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East Gorteau22261 Posts
On March 01 2014 02:01 Qwench wrote:
With the groups being drawn and herO being in group D, does that mean that he will not be able to compete at the IEM World Championship? Group D is scheduled right now for March 14th.
Gom usually reschedules to help the players, and they most certainly will given the amount of players attending IEM WC.
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United States97274 Posts
Gom is usually pretty accommodating for situations like that. They'll likely change the order the groups are played
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Well Maru...
Bbyong Terran hope 2014
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On March 01 2014 01:37 sharkie wrote:Show nested quote +On February 28 2014 23:01 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:On February 28 2014 22:55 opterown wrote:On February 28 2014 22:53 capiston wrote:On February 28 2014 22:53 djraphi23 wrote:
I don't think I've ever seen a better group than group B, that's just insane !! Flash PartinG INnoVation Life was pretty good... this is better I disagree. Dear pulls the group down a little. Zest is really impressive as well, but I'm unsure if he'll rise to the occasion with consistency in code S. He's still kinda new here. The Flash/Parting/Life/Bogus group had players who were all tried and true in top form when they met. The two top SPL Terrans, the WCS champ and consistent Toss, and a recent MLG champ. Hard to beat that. Dear is way more tried and true player than Flash lol
Not like back then. Flash was still rolling through SPL (consistency), made it far in the Asian Indoor Tournament, and made what turned out to still be his best international tournament placing at MLG. He crushed his ro32 group too.
Dear has cooled off since winning his back to back championships (was irrelevant prior to his wins too). He barely even made the ro16, probably wouldn't even be here if he got Life instead of Yonghwa.
To me this group strikes me as Soulkey's group with the 2nd spot being a duel between Maru and Zest. Yeah I know Zest is hot right now and beat Soulkey, but can he do it here in a bo3 is the question.
The Bogus/Flash/Life/PartinG group was anyone's group (PartinG to a lesser extent imo, but he made it in the end anyway). I get hyped just thinking about it again where this was the common reaction to it:
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This is the third (I think??) Zerg heavy Ro16 group for Life. His ZvZ seems improved, but will he break out!?! I sure hope so!
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Poor maru few have a positive record against him and so does all of his group, btw there are 3 groups that imo are better
Parting inno life flash
Rain taeja drg polt
Mkp mc symbol squirtle
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Oh God... Group B the group of death.
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This is ridiculous :/ but whatevs ZEST CHAMPION
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Group B definitely da group of death, looks incredible, really looking forward to enjoying those games. GO MARU!
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East Gorteau22261 Posts
On March 01 2014 02:19 sparklyresidue wrote:
This is the third (I think??) Zerg heavy Ro16 group for Life. His ZvZ seems improved, but will he break out!?! I sure hope so!
Life's ZvZ has been really good since mid-October (he's got a match winrate of nearly 90% over more than 20 matches). Getting 3 Zergs, one of them Curious whom he just never loses to is good news.
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Russian Federation40186 Posts
That group B.... Ouch, but then again, following logic of WCS KR 2013 S1, i say that whoever tops this group comes 2nd in the end, losing to whoever topped other group in finals (group P?).
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On February 28 2014 22:55 opterown wrote:Show nested quote +On February 28 2014 22:53 capiston wrote:On February 28 2014 22:53 djraphi23 wrote:
I don't think I've ever seen a better group than group B, that's just insane !! Flash PartinG INnoVation Life was pretty good... this is better
No it isn't. The Innovation Flash Life Parting group was basically the guys most people considered the 4 best in the world at the time. Life had just won MLG so kind of hard to say he wasn't when he was still showing great results. Flash had just gotten second making everyone think here comes flash. Innovation was stopped only by Flash and still looked fucking good. Parting was still parting and basically the best toss there was then. This group is good but that group was fucking crazy.
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Group A:
Head: RorO, Life
Heart: Life, Curious
Group B:
Head: Soulkey, Zest
Heart: Maru, Soulkey
Group C:
Head: Classic, Rain
Heart: Parting, Squirtle
Group D:
Head: herO, soO
Heart: Trap, herO
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Hm, I wonder why they took away the whole selection process.
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On March 01 2014 03:22 AceOfCakez wrote:
Hm, I wonder why they took away the whole selection process.
yea the selection ceremonies were awesome
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Group C is going to be crazy. I'm gonna get up early and watch that one for sure!!!
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Considering how Zest has been playing lately I thought for the first time since Luxury someone on KT besides Flash would go deep in a StarLeague and then I woke up and saw the groups......
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I was gonna vote group p.... ugh i mean group c for group of death  . But WOW is b an insane group. Gonna be a fun one to watch.
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On March 01 2014 01:58 Zealously wrote:Show nested quote +On March 01 2014 01:37 sharkie wrote:On February 28 2014 23:01 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:On February 28 2014 22:55 opterown wrote:On February 28 2014 22:53 capiston wrote:On February 28 2014 22:53 djraphi23 wrote:
I don't think I've ever seen a better group than group B, that's just insane !! Flash PartinG INnoVation Life was pretty good... this is better I disagree. Dear pulls the group down a little. Zest is really impressive as well, but I'm unsure if he'll rise to the occasion with consistency in code S. He's still kinda new here. The Flash/Parting/Life/Bogus group had players who were all tried and true in top form when they met. The two top SPL Terrans, the WCS champ and consistent Toss, and a recent MLG champ. Hard to beat that. Dear is way more tried and true player than Flash lol At this point, Dear is looking pretty weak. We don't know if he'll continue that trend for sure, but Flash was tearing Proleague to shreds at the time of the Group of Death with Life/Innovation/Parting, and all of the other three had solid claims to being the best of their respective races. I think both groups are pulled down by Flash/Dear respectively, but in terms of current form I don't think I'd rate Dear higher than I would have rated Flash at the end of May last year (which in fairness was after the group was played), especially not after the latter went 15-2 in Round 5.
I think Rain was ahead of Parting at the time - I'd have said Flash and Inno were the best two Terrans in the world. But I think all 4 players were in the top 10 in the world (to be specific, maybe even like top 7..)
I wouldn't say the same for the current Group B (with Dear being the weak link)
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