HuK, who qualified through the American Qualifier, cancelled his participation and five players will qualify through the Open Brackets instead of four.
Poor Scarlett. herO[join] and Bomber are gonna be difficult opponents
I'd say if scarlett can't do it then Noone can. She definitely has a chance anyone else I'd say has about 1% chance she has 30-40% chance of advancing and I will definitely be cheering her on! haha
Group draws seem to be quite decent for the europeans; Happy, while certainly an underdog against a recovering DRG, certainly has his chances against Kingkong/open bracket. Grubby has it a bit tougher, but he avoided Bomber as well and at a good day he has at least a chance of beating one of them.
Open bracket looks quite good as well, hoping for Squirtle/Nestea/Feast/TargA/Sase to make it here (although those exact players aren´t possible with the bracket shaped as it is).
Nestea, scarlett, mvp, drg. All coming to my country. My fucking dreammmmmmmm. Last tourney the only Korean that was really notable was maybe Zenio, so the competition is going to be way fucking stacked this year. So excited to attend the rare sc2 event that happens in Singapore
I'm really grateful to IEM for hosting a second IEM singapore inspite of all the drama in the first one!
On November 22 2013 05:09 Ricemagical wrote: I hope its schedule doesn't overlap too much with dreamhack so I can watch both :D
If this is anything like last year, IEM will start when DreamHack ends and DreamHack will start when IEM ends, so look forward to not sleeping for four days while watching nonstop StarCraft II action... Oh, and expect a random player from the open bracket to win IEM and expect HerO to win DreamHack Winter again.
I like how on liquipedia it says Mvp, Bomber, Hack, and DRG are seeded directly into stage 2 based on WCS ranking when Oz is ranked higher than both Hack and DRG in WCS points and yet still has to compete in Stage 1. DRG is ranked 53, surely one of the 50 players above him would've loved to get seeded into group stage directly even without travel expense being covered.
On November 22 2013 05:09 Ricemagical wrote: I hope its schedule doesn't overlap too much with dreamhack so I can watch both :D
If this is anything like last year, IEM will start when DreamHack ends and DreamHack will start when IEM ends, so look forward to not sleeping for four days while watching nonstop StarCraft II action... Oh, and expect a random player from the open bracket to win IEM and expect HerO to win DreamHack Winter again.
On November 22 2013 05:42 argonautdice wrote: I like how on liquipedia it says Mvp, Bomber, Hack, and DRG are seeded directly into stage 2 based on WCS ranking when Oz is ranked higher than both Hack and DRG in WCS points and yet still has to compete in Stage 1. DRG is ranked 53, surely one of the 50 players above him would've loved to get seeded into group stage directly even without travel expense being covered.
I don't think wcs points matters awfully much. I think the reason DRG got over oz is that he is popular and Hack because he is terran and they wanted to even out the races.
On November 22 2013 05:42 argonautdice wrote: I like how on liquipedia it says Mvp, Bomber, Hack, and DRG are seeded directly into stage 2 based on WCS ranking when Oz is ranked higher than both Hack and DRG in WCS points and yet still has to compete in Stage 1. DRG is ranked 53, surely one of the 50 players above him would've loved to get seeded into group stage directly even without travel expense being covered.
We had a final list, and then people dropped. Due to the order in which replacements happened as others dropped out, this occurred. Obviously once we confirm someone is playing in X spot and books a flight for X day, we cannot suddenly tell them to turn up a day earlier to play open bracket.
Go go Happy! He's been the most consistent foreign Terran this year, and he's great to watch. After the way he lost in HSC, I wish he can make Ro4 here!
Probably San or Bomber to win.
Will be interesting to see Feast's level...IEM was his break out tournament. Is he being sent to Singapore by Millenium, or on his own?
Poor Scarlett. herO[join] and Bomber are gonna be difficult opponents
I'd say if scarlett can't do it then Noone can. She definitely has a chance anyone else I'd say has about 1% chance she has 30-40% chance of advancing and I will definitely be cheering her on! haha
This. hard group of course and I was a bit disappointed by her Homestory Cup performance, but I still believe in her.
Since Stefano quit Scarlett and TLO are the only zerg players left I'm rooting for!
Poor Scarlett. herO[join] and Bomber are gonna be difficult opponents
I'd say if scarlett can't do it then Noone can. She definitely has a chance anyone else I'd say has about 1% chance she has 30-40% chance of advancing and I will definitely be cheering her on! haha
This. hard group of course and I was a bit disappointed by her Homestory Cup performance, but I still believe in her.
Since Stefano quit Scarlett and TLO are the only zerg players left I'm rooting for!
Hopefully she doesn't burn out cause she's going to a tournament every weekend!
On November 22 2013 03:47 lisward wrote: Nestea, scarlett, mvp, drg. All coming to my country. My fucking dreammmmmmmm. Last tourney the only Korean that was really notable was maybe Zenio, so the competition is going to be way fucking stacked this year. So excited to attend the rare sc2 event that happens in Singapore
I'm really grateful to IEM for hosting a second IEM singapore inspite of all the drama in the first one!
On November 22 2013 03:47 lisward wrote: Nestea, scarlett, mvp, drg. All coming to my country. My fucking dreammmmmmmm. Last tourney the only Korean that was really notable was maybe Zenio, so the competition is going to be way fucking stacked this year. So excited to attend the rare sc2 event that happens in Singapore
I'm really grateful to IEM for hosting a second IEM singapore inspite of all the drama in the first one!
You forgot MC.
There was drama last year? What was it about?
Oh damn yeah MC. I only saw him briefly, he lost to Grubby and left. Oh it was more of League players complaining about a lot of stuff. Some were really stupid like how they wanted IEM Singapore to be a really big event, but the big complaint was pretty legitamate; they gave slots in the League of legends tournament to Dota 2 players instead of actual local league progamers, and the dota 2 players were extremely bad and got wiped, pretty embarrassing.
On November 22 2013 06:28 mikkmagro wrote: Go go Happy! He's been the most consistent foreign Terran this year, and he's great to watch. After the way he lost in HSC, I wish he can make Ro4 here!
Probably San or Bomber to win.
Will be interesting to see Feast's level...IEM was his break out tournament. Is he being sent to Singapore by Millenium, or on his own?
On November 22 2013 03:47 lisward wrote: Nestea, scarlett, mvp, drg. All coming to my country. My fucking dreammmmmmmm. Last tourney the only Korean that was really notable was maybe Zenio, so the competition is going to be way fucking stacked this year. So excited to attend the rare sc2 event that happens in Singapore
I'm really grateful to IEM for hosting a second IEM singapore inspite of all the drama in the first one!
You forgot MC.
There was drama last year? What was it about?
Oh damn yeah MC. I only saw him briefly, he lost to Grubby and left. Oh it was more of League players complaining about a lot of stuff. Some were really stupid like how they wanted IEM Singapore to be a really big event, but the big complaint was pretty legitamate; they gave slots in the League of legends tournament to Dota 2 players instead of actual local league progamers, and the dota 2 players were extremely bad and got wiped, pretty embarrassing.
What was more embarrassing was the LoL players who decided not to turn up at the last minute which resulted in the invites to the Dota 2 players. Also the crowds for the LoL games last year were pretty abysmal and it was a (pleasant) surprise to see that there was a bigger SC2 crowd than alot of people thought there would be.
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, I guess the king of wings is gone :'(
