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Jj_82
Profile Joined December 2012
Swaziland419 Posts
August 21 2014 07:34 GMT
#161
Absolutely insane lineup.
Once rode a waterslide with PartinG and TaeJa ✌
igay
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Australia1178 Posts
August 21 2014 08:39 GMT
#162
always happy to see mc and polt do well
MVP <3 MKP <3 DRG <3
virpi
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Germany3599 Posts
August 21 2014 08:43 GMT
#163
Flash vs. Jaedong. PLEASE.
first we make expand, then we defense it.
SharpFlex
Profile Joined June 2011
Germany23 Posts
August 21 2014 09:46 GMT
#164
Bunny Snute Maru and Jaedong from Open Bracket *-* Make it happen! Also what the fuck has Masa to do in this Tournament utter mismatch
Makro
Profile Joined March 2011
France16890 Posts
August 21 2014 10:01 GMT
#165
holy shit if maru goes in group a i dont think the world will be able to handle this
Matthew 5:10 "Blessed are those who are persecuted because of shitposting, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven".
TL+ Member
liberate71
Profile Joined October 2011
Australia10252 Posts
August 21 2014 10:16 GMT
#166
Group A is fucking mental, and Group D is pretty cool too.

Has MC v Flash ever happened yet? I can see that being some cocky MC banter.
Minelord Stimfestor, also known as karma.
darkscream
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Canada2310 Posts
August 21 2014 12:58 GMT
#167
Toronto crowd is always excellent even for lame lineups. This lineup is ridiculous, its stacks have stacks, that's how stacked it is.

goddamn
Thax
Profile Joined July 2014
Belgium1060 Posts
August 21 2014 13:43 GMT
#168
On August 21 2014 05:51 Squat wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 21 2014 05:45 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
On August 21 2014 05:10 ZigguratOfUr wrote:
On August 21 2014 04:14 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
On August 21 2014 04:00 messioso wrote:
On August 21 2014 03:03 RKC wrote:
How were the wild cards chosen? It just seems strange, almost unfair, that Zest and Flash has to fight through some gruelling dual qualifiers at the Asian level (they should have more representation, i feel), and the wild cards get a 'free ticket' straight into the group play (I would understand if they simply got into the open brackets). It's quite a bummer to those Koreans who participated at the qualifiers, but didn't make the cut.

Since it's fan favourites getting the wild cards, I suppose I see the commercial reasoning.


TaeJa won IEM Shenzhen so we invited him to defend his "title".
sOs was sent by KeSPA as Proleague Round 4 MVP
HyuN was #1 on WCS ranking
MC was #2 on WCS ranking


Inviting based on WCS ranking is such crap. I can't stand it. It's a self fulfilling thing; MC and Hyun get lots of points because they get invited to everything and they get invited to everything because they have a lot of points.


Both Hyun and MC have both gotten almost enough points from the WCS circuit alone to qualify for Blizzcon. Even with no invites at all they would be at Blizzcon.


I'd like to see them prove it then. A tournament should not give WCS points if there are any invites at all.

WCS points should be the sole province of WCS itself and fully open tournaments, no invites or regional qualifiers. Korea should have double or triple the amount of points, and money, compared to other regions, a GSL Ro8 is easily as hard or harder than winning a mostly foreigner Lan.

Then, we can put a hard region lock in place because Korea will actually be worthwhile for Koreans. Boom, everybody wins, we get the best players at blizzcon, no one gets any freebies from invites, and the local NA and EU players actually have something realistic to play for.


Just watch GSL then and don't bother with WCS if it annoys you that much. You'll end up with the same thing anyway with your absurd "double or triple the amount of points".
TheDwf
Profile Joined November 2011
France19747 Posts
August 21 2014 13:46 GMT
#169
On August 21 2014 19:16 liberate71 wrote:
Group A is fucking mental, and Group D is pretty cool too.

Has MC v Flash ever happened yet? I can see that being some cocky MC banter.

Yes, Flash leads 3-1.
rotta
Profile Joined December 2011
5624 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-08-21 13:48:08
August 21 2014 13:47 GMT
#170

don't wall off against random
Xoronius
Profile Joined July 2011
Germany6362 Posts
August 21 2014 13:55 GMT
#171
On August 21 2014 18:46 SharpFlex wrote:
Bunny Snute Maru and Jaedong from Open Bracket *-* Make it happen! Also what the fuck has Masa to do in this Tournament utter mismatch

Won the canadian qualifier. IEM always holds one spot for a national representative.
messioso
Profile Joined June 2011
Denmark635 Posts
August 21 2014 14:55 GMT
#172
On August 21 2014 22:55 Xoronius wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 21 2014 18:46 SharpFlex wrote:
Bunny Snute Maru and Jaedong from Open Bracket *-* Make it happen! Also what the fuck has Masa to do in this Tournament utter mismatch

Won the canadian qualifier. IEM always holds one spot for a national representative.


He also qualified for IEM Shenzhen through (Wiki)IEM Season IX - Shenzhen/American Qualifier so anyone that doubts his legitimacy to be at this tournament needs to re-think things.
Former ESL League Operations. I ran IEM/WCS for like 3 years or something. I did map vetos on a tablet. That guy.
SniXSniPe
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States1938 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-08-21 15:17:36
August 21 2014 15:17 GMT
#173
On August 21 2014 18:46 SharpFlex wrote:
Bunny Snute Maru and Jaedong from Open Bracket *-* Make it happen! Also what the fuck has Masa to do in this Tournament utter mismatch

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/IEM_Season_IX_-_Toronto/Canadian_Qualifier

He rek'd Scarlett and Kane to get in (as well as a few others).
SetGuitarsToKill
Profile Blog Joined December 2013
Canada28396 Posts
August 21 2014 15:18 GMT
#174
On August 22 2014 00:17 SniXSniPe wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 21 2014 18:46 SharpFlex wrote:
Bunny Snute Maru and Jaedong from Open Bracket *-* Make it happen! Also what the fuck has Masa to do in this Tournament utter mismatch

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/IEM_Season_IX_-_Toronto/Canadian_Qualifier

He rek'd Scarlett and Kane to get in (as well as a few others).


Gave Scarlett the ol' 3 cheese special. It was almost hilarious.
Community News"As long as you have a warp prism you can't be bad at harassment" - Maru | @SetGuitars2Kill
Darkhorse
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
United States23455 Posts
August 21 2014 15:27 GMT
#175
On August 22 2014 00:18 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 22 2014 00:17 SniXSniPe wrote:
On August 21 2014 18:46 SharpFlex wrote:
Bunny Snute Maru and Jaedong from Open Bracket *-* Make it happen! Also what the fuck has Masa to do in this Tournament utter mismatch

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/IEM_Season_IX_-_Toronto/Canadian_Qualifier

He rek'd Scarlett and Kane to get in (as well as a few others).


Gave Scarlett the ol' 3 cheese special. It was almost hilarious.

His TvZ is pretty sick outside of just cheese too so that's cool

I'm so excited to see Flash here now
WriterRecently Necro'd (?)
SetGuitarsToKill
Profile Blog Joined December 2013
Canada28396 Posts
August 21 2014 15:41 GMT
#176
On August 22 2014 00:27 Darkhorse wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 22 2014 00:18 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
On August 22 2014 00:17 SniXSniPe wrote:
On August 21 2014 18:46 SharpFlex wrote:
Bunny Snute Maru and Jaedong from Open Bracket *-* Make it happen! Also what the fuck has Masa to do in this Tournament utter mismatch

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/IEM_Season_IX_-_Toronto/Canadian_Qualifier

He rek'd Scarlett and Kane to get in (as well as a few others).


Gave Scarlett the ol' 3 cheese special. It was almost hilarious.

His TvZ is pretty sick outside of just cheese too so that's cool

I'm so excited to see Flash here now


Oh for sure, he's good in general. Don't mean to take anything away from him it was just a funny series.

And were you not excited for Flash before? With how he's been playing lately I really don't think anyone there can stop him. He's a huge favorite to win it all I'd say.
Community News"As long as you have a warp prism you can't be bad at harassment" - Maru | @SetGuitars2Kill
TheDwf
Profile Joined November 2011
France19747 Posts
August 21 2014 16:27 GMT
#177
On August 22 2014 00:41 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 22 2014 00:27 Darkhorse wrote:
On August 22 2014 00:18 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
On August 22 2014 00:17 SniXSniPe wrote:
On August 21 2014 18:46 SharpFlex wrote:
Bunny Snute Maru and Jaedong from Open Bracket *-* Make it happen! Also what the fuck has Masa to do in this Tournament utter mismatch

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/IEM_Season_IX_-_Toronto/Canadian_Qualifier

He rek'd Scarlett and Kane to get in (as well as a few others).


Gave Scarlett the ol' 3 cheese special. It was almost hilarious.

His TvZ is pretty sick outside of just cheese too so that's cool

I'm so excited to see Flash here now


Oh for sure, he's good in general. Don't mean to take anything away from him it was just a funny series.

And were you not excited for Flash before? With how he's been playing lately I really don't think anyone there can stop him. He's a huge favorite to win it all I'd say.

On paper yes, but he'll be out of his comfort zone and he didn't attend a lot of tournaments outside Korea, so his play at the IEM may be weaker than expected. Hopefully not, but a lot of KeSPA players underperform outside of Korea.
Xoronius
Profile Joined July 2011
Germany6362 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-08-21 16:36:35
August 21 2014 16:35 GMT
#178
On August 21 2014 23:55 messioso wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 21 2014 22:55 Xoronius wrote:
On August 21 2014 18:46 SharpFlex wrote:
Bunny Snute Maru and Jaedong from Open Bracket *-* Make it happen! Also what the fuck has Masa to do in this Tournament utter mismatch

Won the canadian qualifier. IEM always holds one spot for a national representative.


He also qualified for IEM Shenzhen through (Wiki)IEM Season IX - Shenzhen/American Qualifier so anyone that doubts his legitimacy to be at this tournament needs to re-think things.

Sure, I was just answering the question, he asked and then prevented the follow-up question "Why is there a canadian qualifier".
On August 22 2014 00:41 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 22 2014 00:27 Darkhorse wrote:
On August 22 2014 00:18 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
On August 22 2014 00:17 SniXSniPe wrote:
On August 21 2014 18:46 SharpFlex wrote:
Bunny Snute Maru and Jaedong from Open Bracket *-* Make it happen! Also what the fuck has Masa to do in this Tournament utter mismatch

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/IEM_Season_IX_-_Toronto/Canadian_Qualifier

He rek'd Scarlett and Kane to get in (as well as a few others).


Gave Scarlett the ol' 3 cheese special. It was almost hilarious.

His TvZ is pretty sick outside of just cheese too so that's cool

I'm so excited to see Flash here now


Oh for sure, he's good in general. Don't mean to take anything away from him it was just a funny series.

And were you not excited for Flash before? With how he's been playing lately I really don't think anyone there can stop him. He's a huge favorite to win it all I'd say.

He lost to Zest in the qualification process, I think, that would make Zest the favorite.
Orr
Profile Joined February 2014
United States168 Posts
August 21 2014 16:59 GMT
#179
Absolutely incredible lineups. So stoked. Just the Open Brackets alone would be worth watching for most tournaments.
Flash I Jaedong I herO I Best I Maru I Rogue
Thieving Magpie
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
United States6752 Posts
August 21 2014 17:04 GMT
#180
On August 22 2014 01:27 TheDwf wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 22 2014 00:41 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
On August 22 2014 00:27 Darkhorse wrote:
On August 22 2014 00:18 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
On August 22 2014 00:17 SniXSniPe wrote:
On August 21 2014 18:46 SharpFlex wrote:
Bunny Snute Maru and Jaedong from Open Bracket *-* Make it happen! Also what the fuck has Masa to do in this Tournament utter mismatch

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/IEM_Season_IX_-_Toronto/Canadian_Qualifier

He rek'd Scarlett and Kane to get in (as well as a few others).


Gave Scarlett the ol' 3 cheese special. It was almost hilarious.

His TvZ is pretty sick outside of just cheese too so that's cool

I'm so excited to see Flash here now


Oh for sure, he's good in general. Don't mean to take anything away from him it was just a funny series.

And were you not excited for Flash before? With how he's been playing lately I really don't think anyone there can stop him. He's a huge favorite to win it all I'd say.

On paper yes, but he'll be out of his comfort zone and he didn't attend a lot of tournaments outside Korea, so his play at the IEM may be weaker than expected. Hopefully not, but a lot of KeSPA players underperform outside of Korea.


Foreign scene too hard

#hype
Hark, what baseball through yonder window breaks?
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