but with the loudest fanboys. Flash has to be invited because he declined his spot for the former MLG and he received a seed thanks to KeSPA. | ||
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Xoronius
Germany6362 Posts
On September 29 2013 02:44 Aeromi wrote: Flash has to be invited because he declined his spot for the former MLG and he received a seed thanks to KeSPA. I know, why he is invited, but I still am disappointed, that IEM furfills MLG´s old promises instead of sticking to their own invite policy, which he clearly is not a part of. | ||
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Aeromi
France14461 Posts
On September 29 2013 02:47 Xoronius wrote: I know, why he is invited, but I still am disappointed, that IEM furfills MLG´s old promises instead of sticking to their own invite policy, which he clearly is not a part of. I don't like this choice too but when you have Flash in your tournament you are sure to have a good viewer numbers... | ||
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Xoronius
Germany6362 Posts
On September 29 2013 02:50 Aeromi wrote: I don't like this choice too but when you have Flash in your tournament you are sure to have a good viewer numbers... You sure have, but a fair competition should be more worth than that. Also Flash is a decent player, he probably could make it from the open bracket into the tournament on his own (as long as he does´nt run into DRG), so there is no need to change the bracket for that. | ||
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PhoenixVoid
Canada32743 Posts
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Holytornados
United States1022 Posts
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Master of DalK
Canada1801 Posts
Also, NaNi and HuK fighting~~ | ||
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Diaresta
United States597 Posts
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JustPassingBy
10776 Posts
On September 29 2013 02:44 Aeromi wrote: Flash has to be invited because he declined his spot for the former MLG and he received a seed thanks to KeSPA. But what does MLG have to do with ESL? Yes, this is an sanctioned event by blizzard, since it carries WCS points, but I doubt that blizzard required an invitation of Flash. (not that I mind seeing him) | ||
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Boucot
France15997 Posts
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partydude89
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Waxangel
United States33492 Posts
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Pyloss
Germany1515 Posts
After he won wcs eu ofc. | ||
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Aeromi
France14461 Posts
On September 29 2013 03:02 JustPassingBy wrote: But what does MLG have to do with ESL? Yes, this is an sanctioned event by blizzard, since it carries WCS points, but I doubt that blizzard required an invitation of Flash. (not that I mind seeing him) MLG, ESL and DH have a partnership, so it could matter. | ||
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Undead1993
Germany17651 Posts
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Abominous
Croatia1625 Posts
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bosnia
Canada223 Posts
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Darkhorse
United States23455 Posts
Should be a hell of a tourney, and one to watch for the WCS points. | ||
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messioso
Denmark635 Posts
We have the highest ranked WCS players who applied to come. We spoke to many players who we thought would come and many rejected for various reasons, some don't need the points, some couldn't afford, some want to focus on WCS and some just didn't want to go to New York. | ||
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TumNarDok
Germany854 Posts
On September 29 2013 03:02 JustPassingBy wrote: But what does MLG have to do with ESL? Yes, this is an sanctioned event by blizzard, since it carries WCS points, but I doubt that blizzard required an invitation of Flash. (not that I mind seeing him) It is more likely in that context that some korean master mind organization took over the flight cost and such. It really looks to me as that its still centralized decision who of the licensed players they send to overseas events. | ||
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Hadronsbecrazy
United Kingdom551 Posts
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HolydaKing
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Xoronius
Germany6362 Posts
On September 29 2013 03:23 TumNarDok wrote: It is more likely in that context that some korean master mind organization took over the flight cost and such. It really looks to me as that its still centralized decision who of the licensed players they send to overseas events. An "anonymus korean mastermind organisation" probably decided, that he is going and for example SK not. But they have no control an the IEM invitation system (At least I hope so) and IEM does not cover flight costs and stuff for wildcards anyway, only for qualifiers (which makes sence from my point of view). On September 29 2013 03:26 HolydaKing wrote: Had to check who Todeskampf is, lol. Was thinking he's German, turned out he's from USA. I fell for that trap various times now. I should be able to learn it, since he does´nt play EPS, but somehow I always forget. | ||
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Abominous
Croatia1625 Posts
On September 29 2013 03:22 messioso wrote: Should be clarified for those unaware. We have the highest ranked WCS players who applied to come. We spoke to many players who we thought would come and many rejected for various reasons, some don't need the points, some couldn't afford, some want to focus on WCS and some just didn't want to go to New York. Greetings fellow Tek-9er! | ||
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KaiserKieran
United States615 Posts
I can hope  | ||
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Steins;Gate
1422 Posts
On September 29 2013 03:23 Hadronsbecrazy wrote: Please KTFlash, do something epic this tournament or in GSL Code S :D Hope he makes it out tmrw. Good line-up, good way to start off my reading week lol | ||
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smashlloyd20
251 Posts
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Xoronius
Germany6362 Posts
On September 29 2013 03:32 smashlloyd20 wrote: Oh come on what happened to invites based on WCS points?? I really wanted to see Mvp there... Invites are still based on WCS points, Mvp probably just declined. The only exception on that is the Flash-invite. | ||
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oneill12
Romania1222 Posts
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Zealously
East Gorteau22261 Posts
Oh and ST is really cool too | ||
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SamirDuran
Philippines895 Posts
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Larkin
United Kingdom7161 Posts
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HolydaKing
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Abominous
Croatia1625 Posts
On September 29 2013 03:41 HolydaKing wrote: Also, this tournament is very very interesting simply alone for the fact that it decides who goes Blizzcon. Cheering hard for ForGG, but I'm not very faithful. Yeah it's not like there are ongoing WCS Seasons and Regional finals to go before Blizzcon :D | ||
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xenoZhang
China142 Posts
wonder how many points he should earn in WCS EU to make it Blizzcon final | ||
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HolydaKing
21254 Posts
On September 29 2013 03:44 Abominous wrote: Yeah it's not like there are ongoing WCS Seasons and Regional finals to go before Blizzcon :D Well lol, you're right, still very important to win this one. | ||
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Advantageous
China1350 Posts
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TimKim0713
Korea (South)221 Posts
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negativedge
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d_runk
124 Posts
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elmoDD
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DifuntO
Greece2376 Posts
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Black Gun
Germany4482 Posts
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elfonse
416 Posts
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GulpyBlinkeyes
United States1449 Posts
gogo Flash vs. TLO finals! | ||
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Siphonn
United States298 Posts
On September 29 2013 05:34 elfonse wrote: I thought siphonn retired I did. This is going to be my last tournament. I have played 3 games in two months. I applied because I live right outside of NYC, and I didn't wanna just quit without a fight. I am probably gonna start practicing for this tomorrow since I don't have classes or work and hopefully figure something out for this tournament in 10 days. I am still not coming back no matter what the result, real life has the best of me currently. | ||
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Bagration
United States18282 Posts
On September 29 2013 03:49 xenoZhang wrote: No MMA wonder how many points he should earn in WCS EU to make it Blizzcon final If he beats Nerchio, he makes top 4 EU (again), and also qualifies for Season finals. I think that basically seals the deal for him (less than 5% chance of him not making it in that scenario IIRC). He could also lose to Nerchio, but if he still managed to grab the 5th spot to the Season finals, he still would have a shot. | ||
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slowbacontron
United States7722 Posts
On September 29 2013 05:49 Siphonn wrote: I did. This is going to be my last tournament. I have played 3 games in two months. I applied because I live right outside of NYC, and I didn't wanna just quit without a fight. I am probably gonna start practicing for this tomorrow since I don't have classes or work and hopefully figure something out for this tournament in 10 days. I am still not coming back no matter what the result, real life has the best of me currently. stay TRUE to starcraft! | ||
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CosmicSpiral
United States15275 Posts
On September 29 2013 05:35 GulpyBlinkeyes wrote: Nice. I was going to be at NYCC anyway doing some panels and stuff, but when I saw the initial qualified players list I was a little underwhelmed (they're all great players, but not really any of my personal favorites aside from Polt). Between the wildcard and open bracket players, though, there's a ton of players I'd love to see now. Gonna watch IEM any time I get a chance to escape from my booth. gogo Flash vs. TLO finals! Which booth are you going to be at? | ||
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Dodgin
Canada39254 Posts
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Schelim
Austria11528 Posts
so basically this is gonna be a fun tournament but the finals will almost certainly be Polt vs DRG. not sure who wins that. | ||
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Xoronius
Germany6362 Posts
On September 29 2013 06:14 Schelim wrote: i kinda expected the open bracket to have more players. so basically this is gonna be a fun tournament but the finals will almost certainly be Polt vs DRG. not sure who wins that. I don´t think, that a final is certain at this point, HerO, sOs, Naniwa or Curious could all eliminate Polt/DRG. Although I hope for DRG to do well, not all of his Matchups are on his vT level again. | ||
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slowbacontron
United States7722 Posts
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Noocta
France12578 Posts
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TheFish7
United States2824 Posts
On September 29 2013 06:17 Xoronius wrote: I don´t think, that a final is certain at this point, HerO, sOs, Naniwa or Curious could all eliminate Polt/DRG. Although I hope for DRG to do well, not all of his Matchups are on his vT level again. Can't forget about Life and StarDust either DRG fighting! | ||
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Aeromi
France14461 Posts
On September 29 2013 06:27 Noocta wrote: No MMA might make him miss Blizzcon, no ? If he wins his match and gets to RO4 he has 95% to make Blizzcon. | ||
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Noobity
United States871 Posts
Their invite list is really a shame though. There are so many players on the cusp of going to the grand finals that deserve the shot imo. Oh well, it'll be interesting that's for sure. | ||
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Boucot
France15997 Posts
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Targe
United Kingdom14103 Posts
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las91
United States5080 Posts
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emanresU
Germany393 Posts
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aLt_F4tw
Canada47 Posts
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jax1492
United States1632 Posts
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Bumblebee
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VyingsP
France174 Posts
On September 29 2013 07:11 Bumblebee wrote: I think you people misunderstand the invites. These invites are 100 % the people with the most WCS points available that wanted to compete at IEM New York. So they went down the list and people kept declining until they reached these players. Then I don't get for example why Flash is in Wildcard and Life is in Open Bracket when the latter has more points than the former ? Am I missing something ? | ||
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ShowTheLights
Korea (South)1702 Posts
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Cheren
United States2911 Posts
On September 29 2013 07:16 VyingsP wrote: Then I don't get for example why Flash is in Wildcard and Life is in Open Bracket when the latter has more points than the former ? Am I missing something ? Yeah it's definitely not WCS points, they're not fooling anybody. StarDust, Life, and Hyun all have more points than Flash and all three are in open bracket. | ||
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Yonnua
United Kingdom2331 Posts
On September 29 2013 07:25 Cheren wrote: Yeah it's definitely not WCS points, they're not fooling anybody. StarDust, Life, and Hyun all have more points than Flash and all three are in open bracket. Maybe they thought they couldn't make it and only found out later? It's entirely possible. | ||
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slowbacontron
United States7722 Posts
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TriZ
Belgium379 Posts
Kinda hope Life shows he still has it though.. | ||
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shid0x
Korea (South)5014 Posts
Need to breed more. Otherwise cool lineup,i wish flash would clean up the DH mess :p | ||
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tar
Germany991 Posts
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Glenn313
United States475 Posts
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Dodgin
Canada39254 Posts
On September 29 2013 07:25 Cheren wrote: Yeah it's definitely not WCS points, they're not fooling anybody. StarDust, Life, and Hyun all have more points than Flash and all three are in open bracket. On the other hand they're holding a SC2 event in the NA timezone so you can't blame them too much for trying to boost their viewers numbers with bs invites. | ||
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DRTnOOber
New Zealand476 Posts
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shid0x
Korea (South)5014 Posts
 TLO, ForGGIf one of them finnish first. Gonna be hard but who knows | ||
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Sumahi
Guam5609 Posts
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TheDougler
Canada8306 Posts
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slowbacontron
United States7722 Posts
On September 29 2013 08:51 TheDougler wrote: How were the wildcards decided? "These four wildcard slots were filled depending on players' previous tournament performances and are thereby players to be reckoned with." aka we don't know, that's what makes them so wild | ||
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Cheren
United States2911 Posts
On September 29 2013 08:15 Dodgin wrote: On the other hand they're holding a SC2 event in the NA timezone so you can't blame them too much for trying to boost their viewers numbers with bs invites. That's a good point, even LoL semifinals only get half the viewers when they're at NA primetime instead of EU. | ||
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Creager
Germany1920 Posts
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shid0x
Korea (South)5014 Posts
On September 29 2013 08:58 Creager wrote: damn, so few terrans again... and yet we will somehow manage to win  | ||
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Jacmert
Canada1709 Posts
Just in case it happens and I can quote myself | ||
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GulpyBlinkeyes
United States1449 Posts
On September 29 2013 05:56 CosmicSpiral wrote: Which booth are you going to be at? I'm an artist for ShiftyLook, which is a little branch of Namco that does comics/animations/new games based on their franchises. I don't know where it will be in relation to where IEM is taking place, but I'm hoping it's not too much of a hike! | ||
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Osiccor
Canada128 Posts
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mnck
Denmark1518 Posts
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Darkhorse
United States23455 Posts
On September 29 2013 08:53 slowbacontron wrote: "These four wildcard slots were filled depending on players' previous tournament performances and are thereby players to be reckoned with." aka we don't know, that's what makes them so wild Looks to be just fan favorites. I mean it's their tournament so they have a right to choose who they invite I guess. Some make pretty good sense but others are pretty wild. | ||
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juvenal
2448 Posts
On September 29 2013 03:36 Zealously wrote: LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFE <3 Oh and ST is really cool too must be painful they have to invite him every time! Crash and burn life! i do this right? | ||
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NoGasfOu
United States1117 Posts
Not sure why sOs is there. He's basically guaranteed for Blizzcon already. | ||
NovemberstOrm
Canada16217 Posts
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SeraNyan
United States16 Posts
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InsidiA
Canada1169 Posts
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Lumi
United States1616 Posts
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jackslater
Russian Federation604 Posts
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Bumblebee
3237 Posts
Example is that we declined TLO at first to the event and they went down the WCS pts list. We came back some time later and said ok, we would actually like to do him anyway. By that time Grubby and DIMAGA had been offered the slots, so we had to wait until they decided whether or not they wanted in. When they didn't want in, we got the slot back since Dario was the highest ranked WCS player that wanted to play the tournament at that given time. | ||
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SinCitta
Germany2127 Posts
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cookiz
Burma181 Posts
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las91
United States5080 Posts
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
FLASH amg im there :D Woop IEM NY <3 | ||
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MrMotionPicture
United States4327 Posts
But it looks like it will be a good event! | ||
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Baroninthetree
United States473 Posts
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AtlasEndured
United States60 Posts
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althaz
Australia1001 Posts
On September 30 2013 05:32 Baroninthetree wrote: Where is taeja? At home lying on his bed of money. True story. Pretty pumped for this tournament! Huk fighting! | ||
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SorrowShine
698 Posts
On September 29 2013 03:13 Abominous wrote: Not gonna lie, was hoping for Jaedong Same here | ||
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Zerg.Zilla
Hungary5029 Posts
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goody153
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DJ_sc2
Sweden105 Posts
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Lorch
Germany3686 Posts
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Daswollvieh
5553 Posts
And then there´s always this little tiny miniscule belief, which like atomic decay only gets smaller without ever vanishing, that this could be Demuslim´s break-out tournament. | ||
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Burns
United States2300 Posts
He is fun to watch | ||
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movac
Canada494 Posts
If the wild card invites goes in the order of WCS points, I'm actually surprised it went all the way down to Flash at the 40th spot. It would make sense for MC and Hyun to go to help give them greater assurance that they'd have enough points for BlizzCon. TeaJa would have made sense too since both him and HerO are going to be in the USA anyways for WCS America and help them be used to the time zone in advance. | ||
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Wubbles
United States120 Posts
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lantz
United States762 Posts
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