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France7248 Posts
No announcement yet but groups are available on the official website : http://en.intelextrememasters.com/season8/cologne-sc2/
Group A:   Rain,  ForGG, HerO, Open Bracket
Group B:  qxc, jjakji, Dear, Open Bracket
Group C: Polt,  MaNa,  Jaedong, Open Bracket
Group D: Classic,  HeRoMaRinE, INnoVation, Open Bracket
Reminder: The 16 players in the Open Brackets are:
Revenge
TLO, Tefel, viOLet, HyuN, Leenock,  Miniraser, Hanfy
 Grubby, StarDust, HasuObs, Socke, MC, San,  BlinG, Tarrantius
The brackets are available here : http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/index.php?title=IEM_Season_VIII_-_Cologne/Stage_1
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United Kingdom31935 Posts
Doable group for inno 
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Rain VS ForGG
OH GOD YES ! Best PvT world vs Weirdest TvP world, it should be quite the interesting one.
Also Group A is just crazy compared to the rest.
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Easy group for Jjakji
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On February 09 2014 22:52 GumBa wrote:Doable group for inno
I don't know, he'll probably lose to Classic
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United Kingdom31935 Posts
On February 10 2014 00:19 neptunusfisk wrote:I don't know, he'll probably lose to Classic
Didnt say he would win the group thogh Inno is capable of besting anyone when on his game.
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IEM Cologne: Revenge of The Fallen. loool
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Honestly all these groups look great , this will be a good tournament to watch.
TLO will clean house , you heard it here folks 
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kinda disappointed cause of the zergs there :/ but violets makes worth it again :D
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Austria24422 Posts
Group A is damn strong, wow. Imagine someone like MC, Hyun, Stardust or San in there too
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HerO seems doable for ForGG, Rain will be very hard. A Zerg would be good as the 4th player.
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The land of freedom23126 Posts
Grubby have nice shot in qualies probably.
If he can somehow win against lovely Patience, then it will be Leenock who's not untouchable these days and then it's Hyun.
Nevermind actually, San + MC or Stardust from first, Hyun and Patience from second or Hyun and Leenock if Leenock can surpass Socke and Patience.
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On February 10 2014 01:33 monsta wrote:
kinda disappointed cause of the zergs there :/ but violets makes worth it again :D
Lol, just realized that it's gonna be quite the PvT festival. Not quite guaranteed that viOlet makes it through open bracket, I think Hyun and Leenock have equally good chances of qualifying. Though San, MC and also StarDust could qualify instead of them and of course upsets are possible.
Besides, the open bracket lacks terran, but there are already "enough" in the tournament itself.
EDIT: Didn't read that the open brackets are already out >_<
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United Kingdom31935 Posts
Saturday and sunday are gonna be sick plan on being there !!!! Inno Polt Jjakji <3
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Dang. I can't wait for this tournament.
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meh... looking at the players, why do they even bother hosting that event in Europe? :/
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Please don't put San in A or B ;_;
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Man HerO in the group of death
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On February 10 2014 02:32 ZAiNs wrote:
Please don't put San in A or B ;_;
It's completely random draw!
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Great !!!
nb : Please nerf Protoss
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I'm thinking Rain has a pretty good shot at winning this tourney
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United States23455 Posts
Don't really like the look of this for HerO. I think all the groups are strong, but group A is the strongest. If that group gets Hyun/San/Leenock/MC that would be crazy.
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Poor qxc and Heromarine. What am I saying, poor foreigners...
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oh dam qxc, i guess all those groups are stacked
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Go BlinG
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Let's go Dear and Classic!
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Awesome wanted to watch Jaedong Live and just got time for saturday. I hoped so hard he gets into group C or D an there he is!
Great news! gogo JD!
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Sucks for MaNa, hope he gets out of the group!
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Heromarine has a hard group unfortunately, but then again, none of the groups look easy.
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![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/heyoka/GSTL/qxc3.jpg)
go qxc!!
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I'm surprised no one is mentioning how awesome Polt vs Jaedong could be
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Group B should be pretty good. Polt, MaNa, and Jaedong should produce some great matches (assuming JD hasn't sold out, you know what I mean). Hoping that JD doesn't get destroyed by Polt this time around.
Also looking forward to see how HeRoMaRinE stacks up against a couple of great players like Classic and Innovation.
That is a seriously sick line up of groups across the board. Very excited for this IEM now.
Top 3 predictions: MC, Jaedong, Polt. no specific order.
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United States97276 Posts
Classic has been playing so well lately, I kind of want to say he's going to win this. Would love to see San take another tournament though.
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I wonder if ForGG would pull out his balls-to-the-wall Marauder aggression against Rain. Somehow I doubt it. Against HerO though, maybe.
Between that and Polt vs. JD, there are some fantastic series to look forward to in group stages already.
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I'm not a Classic fan, but I wouldn't be surprised if he won. The guy just doesn't lose
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Oh god where are the zergs?
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Jaedong the lone Zerg as usual :D
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EPT
AiRevenge. DRG cancelled too.
