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http://open.dreamhack.se/news/158-bucharest-groups.html
With DreamHack Open Bucharest officially starting tomorrow, the final stage of preparation for the tournament to begin is completed, the drawing of the group stage! As always DreamHack Open is about open participation for professionals and amateurs alike, therefore based on the number of signups, DreamHack Open Bucharest features a format for a possible 80 competitors including 48 players (3 per group) seeded directly into group stage 2, and 32 slots for players in group stage one to compete for the last 16 slots to join the second group stage. The group stages will be played using the Dual Tournament format, and the initial match-ups will be between the 1st/4th seed, and 2nd/3rd seed. The official broadcast will begin with Group Stage 2, so make sure to tune it at 13:30 EEST to not miss a minute of the action at http://www.twitch.tv/dreamhacksc2 ! Check out the full schedule for the stream on the 26th and 27th in the previous announcement, as well as all the community streamers who will help cover the group stage.
Group AEvil Geniuses  Jaedong (Z) Team Liquid  MaNa (P) Punchline ESC jeysen (P) Group Stage 1 - A Group BmYinsanity StarDust (P) NewRoSoft Welmu (P) Team Spectre AlaStOr (Z) Group Stage 1 - A Group CMC (P) Virtus.PrO sLivko (Z) NewRoSoft  KrasS (T) Group Stage 1 - B
Group DTeam Roccat HyuN (Z) NewRoSoft NightEnD (P) mYinsanity ABomB (P) Group Stage 1 - B Group EFirst (P) AT Gaming uThermal (T) Team Menace ZhuGeLiang (Z) Group Stage 1 - C
Group FAxiom Impact (Z) Gerich VERDI (P) NewRoSoft roof (Z) Group Stage 1 - C Group GTeam Liquid HerO (P) Team Liquid Snute (Z) Darkthorn (Z) Group Stage 1 - D
Group HSamsung Khan RorO (Z) Punchline ESC FireCake (Z) StarEagle (T) Group Stage 1 - D Group ImYinsanity jjakji (T) Team Liquid TLO (Z) Fnatic Zanster (Z) Group Stage 1 - E Group JAlien Invasion Patience (P) mYinsanity Serral (Z) XMG SaltTheWound (Z) Group Stage 1 - E Group KTeam Acer INnoVation (T) Imaginary Gaming TargA (Z) Team PropertyBB2 MorroW (T) Group Stage 1 - F Group LAxiom Ryung (T) XMG ToD (P) XMG Socke (P) Group Stage 1 - F Group MStartale Life (Z) Alien Invasion Golden (Z) Fnatic Harstem (P) Group Stage 1 - H Group NYoDa (T) XMG Lilbow (P) Vega Squadron Revolver (Z) Group Stage 1 - H Group Oyoe Flash Wolves Leenock (Z) Evil Geniuses HuK (P) RuW StakimaN (Z) Group Stage 1 - I Group PKT Rolster TY (T) Team Liquid Bunny (T) Team Liquid Ret (Z) Group Stage 1 - I Group Stage 1 (Games begin at 10:00 EEST) Group AIntelectual Minds robertiagar (P) CSI Destructicon (T) mYinsanity Niroxs (Z) BYE Group BmYinsanity Reynor (Z) Zeny (P) Night Creatures sSak (T) BYE Group Ce-Star SC2 Botvinnik (T) Team Spectre SpiriT (T) Vasacast MMY (T) BYE Group DDragonSlayeR Narcotic (T) mYinsanity PengWin (Z) BYE BYE Group EBalkan Bears DaZe (P) Punk Nogard (Z) BYE BYE Group FTeam Spectre Ancestor (P) Team Spectre Xsnac (P) BYE BYE Group HBalkan Bears MoonBeam (P) Balkan Bears Warbsky (T) BYE BYE Group Iokhydra (Z) e-Star SC2 HoBBiT (T) BYE BYE
http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/2014_DreamHack_Open/Bucharest/Group_Stage_1
http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/2014_DreamHack_Open/Bucharest/Group_Stage_2
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France7248 Posts
PengWin is in stage 1 AND in stage 2
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On April 25 2014 21:57 Yhamm wrote:PengWin is in stage 1 AND in stage 2
Now they fixed it in DH site.
New player to "take" his spot is stakimaN.
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wtf MorroW?
i thought he was retired :o
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Wow all those groups and still 2 Ret and Bunny in the same group and HerO and Snute in the same group **facepalm**
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Awesome groups, I'm so excited. Its too bad there are so many bye's this year though, last year we had like 90 players out of 96 and it was epic.
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On April 25 2014 22:05 Mensol wrote:
wtf MorroW?
i thought he was retired :o
Yeah, its been long since we heard of him last time but: check this.
And you may think SjoW. He is terran from sweden also but he retired.
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France7248 Posts
On April 25 2014 22:04 TheBloodyDwarf wrote:Now they fixed it in DH site. New player to "take" his spot is stakimaN.
thx
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On April 25 2014 22:07 Destructicon wrote:
Awesome groups, I'm so excited. Its too bad there are so many bye's this year though, last year we had like 90 players out of 96 and it was epic.
You have bad luck to be in 3 player group :D No sure group stage#2 seed 
Now you actually have to play 
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On April 25 2014 22:11 TheBloodyDwarf wrote:Show nested quote +On April 25 2014 22:07 Destructicon wrote:
Awesome groups, I'm so excited. Its too bad there are so many bye's this year though, last year we had like 90 players out of 96 and it was epic. You have bad luck to be in 3 player group :D No sure group stage#2 seed Now you actually have to play
I like playing man, wouldn't have had it any other way!
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France7248 Posts
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Easy groups for Hyun,RorO,INnoVation,TY...
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Seeker
Where dat snitch at?37044 Posts
sSak? Isn't sSak a BW player?
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Lorning
Belgica34432 Posts
Romanian player with the same name
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Seeker
Where dat snitch at?37044 Posts
On April 25 2014 22:34 Lorning wrote:
Romanian player with the same name
Oh. I was about to say... BW fanatics would have flipped their shit Oo;;
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France7248 Posts
On April 25 2014 22:37 digmouse wrote:
Damn TL team kill again?
XMG too with ToD & Socke
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On April 25 2014 22:37 digmouse wrote:
Damn TL team kill again?
Wouldn't be a DH without it!
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All those TL team kills. Dang.
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haha RorO and FireCake in the same group 
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On April 25 2014 22:54 VinceNet wrote:haha RorO and FireCake in the same group
they might not even play each other
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out of all the names you could steal, they chose ssak? really?
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United States97276 Posts
Can't wait to see Targa beat Innovation
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On April 25 2014 23:08 Shellshock wrote:
Can't wait to see Targa beat Innovation
I think you meant MorroW there.
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my mistake. can someone explain me, thoase second groups are for seeds in first listed, right? so whole good games will be played 2nd day or?
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Nice group for MC, its well past time for him to win another dreamhack
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Team kills everywhere! 
Solid groups though!
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On April 25 2014 23:25 JanDe wrote:
my mistake. can someone explain me, thoase second groups are for seeds in first listed, right? so whole good games will be played 2nd day or?
all group stages are played first day
not enough players so basicelly, almost eveyrone in stage 1 will also play in stage 2
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Finally some Jaedong action.
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These groups leave a lot to be desired, the talent pool is awesome, and I am hoping Impact goes deep, but I feel like there are more clear favorites for each one than you generally see.
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why isn't Flash competing in these tourneys? Like DH and others
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On April 26 2014 00:36 Rollora wrote:why isn't Flash competing in these tourneys? Like DH and others
Proleague, probably.
Group P?? That's a lot of groups :/
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Lol now Liquid even have teamkill in the first group stage. This is some next level bad luck
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On April 25 2014 22:38 Yhamm wrote:XMG too with ToD & Socke
Thank goodness Group H is a two-bye group, otherwise we would have had a truly tragic teamkill.
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On April 26 2014 00:36 Rollora wrote:why isn't Flash competing in these tourneys? Like DH and others
Because if he has to play more than one pre-determined map against one pre-determined player with a week's advance notice to practice, he's not even good enough to earn a seed into Stage 2.
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can't imagine a good group stage 2 for me .. really...
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Easy groups for Jaedong and TY. Glad to see it!
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On April 26 2014 00:39 AKAvg wrote:Show nested quote +On April 26 2014 00:36 Rollora wrote:why isn't Flash competing in these tourneys? Like DH and others Proleague, probably. Group P?? That's a lot of groups :/
PL? Hmm could be. Guess they can send out one good player( TY) but not both of them
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Koreans spread pretty nicely, well done dh
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Go go Jeysen and FireCake for team Punchline.
Hope FireCake will show he can play NationWars
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poor ToD and Socke
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On April 26 2014 02:01 Liquid`Snute wrote:
TEAMKILLS :0
I know right? But at least you and HerO can just both make it through np
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Flash haters are the most hateful, got to say.
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Cool groups! One Korean too many for the perfect symmetry, Mr. Monk would be really upset with this, but thanks to YearOfHarstem i suspect it will all be all right in group stage 3. 
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Two team liquid team kill groups :S haha
and with TY in one of them...
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Ofcourse, my two fav players in the same group, Snute and HerO -.-
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On April 25 2014 23:18 Elem wrote:Show nested quote +On April 25 2014 23:08 Shellshock wrote:
Can't wait to see Targa beat Innovation I think you meant MorroW there.
can't wait to see Targa beat MorroW.
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United States23455 Posts
Really? They clearly doctored the groups so that there would be one high profile Korean per group and no avoidable shocking early exits, and yet there are TWO Liquid Teamkills. D:
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^ ya, it seems like they fixed the groups. Isn't that umm bad? lol.
hmm I can see all the Koreans making it out of their groups lol
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or you know, all the koreans have the highest seedings when they do the group drawings
makes more sense, but doesn't cause as much drama, so lets go with your version
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On April 26 2014 05:39 nkr wrote:
or you know, all the koreans have the highest seedings when they do the group drawings
makes more sense, but doesn't cause as much drama, so lets go with your version
What would the ranking be based on in that case? Something objective like WCS? A quick look at WCS EU reveals that this cannot be the case, as premier league players like Snute and TLO are lower ranked than some 4-5 Koreans that just made it in the WCS EU challenger league this season. So yeah, the groups are obviously fixed, at least when it comes to spreading Koreans as thin as possible over all the groups. 
Logically there would be 2 group winners and 2 group runner ups in each group in the 3rd group stage, but maybe these groups will fixed too? I wonder how many (if any) foreigners will be left in the tournament after the third group stage. We shall see.
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On April 26 2014 05:39 nkr wrote:
or you know, all the koreans have the highest seedings when they do the group drawings
makes more sense, but doesn't cause as much drama, so lets go with your version
How do you suppose seeding was done then? I don't see any benchmark by which they could have made the seeds that would end up like this.
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are we really going to complain about groups being made in such a way as to try and avoid good players knocking each other out early on?
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United States23455 Posts
On April 26 2014 06:21 Schelim wrote:
are we really going to complain about groups being made in such a way as to try and avoid good players knocking each other out early on?
Not complaining about it just wish they had also doctored it to avoid double teamkill :D
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On April 26 2014 06:21 Schelim wrote:
are we really going to complain about groups being made in such a way as to try and avoid good players knocking each other out early on?
I think the question here is, if you want to achieve that good players aren't knocking out each other early on, exactly how you define who are the good, better and best players? Also, we got to talk about something before the tournament starts!
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On April 26 2014 06:33 BaneRiders wrote:Show nested quote +On April 26 2014 06:21 Schelim wrote:
are we really going to complain about groups being made in such a way as to try and avoid good players knocking each other out early on? I think the question here is, if you want to achieve that good players aren't knocking out each other early on, exactly how you define who are the good, better and best players? Also, we got to talk about something before the tournament starts!
'Koreans = good, not Koreans = not good' is a pretty safe way to do it, I'd say!
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On April 26 2014 06:48 pure.Wasted wrote:Show nested quote +On April 26 2014 06:33 BaneRiders wrote:On April 26 2014 06:21 Schelim wrote:
are we really going to complain about groups being made in such a way as to try and avoid good players knocking each other out early on? I think the question here is, if you want to achieve that good players aren't knocking out each other early on, exactly how you define who are the good, better and best players? Also, we got to talk about something before the tournament starts! 'Koreans = good, not Koreans = not good' is a pretty safe way to do it, I'd say!
Remember that Vortix made it to game 3 in a bo5 vs jjakji! Certainly a good player, isnt he?
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On April 26 2014 06:33 BaneRiders wrote:Show nested quote +On April 26 2014 06:21 Schelim wrote:
are we really going to complain about groups being made in such a way as to try and avoid good players knocking each other out early on? I think the question here is, if you want to achieve that good players aren't knocking out each other early on, exactly how you define who are the good, better and best players? Also, we got to talk about something before the tournament starts!
Korean flag=best, non-Korean flag with results in major tournaments=good, the rest is the rest
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RoRo vs Firecake Also double liquid teamkill xD. Poor Harstem got the double korean group
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On April 26 2014 07:17 Schelim wrote:Show nested quote +On April 26 2014 06:33 BaneRiders wrote:On April 26 2014 06:21 Schelim wrote:
are we really going to complain about groups being made in such a way as to try and avoid good players knocking each other out early on? I think the question here is, if you want to achieve that good players aren't knocking out each other early on, exactly how you define who are the good, better and best players? Also, we got to talk about something before the tournament starts! Korean flag=best, non-Korean flag with results in major tournaments=good, the rest is the rest
Yeah, Korean flag = top seed appears to be the case, the rest I seems rather random? I don't know, this approach feels a bit... boring perhaps? A different design could have put all PL players in the highest ranking group, challenger league players in the next and qualified players for challenger league in the third and then the rest (if there are any). I think that would have been more interesting, although by and large it wouldn't change much, but at least it would give a bit of a recognition to players like Welmu, TLO, Snute and Bunny, who now appears to be lower ranked than players that just now made it to the challenger league. I think the organizers made it easy for themselves simply. In any case, later today we will see who is to boss! Looking forward to it!
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I personally feel that XMG got screwed especially hard with the teamkill, since Ryung is likely to take a spot (unless he fucks up), which means 50% of the roster is gone in Group stage 2.
Snute and Hero should be fine in their group, but likely Ret is going to get eliminated. Then again, I don't want to sound like an asshole but there was a good chance that Ret could have been eliminated in Group Stage 2 anyways.
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On April 25 2014 22:07 Destructicon wrote:
Awesome groups, I'm so excited. Its too bad there are so many bye's this year though, last year we had like 90 players out of 96 and it was epic.
OMG You're playing ????? GO DESTRUCTICON !
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I really hope StakimaN kills them all.GO STAKI!
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On April 26 2014 00:36 Rollora wrote:why isn't Flash competing in these tourneys? Like DH and others
FlaSh was invited to go, but he declined the invitation to attend Dreamhack.
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Ryung, Tod, Socke going to be a great group!
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