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ASUS ROG announces the initial groups for ASUS ROG Winter 2014 with 32 top tier players duking it out for the prize pool of $25 000 USD and 4000 WCS points.
The first group stage of ASUS ROG Winter 2014 starts off on January 31st 2014 at 12:00 GMT (+00:00). It includes 32 high caliber players divided into eight groups of four which are played in WCS style double elimination format with all matches being best-of-5. Only the top 16 players continue to the second group stage which is played in a similar fashion right after the initial groups. The playoffs are played on the second day of the tournament on February 1st starting at 12:00 GMT (+00:00).
Roster changes
The first groups have now finally been drawn and we apologise for the delay which is due to late roster changes. Unfortunately   Ai.Strelok, Empire.Kas,   Acer.Nerchio and Acer.Bly have cancelled their participation to the event. They have been replaced by  Alliance.SortOf,  Fnatic.Naama, Property.MorroW and Menace.Protosser whom we thank for being available in such a short notice.
Group Stage 1 - January 31, 12:00 GMT (+00:00)
The first matches are player 1 vs player 4 and player 2 vs player 3.
Group Stage 2 - January 31, 17:30 GMT (+00:00)
Group A: 1.1 | 8.1 | 4.2 | 5.2
Group B: 2.1 | 7.1 | 3.2 | 6.2
Group C: 3.1 | 6.1 | 2.2 | 7.2
Group D: 4.1 | 5.1 | 1.2 | 8.2
Playoffs - February 1, 12:00 GMT (+00:00)
Ro8 A: A.1 vs B.2
Ro8 B: C.1 vs D.2
Ro8 C: B.1 vs A.2
Ro8 D: D.1 vs C.2
This time we have decided to announce the full tournament layout beforehand and not do any sort of random draw during the tournament. This way we hope to compensate the fact that the group stages are played on the same day, and thus leave little to no time for players to prepare for their individual opponents. With the double elimination groups there should be no real risk of intentional losing for the sometimes more attractive second place, especially when the groups are all played at the same time.
More info
For more info about the event please visit www.asusrogtournament.com or read the announcement thread here on TeamLiquid.net. For recent updates please follow @ROGtournament on Twitter.
ASUS ROG
Republic of Gamers is a gaming sub brand of ASUS that is comprised of cutting edge hardware tailored for serious gamers. The product branches include; Motherboards, Graphics Cards, LCD Monitors, Gaming Peripherals, Desktops and Notebooks. This ASUS ROG Tournament will be solely powered by ASUS and ROG hardware.
ASUS ROG Nordic on Twitter: @ROGNordic
About ASUS
ASUS, the world’s top 3 consumer notebook vendor and the maker of the world’s best-selling and most award winning motherboards, is a leading enterprise in the new digital era. ASUS designs and manufactures products that perfectly meet the needs of today’s digital home, office and person, with a broad portfolio that includes motherboards, graphics cards, optical drives, displays, desktops, SFF PCs and all-in-one PCs, notebooks, hybrid devices, tablet devices, servers, multimedia and wireless solutions, networking devices, and mobile phones. With a global staff of more than 10,000 and a world-class R&D team of 3,000 engineers.
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can't see a real "group of death"... Several easy 1st place picks but a few groups where #2 is up for grabs (on paper - anything can happen tho).
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Groups looked balanced and fun, especially looking forward to 2 and 8 
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Looks sick! Hopefully no ridiculous winter storms this time
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Can't wait to see Jaedong crush elfi. :3
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Ye, NaNi got a very doable group  A good ole game vs ForGG to :D
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Finland1196 Posts
So many cancellations.. But still it's two less than in Summer 2013. Seems to be a frequent thing. At least none of the top players have pulled out yet.
It's hard to pick the hardest group from these, but let's say Group 7.
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United States11393 Posts
On January 24 2014 07:34 ThreeActPlay wrote:
Can't wait to see Jaedong crush elfi. :3
for the third time in a tourney you mean
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United States23455 Posts
On January 24 2014 07:34 ThreeActPlay wrote:
Can't wait to see Jaedong crush elfi. :3
In your dreams.
Also I hope Life does end up participating.
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Cool groups. Looking forward to it.
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Taeja, Jaedong, Life, Dear - the four top favorites in separate groups. Very good.
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Wow, I see lots of 6-0's happening in these groups haha :\
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Daaaamn. That means that someone could potentially play 30 (3 bo5's in each group stage) meaningful games in a single day. The second group stage is going to be cheese central since everyone will be so tired.
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sick lineup, sick groups. so looking forward to watching this
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No real group of death; I would say group 8 is the most even group. Should be a fun one; we could see some upsets here and am looking forward to finally seeing Dear again. Would be shocking if Dear didn't make it out of his group; MAYBE Snute can take him down but other than that...
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I am reading correctly that all 8 ro32 groups are being played at the same time?
And all ro16 groups aswell?
I hope you have about 20 streams ready
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On January 24 2014 16:07 NovaMB wrote:
I am reading correctly that all 8 ro32 groups are being played at the same time?
And all ro16 groups aswell?
I hope you have about 20 streams ready
there were a lot of community streams for summer but this schedule looks even more packed!
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Learn from this group breakup, Code A. No useless groups, no groups where real bad-asses will go out in first round.
Looks like the RO 16 onward will be stacked.
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Finland1196 Posts
On January 24 2014 16:07 NovaMB wrote:
I am reading correctly that all 8 ro32 groups are being played at the same time?
And all ro16 groups aswell?
I hope you have about 20 streams ready
You are correct, all groups play at the same time. It's unfortunate, but the tournament is only 2 days compared to the 3 days of the summer event. However, there should be at least one stream per group in the first group stage, and two streams per group in the second group stage. Still, almost half of the Ro32 games will not be streamed as there are 16 matches played at the same time for the first two rounds. Luckily the Ro16 groups should have all games covered by community streams.
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You're telling me Naniwa didn't cancel?
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On January 24 2014 21:18 Dodgin wrote:
You're telling me Naniwa didn't cancel?
He probably didn't want to go but his manager had booked his flight already and forced him to 
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Group 1 is group of death.
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Seeing that all of the Ukrainians cancelled makes me wonder if it has something go do with the situation over there. :/ Although it's great to see the replacements were found quickly. ^^
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I think there will be 4 finns in top 4. You heard it here first!
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Its likely the Ukranian Players were unable to travel due to the current situation in the Ukraine, Ah well
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TaeJa, Happy, Jaedong, Life, Dear, HerO & a history of good production value. Life is good.
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good line up. Looking forward to it.
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United States23455 Posts
On January 24 2014 22:09 TLWINDRUNNER wrote:
TaeJa, Happy, Jaedong, Life, Dear, HerO & a history of good production value. Life is good.
Probably good production value. Their tourney at Northcon was a bit of a fiasco, but there were mitigating circumstances
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On January 24 2014 22:27 Darkhoarse wrote:Show nested quote +On January 24 2014 22:09 TLWINDRUNNER wrote:
TaeJa, Happy, Jaedong, Life, Dear, HerO & a history of good production value. Life is good. Probably good production value. Their tourney at Northcon was a bit of a fiasco, but there were mitigating circumstances
Totally different production crew at Northcon. This will be the fifth ASUS ROG tournament hosted in Helsinki.
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Group 2 group of death
the tyrant
god
korean terran
patch toss
anything can happen
+ Show Spoiler +the patch toss was a joke, dont report me 
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On January 24 2014 21:18 Dodgin wrote:
You're telling me Naniwa didn't cancel?
You never know, he still has plenty of time to cancel.
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On January 24 2014 06:24 y0su wrote:
can't see a real "group of death"... Several easy 1st place picks but a few groups where #2 is up for grabs (on paper - anything can happen tho).
Wow, don't tell me you too can distinguish a Korean flag from a non-Korean flag? :o
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Very attractive lineup but it sure does suck to lose the Ukrainians as I really do like them all  And Nerchio, of course
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Is life confirmed to go yet?
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United States23455 Posts
On January 25 2014 00:14 Derez wrote:
Is life confirmed to go yet?
In his last interview he said it is still up in the air due to team finances or something.
Also rofl good luck to the person doing this LR thread OP. 8 groups of Bo5 played at the same time.
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United States23455 Posts
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OMG I love these draws.. Almost as if they were draws for a world-cup made
1. kr (T)Liquid.TaeJa
1. kr (Z)EG.Jaedong
1. kr (Z)StarTale.Life
1. kr (P)mouz.Dear
1. kr (P)yoeFW.San
1. kr (P)Liquid.HerO
1. kr (Z)Samsung_Galaxy.Solar
1. se (P)Alliance.NaNiwa
2. ru (T)Empire.Happy
2. fi (P)Ence.elfi
2. fi (P)NrS.Welmu
2. no (Z)Liquid.Snute
2. kr (P)mYi.StarDust
2. kr (P)Ai.Patience
2. kr (P)Axiom.Alicia
2. kr (T)Millenium.ForGG
3. se (Z)Alliance.SortOf
3. kr (T)IvD.Apocalypse
3. ca (Z)mYi.Kane
3. nl (P)Fnatic.Harstem
3. pl (Z)dignitas.Tefel
3. se (T)Property.MorroW
3. dk (P)Millenium.BabyKnight
3. nl (Z)Liquid.Ret
4. fi (Z)Ence.Serral
4. de (P)PkDynamics.GunGFuBanDa
4. se (P)Bischu
4. gb (Z)Core.JonnyREcco
4. fi (Z)Menace.Protosser
4. se (Z)Fnatic.Zanster
4. fi (T)Fnatic.Naama
4. de (T)NrS.KrasS
See how that works so well ?? - 1 being the leader/favourite in the group, 2 being the main contender, 3 being the stronger challenger, and 4 being the less known, or longer forgotten ones
Just hope there aren't too many one-sided owning, and games are good.. Though there certainly gonna be some..
EDIT: Speaking of which - just noticed - where the f*ck is Scarlett.. ? ?
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This should be a lot of fun. Jaedong to take it all.
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Canada16217 Posts
Should be good
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Awesome, this time I might have to go see the games live, since the tickets are surprisingly affordable.
Naniwalk time!
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That's a sick line up, very sweet!
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From the terrans I want Taeja to win.
From the protoss I want Hero to win.
From the zergs I want JD to win.
But only one can win....Go Taeja !!!!
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No reps for merica, well go JD!
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Groups look balanced.
Prediction 1: Ret about to come the worst zerg in the world.
Prediction 2: Life vs. Dear finals <3
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Why no Scarlett? didn't she finish second in the last ROG?
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United States23455 Posts
On January 25 2014 02:11 thragar wrote:
Why no Scarlett? didn't she finish second in the last ROG?
I presume she was invited and then declined.
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i hate foreigner tournaments with teaja.. he wins everything
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I'm so excited to see how Patience does. Got great hopes for him.
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1 + 2 through and through.
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United States23455 Posts
On January 25 2014 03:07 monsta wrote:i hate foreigner tournaments with teaja.. he wins everything
Dear, Life, JD, and HerO should keep it interesting.
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Koreans are well spread out and some new names in there. Looks good so far
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On January 28 2014 00:15 DusTerr wrote:
Is it Friday yet?!?!!?
just monday
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Looking forward to this event since the start of the month.
At a glance the groups seem pretty well balanced.
Hope harstem can put out a good performance.
Rooting for naniwa to go all the way.
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Stream lists are live on the tournament portal! (top right of the tl homepage)
I can't say if every game will be streamed but it also looks like  Bischu is a last minute scratch (illness) and group 3 (Welmu, Life, Kane) will be a round robin!
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2014 is year of harstem guys.
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On January 30 2014 23:28 TheBloodyDwarf wrote:
HYPED?
not sure how I'm going to be able to sleep tonight! :D
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Infographic about the contestants:
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On January 31 2014 00:04 CheeseInSpace wrote:Infographic about the contestants:
I dont understand why there is EU union in origin?
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On January 31 2014 00:38 TheBloodyDwarf wrote:Show nested quote +On January 31 2014 00:04 CheeseInSpace wrote:Infographic about the contestants: I dont understand why there is EU union in origin?
cauz u cant fit in every flag i guess?
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On January 24 2014 23:13 SpikeStarcraft wrote:Show nested quote +On January 24 2014 21:18 Dodgin wrote:
You're telling me Naniwa didn't cancel? You never know, he still has plenty of time to cancel.
I love my post :D
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On February 02 2014 20:02 SpikeStarcraft wrote:Show nested quote +On January 24 2014 23:13 SpikeStarcraft wrote:On January 24 2014 21:18 Dodgin wrote:
You're telling me Naniwa didn't cancel? You never know, he still has plenty of time to cancel. I love my post :D
:D
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