Feel for Iaguz and Guitarcheese. Both players were really close to big upsets. Wouldn't be surprised to see either qualify for Challenger again next season, and qualify if they get a better draw.

NoNy played surprisingly well in game 3, but Jaedong is a beast all his own. It sucks that he got drawn against one of the favorites to win the whole thing, but that's the way it goes sometimes.

Can't wait for the groups to be drawn! I am looking forward to this season's play; we have a healthy mix of Koreans and non-Koreans this time around =D

ragz_gt

9172 Posts

May 08 2014 14:22 GMT

#25

Neither of them would be upset TBH. I guess Sen and Nestea's experience carried them through in the end.

danl9rm

United States3111 Posts

May 08 2014 14:36 GMT

#26

On May 08 2014 19:38 SelimSC wrote:
It was pretty clear to me that JD didn't take Nony very seriously in the first three games with the first game having four hatches before pool and such. Last game was the most standard game and it lasted ten minutes and JD rolled over NonY hard. Still G3 was very fun to watch. Sometimes watching players make dumb mistakes is pretty entertaining.

There's a simple question that clears things up pretty quickly: Why would the superior player that thinks he is clearly the superior player risk 4-hatch before pool?

Add that to the common evidence that Jaedong does not screw around... and you have your answer.

I would always (in current form) bet on Jaedong to beat Nony, but Jaedong still took him seriously. Well played game 3, Tyler.

Cluster__

United States328 Posts

May 08 2014 14:41 GMT

#27

damn, i tuned out when it was 2-1 in Iaguz's favor and assumed he'd finish it up. He's very good, especially when alot of people say Zerg is OP vs terran.

Anyway, excellent effort versus a very strong zerg

TriZ

Belgium379 Posts

May 08 2014 14:53 GMT

#28

4/4 liquibets yeeeeeaaaaahhh

Waise

3165 Posts

May 08 2014 15:05 GMT

#29

On May 08 2014 23:36 danl9rm wrote:

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There's a simple question that clears things up pretty quickly: Why would the superior player that thinks he is clearly the superior player risk 4-hatch before pool?

well, your interpretation is valid, but the other interpretation would be to say "this build is so out there that jaedong must think he's so much better that it doesn't matter what he does/doesn't respect nony's ability to punish it," which i think is what the other poster was going for. i agree with you though - i think it's more likely that jaedong wouldn't want to mess around in challenger, especially against protoss which is not his best matchup and also the most unpredictable race

TheFlock

United States389 Posts

May 08 2014 15:21 GMT

#30

That G3 NonY vs JD was pretty awesome to watch, there were so many times where the game seemed won for both players, I was on the edge of my seat

Ambidexter

United States23 Posts

May 08 2014 16:07 GMT

#31

Nooooooooooooo Nony!

Such a tough draw for such a great player.

vult

United States9400 Posts

May 08 2014 17:06 GMT

#32

Iaguz

he was so close!

Yorkie

United States12612 Posts

May 08 2014 17:15 GMT

#33

So many crazy things happened in an extended conspiracy propagated by Shellshock to ruin Darkhorse's predictions

GiveMeCake

148 Posts

May 08 2014 17:19 GMT

#34

Some very strange games last night, Sen made some major blunders, and a couple of the games were cringe worthy with uncharacteristic decision making. I thought that Nestea also played horrible on some maps his creep spread was almost non-existent on one map and he did a roach rush without making follow up speedlings to close out the game. There were too many observers in the games lagging out causing delays, and Rotti did a great job despite being noticeably exhausted near the end. Shout outs to the people posting spoilers from Twitter, and the immature Twitch chat filled with garbage as usual. Overall I'd rate it a 7/10.