Taeja, Life and Dear. Those are the most likely players to win this in my opinion, in that order. If Hyun tears it up in the main tournament like he did in he open bracket though he could take the upset all the way. Especially if Polt fails early and Hyun gets all P until the finals.

So hyped, Go Life!

MiniFotToss

China2430 Posts

March 13 2014 23:17 GMT

#84

On March 14 2014 06:11 Lorning wrote:

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Don't underestimate Rogue

Ageeed, he beat Soulkey to get through that qualifier, Life might also lose to Rogue, don't underestimate him

Shellshock

United States97276 Posts

March 13 2014 23:20 GMT

#85

Polt vs Naniwa makes some good games. Remember Blizzard Cup 2011?

Darkhorse

United States23455 Posts

March 13 2014 23:20 GMT

#86

On March 14 2014 08:20 Shellshock wrote:
Polt vs Naniwa makes some good games. Remember Blizzard Cup 2011?

Naniwa cancelled out any and all good games at Blizzard Cup 2011 that he played

Ramiz1989

12124 Posts

March 13 2014 23:21 GMT

#87

Rogue vs. Life.... :/

VArsovskiSC

Macedonia563 Posts

March 13 2014 23:26 GMT

#88

Rofl, just hope Naniwa doesn't embarass himself much.. Polt is probably the hardest he could've got

I mean - he's in a slump lately.. He even said it himself didn't practise enough and fell from WCS Premier - again

And I somehow suspect that his PvT is his worst matchup.. Though might be wrong about it depending on what kind of a Protoss opponent he has in a PvP..

Think sOs got this one though.. ATM - not sure of Dear's form..

y0su

Finland7871 Posts

March 13 2014 23:26 GMT

#89

Too bad the qualifiers meant the full player list wasn't available earlier. Would have been a cool bracket competition to add some more hype :D

MiniFotToss

China2430 Posts

March 13 2014 23:40 GMT

#90

GoGo MC, beat San and avenge herO and get a champion for crying out loud!!!!!!!

igay

Australia1178 Posts

March 13 2014 23:43 GMT

#91

Dam good luck nani! Not going to be easy.

bo1b

Australia12814 Posts

March 13 2014 23:59 GMT

#92

Potential for a hero vs hero semifinal lol.

Really looking forward to seeing polt, life, taeja, sos(lol what rage inducing cheese will he come up with next, also 2 wins and he'd have earned more money then stephano) and hyun (I like his triple upgrade zvp style) play.

Hope the games are good :D

liberate71

Australia10252 Posts

March 14 2014 00:37 GMT

#93

I wonder if this will be another one of those stacked tournaments that Taeja wins, but people still claim he's not great cause he hasnt won a GSL

oo_Wonderful_oo

The land of freedom23126 Posts

March 14 2014 00:38 GMT

#94

Aligulac is going for absolute ham to say the least. If every result will match i will eat my hat and buy hat to do it :D

                   Win    Top 2    Top 4    Top 8    Top 16    
---------------------------------------------------------------
        herO     18.88%   12.40%   16.07%   26.85%   25.81%    
      jjakji     17.26%   12.46%   20.96%   34.52%   14.80%    
         sOs     14.22%   12.25%   16.01%   40.39%   17.13%    
         San     11.57%    9.53%   14.51%   33.65%   30.74%    
        Polt      8.60%    8.48%   14.67%   20.54%   47.71%    
    StarDust      7.75%    8.28%   20.18%   24.00%   39.79%    
        Life      6.55%   11.73%   23.01%   41.28%   17.43%    
        Dear      3.91%    5.51%   16.29%   30.88%   43.42%    
      NaNiwa      3.18%    4.50%   15.69%   24.33%   52.29%    
       TaeJa      2.51%    4.60%   11.38%   21.31%   60.21%    
        HerO      2.27%    3.64%   13.26%   24.24%   56.58%    
          MC      1.81%    2.79%    5.78%   20.36%   69.26%    
        HyuN      1.14%    1.80%    3.74%   19.14%   74.19%    
          Oz      0.18%    0.86%    2.86%   13.24%   82.87%    
       Rogue      0.10%    0.62%    3.29%   13.41%   82.57%    
     Revival      0.07%    0.56%    2.31%   11.86%   85.20%

Median Outcome Bracket
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        herO 3 ┐ 
               ├──────── herO 3 ┐ 
        HyuN 1 ┘                │ 
                                ├──────── herO 2 ┐ 
         San 3 ┐                │                │ 
               ├───────── San 2 ┘                │ 
          MC 2 ┘                                 │ 
                                                 ├──────── Polt 3 ┐ 
        Polt 3 ┐                                 │                │ 
               ├──────── Polt 3 ┐                │                │ 
      NaNiwa 2 ┘                │                │                │ 
                                ├──────── Polt 3 ┘                │ 
        Dear 3 ┐                │                                 │ 
               ├──────── Dear 2 ┘                                 │ 
        HerO 2 ┘                                                  │ 
                                                                  ├─ jjakji
     Revival 1 ┐                                                  │ 
               ├────── jjakji 3 ┐                                 │ 
      jjakji 3 ┘                │                                 │ 
                                ├────── jjakji 3 ┐                │ 
         sOs 3 ┐                │                │                │ 
               ├───────── sOs 2 ┘                │                │ 
          Oz 1 ┘                                 │                │ 
                                                 ├────── jjakji 4 ┘ 
       TaeJa 2 ┐                                 │                  
               ├──── StarDust 3 ┐                │                  
    StarDust 3 ┘                │                │                  
                                ├──── StarDust 2 ┘                  
       Rogue 1 ┐                │                                   
               ├──────── Life 2 ┘                                   
        Life 3 ┘

Estimated by Aligulac. Modify.

The_Red_Viper

19533 Posts

March 14 2014 00:51 GMT

#95

On March 14 2014 09:37 liberate71 wrote:
I wonder if this will be another one of those stacked tournaments that Taeja wins, but people still claim he's not great cause he hasnt won a GSL

I think nobody says that taeja isn't great, he is just not THAT great

endy

Switzerland8970 Posts

March 14 2014 00:56 GMT

#96

Noooooo JD

ArTiFaKs

United States1229 Posts

March 14 2014 01:20 GMT

#97

Gahhhh I'm gun have a heart attack watching this tournament

single elimination is scary, especially with such a stacked draw.

I hope herO will win, and I'm rooting for sOs, Life/Taeja/jjakji/Rogue of the non protoss players! Also I wouldn't mind if Stardust did well, he's always so nice and laid back, you just can't hate that guy easily..

HyuN looked good in the qualifier, but nobody in that Open Bracket has anywhere near the level of PvZ that herO or San does, so escaping the first two rounds for him will be quite a feat if he manages to do so (and will also break my heart seeing herO lose so early.. I'll probably cry a little seeing his cute face all sad...) Not to mention he doesn't compete anywhere near the level herO does on a regular basis so I like herO's chances. I feel confident if he makes it past HyuN that he will make it to the final.

And whoever says sOs has an easy draw is crazyyy in my opinion. I think the bottom half of the bracket is much tougher than the top, although there are fewer Protoss, there are much bigger names, even if some of them haven't been performing up to par recently with their normal results, I still think this kind of tournament gives them much motivation to practice and bring their A game! Looking forward to the tournament and can't wait to cry/laugh/smile/die while watching it go down! lol!

RuiBarbO

United States1340 Posts

March 14 2014 01:35 GMT

#98

Well Polt is basically American so I see three flags there.

The_Templar

your Country52798 Posts

March 14 2014 01:40 GMT

#99

This is a lot like blizzcon, half the same players are there (Naniwa, Revival, TaeJa, sOs, HerO, Dear, Polt, MC), everyone except Naniwa is korean, 50% of the bracket is one race (admittedly it's protoss instead of terran), top prize is the same amount, there was a ton of potential ways to qualify